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THE DALLES. WASCO COUNTY. OREGON. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1897.
VOL. VII.
NUMBER 40.
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LABOR CONVENTION
Resolutions Committee Make
a Sensational Report.
A PROTEST AGAINST INJUNCTIONS
All
Friends or Labor Asked to Give
Financial Support to the
Striking Miners.
St. Loris, Aug. 31. The labor conven
tioo was called to order at 10 o'clock this
moraine to listen to the report of the
committee on resolutions. Mr. Bergen
in presenting the resolutions said the re
port was the best the committee could
do onder the circumstances. The re
port which is very long, starts off by
saying :
"The fears of the more watchful
fathers of the repnblic have been justi
fied and the judiciary has become su
prerae with the republic prostrate at the
feet of the judge appointed to administer
the laws.
"Under the cunning form of injunc
tions, the courts have assumed to enact
criminal laws, and have repealed rights
and denied the accused right of trial by
iurv. The exercise of the commonest
rights of freedom, the right of assembly,
and the right of free speech have by
legislation under the form of injunctions,
. been made a crime. Having drawn to
themselves all the powers of the federal
government nntil congress and the
president may act only by judiciary
permission, the federal judges have be
gun the subjugation of the sovereign
states.
"The pending strike of coal miners
who starved by reason of the scant wages
paid for arduous and dangerous toil, the
pending strike for the right to be fed
enough to make labor possible, has been
prolific of judicial usurpation, showing
the willingness of judicial despots to re
sort to the moat shameless defiance of
decency as well as of the laws of hu
manity, in order to enable heartless
avarice to drive its hungry. serfs back to
the mine to faint and din at their drudg
ery, and there remains today not one
guaranteed right of American citizens
unaffected by these subversions of con
stitutional liberty.
"We have met to counsel together,
and have come to the following conclu
sions :
"That, whereas. The present strike of
the coal miners has again demonstrated
the fact that our so-called freedom is
but a stupendous sham while hundreds
of thousands of men, women and chil
dren are starving in hovels and on the
public highways;
"Whereas, Appeals to congress and
the courts for relief are fruitless, since
the legislative, as well as the executive
and judicial powers are under the con
trol ot the capitalistic class, so that
while cattle and swine have the right to
the public highways, Americans, so-
called free men, have not.-
"Whebeas, Our capitalistic class is
armed and has not only policemen,
marshals, sheriffs and deputies, but also
the regular militia in order to enforce
government by injunction, suppressing
lawlui assemblage, free speech, and the
right to the pnblic highway, while on
the other band the laboring men of the
country are unarmed and defenseless,
therefore,
"Resolved, That we hereby set apart
Friday, the 3d of September next, as a
'Good Friday' for the cause of suffering
labor in America and contribute the
earnings of that day to the support of
our struggling brothers, the miners, and
appeal- to every union man and every
friend of labor throughout the United
States to do likewise.
"Resolved, That if the strike of min
ers is not settled by the 20th of Septem
ber and an announcement made to
tbat effect by the president of the United
Mine Workers, a general convention be
held at Chicago, September 27, by repre-
Bentatives of al! onions, sections,
branches, lodges and kindred organiza
tions of laboring men and friends of
their cause for the purpose of consider
ing farther measures in the interests of
the striking miners and labor in general.
"Resolved, That public ownership of
aH railroads is one of the most necessary
reforms of oar body politic.
"Resolved, That we most emphatical
ly protest against government by injunc
tion, and be it finally resolved tbat no
nation in which the people are totally
disarmed can long remain a free nation ;
and therefore we urge upon all - liberty
loving citizens to remember and obey
article 2 of the constitution of the United
States, which reads as follows : "The
right of the people to keep and bear
arms shall not be infringed."
As eoon as the platform was before the
convention dozens of delegates were on
their feet clamoring for recognition
Deleeate Osborn. of Atlanta, Ga., of'
fered a resolution to the effect that
was the sense of the meeting that all
nnemnloved men in the United States
should apply for admission to the poor
houses of their respective counties. No
action was taken on this resolution, and
the convention went off in a desultory
debate regarding the resolutions.
HOKRORS OF PRISON LIFE.
Recently Keleased Cuban Pacifies D
scribe ThemV
New York, Aog. 31. The Times says
General V eyler in issuing a recen
nronnnciamento declared that three of
the Cuban orovinces were pacified, and
ordered that all pacificos who bad been
held in durance as suspects should be re
leased. This order gave freedom to 34
young Cubans who had been prisoners
among others for two and a half years at
the Spanish penal colony of Cueta on
the coast of Morocco. They were sent
across the straits to Gibraltar and left
there penniless.
Jose Prinelles, of this city, provided
with a subscription fund, has just re
turned here with fifteen of the released
paciticos, this being as many as the
fund enabled him to pay passage for
The remaining nineteen are still in
Gibraltar, some with friends, and all
getting food and shelter as best they
can.
There were over 400 men in the prison,
and many of them were sick, and one
complained he was confined to a cell and
denied medical attendance instead of be
ing sent to a hospital. The prison they
describe as being filthy. No attention
is paid to sanitarv conditions. The cells
were gloomy, damp holes, pungent with
musty filth that encrusted the floors.
Of the mortality in the prison the pa
cificos knew nothing. They thought of
the place even as .they had known it,
with horror, and Mr. Prinelles said they
did not like to recall it. They were sat
isfied to be free.
Many of the returning men do not yet
know what the fate of the members of
their families has been. - Some have
been killed in battle, others imprisoned
Valdez learned last night that a brother
had been killed in battle.
FiltbBSters Are Active.
Washington, Aug. 31. Recent com
plaints lodged with the state department
by Minister De Lome coupled with re
ports from government officers and news
papers, indicate thatCuban sympathizers
n this country are making desperate
efforts to aid the struggling insurgents
with war material and men when the
dry season again begins.
several filibustering expeditions are
known to be onder way, and one, the
Fearless, with men and ammunition.
has successfully eluded the vigilance of
the Spanish officers and American gun
boats, and is now on her way from
Tampa for the Cuban coast. Uer de
parture was confirmed by a dispatch re
ceived at the navy department from
the commanding officer of the Helena.
Two othei expeditions, the Dauntless
and Dr. Briggs, are under surveillance
by the gunboat Wilmington and a rev
enue cutter on the east coast of Florida.
Work for the Cuban Assembly.
New York, Aug. 31. Thomas Estrada
Palma, the representative of the Cuban
provisional government, has received
the official list of deputies to the next
Cuban constitutional assembly, which is
to meet on September 2nd, . to elect a
new president, the office of the present
incumbent expiring on Thursday. The
assembly will revise the present pro
visional constitution, which was adopted
for a term of two years, on September 10,
1S95. Each of the army corps sends
four deputies to the assembly.
According to private advice3 which
have just reached here large bodies of
Spanish troops are being massed in
Camaeuay for the purpose of preventing,
if possible, the meeting of the assembly,
as the insurgents have a force in the
district ot the convention.
A Chance for Worden.
Chicago, Aug. 31. Mrs. Mary G.
Jones, of .this city, has just returned
from Washington, where she visited
President McEinley in behalf of S. D.
Worden, under sentence of death in Cal
ifornia for trainwrecking. Mr. . Jones
said the president, attorney-general and
Secretary Alger received her most kind
ly, and after she bad laid Worden's case
before them the president assured her
he would give it careful consideration,
and he could almost promise her in ad
vance that her plea for pardon for the
condemned man would be granted.
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DARK DAYS ARE PAST
Farmers of the Middle West
Once More Prosperous.
VIEWS OF SECRETARY WILSON
Effects of Returned Prosperity Ap
parent Upon All Sldeslhe Su- ,
gar-lteet Industry.
Chicago, Sept. 1. James Wilson, sec
retary of agriculture, has returned from
a trip through the Western states
where he has been investigating condi
tions regarding irrigation and other mat
ters which will tend to widen the scope
of agricultural industries.
Mr. Wilson is enthusiastic concerning
the agricultural future of the West, and
is confident that the hard times have
passed for the farmers west of the Mis
sissippi riyer. During bis trip through
the Western Btates he examined into the
Conditions existing among the farmers.
He found that the latter had felt the
wave of prosperity, and that they were
building new machinery, making num
berless improvements, and are able to
pay off their mortgages.
I have been through the mountain
states," said Mr. Wilson, "in order to
learn what could be done regarding irri
gation in the range lands of Western
Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah,
parts of Idaho, Montana and North Da
kota. The principal object of my trip
was to ascertain to what extent the gov
ernment could add to the annual pro
duction by further irrigation. During
the course of my observation I have
found that these states have already
used .up the waters in many districts
without being able to irrigate tne bottom
lands. They are now agitating the
theory of damming the waters in winter,
I have an agent in Europe at the
present time investigating the require
ments for heavy draft and carriage
horses and apimals needed for army pur
poses. I have yery little doubt that if
the range horses in the Western states
were properly cared for they would be
able to compete with European horses,
hope to bring about such a competi
tion and to make the market for Ameri
can horses lively in European coun
tries.
"During my trip I found a very ex
tensive interest in growing sugar beets
to make sugar. Grand Island, Neb., is
on the edge of the dry belt. Sugar beets
is one crop that grows independently of
droughts. About 3000 to 4000 acres are
necessary to cultivate a sufficient crop of
beets to keep a factory in operation.
Theory product, or the pulp, is not be
ing used to the best advantage. At
Grand Rapids and Lemhi, Utah, it is
fed to range steers. The amount of it
tbat would make two pounds ot gain in
first-class steer worth 0 or 7 cents.
would make a pound of butter, but such
has not occurred to the sugar-beet grow
ers."
IN FUSION LIES TOIEIt HOPE.
Three Silver Parties of Nebraska to
Pool .Issues.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 1. It is safe to
say harmonious fusion of the three silver
parties is assured. Whatever doubt
there may have been about co-operation
was dispelled by good-will mass meet
ings held last night and this morning.
The sentiment on every tongue is to
fuse regardless of which party furnishes
the nominee for supreme judge. The
Democrats, who favor W. H. Thompson,
express great confidence in their victory,
but say they want fusion above all
things.
The silver Democratic state central
committe met and agreed to recommend
A. A. Sbellenberger, ot Alma, to their
convention as temporary chairman.
Attorney-General Smythe, of Omaha,
will be recommended for permanent
chairman.
The (silver republican state central com
mittee met this morning and agreed to
recommend F. F. Loomis, of Edbam, for
temporary chairman, and to leave the
nomination of permanent chairman to
the choice of the convention.
The Populists have agreed to wait un
til their convention opens before ap
pointing a temporary chairman.
Since earlv morning the corridors of
the hotels have been thronged, and
trains have augmented the crowds until
the number of delegates is estimated at
2800.
Progress of the Leutgert Trial.
Chicago, Sept. 1. Interest in the
Luetgert ' trial was nnabated today.
When court opened Attorney Vincent
began the cross-examination of Bialk.
He testified that since May 16th he had
been with Officer Klinger, Hying at his I
house and paying no board. Inspector
Scbaak had provided means for his wife
to live and pay the rent.
Bialk regarded the actions of his em
ployer on the night of May 1st as sus
picious because he turned steam into
the basement at 9 o'clock. He eaid
Luetgert had barricaded the door lead
ing directly from the boiler-room when
he went to the'baeement, although there
was another route by which he colud
have walked into the basement. He
did not go in, he eaid, because Leutgerl
had told him to go back to his fires after
he had delivered the second bottle of
medicine to him.
Belle Carmen May Die.
Chicago, Sept. 1. Mrs. George Mid
dleton's furious assault on Miss Belle
Carmen Monday night may result in the
actress' death. The police have taken
her ante-mortem statement. Her as
sailant's hearing is 6et for September
12th. and she is out on bonds. The
friends of Miss Carmen think Mrs. Mid
dleton has been treated too leniently , and
have sworn out two new warrants.
Miss Carmen was removed from Dr.
Campbell's office, where she had passed
the night, to her hotel apartments. She
was conscious, but extremely weak from
the loss of blood. The dangerous wound
is a deep stao in the left shoulder near
the neck, which severed an artery. The
physicians have not been able to stop
the flow of blood. The other wounds,
while painful, are not considered serious.
Her Troubles Are Ended.
San Francisco, Sept. 1. Little Em
ma Davis, the English girl who was
taken from her home by E. A. Tubbs
and bis wife and treated almost as a
slave on their Fresno vineyard, has ar
rived here on her way. to her parents
across the Atlantic. The British consul
general will provide the funds. At Chi
cago she will be met by members of the
Young Women's Christian Association,
who will see her safely on her journey
to New York. There she will be taken
in charge by the Children's Society and
safely housed up to the time the steamer
sails. At Liverpool the English Chil
dren's Societv will meet her and forward
her to her home in Rock Ferry.
Northern Pacific Officers.
St. Paul, Sept. 1. Daniel S. Lamont,
the new vice-president of the Northern
Pacific, is in the city, and says be is
awaiting the arrival of the new presi
dent, Mr. Mellen, before he will be
prepared to state what his duties will be.
With bis family Mr. Lamont is for a few
days the guest of President Hill, of the
Great Northern. He said he expected
to remain here but a short time.
President Winter's duties in an official
character ended at midnight, but he will
continue at the headquarters nntil Presi
dent Mellen arrives next week.
Schlatter In Trouble.
Chicago, Sept. 1. The man calling
himself Francis Schlatter, who has been
conducting a "divine-healing" camp at
Manhattan beach, has been served with
a summons to answer the charge of prac
ticing medicine without a license. He
will be prosecuted by the state board of
health of Illinois, and if convicted is
liable to a fine of $100 for the first offense
and $200 iu addition if his patients care
to trouble him further.
Dr J. A. Egan, secretary of the board,
instituted the legal proceedings.
Murdered by Weyler's Police.
New York, Aug. 31. A special to the
Herald from Havana eays :
Augusto Ariza, a Cuban, and Fernan
do Pasada, a Portuguese, were shot by
policemen in the streets ot this city re
cen tl v. Thev had just arrived from
Mexico. No reason was given by the
police for the assassinations, but it is
thought that General Weyler, who lives
in constant fear of being killed, sus
pected them of being anarchists.
Ilartlett Tells It All.
San Francisco, Sept. 1. Charles M.
Bartlett, the self-confessed perjurer n
the Angus-Craven case, with astonishing
effrontery, yesterdayadmitted on cross
examination that he had been led to
believe there was at stake $5000 if he
changed his testimony, and that he
found out when too late that he would
not get it. I
Tars Attacked by the Gold Fever.
Santa Rosa, Cal., Sept. 2. A letter
has been received by Deputy Postmaeter
Griggs from his son, Joseph, who is a
member of the crew of the United States
gunboat Concord. The letter is dated
Juneau, August 25, and gives details
of the desertions of 45 men from the
Concord daring its cruise in Alaskan
waters. It says :
'Some of the boys got the gold fever
and ran away, but were brought back,
and are now in double irons. The ship
lost 45 good seamen, but if they are fools
enough to go and starve this winter they
are not fit for the ship." . '
DAWSON CITY OURS
(jrOYernment Officials Claim
the Camp.
PART OF THE DISTRICT IN ALASKA
Strong Efforts to Be Made to Reclaim
It International Complica
tions May Follow.
Port Townsend, Sept. 2. A letter
jus Received from John U. Smith,
United, States commissioner at Dyea
and Skaguay, intimates that govern
ment officials now on the way to the
Upper Yukon may by their official acts
bring on. Berious international complica
tions with the Dominion government.
He says :
"It is announced here by a deputy
United States marshal that the United
States government is to make claim for
a large portion of the Yukon gold fields
which have heretofore been supposed to
be in British territory, and that the ter
ritory which is claimed as being within
Alaska includes Dawson City.
"The basis of the claim to be made by
the United States officials to the disput
ed territory is in the fact that the
boundary line has never been determin
ed, and that the United States authori
ties claim to possess information as to
surveys made by tbe Canadian govern
ment that fixes Dawson City and a large
portion of tbe district in Alaska."
WOULD TAKE TBE CANAL.
Japan Has Designs Upon the Nicaragua
Waterway.
New Yore, Sept. 2. A special to the
Herald from Washington, says:
Japan, not content with an interfer
ence in President McKinley's Hawaiian
annexation policy, now has designs upon
the Nicaragua canal. According to
semi-official advices just received here
from Nicaragua, the Japanese govern
ment is secretly negotiating with the
diet of tbe Greater Republic of Central
America, which recently met in Salva
dor, for the construction of the Nicaragua
canal, independently and in defiance of
the interests of the United States or
other nations.
This action or Japan, taken in connec
tion with her recent attitude in regard
to Hawaiian annexation is one of the
greatest significance, showing as it does
to the authorities that there is no limit
to the ambition of the nation, and tbat
her aggressive policy may yet get her
into trouble with the United States.
That the administration will resent any
interference with the Nicaragua canal
project as it did in the case of the Ha
waiian annexation treaty, goes without
saying.
If Japan can encompass it, according
to the Nicaraguan advices received here,
she would like to obtain the abrogation
of all treaty rights possessed by the
United States in relation to interoceanic
transit and the forfeiture of the Ameri
can canal concessions from Nicaragua,
and to immediately make a treaty with
the diet of the Greater Republic of Cen
tral America giving her control of the
route through Nicaragua.
In the negotiations CoBta Rica has not
been consulted, it being well known that
she would not assent to a violation of a
treaty right. It has been suspected in
some quarters tbat England, which has
always been anxious to acqnire at least
a joint control of the canal, might be
working in collusion with Japan in the
"dickering" with the diet now under
stood to be in progress, but nothing has
yet come to the surface to indicate that
she has encouraged Japan in the move.
It is said that the agent of the Nic
aragua canal here haB laid the facts be
fore Mr. Hitchcock, president of tbe
canal company in New York, with tbe
suggestion that the department be ap
prised of the secret negotiations that are
now being carried on between Japan
and the diet.
Senor Zelaya, the president of Nic-i
aragna, it is understood, has admitted to
close personal friends tbat Japan is now
negotiating with the diet, but in each
case he advised the strictest secrecy.
A private letter just received in this
city from Nicaragua says :
'Among AmericansJn Central America
the belief is general that the Greater
Republic of Central America, which is
represented in diplomatic affairs by a
diet composed of three members, one
each from Nicaragua, Salvador and Hon
duras, was organized principally in order
thaj Nicaragua might absolve herself
from individual responsibility as a na
tion, and thereby abrogate her inter
oceanic transit treaty with the United
States. The so-called Greater Republic,
resenting the failure of the United States
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ceiving Senor Rodriguez) and in failing
to accredit a United States minister to
the Greater Republic, is likely to make
a treaty - with Japan, granting her a
concession for the construction of the
canal.
"The United States minister here be
lieves tbat when this news reaches
Washington the state department will
send' a note to Japan asking if she is
seeking to interfere with our treaty
rights in the premises. The Americans
in Nicaragua believe that the United
States government will insist that her
interoceanic treaties with Nicaragua,
Costa Rica, Honduras and Colombia are
yet in force, although the diet claims
that Nicaragua and Honduras are no
longer separate and individual nations
and are therefore irresponsible."
Although state department officials
will not admit that any official news has
come to confirm the private advices,
there are reasons for believing that the
authorities have been watching Japan's
movements in Central America with
more oi less suspicion for some time
past.
THE ANNEXATION TREATY,
Darts Says It Will Be Ratified When
the Senate Meets.
St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 2. C. K.
Davis, chairman of the foreign relations
committee,- was today asked for an ex
pression regarding tbe Hawaiian ad
vices to the Associated Press in regard
to the annexation treaty. He dismissed
the matter briefly, saying :
"There is no question in mind about
the truth of the first statement that
Hawaii may at once ratify the treaty.
Why not? Tbe senate can get together
and they can readily dispose of the
treaty. As to the statement that the
United States congress would be called
to meet two months in advance of the '
usual date, there is no truth in it. The
treaty will bo ratified by our senate .
when taken up by that body."
The Leutgert Trial.
Chicago, Sept. 2. In the Luetgert
trial this morning Frank Orafsky, the
smokehouse man at Luetgert's factory
was examined briefly by the attorney
for the plantiff and turned over to the
defense. He was subjected to severe
questioning, with the object of showing
that there were discrepancies between
his testimony of yesterday and tbat
given at Luetgert's preliminary hear
ing.
Frank Sewandowksi, another employe
of the factory, was examined. His tes
timony was mainly corroborative of
Orafsky's.-
Gordon B. Clark, salesman for Lord,
Owen & Co., wholesale druggists, testi
fied that in March laBt Luetgert pur
chased of that firm a barrel of caustic
potash and 50 pounds of arsenic. George
Nelson, a shipping clerk for the drug
firm, corroborated the testimony of
Clark.
Operators and Miners Confer,
Columbus, SepV 2. Representative
coal operators and the coal miners' ex
ecutive committee met today behind
closed doors. The miners' officials de
clined toioreshadowany proposed move
ment in case of refusal to accept the
operators' proposition to open the mines
at 61 cents per ton pending arbitration.
They were willing to talk of general con
ditions and nothing else, except that
they want an agreement today, if any,
to hold good for a year. On the other
hand the operators feel very hopeful.
The miners' officials at 11:20 held a
secret conference and adjourned to hold
a joint secret conference with a special
cemmittee of operators, representing all
the operators of Pittsburg.
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