THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY, JUNE 19. 1897.
The Weekly Chronicle,
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge. IWbt Mays
(Sheriff..... T. J. Driver
Clerk A M. Kelsay
Treasurer , C. L. Phillips
Comrnlssioner. n! S! Kimse?
Assessor . W. II. Whipple
Burveyor I. B. lioit
Superintendent of Public School. . .C. L. Gilbert
Coroner W. H. Butts
" STATIC OFFICIALS.
Bovernor W. P. Lord
Secretary of State H R Kincaid
Treasurer Phillip Metschan
Bo.pt. of Public Instruction G. M. Irwin
Attornev-Geneml CM. Idleman
. 1G. W. McBride
oiuw " Jj. H. MitcheU
, tB Hermann
-HjUKraoiueu I W. R. Ellis
State Printer W. H. Leeds
TWO PICTURES.
Barney Barnato, the great specula
tor in African mines, has taken the
suicide route out ot this world into
- the next. He was on the steamer
bound from Cape Town to England,
and brooding over his losses, which
are said to have been heavy, he
jumped overboard and was drowned.
His sister-in-law savs : "He has lost
loads and loads and loads of money
latelj, no wonder he committed sui
cide." She also says that his wealth
at the time of- his death was $15,
000,000. Poor fellow! When one considers
the wretched state of poverty to
which inordinate ambition and over
weening desire had reduced him, one
is forced to say, with his sister in
law, "No wonder he committed' sui
ide." Had there been thirty or forty
millions of dollars left of his fortune,
be might have managed to rent a
flat and eke out an existence through
a genteelly poor old age. But with
a beggarly $15,000,000, the idea was
unendurable. He was in many a big
deal, but the biggest thing he ever
got into caused his death. He was
magnificent in his ideas, even in
death, for lie used the whole Atlan
tic ocean to kill himself with.
His was a remarkable career. He
was an English Jew, and began bis
money-making career with a trick
donkey. He didn't even have the
beggarly riltance of $15,000,000
then, but he was undoubtedly much
happier than when he had,Jfor life
held no charms for him when re.
duced to poverty. At one time he
was reported to be worth $500,000.
000, but values shrunk as they al
ways shrink in such property. His
wealth was on paper, fictitious values.
His mining stocks contained only
less water than surrounded him at
death, and enough to drown not only
he, but all bis friends, in the finan
cial sea.
Contrast his case with that of the
stout-hearted old man who built
Denver, who developed the mines of
Colorado, until todaj' they lead the
world In the production of gold, and
who, losing every dollar he had in
the world, is today cheerfully swing
ing his pick as a common laborer in
the very mines he once owned.
The pictures make a vivid con
trast, and we confess to a decided
preference for the stout-hearted old
American who accepts poverty as he
accepted riches, and who going to
his work can say, as Byron said to
Moore :
"Here's a sigh for those who love me.
And a sigh for those ho hate;
And whatever sk j 's above me,
Here's a heart for any fate."
SO SAY WE, ALL OF VS.
The forestry cranks of the East
assume that the only object in life
most western people have is to de
stroy the forests, and that this is es
pecially true of Oregonians. There
never was a more serious mistake.
The citizens of Oregon want the for
ests protected just as much as the
people of Boston. They have just
as much interest in them, and cer
tainly as much pride. The differ
ence is that the people of Oregon
want the protection furnished without
prohibiting the use thereof. They
believe in usiug the vast mountain
ranges for the pasturage of stock, so
long- as no injury is done thereby.
They believe that the hardy pros
pector, who year after year has pa
tiently and hopefully sought the
alluring mine, should be allowed to
locate it, whether it happen to be in
the forest-clad mountains of the
Cascades or the sage-covered bills of
Grant and Baker counties. They
believe that the mountains whereon
the forests grow can be used without
injuring the timber, and they pro-
pose so to use ' them. Public senti
ment on the coast is all in favor of
such use of the lands now embraced
within the forest reservations, and
public sentiment is liable- t become
or to be looked upon, as pretty good
law, in cases where arrests are made
for violating: the statutes in such
cases made and provided.
As for Oregonians destroying the
forests, the " Eastern people are not
acquainted with the Oregon farmer.
We know some of them who have
lived in the woods fort went3'-five
years, and have not yet mustered up
courage enough to destroy the tim
ber on two acres around their cabin
doors.
One of the first things congress
should do i3 to open the reservations
to, prospectors, so that whatever is
found of precious metals may be
taken out of the earth and put in
circulation. As it is, the person find
ing a mine within the limits of the
reservations cannot get title to it.
Now that the sugar schedule is out
of the way, it seems probable that
the tariff bill will soon reach a vote.
This cannot happen too soon. Chang
ing from one tariff rate to another
always unsettles business and nearly
always results, temporarily at least,
in the Joss of revenues by the gov
ernment. When the Dingley bill
goes into effect the first thing to ex
pect is a decrease of revenues, and
a consequent jubilation of the Demo
cratic press; and j'et it is only the
natural sequence. . The reason is
evident. Wool, woolen goods, and
all other products on which the
Dingley bill will raise the duties,
have been shipped into the country
in immense quantities by speculators
who desire to take advantage of in
creased prices. The result is that
they reap the profit instead of the
government for a little while. The
market being supplied with certain
classes of goods, no more are im
ported until these are sold, hence
there will be a falling off in reve
nue?.
Mr. Hugh Lee of Meriden, Con
necticut, who was with Lieutenant
Peary on his expedition to the north
pole neighborhood, thinks the most
feasible way to get to that long
sought point is to ride there on a bike.
He says the ice is frozen as smooth
and level as on the ponds of our own
country, and this is covered with
hard packed snow that would bear a
wheel. The plan seems all right, al
wajs providing Mr. Lee's premises
are correct But are they? Other
Arctic exploiers all mention an open
sea that shuts them off, or rough
broken ice that maae traveling over
difficult, and almost impossible.
Eyidently either the other Arctic
explorers have been fooling the
world, or Lee is running a cold
bluff.
The triaf of the ghouls who dragged
the body of Wm. Ladd from its
grave, is going on in Portland.
Rector, one of them, sets up the de
fense that he vas simply going to
rob a grave for the purpose ot fur
nishing the body for dissecting
purposes; that he did not know it
was Ladd's grave that was to be
robbed, and that when he did learn
that fact he backed out, but was
compelled by threats and fear of his
life to proceed. The defense will
not avail him, since be went to rob a
grave, thougti not Ladd's, for the
offense would have been the same.
It is highly probable, and highly
proper that the whole gang will soon
be doing service for the state.
The secretary of the navy has or
dered the warships Modadnock and
Monterej' to proceed to Portland as
soon as ready for sea, and to arrive
in time to participate in the Fourth
of July celebration. The adjunct to
Portland's celebration comes high,
but the government can at least show
the people what their money has been
spent for. Both these ships are of
the monitor pattern, and both formid
able war machines in which the pa
triotic citizen on the glorious Fourth
can take honest pride. The Oregon
will not be sent to Portlaud, as she
draws so much water her officers are
afraid to bring her up.
The rate war between the O. K. fe
N. and the Southern Pacific goes
merrilv on. Commencing today the
special trains to San Francisco will
be withdrawn and the special rates
will be given on the regular trains.
In other words, the fare to San Fran
Cisco will be $10 and $5 on the daily
trains, which will leave Portland at
6 o'clock p. m. The companies may
not be making much money, but the
traveling public are getting the ben
efit, if it is a benefit. Those who
must travel save money by the
change, while others who do not
need to travel are induced to blow
in their money.
HAS -i.V INDIAN RIGHTS
Has an Indian any rights that his
pale-faced brother is bound to re
spect? The answer is a most em
phatic No! History proves it. From
the time the Spaniard first set foot on
American soil, the native has known
no rights, except such as he could
maintain by force. 'Cortez made
him a beast of burden and a slave.
His gold was taken from him in
Mexico, and his daughters fell a prey
to the Spaniard's desires. It was no
better along the Atlantic shore,
Having no gold of which he could be
despoiled, the white man took his
broad lands, not by force, but by
superior knowledge and superior
trading power. He gave a handful
of beads, or a few dollars' worth of
gew-jaws for priceless acres. He
look advantage of the Indian's lack
of knowledge to cheat him in trade,
nstead of robbing him by force. Of
the two systems that of the Spaniard
was the more manly.
The lime came when the encroach
ments of the white man showed the
Indian that he must resist' them or
be crowded off the face of the earth.
He resisted the best he could ; but
against the supeiior knowledge of
warfare and supeiior weapons he was
powerless. He ran up against the
nevitable and was annihilated.
Across the Alleghenies the conquer
ing pale-fase forced his way; then
down through the fertile valley of
the Ohio, across Kentucky's battle
ground, he swept his resistless way.
The Indian fought and lost. He
was told to move on, until across the
Mississippi, far from the graves of
his ancestors, a new home was se
lected for him. The white man had
crowded him into what was then
considered tue great American des
ert. That's what the white man
thought it was, but it was good
enough for an Indian, simply be
cause the lands the white man drove
him from weie "too good for an In
dian." Here he might have been per
mitted to stay had the white man's
idea of the country been correct;
but it wasn't. The great American
desert was a great American mj'tli.
True, there was some of that so
called section unfit for agricultural
purposes, but the countless thousands
of buffalo proved it to be a great
grazing country, and a grazing coun
try was too good for an Indian, sim
ply because it was good enough for
a white man. Besides this, a bounti
ful creator had filled the mountains
with precious metals, and what use
had an Indian for money, anyhow?
The mountains were too good for
bin),. too. And so he was kicked
from pillar to post for no other rea
son than that the white man wanted
the "earth, or at least so much of it
as could possibly furnish existence
for an Indian.
The native son resisted, and he
did right. He fought for his home,
for his rights ; only he hadn't an', or
at least none that a white man was
bound to observe.
And so, by slow degrees, leaving
behind him a trail of blood, he was
moved at the white man's will,
steadily decreasing in numbers,
steadily fighting the unconquerable.
At last broken in spirit, he was herd
ed on reservations, a prisoner in the
land of his fathers, with metes and
bounds set, beyond which his feet
dare not tread. He is conquered at
last, ground exceedingly tine between
the millstones of greed and selfish
ness. The white man found him 400
years ago a gallant, generous, kindly
hearted, chivalric man; a child of
nature, free from vice, who extended
to the pale-faced brother from over
the sea the hand of hospitality. The
white man was a stranger and he
took him in; but the white man in
turn took the Indian in also, and all
that was his: He rewarded the In
dian's hospitality with the same gen
erous return that the germs of
measles, scarlet fever, of smallpox
do the gentleman who furnishes a
home for them, the only difference
being that those diseases would have
spared some.
But this is not what we started to say
it is simply a digiession, a sort of pre
lude to the crowning act against the
simple child of the forest.
Down among the Cheyennes some
forty Indians, or buck?, are living in a
state of polygamy, having, in the aggre
gate, one Hundred wives, or an average
of two and a half each. The secretary
of the interior heard of this, and it
struck him as too many. He looked
around among his white brethren, and
realizing that one wife made life worth
living (over again) to moat of them, his
heart went out in a great wave of pity
for those forty Chevennes. He issued a
decree, from which there is no appeal,
commanding these forty bucks to each
choose of bis wives one, and to discard
the others. It was a cruel and a wicked
i
thing to do. We do not believe in po
lygamy, God forbid! but we recognize
the position these poor simple-minded
Indiana are placed in.
Whatever else may be eaid of In
dians, they are human, and the paternal
instinct is developed in them as in all
humanity. For the male Indian the in
jury is slight; but how about the equaw?
How about tne children! How about
the family separated? We know that
concerning civilized white folks, who
robbed the Indian of a continent, these
things are considered immoral. For a
white man they would be, for he must
draw the line some place; but what
harm wonld have been done to have al
lowed these poor red remnants to have
finished their days along with the fami
lies their customs had permitted them.
We have taken their lands, their homes.
The graves of their fathers are turned np
by the white man's plow, and the bones
of their loved ones are cast aside to
make room for the white man's bcild-
t
ings. We have forced onr laws npon
them, and onr religion.
And now at the nod of the secretary
of state the last of their customs van
ishes, and these forty Cheyennea, in
their old age, are told to segregate their
families and then to choose between
their wives. Alas! poor Lo.
In the readjustment of classifica
tions and salaries of presidential
postoffices made recently, Carson
City, Nevada, was advanced from
third to second class. As Nevada
has in population steadily decreased,
the remarkable growth of the post
office patronage at jBrst seems unac
countable. The explanation, how
ever, is simple. The increase was
owing to the literary tastes of Cor-
bett, Fitzsimmons, and all that gang
of followers and admirers. Their
correspondence swelled the receipts
sofficiently to raise the postoffice to
the second class.
Hawaii is going to be annexed to
the United States in some shape.
Circumstances compel it, the destiny
of the country commands it. This
being true, it is with much satisfac
tion that most good citizens will read
the president's plan of preventing the
Coolies already there coming to this
country. That was the one serious
objection to annexation, and that re
moved, the balance of the program
becomes easy. The other territories
being admitted, the state of Hawaii
will round out the half hundred.
The little tug Dauntless has been
released, and in less than six hours
she put to sea, presumably to take on
a cargo of arms and ammunition for
the Cuban insurgents. She is prop
erly named, and if Cuba should ob
tain her freedom, she should be pur
chased and kept as being, during the
struggle for freedom, the Cuban's
entire navy.
Weather Observer !Pague has sent
out circulars asking that the recip
ient thereof write him how much
money or property had been saved
him by' receiving the river reports.
We don't know how it was with
others, but none of our. vast wealth
was exposed to the ravages of flood
or fire, hence the reports did not
save us anything.
Fire at Umatilla.
A destructive fire occurred at Uma
tilla Sunday evening, when it was dis
covered at 8 o'clock that Henry Means'
store was in flames. The fire was oc
casioned by the overturning of a lamp
in the rear room of the store by Mr.
Means placiog it on the end of a fruit
box. It was no more than sixty seconds
later that the bnilding was one mass of
roaring flames and in an incredibly short
space of time the store and the A. E.
Jack hotel and dwelling bouse property
were all in ashes.
Mr. Means saved scarcely anything
but a few of the books and an armful of
sweaters, his loss being about $5000 on
I 'U! . ...
oouoing ana siock, with, insurance
amounting to $1950 ou the stock, $200 on
the postoffice fixtures and $500 on the
building.
The loss on the other property will
not be less that $3000 making. $8000 in
all.
Dick Kelly, landlord of the hotel,
saved some of his furnitnro and bed
ding, but lost heavily, with a very small
insurance.
Camp JacfcsoD.
It will be but ten days uutil the mili
tary encampment at Hood River will
take place. The engineers corps, under
Lieutenant Povey, will reach Hood River
Thursday evening, June 24tb, and will
lay out the camp ground. The next
contingent to arrive will be the Third
battalion intantry, which will leave The
Dalles Monday morning, Jnne 28th, on
the 8:30 train. Companies D, La
Grande; C, Pendleton, and A, Wasco,
will arrive at Hood River on the morn-
ng of the 29th. The balance of the
troops from the west side of the moun
tains will reach Hood River the evening
of the 28th. The camp is very favorably
located about two miles west of Hood
Ri7er, and has been Darned Camp Jack
son, in honor of the distinguished officer
detailed by the government as instructor
of the Oregon militia. When the boys
get in camp once, there will no doubt be
many of their friends visit them.
Card of Thanks.
The Lntheran ladies desire to men
tion their gratitude to the public for the
good will so kindly shown them last
evening in so many ways, especially to
the members of the Degree of Honor,
who visited them in a body.
POPULAR FALLACIES.
That a g-ood appetite is always bliss.
That it is worth while discovering a
new comet.
That treading on a velvet carpet edi
fies the soul.
That calling it a landscape will im
prove a hack yard.
That the poetic habit is an abomina
tion and a snare.
That a taste for liquor is one of the
symptoms of genius.
That it's easier to analyze a dude
than carbonic-acid gas.
That encyclopedic knowledge can
purchase a five-cent cigar.
That cat music isn't strong enough
to penetrate a brick wall.
That there's more science in safe
breaking than there is in poker.
That watches with the most expen
sive movements keep the best time.
That the man whose debts are all
paid cares much about the decalogue.
Judge.
IN COLLEGE AND SCHOOL.
Ex-Minister E. J. Phtxps is again
on the list of Yale's law lecturers.
An elective course in swimming has
recently been opened to the juniors at
Vassar.
Without an exception Princeton's
handsomest building when completed
will be the new Commencement hall,
the gift of Mrs. Charles Alexander, of
New York. The building will cost up
ward of 5300,000.
Col. Amos 'A. Parker, who recently
died in Keene, N. II., at the age of
over 101 years, is said to have been un
doubtedly the oldest college graduate
n the United States. He took his di
from the university of Vermont
Just Retribution. 1 - . .
"Did you hear about Andy?" asked
one reminiscent westerner of another.
"No? Well, Andy made a strike of
sixty-five thousand dollars at Cripple
Creek. As soon as he got the money
in his hands he went down to Denver
and blew it in. Bum, cards and fun.
You know how it is. The morning
that he woke up sober and found all
his money gone he set out to punish
himself by walking to Cripple Creek,
lie wouldn't borroTT a cent. A fellow
who was teaming for me overtook
him and offered iim a lift, .but he
wouldn't get iu, a .id he plugged along,
muttering to himself: Yalk, curse
ver, walk. Blow in your dust, will
yer? Then walk, you fool. It'll do
you good. No, you needn't stop at no
spring. Ain't you drank enough? Go
dry, you son of a gun. Light out and
walk, you durned jackass.' And he
did."
He Charged the Jury. -
r During the era of "reconstruction"
in South Carolina one 1'ompey Smash,
a coal-black nesTO, became a "trial
justice." It was not long before
Pompey had a case before him. When
the jury arose and began moving
toward the adjoining room for consul
tation one of the lawyers interposed
and said: "May it please your honor,
you have not charged the jury."
Whereupon Judge Pompey gathered
himself up, and, with all possible dig
nity, ' said: "Gen'men, of dis jury, as
dis is de fust time I have had you befo"
me, I cha'ge each one of you one dol
lah and a half." ..
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