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C2) THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 18g7. The Weekly Chroniele. COUNTY OFFICIALS. Sheriff. T. J. Driver Clerk 4 ; A M. Kelsav Treasurer C. L. Phillip Commissioners iDis'.Kimsey Assessor W. H. Whipple Surveyor J. B. Holt Superintendent of Public Schools. ..C.h. Gilbert toroner.. ...... ...................... . xx. duiu STATE OFFICIALS. 3jvernoi W. P. Lord Becretary of State HE Klncald Treasurer Phillip Metschan Bupt. of Pnblio Instruction G. M. Irwin Attornev-General C. M. Idleman . (G. W. McBride " 1J. H. Mitchell (B Hermann jumrauucii iw E1Ug State Printer W. H. Leeds Weekly Clubbing Bates. Chronicle and Oregonian $2 25 Chronicle and Examiner 2 25 Chronicle and Tribnne 1 75 Chronicle and H. Y. World 2 00 SHE WANTS A PENSION. Liliuokalani, she Ibat was queen of Hawaii, has made a formal protest against the annexation of the islands bv the United States, and while the old girl puts up a theoretically good case, the facts are against her. She does not seem to recognize the truth that times change and governments and conditions change with them In her formal protest she says: "I, Liliuokalani, of Hawaii, by the grace ot God declared queen of the Hawa iian islands." Whether it was by the grace of God that she was de dared queen does not matter much in Ibis case, though skeptical people, who have been informed as to the queen's actions and morals, would have some compunctions of con science about making anything but a heathen divinity responsible for her appointment. Bui, if her statement be true, she mult not overlook the fact that just now she is not queen of Hawsii, but that one Dole is pres ident of the republic of Hawaii, by the grace of superior' intelligence of an enlightened people who do not be lieve in the divine right of kings or .queens, plain or colored. What she wants now is not her kingdom and her country, but a pen sion for having lost it, and pay for piomising not to lake it back again TW.wppn the. eir rumen and the nres ent government of Hawaii some sort of a bargain might have been made but between the queen and this gov eminent there is nothing to consider. There is no queen of Hawaii to deal with, there is but the republic of Hawaii, and this country is not going into the business of pensioning de ' posed monarchs. It is true we help pay the salary of one king now, but he is only a little one, and most of our people do not know it They would object quickly enough to pen sioning her saddle-colored ex-highness of Hawaii. If she wants to treat with this government, she must get herself in position to do so by re. gaining possession of her kingdom. Until sue does, this government can have nothing tc do with her, for she has nothing to trade. Bishop Willis of Honolulu has ar rived in England, and delivers him self of the idea that the feeling in Hawaii is strongly against annexa tion by the United States, and in favor of being taken nnder the wing of Great Britain. He expressed the further opinion that the best thing that could be done, in case England declined to accept Hawaii, was for Japan to reinstate Queen Lihuoka lani. It is really amusing to hear some prattlers talk over matters in which the United States is interested, and to settle them without taking this country into consideration Bishop Willis seems to think all that is necessary for Japan to do to re reinstate the deposed Hawaiian queen is to take her back to Hawaii and tell the people they must accept her. He forgets that there is another gov ernment in charge of Hawaii, and he ignores the fact that Uncle Samuel would have something to say con cernipg the matter. The good bishop, feeling as he does, should have reinstated the queen himself. He is just as able to do it as Japan. Max Pracbt didn't get the gov ernorship of Alaska, but he got something thai has had the desired effect of stopping his mouth. The only trouble with his appointment is that the duties of the office do not compel his absence from Oregon. He is an odoriferous pink petal from Peachblow Paradise that patriotic people of the Pacific coast would prefer to perceive perambulating the paths of political preference in parts preferably remote. That's what's the matter with Max, and that's the way we feel about it. However, his mouth organ is no longer blown, and that is a great relief. WIFELY DEVOTION. Lemuel Melson, who is sentenced to be hanged at Grants Pass July 2d, has made no attempt to appeal to the supreme court, or to take advantage of any of those delays now consid ered a part of a criminal trial. "I have nothing to say," is his only an swer to all mauiries concerning nis case. And yet one would think, sus taincd and sympathized with as he is bv a tender and affectionate wife that life would bo sweet and he would make a struggle for his liberty, His case, like hundreds before it, shows the demhs of devotion to which a woman's heart may reach. Humanity is prone to speak lightly. in these degenerate days, of wifely devotion, but it is because speakers are heedless of the noble examples which occur every day. Now, in Melson's case, his wife wrote him letter the other day that must have affected him powerfully', for one can hardly peruse the tender solicitation the pathetic longing, the despairin, anguish of the heart-broken wife. penned on a tear-blotted page or two to the man who won her girlish affections, on whom she leaned, and whom she loved, honored and trust ed, without being moved to tears. She was at the time, and probably is yet, in Del Norte county, California, but in his last hours she pours out her love to him, and in a burst of affection, says she would so love to come and see him, but she was busy cooking for a camp of twenty-five men, and couldn't spare the time. She is a thrifty little housewife and will get along probably as well without him, but still one cannot but feel touched at the hard fate that causes his decease right in her busiest season. The letter has probably had much to do with making Melson not only resigned to his fate, but glad to die. NOW IS THE TIME. The California 'senators are dis posed to fight the annexation of Hawaii. Their principal objection, and it is an objection, is to the mixed population. President McKinley meets this and overcomes it Ha waii will be annexed to the United States, because it is next to impossi ble for it to maintain its independ ence, and this country will never submit to any other government get ting control of it. There are some people who look at a giu horse s teeth, ihey did it concerning the northwest territory, our own fair Oregon, and they poked all manner of fun at Seward for urg ing the purchase of Alaska. Yet both were, after all, pretty good In vestments, senator Perkins says Hawaii isn't much good anyhow, and for his part he would rather pur chase British Columbia. He seems to think that all the countries of the earth are on the bargain counter, and that if the United States doesn't see what it wants, all it has to do is to a ask for it. Just now, on the eve of her gracious majesty's jubilee,"we imagine the price might be a trifle high, but the senator might price it It might be suggested, though, that it would be better to wait for the special sale to be advertised, which will probably be some time, as Eng land has not yet gone into the busi ness of selling her colonies. Hawaii we can now get peaceably. The question is, shall we take it, or wait until we have to fight for it? One of the amusing things about the Cuban question is the cheerful ness with which Canovas and other leading Spaniards view the possibility of wbr between Spain and the United States. Canovas says that in such a case "Spain will rise to the emer gency, Other Spaniards seem to thing mat spam would at once blockade our ports and send an army here and whale us to a standstill in- stanter. They do not seem to real ize the open-faced absurdity ot their threats when viewed in the light of Spain's success in Cuba. If the mother country cannot conquer a few ragged, half armed, barefooted Cuban patriots, with neither friends, money nor credit, what would hap pen to her if she ran up against this country, with its 70.000,000 people and unlimited resources. There are several countries that might give as trouble by bombarding and destroy mg our seaports; but to come over and whip the American people, all the nations of the earth couli not do it The United States raises every thing necessary to sustain the lives of all of its people, and can dety the world. A GREAT MIXING CAMP. That Rossland is a great mining camp is undoubtedly true, but that it, like most other quartz mining camps at the start, is over-boomed, is just as true. Nature is generally chary of deposits of the precious . metals, and does not overdo herself by placing all the wealth at her disposal in one camp or section. The history of mining camps shows that usually one or two, and invariably a half dozen, paying mines is the limit to which she will go. Virginia City, Nevada, was by long odds the great est mining camp in the world ; the Comstock and Bonanza ledges the greatest ore producers. Yet half a dozen mines would cover the list even there. There were more than that that produced bullion ; but even with the biggest ledge ever found, the number that paid anything at all was less than a. dozen; Cen. Vir ginia, caiuornia, urown r oint, .Bel cher, Yellow Jacket, Ophir, these constituted the paying group. Mex ican. Gould fe Carey, Seggregated Belcher, Bowers, these paid for a while, or rather once in a while ; but the Irish dividends were more numer ous than any other. Yet, counting oil the mines that could possibly be classed as producers, the number was less than a dozen. When the Virginia excitement bioke out in 1859 everyone of these claims and hundreds of others were located before the outside world knew anything of the strike. Yet 30,000 people went to Virginia City in 1860, one-half of whom expected to locate a mine. It is so in nearly ever quartz camp, the ground is lo cated before the excitement begins. It is so in Rossland. Comparing this new camp to the Comstock is like sizing Tom Thumb up with Polyphemus, or a mole hill with Mt. Hood. Rossland bas pro duced up to date probably half a million dollars. The first 100 tons of ore from the Ophir, worked through an old arastra, yielded nearly $100, 000 more than this, and the Comstock ledge alone, in its best days, pro duced $70,000,000, a year, or 140 times the yield of Rossland. We would not belittle the new camp, it will soon find its own level ; they all do. There is another camp, an eld one ; one thai never has bad a Doom, at least until now; one that has hereto fore been mined by tyros and owned by farmers; one that has no im mense led'e, but is ribboned with small ledges; one that is the excep tion to the general rule as claimed in the beginning of this article; and one that will in a few years be the greatest gold-producing mining camp in the world. That camp is Baker City ; or, to be more exact, Baker City is the center of that mining sec tion. It is the poor man's camp, the prospector's camp, because Nature, instead of exerting herself to make one vast deposit of wealth, has lazily cached her stores on every mountain. Inside of ten years the mines within a radius of 50 miles of Baker City will produce an amount of gold that will place Oregon first of all the states of the union in that line, and will make pale the ancient stories of Ophir and the modern ones of Cripple Cieek and the Rand. Baker City is the coming mining camp of the world, and her coming will not be long delayed. This is a great time for England, and Englishmen may well feel proud of the occasion which they celebrate. Sixty years of the most magnificent, most successful reign ever vouch safed to a a sovereign have just been completed by the great queen and good woman, Victoria. Since she ascended the throne, the world has progressed along the lines of civiliza tion further than in all the countless ages before it. - Measured by the ad vancement of, man, the strides of science, the secrets wrested from nature, her reign has covered' more than half the time since the creation The world today does homage to the good woman and to the great queen, glorying in the achievements of the English speaking people, and vyinj with her subjects in honoring her who is their head and representative, Oregon s gold mines are going to astonish the world, but Oregon peo ple arc to get but little benefit from them, that is in the shape of divi dends for the reason that Oregon capitalists are letting their opportuni ties slip. Oregon's mines, as fast as discovered, are bought up by East ern capital, and the result is that nothing but the cost of mining is left in the state. At Baker City foreign capital is capturing everything, Ore gon money nothing. . With the opening or these mines, our local capitalists will see what opportunities have been neglected ; but it will then be too late. It would seem that the corpora tions of the country will never be satisfied until by their example they have made anarchists of all their employees and everybody who does business with them. George Max well, who for twenty years has been paying teller of the First National Bank of San Francisco, was put on the witness stand in the Davis will case and was compelled to testify as to the signature to the will being genuine. He testified that it was forgery, and then the bank discharged him for "violating its confidence." At last a spark of humanity has flashed in the darkness of Spanish cruelty in Cuba. The Spanish sol diers of the Guiness garrison have petitioned General Weyler for per mission to give half their daily rations to staiving Cuban women and chil dren. It is only a little spark, but it shines like a star of the first magni tude, unrivaled and solitary in the universal darkness. Had such Span ish soldiers had to deal with the Cu bans, they would have conquered long ago, if, indeed, there had been anyone to conquer. A scientist says that there are only 205 deaths from lightning in the United States in a year. The same authority adds that only one third of those struck by lightning die. We don't know how true those state ments are, but if the scientist' was speaking of political lightning; we could tell him of those struck none die, and the same number resign. Eugene V. Debs declares silver a dead issue. As Eugene speaks from from the grave, his words ought to have weight. A LOST BABY. Lorln Roberts Strays From Is Oat All Night, Home and Last Friday afternoon Lorin, the 2-year-old son of A. 8. Roberta, who re sides at the big bend of the Deschutes, strayed away from the house about 4 o'clock. Hia mother soon missed bim, but thinking he could not have gotten far, waa not alarmed, until a search of ten or fifteen minutes failed to discover him. The country is broken and billy, full of ravines and gulches, and it was easy for him to become lost. Failing to find him, she gave the alarm, and soon ber husband, her sister and herself were scouring the bills in the vicinity for him. Not finding'.him in the course of half an hour, the neighbors were called upon, and soon the entire neighborhood had turned ont to search for the little fellow. He being so small it waa feared the coyotes would attack bim, and it waa in deed a long and anxious night for all. The search waa kept up all night, and about sunrise hia father found him, chasing after a Jband of horses. The first thing he said as bis father ap proached bim was, "Where's mamma?" His tracks had been found during the night, but could not be followed, and in his efforts to get home he bad traveled probably five miles as he was found two miles and a half from home. A young shepherd pup had followed him and was with him when he was found, and it waa probably due to that fact that he es caped being attacked by coyotes. Hia mother rode horseback all night in the search for bim, but broke down completely when he waa found. Soap Foam excels all other washing a2-3m compounds. We sell Hoe Cake soap. Pease & a3-2m Mays. HE DIDN'T DO A THING TO HIM Just Flayed a Few Selections Wiltet on His Backbone. From iracior uarns of aood Kiyer owns a dog. Mr. Bartmess also of Hood River owna a cat. The gentlemen named live on opposite sidei of Oak street, and the cat and dog consequently occupy quar- tera and are at borne seven days in the week, just across the street from each other. . The dog boasts of no high-born ancestry, is diminutive, old gold in color, and in fact ie, in every day language, just "a yaller dog." The cat is, on the other band, an aristocrat, being of that blue-gray color, indicating the genuine Maltese, though it may be only a Mal tese cross. He is of magnificent propor tions as to frame, long of limb, flexible of joint, velvet footed in peace, bat a telegraph message with hair on it, the cylinder of a threshing machine done in gray, a cyclone with a swelled tail, or any little thing of that kind when en gaged in active pursuits. Between the Cams'- dog and the Bart mess' cat, besides the street, is a long standing feud. When either of them feels lonesome, or pines for the good, old days in the mining camps, tbat we now can only read about, he makes an incur sion into the other's territory. Saturday Cams' dog felt blue. He had chased as old hen, helping himself occasionally to a mouthful of feathers until he was as full as a tick, and having nothing else to relieve the monotony of the tedious afternoon, he cast hia gaze over into the enemy'a territory. The gate was open and the Maltese evidently off duty. Here waa an opportunity not to be neglected. He walked over, and after reconnoitering for a few momenta, he sauntered in. He waa on dangeroua ground now, and proceeded cautiously and slowly, bat gained boldness at every step, as his bated enemy did not appear. The Maltese was curled up taking bis afternoon nap, never dreaming that an insignificant yaller dog would dare to try to play him for a Boer. "The best laid schemes of mice and men," and also of venturesome dogs, result in their un doing. ' A lady visiting the Bartmess residence came in and walked aronnd the house. The dog having a guilty conscience, knew he was where he had no business and struck for the gate. It was closed. With a despairing howl, he poked hia bead through between the pickets and tried to crowd his frightened body after it. Like some political pushes, it wouldn't work. He bad too many feathers in him. Then he made a fright ened larch back that nearly took his ears off, but he found, aa the country editor's epitaph said, "We are here to stay." Aa he could not move, he raised hia voice in lusty lamentations, longing vainly to hear his beloved master's voice. This was where be showed poor generalship. Had he remained still, some one would have eventually released him, bat his 16 to 1 music only disturbed the slumbers of the Maltese, which rose with a start and at once proceeded to investigate the infernal din going on at the portals of hia domain. He discov ered the dog and realized that his pri vate grounds had been invaded while he slept. Hia eyes flashed, the blood of ten thousand or more illustrious ancestors surged through his veins, his tail as sumed the dimensions of a brush on a dynamo, and the lady whose attention bad been drawn by the dog'a expres sions of regret, saw a blue rainbow and beard a thud as the Maltese sailed through the air and impinged on the hurricane deck of the pilloried canine. Then there was music in the air, a sound of revelry, all famished by the dog, the Maltese clawing the keys and running the scales np and down the purps back in a way that would have made Paderewski green with envy. Never a cat bad such an opportunity be fore. Never a dog bad so much of his earthly troubles behind him. The dog's calls for assistance became momentarily more vigorous, until the air pulsated with "the music of his fears," and the sound was as though a city dog pound bad set up a joint and several death chant. Finally with a mighty backward surge, tbat head, that didn't know enough to get itself out of trouble, was yanked from between the pickets with such force that most of the dog's hair and all of his bark was left there, and with a gladsome whimper he leaped the fence and fled for home. He was fast when in the gate, but a great deal faster as he struck the ground on the thither aide of the fence and realized that there was no place like home. The cat watched him gain his own ter ritory, and then went back to the wood shed and spent the remainder of the afternoon in picking the dog meat and hair from between hia teeth. What the dog did waa to crawl under the boose, but bis thoughts were prob ably like those of "Festus :" "I blame no heart, no love, no fate, And I bave nothing to forgive, I wish for naught, repent for naught. The desolation of the soul ' Is what I feel A sense of lostness that leaves death But little to reveal." Disuite naught but to uve. Labor Exchange Talk. Last night Mr. B. J. Sharp, state or ad- ganizerfor the Labor Exchange, dressed a small crowd at the court house on that subject. Mr. Sharp is a logical reasoner, and a good talker, though it struck us he did not talk di rectly to the subject, but devoted much of hia time to ridiculing "monetary science," which be claims does not exist, and jabbing some pointed remarks at "Hamilton's System of Finance." The main idea advanced by the speaker was that the Labor Exchange system, by storing products in warehouses and is suing certificates against them, would provide a flexible currency or medium of exchange, that would adapt itself to the wants of business. It would go out to the people when crops or products were abundant, and would come back for redemption when there was a fail ure, always expanding or contracting to suit the needs of the business. At the close of bis remarks the audience waa asked to sign the pledge, binding them selves to support the Labor Exchange. ' OREGON S. S. ASSOCIATION. Twelfth ' Annual Convention, M. B. Church, The Dalles,. June S8, 89 and SO. The following is the program for the Union State Sunday School Convention, to be held in the M. E. church : Monday Evening, Junk 28th. 7 :30 Devotional "Gratitude," Rev J L Herahner, Hood River. 8 :00 Address Welcome, Mrs M E Brigga, The Dalles. 8:10 Response 8 :20 President's Address "Past Re sults," Rev G E Hawea, Portland. 8 :50 Address "The Outlook;" Rev G W Gue, D D, Portland. 9 :20 Fellowship. 9 :30 Adjournment. Tuesday Morning, June 29th. 9 :00 Devotional "A Conscious Pres ence of the Holy Spirit," Rev E E Fix, Portland. 9 :20 Appointment of committees. 9:30 Reports from county associa tions. 10 :00 Discussion. 10:20 Report of State Executive Committee. 10:35 Report of state treasurer, Mr HM Clinton. 10:50 Report of state secretary, Mr A A Morse. 11:10 Report of Oregon Sunday School Tidings, the manager. 11 :25 Discussion. 11 :45 Business. 12 :00 Adjournment. Tuesday Afternoon. 1 :30 Conferences a Superintend ents, Mr F R Cook; b Primary work era, Mre E W Allen ; c Teachers, Mr' " HM Clinton. 2:15 Devotional "The Bible as a Text Book," Rev N Shupp. 2 :40 Department Reports a State primary superintendent, Mrs E W Al len. 3:00 b State normal superintend ent, Mr G F Billings. 3:20 c State home superintendent. RevCCPoWng. 3:40 d State house-to-house visita tion superintendent, Rev G A Blair. Discussion after each report. . 4 :00 Progressive methods, Rev W 8 Gilbert. 4 :30 Question box. 5 :00 Business. Adjournment. Tuesday Evening. 7 :30 Praise service, Rev W R Winans of the American S S Union. 7:50 Address-'Is this Old World Growing Brighter?" Rev Ray Palmer. 8:25 Address "Unseen Helpers," Rev E P Hill, D D. Wednesday Morning, June SOth. 9 :00 Devotional, Rev W J Hughes, Baker City. 9:20 "The Model Sunday School in Session," Prof R R Steele. 10:20 Discussion "The previous hoars work for Officers, Teachers and Scholars." 10 :50 Reports from the field by our missionaries, Kevs Vvm Travis, K A Rowley, W J Hughes, W R Winans, S S Caldwell and C A Nutley. 12:00 Adjournment. Wednesday Afternoon. 2:00 Devotional, Mrs Mary E K Ed wards, Newberg. 2:20 "The Marks of a Good School," Mr J K Groom. 2 :50 "After the Lesson and Between Sundays, What?" Rev B J Kelly, Cor vallis. 3 :20 Discussion. 3 ;30 The preparation of the lesson. 4 :00 "Gathering up the Fragments," President-Elect. 4 :30 Adjournment. . Wednesday Evening. 7:45 Devotional, Rev J H Wood, The Dalles. 8 :00 Addresa, Prof W C Hawley. 8:35 Address "The Authenticity of the Bible," Rev A W Ackerman. 9 :10 Consecration, Rev G A Blair. 9 :30 Benediction. 'For three years we have never been without Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house," saya A. H. Patter, with E. C. Atkina & Co., Indianapolis, Iud., "and my wife would as soon think of being without floor as a bottle of this Remedy in the summer season. We have used it with all three of our children and it bas never failed to cure not simply stop pain, but cure absolutely. It is all right, and any one who tries it will find it so." For sale by Blakeley fc Houghton. Do you want your windows cleaned, carpets taken up, beaten and re-laid , or janitor work of any kind done by a first-class man? If so, telephone Henrv Johnson at Parkins' barber shop. Phone 119. alO-tf