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VOL. VII.
THE DALLES. WASCO COUNTY OREGON, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 18. 1897.
NUMBER 42.
GOLD FROM YUKON
Steamer Belle Homeward
Bound With $500,000.
THE STEAMER BRINGS NINETY MEN
Borne Are Prospectors Fleetnf Before
the Shadow of Famine Lower
ln Ower Diwuoa.
- EXCELSIOR IS IN PORT
rives at San Francisco.
both cars were crowded were injured.
Motormen J. Murphy and John Jamison
will die. '
On account of a heavy mist wbicb
the Bonth bonnd car.' which was to have Overdue Alaska Steamer Ar-
paesed the north-bound car where donble
track ends, failed to notice that he had
left the dooble track. Before he con Id
reverse and ran back, the north-bound
car came up and collided with terrific
force.
SPANISH SMACKS FIRED IPOS.
SHE HAD MUCH GOLD ON BOARD
An Kxcltlng
Incident
. Gout.
Off the Florida
Passengers Unit, li Confirming Stories
of Impending Danger of Fam
ine of Dawson.
Ahvik, Alaska, Aug. 23, via Seattle,
Sept. 14. The steamer Bella, of the
Alaska Commercial Company, passed
the steamer Hamilton this afternoon.
There are ninety passenger.! on the Bel
la, seventy miners retnrning with their
stakes, said to aggr egate $500,000, and
the remainder are prospectors fleeing
from the shadow ot famine to come.
Louis Sloss, jr., of the Alaska Com
mercial Company, who was on board,
confirmed all the reports hitherto given
of the shortage of food supplies.
' We have been compelled to adopt
measures," said he, "to prevent eingle
individuals from cornering the food sup
plies. For this reason we -have limited
the quantity of grub to be sold to each
person. One sack of flour each week is
all that any man is allowed to purchase.
We closed our store for a time after the
Bella arrived, declining to sell to anyone
until we found out what we had in stock
and how far it would go toward supply
ing the orders we had already.' We will
not sell supplies to either hotels or res
taurants,' and as far as possible to miners
only." ' ' " v :
Jack McQuesten, the Alaska Comuier
cial Company's trader at Circle City,
who was one of the number on board
the Bella, says there is not enough pro
visions in the Yukon country now to
supply the demand.
DENTISTRY AT DAWSON.
Mak-
A Seattle Man Practices It and Is
ing Money.
Seattle, Sspt. 14. Dr. M. M. Cald
well, a dentist, formerly of Seattle, now
of Dawson City, writes his wife in this
city tinder date of Dawson City, August
8, as follows :
"I have opened an office here and am
doing well. The 13th of the month will
be two months since I etarted in bo si
ness. I have made $1357.50 up to this
date. That will be about $700 per
month.
"Moose meat and fish have been very
plentiful here this last month. Fish at
25 cents per pound , and moose at 60
cents. Most people' like moose as well
as beef. I don't go much on moose. I
think that I got hold of an old tough
bull. It took all day to' cook it. The
Alaskan Indians live on such things
for months, and are fat and healthy. As
long as moose and fish hold out there
need be no fear of anyone starving to
death. I think that I will get quite a
lot of crown work to do here. There is
no one else here that can do it. I charge
from $35 to $50 each.
"The days are beginning to get a little
shorter now, as it gets dark between 11
o'clock and midnight. The last time
that I saw any dark night was when we
were camping on Lake Lebarge. That
was June 1. Since that time the nights
have been about as dark as a cloudy day.
Cold weather wilt set in about Septem
ber 15. I have just had dinner. The
bill of fare was as follows : J
"&oup, anea spud9, with beef grease
and salt; potatoes, with peelings on,
twenty cents per pound ; bread, baker's,
three loves for $1 ; butter, middling fair,
seventy-five cents per pound : leufonade
made from acid of milk; coffee that
came from Seattle. Fresh potatoes cost
$20 per ton. "I think that I ate seven
or eight for dinner today potatoes, not
tone."
Apoplexy the Cause. .
Oakland, Cal., Sept. 14. Details con--cerning
the death of J. C. Boatman, as
eistant United States director of fisheries
at Juneau, on the 5th inst., have been
received. H. M. Kutchin, agent of the
treasury department, has arrived here
and states that Boatman was taken ill
and wandered to the beach, where he
was found unconscious. He was re
moved to a hospital where he died. No
signs ot violence were fonnd upon his
person and an autopsy revealed that
death was due to apoplexy.
Tampa, Fla., Sept. 14. The Spanish
consul here, Pedro Sohs, is wrathy be
cause the state patrol steamer Germ
fired on several Spanish smacks. The
Germ is a large trim launch belonging
to the state health board, and is armed
with small cannon. The Spanish
smacks hover around the coast and sell
Spanish liquors, etc., to the sponging
and fishing vessels that come .here, thus
infringing on the quarantine laws. This
practice is to be broken up, and the
state health authorities have adopted
stringent measures. Last week two
were captured, and the American and
Spanish vessels caught together were
sent to quarantine.
While the Germ was on her last trip
she Bigbted two Spanish smacks and
they put to sea. Finding she could not
overhaul them, the launch sent a solid
shot after tbem. The second shot
brought them to, and they were sent to
quarantine.
The Spanish consul wired a complaint
to Washington after' the firing on the
Spanish .vessels, and the matter was
brought to the attention: of Dr. Porter,
state -health"1 officer Mrs" Porter " and
Mr. Solis had a conference yesterday in
which the health officer, who is a retired
naval physician, plainly told the consul
that the smacks would be fired on and
hit, too, if they did not stop when sig
naled.
There was much feeling over the fir
ing, as the Cubans have made much ado
over the matter 'of an American vessel
firing on the Spanish flag, 'and jeered
the Spaniards here about it.
The Views of Sagasta.
Madrid, Sept. 14. Senor Sagasta, lib
eral leader, in an interview on the sub
ject of the Cuban insurrection, says the
uprising instead of dying out is spread
ing considerably. In addition Senor
Sagasta says the situation in the Philip
pine islands is serious. He also asserts
the Carlist propaganda in Spain cannot
be viewed with indifference, and ex
presses the belief that a reconciliation,
between the political parties in Spain
is impossible as long as the conserva
tives are in power.
A BULGE IN HER BOTTOM.
Dock.
San Francisco, Sept. 15. The long
overdue steamer Excelsior, which left
St. Michaels, Alaska, for this port si
weeks ago, but was compelled to put
back to Ounalaska for repairs, after hav
ing broken two blades of her propeller,
arrived here this morning with sixty
four passengers and about $250,000 in
gold.
Of those who came down from Alaska,
all but two are known to have money.
but few if any were communicative
enough to admit how much they- had
One man, F. Hayes, of Portland, was
conceded to have the largest individual
amount, but npon being interviewed he
would only admit having $35,000.
All nnite in confirming stories already
told of impending danger of famine at
Dawson City during the coming winter,
They say that there are at least 7000
people now at Dawson City, and .that
more are swarming, in .everyday. but
that . provisions r are already ranning
short, and the prospects of getting more
very remote. , .;,.,,. :. -.
The Excelsior's passengers are united
in saying that the Klondike region is
richer than at first supposed.
Louis Sloss, jr., of the Alaska Com
mercial Company, was one of the pas
sengers on the Excelsior. 'Sloss says
the Aiaska Commercial Company's store
at Dawson was closed one day to trans
fer freight from the river boat. He
thinks that provisions will be scarce
but hesitated to say that there will be
actual - starvation. - There is . plenty of
provisions at St. Michaels; and every ef
forts "being made to get supplies up the
river.
It is difficult to say how much gold
was brought down by the Excelsior.
The Alaska Commercial Company re
ceived a large consignment of treasure,
but will not say how much. When
asked as to the amount, Sloss said
We brought more than came down
on the Portland, and we did not need
Maxim guns nor a revenue cutter to pro
tect it."
Aimed at the United States.
New Yobs, Sept. 15. A dispatch
the Herald from Buenos Ayres says :
The minister of finance has sent to
congress a draft of a new retaliatory
tariff against the United States, . drawn
along the lines advocated by President
Uribeau in his latest message to con
gress. There is no doubt that the bill
will become a law practically as it stands
This new tariff will increase the duty
fifty per cent on those products not now
on the free list, and fifteen per cent of
those which are on the free list. It will
apply to those countries which have in
creased or i may increase duties at the
United States.
to
TBOLLEI CARS MET.
Serious Collision on a Chicago Subur
ban Line.
Chicago, Sept. 14. Two electric cars
on the Suburban electric railway collided
while running at full speed along a
stretch of single track on Harlem avenue
8onth of Harrison street, in Lagrange,
this morning.
The accident happened just before 7
o'clock, when the traffic was heavy and
nearly all . the passengers with - which
Battle-Ship Indiana Damaged In
ins; at Halifax" .
New York, Sept. 14. A special to the
Journal and Advertiser from Halifax
says:
During the recent docking of the bat
tle-snip Indiana her bottom bulged un
der the forward turret. 'The fanlt is at
tributed to Naval Constructor Bowles, of
New York. He came here to see that
the docking was properly done" The
weight of the turret was so great that
the bottom sank enough to seriously af
fect the turrets' supports.
The dock, officials say they have
docked British naval vessels much heav
ier than the Indiana without trouble,
and regret the accident to the Indiana,
but critics in the United States will be
disposed to throw the blame npon them
and accuse tbem of purposely trying to
cripple one of the best vessel in this
navy. -
Resalt of u Land Dispute.
Tacoma, Sept. 14. Particulars have
been received .of the murder of Peter
Cootts, late in August, at his ranch on
Similkameen river, Okanogan county.
They show that his killing is the seventh
in a series of murders resulting from
land disputes and indirectly from delay
in the approval by federal authorities of
land surveys made six and eeven years
ago.
Coutts homestead lies on the east
bank of the river, three miles north ot
the Wyandotte mine, extending through
bottom ground overgrown with brush.
xne lorty acres in dispute is only a tract 1 completed this morning. Z. White'
Of marsh. I man's bird. Fred Hnrnxll. arrived in hia
1
Preoaations at St. Louis. loft at Rogers Park from Las Vegas, N,
St. Louis, Sept. 16. The health de- M., a distance of 10(0 miles in an air
partraent has already taken what pre- I line. The bird was in good condition.
cautions it can against the invasion of and made the journey in three weeks,
the city by yellow fever. Measures are Seven birds were liberated at Las Vegas
being taken to prevent from remaining together. Within five minutes after the
in the city visitors who have or may birds were liberated they started in a
have come in contact with the disease, northeasterly direction toward Chicago,
The co-operation of the Southern rail- Whiteman's bird is the only one heard
roads has been secured and the officials from since they started
are aiding the best they can the depart-
Tralnrobbers Caught.
Stockton. Cal., Sept. 19. George Wil
liams and George Stagel, who attempted
to roD a southern Pacific train near
Ripon Cal., last week, were captured
near Newman this morning.
Anaconda Mining Company.
New Yobk, Sept. 15. The annual re
port of the Anaconda Copper Mining
Companv, of Montana, of which the lar
gest stockholders are J. B. Gaggiu and
Marcus Daily, has been made public.
For the year ending June 20th the
receipts were $22,940,383, against $16,-
945, 697 the year before.
The profits amounted to $5,136,048, an
increase of $878,133 over the previous
year. Dividends amounting to $3,000,
000 were declared, against $750,000 the
year before.
A Pigeon's Long Flight. :
Chicago, Sept. 14. The longest flight
every made by a pigeon 1o Cbicogo was
which he admitted having stolen $1200
from the money-order office in Macoupin
county, III., in the fall of 1891,. and for
which one Singleton wan discharged by
the company. Papers found in Abbott's
possession showed him to have drawn a
pension for serving in the Second Illi
nois volunteers, and to have been police
magistrate of Chesterfield, 111.
- More Troops. For Cuba. '
Madrid, Sept. 15. The war depart
ment is recruiting 6000 troops with the
intention of immediately dispatching
tbem to reinforce the Spanish army in
Cuba. '
DROUGHT CAUSES HEAVY DAM AGS
THE STORM BREAKS
Long Threatened Eebellion
Breaks in Guatemala.
ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF DIAZ
England Wants to. Aid Silver by Having
.. Other Countries go to a
Silver Basis.
Absolutely Pure.
I and all forms of
eoeap brands.
Rovai. Baking
adulteration common to the
Powder Co. Naw Yoax.'.- '
Bad State of Affairs in the Corn Grow
ing states. New Yobk, Sep. 16.-A special to the
Chicago. Sent. 15. Tllir.nio Indiana i Herald from Panama. Oolnmhia mm
and Iowa are parched. Until last even- Guatemala now faces an uprising for heaithfuiness. Assnres the food ng-Hinit alum
ing Kansas was In the same condition, more serious than the one of a few
bat rain came. Weather bureau men months ago, telegraphs the Herald cor-
say fall showers are due in other, states respondent in the city of Guatemala,
in a few days. In Southern Illinois the The present rebellion is led by men of
temperature has averaged ninety degrees great wealth and influence, and is slight
for twelve days. Northern Illinois and '? gaining in strength each day.
Chicago reached an unusually hot period Advices just received from Guatemala
for so late in the season. are to the effect that 3000 rebels at-
Corn is being destroyed in all the tacked the city of Quezaltenango on the
reports received as to the wheat crop are
ot a most encouraging character. In the
provinces of Santa Cordova and Buenos
Ayres every indication is now that the
wheat crop, with good lack, will be so
Egyptian country and no such, record morning of September 13.. The garrison 8reat tbst they wi?' be ble to exPrt
has been made in heat and drouth since there consisted of less than 1000 soldiers. ',JW'UUU loU8- " ,alr ae-
September.r 1879. Tha Sansamnn. but tbev foueht valiantly. The attack of success there will be at least 1,-
Mackinaw and Vermillion riven, are continued far into the nieht. when the 500'000 ton8 for export. !. The prospect
I I t 1 - l
nearly dry. and the cattle on a thousand rebels, despite their superior number. Ior a u, crop 18 sP'e"aa'
hills are dvin for want of Water. were repulsed. Thev vitraronslv re. Tbere WM sown this year a greater
In Indiana no'dron1 nf mniptnr hB newed the attack at half nast nVlook quantity oi wneat man last year.
fallen for two months, the corn is being on the morning of the 14th, and the!
burned to death :the pastures are as in. I advices stale that the latest report is
flammable as powder, and prairie fires that the fighting stilt continues.
are raging. Alhover Northern and East- j 1 he garrison sun holds the city again Bt
ern Indiana prayers for rain are being the rebels, but the fall of the city is in-
The
planters have to contend with the lo-
I casts to some extent in every province
but corn has suffered more than wheat.
TWENTY VICTIMS OF TYPHOID,
offered in all the churches. '
Iowa has bad an average of nearly
ninety degrees for ten days, and never
before has there been such suffering in
September. Pnblic schools are closed in
many -towns, workmen are forced to
quit toil, and prayers for rain are going
up on every hand. In Ohio also public
schools were closed during yesterday
owing to the extremely hot weather.
Michigan, too, is scanning tne South
and watching every newspaper and
weatner ouiietin ior tne promise ot a
downpour.'-' Farmers are anxious; 'fruit
raisers are downcast, and the- people of
the cities discouraged.
Have Already Died at
Dawson.
Two Deaths From Heat.
Chicago, Sept. 15. Two deaths and
several prostrations are reported today
as the result of the excessive heat. The
dead are Solomon Anderson and John
McBride. .
- Something; to Know.
It may be worth something to know
evitable, unless the reinforcements now I Number
hurrying forward arrive within a few
hours.. I Sxn Francisco, Sept. 16. John Sid
The present revolution is headed by 1 nev Webb, attorney at Washington, D.
General Pospero Morales, who, until a I C., for the Alaska Commercial Company
few months ago was a minister of war in "a8 made a visit to Dawson and. Klon
he cabinet, General Fues Barrios, a I ake mining districts for the sola pur
brother-in-law of President Barrios, and Pse of informing himself of the condi-
Feliciano Gnitera. ' tion ot living there and in Alaska gener
These three men are candidates for I a"yt in order that he may speak and act
president to succeed Barrios for the con- understanding when matters affecting
siitutional time from 1898 to 1901. Their Alaska arrangements, schools, etc., are
antagonism of the president dates from I 00 tae tapis.
the tme he declared himself dictator of . I P-". been "11 around the coast
Guatemala and announced his intention I route, as it is called, and up to Daw-
of having a law passed in defiance of the I sod," be said. "Dawson is low and flat,
constitution, permitting . a president's 1 8nd even ln the height of summer the
election for a second term. This meant ground is frozen half a foot below the
another term for Barrios, and met with surface and ice is encountered beneath
solid opposition from the upper classes l'18 muck. The development of the
of Guatemala. : creeks was followed by washing down m-
In view of this growine discontent, the! to tQe river Klondike and thence into
three presidential candidates decided to 'n Yukon above Dawson, of large quan
meet Barios with bullets instead of bal- tities of filth and refuse by the very
lots. The first movement in the plot doors of the inhabitants of Dawson, and
that tbo Vuiof mA;n;n- . was to get possession of the barracks at t' " o wonder there should be sickness
- t n . . . I -I T 1 1 . .1
oan jaarcos, wnere a large quantity of I BUU UMlu. AU mue cemetery mere,
arms and ammunition was stored. This there lay no less than twenty victims of
was done bv bribery, nearly all the sol- typhoid fever, and now the number no
diers at San Marcos st that time joining noubt has been increased considerably.
the rebel movement. J-he drinRmg water at JJawson is very
The rebel force is now 5000. and is bad, and this adds to the sickness."
growing. Ibis is made possible by the
Wealth and standing of General Morales
and. his chiefs and the great discontent I
in the financial circles of the conntry,
growing out of the business depression
there.
the tired out nervous system to a healthy
vigor is Electric Bitters. This medicine
is purely vegetable, acts by giving tone
to the nerve centres in the stomach,
gently stimulates the Liver and Kidneys,
and aids these organs in throwing off
mpurities in the blood. Electric Bit
ters improves the appetite, aids diges
tion and is pronounced by those who
have tried it as the very best blood puri
fier and nerve tonic. Try it. . Sold for
50c or $1.00, per bottle at Blakeley &
Houghton's Drug Store. (2)
ATTJCMPT ON THE LIFK OP DIAZ
An Italian
Tries to Stab
President.
the Mexican
CONDITIONS MADE KNOWN.
To Work the Reserve Claims.
Ottawa, Sept. 16. A proposition has
been laid before the' minister of the in
terior by an influential delegation to
send a body of volunteers into tbe
kon, some 100 in all, nominally to
How England Proposes to Do Some-
' thing for Silver.
Losnos, Sept. : 16. At tbe semi
annual meeting of the Bank of England
Yn- today tbe governor said : ,
pre- "ion are probably aware of the pro-
ment in its endeavor to keep St. Louis
free from the pestilence. '
. Subscribe for The Chbosicle. .
. A Deathbed Confession.
Boswobth, Mo., Sept. loi John Ab
bott, who has just died here after a long
illness, made a deathbed confession in
serve law and order, and to develope tbe
alternate claims left in the hands of the
government, giving a certain percentage
to the government and retaining the bal
ance to tbe company, which is to be
called the Yukon-Klondike Co-Operative
Mining & Trading Company of To
ronto; Some leading politicians of . the
country are said to be interested in the
project. '
"My Doy came home Irom school one
day with his hand badly lacerated and
bleeding, and suffering great pain," says
Mr. E. J. Schall, with Meyer Bros.'
Drug. Co., St. Louis, Mo. "I dressed
the wound, and applied Chamberlain's
Pain Balm freely. All pain ceased, and
in a remarkably short time it healed
without leaving a scar. For wounds,
sprains, swellings and rheumatism I
know of no other medicine or prescrip
tion equal to it. I consider it a house-
hold necessity." The 25 and 50 cent
sizes tor sale by Blakeley & Honghton.
Taxpayers, Attention.
This is my last and final call to you,
as the county court has issued an .im
perative order.
'By virtue of a warrant to me directed,
issued, by the clerk of the county court
of the state of Oregon for the county of circumstances to' carry out what is per
Wasco, commanding me to collect the missible under the act of 1844,
delinquent, - county, state and other
taxes, I Will, on the 1st day of October, Argentlue Wheat Little Damaged
1897, without further notice, levy upon I Xaw Yobk, Sept., 16. A dispatch to
and sell all property upon which taxes the Herald from Buenos Ayres says :
remain unpaid. . T. J. Driver, I Despite the invasion of locusts, which
:' ' . Sheriff, jhavecometo Argentina by the million.
posals laid before the government in tbe
summer by the United States and
France whereby this country should in
crease its use of silver as a contribution
to the international agreement, which,
while not affecting our gold standard,
might enable the mints of France and
America to resnme free coinage. Among
the proposals was one asking that tbe
Bank of England hold the silver permis
sible under the act of 1844 as against its
notes,
The governor then read a letter dated
July 29, addressed to the chancellor of
exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. It
was as follows :
"Referring to our conversation we beg
to say the bank is prepared to carry out
what is laid down as permissible in the
bank charter, viz. : to hold one-fifth of
its note issue in silver, provided always
that the French mint is again open to
the free coinage of silver and that the
price of which silver is procurable and
salable are satisfactory."
Replying to questions, tbe governo
said the bank had had no negotations
with the United States monetary com
missioners, adding :
"We have bought no silver. All we
have done is to agree under certain
St. Louis, Sept. 36. A special to tbe
Post-Dispatch from the City of Mexico
says :
An attempt was made this morning to
assassinate President Diaz by a supposed
! Italian named . Arrayo. There was a
general review ot troops in the city today.
Just before the review President Diaz, in
company with the minister of war, was
passing through a 'public park, when
suddenly a foreigner sprang from behind
a bosh with a poniard and made a lunge
at tbe president. Tbe minister of war
instantly seized the assailant, threw him
to the ground and held him. Tbe police
came to the scene and placed the would-.
be assassin under arrest.
AS IT LOOKS IN GERMAN.
Europe Not Disposed to. Aid American
- Silver-Mine Owners. .
Berlin, Sep. 16. The National Zel
tnng, referring to the inlormation in the .
Times of September 10, that the Bank
of England was prepared to hold against
its notes, Bays:
"The unfavorable reception the an
nouncement has met with from the or
gans of British trade leaves no room for
doubt as to the opinion of British com
mercial bodies,' and as to the ultimate
fate of the latest American attempt to
secure for the silver-mine owners with
the aid of Europe, a rise in silver as a
reward for their support of the McKinley
tariff policy and to keep the silverites in
a good humor."
YELLOW JACK SLOWLY SPREADS
Nineteen Cases Have Now Been Re
ported at New Orleans.
New Orleans, Sept. 16. At 11 o'clock
today tbe board of health - officially
declared the suspicious case of fever on
St. Andrew's street to be yellow fever.
This makes a total of 19 cases to date.
A telegram from Biloxi says an Italian
has died in tbe heart of that city, appar
ently from yellow fever.