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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1897.
The Weekly Ghroniele.
. ClnbblDf; Bates. .
Chronicle and Oregon i an. . . ., .
Chronicle and Examiner.
Chronicle and Tribune 1 75
Chronicle and N. Y. World. 2 00
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
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tion of serial navigation may be con
siderert as settled, for if a macbine
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Western hemisphere, bag and 'bag
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NEEDED' LEGISLATION.
One of the bills most urgently
needed to be passed by congress and
supplemented by 'legislation in every
state and territory in tbe union, is a
bill to prevent tbe dampbools of the
country, like Hamlin Garland for
instance, publishing a lot of silly and
policy. Then America will stand at
her back while she conquers the rest
of the world. The way to make the
plea of blood brotherhood effective
is to let go of the brother's inheri
tance before preaching to bim the
fraternal duty of help in need. The
way to unite those - of one race
against the alien is to rest content
looting the alien, and respect
of the eallin burden upon the
shoulders of the producers. They
may learn this lesson; but it is use
less to hope that they will profit by
it.
JUDGE AND CITIZEN.
family possessions. Three continents
ought to content the British land
hunger. Oregonian. .
Chas. F. Lord, district attorney of
the fourth judicial district, Portland,
is in no way related to Gov. W. P.
Lord of Salem. Hillsboro Inile-
TAXES AND TAXES.
self-evident lies about our dead
: heroes. Who is Jhere. in America
but venerates tbe name of Lincoln ?
Who but admires the sterling quali
ties of Grant? And who of these
but feel their souls uicken with dis
gust at the puerile lies told about
tbem by self-appointed biographers? pendent
Hamlin Garland has sadly belittled The public announcement of the
Grant, as Hay did Lincoln, and still above fact should give each of the
tbe soul-harrowins work goes on, parties named a great deal of satis-
every penny-a-liner considering our faction.
illustrious dead legitimate subjects
for their manufactured stories.
Colonel Peyton, who wrote a James A. .Roberts, in the May
book, "Reminiscences of t'je Past," Forum, has a very: interesting arti
and who unfortunately died only a cle on "The Progressive Inheritance
week or two ago, is one of those who Tax," which throws a great deal of
comes to the front and tells about light upon that subject. Among the
Grant breaking a run away horse, most striking illustrations of the
Tbe incident has all the earmarks of workings of tax laws in general is
fitftfon, and decidedly yellow-backed afforded by the inheritance tax. Mr.
fiction at that; the kind of fiction Roberts takes 107 cases at random
one would naturally expect of a man from those in which the inheritance
who would write a book "Reminis- tax had been paid in New York City
cences" and then add that they were and prints a table showing the
of the'Tast." amount of personal property which
Were these stones only to be the administrators paid taxes on, and
heard now, the effect would not be tbe amount of the same kind of prop
so bad ; but when it is remembered erty which bad been given in to the
that in the course of time they will assessor by the owner tbe year before
be accepted as true, the outrage death. Tbe nitnes are not given, be-
npon the memories of our illustrious cause, as Mr. Roberts significantly
dead can be measured. says, "They were not tbe worst sin-
Our great magazines have vied, ners. nor the only sinners in this re-
are vying, witn eacn otner in tneir gam."
efforts to load the public with this We take from his list a few cases,
: kind pf trash, and they shoull be re- the first figures showing what the ad-
fused admittance to the mails. The rainistrator paid inheritance tax on,
true stories of Lincoln, showing tbe the second showing the amount at
great and tender heart of the man, which tbe deceased while alive gave
endear him to all; but.tbe silly twad- m his property to be assessed for:
die of the Garlands, the Hayses, the 13,544,343 115,000; $10,252,857
Peytons, and all that class of illiter- $500,000; $80,000,000 $500,000;
ate and untruthful asses, are only $2,015,8a2 $5,000. And these are
blots upon the fair picture. There fair samples ot the whole list. The
is only one class of people more con- average per cent given in taking the
temptibie than these inventors of whole list is one and three-quarters.
character stories, and that is the edi- The total amount of the 107 estates,
tors who permit the mendacious scum as per the administrator's reports.
The Telegram last night, mention
ins the Taffe case, says among other
things, "The indignant protest of
Judge Bellinger against the raising
of the verdict on the second trial
from $14,500 to . $17,500 without
one scintilla of justification." Was
there not? It seems to us that the
juiy had some justification for the
raise, and that its yerdict was an in
dorsement of the first verdict, and
nothing more. The Ameircan juiy
generally tries to get at the right" of
a matter, and administer sirict and
impartial justice, sometimes in the
face of instructions from a technical
judge.
The jury in the second trial might,
and probably did, take into consider
ation the tact that the United States
had forced Taffe ' to a second trial,
had caused him additional costs and
expenses, and raised the former ver
diet enough to cover it. The jury
may Lave bad no right to do this ;
that proposition we do not care to
argue; but we submit.that it is prob
bably what it did do, .and was cor
rect in doing it.
Taffe is as square and straight a
man as there is in the state of Ore
gon, and his offer to leave the matter
of bis damages to the decision of
Judge Bellinger, showed the big
heartedness of tbe man. He thinks
all men are built in his mold, and
that by leaving the matter entirely
to Judge Bellinger, who has been in
imical to him, be would put bim on
bis honor. The only mistake Taffe
made was in forgetting that "little
men of little souls rise up to buy!
and sell again." He - will probably
regret bis action in turning the mat
ter over to Judge Bellinger for there
are persons who cannot rise to that
height where they can see or appreci
ate a noble action.
vibration. The mean speed attained
for runs of a mile by the Turbinia
was S2J knots, or a rate just short of
thirty-eight miles an hour, the high
est yet recorded for the largest
boats, and nearly twice as great as
that ordinarily made by boats of the
same tonnage, applied in the usual
way. Undoubtedly this mode of
propulsion will soon be employed in
American torpedo-boats. Orego
The salmon run is still very light;
buu it is thought that as soon as the
river falls a little and begins to get
clear, the ruu will, commence.. In
conversation with a prominent can
neryman a short time ago he stated
that the . canneries were losing fifty
cents cn each case of salmon packed ;
that the price was down on account
of the Alaska fish, which cost but
little, and " with which the Columbia
eanneries were forced to compete.
The only thing possible, he claimed,
to permit the canneries to run was a
lower price for fish. . While not
speaking for the canneries, be ex
pressed the opinion that when the
fish began to run the price would
drop to three cents, as above that
canning was a losing business. He
also thought the , fishermen would
strike. "But," said he, "it is better
for us to allow our plants to remain
idle, than to operate them at a loss
The fishermen hare a cannery of
their own, and this will soon con
vince them that the price cf fish
must come down, or the canneries
close."
BRIBERY IS CHARGED
Against Thre Ur.lted States Jurors In
TafTe's Case.
POVERTY BUT GOLD.
to find its way into print
THIS SHIP SAILS.
A dispatch from Nashville, Tenn.,
yesterday says:
Today, at the centennial exposi
tion grounds. Professor Arthur Bar-
sard, physical instructor "of the Young mits
Men's Christian Association of Nash
ville, began a journey in an airship
constructed by himself. The offi
cials of the exposition and the people
attending the exposition, witnessed
the ascent of tbe aerial voyager.
was $215,132,366; the amount given
in by the 107 persons before death,
$3,819,412.
Mr. Roberts therefoie concludes
that a progressive inheritance tax is
the on?y possible remedy for tbe tax.
dodging class, which at death per
the state to recoup for all
moneys it was cheated out of by the
evasion of taxes. The article shows
plainly the evil, but it does not, in
our opinion, provide the remedy,
Laws can be made and can be en-
The ship moved off in perfect order, forced that will compel propeTly.
and passed out of sight in a few
minutes. Professor Barnard prom- owners t0 dlsclose- everV cent of lax
ised to sail against the wind after a Die property; -but the trouble is
arising into tbe air, and-be did so. money influences prevent the passage
Tbe airship will be continued in use cf such laws, and money influences
.ttne exposiuon. iee long prevent their fenforcement Judge
and 20 feet in diameter. .
Mr. Barnard, who returned with hiras, or tue united states supreme
bis airship tonight, says he has a ma- court, changed his mind on the m-
cbine which will fly under ordinary come tax, perhaps "nnawed by in
conditions, tie saut it is not per- Ifluence and unbribed bv sain . but
feci, ncr could it be perfectly con
trolled, but he believed he could
peifect it so that its course would be
controlled.
After disappearing from view this
morning, the ship circled around, the
navigator hoping to meet with a
favorable current At last the ship
began to sail to the west, and went,
Mr. Barnard says, as far as Watkins,
a village fifteen-miles west of the
city, where it turned and when four
miles from Nashville, the gas in the
balloon attachment began to give
out. He then sought a safe place to
descend, and . came down easily.
While aloft a sudden gust broke one
of tbe spans pf tbe ship. No other
damage was done. The time he was
aloft was one and a half hours. He
was returning along the line of thf
ontwnrd flight when he was com
pelled to land.
If this be true, and there seems to
bis sudden conversion always had a
metallic flavor to us.
It is not probable the evil will be
remedied until it Is cured by revolu
tion. History repeats itself, and tbe
great tax-dodgers who think they are
beating the government, will some
morning wake up to the fact that the
government they have robbed is no
longer able to protect them, and
that they have nothing to tax. In
telligent men may learn a lesson of
the Emigrants of France and the
story of 1792. They may go far
tber back and behold the fall of
Rome in ber last great Consul Rienzi,
and they may learn from each of
these lessons that the blaze that kin
dled both these fires was the evasion
of taxes by the rich, and the laying
Tbe traveling correspondent of
the London (England) Daily Mail
writes to that journal as follows:
'There may be poverty in Ross
land, and that, too, of the grim, ugly,
mining camp sort; there may' be
more empty stomachsMban coir.ed
dollars and quarters; there may be
shivering forms and much human
misery; but there is gold. The
seedy looking man who comes in
with a dozen ounces of, ore from his
new claim on Trail Creek may not
have bad any breakfast; but it is
not improbable that he will have a
dinner that would make a Roman
glutton ashamed of bis slim and slen
der orgies. Tomorrow that man
will have sold his mine for $5000 to
a speculator, and the -next day the
speculator will be floating a company
with $1,000,000 capital.' It is stu
pendous, this recklessness with which
big figures are handled. Millions
pass as easily through the lips of
these seedy-looking men in Rossland
as units. The town is full of sharks
and speculators; there is much lying
and cozening and hundreds of thous
ands of pounds are invested, which
may prove to be as good , as thrown
into tbe sea. But after all, this fact
remains: Rossland is the metropolis
ot a nearly inexhaustible gold-bear
ing country, and Rossland today is
the greatest gold -copper camp on the
face of the earth." .' c
The United States senate does
not seem to care a picayune
whether Corbel t is seated or not, his
case not even beioz considered wor
thy of consideration. It must be
ring on tbe old gentleman to be
kept cooling bis shins in the corri
dors while that vacant chair stands
so invitingly near. This thing ought
not to be thus ; the senate should
take him in hand and ship him borne,
He Reminded Ber.
Mr. Gadley My dearest, in that dress.
with that, cluster of rosebuds in your
hair and . that dreamy, tender light in
your eyes, you look aa young as you did
when I first saw you. It seems to me
that every year brings some new charm,
some additional grace to your manner.
I tell you there are few women in the
world who could retain the freshness,
the beauty, the '
Mrs. Gadley (wearily) I had forgot
ten that the .lodge meets to-night,
Henry. Please be careful of the milk
pitcher when you come up the steps in
the morning, will you? Detroit Free
Press.
A Sad Affair.
Jay Green That block spot over
there ori the 6ide' of the slope is where
young" Anson Dubby, who was crossed
in love, committed suicide by settin fire
to the haystack into which he had bur
rowed. City Cousin My goodness! That
was awful!
Jay Green Yep; 'specially as they
only ' saved part of tie ihny. N. . Y.
World.
I Tolerated Them.
"Who are theee people that live next
door?" asked the caller.
"I've forgotten their name,' said the
wife of the prosperous pugilist. "They
have queer ways and they, are rather
poor, but they seem to be respectable.
The husband, I think, is a professor in
some school or other. It takes all kinds
of people to make a world." Chicago
Tribune. I
The fastest torpedo-boat in the
world has just had an official trial in
Great Britain, roakjug nearly thirty-
eight miles an honv The boat is
extremely small, only; iOO feet long
and 100 tons burden; Her power is
applied on a newHan, which gives
her the name, Turbinia. ' She is im
pelled . by a steam-driven turbine, a
wheel of slanting and curving spokes,
similar to tbe common propeller.
The shaft of the Turbinia has prac
tically a propeller at each end, one
inside the ship in the steam cylinder,
and one outside in . the water. The
steam, pressing through the turbine
screw, whirls it, and therefore whirls
the screw in tbe water simultaneous
ly. In this case there is not the rise
and fall and shake and jar of the
common piston; the propeller-turning
machinery is in continuous rota
tion, leaving the boat free from all
A Freelae Description.
' Willie Wishington had just said some
thing in the way of an effort to be amus
ing. "What did you think of thatr he in
quired, ingenuously.
"It was capital."
. "Did you think so?"
"I am sure of it; borrowed capital."
Washington Star.
Hot Strictly Professional.
"Tha young doctor makes an im
mense number of calls on Mrs. Oglesby.
Ia she very sick?" . ..
"No; she is very pretty." Philadel
pfcia Press.
One Hindrance.
Ned I'd marry that girl if it weren't
for one thing.
Tom What's that?
Ned She (refused me last nigfat
Somerville Journal.
" Absolutely.
Pinter" She is not only a fine looking
girl, but tihey say she has a fortune in
her own right. What would you do if
you had a wife like that?
Minter Nothing. N. Y. Journal.
Well Arranged.
"Mrs. -McSmith returned us much
cheaper coffee than she borrowed of us." J
"Well, put it in a jar by itself and
lend it to her when she comes again."
Chicago Record.
Yellow washing powder will 'make
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this by using Soap Foam. It's pnre
white. a2-3m
Last night's Telegram, in giving the
account of the alleged bribery of United
States jurors by Taffe, assumes that be
is guilty, an assumption that will never
be borne out by the facts. We give the
Telegram's version of the affair, which
is as follows:
There is little profit in being a United
States juror and taking a bribe, and less
profit in being the person actuating the
bribe proffering, if the rievplnnmnnta
now transpiring In the case of the United
States vs. I. H. Taffe, In which the gov
ernment seeks right of way for the Ce
lilo boat railway, be a criterion.
The story of the increased verdict on
the second trial of the case, whereby an
award of $14,200 was raised to $17,500,
wiibont a scintilla of jaatification, was
told in Saturday's Evening Telegram.
There was no mention made in tbe arti
cle, however, of the names of those
against whom indictments had been
found by the United States grand jury,
nor the charge under which Marshal
Grady was ordered to take tbe indicted
ones in custody. , '
Those indicted are I. Hi Taffe, Charles
S. Brat ton, Edward Kilfeather and one
other person, whoee name has not as
yet been made public. '
Bratton and Kilfeather were members
of the jury, and the charge against them
is conspiracy to defraud, in that it is al
leged they' accepted a bribe, influencing
their verdict to the detriment of the
plaintiff. In this case the government,
Taffe and the othor person, as yet unar
rested, are charged with a violation of
section No. 5404, United States statutes,
in that they are charged with having
endeavored to influence a jnror.
Edward Kilfeather was arrested Sat
urday, and was released on giving bonds
in the sum of $5,000; Bratton is still at
liberty, but under surveillance ; I. H.
Taffe was brought from The Dalles this
morning by Deputy United States Mar
shal Humphrey, and this afternoon was
awaiting the arrival of Judge Bellinger
to have the amount of his bonds set. .
In connection with the arrest of Mr.
Taffe, the following document, filed Sat
urday, May 8th, carries with it a pecul
iar interest:
TAFFl'S STIPULATION.
In the Circuit Court of the United States
for the District of Oregon. The United
States, Plaintiff, vs. I. H. Taffe, No.
your ar-
2309.
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all other washing
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It is stipulated and azreed by and be
tween the parties hereto that this cause
shall be tried before Judge C. B. Bellin
ger, district judge of the United States
for the district of Oregon, Bittine as a
circuit judge for said district, without
tne intervention oi a jury: and the nirht
of trial by jury ia herebv expressly
waived dv tne parties hereto..
It is further agreed that said cause
shall be submitted to said judge without
me taking ot any testimony in said
cause, unless the said judge should call
tor testimony on any particular point, in
wmcn event tbe parties agree to furnish
the testimony required by said judge
It is further stipulated and agreed
tnat tne testimony heretofore taken be
fore tbe petit juries impaneled to, try
said cause, may be considered by said
udge, in forming hia estimate of the
compensation due the said I. H. Taffe,
on account of the condemnation of the
proposed site for a boat railway.
And the parties further azree to abide
by the decision of said judge as a sole
arbiter and judicial tribunal, to award
the said detendant such compensation
for the damage occasioned to him by
the prooo8ed condemnation and con
struction of said boat railway.
feigned, in duplicate, this Bth day ot
may, iaa7.
Daniel R. Murphy,
United States Attorney for Plaintiff.
'I. H. Taffe, in person.
This stipulation, waiving all rights to
jury trial, and turning the entire adjudl
cation of the snlt and award of the
amount of damages over to Judge Bel
linger, whose indignant protest on the
finding of tbe $17,500 verdict in the sec
ond trial bas been recorded, ia con.
sidered by eome as a surrender of tbe
Taffe claim to large damages. .In con
tradiction of this, others consider the
stipulation simply a display of honesty
on the part of Mr. Taffe and an effort on
his part to show that he is willing to
abide by honest judgment.
MB. TAFFE'S STATEMENT.
' Mr. Taffe was seen this morning by a
Telegram reporter, on his arrival from
The Dalles, in custody of Deputy United
States Marshal Humphrey.
"My arrest is tbe result of the failnre
of one of the most contemptible black-1
mailing schemes ever attempted in this
state of Oregon," said Mr. Taffe. "This
man Charles Bratton, a juror . in the
trial of the suit of the government
against myself in the Celilo boat railway
proceedings, was a veritable leech on me
during the trial.
"Some five weeks ago, following the
rendering of the verdict in the second
trial, he met me at my hotel during a
visit to Portland, and asked of me that
I lend him $100.
"I told him that I bad not. $100 with
me, and if I bad, I knew of no reason
why I should lend it to bim.
"'Well, you bad better give it to me,'
he replied. . ',
"There was something in his voice
that nettled me, and I told him in short
language he could go to ."
Edward Kilfeather denies in toto hav
ing any knowledge ot onoery proceed
ing that might have occurred in connec
tion with the Taffe suit.
I have been arrested on this charge,
and all I ask ia a 'quick and prompt
trial," said Kilfeather, this afternoon.
I desire a speedy hearing, through hav
ing the knowledge that with tha very
first testimony I introduce mv name is
cleared of this scandal. All I want is a
equare deal, and that I am assured of
receiving before the United States dis
trict court."
"Whom do you blame for
rest?" was asked.
"I cannot, as yet, blame anybody. I
know nothing of the matter , beyond
what Is common street talk."
District Attorney Murphy states that
I. H. Taffe, on May 7, wrote that he was
willing to abide by Judge Bellinger's
decision as to the amount of award
proper. Mr. Murphy immediately drew
up the stipulation published above, and
this Mr. Taffe at once signed.
Some Other Morning;.
"We (have (had a dispute," said the
boarding-house proprietor, as Strapely
took (his eeat at the breakfast table.
"Indeed," said Strapely, corralling '
tne Dutter. .
"Yes; I said you were six weeks be
hind in your board, and Mr. Beam says
you're ahead. Will you settle it?" ,
"Not this morning," replied Strapely.
Yonkers Statesman.
Jt'm niirni rri.
"They say," lie said, "that talk
cheap." "
"I've heard such statements made."
"But I venture to say," and the
speaker grew very earnest, "that ' the
man who made it never had had occa
sion to consult a lawyer professional
ly.
They were all agreed upon the prop-
osition. Chicago Post.
It Was Settled.
"By the way," asked the former resi
dent of the" village, "did Jones and
Smith ever get that dispute settled as
to which one owned thatstripof land?"
"O, yes; that was settled some time
aRoi" .....
"And who got it?!
"I forget the lawyer's name." Up-to-D&te.
Fntnre Will Bring; Revenge.
. "Papa is a jeweler, you know," she
said, petulantly, "and he tells me that
the engagement ring yon gave me is
filled." .
"I presume ao, for I bought it at his
store. But you can depend on me to
get even in time, darling'." Detroit
Free Press.
1 , Abient-Mlntled.
.mjiessor (after, having been ab
sorbed for hours in a pile of rare manu
scripts) Let me see, I was going to do
something what the deuce was I go
ing to do, anyway? (After thinking
nail an Dour.) on, yea, now I remem
ber, I wanted to go to bed. Fliegende
Blaetter. 5
Talctnsr Orders.
Mrs. Brown Did you know that Mr.
Vestment is going into the ministry?
Mrs. Greene No. You surprise me.
I thought he was going to be a waiter
in box eating house. His mother told
mo- he was going- to take orders, you
know. Uotton I ranscript.
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