THE DALLES WEEKLY. CHRONICLE, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1897.
The Weekly Ghfoniele
COUNTY OFHC1AXB.
County Judge. Robt. Mays
(Sheriff. ........ T.J. Driver
Clerk A M. Kelsnr
Treasurer... : C. L. FhiUips
J A. . mowers
Commissioners . ID. B. Kimsey
Assessor W. H. Whipple
Surveyor . . ..J. B. iolt
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .C. L. Gilbert
Coroner..... w. M. Buns
STATE OFFICIALS.
Sovernor W. P. Lord
Secretary o! State ? H R Klncaid
Treasurer Phillip Metschan
Bupt. of Pnblic Instruction 6. M. Irwin
Attorney-General C. M. Idleman
0 . G. W. McBride
Btnators J.:H. Mitchell
Congressmen.
I B Hermann
JW. R. Ellis
8Ute Printer. W. H. Leeds
Weekly ClubblDs; Kate.
Chronicle and Oregonian. . $2 25
Chronicle and Examiner 2 25
Chronicle and Tribune 1 75
Chronicle and N. Y. World 2 00
Under the title "Of Interest to
Women" the Telegram yesterday
printed quite a lengthy description
of Mrs. John Sherman. - It describes
her as being wonderfully beautiful, a
born aristocrat, a gentle "grande
dame." And then it indulges in
dissertation upon the aristocratic
lineage of the Sherman family, and
shows how. this line of blue-blood
crops out in Mrs. Sherman. The
writer did not take into considera
tion the fact that Mrs. Sherman only
belongs to the Sherman family by
marriage. So, as far as the Sherman
blue blue showing in her aristocratic
bearing is concerned, she must have
caught, since she did not inherit it,
But more likely than all is the theory
that the silly twaddler who wrote the
trash never saw Mrs. Sherman.
-Hon. T. T. Geer has not yet de
cided upon the matter of acceptin
the appointment of register of the
land office at' Oregon City. He feels
that he has not been fairly treated,
but says be will act upon the advice
of friends who now have the matter
under consideration. It should not
take Mr. Geer long to decide. The
office is worth $3000 a year, and
there are plenty who will if he won't.
Ot course Mr. Geer recognizes the
fact that an acceptance of the office
retires him from politics for four
years; but at the same time there are
lots of people who would like to be
retired under the same circumstances.
La Grande is to have a beet sugar
factory with a capacity of 500 tons
of beets a day. A Portland com
pany has been organized with a cap
ital stock of $500,000 to put up the
p'ant, and La Giande gives a bonus
of $100,000 and sixty acres of land.
The company contracts to take for
five years the beets from 3000 acres.
We congratulate La Grande on her
success, the legitimate result of ener
getic work, and hence we do not say
good fortune. She deserved suc
cess, and we hope that her beet
sujar factory may be but the fore
runner of many other manufacturing
industries.
An old lady living in Paris owned
la cat. Being about to die, by her
will she left the cat to the district
municipality, with the sum of 10,000
francs to pay for its care, and a pro
vision that upon its death the 10,000
francs shculd become the properly
of the district. And yet that cat
lived five years after the death of its
. mistress, dying a short time ago at
the age of 16 years. In m Ameri
can city it would have died inside of
a week.
Something new in the line of
strikes occurred at Danville, Illinois,
not long ago. The city contained
forty two licensed saloons. These
petitioned the city council to reduce
the license from $800 to $600 a
year. The council refused and next
day the saloon keepers struck and
not a saloon opened it's doors. The
result of this strike is awaited by
many Danvillites, but not with
"baited breath."
Reports from Ireland are to the
effect that crop conditions are worse
than since the famine year of 1847.
The potato crop is almost a total
failure, and it is said that unless as
sistance is furnishei this winter,
much, suffering will ensue. It re
mains to be seen if England will be
as cold-blooded towards her Irish
subjects as she has been towards
those in India.
Yellow fever has broken out in
the' South, two cases being reported
at Ocean Wave and one at New Or
leans. Fortunately science has found
the cause of this disease, and is able
to battle with it successfully. Twenty
vears asro this news would have
caused the gravest nlarn .. Now civ
ilization meets that scourge and
conquers it.
WHAT M'COY IS IT7 ..
The Alaska Klondike Mining and
Transportation Company is receiving
some very good advertising at the
hands of the Oregonian. A few days
ago its manifesto was published in
the Oregonian's news column, and
yesterday the scheme was further
called to the attention of the anxious
public by a column article, fully il
lustrated. The scheme, in brief, is
to load a river boat on the deck of
an ocean steamer, go to the mouth
of the Yukon, and there launch the
river boat. Applicants for transpor
tation on the first trip are required
to put up three hundred dollars
when their application is made, and
thus make secure the right to the
best the dual ships will afford.
The genius who has devised this
wonderful and "sure thing" scheme
is one Geo. W. McCoy. This name
calls to mind the man whose great
financial ability created the Western
Land, Irrigation, Lumber & Fuel Co.,
The Portland Land, Irrigation, Lum
ber & Fuel Co., The Clinton & Mc
Coy Company, and made the Wa-
pimtia ditch famous. Can it be
that this McCoy whom the Orego
nian is giving so much free adver
tisiog is the same McCoy who. by
means of these several long, big-
sounding corporate names, buncoed
the laborers who worked on the Wa
pinitia ditch, and many 'other credit
ors m this locality, out or tneir
money ? who was arrested and kept
in jail at The Dalles during the sum
mer of 1896 on a charge of obtaining
money under raise pretenses, ana
whom the sheriff of this county
saved from a crowd or sixty or
seventy justly indignant laborers
who called at the jail with lynching
intent? The laborers were deterred
in their purpose by a determined
sheriff and a Colts revolver, and
hence it is possible that that McCoy
is the same man whose scheme the
Oregonian is now advertising, and
were it not for the fact that this
greatest journal of the Northwest
would surely not be a party to any
scheme which the aforesaid McCoy
of Wapinitia ditch fame would ori
ginate, the similarity in the name of
the man and the long and big;sound-
ing corporate name of this Klondike
company would lead to the conclu
sion that it is the same fellow.
We would suggest to the Orego-
niac that il investigate the history of
this Alaska-Klondike Transportation
McCoy, and if he should proye to be
the Western Land, Irrigation, Lum
ber & Fuel Co.'s McCoy, that xt
warn I he public to have nothing to
do with his scheme. It would there-
by possibly prevent some eastern
tenderfoot being "done up" to the
extent of three hundred dollars. At
all events, we wish the Oregonian
would inform us whether their . Mc
Coy is the Geo. W. McCoy whose
very short neck Sheriff Driver saved
from being stretched.
PA LOUSE AND WASCO.
Reports from the Palouse country
as to the damage done by the early
rains arc very discouraging. Not
more than thirty per cent of the
grain is cut, and it is estimated that
the damage now done is between
twenty and thirty per cent One
means by which farmers have lost
considerable is the desire to thrash
bound grain from the shock to save
the expense of stacking. Owing to
the scarcity of threshing machines
much of this grain, which could have
been stacked and thus saved from
the rain, is now standing in the stock
and is being badly damaged. Around
Garfield and Pullman the farmers
express themselves as being discour
aged in view of the gloomy outlook.
At Tekoa, it is said, the outlook is
probably the worst, as there is very
little fall grain and the spring grain
is very late and green. "It will take
much dry, warm weather to ripen
the spring grain in time to cnt be
fore it is' injured by frost." One
merchant at Tekoa has said that un-
der the "most favorable conditions
one half the crop near that place
would be lost.
We trust these reports may; be
overdrawn and that the situation is
not as dark as pictured. The clear
skies now smiling on Eastern Ore
gon are undoubtedly looking down on
the Big Bend country as well and
dispelling the anxious looks of the
waiting farmers. A few days of
bright sunshine will do wonders in
reviving the hopes of everyone in
terested in the harvesting of a large
crop, and we believe the next re
ports rill be -of a more cheering
nature.
At the same lime, while sympa
thizing with our neighbois anxieties,
we cannot help remarking how fa
vored is this section in which we
live. Waseo and Sherman counties
have produced crops satisfying to
the most exacting; threatening
clouds have passed away; harvesting
is in full blast, with work for all who
want it at remunerative wages; the
wheat market is advancing, while the
conditions for fall sowing are of the
best. Truly we are blessed this j ear
in the fullest measure, and it is fitting
that we rejoice while we may. ,
THE DELEGATION'S WORK.
The Chronicle has listened with
patience to what has been said pro
and con about the recommendations
made by the Oregon delegation for
federal appointments, and with due
regard to the feelings of defeated
candidates and their friends, we
have little doubt but that the recom
mendations made are as satisfactory
as any that could hive been named.
Wasco county naturally feels disap
pointed because its candidate for
United Slttes marshal. Sheriff Driver,
did not receive the plum, as Driver
had strong indorsements, not only
at home, but in all parts of the state.
However, the gentleman selected,
Sheriff Houser of Umatilla county,
is undoubtedly well qualified for the
position, and bails from a - central
place in Eastern Oregon. Locally
his appointment, when individual
feelings are lain aside, can be called
satisfactory.
The appointment of JoLn II. Hall
of Portland to be United States at
torney probably gives more satisfac
tion than any on the list. There
were many worthy men seeking this
favored office, but among. them all
Mr. Hall ranks with the first as a
good lawyer and a Republican. His
genial qualities have made him hosts
of friends, and Eastern Oregon has
cause to remember him gratefully
for many special favors shown while
a member of the legislature from
Multnomah county.
Of Col. Summers, the gentleman
named for appraiser of the port of
Portland, we know very little, but as
be was the candidate of the Grand
Army for the marshalship, his recog
nition was no doubt a wise move.
A great effort has been made to
make it appear that great injustice
has been done Hon. T. T. Geer of
Marion county, who was an aspirant
for thecollestorship; but it would be
well to bear in mind that there were
certain circumstances, which needed
to be taken into consideration in
making a recommendation tor this
important office, It is true that a
large petition, bearing signatures
from all portions of the state, re
quested that Thomas J. Black, the
present collector of customs, be re
tained in office as a recognition of
the sound money Democrats, and it
must be conceded that the men who
threw aside their party ti ad it ions and
aided so effectively in carrying Ore
gon fot McKinley, are entitled to
substantial recognition. Without
their assistance the tables might have
been turned the other way. It is
possible the delegation is taking this
view of the matter, and that Mr.
Black is to be retained in office, and
tbis being so, Mr. Geer was tendered
the registership at Oregon City as
the best position vacant. Mr. Geer
undoubtedly understands the situa
tion and will accept the favor shown
him as the best the circumstances
could offer. His .friends, which are
many in all parts of the state, need
not worry as to him being side
tracked, as there is "no disposition on
the part of the Republican leaders to
adopt any such course, nor would it
be successful if attempted Mr.
Geer is a man of .too much worth
and ability to be anywhere but in
the front rank of Oregon statesmen,
and the people have yet further need
of him in positions of honor and
trust.
TakiDg a fair view of the situation,
it would seem that the delegation,
under the unusual complications that
have arisen, has doue its work wisely
and is entitled to the credit of loyal
Republicans for seeking to promote
the public, welfare. We do not be
lieve that the re-appointment of
Grady and Murphy is anything but
a temporary expedient, and feel
assured that President McKinley will
adopt the recommendations made
by the delegation. This re-appoint
ment of Grady and Murphy we take
to be nothing else than a graceful
recognition of the sound money
Democrats of Oregon, as these men
were open repudiators of the doc
trines advanced by Bryan and his
followers.
With wheat hovering around the
dollar mark and plenty of it; with
cattle, sheep, and all kind of live
stock selling at increased prices; with
labor finding employment with
greater ease; factories opening; rail
roads beginning to pay dividends,
and securities strengthening, what a
contrast the United States presents
now to what it did under the Demo
cratic free trade administration of
Grover Cleveland. Is not the Re
publican party justified by works as
well as faith? If fairly answered the
question can only be decided in the
affirmative.
Already numerous candidates are
seeking to succeed Sheriff Houser of
Umatilla county. Houser received
the delegation's recommendation for
the United States marshalship, and
it may be suggested, in view of the
re appointment of Grady by Justice
Field, that the Umatilla county pa.
triots are slightly premature. In
tbis year of wonders many things
may happen before - Houser is suffi
ciently at home in the marshal's
office to receive his couDtry friends.
At Pomona, California, last week
a mosquito stung David Pierce back
of his left ear. He ptid no atten
tion to it at the time, but the next
day the tiny wound became painful,
and in two days Pierce's head was
swollen nearly to bursting, and for
two days he was unconscious and ex
pected to die. The mosquito was
evidently one from the Klondike.
The United States may not have a
very large navy, but its warships
are numerous enough that one runs
aground, is blown ashore or smashes
some other vessel every day. The
Castine was the latest to distinguish
herself in this way, running aground
in the bay of Montevideo.
Professor Andree has hot been
heard from since he started for tbe4
pole. Tbis fact indicates that he
must be visiting Grover Cleveland.
Federal offices in Oregon are like
the Klondike gold fields. ' The igno
rant are just as apt to strike it as
the intelligent.
An Important Decision.
About eighteen months ago the United
States commenced suits io the U. 8.
circuit court against the Eastern Oregon
Land Co. and a large number of its
grantees to set aside patents theretofore
issued, upon the ground that as the
land was within the limits of the grant
to the X. P. R. R. Co., it was not In
cluded within the grant to the Dalles
Military Road Company. Messrs. Hunt
ington & Wilson appeared for many of
the defendants who bad purchased the
land of the company and demurred to
the complaint, for the reason, among
others, that the grant to the Dalles
Military Road Co. took effect first, and
therefore the patents were properly is
sued. They today received notice that
their demurers have been sustained by
Judge Bellinger.
This decision is in line with other de
cisions rendered by the circuit of ap
peals, and, if sustained by the supreme
court of the United States, will settle
the controversy over these lands in favor
of the Eastern Oregon Land Co. and its
grantees. .
ATTENTION, SHEEPMEN!
Do you want the earliest and best
range in Washington, with 640 acres of
deeded land, and a chance to raise un
limited quantities of alfalfa? If you do,
call on or address
J. H. Ceadlkbaugh,
ag21-tf The Dalies, Or.
Nebraska corn for sale at the Wasco
warehouse. Best feed on earth. m9-tf
IT IS A MATTER OF PERHAPS.
SIddall Writes Soma Friends
Views on the Bltaatlan.
Dls
Skagcay Bay, Alaska, Aug 23, '9
My Deab Friskds :
I am still here, .and it is absolutely
impossible to get on for the want of ani
mals to pack the freight over the mount
ains. There are some thoueands here
now, stranded ; Jcannot get any further,
and I do not believe there will be one
in twenty who will ever see the sum
mit, let alone Dawson City, buch a
rneh never was seen in the world. It
is simply immense. Thousands are
here and in Dyea, all stranded for want
of transportation : and to make things
worse, the rain has set in and the trail
is now itu passable, and traffic is stopped
to repair the trail, and hundreds of men
are at work do:ng so. Every day brings
a new steamer and hundreds of poor
fools, going they know not where. Sev
eral have come across from the Klon
dike, bnt no new strikes are reported.
The old Geo. W. Elder came in again
today, and it made me sick when I did
not get a letter from yon. There is a
kind of improvised postuffice here, which
gets letters from nearly every boat that
comes in. I was in hopes that you
had sent one for me, still I know that
the' Elder does not carry any mail, only
the purser is so kind as to take charge of
anything.
Tell Mr. Butler that this is a town of
tents now, but may not last long, as
there are routes that may be adopted.
such as the Daltcn and Tarcoon routes.
So this may be a city of snow ; bnt' at
present it is something wonderful. He
can tell you that there was hardly a tent
when he was here; now it is a city of
tents and shacks. I cannot describe it
to you. Tell him that where he wrote
Mrs. Butler's name on a tree oot iu the
woods on the trail, is now covered with
tents and board shacks. My pencil
fails me to desribe the situation, bnt if
Mr. Cradlebaogh were here he might,
and yet his most vivid, grasping ideas
would fail to do it justice. It is per
fectly awful. I saw a man today who
was leading a mule, packed; he also
had a pack on his own back, and a dog
leading with a pack on its back, and he
was wheeling a wheelbarrow, which was
also packed. Such are the modes of
getting from salt water to fresh water
over at Bennett Lake., I have just seen
a man who had carried 300 pounds five
miles on a bicycle. Now, you may not
think tbis is true, but it is. He bad a
kind of wire work fixed between the
bars, on which he roped his goods, and
be walked by its side and rolled it along.
Tbis is only' done to the foot of the
mountain. You cannot imagine the
different ways the poor devils are trying
to get along. Now fancy a bleak, windy
beach, lined with tents and huts, and
thousands of people not only in misery,
but perfectly discouraged. Think of
them trying to get over an almost im
possibility to the top of the mountain,
then sitting in an open boat 650 miles
to Dawson City ; then no prospect only
to go ont to make a new discovery in
the frozen rigors ot this Alaska region,
with the thermometer at from 60 to 80
below zero, and yon have some idea of
what any man has to go through before
he gets the golden shiners, if he ever
does.
We have waited here with the utmost
patience to make a move, and hope to
the last of this week, but are not sure,
the trail is so bad. If we get through
(which I am determined to do) we will
be of the few who do.' I wish you could
be here for one hour to see the many ob
stacles in our way.
Will Langille and party are not yet on
the summit. Dick Emmons and party
have busted up, and he is not yet on
top of Dyea pass. Mr. Mead and the
Christie outfit are in the same fix, and
Mr. Fairfowl and company are not on
top yet.
Now, if I had not started, I would not
come this way, bnt go by St. Michaels,
grub or no grub. Money will buy any
thing. I shall do my best to get
through ; but a man is lost here without
his own horses to go when and where
you wish.
Now as I write thirty mounted Cana
dian police are passing going to the
Klondike. They also have their packs
on their backs like us poor devils. They,
too, curse the country as a hard outlook ;
but they are a good lot of boys. Many
are Elks, Oregon men, P. P. A's, Ma
sons and Odd Fellows. So you see I am
in it. 5Tou bet.
Everybody is saying "My kingdom
for a horse !"
August 24, 1897. As I write, it is
raining and blowing awful. It is enough
to make the heart of a lion quail, but
nothing will make me turn back until I
see that it is impossible to get through
without being frozen in on the Yukon ;
that I don't want, bnt if all comes to all,
I will play the violin and Parrot can
dance the two-step. '
Mr. Sylvester Scovell of Cnban notori
ety, is still here. He has taken up the.
matter of fixing the trail and has gone
to Juneau for giant powder and tools to
work with. He intends to call it, the
New York World's trail. He,, you will
remember, is their correspondent. This
trail can be made good by having some
bead or system to it. If J. H. Sherar
was here he wonld have wagons over it
in two weeks.
I will not close this until I hear from
Juneau, hoping to hear that poor Frank
is all O. K. now. What an awful thing
just when I was leaving you. Do you
know that it made me fearful all the
way, being Friday and then the boat to
break down at Astoria. It actually
made me eick, bnt all is over now.
Nothing but cussid old mountains stick
up against our noses. You never saw
soch a lot of jolly fellows as there are
on the ' trails ; thousands of them and
not a cross word.
August 25th, 2 p. m. It has been
raining for the past twenty-four hours
and blowing a pertect hurricane. We
are beginning to realize the rigors of
tbis awful Alaska climate, and still we
will do onr best to push onward.
Now as I must close to get this on the
out-going steamer, will close with kind-
est regards to all. Good-bye, good-bye.
Your old friend,
Db. Siddall.
A Political Surprise.
The political world was startled by
the announcement made yesterday tha
Justice Field had signed commissions
for Henry C. Grady as United States
marshal and Daniel K. Murphy as U. '
S. attorney to serve until their success
ors are appointed. This news will be a.
surprise generally, and especially to the
members of the Oregon delegation and
their appointees, who had counted on
no soch interruption to their work of
parceling out the officers. The follow
ing taken from last night's Telegram
gives a good idea of the situation :
United States Attorney Dan R. Mur
phy, who on September 1st stepped
down and ont, with the prefix of "ex" to
his official title, is once again in office
and may be found at the old stand.
This morning's Eastern mail was late,
it not being delivered nntil 1 p. in. That
was of little moment to the majority of
Portland people, but to some of the
politicians of this city, had they known
the bombshell in a mild sense it con
tained, it would have meant much.
There was in one of the mail pouches
the reappointment ad interim of Attor
ney Murphy, signed and sealed by Su
preme Justice Stephen J. Field.
In another pouch was a missive, like
wise from Justice Field, containing the
reappointment ad interim of United
States Marshal Grady.
And now a wail arises from the "push"
for the possibilities that have arisen on
the political horizon with these reap
pointments, are such as ' to eaoee gray
hairs to start in the heads of sooae of
the "recommended" of the lately ad
journed caucus of Senator McBride' and
Representative Tongue and Ellis.
, The situation! now existing, as suc
cinctly described by a well-known poli
tician, on hearing of the reappoint-.
ments, is this;
"McBride, Tongue and Ellis," said the
politician, "in their deliberations and
recommendations, overlooked the fact
that Henry W. Corbett might desire to
have something to say in the matter.
The appointments of the delegation were
sent on to Washington Sunday last after
a week of erfbrt on the part of the dele
gation to agree. In the meantime. Mr.
Corbett had waited on President McKin
ley and informed the administration that .
he bad some friends of his own in. Ore
gon whom it might be judicious and in
the interests of the Bepubliean party to
reward with office and that it would
probably be well to postpone the mak
ing of new appointments until sucn
time as the statue of Mr. Corbett as
senator or private citizen was fixed.
The factional fight in the Republican
party of Oregon, which prevented the
regular naming of a United States sena
tor, being still fresh in tbe president's
mind, Mr. McKinley has taken the sug
gestion of Mr. Corbett as being well
placed, and be has therefore made known
to Justice Field that to avoid any en
tanglement in Oregon iU might be well
to reappoint ad interim the old federal
officers and then when the senate con
venes and Mr. Cqrbett's case is decided,
tbe recommendations of a united dele
gation as to appointees will be received
and acted upon.
This cannot occur until December
next. Tbe reappointed officers there
fore have a further lease or about four
months of the salaries of their respective '
offices." ' '
It was generally supposed that in case
of an ad interim appointment in the
district attorney's office that Paul Deady
would be selected. It seems, however,
that the administration does not pro
pose to make any changes that- would
lead to hard feeling, and as a conse
quence has taken tbe easiest way ont of
the difficulty by naming the old officers.
Fubllo School Notice.
All pupils who failed to make passing
grades on the work of the spring term
and who have made preparation during
the vacation, will be given examination
by their respective teachers at the Court
street school on Friday, Sept. 10th, ex
aminations to begin at 8 a. m.
All prospective new students (except
beginners in the first grade) are requested
to meet the principal on Friday or on
Saturday forenoon at the Court street
school for assignment to departments
and classes.
Teachers' meeting at 9 a. m. Saturday.
John Gavin, Principal.
Cash 1m loir Checks.
All county warrants registered prior
to March 12, 1893, will be paid at my
office. Interest ceases after Sept. 7,
1897. : C. L. Phillips,
-.- uounty treasurer.