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VOL. VII.
THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. 1897.
NUMBER 41.
DUTCH SUGAR BODNTl
Its Interpretation a Pnzzle
to Treasury Officials.
IMPORTANT INTERESTS AT STAKE
Question of Levying Extia Datjr Upon
Sugar Front Holland Depend,
on the Decision.
Washington Sept. .3. The question
of whether beet sugars exported from
Holland to the United States should all
be practically'ezcladed from this conn
try by the imposition of an additional
duty equivalent to the bounty paid by
the Dutch government, is one which the
treasury department will have to decide
in the near future. At present sugars
are allowed to come in on payment of
the duty fixed by the sugar schedule in
the tariff bill, with the understanding
that if it is found that the additional
duty stands it shall be paid.
Section 5 of the Dingley act provides
that when any country shall pay either
directly or indirectly, any bounty or
grant a bounty upon the exportation of
anv article of merchandise it shall be
subject, when imported into the United
States to an additional duty equal to the
export bounty. This is aimed espe
cially at sugars, and the treasury de
partment has called upon the state de
partment to secure through consuls and
ministers detailed information as to ex
port paid by foreign governments.
It has been assumed that the new
Dutch sugar law which went into effect
recently, provided for an export bounty,
but this seems to be open to considerable
donbt. A draft of this law has been
forwarded by the minister at The Hague.
The treasury officials have not yet ex
amined it carefully enough to decide
whether it provides in any direct way
for a bounty on exportation. The draft
for the new law shows that premiums
are allowed on beet sugars produced and
withdrawn from the sugar factories, but
this does not seem to be an export
bounty, as it is the same on sugars with
drawn for home consumption as on
those shipped abroad. It is doubtful
whether this can be construed to be a
bounty or grant npon the exportation
of the sugar, and this may lead to a de
cision that no additional duties can be
levied on Dutch sugar on account of the
bounty.
The effect of such a decision would be
to give Dutch beet sugars an advantage
in the American market over German,
Austrian and French sugars, as those
countries pay bounties on the exporta
tion of their sugars, and when they are
imported into the United States they
must pay additional duties equivalent to
the bounties.
Vasqaez Was Deported.
San Francisco, Sept. 3. The steamer
Acapulco brought information of another
political earthquake in Guatemala,
When the vessel reached Acajutla it was
met by a telegram from President
Barrios and held until 11 o'clock at night
when a special train arrived with Gen
eral Vasquez, ex-president of Honduras,
under guard.
It was ascertained that Vasquez, who
had taken refuge in San Jose de Guate
mala after bis expulsion from Honduras,
had beon ordered deported by Barrios.
The refugee was put on board the steam
er and landed at Acapulco. It is said
he was detected in fomenting a revolu
tion againBt Barrios.
Japan Mot Trying; to Take the Canal
New York, Sept. 7. A dispatch to
the Herald from Managua, says:
Your correspondent interviewed Presi
dent Zelaya as to the statement that
Japan is secretly negotiating with - the
the diet of the Greater Republic of Cen
tral America to take the Nicaragua canal
project ont of the bands of the United
States, setting aside the treaty rights of
the United States. The president de
clares that the statement is absolutely
false. He says that while he ardently
desires to have the canal completed as
soon as possible, Japan has never offered
to take any hand in the matter.
President Zelaya's wish, according to
his statement, is for the work to be done
either by the United States or by a pri
vate company.
Rockefeller's Generosity.
Boston, Sept. 3. John D. Rockefeller,
in pursuance of a promise to the Ameri
can Baptist Missionary Union and the
American Baptist Home Missionary So
ciety, has sent his check for the balance
of the $250,000 to be given by him on
condition that the two societies should
raise $236,000.
On August 1st the American Baptist
Missionary Union, with headquarters in
Tremont Temple, this city, received Mr,
Rockefeller's check for $121,267. Now
the American Baptist Home Missionary
Society, the headquarters of which are
in New York, has received a check for
the amount necessary to cancel its in.
debtednees. .This contribution is the
largest gift ever made to the missionary
canse.
SIN, SBAME, THEN DEATH.
Rnssel
Ward Killed by
From a Train. '
Plunging
Chicago, Sept. 3. A man of the name
of Ward, of San Francisco, a passenger
on the Chicago & Northwestern over
land flyer, which arrived today, and who
is believed to be the man who eloped
last summer with the wife of Millionaire
Bradbury, of Los Angeles, ' leaped from
the window of a Pullman car while the
tram was rushing through Iowa last
night and was killed.
A telegram was received from Wheat-
lands almost at the same time the train
pulled into Chicago which said Ward's
body, clad only in night robes, had been
found near that station. It is' believed
he was demented.
It is not known at what hour Ward
jumped from the train. Hie absence
was discovered by Conductor Koundy,
when the train was between Geneva and
Chicago. All of the suicide's clothing
and effects were found in the berth he
occupied.
The police cf Chicago are mystified
over the case. Yesterday afternooon a
telegram was received at the central
station as follows : "Please send a good
man to drawing-room B, car No. 2, of
the east-bound overland Northwestern
in Chicago at 7:30."
The telegram was sent from Fremont,
Neb., yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
It bore no signature. Detective Brod
erick met the train at the depot and on
investigation found that the drawing-
room B was the room the Buicide had
occupied. A detective was informed by
Conductor Koundy that the telegram
the police bad received bad been sent
by Ward, who left the train at Fremont
long enough to send it. C. F. Godman,
conductor, and C. M. Calloway, porter
of the Pullman car, occupied by Ward,
said that prior to his retiring last night
he exhibited no signs of insanity.
Cloudburst at Needles.
Needles, Cal., Sept., 3. A cloudburst
has converted the streets of Needles into
veritable rivers. The water is lolly
three feet deep in the business streets.
Monoghan & Murphy's cellar is filled
with water and goods to the amount of
$3000 have been destroyed. Phelan'S
meat market has tumbled down and an
adobe lodging-honse has been wrecked.
Every house in town has suffered more
less damage. The tracks of the
Santa Fe road are washed out in several
places. .
This Seems to Confirm It.
San Francisco, Sept. 3. H. Russell
Ward, of Santa Monica, Cal., the
Englishman whose sensational elope
ment with Mrs. John Bradburv, of Los
Angeles, to this city in July last led to
their arrest for adultery, was discharged
on Thursday, August 26th, and left here
for New York Monday evening, pre
sumably to join bis wife and family in
Eogland. Under ordinary circumstances
he should have reached Chicago at 7 :45
o'clock this morning.
The Reconciled Bradbnrys.
San Francisco, Sept. 3. By the ar
rival of the Acapulco it is learned that
Colonel J. R. Bradbury and his wife,
formerly Miss Banning of Los Angeles,
whose escapade with Russell Ward made
several days' talk of two continents,
came up on that vessel from Panama to
Mazatlan. They came from New York
by steamer and were on their way from
Mazatlan to the Tajo mines near Ma
zatlan in which Colonel Bradbury is in
terested. A Pontoon Bridge Collapsed.
Weimar, -Sepr. 3. During military
maneuvers in this vicinity today a pon
toon bridge collpased while the Ninety-
fourth Thuringian regiment waes pass
ing over it. A numoer of soldiers .were
either drowned or hit by timbers and
killed.
Bicycles Exempt.
Oakland, Cal., Sept. 3. Judge Eli
Worth has ruled that a bicycle is per
sonal property and exempt from exeuc
tion if need by the owner in his daily
business.
A Destructive Blase.
New York, Sept. 3. Fire totally de
stroyed the machine shops and car shops
at Brooklyn belonging to the Nassau
Electric Company this morning, and en
tailed a loss of $100,000.
Suspected Tnrks Arrested.
Constantinople, Sept. 3, Since
Tuesday about 300 Turks have been ar
rested for supposed connection with the
committee of the young Turk party.
Nebraska corn for sale at the Wasco
warehouse. Best feed on earth. m9-tf
FOUR TO GET OFFICE
Oregon Delegation Beaches
An Agreement.
JOHN H. BALL FOR U. S. ATTORNEY
Zoeth Banter, Marshal; 0. Summers,
Appraiser; T. T. Geer, Regis
ter at Oregon City.
The Oregon congressional delegation
Saturday agreed upon the following rec
ommendations for appointment to fed
eral offices In Oregon.
United States district attorney John
H. Hall, of Portland.
United States marshal Zoeth Houser,
of Umatilla county.
Appraiser of customs, Willamette dis
trict, at Portland Colonel Owen Sum
mers, of Portland.
Register of United States land office,
at Oregon City T. T. Geer, of Marion
'county.
President McKinley was at once, by
wire, notified of the choice of the dele
gation. No other recommendations were
made, or, if an agreement was reached,
the fact was not made public. For col
lector of customs at Portland, it was an
nounced that the "delegation has not
Submitted a recommendation at present,
and probably will not until an oppor
tunity is given for consultation with the
president." The term of the present
incumbent in the collectorship, of in
ternal revenue for Oregon, Washington
and Alaska does not expire until Janu
ary 20, 1898, and no recommendation
will be made until that time. No defi
nite action was taken as to the post
mastership at Portland, and other post
offices and land offices throughout the
state will be filled as the terms of the
present incumbents expire.
The delegation concluded its consulta
tions last night, and Congressman Ellis
left for his home in Heppner, and Con
gressman Tongue for Hillsboro, Senator
McBride will remain at the Perkins for
several days. The delegation had been
in almost continuous conference since
Thursday afternoon. Before that. time
there had been desultory meetings, but
no serious work was done or conclusions
reached. After it was all over, Senator
McBride said, last night :
" We have listened patiently and gladly
to various representative Republicans
from all parts of the state, and have con
sidered the merits of all the candidates.
These recommendations represent the
candidates npon whom all could agree,
after careful consideration."
Senator McBride declined to say any
thing further for publication, pleading
that he was very tired and very anxious
for a season of rest.
The general expectation is that Presi
dent McKinley will made the appoint
ments in accordance with the wishes of
the delegation. It has been his policy
to place the responsibility for his selec
tions to office upon the various senators
and representatives, and when a delega
tion is in harmony as to any candidate,
or set of candidates for the state which
it repiesents, it may be considered tan
tamount to appointment.
A NATURAL GAS LEAK.
Caused Two Terrible Explosions In
an Indianapolis Suburb.
Indianapolis, Sept. 4. Broad Ripple,
a suburb of Indianapolis, ten miles from
the city proper, was this morning the
scene ot the most terrible disaster that
has ever visited this state. Six persons
were burned to death and thirty people
are lying in the homes of neighbors,
burned, scarred and racked with pain
from broken bones. Four buildings, oc
cupying a block of the town, are in rums.
Of the six dead, nothing but cberred
and blackened bones, with hanging
strips of foul-smelling flesh, remain
Two of the dead are still unidentified.
there being no way of identification, ex
cept by Jisting those who are missing.
At 10 o'clock a foul odor was noticed
in the drugstore of J. L. Watts, and a
lamp in the dark room, used for amateur
photography, went out. It was lighted,
and as the burning match was thrown
to the floor, streaks of flame of a bluish
tint ran along the joints - between the
boards, showing the presence of escap
ing natural gas, and then up the walls.
The next instant, the explosion came.
The walls were hurled in every direction
and the top of the building, fell with a
crnncbing, grinding sound, covering
everything. Fire broke out, and shrieks
could be heard from those beneath. Of
the seven persons in the store, three
were burned alive. The rest are still
alive and may recover.
A hundred persons were at work on
me rums trying to save the lives in
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at the rains to save those buried beneath
While thus engaged, and twenty mm
ntes after the first explosion, a second
came from beneath the grocery. It was
a mighty roar and hurled the bnilding
to atoms. Forty people were knocked
senseless, strewn in all directions with
broken bones and bruised bodies, while
as many more escaped with small
bruises. The shock made the whole
town quiver. Beneath the ruins, Phius
Grescbke, the groceryman, was caught
and crnshed to death. His bod v was re
covered before it was entirely burned
The ruins were added to those of the
building adjoining, demolished by the
first explosion, and the whole mass, to
gether with a cottage and a livery stable.
was burned. Only the bucket brigrade
was on hand in time to do any good,
and probably it only prolonged the
agony of the victims who were burned
The disaster was caused by natural gas
leaking into the cellars of the buildings
fro.i; a three-inch main that ran into
the street, and from which the houses
were supplied.
THE QUEEN ARRIVES DOWN.
Work on they Sksgoay Trail Disgusted
Klondlkers Retnrn.
Port Towksend, Sept. 4. The steam
ship Queen arrived at 10 o'clock from
Alaska. Among her passengers is
George B. Kittenger, of Seattle, who
comes out on a flyrng business trip arid
will return on the same steamer to
Skaguay, en route to Dawson City
Kittmger has been over a part of the
Skaguay trail and was the center of
large crowd on the street corners tonight,
where he told interesting stories of the
scenes, a'musing and pathetic as well,
that he had witnessed on the pass.
Frank L. Crampton, of Mount Ver
non, Wash., is one of the passengers
down from Skaguay on the Queen. He
went up to look over the situation, and
took a trip over both passes. He says
that the killing of horses is caused large
ly by novices, who do not know how
to load them. In many instances the
pack saddles are allowed to wear great
holea in the horses' backs. The men
who are fixing the trail will be the first
to profit by it. This has been decided
by the vigilance committee, and no man
can go on trail with packs without a
certificate from the secretary that he has
done so much work on the trail. One
man whom Mr. Crampton saw had got
ten all of his outfit over the trail
when it was closed for travel. The com
mittee refused to let him take the' re
mainder of his pack over. His en
treaties did no good. In desperation,
he went back and got a Winchester and
two revolvers, and he held up the com
mittee and went through.
Many men will wait until the snow
falls and take their outfits over on sleds.
In fact, sleds already are being used to
cross the summit on the Dyea trail.
At Dyea and the Chilkoot pass the
conditions are much the same as on the
Skaguay trail. The price for packing by
the Indians is 38 cents per pound, and
all classes of Indians are employed.
Tents are scattered every 20 feet along
the trail. The trail is lined with tired
and distressed :nen from one end to the
other.
S. M. Lesikatos, who went into the
Klondike last spring, sends out word to
his partner, Mr. Hens, of Juneau, that
he has struck it rich. He says:
i auu lwo iiruepeut. uoiea wunout
finding anything, but in the third I
could pick up nuggets with my hand.
am so excited 1 can't write. We are
rich. The amount of gold the people
have here is something appalling."
The Queen left tor Seattle at 11
o'clock. She has 34 disgusted Klon
dlkers on board.
A PANIC CAUSED BY A FIRE.
Close Call For San Francisco Orpheum
Patrons.
San Francisco, Sept. 6. Fire in the
Orpheum theater just before the close of
the performance last night created much
excitement and a panic attended with
loss of lite was narrowlv averted. The
casualities were confined to slight in
juries to a few persons.
In the theater there is an electrical
apparatus known as the cinematograph
by which pictures are thrown on a white
ground on the stage. It is operated
from a small closet built on the front of
the gallery. The eides of the closet were
of muslin. This material qaught fire
and began dropping on the heads of the
audience below. A ery of "fire" was
raised and a rush for tbeexits was'made.
One man pushed his arm through a
glass door and was badly cut. An elder
ly lady was thrown down and trodden
on, but was revived and taken away
by her daughter. A man jumped from
a second-story window and his bead was
cnt in several places.
The fire was extinguished before it
spread. Within a few minutes the ex
citement had subsided and the perfor
mance was continued to the end of the
program with the exception af the cine-
prugraui wiiu tuts c;
matograph pictures-
BIG MASS MEETINGS
btrikers Preparation for the
Columbns Convention.
DELEGATES ARE BEING NAMED
Some Will Contend for 69 Cents,
the Majority Are Instructed
J to Compromise.
bat
Pittsburg. Sept. 6. Mass meetings
are being held today all over Pittsburg
district by striking miners for the pur
pose of appointing delegates to the dis
trict convention which meets here to
morrow to consider the Columbus com
promise, ana elect delegates to the na
tionai convention at Columbus on
Wednesday. '
While some ot the leading miners
have stated they will contend for in
structions to the Columbus delegates to
vote for sixty-nine cents or nothing, it is
thought the sixty-nine cent men will be
in the minority and unable to further
their plan.
A number of operators have received
assurances that the miners formerly at
work for them will ratify the agreement
arrived at Columbus, and will vote to
return to work at the sixty-five cent rate
President Dolan, Secretary William
and District Organizer Cameron Miller
say they fee' sure the great majority of
miners will vole to accept the sixty-five
cent rate.
Mining officials say the struggle
against the New York and Cleveland
Gas Coal Company will be pushed. Ac
ceptance of sixty-five cent rate, they eay,
in no way affects the price to be paid
the diggers at the mines of this com
pany, and until the mmeworkers can
force President W. P. DeArmitt to pay
the district price without a differential
in his favor, the fight against him will
be continued.
AT OCEAN SPRINGS.
Vigorons Quarantine' Regulations to
Be
Enforced.
Austin, Tex., Sept., 6. State .Health
Officer Swearington today issued an iron'
clad quarantine against Ocean Springs,
Miss., and all other points now affected
or likely to be affected by yellow fever,
Reports from the Gulf coast are to the
effect that the inhabitants are badlv
frightened, and some are talking of re'
organizing their shotgun quarantine
force which patrolled the Gulf shore
some twelve years ago to keep out .all
persons, and thereby prevent the
disease from entering the state.
Genuine Yellow Fever.
Jackson, Miss., Sept. . Governor
McLaurin has just received the follow
ing telegram from two members of the
state board of health, who went to Ocean
Springs, Miss., yesterday to investigate
the yellow fever ecare.
"After the most thorough investigation
in every conceivable light it is the unani
mous opinion of representatives of the
Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi
state boards of health and marine hos
pital service that the epidemic now pre-
vai,ing fn 0ceaQ Spring8 ig yellow fever
w w
H. H. Harrason;
J. F. Hunter."
May Not Be Yellow Fever.
Washington, Sept. 6. The Marine
hospital service is investigating tbe fe
ver at Ocean Springs, Miss., and the in
formation at hand inclines them to tbe
belief that the disease is not yellow fe
ver, though conclusive information is
not at hand.
THE LUCK OF THE EUGENE.
A Leaky
Hull Checks the Unhappy
Steamer's Toyage.
Vancouver, B. C. Sept. 6. The
steamship Capilano, Captain Powis, re
turned this morning from Juneau, Dyea
and Skaguay. She brings down one
miner from Juneau who is disgusted
with the outlook for getting to the gold
fields this fall. Her cattle and horses
were lauded safely, but American cus
toni s othcials charged a duty of 5U on
each horse.
On the way down the Capilano spoke
the steamer Bristol and the stern wheeler
Eugene, which left Victoria last week, at
Alert bay. The Eugene commenced leak
ine soon after leaving Union, where it
will be remembered she was seized by
customs regulations, but got away by
cutting her hawser. It took tbe Bristol
twenty-four hours to tow the Eugene
back to Alert bay. An attempt is being
made to patch her up, but the passen
gers ret use to travel on ner. iney
wanted to charter the Capilano, but as
she had a passenger for Vancouver Cap
tain Powis was unable to assist them.
He spoke the steamer Tees of Victoria
mm
Absolutely Pure.
Celebrated for its great leavening strength aud"
bealthfulness. Assures tbe food against alum
and all forms of adulteration common to tbe
cheap brands.
Royal Bakinu Fowdrr Co. Kkw York.
on the way down and doubtless she will
go to their assistance.
The Capilona brings no news of im
portance from tbe north. The crush at
Dyea and Skaguay is as great as ever
and many disheartened people are daily
turning back.
BLOWN ON A REEF.
American Gnnboat Castlne Grounds
Near. Montevideo.
New York, Sept. 6. A dispatch to
the Herald from Montevideo eays ;
The United States gunboat Castine,
which has bgen stationed in these waters
for some time, ran aground yesterday
outside the bay during ajheavy wind.
The vessel was unable to pull away, and
the steamers Plata and Republica fin
ally went to her assistance. The Cas
tine, with their aid, cleared tbe reef and
was towed into the bay. Jnet what
damage was done to the ganboat is not
known, but au examination is now be
ing mads.
The gunboat Lancaster sailed yester
day from Montevideo for Rio de Janeiro
and Babia. She will then proceed to-
Boston.
Jose Dolores Rodriguez, minister of
the Greater Republic of Central America
to tbe United States, who is now in Cen
tral America, has cabled the following
statement to the Herald regarding the
assertion that Japan has been treat-
ng with the diet for control of the
Nicaragua canal project :
"You may positively say that Japan
has made to us no overtures in reference
to a canal concession."
E UICHirOCUTKM EXCITEMENT.
Wonderful Strikes Reported from the
New Fields.
Detroit, Mich., Sept. 6. A special
was received today by the evening
News from Wa Wa City, a newly laid-
outcity In theMichipocoten gold country,
on Like Wa Wa, Ontario. The embryo
town is located in a narrow pass which
leads to Lake Wa Wa from the landing,
place on the shore of Lake Superior,
which is but 'six miles from the gold
discoveries. Tbe special eays :
Quartz has been found here that as
says over $300 a ton. It is found not in
one section, but in different places, ex
tending over several thousand acres.
Quartz has been found here containing
free gold in chunks as big as kernels of
wheat. Prospectors every day are find
ing specimens that assay $50 to the ton.
"Probably 100 men are today working
in the hills. AnotHer party of sixty
five reached here yesterday afternoon.
Several thousand acres have already
been claimed, but there are all . kinds of
disputes about the priority ofclaims.
The country where the discoveries were
made has never been opened for settle
ment. The only inhabitants about are
Indians and Hudson Bay traders, and
they are few.
Decides Against the Government.
New York, Sept. 6. A dispatch to
the Tribune from Washington says:
Tbe report of Perry Heath, first as
sistant postmaster-general, acting aa
referee in the controversy between the
Western Union Telegraph Company and
the federal government has been filed in
the court of claims, though it has not
yet been officially made public.
The report sustains tbe telegraph com
pany's claim to a just compensation for
services performed from 18S9 to 1893,
which Postmaster-Generals Wanamaker
and Bissel, as may be remembered, re
peatedly refused to allow. The court is
expected to approve the report, and it it
is a fact it will be promptly certified to
by the department. The latter will then
submit tbe matter to congress.
Before the amount can be paid an ap
propriation will, of course, have to be
passed. Tbe amount involved is over a
quarter of a million dollars.
Seth Low Accepts.
' Northeast Habbor. Me., Sept. 3.
Seth Lew has signified his acceptance of
the nomination as mayor of Greater New
Yok. .