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Cz) THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1897. The Weekly Chronicle. COCNTI OFFIC1AJLS. the injunction was to prevent the striking miners assembling or talkir.g to those ' who were-- at work.. Tbc full text of the injunction: printed . . . nuui. ins) at. - v . ..t. J. Driver I in the dispatches yesterday, puis a y.''.'.'."ll'.'.'.'."'c. u V-hiiiip different light upoD it. - The D.a. Kimsey iunction would have been monstrous ... TT II 1. 1 , I - AHOWT n.u, nmuun . . ...... - t . -: rv... BnrTerqr.... - ......J. B. Holt I out as issued it is an. rigut. . JLUe m BapertntenaentotruDUC schools. ..u. L-unoen - , . ..'. .t, coroner : ..... w. h. Butts junction is simply to prevent the aty Judge. Sheriff.. Clerk ,. - Treasurer Commissioners Srst in 8 TATE OFFICIALS. striking miners from assembling on Loflj the property of the . company that to prevent flreranr . . . - . W. P. livot.n nt ctntA . TT R Kincald Treasurer -Phillip Metscban 1 seek8 to enjoin them, and Attorney-General ...VS....C. h. idieman them interfering with the company's Bntor.... ...... .......... j.':h. Mitcheu emnlovees while on .their way to or K HArmatin I - Congressmen. tate Printer.. (B Hermann 1W. R. Ellis ..W.H. Leeds ARE WE VNGRATEFDLT . .- ' : The pension list-- grows steadily, and the indications are that another class will be provided 'for at the coming session of congress that will add $10,000,000 more to the amount of money the country' must pay The Chronicle editor oelieves m the pension system, but riot the one in vogue. We believe that every old soldier who lost limb or health in the service of the country should be cared for. VFe believe the pension list should be a roll of honor, and that it should be a source of pride to him who received a portion of a grateful people's bounty. The list is do longer such. Able-bodied men, with abundant property and a Klon dike of good health are on the list. Men who pursue their occupations iq competition with their' fellowmen, who bold lucrative offices, and who are abundantly able to take care of themselves and their families, are on the list, and they should be there no longer. We need pension legislation look ing to its reduction rather than to its extension. There are men who were good soldiers and who are in need, who are not, but should be, on the pension list, but every able-bodied man should come off of it. Every man with a competence should come off of it. Every fraud, and theie are thousands of them, should come off of it. The human mind cannot grasp and measure a statement made in figures, for 140,000,000 rolls off the tongue lust as quickly- as 140,000. Let us put $140,000,000, the amount paid ' yearly for pensions, into something tangible that the mind can grasp, and - so measure the extent of the nation's gratitude. One hundred and forty million dollars, with wheat at 75.. cents a bnsbel, would mean 186,666,667 bushels of wheat. One hundred bushels of wheat weigh three tons. Eighteen tons make an a age carload,and eighteen tons are 600 busLels. The average car is forty feet loDg. Now if 186,000,000 bush els of wheat, representing the pension payments, were placed in freight cars, 600 bushels to the car, the cars forty feet in length, it would make a solid train 2357 miles long, enough to , reach from Chicago to Portland and leave a few miles for good measure. . With $40,000,000 more added it would lengthen the train 500 miles. With beef cattle valued at $25 etch, and allowing ten feet for each one, it would make a drove of cattle, standing three abreast, that would reach from San Francisco to New York, 'or in single file would reach from San Francisco to Berlin. With $40,000,000 more added, the herd would reach a trifle more than half way around the earth. With hay at $7 per ton, and allowing 500 cubic feet - to the ten, it would make a pyramid a mile square at its base and a mile high. With cord wood at $2 per cord, $140,000,000 would represent a small bit of , wocd -pile that piled four feet high, the wood 'being four feet long, would reach four times around the earth. With lumber at $10 a thousand, it would make a board 2,657,515 miles long, or a board walk around the earth 100 feet wide. At $20,000 a mile, it would build two railroads from New York- to San Francisco. It would build seventy war vessels, costing $2,000,000. each, and these big fel lows placed in a line so they touched would teach nearly five miles. It . would construct the Nicaragua canal and would run a country newspaper . 100,000 years. nr way from their work, the employees liv ing on - the company's ground. No fault can be found with this, tor the company Das a rurut to say wno shall and who shall not enter- upon its . premises. The strikers . them selves recosnize -this and . have obeyed the commands of the sheriff, The motion for a permanent injunc tion is set down for hearing at the United States courtroom at Wheel ing, Virginia, on September 20tti In the meanwhile the temporary in junction has jbeen granted to take effect upon the filing of a proper bond. INJUNCTION AGAIN. The strike situation nas assumed a serious phase, since tne mine-owners have unndertaken to try to restrain the miners from assembling near their properties by getting out injunctions. The strike has been a remarkable one in that it has been free from vio lence and bloodshed. The miners have kept within the law, and t)avc used nothing stronger than argument to persuade their fellow-miners to join in the strike. Of this rbjht the companies are now trying to deprive them. It should not succeed, and if the temporary injunction is made permanent there is going to be trouble. The right of free speech, the right to assemble peaceably, the light to organize for mutual benefit and pio-j tection, rests upon the decision, and there are more than the coal-miners intereslea in it The corporations and the trusts are getting too large for a republican form of government. and are seemingly determined to do away with the laws of the country and the rights and liberties of the people. It will be a sorry day for them hen they can get courts venal enough to carry out their behests, for the day they do a revolution will begin that will sweep them out of exist ence, and they will be fortunate in deed if their property is not confis cated and the lives .of their officers declared forfeit. Gold-madness, as we see it illustrated in the rush to the Klondike, is as measles to smallpox compared to blood-madness, and from present indications, this country will be lucky if it escapes an attack of it before the century closes. we hope be will. When he gets into Dawson Cit3' with his novel pack train he can at least laj claim to Lav ing brought some specimens of Ore gon's best butter.l ' "A NO MEN BELO W.r Billy , Bell, who belongs to that class known as squaw-men, stabbed and mortally wounded bis squaw at Port Blakeley Saturday, and the fol lowing day- committed suicide by hanging himself to the bed-post in his cabin. - : Since the beginning of time woman, lovely womau, has had much to an swer for. From the golden-haired Guinevere to the raven-locked Cleo patra, from the fnir-skinncd Helen of Troy to the acute brunette of Billy Bell's household alike they have caused trouble, bloodshed and death. The humau heart is a strange md complex bit of machinery, and what j it does, or will do, neither science nor sense may demonstrate. Une would never suspect, for instance. that a white man would become so enamored of a Pnget sound squaw that he would commit suicide be cause, as Bill iNye puts it, "sue was too good to be true." It is hard to believe this possible, if one has ever seen one of these'squaws.- They are not beauties. Most of them have a forehead like the' mold-board of ; a breaking plow, and a form possessing all the grace and roundness of a twenty-gallon beer keg. They are dumpy, dirty and suggestive of the spring run of salmon late in the fall. Yet such is the power of feminiuity that Billy Bell felt that without the particular specimen of the genius that he bad captured, life would lie cover. . tits - opponent received a light cut on the back of his hand. The fight lasted twenty-five minutes. That illustrates the difference be. tween old country; methods and the rapid manner of doing things in the wild, wild West The arrangements for the duel have occupied four men, not counting the principals, for three weeks, and then when the combat ants finally entered the. ring it took twenty-six minutes to get a result In a mining camp the preliminaries would have been' arranged in two seconds, and 'without any,' and the corpse would have been "carried out and all bands ginned up before the twenty-six minutes had elapsed Western methods are sometimes hur ried, but the results are enormous, GEORGE WALDRON LIKED DOGS And H. M. Bea.Il and Others Catered to His Desire. ; . The weather bulletin gives a gen eial report of the temperature in "Eastern Oregon" and says the high est was 98 on Sunday, etc... Eastern Oregon is a very large country,' hence the report as to the tempera ture must depend' upon the portion of Eastern Oiegon where , it was taken. At The Dalles the thermom eter Sunday stood . at 3 o'clock' at exactly 100. At Pendleton a few days befere, we are told it was 106. It is an impossibility to giye the temperature of Eastern Oregon at a given time, for it will vary at least twenty degrees. ' Congressman Ellis was at the Per kins hotel, Portland, Saturday and Sunday, and it is said that be was the busiest man in Oregon, and the hotel seemingly the most' popular one in the city. The delegation of those desiring to devote their ser vices to. Uncie Samuel was there in an utter blank, and so he sent her i force, and the be!l boys received tips over to the bapiy IbhiiiLr grounds ! for carrying cards up to Congress- (that tribe doesn't hunt) by j ibbing man Ellis' room until they thought a hasty butcher knife into' her anat-j they 'had a small section of the omy, and . followed her. into the be-! Klondike. . Aud yet they received yond by the clothes line route. MR. BECKERS GENIUS. The injunction issued by Judge Jackson against the striking miners is not what the first newspaper re ports indicated. According to these Mr. Becker of Albany, Oregon, is on his way to the Klondike, leaving on the Elder yesterday. There is nothing remarkable in the fact that Mr. Becker has gone Klondike krazy. along with a large contingent unre strained by the walls of the asylum building; .but Mr. . Becker had an original idea, which he has under taken to put in practice. He read of the dizzy heights and perpendicular climb of Cbilcoot pass, and at once began to investigate the matter with a view to overcoming its difficulties. His versatile mind at once suggested the much-abused goat as the animal par excellence for the job. He rea soned that the goat as a climber can't be beate.i, and consequently that he ought to be able to stand the climb it of Cbilcoot pass. The Bo rean blasts that sweep over the Cbil coot would toy vainly with the flow ing whiskers of those old timers; and what more appropriate animal to faze the Arctic circle than these descend ants of old Capricornus, into which the sun itself enters at the winter solstice. . ' . ' - And so Mr. Becker sailed away for Nature's cold storage vault, on the Elier, carrying with, him ten Billys and Nannys, each provided with &1 pretty little pack saddle. Each animal is expected to carry fifty pounds of freight and to live on icicles, moss, or any old thing. Of course it is only an experiment, but Mr., Becker deserves to succeed, and Probably the worst feature of the Klondike craze is that some of the bedlamites can't loosen their safety valves, except in alleged poetry. A sensible public can luok on undis mayed as the crowd surges- towards the gang plauks of the steamers. It can read the Aladdin-like tales of suddenly -acquired wealth and never bat an envious e3'e; but poetry, Gad zooksl has it come to this? -The quivering air of . August, with the mercury up to 106, fairly shivers at some of these doggarel verses. Per haps the worst production of the kind thai has appeared in print is that of J. B. Chapman, M. D., that appears in the Seattle P. I. - After reading it one involuntarily wishes the doctor a speedy voyage aud a long stay, and hopes that he may take his poem with him to Alaska and practice on it Some of the lines in the thing would start a thaw in January. no- satisfaction, for until the balance of the Oregon congressional delega tion arrives no recommendations will be made. ' '. The Crook County Journal reaches us this week with all the brands and ear-marks of Hugh Gourlay's versa tile genius on its pages. No smooth er pencil than his puts black lines representing thought on white paper, and Crook county is to be congratu lated upon securing his services. tstewart of Nevada says it is use- less to longer advocate free coinage of silver. Stewart is like the appli cant for the country school, who in response to the question as to whether he taught that the world was round or flat, replied that he could teach it either way. He has. always been a trickster and a trimmer, caring noth ing for principles, and having an eye single for Stewart's advancement He is a brainy fellow, and had his talents not taken birr into the profes sion of the law and politics, he would j have made an equal success in some other of the criminal lines. He sees that the silver issue is dead, and that in order to hold his position he must trim ship and take another tack. He is bold and prefers to lead rather than to fallow, and this alone ac counts for his sudden change of front. ' - , Among other questions asked ap plicants, for certificates to teach were three or four concerning Cuba, some of which would bother a statesman. The series reads : "Where is Cuba ?" "What people live' there?" "What is their religion and government?" The last is a stumper. One' of the beet known , men in East ern. Oregon was George Waldron, for merly of this city. He was "hail fel low, well met" and everybody knew and liked him. Among bis many- fads Waldron was a great dog fancier, that . is he,iancied every dog be Raw aod owned a. collection that might Declassed as canine curios. He wasn't particular about how be got bis Iors either, no more particular than the paid dog catcher of the cities to whose netB every car regardless of degree or kind was a do?, and reDreaente.1 "bo much money. . George owned a ranch up near the month of the Deschutes. and to this he eent his does for safe keeping when ' the title was not war ranted. One day George swiped a. fine banting dog belonging to a friend of bis and sent him " out to the ranch. He didn't really need him, for be was pos sessed of dozens . of dogs then. His friend, whose dog be had taken, deter mined to get even; so ho conferred with some others whose dogs had disappeared andH.M. Beafl pnt up a job for VV'al dron's benefit. - - First a dozen big packing cases or dry goods boxes were secured, and a sum of money having been contributed, the email boys of The Dalles - were told that two-bits would be paid them for every dog'deiivered at the O. S. N. warehouse, where Beall held forth, and the mora ornery the dog the better. Stirred by the sudden boom in dog stock, there was soon a steady stream of small boys lin ing np at the warehouse, with one end of a piece of baling rope in their bands and a dog at the other end. ' The boxes bad been provided with slate, and as fast as the money con Id be paid over Beall slid the cars into the boxes. 'By night there were nine dry goods boxes hi led with dogs, and for once there wasn't a stray dog in town. Tne slats were securely nailed on the boxes, and developments awaited. As it happened Waldron bad a lot of eupplies coming np on the boat, and was entirely ont at the ranch, so the next day after the dogs were boxed be sent one of bis men with a four-borse team after his freight. The man came down and finding noth ing in eight bnt nine bigdrygoods boxes of dogs, be loaded them into the wagon and the next day arrived at the Wal dron ranch with the finest assortment of mongrel canines ever gathered in East ern Oregon. The boxes were unloaded, the slats knocked off, and the way those imprisoned cars fled for their lives over the g'adsome buncbgraSs hills, was a sight never to be forgotten. '-. " It is said that they never returned to civilization, bat took up with the coyotes giving those sneaking animals a strain of blood that increased their meanness as well as their numbers. Bat Waldron soared on dogs then and there. . A Callus Indian. DAN MALONEY . SHOT. Jack Prahl of Camu Prairie. TVash-Ing-ton, the Shooter. . ALMOST A DROWNING. Xeddy UrlggK and Bert Varuey Rave a Close Call. ,We for notice among those booked passage on the Elder, now on her way to Alaska, the name of C. H. Hell. Of course it is only sur mise on our part as to bis fate in the Klondike, but we venture the asser tion that before be gets there he can drop the - middle letter'cf his name without changing the' nature of the scenery that will be most familiar to him. . Prince Henry of Orleans and the Count of Tun A fought a duel with swords near Paris .Sunday, and the former got the worst of it, being prodded in the right breast and in j his royal abdomen, but he will re- Yesterday afternoon Ray Filloon very fortunately teased bis father, Mr. John Filloon, to take him swimming. . Mr. Filloon at first objected, but the day be ing hot and the boy anxious to learn to swim his father finally consented, and went with him about 6 o'clock ' to the elongb op the river. When tbey ar rived, there wore two boys there, Neddy Briggs and Bert Varney, who were al ready in the water. ' Mr. Filloon eat on the bank while Kay went in. The water is not deep except for a short distance, bat for a few rods was beyond the little fellows depth. Bert, who cannot swim, managed to get into this deeper water and at once sank. Neddy, who is jqst learning to swim, at once went . bravely to bis assistance and of conrso Bert grabbed him. Mr. Filloon, who supposed .both boys could Swim, and consequently thought tbey were "fooling," soon saw pnat tnev were drowning and at once plunged in without even taking off bis hat, and catching them, with a few vig orous strokes brought tbem out. ' - Neither 'had strangled, and in a little while were all right. Had Mr. Filloon not been there, two little piles of cloth ing on the bank would alone bave told the story last night. Neddy Briggs showed a brave heart - in going to his companion's aid, for he risked bis life in doing so, and bad he not done so, prob ably the ' Varney - boy would ' have gone down and have been beyond aid before Mr. Filloon could have reached him. It was an accident with a happy termination, and should serve as a cau tion to parent's to look after their boys when they go swimming, at least antil they learn to swim. . . r There is nothing so thoroughly appre ciated by the ladies during the hot wea ther as a delicious dish of genuine ice cream..- The lilite canay lactory serves just that kind. Also soda, ice cream soda and milk shake. - We sellHoe Cake Mays. a5-tf soap. Pease & a3-2m George Aleck, the Indian youth and all around hard case, who recently posed here as the husband of bis third wife, though not yet twenty years old, will probably now do service for the state at Salem and cease for awhile bis troubling other people. - . Upon tne occasion ot bis marriage here a few weeks ago, a second-hand store in tne .bast Jaa was robbed oi a lot of pistols. George was suspected of being the criminal and was arrested, bnt owing to lack ot evidence was dis charged. While locked up, his wife's relatives got her away from him, and be has since been unable to get ber back. Saturday he was over at White Salmon and there yielding to his propensities, he assaulted an old half-blind squaw. In struggling with ber he lost bis pistol, and she having clawed him into leaving her, found it and took it to Deputy Sheriff Olinger of Hood Eiver. dinger thinking it might be one of, the pistols stolen here, sent it np to Deputy Sheriff Kelley, and the storekeeper identified it as being one stolen from him. . A dispatch was sent to Hood River to arreet George, and if be bad not left be fore the dispatch was received, he is by this time in custody. . Quarterly Examination. Following is the result of the third quarterly examination for- teachers' cer tificates, which began Aug. 11th and closed Aug. 13th : , There were nine applicants for county certificates and seven were successful, as follows: .First grade Lizzie Nichols, Boyd ; Nellie Hndson, Dufur." .Second grade Timothy Miller, Cascade Locks. Third grade Frances H. Fonte, Cora Stanton, Nona C. Rowe, The Dalles; Nettie Kemp', Hood River. Maimee Driver received a second grade certificate without examination, she having secured the required standing in August 1896, and having bad the required experience in teaching. Nancy P. Cooper of The Dalles was recommended by the board for state life diploma and J. M. Carrol) of Mosier for state certificate. . . - A few minutes before 4 o'clock Tues day afternoon the sharp report of a pis tol fired three times in succession, at tracted the attention of those in that part of the .city between Washington and Union and back to Third, and in a few moments the report was -circulated that Dan Maloney had Jpeen shot. This proved to be true, the shooting being done by a young man named Jack Prahl, who, resides at Camas Prairie, Wash. : ' ; There are several stories concerning the cause of the trouble, one being that it started over a horse race last 4th of, July. Whatever the start was, thoBe who saw the trouble say that Dan struck Prahl in the mouth, when the latter pulled bis pistoi and fired three times. One bullet found mark about - three inches below the left nipple. Pfahl ran up the street to the corner of Second and Conrt after the shooting , where Constable Hiil approached him, when Prahl commanded him to halt unless he was an officer. Dick Gorman, -whQ was looking out of the window from . Judge - Bennett's office, called to him that Hill was an officer. whereuDon Prabl threw down bis gun and sur rendered. ' - . ., Another report is to the effect that Prahl was huDting a row, and picked a quarrel with Maloney." The shooting occurred on First street in front of the Baldwin saloon, into which Maloney was carried, and Dr. Hollister was sum moned. At this writing his chances of recovery are considered slight. DIED, j - At Hood River, Monday, Angnet 18th, of consumption, Mrs. J. A. McKellar. Mrs. McKellar was born in Pennsyl vania, moving to Nebraska in 1880, and to The Dalles in 1893, and has resided here since that time. She leaves four daughters, who were with her at the time of her death, and two sons in the East. The funeral took place at Hood River today, the interment being in Idlewilde cemetery. Bemarkable Care of Chronic Diarrhoea. In 1862, When I served my country as a private InCompany A, 167th Penn sylvania Volunteers, I contracted chronic diarrhoea. It has given me great deal of trouble ever since. I bave tried a dozen different medicines and several prominent doctors without any permanent relief. Not long ago a triend eent me a sample bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and after that I bought and took a 50 cent bottle; and dow I can eay that I am entirely cared. - I cannot be thankful enough to you for this- great Remedy, and recommend it to all suffering veter ans. If in doubt write to me. 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Hall's Family Pills are the best, 12 Administrator's Notice. Notice is hereby (riven that the undersigned has been Appointed adminietrator of the estate ' of Silas W. Dnvis, late of Wasco County, and now deceased. AU persons having claims against sail estate or against the estate of Corum and Davis of Wapinitia, Oregon, of which said firm said deceased was a partner. will present the same, duly verified, to me at The Dalles, Oregon or to my attorneys, Dnfur it Menefee, of Dalles City, Wasco County, Oregon, within six months from the date hereof. Dated at Dalles City. Oreson. this 22d dav of May, 1697. . u. r. ljAVKrnuxrt, Administrator of the estate of Silas W. Davis, deceased. m26-6t-l NOTICE. All persons having claims against The Dalles National Bank, of The Dalles, Oregon, mnat present the same to H. S. Wilson, receiver, with the legal proof thereof, within three months from the date hereof, or they may be disallowed. Washington, D. C, June 5, 1897. - ; James H. Eckkls,' ' ' Comptroller. ' v Notice. Treasury Dbpartmnt, OFFICB OF COMFTBOLLEB OF CURRENCY, Washtngtoh. D. C. Jnne 5. 1.S97. Notice is hereby given to all persons who may have claims against "The Dalles National Bank of the city of '1 be DaUes, Oregon, that the same must be presented to B. 8. Wilson, receiver, with the legal proof thereof, within three months from this date, or they may .be dis allowed. . - . JAMES H. ECKELS, un!6-w3m-l , , Comptroller. . ...mi -a . ELY'S CREAM BALM Is a positive dire. Apply into the nostrils. It is quickly absorbed. M cents at Dracgists or by mail ; samples 10c by maU. ELY BROTHERS. 66 Warren 8U New York City.