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THE DALLEd WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 1. 1897
The Weekly Ghr ojiiele.
COrSTT OFFICUL8.
County Judge. Robt. Mays
Sheriff. T. J. Driver
Clerk A M. kelsny
Treasurer C.U Phillips
ia. B. mowers
Commissioner JD. S. Kirasev
Assessor W. H. Whipple
Surveyor J-B- ,0'
Superintendent ot Public Schools... C. L. Gilbert
Coroner W. H. Butts
- STATE OFFICIALS,
Sjvernor W. P. Lord
Henretitrv of Rrjlt EE Kincaid
Treasurer Phillip Metschan
Bnpt of Public Instruction G. M. Irwin
Attorney-General C. M. Jdleman
G. W. McBride
Senators - Jjjh. Mitchell
' , IB Hermann
Congressmen. - Jw. R. Ellis
Bute Printer.'. W.H.Leeds
Weekly Clubbing Rates
Chronicle and Oregonian $2 26
Chronicle and Examiner 2 25
Chronicle and Tribune 1 75
Chronicle and N. Y. World 2 00
THE
BOSS. .....
In
boss
all these
diatribes against the
in politics, lamentations over
his successes and paens over his less
conspicuous reverses, are we not
missing the mark? Is the bess, after
all, a pestilential weed without possi
bility of good, or is he rather i
nlant. now unmistakably wild and
unrestrained, dwarfing ani killing
more lovely growths; yet which, un
der proper use of the implements of
political gardening, might be made
. to delight the eye and swell prodig
iously the granaries of work and
wisdom ? We have Speaker Reed's
word for it that a statesman is a poli
tician who is dead. And, while this
may suggest that we are blind to the
good the living politician is doing,
let us go a step farther and inquire
whether the boss is not capable of
be ic 2 made an instrument of great
good, instead of the unmitigated
scoundrel we have been accustomed
to regard him.
The boss has his sins and his limit
ations. From Tweed or shall we
say from Crassus down to the petty
political tyrant of every little Ameri
can city, the baleful effects oi "ring
rule" have furnished the theme of
numberless phillippics. We all know
how jobs have been perfected in
councils and legislatures, courts have
been influenced and elections carried
bv force or fraud. Then the boss is
rarely a man of any decided con
victions on public questions. Does
anybody care or consider it worth
while to know what Gorman thinks
about the tariff, what Piatt's views
are as to the best basis for additional
banking currency, or how Quay
would retire the greenbacks? There
is an obvious falling off here from
the leadership that based itself on
force of advocacy of. idea, well ex
emplified in such practical politicians
as Douglas, Tilden, Blaine, or even
Oliver P. Morton. Undoubtedly the
boss deserves nearly everything that
is said about him.
Yet it is about time to recognize
the fact that genius for practical po
litical organizations must be reck'
oned with. The evolution of Amer
ican politics has given us the boss,
and the pertinent question appears to
be whether we shall keep on fruit
lessly abusing him, content to carry
the newspapers, magazines, clubs and
pulpits, while the boss gets the votes ;
or, on the other hand, to recognize
his efficiency for accomplishing
things and turn it into useful chan
nels. As a rule, the boss finds bis
reward in the triumph of his ticket.
He is about as honest as other men,
and no more avaricious than the
average. He prizes a seat in the
senate, not for its direct or indirect
emoluments of fame or money, but
because it helps him to lubricate the
machine of which he is the chief en
gineer. And all political machines
are merely means to the higher ends
of measures. Every boss under
stands that. The Republican politi
cians knew well enough last year
that McKinley's election meant per
sonal triumphs not nearly so much
as it meant a Republican tariff, cur
rency reform and an American for
eign policy. These things are some
what above and beyond the business
of the boss; but he dimly realizes
their importance, and cheerfully
offers himself and his machine as ve
hicles for their furtherance.
It is pretty clear that the boss in
some shape we must have. ' Another
rises up as soon as one is knocked
down. The economist and the pa
triot will have "to use him still to
bring desirable things to , pass. And
the boss is, after all, only the prod
uct of his time, a truthful weather-
vane of his commumtv. He never
pretends to direct public opinion,
but. is at his best when shrewdly
foreseeing its drift and getting in
line with it The talent for practical
politics is as legitimate as the talent
for reading books or stating proposi
tions of law. . . r f ( .
The people will get the kind of
political leaders they want. These
will be no lower morally or intellect
ually, and assuredly no higher, than
the body of voters with whom they
work. The boss is very much what
we make him. Oregonian.
COMPENSATIONS.
The world is full of compensations,
averages, offsets, counterbalances, or
whatever they might be called. All
human affairs are subject to them.
The rich envy the poor, the poor the
rich. Each would be satisfied with
the other's lot. yet neither would
trade. The barefooted boy looks at
the bald-headed .millionaire, and
thinks what a glorious time he would
have spending the money, if he had
it, and dreams of things utterly un
selfish that he would do with it, and
undoubtedly derive much pleasure
from doing, and the millionaire
gazes at the barefooted boy and his
thoughts go fleeting back to his own
childhood when he was happy.
The poor man, who has to work like
a slave to support himself lives to be J
a hundred years old before he can
quit his job, while the rich man, with
money to buy everything purchasa
ble, gets old and dies at 65,
The rich are always satisfied with
the lot of the poor, the poor envious
of the rich. The married folks oc
casionally think of divorce and envy
the freedom of their unmarried
friends, while the unmarried envy
the home life of the benedicts. The
girl that dislikes ice cream gets hired
everv summer to sell the stuff, while
the girl who "dotes" on it has to
spend the summer camping where
the picture of a cow is a rarity. The
woman with the smallest foot pays
most for her shoes, and a bald-head
ed man sets no reduction for a hair
cut.
And so it goes. What we have
someone envies us, ana wnai otners
have we desire. And so in the
grand wind up of life it may be said
that we all get what we do not want,
and we all want what we do not get
This makes us all satisfied with each
other s lot, and dissatisfied with our
own ; but it is the way of the world,
and the result of the law of corapen
sations which puts the nastiest worm
in the nicest looking apple, and the
biggest corn on the smallest toe
The fellow who gets more than his
share of the champagne, gets a like
quantity of the next day's headache,
and the highest pinnacle to which
drunkenness lifts him would, if
turned upside down, but serve to
sound the abysmal depths of next
day's woe.
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.
In 1894 Glasgow acquired owner
ship of its street car lines. As a re
sult the hours of labor were reduced
and wages were advanced. Fares
were lowered about thirty-three per
cent; the average fare is below two
cents, and thirty-nine per cent of the
fares are one cent The service was
improved. The Progressive Review
of London, in its November number,
1 89 6 , said : "The tram ways of Glas
gow have been made the finest un
dertaking of the kind in the country,
judged both by their capacity to
serve the public, and as a purely
commercial enterprise." The traffic
was doubled in about two 3 ears.
Yet these improvements were
made without burden to the taxpay
ers. As a mafter of fact, the tax
payer had his direct benefit along
with tfnt enjoyed by the riding pub
lic. For the year ending June 1,
i 896, in spite of 2 cent fares, there
was a clear profit of $213,000 above
operating expenses and fixed charges,
interest, taxes and depreciation.
In brief, fares are lower, wages
higher, hours shorter, service better,
traffic larger, and taxes lower.
What Glasgow has done, other
cities can repeat, unless their people
wish to confess their incapacity to
grasp and work out the problems of
higher government.
Since the Klondike craze started
nothing has been heard of Hawaii.
The newspapers suddenly quit mak
ing war between Japan and this coun
try, and Hawaii annexation, Japan
and the whole subject dropped out
of sight. The fact that, the dis
patches are again dealing with the
subject indicates, a falling off of in
terest in the gold praze.
THE SAME OLD STORY.
With the breaking out of the Klon
dike fever, and long before it be
came epidemic, The Chronicle,
along with the majority of the papeis
of the Northwest, pointed out the
fact that the stones of the great area
of rich placers on the Klondike were
grossly exaggerated. That while
the evidence of the richness of the
claims was sufficient, there was not
a strong probability of the area be
ing large. We fixed the limit of
the claims on Bonanza and Eldorado
creeks at 200 each, the. Klondike at
perhaps as many more, and we point
ed out, as best we could, the difficul
ties under which prospecting must
be done. Attention was called to
the fact that less than 200 Indians
were available for packing supplies
across the mountains, and that with
out their aid it was impossible for
the man not backed by unlimited
capital to get across the mountains.
Besides stress has been continuously
laid upon the danger of starvation
for those who reach the mines this
fall.
The latest reports show that the
editors of the Pacific coast did not
lose their heads, and that every pre
diction made by them is true, or to
become true. Practical miners,
fresh from the mines, give the num
ber of rich claims on all the creeks
at 140. These, they estimate, will
yield t7Q,000,000 in three years, but
an outsider has just as much chance
to get an interest in one of them as
he has to buy an interest in a bank.
These same miners report that pro
visions are used as fast as delivered
by the boats, and that the supply
will be totally inadequate for those
already there. .
The first chapters of the Klondike
story only have been told and mark
the prediction that . the tales of the
survivors next summer will make
one of the most gruesome chapters
of the world's history. Spavined
dog will be a luxury by Christmas,
and cannibalism will become a part
of the social functions before spring.
The history of every mining ex
citement has been one of suffering
and want, and this where the climate
was not vigorous and the walking
was good. Eight months a thous
and miles from no place, and this in
the edge of the Arctic circle, with
scanty supplies and no preparations
to withstand the cold, means annihi
lation. A man arriving at Juneau from
Dawson City says the last steamer
from that place carried away a pile
ot gold dust that measured at least
a quarter of a cord, while another
man writing from Dawson City says
the same steamer carried three and
a half tons 'of gold. There is con
siderable difference between the
statements. A ton of gold is worth
in round numbers $500,000 at $16
an ounce, which is about the average
value. Three tons and a half of gold
would therefore mean, at a liberal
estimate, $2,000,000. A quarter of
a cord contains thirty-two cubic feet,
and a cubic foot of gold weighs
about 1000 pounds. By this second
estimate there would be sixteen tods
of gold, or $8,000,000. The farmers
export from the United States year
ly , $650,000,000, and yet no one
hears the American farm called a
Klondike. It is the craze for sud
den wealth, the getting of something
for nothing that causes the rush to
the gold mines, and yet the fellow
who sticks to his job and only gets
something for something, will in the
end have the most money. The
amount of agricultural produce sent
from this country each year to feed
and clothe the foreigner would make
a pile of solid gold equaling eleven
and a half cords, 1280 tons.
'One does not hear anything now,"
says the Indianapolis Journal, "about
there not being money enough to do
the business of the country. Busi
ness has improyed wonderfully, and
yet there is no complaint of scarcity
of money." Just wait until the au
tumn winds sigh and sob with reso
lutions about the scarcity of the cir
culating medium and the, insufficient
amount of circulation per capita.
No article in the whole Popnlist
dream book is more sweetly mathe
matical than this per capita article.
'My cow eats, so, much hay a day,"
says the Populist economist; "there-
fote every man, woman and child
must have so much money. At
least there .must be some money
which they could have if they could
get it." If business has improved
under existing conditions, it would
have improved twice as much if there
weie twice as much money. That
is the theoiy. However, some emi
nent authorities, Democratic as well
as Populist, attribute trusts, and,
consequently, all evil, to the scarcity
of money. So complaints about it
will not be wanting. New York
Sun. '
Let's see, it was only a few weeks
ago that Joaquin Miller wrote an
idyl about the Klondike. Then he
was on the steamer, and his vision
ran something like this: "I will,
with my little pack on my back and
my little camp outfit, saunter over
the mountain pass to the lakes.
There I will build or buy a boat and
float into the new Eldorado. I will
show these pessimists what a man
can do." Joaquin now sings a differ
ent song. He writes that an "Alaska
mile, with a fifty-pound pack on your
back and the mud and ice water to
your knees, is the biggest mile, the
hardest mile) the thickest, longest
and hardest to get through of any
mile on earth. The first tale was
that of the poet; the second is plain
prose.
AVbeat took another tumble in
Chicago yesterday, going down to
89. The market price cannot be
told, however, from the wild scram
ble now going on in the wheat pit,
where every fellow who got nipped
in the rise is trying to get even.
SMILES.
"Are you one of the striking miners?"
asked the woman at the door. "Yes,
mam. I'm what they call a pioneer.
I etrack thirty years ago, and I've never
give in yet." Free Press.
"I want to say this," shouted John
Jingo, "as a state in the great galaxy of
commonwealths Hawaii will simply be
a jim dandy !" "Yon bet !" echoed the
Hon. Bouaer Down, "a regular Hono
lulu." North American.
General Coxey insists that if he must
keep off the grass the safest place for
him is in the middle of the road. Chi
cago Times Herald.
The case of Coxey shows ths value of
keeping yourself in evidence, even when
the way of doing it consiata in playing
the clown. Mew York San.
Not Startled: "Hold on tight," said
the driver of the Leadwood coach ; "I
may give you a sudden tip." "I'm
aaed to 'em' said the senator Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Death Awaits Them.
H. A. Stanley, of the Binghampt'on,
N. Y., Evening Herald, who has been
at St. Michaels for seven weeka, lifts up
his voice to warn prospectors against
going into the Yukon. He gives what
he claims as approximately correct
statements as to the amount of provis
ions, and shows that with the number
of men already in camp there must be
starvation and Buffering this winter.
The difficulties of the Chilcoot pass
have perhaps sayed many lives by keep
ing people oat of the country. Nature
baa been kind, bat the action of the
transportation companies, or some of
them, will rank little short of murder.
If next summer the story of the Greely
expedition, multiplied five hundred
times, is not brought back from the
Yukon, then all'signs fail.
x Oregon's Greatest Fair
Can be attended for one fare for the
round trip from any point on the lines
of the Sontbern Pacific in Oregon.
The fair opens on September 30th, and
closes October 8th. Nine days. Every
day will be the best. Fraternal order
day, October 2d ; Oregon press day, Oc
tober 4th ; pioneer and barbecue day,
October 5th ; Salem day, October 6th ;
school day, October 7th ; fiee for all
race, last day, October 8tb. School day,
October 7th, children nnder 12 years of
age free. School children over 12 years
of age, ten cents.
After harvest you will want a rest, so
come to the state fair and enjoy your
self. One fare for round trip. Popular
admission of 25 cents.
Cash In lour checks.
All conntv warrants registered prior
to March 11, 1893, will be paid at my
office. Interest ceases after Aug 5,
1897. C. L. Phillips,
Conntv Treasurer.
We sell Hoe Cake soap. Pease &
Mays. a3-2m
A TWO-MINUTE HORSE.
Star Pointer Paced a Mile In One Min
ute and Fifty-Nine and One
. fourth Seconds.
At Readville, Mass., Saturday, August
28th, the - long expected two-minute
horse came to the front and placed the
record three-quarters of a second below
that long attempted mark. The dis
patches give the following account of the
making of the record : ' .
: "Accompanied by a runner, the big bay
Tennessee-bred stallion wiped ont the
mark and had three-quarters of a second
to s pure when he went nnder the wire.
This wonderful performance was wit
nessed by about 8000 persons. It was
the more wonderful for on Friday Joe
Patchen, with Geers behind. him, bad
made a try at the mark made by John
R. Gentry last October, and had failed
by a second and a half. Because of this,
it was not thonght that his greatest
rival in the race line would get down be
low the even time-mark.
-The day was perfect for record-breaking.
Not a breath of air was etirring
when at 4 o'clock the horse came out
with a running borse to make the trial
for a world's record. The first two
scores were not satisfactory to McCIeary
and be worked the horse way down be
low the tarn. The second score was
even worse than the first, for while at
scarcely a two-minute clip be went to a
break right under the wire. Thia made
the friends of the horse more than a
trifle nervous. The horse was acting as
if a little sore and not np to the task.
But the third time down there was no
hesitancy. McCIeary nodded tor the
word, and off the pacer went.
The first quarter was at a two-minute
gait, thirty eeconds, and then, as Mc
CIeary called on his pacer to move, there
was a great cheer, for he was beating
two minutes and got to the half in
0:59, with the second quarter in
0:29. The third quarter was the fast
est of the mile, the distance being cov
ered in 0 :29J seconds, a 1 :57 gait.
Aronnd the turn Pointer seemed to
waver the smallest fraction of a second,
but McCIeary had him right almost be
fore one could think, and he straight
ened out into the stretch, the runner
moving up closer. Both pacer and run
ner were asked to step along. McCarthy
laid the whip on the runner, but Mc
CIeary only spoke a word of encourage
ment to his horse.
At the drawgate .Pointer was reefed a
little, and, coming stronger from the
distance, the great pacing stallion ap
peared to freshen in the last few strides,
gathering fresh courage as he neared the
wire, and finished like a lion in the rec
ord-breaking time of 1 :59J.
A mighty shout went op. Men yelled
as though possessed'. In the grandstand
tbe owner of the horse had his band
wrung until it ached. Over the fences
jumped men who knew 'the horse and
driver, or who were carried away with
the enthusiasm of tbe moment. -
Hardly had McCIeary brought the
the horse to a standstill before they had
him on their shoulders, and be was
borne along the stretch to the judges'
stand and there, as the band played
"Hail to the Chief,'' he was introduced
to the throng, and then renewed ap
plause for horse, owner and trainer
rang out.
A fairer mile was never timed. There
was not a watch in the stand but what
agreed with the time announced, while
on tne otner eiae ot tne airetcn, .tne
watches in. the grandstand caught it
equally fast or better, not one slower.
C. W. Marks, also of Chicago, tbe
owner of the greatest rival of Pointer,
looked at his watch earnestly and then
remarked :
"If anything, the mile was faster
rather than slower. It was a 1 :59 per
formance.". The summaries:
To beat world's pacing record, 2 :02
Star Pointer, b. 6., by Brown Hal, dam
Sweepstakes (McCIeary), woe; time,
0:30, 0:59, 1:29, 1:59.
DEEP BODY OF FRESH WATER.
Lake Chelan Baa Been Sonnded to the
Depth of 2565 JTeet and No
Bottom Beached.
Lake Chelan, in the Cascade mount
ains, is the third deepest body of water
in tbe world outside of the ocean. It
may take second place, as bottom has
not yet been found. It is certainly the
deepest body of water on the American
continent.
These facta have been established by
W. G. Steel, now of the United States
geological survey and well known as a
daring mountain climber and explorer
and founder of tbe well known Alpine
club, the Mazamaa. Mr. Steel writes as
follows:
Camp No. 8 on Lake Chelan, Aug. 24
To the Editor of The Spokesman-Review
: You will remember that in 1886
I broke the record for deep water on the
American continent by sounding Crater
lake, in southern Oregon, for the gov
ernment. Yon will remember also of
having invited me to visit Lake Chelan
a year later. I was very sorry indeed
not to be able to do so, but am examin
ing tbe Washington forest reserve for
the government, and in that capacity at
tempted to sound the lake last Saturday.
A steel line was sent me 2560 feet long,
all of which was let out in the middle of
the lake without finding bottom. Have
just ordered more wire end everything
necessary to do the work thoroughly,
and shall find that bottom under any
circumstances.
This makes Chelan tbe third deepest
body' of water in the world, outside of
the ocean, the record standing : Lake
Baikal in Siberia, 4000 feet ; the Caspian
sea, 3000 feet; Lake Chelan, 2560 plus
which means we are after second place,
and have good hopes of beating the Cas
pian sea. Before Saturday last Crater
lake held the third place.
W. G. Steel,
TJ. S. Geological Survey,
Lakeside, Wash.
Lake Chelan is in Okanogan county.
It descends to within three miles of the
Columbia riyer and discharges its vol
ume of mountain waters through an out
let known as the Chelan river. The fall
of the outlet is about 300 feet and
creates a water power second only to the
falls of the Spokane.
Tbe lake extends for 68 miles back in
to the very heart of the Cascade mount
ains, and its wild precipitous shores,
with cataracts leaping out of the dark
forests and falling in foam and spray in
to the waters of tbe lake, present a
scenic panorama which the world can
scarce surpass.
The lake's surface is about 900 feet
above the level of the sea. Mr. Steel's
soundings of 2560 feet therefore prove
that the bottom of the lake is at least
1660 feet below the level of the ocean.
A Fine School.
St. Mary's academy for ladies, located
in this city and under tbe direction of
the Sisters, is one of the best educational
institutions on the coast. The building
is of brick, large and well ventilated.
Besides the regular studies, especial ef
fort is made to instil into the minds of
the pupils a desire to form their hearts
to virtue, and to fit them to be true and
noble women. Gratuitous lessons are
given in all kinds of plain and fancy
needle word, knitting, embroidery, etc.
Pupils will receive the same watchful
care that would be given them by con
scientious parents. It is in fact an ideal
s h cool and a pleasant home. Those who
have girla to send to school should write
to St. Mary's academy for terms, tf. .
Electric Bitters.
Electric Bitters ia a medicine suited
for any season, but perhaps more gener
ally needed when the languid, exhausted
feeling prevails, when the liver is torpid
and sluggish and the need of a tonic and
and alterative is felt. A prompt use of
this medicine has often averted long and
perhaps fatal bilious ievers. No medi
cine will act more surely counteracting
and freeing the system from the malar
ial poisdn. Headache, Indigestion, Con
stipation, Dizziness yield to Electric Bit
ters. 50c and $1.00 per bottle at Blake
ley & Houghton's drug store. 1
Did Fltzslmmons Foal Carbett?
Thursday night, September 2, we will
all have a chance to see for ourselves
whether Wm. Brady, Corbstt's manager,
was correct in claiming a foul against
Jim. The New York Herald explains it
as "a trick of perspective." Aa the gen
uine Veriscope reproduction of the great
Carson contest will be here, this mooted
question will soon be settled ia tbe
minds of all. There is already a big de
mand lor seats and tbe house will un
doubtedly be crowded.
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AN OMOjMaOMffi
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acre " tract, seventeen acres in choice
fruits, bearing trees, new house of six
rooms, barns, outbuildings, etc., all new ;
two horeea and harness, two wagons, one
road cart and one cow. Will sell at a
bargain and on easy terms. Call on or
address C. E. Bayard or Chas. Frazer,,
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