THE DALLES WEEKIiY CHRONICLE, SATURDAY. AUGUST 7. 1897.
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COUNTY ORICUU.
County JnJge......
Sheriff..
Clerk
Treasurer
Commissioners .'. . .
Assessor....
...,Robt. Mar
,.".T. J. Driver J
...A OA. iieiBHT
. C. L. fhilliptl
i A. S. Blowen
D. 8. KimBy
W, H. Whlppls
Burreyor.
.....J. B. oit
Superintendent of Publio Schools... C. L. Gilbert
Coroner W. H, Butts
8TATK OFFICIALS. .
SsrernoT s...'...W. P. Lord
Secretary ol Bute , HE KIncaid
Treasurer .Phillip Metschan
Bupt. of Public Instruction G. M. Irwin
Attorney-General ......;..C. M. Idteman
G. W. McBride
Senators jj.tH. Mitchell
juugnmuieii. iw R. Ellis
m . . , 1 J- IIU uiaiui
BUte Printer ....W. H.Leeds
weeklr Clubbing Bates.
Chronicle and Oregonian. ... ... .$2 25
Chronicle and Examiner.. . . .'.'. 2 25
Chronicle and Tribune............. 1 75
Chronicle and N. Y. World. 2 00
THERE IS BLAME ' FOR BOTH:
- The Oreeonian lays the blame of
strikes, such as now exist in the East,
upon the leaders, snch men as Debs
Sovereign, etc. "It is in vain,'
it says, "after a riot ' has been put
down by the strong arm of military
power, for the officers of labor unions
to disclaim all intent of snch pro
ceedmgs and publish manifestos de
nunciatory of lawlessness." .
What it says is in a sense true
and yet we do not think it all the
truth. Every strike brings to the
front leaders, men who are honest
and conscientious in their desire to
keep within the law; men whose in
terests are with the strikers, and who
vainly undertake, while uniting with
them for a common object, to re
strain tham f mm anta nf vinlpnfiv
It is not all the truth in another
sense. The employer who puts
wages down to such a point that the
laboier can barely exist upon them,
has as much to do, or more, with the
ultimate bloodshed resulting from
the mad acts of starving and riotous
men, as the men themselves, for they
create tbe condition that drives the
hopeless and hungry laborer into
using force.
We realize the sharp competition
that compels capital to curtail its
outlay, but surely no sane man will
say that the total loss from this com
petition, the total burden, of cheap
prices, should fall upon the side pf
we think, truthfully that the coal
operators themselves secretly en
ccurage striking. It invariably fol
lows that labor loses, and it also fol
lows that the coal operators win.
A dollar or a dollar and a half a
ton rise in the price of coal, caused
by the strike, means millions in clean
profit It means also the closing
down of the mines, so that the opera
tors are at no expense, while the
stock on hand is consumed. By the
time this is done the miners are
starved or shot into submission, and
with perhaps just enough concession
to permit them to eke out an exist
ence, the mines are again opened,
and there is a brisk demand for coal
for quite a long time at enhanced
prices, of which, unfortunately, labor
does not get its share.
There are some crimes worse than
the shedding of blood, and tbe mine
operators who make additional profit
out of the strikes which his acts com
pel, is a greater criminal than the
starving and irresponsible miner.
A CRAZY ROSH.
. The steamer Queen arrived at Ta
coma Monday night with 200 re
turning excursionists, but no miners.
Her officers report that the mounted
police of the Northwest territory are
competing all who have not a year's
provisions to tnra back. They fur
ther state that there are 200 miners
at' Skaguay, and that but few who
went np two weeks before had gotten
across the mountain, and that a great
many would sot get across this sea
son. Men can pack but seventy-five
founds and the round trip is seventy
two miles.
Yet on top of this hundreds are
going yet this fall. The. Willamette
will sail from Seattle Thursday with
800 passengers and 300 horses. The
Al-Ki sailed Monday with, 200 peo
ple. The Rapid Transit carried up
268 horses Tuesday, and the George
E. Starr sailed the same day with 100
men and as many horses. On top of
this comes the statement that the
City of Seattle has been chartered to
taRe; 200 PhiladelpLians, 200 tons
of freight and two steam launches pf
150 tons each, to the month of the
Yukon. She gets $200 apiece for
passengers and $200 a ton freight,
and will carry beside's 150 other pas
sengers. -; V- '.' "' "
And still the craze has only begun.
It is safe to say that nine out of ten
of those going now will not reach the
Clondybe this year but they will go
to " Alaska, live hard, and . half of
them will be ready to co.rue home by
spring. . ', No matter how rioh the
Clondyke may ; be, it is Impossible,
with the limited means of getting on
to tbe headwaters of the Yukon, for
the trip to be made. , Those going
by the way of St. Michaels, and tak
ing steam launches may get in, but
the fellows who tackle Dyea are most
of them donmpd to disappointment.
A Allalatf EXPERT.
Mr. Rogers, an alleged mining ex
pert, went up on the steamer Al-Ki
which sailed from Seattle for Dyea
Tuesday. This "mining expert of
world-wide fame," who floats up
from tbe bathos vast abyss, goes to
Alaska to search in midwinter for tbe
ledge or ledges from which the
placers ' of the Clondjke were sup
plied.
Its a d ead sure shot that Rogers
doesn't know quartz from homeopa
tby, or a porphyry dyke from a Mis
souri mill dam, or he would not
jump at the conclusion that the gold
came from ledges, or if he did that
those ledges were still in existence
He might go down to California -and
hunt for the ledges that supplied the
old river bed with gold, or seek tbe
vast storehouse that fil'cd the bars of
the Snake" with their fine gold. If
the gold of the Clondyke were in the
ledges, it wouldn't be in the placer,
and the converse of that proposition
is true.
What Mr. Rogers does not know
about mines as be goes into the Clon
dyke, supplemented by what he does
not know when he comes out, would
make an encyclopaedia of ignorance.
Besides we state this proposition as
being absolutely true, that while
mining experts have developed
mines already found, no so-called
mining expert ever discovered
mine.
Secretary Wilson is quoted in to'
day's dispatches as opining that the
promotion of the beet sugar industry
will deal a severe blow to the sugar
trust, and the opinion is commenda
ble, even if it is not original with
Mr. Wilson. Tbe surest way to
break down the big trust is to estab
lish a beet sugar factory in every
congressional district in the country
and make competition. It would be
far better to pay a little more for our
sugar and to keep the money tor
sugar and employ this labor at home
than to send abroad a hundred mill
ions in gold annually to purchase the
foreign article. If we would thus
distribute our great sugar industry
and raise the raw material in our own
fields and allow our own farmers to
profit thereby, there would be no
sugar trust, no more than there is a
wheat trust or a cabbage trust. It
would be the surest possible legisla
tion to abolish the sugar trust and
give the people native sugar instead
of foreign. Telegram.
J. N. Smith, writing from on board
the steamer Mexico, on tho way
from Juneau to Dyea, says the re
ports at Juneau were to the effect
that there were 500 miners at Dyea
unable to get across the Chilcat pass.
At Skaguay is another pass over
which horses can be taken, and this
route will probably be chosen by
those with horses. Mr. Smith,
among other things, says that on the
stearrer Mexico there are sixtv-one
horses and one jackass. As there are
350 passengers, Mr. Smith has evi-
ently made a serious blunder in
enumerating the jackasses.' '
We note that the . Copper Creek
Mining Company of Portland, with
property in Skamania county, gives
notice through the columns of the
Oregonian that price of stock will be
advanced after. August 10th from
five '-cents -to., ten.'1 The notice is
headed "We Are In It To Stay."
Looking backward over thirty years
of minins- experience, that notice
puts the flavor of the good old stock
gambling; days in San Francisco in
one's mouth, and makes an old timer
smile at the suggesliveness of the
head-line. , Most of the officers of
the companies were "in it to stay
It was only the outside sucker who
got in it to be "froze out." History
repeats itself. -: ' ,.:r
A WHITEMAN'S WORLD.
Dr. John Fryer, professor of Ori
ental languages in the California
state university, has arrived home
from China, where he has been in
consultation with high governmental
officials concerning tbe founding, of a
university at Shanghai for the educa
tion of the Chiucse in western art.
science and literature. . To a certain
class of minds missionary and educa
tional work does not pan out rapidly
enough in home institutions, and
they go rushing off. to remote lands
to find a Clondyke of ignorance to
delve in. It is an open question as
to the benefits derived, or to be de
rived, from their laborious efforts
and unbounded zeal. It is doubtful
if the realization of their dreams
would be of any material benefit to
the heathen, and quite probable that
it would result in injury to the civil
ized races of the world. 1 The doc
trine of the survival of the fittest is
the law of nature, and while it will
be hundreds of years before the ulti
mate result is reached, it is as cer
tain as anything human can be cer
tain that in time the Caucasian will
people the world, and will people it
alone. His encroachments have
been gradual, but ' he ' has crowded
out the natives of the Americas. He
has planted his teet in Africa, and
before him the Negio will' vanish.
Crowding down from the North the
Russian will sweep over China, and
the inferior race will die out. 1 Tbe
Turk will vanish first from Europe
and then from Asia. The busbmen
of Australia, like the American In
dian, will soon be only a tradition;
and last of all to ro will be the
Hindoo, but he, too, will in time give
way to tbe irresistable tide of white
civilization.
The 'education of. the nices will,
perhaps, hasten tbe end, for it will
stir the slumbering millions to resist
ance or tbe Caucasian s encroacn-
ments, and tbe resistance will be in
viin. In fifty years the Caucasian
has doubled in numbers, and
has doubled, according - to Mal-
ther's law because he has solved
the problem of making the soil sup
port a larger population. He has
banished famine and plague by anni
hilating distance. He has doubled
the life of man by studying tbe laws
of hygiene and discovering the cause
of disease. Fevers, pestilence, con
tagious diseases that sweep away
countless thousands of his rivals, he
defies, for he knows tbe cause and
the remedy.
The world is to be tbe white man's
world, and before him the other
races snail dwindle away slowly,
steadily and surely.
And now come roports of fabulous
strikes on Stewart's river, where tbe
mines are said to be as rich as those
of the Clondyke. It is undoubtedly
true that the gold fields of the Yukon
are wonderfully rich and that they
will also prove to be extensive. Yet
what matters it how rich they may
be to people' not already there. The
strike might as well have been made
in the moon as far as reaching it this
year is concerned, and yet there will
be thousands rush up to Dyea and
St Michaels this fall to feed on snow
balls ; and hope until next spring.
Then they will be in no condition to
make ' the . trip into the mines, and
will be left in the race by those who
start next spring. :
At Lynn, Mass., Wednesday Thos.
Kelliher '- and Susan . Denny had a
"lovers' quarrel." ' They had in
dulged in that kind of pleasantry be
fore and had just "made, up"- when
Kelliher took a wad of gum from
his mouth, and to show that he bore
no grade over their late unpleasant
ness, stuck . the gum in her hair.
Then they quarreled again, and she
seized an eight-ounce bottle of vitrol
and threw it in Kelliher's face, de
stroying his' sight and disfiguring
him for life; .That' couple would
haye made a daisy pair, and - it is
really .too bad that tbey were not
married. A fool and a fury tied to
gether might have broken the record
for matrimonial cussedness.
Any reasonable : tax levied upon
the miners by the Canadian govern
ment would . be paid cheerfully, but
a tax of twenty per cent of the gross
products of a mine, is out of all rea
son, and the Canadian government
will have .trouble in collecting it
Canada has the undoubted right to
prohibit1 Americans, or any other
foreigners, mining on her soil : but
if 6he does, or if. she so , hampers
them as to practically prohibit them
she must expect her citizens to suf
fer the effects of retaliatory legisla
tion.. -.
President McKinley is very friend
ly to the Nicaraguan canal scheme.
and at tbe next session of congress
will, it is said, have something to
say about it in his message. Nicara
gua is disposed to back out of the
agreements she ' his made since she
became a part of the Greater Re
public, but the concessions made by
her previous to joining the federa
tion must be kept by tbe latter. The
prospect for work being begun on
the canal , within the next year
is
good. , .' " ' -
Secretary Wilson has sent a num
ber of experts to Alaska "to look
after our agricultural interests there,
This may sound foolish at first, but it
has been demonstrated that potatoes,
onions and radishes can be grown at
points on the Yukon. Can it be pos
sible that the secretary is surrepti
tiously looking out a place for the
Debs colony? It would be a dandy
place, for they would have to work
so hard they wouldn't have time to
talk. -'
The New York Press says love is
a disease. This may be true, but
one of its peculiarities is that it can
be caught from one who hasn't it
It differs from most other contagious
diseases, too, in that having it once
does not prevent being inoculated
with it over and over again. H gen
e rally runs its course in a short time
if let alone, and is not at all danger
ous. I he lire insurance companies, re
fuse to insure persons . going to
Alaska. Life insurance companies
are true sports, never wanting a dead
thing when they gamble.
Institute Notes.
Yon are invited to be present tomor
row afternoon-
Principal Aaron Frazier of Dufar Was
present daring general discussion hoar
yesterday. Mrs. Ci L. Oilbert was a
visitor. Emma Ward came to attend
the institute.
CLASS WOKK.
Grammar Concord; '
Eng. Lit. Tbe greatest English poets.
Composition Prosody.
Physiology Special senses.
Arithmetic Proportion.
Book-keeping Shipments and con
signments. ' ,
Beading How to teach beginners.
Geography Europe.
' Gen. Hist. Napoleon Bonaparte.
Theory Preparation of the teacher.
Pbys. Geog. Earthquakes.
U. S. History Events of '62 and '63.
Algebra Imaginary quantities and
pare quadratics.
Took Him for Bryan.
A traveling man named Knight re
lates that he came out from the East at
tbe same time Bryan did, the train k be
ing in two sections, Knight being on
tbe first. He was smooth faced, re
sembling Bryan somewhat, and when
tbe train palled into Bawlins, Wyom
ing, a big crowd had assembled to meet
the silver champion.' Knight stepped
on the platform, and at once a mighty
shout went up, all mistaking him for
Bryan. He rose to the occasion, lifted
bia hat, thanked tbe people for the dem
onstration, excused himself from speak
ing on the ground of exhaustion, and ex
pressed a desire to shake hands with all
tbe ladies. The latter- flocked around
and nearly shook hia arm off, and then
as the train palled out all went home.
When Bryan's train came in there was
not a soul at the depot and everybody
was happy, too. .
In McClore's Magazine fer September
will be reproduced a superb life-cast of
the face of Henry Clay, made by John
H. I. Browere in 1825, when Clay was
48 years old. It 3s probably the
most real and vivid likeness of Clay ' in
existence, and has never been published.
In tbe Bame number of McClnre's will
be reproduced the only " portrait ever
painted of Mrs. Henry Clay. It also has
never (been published. Notes by Mr.
Charles Henry Hart will relate the his
tory' of the portraits and tbe circnm-
stances under which they were pro
duced. , ' : '"' '' i
THE HANGTOWN HOTEL.'
Milt. Elstner Flayed s Bins', and Was
r Promptly Called Down.
In readlDg. the Oregonian last night
we ran across ; an article headed "Gold
Miners' ' Adventure,'" ...--giving : a brief
resume ot prices and cost of living in tbe
early days of California. Among other
things was a bill of fare of the; Eldorado
hotel at Hangtown (now Placerville) in
1850. . The prices ranged from ' $1 for
bean- soup to $3 Vir "a square meal."
What caaght oar eye, however, was tbe
naoit of - the proprietor, M. Elstner.
Rare old ' "Milt." Elstner, afterwards a
resident of Carson City, Nevada, with a
heart in him as big as bis ribs would
permit. ' He was secretary of state along
about '78, and was known by everybody
in the Btate. Many a time have we
whipped the waters of the Carson for
tbe big trout iu company with him and
listened to his rare store of tales of early
California. ; B '
Stampley, another California pioneer,
located at Carson, told a Btory of Elstner
when : he was keeping hotel at Bang
town that showed somewhat of the style
of the man.' It was along about '54, the
winter had been severe and the work in
mines practically stopped. Towards
spring tbe boarders were all broke, and
Elstner was poshed pretty hard to fur
nish his table angl carry them. One
day, in a fit of desperation, Milt, went
into the barroom, where twenty or more
of his regular boarders were loafinsr.
waiting for tbe . dinner bell to ring.
Milt, looked- at them a moment and
then blurted oat:. "Bays, I can't stand
this thing any longer. I don't get in
money enough to pay first cost for grab.
and something has to be. done. Tbe
fact is, I have either got to raise your
board or close up, and as I don't pro
pose to close up, I will have to do the
other , thing, raise the price of aboard.
A dead silence followed for a moment,
and then a tall, gaunt and grizzly miner
stood np and, casting a friendly glance
at Elstner, spoke: "Milt. I and the
balance of the boys have always liked
you. ;We have stayed with you all
winter and, realizing bow bard it is for
yon to supply your (able with even the
necessaries of life, we have never gram
bled at the fare. We don't intend to
begin now. I can't speak for the bal
ance of the crowd ; but as for. me, Milt,
I'll be d d if I don't stand tbe raise."
The balance of . tbe boys stood it, too,
and so did Elstner, who pu'Ied through
and made money, too. '
TO MAKE BEET SUGAR.
The Opportunity Is Now Given to Get a
' Bl(f Factory.
Of alt the propositions submitted to
The Dalles people, that of the establish
mg of a beet sugar factory is the most
practical and the most important.
Tests of Wasco county sugar' beets
made a year or two ago, showed a larger
percentage of saccharine matter than
those from any other place in Oregon
There is unlimited area for their growth,
and the offer to pot tbe factory here re
quires only that the beets should be fur
nished in sufficient quantity to demon
strate their value by a practical working
test. Steps should be taken at once to
procure from the farmers a few tons for
this purpose. As they will have to be
gathered probably from several hands,
it might be well for the Commercial
Club to take the' matter iii band, see
how many can be secured and fix a day
tor their delivery, so that they can all
be shipped at once.
The establishing of factories here is
an absolute necessity. We have un
limited water power, are located at the
head of navigation, and have everything
in oar favor. A beginning must be made
and the sugar proposition famishes tbe
opportunity. ' Once this was established,
a scouring mill and woolen factory would
soon follow, for one successful enterprise
begets another.
The Chronicle wonld be pleased to
bear from all farmers ' who have sugar
beets, and to learn what quantity could
be furnished and when. While the
farmers wonld be greatly benefited and
can afford to donate something towards
the good cause, no doubt arrangements
can be made by which they can be paid
reasonable price for whatever they
may furnish. Just drop a line to this
office and we will keep track of the beet
crop until a sufficient quantity , is as
sured when arrangements will be com
pleted for forwarding them. The sugar
made from the beets will be returned to
this place. ' ;- ' .
, Teachers' Examinations.
Notice is hereby given that for the
purpose of making an examination of all
persons who may offer themselves as
candidates for teachers of the schools of
this county, the county school superin
tendent thereof will hold a public exam
ination at The Dalles, Oregon, beginning
Wednesday, August 11th, at 1 o'clock
m. " C. L. Gilbebt, '
tf Wasco County School Supt. '
Belglnm to Choose Arbitrator.
Yokohama, Aug. 5. It is semi-offi-
cially announced that . Japan has an
nounced that Belgium will be selected to
select tbe arbitrator in tbe questions in
dispute between Hawaii and tbe Japan
ese government.
Hundreds of thousands have been . in
duced to try Chamberlain's Cough Bern
edy by reading what it i has done for
others, and having tested its merits for
themselves are today its warmest friends.
For sale by Blakeley & Houghton.
OBEYED TO THE LETTER.
Bat the Walter Knew What Was
What, Just the Same. -
He' is an old, disgruntled! - looking
bachelor, and he dines every evening1 in
a chop house not far from Broadway,
says the New York Heraldi ;
. "Waiter," he said, the other evening-,
"now take this order and' see tf you can
g-et along- without eternally suggesting
things. No, I don't want anything from
the bar. I'd eay eo if I -did. Nice cel
ery, efh? , You wooded-headed idiot,
didn't I tell you that I had' sense enough
to know what I wanted, without any
suggestions from you? ,
."Yea, sir," said the waiter, submis
sively. "' ! v. '
"Now, (then," resumed the old chop,
"you may bring me Lyonnaise pota
toes, coffee, small cup, and eh yes, a
little old Stilton. Now, hurry up; don't
i-itarwi gawking." - - - . , .
The waiter went away and returned
with the order.
- "What! How's this?" exclaimed) the
man, pounding with his fists upon tbe
table. "Wbere'e that sirloin steak I or
dered?" . i :
' "You ordered none, sir," replied the
functionary, with a low bow. "I would .
have suggested as mruch, but 1 feared ;
to displease you." '
"You're a nice waiter," yelled the old
man, and he turned as red as old Burgundy.-
. "All you need is an. iron, fence
and board of lunacy commissioners to
be an insane asylum. Why dad you ask
me if I want a sirloin steak if I didn't
3 : oi -
urucr lit .
"Yes, sir," said the waiter.
.'Two minutes later he returned with
the steak. He had called for it when
he sent down, the original order.
SENSORY HALLUCINATIONS.
The Seeing of Ghosts Dae to Defective
Eyesight.
A recnt number of the Australian
Medical Gazette contains a brief but
instructive report of the cure of a case
of hallucinatory disorder. , The patient,
a man aged 60 years, had suffered for
two years from subjective visual sensa
tions not a day' passed that he did not
see1 a large number of spectral human
figures, and believing himself to be
haunted by ghosts he had become very
despondent and melancholy. On seek
ing medical advice it was found that
he had senile cataract. When this was
removed by operation the ghosts fled
and the man recovered his usual health.
In this connection we may cite the case
of a tradesman in Berlin whose shop
was .haunted by apparitions resembling'
in appearance some of his deceased cus
tomers. He was an intelligent man,
aware that he suffered from sensory
hallucination, and made notes of his
subjective impressions. . In due time he
submitted his eyes to examination and
operation, with the result of a restora
tion of normal vision and the immedi
ate and final disappearance of his in
tangible visitors. The obvious teach
ing of the foregoing and similar cases is
that in these modern days the person to
be resorted to for the exorcism of spir
its and demons is the opthalmic Bur
geon. '
Green Snow. '
Three places at least are known,
where green snow is found. One of
these places is near Mount Hecla, Ice
land; another 14 miles east - of the
mouth of the Obi, and the third near
Quito, South America.
Boston Common.
The somewhat curious statement is
made by a Boston newspaper that no
policemen are ever stationed on, Boston
common except on "Sundays andi holi
days. . - -'
Reasons Wht Chamberlain's Colic
Cholera and Diarrhoea Bem
: edy Is the Best.
1. Because it affords almost instant
relief in case of pain in the stomach
colic and cholera morbus.
2. Because it is the only remedy that
never fails in tbe most severe cases of
dvsenterv and diarrhoea.
3. Because it is the only remedy that
will cure epidemical dysentery.
4. Because it is the only remedy that
will prevent bilions colic. .
5. Because it is the only remedy that
will cure chroic diarrhoea. (
6. Because it is the only remedy that
can always be depended upon in cases of
cholera infantum. -, ' '
7. Because it is the most prompt and
most reliable medicine in use for bowel
complaints. .
8. Because it produces no bad results.
9. Because it is pleasant and safe to
take.
10. Because it has saved the lives ' of
more people than any other medicine in
the world.
The 25 and 50c sizes for sale by
Blakeley & Houghton.
State of Ohio City op Toledo)
Lucas Codnty, J "
Frank J. Chenev makes oath that he
is the senior partner of tbe firm of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doing business in the
City of Toledo, County and state afore
said, and that said firm will pay the
sum of One Hundred ' Dollars for each
and every case of Catarrh thatcannot be
enred by the use of Hall's Catarrh Care.
- Frank J. Cheney.,
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this 6th day of December,
A. D. 1896.
' A. W. GLEA80N, ' .
seal Notary Public
Hall's Catarrh Care is taken internal
ly and acts directly on the blood and
mncuo8 surfaces of tbe system, ' Send
for testimonials, free.
F. J. Cheney Co., Toledo, O.
Gfir"Sold by Druggists, 75c No. 3-11
Cash In Ion cheeks. t ; ;
All county warrants registered prior
to March 11, 1893, will be paid at my
office. Interest ceases after Aug 5,
1897. '' , C. L. Phillips,
County Treasurer. .