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'THE.. DALLES, WASCO COUNTY. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 20. 1897.
.YOL. VII.
NUMBER 8.
THE PLAGUE IN III
The People Panic-Stricken
and Dyinglby Hundreds.
BOMBAY BEING RAPIDLY DESERTED
Karl Klew Come. From Germany for
the Avowed Purpose of Killing
Bit Brother.
New Yobk, Jan. 15. A Herald special
from Bombay Bays :
'-. The plague continues as bad as ever ,
and there is little prospect of its abat
ins for some time to come. The official
: records are getting; nearer the troth now.
bat the real state of affairs is certain!
alarming. The panic has been renewed
and the exodus from the city has com
menced with a vengeance. Indeed, it
may be fairly stated that thousands of
people are running away from the place
as-if somebody pursued them.
Going toward the bunders the other
daiy your correspondent saw large crowds
of people running along the road, carry
ing bundles of their belongings with
then) and dragging their children be
hind them. A few of them were asked
the reason of their haste and their ana
- wer was that they were going off to their
' Tillage down the coast to get away from
the plague and the authorities, who
. were anxious to secure the lives of 10,000
people for the recent outrage of the
. ' queen's statue. They eenouely believed
that 10,000 innocents were to be slaugh
' tered and were determined not to be
among the number of victims. Hence
they were harrying to catch the
T steamer.
"But," it was pointed out, "there is
... plenty of time; why harry? The
. steamer will not start for four hours or
more."
-"Tire-answer was returned that thous
ands more would be harrying to the
spot directly . and they were afraid of
being left behind.
The scene at the bunders was a re
markable one. The people were huddled
together like so many sheep, all clamor
ing for tickets. The poor officials were
at their wits' ends, and when the
steamer started it left behind crowds of
disappointed ones, some of whom in the
confusion got separated from their
families and loved ones and were weep
ing piteously. .
Bather than return to their homes, the
crowds remained at the bunders waiting
for the next Bleamer. Similar scenes
are witnessed at the railway stations, all
of which are crowded with passengers
night and day, all eager to get away
from Bombay.
Many othcers have Buttered in conse
quence of the clerks taking leave. Many
were refused leave and were told they
would lose their appointments if they
went away, but this does not keep them
back. They would rather risk their ap
- pointments than stay in Bombay.
- The larger employers' of labor are suf
fering severely. -Establishments in
which hundreds of workmen are em-
: ployed have now only a few people left
Several places of business have bad to be
closed in consequence. The mills are
beginning to be affected, and if only the
panic takes hold of the mill hands the
. consequence will be very serious for the
industry. One mill manager said the
other day that he had no fewer than 315
men short that day.
btreets that a few days ago were
crowded and buBy are . now deserted.
.Driving throngh one large street vonr
correspondent came across several large
buildings totally deserted, while others
had only one flat out of five or six occu
pied. A regiment of native infantry
whose lines are in the vicinity of one of
the most affected wards has been moved
. oat into camp.
Your correspondent paid another visit
to the Hindoo burning ground and saw
35 bodies being burned on the various
spots set apartjfor cremation, while 10
others were waiting their turn, three of
' them outside the gate on the public road
. The bodies of two Hindoos who had died
of the plague were washed and dressed
on the public roadway in one of the
; most crowded thoroughfares. This was
witnessed from a tramcar.
The Parsees are being attacked inlarge
numbers also, your corresponont seeing
no fewer than seven Parsee funerals two
days ago, while d-iving through the
. town. They are clearing pat - into the
suburbs very rapidly.
Up till recently the deaths occured
only singly, but now when a case occurs
in a family others take ' it quickly,
and while a funeral is being arranged
' another may die.
The health anthorities do not thor
oughly appreciate the gravity of the
situation. All their labors are wasted
upon temporary arrangements. There
is no thoroughness about them. The
announcement that that the authorities
were seriously contemplating compulsory
segregation has added to the panic The
DeoDle will not submit to it, and if it is
forced, it is absolutely certain that Beri
ous trouble will ensue. The leaders of
the various communities have taken the
matter in hand and each caste is now
arranging to provide eeperate hospitals
for the accommodation and treatment of
patients of their own.- Some of these
hospitals have already been opened and
are in fall working order. .
BOUSE HAS
SO QUORUM.
The' Situation at Salem
is Unchanged
Today.
Salem, Jan. 15. The fifth day of the
session opened with no quorum in the
bouse. Thirty members only answered
to the roll-call. Somers offered a resolu
tion to the effect that whereas certain
members bad prevented a quoium with
out giving reason for their absence, be it
resolved that a committee of three, con
sisting of Crawford, Hope and Mitchell,
be appointed to confer with the absen
tees and ascertain the reason for their
refusal to come in and constitute a quor
um. The chair ruled the motion out ot
order. ,
Somers then put in motion to the
house, and declared It carried. He then
demanded that the clerk put the motion
on record.
Brown asked for a report from the tem
porary sergeant-at-arms in the matter of
bringing in the absentees.. Sergeant-lit-
arms Holman reported that he had seen
all the absentees but three, and had
notified them . to appear. Two of
them he found at the asylum, two at the
penitentiary and the. others scattered
about the city. This created a laugh,
which was increased by a question as to
whether those at the asylum and . peni
tentiary were confined there.
Bridges moved that the report be en
tered on the record.
The speaker decided the motion out of
order. - -
Hudson arose to a question of privilege,
and read an editorial from the Morning
Oregonian, relative to the cause of the
hold-up. . He denounced the editorial as
an ' unfair statement, and that the
Mitchell Republicans were not opposed
to remedial legislation. Billyeu moved
that Hudson and vaagh be appointed a
committee of two to wait on the editor
of the Oregonian for the purpose of se
caring a retraction. The motion was de
clared oat of order.
CAME TO COMMIT MURDER.
Strange and Unnatural Mission
of Karl
Klew.
Buffalo, Jan. lo. Karl Kiew, a
young German fresh . from Berlin has
reached this city en route for St. Louis
on a strange and unnatural mission the
avowed purpose of murdering his broth
er Hans, Karl is about 23 years of age,
well educated and has a look of quiet de
termination. He told his strange story
at police station No. 1.
His father was a wealthy manufact
urer, and Earl was studying at the ' uni
versity of Boon, when he was summoned
home to learn that . his brother Hans,
who was in business with his father, had
converted all their property ' into cash
and bad fled to America with a woman
whom his father had forbidden him to
marry on pain of being disinherited.
The father died broken-hearted. He
charged Karl to searcU for Hans, and
tell him his father,, whom he had killed
by his conduct, forgave hfm. '
Earl then told of his struggle to reach
this country, to which his brother had
fled. He worked his way ocross the
ocean oh a cattle eteamer and arrived in
Nf w York with but a few dollars. He
met a former friend who had seen Hans-,
in St. Louis and it was to this city Karl
was making his way. He applied at the
station-house for lodging.
He camly said he intended to kill bis
brother on Bight ; that he had crossed
the ocean and undergone privations and
misery for this purpose, and would per
severe until he had accomplished ' his
object. In his possession the police
found a big revolver, loaded, a box of
cartridges and half a bottle of wine. He
win De detained here nntil his storv is
investigated... . .. .
The Treaty Salts South Americans.
New Yobk, Jan 15. A special to the
Herald from Valparaiso says ;
The newspaper Heraldo, commenting
on
the arbitration treaty between the
United States and England, says :
"It amounts to a solid alliance of two
the greatest powers of the world for
maintenance of peace between Europe
and America, and, what is more import
ant, from the American point of view, it
is an alliance to uphold the Monroe doc
trine.". . : '- ....
Other papers here comment favorably
i the treaty and praise the work of
President Cleveland, Secretary Olnev
and Lord Salisbury. j
WALCOTT IN EUROPE
Great Interest Taken in the
Senator's Mission.
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT IS ALARMED
Bear; Snowstorms Prevail In Nebraska
and the Dakota--the GreatNorth
ern Is Snowed Under.
London, . Jan. 16. The mission to
Europe of Senator Edward O. Wolcott,
of Colorado, is of absorbing interest to
all interested in financial matters. Thus
far the senator has been content to
sound English feeling,, rather than to
expound his views, and the dinner
which Mr. Henry White, formerly sec
retary of the United States legation here,
gave on January 11 to a number of dis
tinguished people, in order to enable
them to meet Senator Wolcott, was an
excellent opportunity for him to do bo,
as among those present were Mr. A. J.
Balfour, first lord of the treasury, and
government leader in the house of com
mons; the Marquis de Lansdowne, sec
retary of state of war; Mr. William
Court Gully, speaker of the house of
commons; - Lord Rothchild and Mr.
Henry Asquith, . formerly secretary of
state for home affairs. The dinner was
also a striking example of Mr. White's
position in England, as there are few
men who are able to collect such a gath
ering at short notice.
A representative . of the Associated
Press had a brief talk with Mr. Balfour,
who at first was reluctant to say any
thing on the subject for- publication, on
account of his official position.
"But," he remarked, "you can be sure
this is from no lack of interest in the
cause. However, you may say this
much : I have had great pleasure in
meeting Senator Wolcott," and neartily
concur in bis ideas so far as I have heard
them. I am certain his mission will be
productive of good results to the cause
of bimetalism in both countries,"
Lord Rothschild was of the opinion that
whatever benefit bimetalism would de
rive from the senator's mission would be
on the Continent, rather than in Eng
land, adding :
"It depends on whatever action the
powers that be in France and Germany
will take. Senator Wolcott will un
doubtedly confer with Emperor William
and M. Meline."
Lord Bothschild also said he regarded
Senator Wolcott as an able man, and,
continuing be said :
'Of course we (alluding to his firm)
are strict monometaliets."
ii8 lorasnip evinced great interest in
the arbitration treaty.
'Will the senate ratify it?" he asked,
"I regard it as one of if not the most im
portant event of the century. Any
thing that tends to bring the Anglo
Saxon races together will benefit both
England and America."
SPREAD OF TOL8TOISH.
Causes the Russian Government Much
Uneasiness.
New Yore, Jan. 16. The Evening
Post's copyrighted London cablegram
today, says : ,
The spread of Tolstoism among the
educated and professional classes of
Russia, has led to a spirited state of
crusade against the Tolatoia. In some
villages, one out of every, ten inhabi
tants is an avowed Tolstoist, and there
are many more secret advocates. A not
able secession to the cause is Prince
Dimitri Cbiloff. ,'
The houses of suspected persons are
being searched. Tolstoi's .works are
confiscated, and the owners are entered
in the police black book. Some active
Tolstoists have mysteriously disappeared
from Pavloka, and it is feared that they
have been sent to Siberia. Others have
bad their children taken from them. It
is stated tbnt the council of state has
considered the question of Tolstoi's ex
pulsion, t'nd only refrains lest . an attack
on so great an authority and thinker
should rally hU forces to his side. '
DerTlab.es on the Move.
Rome, Jan. 16. Massowah advices
are to the enect that a body of Der
vishes, believed to be the advance guard
of the-entire Dervish ' forces, has en
tered the Kedaret district, and ia mov
ing on Agordat. The Italian govern
ment is . concentrating all the troops
available near Agordat, which ia well
defended. - . -
SBVEBB SNOW STORMS.
Nebraska and South Dakota
Savins-
Some Bad Weather.
Omaha, Jan. 16. Special telegrams to
the Bee from Northern Nebraska and
Sooth Dakota points report that the
heaviest snowfall of the season is now in
progress. The day began with rain', and
changed to snow about noon, Chadron,
Neb., reports more than a foot of snow,
and a falling temperature. Efforts to
get a rotary snowplow through on. the
Great Northern to Watertown bad to be
abandoned. At other points the situa
tion is equally bad. In Omaha, a drizzle
of rain has fallen all day.
Hubon, S. D., Jan. 16. A severe
snow storm has prevailed here since
noon, and gives no sign of abatement to
night. The six inches of snow which
has already fallen, added to the three
inches which had already covered the
James river valley, will again block the
railroads. The Chicago & Northwestern
is well provided with plows and engines
on this division, but the Great Northern
has bad no trains from Benson, Minn.,
to Huron, for 14 days. Efforts to open
this line have been abandoned, and the
force is at work opening the Aberdeen
branch,
EARTHQUAKE IN OAEXAXD.
Caused
Remarkable Hcene In a
Baptist Church. :
Oakland, Cal., Jan. 17. An earth
quake this afternoon was productive of a
remarkable' scene at the Tenth-avenue
Baptist church. Bev. C. M. Hill, the
pastor, was just closing au eloquent ser
mon. Just as he asked the congregation
in an impressive manner what account
they would render of their stewardship,
the building began .to quake until it
seemed that the roof would fall in. In a
moment all was confusion. Some of the
congregation ran for the doors; others
fell on their knees to pray, while others,
with faces pale, stood waitmg for what
seemed certain death.. Deacon Joseph
Plaw attempted to calm the assemblage.
He asked why there should be fear, if
they had heeded the words of their
shepherd, and were ready for the end.
He said they should rejoice if the end
came and found them prepared. - The
speaker quickly restored quiet, and
when .he - bad; finished, all ' joined in
prayers of thanksgiving.
A VENGEFUL HUNGARIAN.
He
Beheaded the Man Who
Bad
Outwrestled Rim.
Wilkesbabbe, Pa., Jan. 15. After
being bested by Joseph Kalata in a
wrestling boat, John Coarnott, a Hun
garian, Debeaded bis successful rival.
The men were rivals for the hand of
Anna Jopkapotab, with whose father
they boarded.
There was a gathering at the house
and Cournott challenged Kalata to a
wrestling match. Cournott was de
feated, and in his anger left the room,
returning in a lew minutes with a
butcher-knife. Bushing at Kalata, he
swung the knife around his bead, and
with- all the force, he could muster
brought it down on Kalata's neck. The
keen- blade cat its way through the
muscles, arteries and jugular vein, sever
them and stopping only at the opposite
side of the neck, . Kalata fell to the floor
without so much as a groan.
Coarnott was arrested.
A POLITICAL. CONSPIRACY.
Chicago Paper Claims . That Madden
Was Used as a Target.
Chicago, Jan. 16. The Journal, one
of the papers that has bitterly opposed
Martin B. Madden as a candidate for
the United States senate, says tonight in
a double column display that Madden
was the victim of a political fortunes he
has made. According to the Journal,
the plot was hatched months ago, and
the conspirators were Governor Tanner,
Congressman Lorimer, State Treasurer
Hertz, National Committeeman Jame
son, Sheriff Pease, City Clerk . Van
Cleave and " President Healin, of . the I
board. - The Journal says it was never
intended that Madden should be senator,
but it was determined that he should be
put np as a target for the newspapers
and . reform organizations. . At the last
minute, when it would be too late to
shift the batteries, Madden was to be
withdrawn, Governor Tannet; aspiring
to the senate himself.
Hanna Authorized No Statement.
Cleveland, Jan. 17. Chairman
Hanna said today : that he had author
ized no one to state that he would soon
come oat as a candidate for United
States senator to succeed Sherman.
That was a matter which he was not
discussing with anybody, be said. He
declared further that he made no state
ments ' such aa . had been given to the
press, or to anybody. ;
Population of Germany.
... Berlin, Jan. 16. The official figures
of the census, just completed, show the
total population of the empire in Decem
ber, 1895, to have been 52,279,801. . The
total population of Prussia at this time
jwas 31,855,123.
PERU MUST SETTLE UP
Olney Demands Payment o
the McCord Claims.
ALASKAN CANNERS FORM A TRUST
An .Indiana Barber Wants Beards
' Taxed,, so as to Make the Barbers
of Bis State Prosperous. .
Washington, Jan. 18. The adminis
tration is determined that Peru shall pay
the claim for $200,000 growing out of the
outrage committed in 1885 npon V. H
McCord, a.consul of the United States.
A cable dispatch has just been sent
air. xucjs.enzie, tne united Mates .min
ister stationed at Lima, directing him to
inform the Peruvian government that
the case must be settled without delay
A communication received from the
minister a few days ago stated that Pern
desired to investigate the case. Secretary
Olney at once advised Mr. , McKenzie
tbat rem bad had more than 10 years
to investigate, and the time was quite
sufficient.
In 1885 V. H. McCord, the United
States counsnlar agent at Arequipa, was
imprisoned and sentenced to be shot by
the Peruvian . authorities. He was
marched out on a parade ground an
placed before a file of soldiers. The of
ficer in command asked the prisoner
be had anything to say, and McCord
said no. A consultation of othcere was
held, and it was decided not to shoot
him. He was remanded to prison and
fined 10.000 soles. He refused to pay the
fine and was deprived of food and drink
and placed in a bare cell. McCord'
friends finally paid the fine, and th
orisoner w as released. He filed . a claim
of $200,000 against . the government
of
Pern, and it has been a subject of inter-
mittent negotiation. " ' '
McCord, as well as being United
States connsular agent, was manager of
a railroad. During the revolution
June, laso, be was ordered to place an
engine and train at the disposal' of the
government for the transportation
of
troops. He did this, but the enginee
on the following day detached the en
gine and delivered it to the rebels., for
this offense McCord was arrested.
. Secretary Olney has just cabled United
States Minister McKenzie at Lima, re
fusing the Peruvian government's de
mand for more time, and demanding an
immediate settlement of the claim
The United States cruiser Philadelphia
is on the way from Valparaiso to Callao
Peru, and, while its visit has nothing to
do with the McCord claim, the presence
of an American warship will probably
have some persuasive influence with the
government of Peru.
Would Tax Beards and Also Goatees,
Anderson, Ind., Jan. 18. An Embar
go is threatened "on Indiana Whisker
ettes and , "windbreakers" .by Jim
Reeves, an Anderson barber, who has
prepared a bill and is endeavoring to get
some representative or senator in the
present assembly to lather it. Reeves
is quite in earnest about it, and gives as
aground for its presentation that it
would restore prosperitv to the barbers
and at the same time the means of rais
ing the public debt. The bill provides
for a tax of $10 per year on every man
wearing chin whiskers, or "side slug
gers." It also provides for . a tax on
goatees. Moustaches are freed from all
taxation.
The matter is attracting a great deal
of attention, and ia regarded by almost
everybody as an unheard of trampling
on American rights. Reeves defends
the bill eloquently, and points out where
humanity all down the line would be
benefited and beautified by the- enact
ment of such a law. He is backed .by
quite a forcible arrav of barbers all over
the state. '
ALASKA SALMON WILL BIGS.
Packers Form a Combine to Adranee
Prices. ; .
SANFBANCisco,Jan.l8. An important
pooling arrangement has been, brought
about between the Alaska Packers As
sociation and the Alaska Improvement
Company that will materially affect the
salmon industry in northern waters and
the price of canned salmon in the coun
try next season.
The details of the pending agreement,
which will effectually relieve the Alaska
Packers' Association of all competition
in both fishing and marketing of the
product of the Alaska canneries, were
adjusted a few days ago by President
Henry , Fortmaun, on behalf of . the
Alaska Packers' Association, and Man
aging Superintendent Barling, -of the
improvement company. -The
agreement does not affect the last
' Absolutely Pure
Celebrated for its great leavening strength and
bealtbfuluess. Absures the food ginst alum
and all forms of adulteration, common to the
cheap brands. ; , . ;
Royal Baking Powdkb Co., New Yobk.
season's catch, which is being bandied
by the two rival organizations, the same
as in past years. It will revolutionize
things during the coming season, how
ever, for by the terms of the agreement
the entire product of the Alaska can
neries will be pooled and marketed at
prices which will eliminate existing
com petition ..and are expected to greatly
advance the prices now in vogue.
COFFEE WAK IS STILL RAGING.
Neither Company Shows Any Signs of
Yielding.
Toledo, Jan. 18. The fight between
the Arbuckles and the sugar trust re
garding the price of coffee will continue
more bitter than ever.
. "Only for the injunction suit hanging
over our heads," said the cheif director .
of the Wool son Spice Company, ,'we
would 'cut the price of coffee another ,
half cent a .pound. We cannot do it,
however, in face of the order of the -court.
Instead of losing $1000 a day,
as it is stated by the Arbucklea in . their
petition against us, on account of cut
ting prices, we are making (1000 per
day which our books will.ehow.
'.'We have no fear of thej outcome of
the suit, because we can show that the'
businesses prospering. The price of coffee
is too high now and we can afford to
lower it if the courts will only permit us
to do bo. We are running night and
day and employ 600 hands, and if the .
suit comes our way we will employ 1200 ,'
inside the next 10 days. If the suit goes '
against ns, then we will be compelled
to move from Toledo and secure a lo- .;
cation elsewhere. - Our purpose is to
make Toledo the great and only coffee
center of the world. .
' "The trouble with Arbuckle is that he;
bought coffee for 11 cents per pound)
when he could have purchased it a short
time afterward for 9 to 9)4 cents per
pound. He is trying to sell coffee on'
the basis of bis 11 cents per pound pur
chase, while we are willing to give the
public the benefit hf our 9cents purchase
for the same class of goods. This - is
where the whole fight hinges,." Ar
buckle made a bad deal in buying coffee
and he wants the public to help him
out, while we bought at market prices
and are willing and ready to let the
public enjoy the benefit of our econom
ical purchase. We are in the coffee busi
ness for the money that is in it and not
for our health, and propose to stay there
regardless of threats and intimidation.
UCALIB OP ' THE CZAR. .
An
Old Wound Causes His Majesty Se
rious Trouble.
London, Jan. 18. In official circles
here and on the continent the"greatest
importance is attached to a dispatch
from St. Petersburg yesterday, announc
ing that Dr.. Bergmann, an eminent
German specialist', bad been Bummoned
to perform an operation on the czar to
prevent a possible extension of the slight
osseous excreeence which has appeared
on his cranium at the place where he
was struckv by a Japanese fanatic, in
1891. This, combined with overwork,
has caused the czar to suffer from ver- -
tigo for some time past. The fact that
snch news was allowed to be sent abroad
shows the gravity of the situation. .
The czar received his wound while
making a tour of the world with Prince
George of Greece who, by knocking
the assailant down, saved his companion
from turther and possibly more serious .
injury. -
Over Three Thousand Cases of Plague
Are Reported.
Bombay, Jan. 18. The situation la
growing rapidly worse, and the exodus "
from the city on account of the bubonic
plague continues, Official returns .is
sued today show 3633 cases of plague -
reorded and 2592 deaths from the' pes
tilence. -
The Times of India complains that
the sanitary conditions of Bombay have
been allowed to deteriorate for tea
years, it adds that the whole future
trade of the city is involved and no ex
pense upon the part of the government
to stamp out the plague can be too
costly. . ...