THE DAIiLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY. AUGUST 14.1897. The Weekly Ghroniele. COUNTY OFFICIALS. County Judge.-.. BherlC,.., Clerk Treasurer.. . .... Commlwrioner . . .1. ' ".. .Robt. Mots ..T. S. Driver ............ .-A M. KelnaT .... C. h. fhlUip - ' A. . Biowem tD. S. Kimsey lu.Bor..:L..L W. H. Whipple Bnrvevor........ .J. B. Uclt BaoerinteDdent oi Public School. ..C. L. Gilbert Cironer '. .... . W. H. Butta . - ITATI OIFICUU. - 8 jrernoi ...... - W . P. lord Becretary of State H B Klncald Treasurer - - ...Phillip Metschan Bupt-of Public Instruction.. u. lrwin A ttnmnMl . . .C. Bf . IdlemBD ;j . ' : (G. W. McBride Bmatora -. - j. h. MltcheU IB Hermann jnngraHioHi. i w n eiub tate Printer ' ...-W. H. Leeda , " . Weekly Clubbing; Rates. Chronicle and Oregonian ....... Chronicle and Examiner. . . Chronicle and Tribune. ........ Chronicle and N. Y. World. . .'. I .. .$2 25 2 25 . 1 75 . 2 00 FRIDAY. AUGUST 13. 1897 SOME WILD DAY-DREAMS. Surely the Clondyke excitement has developed many kinda and de grees ot madness. No scheme is too visionary to attract apparently sensi - bio men ; no idea too wild to catch and hold innumerable followers; - no dream of the tenderfoot, who does not know a Hungarian riffle from a sluice fork, so fairy-like that it will not unloosen the puree strings that have been tied in a double hard knot for years. Gold is the mighty magi cian that dazzles the eyes and blunts the vision of its victims, while it lures them on to the fields of ever lasting ice. The rudderless minds of the insane asylums could not evolve wilder or more senseless theories than those resulting from the deliberations of gold-mad men. A warp of fancy and a woof of d reams', woven by the delirious fingers of the ecstatic into a cloth of the field of gold, furnishes the material from which these vision anes make the garments for their moonings. Aladdin has rubbed his ring, the earth has opened, and in the far-away Clondyke every icicle has become a diamond, every snowball a pearl, every pebble a golden nugget ueans ana sow-oeiiy at long range become an epicurean feast, and 72 below, zero is glamoured into the spicy breezes of Cathay. , Mosqui toes and gnats are no longer tor meets, but become Nature's soothing emolients and aids to slumber. Work, hardship and suffering are a best giil, a hammock and peaches and cream. A hundred-pound pack on the back up the icy sides of Chil cat pass is synonymous with biking down grade of a summer evening. love a young dream is as prosy as digging potatoes compared to it. Ik is really too bid that the awak ening shall come. Aladdin will lose his lamp, the ; fairy and airy palaces will vanish, the dreams will fade, the visions , pale before the sunshine of returning reason. me election in unto comes oil in October and promises to be the most hotly contested one ever held in the state. The Democracy have it-in for Hanna, and as the legislature is to be eleeted that chooses his suc cessor, everything that can be done to accomplish his defeat will be tried. In talking with a prominent politician who lives in Ohio, but is now visiting the coast, he expressed the above views, and added that the coal-miners' strike would be of great assistance to the Democrats, and might throw the victory to them, as Hanna Is largely Interested ; in coal mines. The term of United States Marshal Grady expires by limitation early in September, aud it is therefore prob able" bis successor will be named within the next two weeks. Should the -. president not appoint, Justice - Field will have the naming of the temporary marshal. Justice Field will also have the naming of a suet cessor to United States Attorney Murphy Should he president fail to appoint, and as his term also expires in September, those on tbos anxious seat are , liable to soon have their doubts settled. . Any old thing is good enough to get to Alaska on. The old steamer Eliza Anderson that was built so long ago that most steamboat people had forgotten heruhas been equipped for the Alaska trade, and is to go to the mouth of the Yukon at that She was in the boDej'ard for a dozen years, and lay at the bottom of the Sound for a year or two, a sunken wreck; ,bul she is good enough for the gold-seekers. '-.',-: . THE S if A HE OF I T. . C. C. Garrett writes to the Spokes man Review concerning Mrs. M. J. Delanev. who ' started to Oregon in 1844 with her parents, both of whom died on the way. ? With her brothers and sisters she reached the Whitman station, and the whole lot were taken care of by him. She was capiured at the Whitman massacre by the In dians and ransomed by the Hudson Bay Co. She is now poverty-stricken and crippled with rheumatism and resides at Farmrhgton. ';' '.;' The story awakens sympathy and pity, not for her poverty nor for her crippled condition, for those things are of the common lot. The sting of the story lies in its tail, the con eluding sentence being:- "Does it not seem a shame that she must now, in her crippled old . age, eat the bread of charity and become a bur den on her children, who are barely able to care for their own families." There lies, for her, the bitterness," that in her old age the hands that toiled until they could toil no more tor her children., and that gave royal ly, must receive the begrudged gift of food from those who reaped the harvest of her bounty; that the lips that pressed the mother's kiss upon the baby lips must ask that baby grown to manhood for alms. Truly it is a shame; but the shame lies with those who think their mother a bur den and permit her condition' to be come so grievous that . the public is called upon to assist her. I While comtbrtably quartered on the deck of an ocean steamer, the re freshing breezes that gather- inspira tion as they sweep the silvery surface of Puget sound, cooling his exten sive brow and toying with his sorrel locks, Joaquin Miller writes beauti fully of the pleasures of ClonJyke mining. He grows enthusiastic, elo quent and poetical as he describes the natural advantages' offered by Northern Alaska a run over the Cuilcoot, a float down the Yukon. Viewed from this position the Clon dyke appears perfectly enchanting to the old poet. He is going to stroll over alone from Dyea, taking every thing (including provisions) perfect ly easy, and will jot down his experi ence each day for his syndicate arti cles. The letters descriptive of .the journey in will no doubt be rosy hued and romantic. The prose part will probably show up in the letters descriptive of the sojourn at the dig- gms ana the journey out. . if there is one thing more than another cal culated to convince a man that "life is real, life is earnest," and put a saw-tooth edge on bis poetic nature, we should imagine a winter in Clon dyke on a dog meat diet to be the thing. It will be interesting to con trast the literary productions of Joa quin Miller with those or Jonquot Miller. Pendleton Tribune. The expected has ' happened at Dyea, and 3000 gold-seekers are en- carrped there waiting to get their goods - packed . over the mountains. That this was certain to be the case was plain to ever one who had not a coal oil can full of gold dust in each eye. Given 1600 pounds of stuff ta be conveyed thirty-one miles by . each person, the only means of transportation being'a pack train of Indians, supplemented by the owner of the freight, and it is not difficult to reach the vcorclusion that the job a big one. : Not half so difficult, as to get the goods over the mount ain, xne result is as expected, many already discouraged are scllinj: their Outfits for anything they can get, and returning to civilization to do what they should have done at first,, wait until spring, Aud still the rush continues as' fast as rotten and long-ago condemned old hulks can be resurrected to carry the mad ding crowd, and it will continue all winter if transportation to Dyea is provided. -' -". '' ' The editor of the Eugene Guard contesses to not being farmer enongh to know whether thirty-four grains of wheat in one head is a good yield or not. ' This confession is decidedly startling, but indicates that the pro fession is advancing, and leads one to hope that the time may come when the agricultural editor will cease . his ' long dissertations about Tho Best Way to Curry Hens," and bis labored researches aloDg the sug gestive lines, "Plant Food Consid ered in Relation to ' Its Effect Upon Anffora Goats. . There are lust a few things "we editors" don't know any old thing about, and one of, the few is teaching a farmer how to farm. . v -' . " ' . A USELESS VENIAL. The Alusk.i Commercial Company takes . tlu' trouble" to deny a rumor that it had instructed Jts agents at St Michaels and the coninnnders of its vessels to bring stranded miners and' prospectors, who may fiud their way to St. Michaels, back to civiliza tion, as a matter of charity. Ihc company emphatically says that it has no intention of wasting any phil- anthrop3r upon fool-hardy advent urers.: No person . who knows any. thing of the method of these legalized pirates of Behringsea, ever suspected them of knowing what philanthropy means. Its members are "out for ihe stuff," and don't care how they get it. Protected by' the govern ment in the monopoly of killing seals, they refuse, and , have refused for years to pay one cent on their contract with the government, while demanding a flotilla of warships to keep Canadians and others off the high seas. ''! , It would not be difficult to be lieve that this company, would make a woor devil of a slow-awjiv miner walk the plank to - save the, price of his feed if It ivi-re jut afraid the criminal law might not be stretched far enough to protect .tbem.. They would use a stomach pump on a baby for half a gill of iu mother's milk, if they cotild soil ihe milk. "or dig up their grandmother's shin bones and sell them for shot-gun barrels, if they were straight enough. It is time, high time, that the gov ernment bring these pelagic plunder-c ers up to taw, anil make ttiera "knuckle down." " Major A. D. Reynolds of Tennes see, by close application to business for thirty years, accumulated a for tune of $525,000. He also accumu lated old age, but he got his religion, which had hung fire during all these thirty yeats, in - a lump sum. Then the major concluded that the busi ness he was following, that of manu facturing tobacco, was not in accord with the religious belief that he had accepted, and so the good major con cluded to retire from the sinful busi ness. It - would seem but a natural sequence that be should have de stroyed the wicked plant, but he didn't, he sold it for $30,000. Sold it to another wicked and sinful mor tal who wanted to go plunging through a sinful, career. The major of-course was not his "brother's keeper." His own poor old withered and tobacco-soaked soul was all he could look after and more, and so he added $30,000, the price of bis salvation, to his $525,000, the result of his sin, and goes prancing to his reward. . We don't believe in the use of the "K' in spelling Clondyke, nor do we think the "i" preferable to the "y" in Klondjke.' The "i" might be all right provided it begun with a 'fC," and was spelled Clondike ; but as tbe department e'erks at Washington know all about . Indian names, and everything else pertaining to the Pa cific coast, and as they bare decided on K-!-o-n-d-i-k-e, Klondike, the latter will have to go. After all it doesn't matter much how it ia spelled, for the worst spell in connection with it will be that the fellows on their way there will have. ' Silver having struck the . down grade,'; everything and everybody seems to delight in giving it a kick. Mexico still clings to it, but must perforce soon let go and go to the gold standard. It is at least proba ble that in the near future silver will no longer be classed as a presious metal, and even now it is approach, ing the ratio of 1 to 16 as compared with copper. ' There is, indeed, noth ing" to maintain it ; as a precious metal when . it is demonetized by the world. In ' the fine arts a limited quantity will . be used, but even for purposes of plate and tabic service it will ; be no longer used when : its cheapness makes it common. Crystal and porcelain ' are prettier and much better adapted to such uses.1 As a money ' metal, except as subsidiary coins, its days . are over, and there seems to be no other purpose . under the sun for which its properties qual ify it." : -v. ;?...' The Cubans seem iu a fair way of getting their independence without the aid of Uncle Sam.v This is, in deed gratifying to Cuban syrapa- tnizers in this country, for we are well acquainted 'with Uncle Samuel, and know that u Cuba does not set her independence without his assist ance, she will never get it at all. He is a'8ympathetic old codger, the fountain of whose tears is ever ready to slop ever. He can weep over the misfortunes of the down-trodden, even though , his own foot is upon tbem, and be can say, "It is really too bad, don't you know," while the moisture gathers behind hi3 specs, until one would think the old hypo crite had some feeling in him. He may baye, but it is never expressed in a . tangible shape, lie is never sorry "a dollar's worth,'.' not even if measured by a silver dollar. A rich strike is reported from Trinity s county, ' California, , that makes even the Klondike tales grow tame. J The Graves brothers drove a tunnel twenty-five feet into an iron ledge, taking out considerable gold, bnt at .that distance a pocket was struck from which $42,000 worth of gold was taken in four days, one piece being 3 feet long, 2 feet wide jani inches thick Besides this, it ,s supposed there is another $100,000 worth of gold iu the pocket, and , the criae itself will yield from 300 to $,-,oo to tlie ton. , i . " : The action of the Canadian gov ernment in taxing gold miners of the Yukon twenty per cent of their prod ucts has caused a storm , of protests from British Columbians. We- are pleased to note that our neighbors across the border are actuated by a desire to see fair play, but we fear the Canadian government will pay little heed to their protests. The Canadian government is "sot in its ways.' ' "A., woman's Clondyke syndicate expedition has been organized in New York City. Mrs. Helen Varick Boswell is president, and among the patronesses are Mrs. Jennie June Crowlew, Mrs. Laura Weare Walter, Chicago, aud other ladies from the leading cities, it would not be a bad thing if the ladies should spend a winter in Alaska and get some of their surplus names frost-bitten. . - A Mrs. Wilson, who resides at Birmingham, Vermont, has her bed stead covered with postage stamps. The stamps are glued to the bed stead and then covered with a coat of varnish. Covering a bedstead with postage stamps, it strikes us, is about the most dangerous thing a lone, lorn woman could do. - Captain . Thomas, of . the steamer Mexico, now sunk in 500 feet of water, was asked . in Seattle if he could find tbe rock on which she struck, and this, too, in . spite of the fact that he already had found it in the dark. - SMILES. Editor That is a most . ridiculous blonder you .made, Jaggerson, in old Solid m an n's obituary. You say, "He leaves an only widow." Reporter Well, what's wrong with that? Most of the millionaires wbo'ye died seem to have left more than one. Puck. . -' "What's tbe matter now?" asked the leading actor as tbe manager tore a let ter to shreds and. stamped his feet. "Matter? '. That performance of yours is so infernally bad that' this person de- mands that his name be stricken . from the free list!" Detroit Free Press. ' "Yon have all sorts of pie, I see by a sign in the window," said the- facetious customers, as he went into a bakery and addressed one of the young women who stood behind the - counter. - "Yes, sir. What kind do you wantt'i "I will take a magpie, if you please." At this re mark another young woman snickered, but the other girl turned to her prompt ly, and said: "Here, Bertha I You're wanted." 'Harper's Bazar. ; . .A good gentle Jersey milch cow for sale ' cheap. Call on J.- A. Warner, White Salmon, Wash. all-dAwlt CONCERNING DOCTORS. Home Idle Thought . About a Disagree- " able Profession. ' Doctors-..' are - n queer lot .any bow They have a way aboot them different from the ways of other men, in lact od some occasions "ways not of this world As a (teneral proposition they are a good lot of fellows, socially at least, and yon can't help liking tbem. . In good health, ho inanity is disposed to look upon them as humbugs of greater or leas degree. and to doubt their ability, Undiagnose dispasea and tell a fellow what ails his diaj.liragtu by looking at hie tongue, or pres8inga finger on his pulse, but in eickness this is -changed.' The doctor whom yon ' have been accustomed to meeting in a social way becomes another person. ' He is an autocrat whose will is law and whose law is hard, and yet you are glad to see hirp, and feel better for bis kindly presence.. , ' Trae, the first thing be does is to find out what you like to eat and make yon stop eating H ; what yon like to drink and put upon it bis mighty taboo. Do yon smoke?; Smoking is the- worst thing you can possibly do. . Cigars are baniehed, and the faithful old pipe, strong in its friendship, ia forbidden the bouse on pain of death. Do you like vegetables? Vegetable food distends the stomach, produces cholera morbus, inflames the stomach and is the forerun ner of appendicitis and a hundred other new fashioned diseases. . Do yu like meat? . Meat possesses too much carbon and not enough starch; your system has too much iron, you must take at once to a vegetable diet. Can you swallow pills? No? Then you must take , your medi cine in the shape of a bolus as big as a horse chestnut and a? bitter as quassia chips can make it. If pills are your favorite feed In sickness, they must be powdered so that you get the full benefit of the doubly distilled and infinitely concentrated naetiness. 1 If you want to get out doors and get a breath of air and a glimpse of- ennshine, you ,muat lie on your back and gaze at the ceiling. It your bed is a source of comfort and rest, you must get np and leave it. . . - . " And eo through tbe long list, these mild-eyed, Bmooth-yoiced knights prac tice their negative acts upon you, and yet eickness would be terrible without them, and death - almost impossible. Yet Buffering humanity gets even on1 them, for the sick man, who is on to bis job manages to need their services at the witching hour of 2 a. m., on the nastiest night of the year, demands their imme diate attention just when dinner is ready and some genial friend is on hand to share it, and stands them off for services rendered with a calm and imperturbable spirit, that approaches to the dignity of an art. Nobody wants a doctor, except when their running gears get out of Bsc, but when they do want ' him, like the fellow in Texas wanted the six-shooter, "they want him awful bad." THE EASY PAtiT FIRST. Doctor Slddall and Party Making It All . Bight on the Steamer. Steamer Geo. W. Eldeb, Aug. 2, '97. Editor Chbokicle : lOur voyage so far has been exception ally pleasant, excepting on the bar we had no rough water. : I did not get sick until we bad been out about three hours and I was not sick then when I kept still, but when I . ate some breakfast I concluded tbe fish had not had any, so I cheerfully gave it up to them. One old fish winked at me and told me to eat another breakfast. ' .-. We rounded Cape Flattery at 8 o'clock in the evening, and were only on the deep sea twelve hours. It was per' fectly calm all day. ' The straits and channels we are in now, and will be in the rest of tbe way, are as smooth as the Columbia river, Tbe gulf of Georgia is as smooth as a ynirror. We have been amusing ourselves all day watching the whales, which appear by tbe hundred. The scenery is beautiful, oaly excelled by that of the Columbia between The Dalles and Portland. Aug. 3 There was nothing of im portant interest today. The weather is delightful. There are three ladies on board who are going to Klondike. Tbe trip down tbe Yukon is not dangerous. There has been a contract for monthly mail all winter. Aug. 4. We passed the most beauti ful scenery last night that I have ever seen. There were, numerous glaciers, which seemingly reached the clouds. -. Aug. 5. We expect to arrive, at Juneau this evening. In this latitude it does not get dark nntii 10 o'clock and gets light at 3. We have passed hun dreds of icebergs tbia afternoon, and tbe country in general looks as if winter is coming... Juneau, Aug. 5. We landed here at 10 o'clock at night and it is light enough to read by daylight. Tomorrow we will spend most of tbe day here. This place is about the size of The Dalles and ia very picturesque. We expect . a great jam in getting over , Unncot pass, as there are about 3000 people waiting to get through, but we will make it all right. 1 We are going to visit the largest gold mine in the world in the morning. . ' John Pabbqtt. -. . 'i, ii-The Wheat Trade.- Wheat is arriving in straggling lots, the largest receipts being from Eastern Oregon. : Trade, continpes inactive. Most of the farmers are too busy thresh ing and securing crops to pay much at- tent ion to selling. Some hauling to stations, is going on, bnt 'to date the amouut delivered at interior warehouses ia small. The past week has been a most exciting one in tbe wheat trade, and all speculative centers' throughout Europe and America were shaken np. The great boom in Eastern markets was reflected to a certain degree in pur own interior markets, and Bharp advances were telegraphed from tbe Valley and east oi me cascades. Speculators be come imbued with the idea, that wheat must do oouiinea at almost any cost, and a sharp competition between buyers carried prices above the real 1 shipping value. A large amount of Walla Walla wheat is said to have . been secured on a basis of 85.c per bnehel here, which ia probably 6u above its value in the market today. - In the' -Valley,:, the ex citement was not so"- pronounced, and puruiiaees were maae on a saier oasis than in Eastern Oregon and Washing ton. . Many farmers took advantage of the boom to part with at least a portion of their holdings, and have done ezceed- Tl ol IT ..11. 'nrt.;ln . . . L L .1 J . forlcto2c higher, and have been left out of the short boom. Today's nearest export values, based on English selling prices and freight ratee, are 78c for Walla Walla, 82c for bluesteui, and 82c "Ji wniir, lUDUOli 1U1UHUU VUU1- mercial Review. Prospecting in Alsika. . The main coast of Alaska, to the northwest of Sitka, has never been pros pected until this year. A number of men have gone out with the intention of making a general, examination of the formation. For years past good speci mens of ore have been obtained from this district, but as a trip necessitated the outfitting of a good boat, it has been rather beyond tbe means of the average prospector. We may, however, get some information about this coast before the season is over which may throw con siderable light npon its possibilities as a HI 1 .1 1 II OlVdi uciv una UCCU CJI.I IXJ o found in the ruby sand about Yakutat bar, but no important quartz discovery, has yet been made. ' . iu for Africa. - : Tbe latest figures for gin and imports into barbarian Africa have a dizzy look." In 1894 Gambia received 22,368 gallons, Sierra Leon 242.6S6, the Gold Coast 1,302,899, Lagos 1,863.631, the .Niger coast protectorate' 2,609,158. The coun tries that supply the stuff are, of course, tbe same countries that send tbe mis sionaries, - Great - Britain, the United States, Germany, France and Holland. , Mrs. Ooiur Dead. Mrs. Christina Gosaer died in this city this t morning. She leavee, beside her husband, four bodb and three daugh- ters. Tbe family, all expect George, who located here in 18S4, came to The Dalles from Quincy, Illinois in 1891. "I have made all the arrangements for your r divorce," - said the lawyer, "Shall I secure it at once?" "No," re plied the sensational actress, after some reflection. "Not vet. My press agent is on his vacation." Washington Star. MISS GUILFORD'S VOW. Snld She Wouldn't SpcnJ for Fifrr Years, and Sow She ' Can't Talk. . The people iu the southcrn part ot Ilancock comity. Me., arc dt-eply inter ested in a peculiar malady which af- ; fiicts Miss Experience G uillqrd, an aged woman of East Bluchill. who. has not 1 uttered a word or any audible sound for 50 years. The original reason for Miss Guilford's speechlessness was an ger because she could not .-marry the man of her choice. When she was 19 years old she fell in love with William Simpson, the village. . schoolmaster. They were to be married on June 18, 1847.' One of Miss Guilford's rejected. . suitors told tales about the schoolmas ter, and Miss Guilford's parents stopped -the wedding. Miss Guilford thereupon - -said: -' ' ' : ' . . -; .. ' ' "I swear I will not speak a word, though I live for 50 years, unless I mar ry this man." :. . ' -' She kept her pledge. . Her parents died, and she went to live with ber mar ried brother. When he died she made v her home with a sister, and after-the sister's death she went to a camp in the woods and kept house for a brother. with whom she is now living. All this , time she performed her share of the household work and did not show any regret for having made the vow. When the 50 years of 6ilence expired Bhe was visited by a large number of rela- tievs and friends, who went to the camp for the purpose of being present when she was at liberty to speak. Soon after the midday meal Miss Gui'ord dressed herself in the garments which she had not worn for half a century. At two o'clock she stood up before the people, smiled and opened her moutti to speaK; but, though she tried hard and got red , In the face in trvinar. she could not utter a sound. Her vocal muscles had . become atrophied from long disuse and refused to work. ! 4 When Miss Guilford found that she could not speak she sent to Bangor for a physician and took td her bed. The doctor gave no hope of recovery, 1 but ; suggested that she be sent to a Boston hospital for treatment.. As soon as Miss Guilford gets strong enough to . take the journey she will make another effort to regain her speech. Her father left her a good sum of money a his death, which has been growing every year in a savings bank, ao she is well able to obtain the treatment she re quires. N. Y. Snn. ';..--.'' ''-.; -Vaccination and Voting;.' ; In Norway persons' who have not been vaccinated are not allowed to vote at any election. Chicago Chroriicle.' .-