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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1897.
The Weekly Chronicle.
CODSTV orncuLK.
County Judge Kobt. Maya
Sheriff. -. ; T.J. Driver
Clerk A M. Kelsav
Treasurer C. L. f billipe
Commiloner, fcgE"
Assessor W. II. Whipple
Surveyor J. B. "Jolt
Superintendent ol Public School. ..C. L. Gilbert
Coroner " W. H. Butts
8TATE OFFICIALS.
Sjvernoi W. P. Lord
Bee rotary of State HE Kincald
Treasurer '....Phillip Metschan
Bapt-of Public Instruction G. M. Irwin
Attorney-General CM. Idleman
' JG. W. McBride
STOatora... Jj.H. MitcheU
B Hermann
Congressmen..... Jw R EU1,
8Ute Printer... W. H. Icd
Wklr dabbing- Itatea.
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Chronicle and N. Y. World. 2 00
EVENT IN MUNICIPAL POLITICS.
The municipal situation in New
York is most interesting. The time
is approaching when the first, mayor
of Greater New York is to be ohosen.
All political organizations are deeply
worked up over the prospect pre
sented by the consolidation of New
York and Brooklyn's municipal
affairs. Probably no position in the
country outside the presidency gives
such opportunity for patronage and
the resultant influence as does the
. mayoralty of America's mammoth
city, and either local organization
would glaJIy sacrifice anything it
had if this rich plum could be caught
as it fel'. The Tammany machine
and the Piatt push have been look
ing forward with greedy eyes to the
ripening of the fruit and reveling in
the rich eating it would make; but
an indication ot frost has appeared,
which bids fair to blast
hopes-.
all their
A movement on the part of prom
inent citizens, mostly of Republican
belief, but independent in municipal
concerns, has been started looking
towards the nomination and election
of Setb Low, the president of Colum
bia college, as mayor. Mr. Low al
ready served as chief executive of
Brooklyn and made a record never
surpassed before or since. So when
the movement for better municipal
government started, all eyes turned
naturally to him as the one best
fitted to lead so important a contest.
When the agitation began the ma
chine leaders of both parties laughed
at what seemed a futile effort, but
recent events have caused them to
think deeper and more anxiously.
The method adopted for seenring
the nomination of President Low was
a great innovation. The Citizens'
Union asked voters to pledge them
selves tor Mr. Low, and one hun
dred and sixteen thousand have done
so. . The regular parties are astound
ed and f i ightened by this amazing
expression of public opinion. The
Tammany leaders are retiring from
business; Croker declares he is out
of the control of Tammany ; that the
active members, Shcenan and the
rest, mnst be responsible for its
management, -and mat England is
good enough for him.
The Republican machine leaders
ore equally disturbed. They do not
understand this new way of making
nominations, and are disturcd by it.
At first they demanded that the
"Citizens" should not hold their
convention till after the Republican
convention, and now they beg that
an "anti-Tammany" convention be
held on the same day. It is likely
that the Republicans will indorse the
nomination of Mr. Low, and if so
Greater New York is assured, a clean
'economical administration during his
term of office.
The struggle will be watched with
exceeding interest by ail cities which
are tired of municipal misrule.
The feelings of everyone are
- grieved at the news which, came yes
terday from the Klondike. Few, if
any, are surprised at the stories of
distress and impending disaster
which hangs over the hardy adven
turers who have braved the Arctic
snows in quest of precious gold. It
is hard to blame them for going,
- since the prize was tempting, but it
seems that the fears of the most in
credulous will be justified. The
steamer Cleveland brings news of
imminent starvation at Dawson City.
The stores which heretofore have
supplied the needs of the miners are
closed, their stocks depleted and
shelves empty, with the means of re
plenibbment gone. The Yukon is
beginning to .tliow signs ot the ap
proaching freeze, wtile the mount
ain passes are becoming every day
more impassable. Viewed in sober
judgment the situation is perilous
for the four or five thousand men
gathered around Dawson City, and
the situation seems such as to call
for government aid. " With proper
equipment, and spurred by . the
thought of rescue, a government ex
pedition would accomplish more than
any other agency in bringing relief
to, the winter-bound miners. Un
doubted- should these first reports
be verified the administration will
give prompt attention to the exi
gencies of the hour. The worst part
of the hole matter is that there will
be no distinction between fore
thought and recklessness. The man
who went supplied with a year's pro
vision will bo compelled to divide
them with those who started blindly
improvident, and in many cases such
transfer wi'l be made amid circum
stances of violence.
TREAT, THEM ALL ALIKE.
. x he case of President Andrews, of
i Brown University, whose resignation
j nas R8ije( for on account of his free
, s;itrr views Sppm in f.iir w.iv of
being settled contrary to what most
people supposed it would be. Ow
ing piobably to the pressure of out
side opinion, the board of trustees
has addressed a letter to President
Andrews asking him to withdraw his
resignation and intimating that the
letter which asked for it was an on
j fortunate document and the rcsuli of
haste. We are inclined to think
this lat.fpr jiM.inn nf the hoard is
wise, while not endorsing for one
moment the erratic views on this im
portant question which we believe
Mr. Andrews to hold. The man
who is at the head of such an influen
tial institution as Brown University
is known to be, should necessarily be
a man of calm mind and conserva
tive judgment. In most things
President Andrews has shown him
self such a man. The prominent
part he took in the last campaign
was not in accordance with the best
of taste, yet it is no more to be con
demned from the standpoint of good
economics than has been the course
of the well known apostles of free
trade who occupy prominent posi
tions in our leading schools of higher
learning. President Eliot of Harvard,
to our mind, is committing as much
an error when he argues for free
trade as does Mr. Andrews wbji he
spends his time trying to make peo
ple believe that an unlimited quan
tity of forty-cent dollars is as good
money as 100-cent dollars, whose
value is stable.
One of the reasons which induced
the asking of Andrews' resignation
was that through dislike of bis cur
rency views wealthy philanthropists
would refrain from endowing the
university as they otherwise would.
This was an nnfortunate reason to
assign. Colleges are not created
simply for the purpose of becoming
wealthy, and some of the best educa
tional work done in the country is
found in schools with limited means.
President Garfield once said that the
best college he could picture for him
self would be Mark Hopkins sitting
on one end of a log and himself upon
the other. If it ever becomes com
mon belief tnat our great universi
ties are bidding for money and are
willing to mould their views to suit
the demands of the money changers,
then their influence is curtailed and
their work rendered futile as agen
cies in establishing a higher standard
of citizenship. .
We are sorry Brown University
has a man at its head with views like
those of President Andrews upon
this important question ; but unless
they could have found other reasons
for his dismissal they should not have
asked it. Otherwise let the free trade
professors go, as well as the free
silverites.
Wheat sold yesterday in Chicago
for 98 cents; in Portland 88 and 90,
and in The Dalles 80 cents per
bushel. To the ordinary observer
there would seem too much differ
ence in these' quotations. Chicago
ships most of its wheat to New York,
while Portland, which is on the sea-
board and ships direct to Liverpool,
is eicht' cents below the Chicago
price. While naturally there should
be some variation, it does not seem
that geographical conditions justify
so much as there is. 'Another thing
that is puzzling is the difference be
tween the quotations in Portland
and in The Dalles. With the 'open-
ing of the locks it was hoped that
the' variation between these two
points wonld be nearly nominal, but
there is little, if any, change from
last year.
FRANCO-nCSSl AN ALLIANCE.
The one fact overpowing all other
facts in Europe just now is the
strange, and in some respects, incom
prehensible frenzy of popular delight
both in France and. Russia over the
Franco-Russian Alliance. That the
governments should be pleased is
natural. It gives France a position
and prestige such as she has not had
since the First Empire. It is one
more link, says the Independent, in
the chain Russia is binding about
Enrope to insure peace and freedom
for herself to carry out her great
plans. That the people,- however,
especially while the contents of the
treaty are as j et unknown, should be
so extravagantly enthusiastic over
it, shows that they suppose it to be
something more than an ordinary
arrangement between the two gov
ernments, and understand it to secure
some great advantage to them as
peoples.
v The advantage which the French
hope to secure is very evident. They
have felt and siill feel that Fiance
has not only lost an important and
integral part of her territory, and
that she can never be her true self
until Alsace and Lorraine aic re
stored, but (hat so long as the pres
ent frontier remains she -will be at
the mercy of Germany. They look
npon Russia as the only power that
can assist them to recover that lost
territory and regain the prestige
which a well-defined frontier can
give. In this alliance they see the
first gleam of hope which they have
had since Sedan, and the very chance
makes them delirious.
The advantage which the Russi
ans expect to gain is very different.
The Russian is an ardent Pan-Slavist,
believes devotedly in the great fu
ture of the Slavic peoples, and
dreams of an empire the greatest
that the j world has ever known. In
the practical development of that
idea, however, be constantly finds
himself encountering two obstacles,
England and Germany, or perhaps
better, Englishmen and Germans.
Wherever he reaches out his band to
secure an opening for trade into the
open sea, there he finds an English
fleet. English forts block every
access to India, which every Russian
feels must come to him. If be wants
to fraternize with other branches of
the eastern church, English treaties
and diplomacy are in the way.
Most of all, he feels that he would
have been In Constantinople long ere
this, but for the English fleets at
Besika Bay. Consequently he hates
England. As fcr the Germans, are
they not Jin every Russian city, mo
nopolizing Russian trade, displacing
Russian artisans, teaching Russian
schools, preaching a non-Russian re
ligion? Wherever he turns he sees
Germans, and he devoutly wishes
that he could find some means of re
pressing if not suppressing them.
France be knows, or thinks, bates
both as cordially as be does; and al
though he does not, perhaps, see just
how, he yet feels that the alliance is
going to strengthen him against
them. .
There is another . element which
probably, has some iufluence. There
is a certain sympathy of tempera
ment between the French and Rus
sians, and a corresponding antago
nism between both and the Saxon
races. Germans and English have
very little of the peculiar type of
sentiment characteristic of the Celtic
acd Slavic peoples. They are in
tense in their feeling, but not carried
away by impulse.' The French and
Russians are easily wrought up to a
high pitch of excitement and fervor.
This is manifest in the types of so
cialism in each country. There is
an abandon about the. French anarch
ist and the Russian nihilist which is
the very reverse of the calculating
coolness of . Karl. Marx and Tom
Mann.
What gives most seriousness to the
Franco-Russian alliance is the possi
bility or the danger that the two
peoples may force the action of their
governments. French ministries are
proverbially, uncertain in their hold,
and a tide of popular feeling may
compel President Fame against his
better jodgrrent. ; The czar . is very
powerful; - but there - is a might in
the popular voice of his people which
even he would find it difficult, if not
impossible to resist. So long as the
two government keep control peace
is assured. Should they lose control
there might be precipitated a con
flict greater than any Europe has
ever known.
The Oregonian has the bestjof
Pennoyer on the saw-mill question.
Oregon's, boss demagogue loudly
complains that he cannot run his
saw mill because there isn't any free
coinage of silver; but under these
same distressing conditions other
mills on either side are working
ovet time and making more money
than for several years. If Pennoyer
continues flying in the face of tacts.
it wil( be shown to the satisfaction
of everyone what a cheap dema
gogue he is. All sensible people are
satisfied on that point already.
inc settlement oi tne coal miners
strike will cause satisfaction in al
parts of the country. The tragedy
al Hazelton, Pennsylvania, where
twenty-one miners were killed out
right and more wounded, was
menacing portent of what might fol
low. The conditions of settlement,
while perhaps not what either side
would wish if left as sole judge, still
uuder the circumstances are as satis
factory as any that could be ob
tained. At all events, a distressing
element in the general business situ
ation has been eliminated.
The authorities in the South are
deserving of credit for the speedy
waj' in which they have arrested the
yellow fever scourge. All danger of
a general epidemic now seems past
The advance of medical science is
again strikingly illustrated by the
preventatiye measures used in sub
duing what was formerly the terror
izing malady of the South.
Dufor and Tygh Valley-Notes.
The following notes are taken from
the Dufar Dispatch :
The bnilding enterprises already be
gan and to begin soon, are residences
for Frank Peabody, Edward Bohna, W.
H. McHaley and Amos Gragg.
The disease among horses known as
"pink eye," has been somewhat preva
lent in this section for a few weeks past,
but not as seriously as The Dalles
papers wonld make it appear.
The four, six and eight-horse teams
which are seen daily and hourly on the
streets of Dufur, present a scene of ac
tivity, indicative of prosperity among
wheat growers at least.
Rev. John Evans took his departure
this week for his new field of labor in
Columbus circuit in Washington. Mr.
Evans has labored in this circuit faith
fully and patiently during the past two
years, and while he is not of that gnsh
rpg soft in personal relations, he has
made many friends and demonstrated
bis force of character and tenacious per
eeverence, and all wish him well in
future. Mr. Evans and his family left
Tuesday.
TYGH VALLEY.
. The recent rains have put the roads in
good condition for teaming.
Last Tuesday, about noon, we" had a
hail storm that lasted nearly half an
hour.
C. J. VanDuyn bad five teams loaded
with wheat from his Tygh Prairie
ranches en' route to The Dalles.
x Last Monday some travelers, passing
through en route to Willamette valley,
sold J. K. Moad a span of mares averag
ing 1100 pounds each, for $12, which is a
bargain in horse flesh. Both are broken
and warranted true.
W. M. McCorkle had some fine peaches
and pears that sold for 75 ceuts a bushel.
The pears were ol the Bartlett variety
and as fine as ever sampled. Ed. Both
well, who lives- on Jnniper Flat where
there is no water, bas a young orchard,
and be says be bas as fine Bartletts as
ever grew, as well as other kinds of
fruit of fine quality.
Concerning Dalles People.
W. H. Biegs was up from The Dalles
Sunday. Wasco News.
Mrs. E. O. McCoy and family are
visiting with Mrs. G. N. Crossfield.
Wasco News.
Rev. Johns started Monday to The
Dalles after his family. He was accom
panied by Oscar Kehay, who will enter
The Dalles public ecboole. Fossil Jour
nal. H. P. Steers started to The Dalles
with his family Wednesday morning.
The children will commence their second
term in the public school there next
Monday. Fossil Jonrnal. -:
J.' II. Cradlebangh, ' editor of the
Chronicle of The Dalles, arrived in the
city yesterday. Mr. Cradlebaugfi is in
terested in mining in ibis county and is
here to inspect development since his
former visit a few weeks since. Baker
City Democrat. - -
Tim UHinan-French Land & Live Stck
Company this week delivered at 'Hie
Dalles 200 bead of steers and dry cows to
the Union Meat Co. of Portland. 'Roe
Grimes was oat at Oilman's the first of
the week selecting the cattle. The price
was 2.2 on foot for cows and 2.7 for
steers. Fossil Journal.
Aaalffnmeut of Teachers.
Court street Mr. Landers, 8th A, 9th
Band.9thA. Miss Hill, (High school)
10th and 11th. Miss Michel), 7th A and
8th B.
Academy park Miss T. Rintoul, 6tb
A and 7th B. Miss L. Rintoul, 6th B
and 6th A. Miss Flinn and Mrs. Bald
win 2d A, 3d B and 3d A. Mis Tlilr-
man, 1st C, 1st B and 1st A.
Union street (mixed) Miss Cheese,
4th A and Ctb B.
Union street annex Miss Ball, 5th B
and 5th A. '
Union street Miss Snell, 4th B and
4th A. Miss E. Cooper, 2J B and 2d A.
Miss Rowe, 1st C, 1st B and 1st A.
East hill primary Mrs. Roche. 3d B,
4th B and 5th B. Miss N. Cooper, 1st
B, 1st A and 2d B.
. A Fine School.
St. Mary's academy for ladie, located
in this city and under the direction of
the Sisters, is one of the best educational
institutions on the coast. The building
is of brick, large and well ventilated.
Besides the regular studies, especial ef
fort is made to instil into the minds of
the pupils a deeire to form their hearts
to virtue, and to fit them to be trne and
noble women. Gratuitous lessons are
given in all kinds of plain and fancy
needle word, knitting, embroidery, etc.
Pupils will receive the same watchful
care that would be given them by con
scientious parents. It is in fact an ideal
shcool and a pleasant home. Those who
have girls to send to school should write
to St. Mary's academv for terms. tf.
Neighboring Jcaloujy.
It is evident the Dufur Dispatch does
not like The Dalles, as the following will
show. Comment is unnecessary :
There are-some people to be found al
most everywhere whocant't see through
a picket' fence. It was supposed tbut
the much vaunted "open river to the
sea" would be a great reducer of freight
rates, but the looked for reduction does
not seem to reduce. Then, perhaps, the
O. R. & N. has a band in the making nf
prices, both at The Dalles and Waila
Walla. The fact is, the mossbacks of
The Dalles are subjecting that city to a
process of slow strangulation. It does
not pay so lifeless a town as The Dalles
to fight a powerful railroad corporation.
THE MYSTERIOUS SWORDFISH.
They Came Prom Afar ana never
Until They Are Fall Grown.
These big creatures come and go as
mysteriously as any of our sea visitors.
and all fishes have their peculiarities.
Who knows where the shad are before
they begin to run up the rivers in the
spring? ' The swordfish come to
American waters grownup.- Of course
they vary in size, but no young are
ever seen here.
This fact has been clearly set out by
a government report on tne euoject.
The young are found chiefly in the
Mediterranean. After they are able to
go it alone more or less of them strike
for the North American coast most
of these gathering about Block island.
There they lie and sun themselves on
the top of the water, the prey all sum
mer of the fishermmen and their
spears. What instinct brings these
fish across 3,000 miles of water to spend
a season and return? They come when
they arrive; they go when they leave.
That's all we know, although the sea
son comes within approximate dates.
The swordfish is a favorite sea food
here in New England. Boston is its
chief market, but it sells well all about
here. It is solid meat, with a distinct
flavor, and very edible. New York,
however, doesn't buy it. New Yorkers,
who hunt the markets of the world for
new things, will not eat it.
How long those queer fish will last is
a problem. They are hunted not only
for the market, but for pleasure. If
the rich New Yorkers, who are too fas
tidious to eat them, should establish
the fad of killing the fish and collect
ing the swords, they would probably
soon exterminate the creatures, kill off
all the old swordfish, and who would
guide hither those that were about to
make their first trip? Follow that
notion back a bit, and who guided the
first of them clear over here? Hart
ford Courant.
Why He Married Her.
A story is told of a governor general
of India who one day missed his wife
from the room and said: "Where is
Maria?" "Dear me, John," said his
sisterv"you don't seem happy if Maria
is out of the room for an hour." "I'm
not," he answered; "that's why I mar
ried her." Chicago Inter Ocean.
An Antidote.
When a man says his . first wife
poisoned his existence, and subsequent
ly marries again, the inference is that
he took' the second one as a kind of an
antidote. Tammany Times.
GOOD WORDS FOR WASHINGTON
Improvement In Moral Tone of tie
Satlon's Capital.
Gen. H. V. Boynton, the veteran Wash
ington correspondent, has been for
more than 30 years collecting' news and
writing1 letters. Few men know so
thoroughly as he the inside history of
the capitol, the white house, and the
departments. Being asked what he
considered the most important deduc
tion from his experience at Washington,
he answered:
"The marvelous improvement in the
j moral atmosphere, and the general tone
ana nonesiy oi tae government, we,
the people of the United States, have
the most honest government in the
world. It is and has been for many
years more honest than ever before,
and is to-day more honestly and effi
ciently administered than, any private
business that I have ever examined. I
mean that there is less waste and less
defalcation.
"Look at the great postal service, for
instance. Where in the world will you
find any private agency which does so
much and does it so well, and at so little
cost? And change of parties makes no
difference. Thorough honesty is the
rule.
"The atmosphere of the white house
is pure beyond that of any royal resi
dence, and this is the most moral and
peaceable city in the United States, if
not in the world. It makes me laugh
when those good people come from New
York and Cincinnati and' away out west
to help reform Washington."
PERSECUTED IN AMERICA.
John Wesley Suffered for Refnalna;
Communion to Woman.
Rev. W. J. Scott, D. D., writes of
"Whisj John Wesley Preached in Geor
gia," in Ladies' Home Journal, ana
from the famous preacher's journal
tells the story of his persecution in
Georgia, which ultimately resulted in
his quitting America and returning to
England in 1737. "During the after
noon before WTesley's departure he was
approached by the recorder of Savan
nah, who informed him that he must
not leave the province until he had
given bond in 50 sterling, and in ad
dition furnished bail to answer Mr.
Williamson's charge. Wesley respond
ed: 'I have given him every oppor
tunity to maVe good his accusation, but
he refused to do so; and now, sir," he
continued, with emphasis and firmness,
'I must insist that, as an official, you
have treated me and the trustees of the
colony very ill. I shall neither give
bond nor bail. You know your busi
ness and I know mine.'
" 'The same afternoon,' he adds, 'I
shook the dust off my feet and ett Sa
vannah, after preaching there one year
and nine months, not as I ought, but as
I was able.
"The show made by his enemies of a
purpose to intercept him was a shal
low pretext, and is now so regarded."
Wesley's persecution was the out
come of his refusal to admit a woman,
of his congregation to holy cummunioa.
without evidence of her repentance and
contrition. .
DANGEROUS CATERPILLARS.
Armed with a Very Effective Weapon
for Defense.
The caterpillar of the puss moth,
quite a common insect in this country,
has a most effective way of defending
himself, and may prove, as we shall
presently see, dangerous even to hu
man beings, says a writer in Cham
bers' Journal. This well-protected cat
erpillar is provided between its head
and forelegs with a cleft, from which
it can protrude an organ capable of
squirting out a quantity of very acid
fluid to a considerable distance, and
when alarmed it habitually makes use
of this formidable weapon.
In one of the entomological maga
zines a correspondent states that he
was observing some of these caterpil
lars in capfivity, when he happened
to disturb one, and it suddenly squirt
ed out a quantity of fluid in a jet, whish
struck one of hia eyeballs, though his
head at the time was quite two feet
away from the insect. He rushed off
in great agony to a doctor, who told
him that the eyeball was in a very dan
gerous condition. His eye was totally
blind for hours after the occurrence,
and it was some days before he finally
recovered. What the effect of this fluid
must be upon smaller creatures we
leave our readers to imagine!
The board of equalization will meet
the first Monday in October, at which
time all who are dissatisfied with their
assessment, will be given the opportun
ity to correct any error. , s7diScwtf.
AN OREGONKMDIKE.
Do you want money? If so, catch on
to this. A 7-year-old orchard, twenty
acre tract, sevonteen acres in choice
fruits, bearing trees, new hiose of six
rooms, barns, outbuildings, etc., all new;
two horses and harness, two wagons, one
road cart and one cow. Will sell at a
bargain and on easy terms. Call on or
address C. E. Bayard or Chas. Fraier,
The Dalles, Oregon.
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