THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, SATURDAY. JULY 31. 1897.
Tbe Weekly Gbroniele.
COCSTT OFFICIALS.
Cmntf Judge..
Sheriff.
Clerk.....
.,...... Robt. Mays
.V.....T. J. Driver
.......A M. Kelsav
Treasurer..; ...
Commissioners
T"rIA.S.
Jd. 8.
.C. L. Phillips
. 8. Blowers
. 8. Kimsey
Assessor................... ... W. H. Whipple
surveyor . . u. iioii
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .0. L. Gilbert
Coroner W. H. Butts
BTATK OFFICIALS.
BJrernor... W. P. lord
Secretary of State '. . . H R Klncaid
Treasurer '. .. . . . ...Phillip Metschsn
Bapt-of Pnhlio Instruction. .......G. M. Irwin
Attorney-General...., ..C. M. Idleman
, . 1G. W. McBride
""":, ?J.'H. MitcheU
(B Hermann
juuiioiiiicii iW ji. Ellis
State Printer . .......... W. H. Leeds
: Weekly Clubbing; Rates.
Chronicle and Oregonian . . . .
Chronicle and Examiner. . .. .
Chronicle and Tribune. .
Chronicle and N. Y. World. ......
$2 25
. 2 25
. 1 75
. 2 00
THEY WILL BUY.
The Baltimore American thinks the
government should sell its claim
against the Union Pacific to the syn
dicate offering $45,000,000 for it.
The reasons it advances are peculiar.
For instance, it says: "The parties
offering this sum own all the brunch
es and feeders, which are not includ
ed in the government's claim. They
can afford to buy the Union Pacific
on this account, but if it is put up at
auction they will not make any such
offer, because they don't have to."'
Now, this is where the Baltimore
American does some good reasoning
that it is not aware of. When the
road is put up the government has
the right to bid, and this is what it
is asked to do. If it does bid, the
gentlemen who claim they have the
government over a barrel because
they own the feeders will find that
they are .mistaken. Because they
own the branches they must buy the
road.' The main line can exist with
out them, but what wil! they do with
out the main line? The Baltimore
American is evidently subsidized to
assist in plundering the government,
and it is not earning its money.' The
owners of the branch lines will pay
just as little as they have to, but they
must have the road regardless of
price.
. CAN'T GO TOO SOON.
Daa Murphy thinks as his success
or must be appointed sooner-or later
the appointment might just as well be
made now, and that if he was released
from the duties of the office now he
could take a moLttrs holiday. Dan
is entirely too modest. When he re
tires from office he will have the bal
ance of his life for a holiday, so far
as holding office is concerned. The
arduous duties of the office having
been performed principally by his
assistant, iSchnabel, and in matters of
importance by special attorneys, Dan
had nothing to make him tired ex
cept drawing his salary, and that was
not half as hard as drawing a tobog
gan into the new gold fields. The
truth is, it was a case where a small
man was used to stop a large hole,and
it took considerable padding to make
the fill. United States Marshal
Grady goes out about the same time.
That was a scratch appointment, he
having as much fitness for the office
as h 1 has for a powder house.' We
have no idea whom the president
will appoint as 'their successors, but
"any old thing" will be an improve
ment on the present incumbents.
WHAT TO EAT.
Mrs. S. T. Rorer in the Ladies'
iomc journal says: "20 diet is
more healthful than ripe fruit, pro
vided it is properly masticated and
8 wallowed before or after bread and
butter, but never with it" Our
readers should take warning from this
and when their mouths are filled with
bread and butter not try to crowd, in
a clingstone peach or a box of black
berries or a watermelon, or, any little
thing of that kind. For the benefit
of the Clondyke contingent we ap
pend another suggestion of heis in
the line of select dishes tor summer.
She says: . . ; ,
"Fruit should be served in a flat
dish with, if the weather is particlar
ly hot, a little chopped ice sprinkled
over it. Fruit that is very acid
should not be served too cold.
Powdered sugar and cream should ac
company the fruit course. In the
place of chops or steaks we may have
eggplant, broiled or fried tomatoes,
panned tomatoes, a dainty omelet
with peas, omelet with asparagus lips
or with parsley, following the fruit.
Corn oysters and corn fritters maj
also take the place of meat.. Coffee,
tea, chocolate and milk are of course,
in summer as in winter," the break
fast beverages." . . .. -. , : -
; - The rush to the (Jlondyke has as
sumed such proportions that with five
steamers a week leaving Pacific coast
oorts for Alaska points, there is not
nearly enough room for all. A steam
er load of visionaries a day., will be
the record for the next two or three
weeks. , With the 6teamsLip lines un
able to carry the crowd, what will the
rushers do when they strike the in
hospitable shores of Alaska and have
to strike out for themselves? To go
down the Yukon boats are necessary,
and the little mill at the head of nav
isation cannot begin to furnish the
lumber required. Those in hurry
will have to whip-saw lumber, and
this is a slow job. "We venture the
assertion that one-.half of those going
up this, fall will winter at some point
on the coast, or return to civilization.
Most of the other half will wish they
had done so. . "
The dispatches yesterday confirm
the statement that Sngland had siezed
the island of Palmyra, . one of the
Hawaiian group, and will use it as a
coaling station. The average Amer
ican citizen admires England's serve
rhile condemning her greed and her
methods. At the same time it must
be conceded that she not only suc
ceeds, but that her methods are far
superior to ours. Here we have been
lally-gagging around trying to annex
Hawaii,. which is anxious to be an
nexed. We have rolled and unrolled
ceaseless miles of red-tape, and are no
nearer the consummation of our ob
ject than we were a year ago. Eng
land takes what she wants. America
wants what she is afraid to take. It
is to be hoped that England will an
nex the whole measly islands, and so
let us be quit of the matter.
W. B. Powell, assistant secretary
of the treasury, has taken the position
that the Dingley tariff bill went into
effect at MiJnigbt Friday, and that
all goods dutiable must pay the Ding
ley rates Saturday. Against tbisrul
ing several of the most prominent im
porters protested. . Under the Wil
son bill the goods arriving on that
day at the port of New York would
have paid a duty of. $600,000, but
under the present bill $900,000, caus
ing, the importers say, a loss to them
of $300,000. Is this true? Is it not
a fact that the importers will make
their profit on the goods just the
same? The only difference is that
the duties will go into the United
States treasury instead of going in
the shape of additional profits into
the pockets of the importers.
It is barely possible that some of
the statements about the returning
miners bringing out such loads of
gold are due to vivid imaginations.
The Evening Democrat of Baker City
prints the statement that Ed Biggs of
this city went to the Yukon last year
and has arrived here with $80,000;
that his advent has stirred everybody
up and we are all anxious to go.
Now, while we seriously hope that
Eiggs has his $80,000, theie has been
no evidence cf . the kind here.
Neither he nor the $80,000 have been
seen here. If the balance of the stor
ies have no more solid foundation
than this, some people are going to
get badly fooled. ' " 'i ''
It is a strong commentary on the
methods of tbe coal operators that
the striking miners make the demands
they do. Some of the things they
complain of are: "That the company
stores at which they are compelled to
trade charge .them exorbitant prices
and that dishonest weights are used."
If these charges are true, tbe opera
tors should be put in the penitentiar
ies, where they belong;" and that they
are true the miners one and all as
sert. The strike has been a com
mendable one in that jjo violence has
been used, the strikers keeping within
the law, and in consequence the sym
pathy of the entire country is with
them. ' ,' " :' - '
It is now stated that the Canadian
government will levy a ftax or roy
alty on all products of the Clondyke
mines; that hereafter in all newly-
discovered locations, every other
claim will be held out for the gov
ernment, and 20 per cent will be de
manded on all claims yielding over a
certain sum. , This may or may not
be true; but if it is there will, prob
ably be some difficulty experienced
in collecting the tax unless the gov.
eminent has an ; agent , stationed at
each claim. ;' ' ' "
PRICES OF CATTLE.
Regarding the' effect on next year's
prices wrought by, the very heavy
sales of cattle in Oregon this season,
a well known livestock buyer gives
the East Oregonian this opinion:
'-"-''An enormous-; quantity of beef
and stock cattle has been shipped
from Oregon this year. From Hun
tington went 15,000 head; from Ar
lington, 7,000 head; from Pendleton
went 4,000; from Heppner were
shipped 1,000 head; from Elgin,Echo
and The. Dalles and other Eastern
Oregon points were shipped several
thousand more, bringing up tbe total
to no less than 30.000 to 35,000. On
an average valuation of $20 per bead
these cattle brought the growers be
tween $600,000 and $700,000, a
handsome sum, and representing a 10
per cent, return on $6,000,000 or $7,-
000.000, as business men are accus
toined to put it.
"I have heard of late frequent com.
ments as to what effect this heavy
selling will have on next year's pric
es. It is assumed that the selling
down so closely and draining the
country of stock cattle will insure
higher prices for next year iu this
section. This vie w I am compelled
to combat. People have not thought
carefully when they have given anj
such opinion. , Let me give you my
analysis of the situation.
The greater part of these Oregon
cattle which were shipped East, and
most of the cattle shipped went East,
were stock cattle for the ranges of
Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming, tbe
Uakotas and C-oloraiio. Ihey are
simply taken to the big ranch ranges
and fattened for tbe Eastern market
They arr yet in the United States.
The supply of beef prospective is not
affected in the least. The cattle
were merely moved from one local
ity to another,- and are hot yet thrown
on tbe final market. So that, while
Oregon has sold short, we are hy no
means to profit by the surety of a rise
in price next year. Even though
cattle are scarcer, throughout all of
Oregon, next year may see even low
er prices than were paid this year,
whtnso many cttle were sent but.
Tbe situation among tbe coal min
ers is growing desperate, and it is
only a question of time until there is
blood shed. Already shots have been
exchanged, but fortunately no one
was hurt. - It is plain to be seen that
the operators are playing for delay,
knowing that hunger will cause the
strikers to commit acts of lawless
ness and that then the government
will have to interfere. The law must
be upheld, and yet one who realizes
the cruel oppressiveness of the mine
owners can hardly refrain from tbe
wish thai if blood is shed it will not
all come from the veins of the min
ers. The latter are entitled . to live,
as well as the former; and death that
comes suddenly from the rifle is
preferable to starvation. ..
If the Canadian government sus-
ceeds in collecting that 20 per : cent
royalty from the Clondyke miners,
this country should send a few of its
officials up there to see how it Is
done. What Canada gets out of an
American miner in tbe wilds of the
Yukon in the shape of , royalty she
can deposit in the corner of her roy
al highness eye. Tbe Canadian po
lice would make more money for
their government if set at work
mining. , -
This country, with 75,000,000 peo
ple, sends its warships to the Halifax
dry-dock, not because we have no
dry-docks, but for the reason that
they have been built at places where
the water was too shallow to permit
vessels to reach them. We should
build 'smaller vessels. ...
Captains W. P. and James Gray
are contemplating taking . the otd
Oregon and California ferry-boat to
the Yukon. Her hull ia of steel, and
once in the Yukon she would be a
dandy. - The Grays think she xould
make the trip all right, and there are
plenty of people anxious . enough to
go to take their chances on her. It
is riot probable that this will be done,
but it shows what chances a man will
take when begets the "yellow' fever,
The .'only - business Congress
has -; before it now is that of
the '- Senate in ' confirming - nom
inations made by the presi
(tent.: . if the, appointments were
made and confirmed, it would serve
two.. good purposes. Let the disap
pointed go and hunt a job, take the
whole lot off the anxious seat, and
let the country take a fresh breath
with the knowledge that Congress
had adjeurned. V - ,
I he Alaska gold excitement in
creases daily, and all kinds ot schemes
are on foot. , One which will prob
ably materialize is the building of a
railroad from some point on salt , wa
ter to the navigable waters of the
Yukon. ' If the . gold deposits will
only reach North far enongb, Greed
will build a railroad to . the North
Pole while Science goes air-chasing
with its balloons.
A specimen of England's dealing
with weaker people is furnished from
the Solomon Islands, where the Eng
lish warship Rapid has been cruising
among the errall islands, destroying
six villages and taking a number of
hostages. This was done to punish
the natives for the murder of Cap
tain Cibbons. That is the way Eng
land arbitrates when she is strong
enough. -
The manufacturers of armor plate
refuse to -furnish it to the United
States for $300 a ton, though selling
the same products to Russia for $240
per ton. . They think they have
cinch on the government and pur
pose using it. The government
should set a price on tbe plants if it
needs them and then confiscate them.
it is a pretty safe proposition that
no country editor will have the Clon
dyke fever. When day after day he
picks' up the welcome exchanges"
and finds nothing in them that he can
scissor, nothing but "Clondyke, Clon
dyke," he growls "t'ell with Clon
dyke, ' and tries vainly to- get up
something original. '
In view of possible complications
with England would it not be well to
make a treaty by which we would be
allowed the use of the Halifax dry
dock for our war vessels in case the
two countries came to blows ?
Parties going to the Yukon a week
or ten days from now can buy a first-
class outfit at Dyea cheaper than
anywhere else in the world. There
will be plenty of them for sale this
side of the Chilcat summit soon. .
Xhe united atates will not send a
company of soldiers to Alaska this
year, for the reason that it is too late
to prepare suitable quarters for them
for the winter. . '
' What s 1v oman Can Do.
Bob Burdette says : "A woman can
not sharpen . a pencil, and outside of
commercial circles she cannot tie a pack
age to make it look like anything save a
crooked cross section of ohaos; but.'land
of miracles! see what she can do with a
pint I believe there are some women
who can pin a glass knob to a door.
She cannot walk so many miles around
a billiard table with nothing to eat and
nothing (to speak of) to drink, but she
can walk the floor all night with a fret
ful baby witbont going sound asleep the
first half hour. '
"She can ride 500 miles witbont going
into the smoking car to rest (and get
away from the children). She can en
joy an evening visit without smoking
half a dozen cigars. She can go to town
and do a - wearisome day's shopping
and bare a good time with three or four
friends without drinking a keg of beer.
She can endure the torturing distraction
of a houseful of children all day,twbile
her husband cuffs them all bowling to
bed before be has been home an hour. .
"Every day she endures a dress that
would make an athlete swoon. , She
will not, and possibly, cannot, walk 500
miles arouad a tanbark track in six
days for $5000, "but Bhe ' can walk 200
miles in ten hours up and down tbe
crowded aisles of a dry goods store when
there is a reduction sale going on. She
bath no skill at fence and knoweth not
how to spar, but when she jayelins a
man in the ribs in a Christmas crowd
that man's whole family howls. Sbe is
afraid ot a mouse and runs from a cow,
but a book agent can't scare her. Sbe is
tbe salt of tbe church, the pepper of the i
choir and the life of the sewing society,
and about all there is of a young ladies'
school or nunnery."
. :' The. Clondyke Pioneer.
Now that the dude journalist and silk
stocking miners.are claiming the Clon
dyke "by right of discovery," It ia inter
esting to note who were the pioneers of
the locality. VV. J. Arke!l, of the Les
lie's. Weekly and Judge publications,
claims that his expedition of 1890-91 was
the first to enter the region, and sends
oat a fairy story to that effect over the
telegraph wires dated New York, July
23, claiming the Clondyke. by right of
discovery," for E. J. Claire, who headed
the expedition, and himself, who organ
ized it. ' ; .; ,-:'
Tbe first ruau to pail np the Yukon
and prospect tbe country in the vicinity
of Clondyke was Ed SchiefFelin, the lo
cator of tbe mother lode at Tombstone,
Arizona, who recently ' passed away in
his lonely log cabin in the Cascade
mountains, where be had also been pros
pecting. ' This was in 1882, and .very
:pon after he had disposed of bis inter
ests in Tombstone, Arizona, mines. He
was tired with the possibilities of the up
per Yukon as a gold-producing region,
and, determining to get into it, ordered a
stern-wheel steamer constructed in San
Francisco . and shipped to Juneau, to
which place he sailed from Portland.
The steamer was put together at Junean
and christened the "New Backet," and
Ed Schieifelin and his crew sailed up the
Yukon for over 1500 miles. He after
wards prospected the cbnntry. in and
about the vicinity of the El Dorado and
found gold galore, but concluded toaban
don the. place on account of its great
distance from eupplies, the intense cold
and inho8pitability of the climate Tbe
steamboat New Backet was sold by
Schieffelin to Sitka parties and after
wards used on the Alaska waters. :
r A FROG HUNTING DOG.
The Queer Work Performed by an Irish
... - 1 . Setter. . .
"Talk about, your dog sto-rifs,' said
a prominent sportingr msm the other
day. f"I saw something- out at i'utolF
lalce wli Ich beat anyl b inif I ever heart!
of. I was out there hunting- Biiipc and
saw a man Tiding around ca liorw'baeU
end in front of him vrcs circling an
Irish setter. As the fcilow did not
have any sun, my curiosity war. aroused
to know w hat he was doing:, but I sup-,
posed he was simply breaking his doif.
In a few minutes I saw him ride up to
where the dog was on a dead stand
and the horseman proceeded to jab a
pole he was carrying down into the
ground and, bringing it up, took some
thing off the end of it. My curiosity
a greater than, evsr, and circling
around I came up with the horseman
and asked him what he was doing.
' "'Hunting frogs,' was the reply.
. " 'What is the dog doing?' said IJ
'"Hunting frogs,' was, the 'laconic
answer. . .. -v
" 'You don't mean to tell me that the
dog will set the frogs, do von?' '.'
" 'I don't mean anything else."
' "A few more questions and answers
brought out the fact that the dog had
seen his master hunting around in the
grass for frogs u.nd spearing them and
had of his own accord taken up the
task of . locating the green beauties.
He was a thoroughly trained hunter
on birds and he sooti became very ex
pent in locating frogs, so his owner in
formed me, and my observations of his
movements confirmed the man's state
ments." OmaJia Bee.. .
KPtn.u,..
MOURNING GARB RENTED.
Novel Business Built Up by an Enterpris
ing Dealer in Old Clothes.
Persons who are forced to undergo
a sudden change of clothing because
of the death of relatives, and who
haven't the ready-money to buy but
right an. entire outfit of black for brief
use, have found a welcome assistance
in their embarrassment in a man whose
business is obscure, comparatively, and
of recent origin, but who has an active
trade. -'
The office of this man has a funereal
aspect, filled as it is with heaps of
somber garments, but its proprietor is
anything but grave. He was, until
lately, a dealer in old clothes, and was
dismayed at the amount of competi
tion.. Everybody seemed to him to be
dealing in that commodity. - ' ' -
A friend, short of cash, whose farther
died, borrowed a mourning outfit from
him one day, paying a small sum for the
loan. This - transaction suggested , to
the dealer the idea of hiring out mourn
ing dress as a business. He tried it,
and soon found his peculiar trade well
patronized.
He began to read death notices in
the newspapers, and to send his agents
to visit those whom he considered were
not in extra good circumstances. Seven
agents now act for him, being paid fn
commissions. .acn has a regular cir
cuit of streets marked out for his can
vass. ,. '
Advertised tetters.
Following is tbe liet of letters remain
ing in the poetomce at The Dalles un
called for July 30, 1897. Persons call
ing for tbe same will give date on which
they were advertieed : ' '.
Alexander, Say Bates. Rosa
Beard, C A Clark, Martha
Campbell, CL Foyle, W H ; -
Fisher, Walter K(o) Funic, n m
Gregg, Walter . ; Harrington, Clint
Uaunon, Jas Hunter, Calvin ,
Kinney, Geo T ' Jobnston,MiB8 Anne
Mack. Caroline a Mcrnerson, neuie
McCauley, F O . - Rattan, John (3)
Rice. W ' Simms, J A
Shook, W M ." '. Shook, Olive
Tadlock, Joel Thompson, G A .
t Wilson, uatue -. . -. ...
v . . ;' J. A. CBOssKNj P. M.' .
Soap Foam excels all other washing
compounds, , . a2-3m
Regulator Line
He Dalles. Portlanfl -anl Astoria
Navigation Co.'
eioo RathToIau fir HoIIap PIttt
FREIGHT AND PASSENGER LINE
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The Dalles, Hood River, Cascade Locks and Port
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the steamer, arriving In Portland in time for the
outgoing Southern and Northern trains; East
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to take the East-bound train. , '
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at 6 p. m., leaves at 6 :05 p. m. No. 2, to Pendle
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rives at 8-30 a. m., departs at 8:35 a.m. No. 1,
from Baker City and Union Pacific, arrives at
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Nos. 23 and 24, moving east of The Dalles, will
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' Passengers for Heppner will take train leaving
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