THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1897.
The Weekly Ghf oniele.
COUNTY OFFICIALS. .
County Judge. Robt. Mays
bheriff. T. J. Driver
Clerk A M. Kelsav
Treasurer : C. L. Phillips
Commissioners D.B. Kimscy
Assessor W. II. Whipple
Surveyor J. B. licit
Superintendent of Public Schools... C. L. Gilbert
Coroner W. H. Butts
BTATK OFFICIALS.
Bjvernoi W. P. Lord
Secretary ol State HE Kincaid
Treasurer Phillip Metschan
Bupt-of Public Instruction G. M. Irwin
Attorney-General C. M. Idleman
I a.
JJ.'H. MitcheU
ii 'TT
B Herman
W. B. Ellis
State Printer.,
..VW. H. Leeds
Weekly Clubbing; Kates.
Chronicle and Oregonian $2 25
Chronicle and Examiner 2 25
Chronicle and Tribune 1 75
Chronicle and N. Y. World 2 00
COST OF GETTING. GOLD.
It costs ninet' cents to produce
every dollar's worth of gold mined
in California last year. To be pre
cise in figures, the value of the ore
mined was $13,909,529 and the cost
of getting it $12,500,555.
This statement is quoted fiom an
article in the New York Mail and
Express by a writer who evidently
knew what be was writing about!
And he produced other statistics
corroborative of this paper's claic
that gold mining is not all profit. It
coJt $3.05 in Alabama and $5.56 in
Wyoming to produce a dollar of
bullion from the mines. In Colo
rado the total mined was $23,000,000
in round numbers at a cost of $13,
500,000, so that it cost fifty ceuts
there to mine a dollar of bullion. In
Montana the cost was forty five
cents. Ic 1890 the total gold and
silver mined in this country was
$99,2S3,752, and the capital invested
was 8480.323,338, or $4.90 of capi
tal for every dollar of bullion pro
duced. Putting it in another way
there was onlj' twenty cents of bull
ion produced for even dollar of
capital. The totai expenditures in
mining this sum was $63,451,136.
The amount of expense per dollar of
bullion gold and silver was 64 cents.
More than 3000 mines produced less
than $10,000 each. Only twenty.
eight mines of the 6000 produced
over a half a million each; fewer
than fifty produced between $250,-
000 and $500,000. It is estimated
that 1000 non-profit-producing mines
were worked last year, and that there
were 12G6 idle or abandoned, Cali
forni:i has now first place in gold
production, but Colorado is close
behind, and the two produce an ag
gregate of $27,000,000 of gold per
year, California being about $1,000,
000 ahead of Colorado. The total
production now in this country aver
ages about $35,000,000 a year, al
though last year the production was
$46,610,000.
There is 2old in Alaska and
British Columbia untold billions of
it. But when the quantity taken out
is compared with the cost of getting
it ou.t, the showing will carry with it
more significance than attends the
bare statement of the output.
The London Spectator says that
the American politicians have in
sulted England. That if a man in
sults another once, he may ignore it.
but tbe second time the only thing
to do is .to "knock him down." It
then gravely goes on tdj intima
that if we "do it again," we will "get
knocked don." Of course that
may be possible, but England must
remember that she has attempted the
knocking down plan twice, with re
sults not satisfactory t3 herself. She
should remember, also, that in "all
her wars she has, never yet, single
banded, whipped a civilized nation.
England has bit this oouctry some
pretty severe blows, and can and will
continue to do so, but .sue never
strikes above the pockets.
The Oregonian thinks the con
gressional delegation made a mistake
in not making their recommenda
tions with regard to the federal ap
pointments in this state before they
left Washington. This may possibly
be true, but whether it is or not, at
least by coming heme the delegation
had one advantage, and thst is that
it was enabled to consult with the
Republican party through its leaders,
Dearly every prominent Republican
in the state having called upon them.
They must have a pretty good idea
of whom the leaders of the party, at
leastt desire to see get the offices.
There was no mistake about this.
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP,
Governmental drift is unmistaka
bly in the direction of public owner
ship of street railways and electric
lights. The best governed city on
earth, Glasgow, owns the street rail
ways, and since it acquired them the
benefits have been so numerous and
palpable that opposition has quite
vanished. Since Glasgow took its
street railways in 1894 fares have
been reduced about 33 per cent, and
the service has been improved' until
it is conceded that the tramways of
that city are the finest undertaking
of the kind in the country.
The change has proved profitable
as well as Denenciai to me rining
public. In spite of the reduction in
fares, for the year ending1 June 1.
1896, there was a clear profit to the
city of $213,000 above operating
cost and all fixed charges, interest,
taxes and depreciation.
It hos been said by the opponents
of municipal ownership of the street
railways that what Glasgow has done
cannot be successfully imitated in
this country, and the only argument
brought forward to support that con
tention is the bare assertion that tbe
American people are incapable of
stlf-government. It is the old tory
plea, raised In 1776 when the patriot
forces were striking for liberty.
The drift is stiong toward public
ownership of all such public or quasi
public monopolies. The cruder the
government, the greater the monopo
listic powers surrendered to private
corporations. Time was when even
the military power was out of the
hands of the people, and they were
compelled to seek protection for life
and- property beneath the feudal
standards of baronial captains. To
these barons the masses paid enor
mous tribute, and out of this tribute
the feudal lords supported their fol
lowing of men alarms.
There was resistance then to the
demands of the people, and there is
resistance now. Always men are re
luctant to yield sources of power and
profit. Cities which have wrested
their waterworks from private owner
ship have done so only after a severe j
struggle. A like struggle must pre
cede the public acquisition of the
street railways.
Mr. F. A. Carle, who for eight
years has been managing editor of
the Oregonian, has severed his con
nection with that paper and goes to
New York to take editorial charge
of the Commercial Advertiser. Of
Mr. Carle's abilitv as a writer there
is no doubt, and yet his departure
from Oregon is Oregon's gain. Carle
is evidently a dyspeptic, and his
work shows it. He has peihaps said
more uncalled for and unnecessarily
unkind things of and concerning Or
egonians than the balance of tbe
Oregon editors. At least, we have
been given to understand that Mr.
Carle was tbe author ot the articles
to which we allude. We hope along
side of Buttermilk channel he may
find a new cook, and take, in conse
quence, a brighter view of life.
This being the first Monday in
September is a legal holiday, and
known as Labor day. It was ob
served here in the way other labor
dajs are, everybody who had any
thing to do doing it. In Mexico it
is said every day is a holiday of
some kind; but with Americans holi
days are, and always will be scarce.
There is too much activity, too much
rush after tbe almighty dollar, to
permit the fooling away of a whole
day. Christmas, New Year, July
Fourth, Thanksgiving, these old
stand-bys will always be observed,
as will the modern Memorial day;
but Arbor day, Labor day and the
other recent holiday attempts, will
never be generally kept.
The trial of Leutgert, the Chicago
sausage-maker, who is accused of
murdering his ' wife, is attracting a
great deal of attention. The charge
against Leutgert is that he killed his
wife and then destroyed the body by
putting it in a vat in a bath of caus
tic potash, by which it was entirely
consumed. The evidence is entirely
circumstantial, though it is said
Leutgert was desirous of getting rid
of his wife, and had threatened to
kill her. If she was killed, the body
has never been found ; bat the pros
ecution rely largely on the fact that
the rings belonging to Mrs. Leutgert
were found in the vat.
A recent cheap-John book on
Alaska, published by F. Tennyson
Neely of London and New York,
Contains ' tbe largest amount of mis
information ever condensed into the
same space. Its author does not
even know the mining laws, but
gives quartz locations 1500 .feet on
each side of the center of the vein.
One of the brilliant things is this :
"The Alaskan rivers and streams
produce a variety of edible fish, of
which the salmon is king, and after
the exhaustion of the Columbia river
the canning of this noble fish 'in
Alaska received i gieat impetus."
If the writer could visit Astoria and
see, even this year, which is an off
one, the thousands of cases of salmon
vainly seeking a market, he might
wonder how he came'to imagine the
"Columbia river was exhausted
It he could visit Celilo and the
rapids this side next month, and see
the fall run of salmon fighting their
way up; could he see Taffe's fishery,
where the salmon are chased into a
box with a club at the rate of from
ten to twenty tons a day, he might
change his opinion with regard to
the salmon being extinct in the
grand old Columbia. The balance
of the book sizes up with the part
quoted. '
The names selected for recom
mendation for the federal offices in
Oregon are not satisfactory to every
body. That follows, of course, fori
each of the applicants bad his co-
terie of friends whoaie disappointed.
After all it is largely, a question of
"which coterie shall be disap)K)i til
ed ?" The side-tracking of Timothy
T. Geer is liable to cause trouble,
and those who know him best say
he will not accept the position of
register of the U. S. land office at
Oregon City. Mr. Geer is well up
in the front rank of Oregon politi
cians, and by refusing the office
offered him he will be in position to
make a fight for the position now
held by Mr. Tongue. The latter
gentleman should have insisted on
Geer's appointment, if it took all
summer, for with him out of the
way, the chance for re nomination is
good; otherwise not.
Europe wants horses for her armies,
and must have them. Some time
ago the French government sent an
army officer to the United States to
learn how far a supply could be
drawn from this country for the
French cavalry and artillerj', and
the report was most favorable to
American breeding and the abund
ant supply. With Japan willing to
take bronchoes of the gieat western
ranges for army purpeses, and the
fighting nations of Europe looking
this way in search of high-bred
horses for their cavalry forces, Sec
retary SVilson is justified in tbe hope
of being able to establish through the
department of agriculture a foreign
market for the American horse,
whose value in the home market has
suffered a sharp decline through com
petition with electricity as a motor
in recent years. Oregonian.
It is Geer versus Patterson in the
race for the collector of customs ap
pointment in Portland, with the tall
agriculturist in the lead. At Salem
the fight has taken the shape of a
petition in favor of Mr. Geer's ap
pointment, and according to the re
turns, out of 126 business men to
whom the petition was presented,
105 signed it, while of the twenty-
ohe refusing, only four favored Pat
terson. The ramifications of a
political squabble are as intricate
and uncertain as quartz stringers in
trap-roek. From present indica
tions Mr. Geer will get into the offi
cial harness.
Those who left Portland in July
for the Klondike, and who are now
preparing to winter in Juneau, real
ize that in some things it is better to
"make haste slowly;" that "the race
is not always to the swift," and that,
taking St. Michaels and tbe open
Yukon into consideration, "the far
thest way round is the shortest way
across." Some other homely prov-
erbs may suggest themselves daring
the long winter months. For in
stance: "All that glisters is not
gold;" "Cows far off wear long
horns," and dozens of others.
The Klondike excitement is al
ready presenting Its tragical side.
A letter received recently from Ju
neau tells of a party of seven cross
ing to Skaguay in a smalll boat,
which upset and four of its passen
gers were drowned. At Portland
Mrs. J. J. Carscadden has brooded
over her husband's exposure on the
Skaguay trail until she has gone
crazy. these are but tbe forerun
ners of hundreds of tragic and sor
rowful things, the result of the gold
craze.
A wild Alaskan, writing from that
land of promise, says: "Dogs are
worth their" weight in gold. A good
long-haired dog sells for from $150
to $200." Alaska gold is worth $15
an ounce, so it seems that a good
long-haired dog would weigh from
ten to thirteen ounces. There is a
wide range of variance in an Alaska
story, whether it is concerning gold
or dogs.
Silver is going down and lead is
going up, being now higher -than for
several years. Wonder if those
blasted sold bugs are not booming
lead just as a slam at silver? It
ma' be that the price of lead has
teen affected by Japan's abnormal
appetite in desiring to swallow the
Hawaiian islands and the Nicaragua
canal.
The New York World prints a list
of the coal mining states with amount
of product, and shows that if the
I iirnnoitinn if, inprAnsA thp rat.M rtnirl
I -w - i
for mining coal if carried put by the
operators, it wi.l give the miners ad
ditional wages amountiug to $13,-
442.197. Pennsylvania miners would
receive more than $5,000,000 of this
sum.
The mining situation in the East
gives no sign of change, other than
the offer on the part of the operators
to concede part of the miners' de
mands. The latter, however, refuse
to consider anj'thing less than a 69-cent-a-ton
rate. This the operators
will not concede, and so the fight
goes merrily on.
Mr. E. B. Piper, who for several
years has held the position of city
editor on the Oregonian, has gone to
Seattle to take charge of the Post
Intelligencer. As Mr. Carle has
also severed his connection with that
paper, there is to be a decided change
in the editorial staff.
The Afiidis, the wild tribes of In
dia that recently captured the Khiber
pass, are starting in to celebrate the
queen's jubilee a little late; but they
are putting lots of enthusiasm into
the effort.
Senor Sagasta thinks he could
march a Spanish army from Bostpn
to California. Perhaps he could, but
before they got across they would be
"walking Spanish."
England threatens, under certain
conditions, to keep her gold. This
threat is easily made, but when she
gets hungry she will have to part
with her gold, or its equivalent.
Hood Klver Fruit fair.
Hood River is going to have a fruit
fair Wednesday and Thursday, October
6th and 7th. Committees have been ap
pointed, arrangements made for reduced
fares on the boat and railway lines, and
it is going to be a success. The fruit
fair in Hood River eome four or five
years ago was a surprise even to tbe
people of Hood River, and we believe
that tbe finest exhibit, of tbe size, of
apples ever made in the world was made
there and then. The fair this fall
should show at least as fine a eelection
and we advise all fruit growers of Hood
River-valley to take an interest in the
matter. It is bread thrown upon the
waters in the shape of advertising, and
it will return ere many days.
A Good Cup ot Coffee.
ia tbe beBt part of a good breakfast.
Some people spend money extravagantly
on high-priced coffee and are even then
frequently disEappointed in their bever
age. Some women can take a tin can
and some dried sunflower leaves and
make good coffee. With our Imperial
Boss Coffee Pot any woman can, with
common coffee, make a good cap of
coffee. Agents wanted, both eexea. Cir
culars free. Write the TJ. S. Novelty
Mfg. Co., 1517 Olive Street, St. Louis,
Mo.
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A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
A Friend Fay a Tribute to the Late
Mary C. Bills.
When a life that has been so long be
fore 08, almost coeval with tbe length
of the century ia closed, it ia fitting that
we should give it more than a passing
notice. - - -" "
Mary C. Bills wae born in Prussian
Germany in 1804. She was a happy
little girl, playing among tbe bills of
fatherland unconscious of tbe great
events then transpiring around her con
vulsing a continent, and filling history's
pages since to overflowing. She was
too young to care much personally when
Queen Luise, the beloved, made her ap
peal for the preservation of her threat
ened country, to the ruthless power that
was then overthrowing thrones' and
kingdoms, and setting up others in their
places. But she was not too young to
remember when her father came home
and said : "All must now,' arm for the
defense of their . country." "I, too,
father?" she asked. "Yes, you too, if I
conld only make a man of you." The
closing scene of the battle of Waterloo
was a vivid memory to her as the fugi
tives fled from the bloody field, bearing
such news as they might in that news
paperless age.
She lived the greater part of her long
life in her adopted country, America,
but never did her tongue learn any bat
the taik of fatherland. Her German
Bible was her constant companion ; it's
precepts the daily rule of her life. She
was left a widow at the age of 23, with
two daughters, one of whom is now liv
ing In Wisconsin. Tbe other, who mar
ried a man of the same name as herself,
and a distant relative, is buried in' Sun
set cemetery.
Mrs. Bills was a woman of great phy
sical and mental vigor. Ninety years
had not power to bend her erect and
graceful form, or make clumsy the move
ments which her active temperament
made natural. She had great personal
beauty, to which age and death could
only add a holy majesty. She went out
over the harbor bar, the Savior, whose
devoted and life-long follower she had
been, was her pilot, to the rest that re-
maineth for the children of God. How
rich was her life in that love, which is
confessedly, "The greatest thing in the
world."
The grandchildren of Mrs. Bills are:
Mrs. Brittain, N. J. Bills, dead, Mrs.
De'nsmore, with whom was her home,
Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Louise Wyndhan and
Jacob Bills of California, Christopher
Bills of Idaho, and Henrv A. Bills of
The Dalles.
History. .
Many people think Appomattox
marked the end of the war, as Sumter
did its beginning. As a matter of fact,
the war did not end officially nntil Aug.
20, 1886, when President Johnson issued
a proclamation announcing that tbe war
was at an end, and that peace, order and
tranquility and civil antbority existed
in all the states.. While Lee's sur
render was not the end of the war, it was
the beginning of tbe end. Johnson sur
rendered on April 26, "Dick" Taylor on
May 4th and Kirby Smith not until May
2Ctb. On May 13th, more than a month
after Lee's surrender, a sharp fight took
place at Palmetto ranch, in Texas, which
is called by Jefferson Davis and other
authorities the last battle of the war.
The commander of the Union troops,
mostly colored, says in his report :
"The last volley of the war, it is be
lieved, was fired by tbe Sixty-second
United States Colored Infantry, about
sunset on May 13, between White's
ranch and tbe Boca Chica, Texas."
In this fight, which took place on tbe
American Bide of the Rio Grande river,
the Mexican Imperialist sent over a
body of cavalry, which aided the con
federates in their last and successful at
tack. On June 13th Tennessee was de
clared at peace; Jane 23 the blockade
was raised: Julv 22d. Grant made his
'last official report ; Aprrf 2, 1866, pro
clamation that Georgia, South Carolina,
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missis
sippi and Florida are tranquil, issued by
the president. Ang. 20, 1866, war offic
ially declared ended. The latter date
was in 1867 fixed by congress as the of
ficial and legal date of the close of the
war.
A. Jj. Mohler Is the President.
At the meeting of the new board of
directors of the O. R. & N., held at Port
land Friday afternoon, A. S. Heidel
bacb, of New York, was elected chair
man of tbe board.
A.' L. Mohler was elected president.
The executive board, as selected, con
sists of A. S. Ueidelbacb, William G.
Boll, Edward D. Adams, Charles S. Cos
ter, W. G. Oakmau and Samuel Carr.
One of the most satisfactory results of
the meeting was the declaring of a divi
dend of one per cent on preferred stock,
payable October 1st.
The new board of directors, as elected
Friday has five new names on it that
replace that number dropped. Tbe old
directors supplanted are E. McNeill,
Charles S. Fairchiid, John Crosby
Brown, W.E.Glin and Francis S. Bangs,
all of New York except Mr. McNeill.
A Beet Sugar factory.
Henry Weinhard, E. C. Hockopfell
and W. W. Boag have incorporated a
company at Portland with $750,000 capi
tal for the purpose of making and refin
ing sugar, syrups, glucoee, etc., from
beets, etc. It is intended to erect and
operate a factory on a large ecale with
tbe capacity to nse all the sugar beets
which can be raised or secured. There
will be no question about tbe money
being put ap, as Mr. Weinhard is one of
the strongest men financially in the
city, and his well known enterprise and .
liberality is a guarantee that the pro
ject will be poshed to a consummation,
says the Portland Tribune, which fails
to state where the enterprise is to be
located.
A FRUITFUL FIELD.
Christian Associations Tarn Their At
tention to College Students.
Many new students will enter the col
leges of Oregon this fall. Many of them
will have to go some distance from home
and among total strangers, but the
Young Men's and Young Women's
Christian Associations in all these in
stitutions will give them not only a warm
welcome, but alBo all the assistance in
tbeir power. To this end they issue in
the larger colleges, hand books contain
ing brief and indispensible information
concerning the college and its vicinity.
They also establish information bureaus
where aid in securing rooms and board
is given free. Then in order to remove
whatever feeling of homesickness
may still linger in the Freshman's
breast, a reception is given to the whole
entering class bv the two associations.
No obligation is incorred by accepting
these services, but all men and women
who believe in the value and need of
Christian work for students by students
are given an opportunity to join one of
the associations. Their principal lines
of work are Bible and mission classes
and regular religious meetings.
Tbe college Christian associations are
now a potent factor in tbe life of the
colleges of the United States, numbering
as they do over 800, with a membership
of over 45,000. Tbe organization is
spreading rapidly through the univer
sities of Europe, China, Japan, India
and even Brazil. Thus the associations
in Oregon are bat a part of a growing
international movement, wisely directed
and heartily supported.
In order to secure the hand book or
obtain information, either about the
University of Oregon or the local asso
ciations, parents, pastors and prospect
ive students, ehould address one of the
following associations: Y. M. C. A., or
Y. W. C. A., Eugene, Or.
The high Btanding of these beneficent
organizations is evinced by the follow
ing: I cordially commend to all who are
interested in education the labors of
the Young Men's and Young Women's
Christian Associations, in behalf of
students. In this university they have
heen a conservative and regenerating
torce of the highest value. They are
worthy of all confidence and their zeal
deserves the warmest praise.
C. H. Chapman.
A Wife's Obligations.
Under the law of California a wife can
be compelled to support her husband,
says the Boston Woman's Journal. This
point was established recently by a de
cision rendered by Justice Temple, of
the supreme court, concurred in by Jus
tices Hensbaw and Van Fleet and Chief
Justice Beattv. The circumstances on
which this decision was made were pe
culiar.
In Los Angeles county there Jive an'
aged couple named Livingston. The
wife, Mrs. Mary A. Livingston, has
reached tbe mature age of 70 years, and
her hnsband, Samuel W., is even older
than his wife. In fact, he is so aged as
to be infirm and unable to support him
self. Some time ago the wife deserted
her hnsbend, and he was lett as helpless
as a baby. In their more prosperous
days the wife always carried the bank
book, and, furthermore, she had money
in ber own right.
After the old woman deserted tbe old
man he sued her for maintenance, and
won the suit, tbe supreme court of Los
Angeles county ordering Mrs. Livingston
to pay her husband a monthly allow
ance of $24. She at once transferred all
of ber property to ber daughter, so as to
avoid the execution of the order. She
was cited to appear and show cause why
she should not be punished for con
tempt. The contempt proceedings re
sulted in her being committed to prison
until such a time as she would comply
with the order of tbe conrt. From that
judgment she appealed to the supreme
court, and the judgment has been
affirmed.
A Rich Treat Is Fromlsed.
To the Oregon State Fair for 1897,
September 30th to October 8th the
Southern Pacific will eell tickets at one
fare rates for ronnd trip from all points
on their lines in Oregon.
Yon will be entertained from morning
nntil night. No time to rest. Liberal
prizes offered for all kinds of eporte,
such as baseball, tug-of-war, chopping
contests, foot races, hammer throw,
shot put, and various other sports in
in charge of a competent committee.
Don't overlook the date and the ebeap
railroad rate of on fare for tbe -round
trip.
Popular admission ol zo cents.
The Vale Advocate says that in the
canyon of the Malheur there is a small
active animal unlike anything described
in the natural histories. By people liv
ing on the Malheur it is called a "rocket
cat," although it is very nnlike the com
mon stabtail wild cat, of which there
are many in the country.