THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25. 1897. . The Weekly Ghroniele. THB DALLBS, OJtEOOK PBBS05AL . MKSTIOS. ' - Saturday's Daily. - Miss Grace Hobson went to Portland Uiu morning. Miss Hannah Schwabe left this morn ins for a visit in Portland. Hans Lara was np from Hood Eiver last night returning this morning. ' Mrs. Dean and Miss Pearle Dean re turned last mgnt from an outing at tne MMdniri Bro. Tamer, of tne Ualar Uigpatcti, in the city, happy as a clam as all Dafur lies always are. . . Mies Florence Hilton went down on the boat this morning to join the Samp- eon camping party at Bonneville. Mrs. C. L. Phillips returned last night from a trip to San Francisco, where she has been ordering ber tall stock of goods. Dr. A. Stardevant, Messrs. Vic Mar den, S. Frank and W. Broen left this afternoon for a few days' onting over in Washington. Mrs. L. L. Hill left for Robinsonville district in Baker county last night to join ber husband, who is engaged opening a mine tnere. Mr. W. Bolton and family returned yesterday from a camping trip at Tront J-aie. Ihey will leave for Antelope the early part of next week. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Mavs, Jr.. went to Cascade Locks on the boat this morn ing, where tbey will spend a few days in -camp with the family of A. R. Thomp son. Mr. Richard Kelley, formerly of this county, bnt at present at Baker City, or ratber in tbe (jreenhorn minine district, came np on the boat last nigbt, and left . for Baker county on the midnight train He recently sold the Don Joan mine for suu.uuu, Doueht an interest in another, and is now on his way to Baker to make oat the title deeds, having sold the new parcnase. Monday's Daily. Mrs. Katie Roche went to New What com this morning to visit for a few weeks. Rev. J. H. Wood left this morning for JPendleton, where he will attend the -session of the Columbia River confer ence. Miss Holmes, of thePortland Business Coiiege, is in the city, the guest of Mrs, J. L. Thompson. Sbe goes to Pendleton tonight. Hon. A.. R. Greene, inspector of the peneral land office, is in the cttv on ofli- cial business, and is the guest of 'Mr, and Mrs. Truman Butler. Mr. Varney and children and Misses Annie, Minnie and Lena Sandrock were passengers on the Regulator this morn ing for Bonneville, where they will camp lor a couple of weeks. Mrs. Varney win join them in a few days. Tuesday's Daily. Mr. Beatty of Wamic is in the city, Mr. John Fender of White Salmon is in the city. Roy GrimeB, who has been camping down the river, came home yesterday Miss Hilda Beck returned vesterdav from a few weeks' outing at Wind river, Mr. F. Menefee and family are home again, after spending some - time camp ing near Dulur. Mrs. J. H. Wood 'and family returned on the boat last night from a camping irip to v mo river. Mrs. Norman and daughter, who have been at Wind river for some time, ar rived come last night. Mr. Gus Bonn, who has been spend ing his vacation at Trout Lake, came up on tne Doat yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Barnett and Miss Edna Barnett returned last night from an extended outing at Wind river. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Van Duyn, who nave spent some time with the family of 8. French at Sea view and at Portland, came up on the Regulator last nigbt, and are guests at the home of B. F. Langhlin. v ' BORN. Id this city, Saturday, August 21st, to jar. and Mrs. AI Keese, a daughter. SMILES. "Mother, may I go hunting gold?" "Yes, my little fond Ike. Get all the grubstake you can hold, And don't go near, the Klondike." Chicago Tribune. All Changed : "I don't hear Jones prating any more about his great love lor little children." t "Jones has moved into a house that has a vacant lot next door, where the bovs of the neighborhood plsy ball daily." Indianapolis Journal. Intention Ada Why does Clara epeakof George as her intended? Are tbey engaged T . Alice No : but she intends they shall be. Boston Traveler. . , . mi . . - ... iucib is ju lueiupuia n puuucauon called The Dirt Mover. Unfortunately, it does not attempt to reform politics. New Orleans Picayune. - Aont Well, Bobby, " what do yon want to be when you grow up? v Bobby (suffering from parental disci pline) An orphan. Tit-Bits. Reporter Are yon willing to tell me your 6tory? Convict Yes; but I'm not at "lib erty .Truth. J A woman doesn't really know what criticism is until she gets married and goes to visit ber husband's kin. Atchi son Globe. "He has an aristocratic bearing." . ies; he acts as if he couldn t Dear anybody." Detroit Journal. ' - Nebraska corn for sale at the Wasco I- ' T . r 3 A af HfllbUUUBU, UVO,lKUVUCIIlUi 11 .. ..,- ONE VIEW OF IT. Pensions Considered as , Matter ' Business Only. To Tbb Editor: . Your able editorial in the Cbboniclx of the 18th inst. read with deep interest to. WbkkxV has been me, and doubtless to many other old soldiers of the state. However, if yon will, pardon me, I would beg leave to reply briefly if not encroaching too much upon your space. ' " -' ' Differing with yon, I bold that a pen sion is not a bounty bestowed upon an old soldier by the charity of the govern ment. but is. and should be, a vested right, a deferred payment of money just ly earned by services actually performed It is a means of reimbursing soldiers for tbeir outlay during the war, i. ., for the difference between the wages paid and the current wages of the country at the time the services were rendered Also the difference between the con tract price agreed upon and the price actually received. To be specific. It is well known that when the war broke out, and for a considerable time after ward, gold and eilver were the money of the country. An obligation made was payable 'in this money, and the early payments of the troops were so made, But subsequently, and without notice to the . payee, payments were made in greenbacks depreciated to . various amounts, at one time being worth but forty cents on the dollar, and averaging for the entire time not above sixty cents, The case was different with those who furnished money for defraying thn ex penses of the government. Bonds were bought at their face value with these forty-cent dollars, the interest be ing , made payable in gold, and subse quently the bonds were refunded and made payable in coin, and by later leg islation virtually in gold. Therefore an investment of forty cents realized a final payment of $1 besides interest, while in the case of the soldier an in vestment of $1 (in services) realized the payment of but forty cents. To equalize this discrepancy somewhat is our rea son why pensions are paid. It is another well-known fact that wages during the war ranged from $40 par month on the farm to $5 per day iu work shop and factory, while the troops were paid only from $13 to $16 per month. But I am not finding fault with the government because of this, for it was manifestly all it could afford to pay at the time. To have paid current wages would have bankrupted the gov ernment in a single month. Realizing this, the patriotism of the boys was ap pealed to and nobly they responded. But it was also given out, yea, pro claimed from every recruiting office, (and never contradicted by the authori ties at Washington) that all who enlisted would certainly receive a lasd warrant for 160 acres at the close of the war. The fact that' land warrants were paid to survivors of the Mexican war, and the further fact that the government then possessed millions of. acres in the West (before tbey gave it to the rail- oads) lent probability to the genuine ness of the offer. The government then was in a tight place, and the boys helped her out" and took tbeir chancer Now the government is rich and opulent. with more gold horded up than it knows what to do with ; therefore I think they honld pay, even at this late day, these obligations. v Besides this, a soldier's life was not a round of pleasure in time of war. To prove this, my dear John, let me give you an object lesson. On the first cold, rainy nigbt that comes, provide yourself with a blauket, a musket, coffee-pot and little bag of hard tack. Then get two rails and lay them down in the street and make your bed upon them. Wake up in the morning at daylight yon may not rest well the first night start a little fire and make some coffee. While en gaged in this occupation have three or four fellows at the end of the street take few shots at you, just to demonstrate how quickly you can lie down when it is necessary. If it gets too bot, you can take your boiling coffee in one hand, a hard tack in the other form yourself in line and trot down the road at double nick, stopping to take a shot now and then yourself. Continuing the march you will arrive at Hood River and have twenty minutes for coffee. You will thus continue with varying pleasures, say to Cascade Locks, and go into camp. on may be a little late, if so you - will have to go a quarter of a mile or so to find wood enough to build a little fire. About this time your name is loudly called and you will be delighted to know that you are detailed for picket duty. Yon will - immediately fall in with the squad and proceed to your post, say in Bonneville. Here, when . yon have stood your relief, you may lie down, bnt you must have no fire for fear it may at tract the enemy; but you can munch bard-tack and think of home, eweet home, if yon want to. On the next day you may repeat the program, and con tinue it, with alight variations, for fifty or sixty days. If you should get sick, aud sometimes you may imagine yon are, Borne good-natured orderly may let you take bold of his horse's tail and help you along for the last mile or so. Or, you can go to the hospital, where yon will be sure to die. - '. ' -" If, after a month or so, you should get few hours in camp, you can take off your clothes and boil them (you know why.) By , this time, if you have not been killed in battle and buried in some unknown grave,' without ceremony and of with little sympathy i leaving your poor old mother, or your wife and children broken hearted and alone, yon can write to them and tell them how dearly you love your country and how proud you are to be a soldier. . At the end of the campaign yon will come in weary, foot-sore, and without clothes enough on to flag a hand-car with, bot you will have learned why soldiers are entitled to pensions evn without losing a limb. - If not. continue the operation for three years. At the end of that time I will be glad to "re view" you drawn up in double file at "present arms," and learn youropiniou. Yours in Kindness and Patriotism, J. H. Aldbich. Cascade Locks, Aug. 23, 1897. Kxcltement In Loudon. London, Aug. 21. The fact that the price of wheat has reached $1 a bushel in tbe United States has produced con siderable excitement among grain spec ulators and others in London. The sec retary of tbe Baltic exchange said : "Of course, ' we have ' been caught largely short. The raise in the price of wheat, with the uncertainties of tbe fu ture, make a somewhat hysterical mar ket. The rise ot 6d in the price of bar ley, for example, today was due to no assignable cause. There is no specula tion here, but there is some speculation at Liverpool." i Tbe secretary of the Corn Exchange remarked : There is no speculation here, as such transactions are generally known There has been a disposition on tbe part of tbe outside public to bear the market but the brokers have dissauded tbeir clients from so doing. Tbe rise in prices yesterday morning and today was not due so much to the dollar wheat as to the buying .by France, where , the harvests are proving disappointing The millers are short. The brokers have not made much, as tbey held no stocks, but is needless to say the rise of half a crown in tbe price of wheat yesterday makes the liveliest times an Mark Lane. Tbe Americans apparently have cot it all their own way." Evangeline Cisnerua' Trial. New Yobk, Aug. 21. Captain-Gener al Weyler, in a cable dispatch from Ha' vana to the World, denies the report that Evangelina Cisneros, a Cuban girl of 19, a sensational beauty, of gentle breeding and pure life, had been tried or sentenced to imprisonment for two years in tbe Spanish penal colony at Ceuta. The girl is the niece of the president of the Cuban republic. General Weyler's dispatch to tbe World reads as follows : "For judicial reasons there is on trial in the preliminary stages a person named Evangelina Cisneros, who, deceitfully luring to her house the military com mander of the Isle of Pines, bad accom plices posted secretly, who tied him and attempted to assassinate him. ' The case is in tbe preliminary stages and has not as yet been tried by a competent tribu nal, and consequently no sentence has been paesed or approved by me. I answer tbe World with the frankness and truth that characterizes all my acts. "Wbylkk." Bobbed by Depositors. Shephked, Mich., Aug. 21. Elmer E. Stroble, cashier of the Farmeis' bank, was shot this morning by robbers. He was getting ready to go to Mount Pleas ant and was in the vault when the shot were fired. All the cash in tbe bank was taken, but the amount is not known. CaBbier Struble died about six hour after tbe shooting. It is reported to night that tbe robbery was committed by several deeperate depositors, who, believing the bank . was about to fail, followed Struble to the bank and npon being refused their money, shot the cashier and looted the bank. The prose cuting attorney is said to have the name of all the men and arrests are hourly ex pected. ' Tbe Cattle Bangers' War. Denver, Aug. 21. A special to the Republican from Silver City, N. M. says: The sheriff and posse this afternoon arrested one of the two men who com mitted tbe double killing in tbe western portion of the county Thursday. He is being guarded by the officers, but they will not divulge his name until the other man is captured. Both men are promi nent in the cattle business. It is known that the murders were the result of a cattle war which has been raging for some week's past. Tbe prisoner has hot been brought to town, but is being guarded in camp on Dry creek. The capture of the other murderer is certain. "Shorty" Miller, who was shot, died today. - - . v lee Blocked tbe Way. Londos, Aug. 21. A special dispatch from Gjaesvar, Norway, says that Cap tain Beade's polar expedition,' composed of Austrians and Hungarians, has safely returned from the icy sea. The ship was unable to proceed beyond latitude 80" de gress 40 minutes north, on - account of great masses of ice. , ' Bins; of Bentu Surrenders. Lagos, West Coast of Africa, Aug. 21. The King of Benin, after wandering in tbe bush since the capture of Benin City by the British last February, came in on August 7, with 800 unarmed blacks, and surrendered to tbe British: Commander. We sell Hoe . Cake soap. Pease & Mays. . a3-2m CHASING A FILIBUSTER. Probable Cause or firing; On the Flori da Coast. .- - . St. Adqcstisic, Fla., - Aug'.' 21, Laet nigbt heavy firing at sea by rapid-fire guns and tbe rays : of . the searchlight brought out the people of this city. Tbe whole affair was carefully noted by the officers of the First artillery from their Quarters in St. Franci 3 barracks, who are positive that tbe vessel fired not less than 40 shoie, first rapidly and' then at intervals, ceasing as if the object , of the chase was caught.. Then the rapid fir ing would be resumed. ' 1 The ship, probably a war vessel, could not come nearer than about five miles offshore, and was evidently chasing a light-draught boat, as the flashes came from the starboard gnu. The coast is idented by a sand strip reaching out to about one mile off this bar, and it forms the cone of Anastasia lighthouse, straight down the coast for 14 miles to. Maianzaa inlet. The St. Augustine. bar had . but ; eeven feet of water on it at the stage of the tide when the firing commenced,, which, would have prevented the coming over 'of the Three friends or Dauntless, were those the vessels chased. , There was only four feet ot water ou Matanzas inlet, unless a vessel comd make this harbor sbe would either have to put to sea or surrender. For this reason indications point to .the fleeing boat taking an easterly course. When the tiring commenced a squall was on and the night was very dark. Only a Newspaper Face. . ! Chicago, .Aqg. 23.- Miss Cora M. Black, of Los Angeles, who is visiting in this city, explodes the story about the reported mountain of gold in.the island of Metlakahtla, off tbe coast of Alaska, The island is tbe property of a tribe of Indians, having been given them a few years ago by the government as a reservation. . Through the missionary endeavors of a Mr. Duncan, who have embraced Christianity, and have become an industrious, sober and thrifty lot of people. . . Miss Black, who has visited tbe island and been all over it, savs tbe story of tbe mountain of gold is absurd, and there is nothing to it. Boston Girls for Alaska. Boston, Aug. 23. Ralph K. Mont morency, of Seattle, is here on a novel expedition. He is going to take a ship load of handsome, young Boston girls to Alaska about 200 of them, he expects. In an interview tie said : "My main object is to get a good steam vessel around to the Pacific to do a general transportation business be tween Puget sound and Alaskan ports next summer. You can't get a craft of any sort out there for love or money. With 200 young women passengers at $250 apiece, making $50,000, and some thing On the freight, I shall make a good profit."' Gold In California. " ' Qoincy, Bl., Aug. 23. The. report which came from the vicinity of " the Thistle shaft that "Lucky Antone," an Italian, had made a $10,000 strike in a week, is confirmed by J. W. Cordoroy, a staged river, who also brings the news that Charles Fish, who has a gravel claim at tbe junction of Nelson creek and Feather river, took $3000 from ' pa claim last week. Nelson creek is consid ered the trichest stream in Plumas county and many paying claitps are lo cated along its banks and bed. . Lives With a Broken Neck. Nilks, Mich., Ann. 23. The case of Patrick Kelley, whose neck was broken hy a fall several weeks ago, is attracting much attention. At first he was para lyzed below the hips and it was not sup posed he could long survive, but , he is now able to sit in a chair and move his legs. He is improving sn fust the doc tors tin iik he will soon be out again, as well as ever. . ' . ' Bees In Ponsenslon of a Hoo.se. Elizabeth, N. J., Auit. 23. Bees by the thousands have during the last few months made honey and flujirished in a palatial residence in North Broad street, abandoned by its owner for the summer,, and the municipal officers are very much worried, because the liees must be ban ished from the house and' every one shirks the dangerous task. Yellow washing powder will make your clothes the came color. Avoid this by using Soap Foam. It's pure a2 Sm white. Administrator's Sale. Notice is hereby given tbat nnder and by vir tue of an order of the ('omily Court of tbe State of Oretion for Wren Countv, ti e TiDderaigmd, as administrator o tbe estate of E. F. Coe. de ceased, will, on Snturday, the 4tb day of Heptem ber, lhU7, nt the hour of 1 o'clock p. m.,nell al public- auction, to tne nign-st Didder, me lollop ing dei-crlnea Dennnal property, belonging te cea&ed, to-wit: Thir y the estate of . K. Cue, deceased, to-wit Bban-s of the capital stoca of tbe Uood River Tnwnklte ComnHiiy. a coruorati n. .aid hbares being of tbe par value of one bundred dollar each. . ' Tbe sa'e will take place at tbe courthouse, Tha Dalles, and the ierm of sale will be oue- huir cnxh, balance in one year at 8 per cent. Hood Kiver. Or., Augusf is, oat. H. C. CE. " Administrator of tbe estate of K. F. Coe, de ceased. - . . . - au21-il Notice. TUB .SORT DPARTMBNT, . . Office of Comptbollbb of curukkcy, - Washington. U. C. June 5. 1897. Notice is berebv ifiveu to all person who may have claim- aeiiiust " I be Dalles Nat onal bank" of tbe city of i be Dalles, Oregon, tbat the same must De presented w n. o. niiwn, rawiver, with the legal proof thereof, witblu three months ' from this date, or they may be dis allowed. . ' . unl&-w3m-i : Comptroller. vy'-'-'; We now have for sale at our ranch, near Ridgeway, Wasco ' " County, Oregon, 260 head of THREE-QUARTER-BREED .;-'; Also fifry head of THOROUGHBRED SHROPSHIRE BUCKS. .The above Bucks are all large, fine fellows, and -'' ' ' will be Bold to tbe sheepmen of Eastern Oregon at prices to snit the times. The thoroughbreds were imported by' ns from Wisconsin, and are the sires of the three-qnarter- '. ' J . breeds. Any information in regard to them will be cheer ' - fully furnished by applying by letter to the owners, EIDGEWAY, OREGON. C. W. PHELPS & CO. -DEALKBS IN Agricultural Drapers Manufactured and Repaired. Pitts' Threshers. Powers and Extras. Pitts' Harrows and Cultivators. .. . v I ..... ...-... Celebrated Piano Header. Lubricating" Oils Etc. White Sewing1 Machine and Extras. EAST SECOND STREET. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST , ' TOILET ARTICLES AND PERFUMERY. m. Z. DONNELL, Opp. A. M. Williams & Co. IN THE COUNTY COURT of the State of Ore gon for Wasco County: . ... .. In tbe matter of tbe adoption of Kenneth Clair, a minor child, by George J. Farley and Esther Karley, his wife. To thb Hon. Coitnty Court Above Naxkd: Your petitioners, Geoige J. Farley and Esther Fiuley, bis wife, respectfully represent to the Court: Tbat Kenneth Clair is a child of some persons other than your petitioners, of tbe age of 16 months; that neither of the parents of said child are known to your petitioner!!, or either of them; that on tbe 18th day of February, 189(5, the parents of said child wilfully deserted said child in Wasco County. Oregon, while said child was about three days old, and bave ever since failed and neglected to provide proper, or any, care or maintenance for said child; that such failure and neglect has continutd for more than one year last past; tbat said child was left by some unknown person or persons upon tbe door steps of tbe residence of your petitioners on said last named date daring the hours of tbe night or early in tbe morning; that neither of your petitioners know whether either of tbe parents of said child are living or not; tbat the parents of said child, If living, have wholly abandoned said child ever since ssia lust namea aaie. Wherefore your petitioners pray-that an order be made herein granting to your petitioners leave to adopt -aid Kenneth ciair, ana tnat n is name be changed, upon such adoption, to Ken neth Clair Farley; tbat the Court appoint a sui table person to act In these proceeding s next friend of said child to give or withhold consent to suob adoption, and that an order be made herein directing that a copy of this petition aud the order tbereou be published in some news puper printed in said Couuty and State in the manner provided by law. . GEORGE J. FARLEY, ' JESTH BR K. KARLEY. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th da of June, 1897. . . (notarial B. 8. HUNTINGTON, seai. 1 . Notary Public for Oregon. It appearing to tbe Court from the petition this day preented in the above entitled matter by the aoove named George J. and Esther Far ley, that tbe above namtd Kenneth Clair is a minor child of parents unknown; tbat on the 18th day of February, 18S6, the parents of said child abandoned and wilfully deserted said cbild in said county, and have ever since failed and neglected to provide proper, or any, care or maintenance for him; that it is not known whether or not said parents of said child, or either of them, are now living, and neither of said parent can be fonnd within said County or btate; tbat A. M. Keltsay is a suitable person to actus next friend of said child for the purpose of granting or witnnoioing consent to tne adop tion of said cbild by said petitioners. Therefore it is considered and ordered that said A. M. Kelsay be, and is hereby appointed next iriend of said child for the purpose oi granting or withholding consent to (be adop tion of said Kenneth Clair by said George J, tarley and Esther Karley, his wife. That a copy of this petition tiied herein, and of this order, be .ublishe! once a week for three sue passive weeks in Tbe Dalles Chronicle, a weekly newspaper of general circulation printed and published in said County, the last publication inereoi to oe at least lour weess oeiore me ucar lug of said t etitlon. - That Monday, the Cth day of September, 1897, at the hour of 10 o'clock a, m. be, and is hereby, fixed as th time, and the County courtroom of said Court In Dalles Citj, Oregon, be, and is, fixed as the place for the hearing of said petitidu. . Dated at The Dalles, Oregon, this 21st day of June. 1897. ' ' ROBERT MAYS, County Judge. jun2 8-JU120-1 . Caob. In Your Checks. ' All countv warrants registered prior to March 11, 1893, will be paid at my office. ' Interest ceases after Aug 5, 1897. C. L. Phillips, , ! County Treasurer. . r : SHROPSHIRE . BUCKS. THE DALLES, OR THE DALLES, OR. Barb Wire. Barb Wire (Glidden) .....$2.35 per 100 pounds. , "Sa1 a"J i uook otoves. No. 7 Woodland Cook Stove, $6.50. , ' .' No. 8 Woodland Cook Stove, $8.50. No. 8 Wood Michigan Square Cook Stove, $10.00. v No! 8 Wood Michigan Square Stove and reservoir, $17.50. No. 8 Home Michigan Square . ,$15.00. No. 8 Home Michigan Square and reservoir, $23.00.- : No. 8 Home Garland Square, , . ' , $23.00. .i-.r- No. 8 Home Garland Range Square, without sheii, $28.00. Be sure and see the Garland Stovea betore buying. Ae you will note from above prices they are very low, and it will not pay you to buy second-hand Btovee when vou can get new ones at the above prices. MAIERfc BENTON'S ' 167 Second Street. Implements.