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THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1897.
NUMBER 43.
VOL. VII.
V lit 1 ft U 1
IN CIIILKOOT PASS
One Thousand 3Ien Caught
Out in It September l.
A LETTER FROM CRATER LAKE
V
Dyea Trail Likely to Be Completely
Blockaded With Snow by
September 25.
San Fbaxcisco, Sept. 21. A letter
from Crater lake, Alaska, dated Septem
ber 2, says :
A thousand men toiled all of yesterday
in a blinding storm of enow and sleet
on the summit of Cbilcoot pass. The
blizzard lasted from daylight till dark.
T. C. Willard, of Butte, Mont., fell
from the rocks at a point half way be
tween the summit and Crater lake, and
fractured a bone in bis left forearm. A
physician set the limb and Willard
plnckily continued across toward Lake
Lindermann. . - w,
, An Indian at Dyea said a few days
ago that Chllcoot pass , would probably
be blockaded by snow about the 23tb.
Be said that miners fortunate enough to
bave their supplies across the summit
before that time can reach Dawson.
The rivers be claims will keep open until
late in November, although the lakes
will probably be frozen in six weeks.
Ten days ago the Indians charged 32
cents a pound for packing from Dyea to
Lindemann, the rate is now 40 cents.
When the next steamer arrives it will
probably jump to 50 or 60 cents.
COLLKOE-BRED GOLDSEEKEB8.
Several of Them Arrive at St. Michaels
En Route to Klondike.
Hanover, N. H., Sept. 21. F. C.
Staley, of Chicago, a member of the
class of '98, Dartmouth college, has
arrived at St. Michaels on bis way to
the Klondike. In a letter received from
him he states that in the party are a
number of college men, two from Yale,
two from Harvard, several from Berkeley
college of California, ttiree from Stanford
university, two from Kenyon, one each
from the university of Michigan, Col am
bia, Iowa and Cornell. Ia addition he
confirms the report of a scarcity of food
in the gold region, as told by those re
turning down the Yukon river.
MRS. STILLS WAS TIRED OF ANDY
Her Alleged A Dd action Really An
Elopement.
WarbknsVurg, Mo., Sept. 21. The
latest developments of the Stills abduc
tion case are exceedingly sensational.
Relatives of the accused parties persuad
ed Prosecuting 'Attorney Bradley to go
' to Jefferson township and investigate.
He was taken' into the woods 10 miles
from the scene of the alleged crime and
shown a woman in company with a
gang of young men, wbo claimed to be
the missing Mrs. Stills. Wnen ques
tioned, she admitted that she was the
wife of Andy Stills, but said she bad left
him willingly, to go will Hull,McKeeben
and Jackson, and did not want to return
to him.
Mr. Bradley says be satisfied himself
the stories of abduction and outrage of
the wife aa told by Stills is untrue, but
many persons hers are not satisfied with
the revealations made by friends of the
accused. '
Constable Hudson eaya he found that
Mrs. Stills was with ber mother at
White Sulphur Springs up to 11 o'clock
Saturday morning.
A liveryman at Leeton -says positively
that he took Mrs. Shlls to the home of
ber mother, and was paid by a relative
of the three accused men for doing so.
OF COURSE ITS FROM ANDBEE'
The Dally Pigeon Message Landed In
Ohio This Time.
Cincinnati. Sept. 21. The Enquirer's
Bpecial from Xenia says : -
A carrier pigeon bas been found by B.
Scon well in bis barny ard near here. The
bird is ia an exhausted condition, and
gave evidence of a long fligbU silver
band was fastened around the bird's leg
on which was engraved, some words and
letters which were so worn and ' rusted
as to be almost entirely nndistinguish
able. But few of the. ; letters, could be
made out. t Many people here aria of the
opinion that it is an Andree pigeon.' As
yet the message has not been deciphered.
PREACHERS ARE INDIGNANT.
Sunday Work in the Chicago Federal
Building Displeases Them.
' Chicago. Sept. 21. Presbyterian min
isters of Chicago are indignant over the
fact that the work of excavating for the
foundation of the new federal building
at Clark and Jackson streets is being
proeecuted on Sunday. At the weekly
meeting of the Presbyterian Ministers'
Association resolutions were passed and
copies forwarded to President McKinley
and Secretary Gage, expressing regret
that the Christian Sabbath is being
violated by the building of the new
postoffice and custom-house, and re
questing that officers having the build
ing in charge order that the law of God
be obeyed and all labor on or connected
with the construction of said postoffice
be suspended on the Christian Sabbath.
The ministers are confident that the
federal authorities will act favorably on
the matter. .
MINERS' STRIKE ENDED.
Work Being- Gradually Reiamed at
Many Points.
Washington, Sept. 21. M. D. Ratch
ford, president of the United Mine
Workers of America, who is hereto
attend a special meeting of the officers
of the Federation of Labor, gives the
following statement to the Associated
Press today :
"Today will see about 75,000 miners
resume work in the bituminous coal
fields of the Central states. The strike
generally ends today. The mining situa
tion is not likely to become disturbed
again until the beginning of next year,
at which time we hope to be able to
settle the wage differences amioably and
without the necessity of striking.
"Of course the victory is not altogether
one of the miners. While they have
done the striking,the trades unions and
organized bodies bave supplied the
necessaries, without which the miners
could not bave possibly succeeded. It
is a victory for organized labor and not
tor any particular trade, and we want
oar friends wbo have helped us to feel
that it's their victory as well as ours.'
MURDER IS THE CHARGE.
Sheriff Martin and Forty Deputies Held
for Trial.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 21. Sheriff
Martin and about 40 of bis deputies
were arraigned in court this morning,
charged with the murder of 21 striking
miners at Lattimer. Several witnesses
testified. The judge held the sheriff and
deputies in $4000 bail, each for trial
Bail was furnished and they returned to
Hazleton.
FREIGHT SUBJECT TO DELAY.
Effect of Fever Quarantine on the Rail
way Business.
Kansas Citt, Sept. 21. Kansas City
railroads having outlets at Gulf ports
are notifying shippers that freight for
Gulf points will be accepted subject to
delay only. -This is due to yellow fever
quarantine which is now being rigidly
enforced, freight as well as passenger
trains being subject to the rule.
. There is every indication that the big
grain crop of tbe Southwest, which bas
begun to move in great quantities to tbe
Gulf ports, will be driven back to tbe
Atlantic ports, from which it has been
largely diverted, owing to the activity of
the Gulf railroads.
No Alarm at Chicago.
Chicago, Sept. 21. The report that
two cases of yellow fever have been die
covered at' Cairo, HI., has not alarmed
Chicago health officials. Health Com
missioner Reynolds doubts if the cases
at Cairo are yellow fever, and believes
they are either malaria or "Breakbone"
fever. He bas no intention of rescind'
ing his proclamation, welcoming South
ern refugees to Chicago.
LOCATED SEVEN GOLD MINES.
Successful Prospecting; Expedition
Six Oakland Women.
of
San Francisco, Sept. 21. Six Oakland
women have returned from a search tor
gold mines . in the mountains of Shasta
county. For two weeks they tramped
in bloomers over hills, through canyons.
fording creeks, braving all the hard
ships incidental to a prospector's life.
They, have seven placer and quartz
mines' located.
The women were Mrs. May Mauvais,
Mrs. Martha D. Hume, Mrs. Alma
Haden, Mrs. J. Huges, Mrs. Etta Demoy
and Mrs. Lila Herron. They left Oak
land, each one fully equipped with
miners' outfits. They returned with
hundreds of ore samples and gold tbey
had panned from placer claims.
FIGHTING' IN NICARAGUA.
Rebel Attack Upon Granada Repulsed
by Government Troops.
"New York. Sept. 2L A dispatch to
the World from Panama says :
Nicaraguan reports state that in an
uprising in . Grenada an attack was
made on the barracks, but owing to a
strong resistance and the government's
activity in sending forces to the scene,
the revolutionists were defeated.
The government, troops recaptured the
town after some hours' struggle and
hard fighting. The revolutionists fled
toward Costa Rica, but it Is thought
they will be captured soon.
TRAILS ARE CLOSING DP
Winter Has Set In on Cliil
koot and White Passes.
FEW OX THE TRAILS WllL GET OVER
Doc Train Only Practicable Mean
of Packing- Supplies--Horses
at a Discount.
t Victoria, B. C, Sept. 22. The
steamer Queen, which arrived this
morning, brought back eighty miners,
wbo decided to wait nntil spring before
proceeding to the Klondike. Winter
bas set in in earnest at, White and
Cbilkoot passes, there being-four feet of
snow on tbe eummits, and ice is form
ing in the small streams. -
Those who get over now have to go
by dog train, as horses are no longer any
use, and animals for . which men re
fused $300 and $400 a few weeks ago can
be bought for $3. A large number of
men are going to Juneau to winter, but
many will come south and make fresh
starts in the spring.
A KEINDEER EXPRESS.
Governmont May Establish One to the
Klondike.
Washington, Sept. 22. Secretary
Bliss, of the department of the interior,
bas induced tbe commissioner of edu
cation to bave the reindeer now at Teller
station, Alaska, which have been broken
to work, forwarded to St. Michaels, to
be held there for use in forwarding sup
plies to tbe Klondike country in case of
emergency. There are about eight of
the deer, which it is believed by the
administration can be utilized in this
way .'and. the opinion prevails that they
would be much more useful than doge,
because they can travel more rapidly,
draw more, and can live on the little
forage the country produces.
Tbe secretary says that each reindeer
will carry about 300 pounds, and will
travel a hundred miles a day. Tbey are
to be sent to St. Michaels in preference
to other places, because of the avaiiable
stores at that point.
FOR USE IN THE KLONDIKE.
Colorado Man Invents a Device to Thaw
Frozen Ground.
Denver, Sept. 22. A device to thaw
the drozen ground of tbe Klondike bas j
been invented by N. Parker Doe, of
Cripple Creek. A formal trial of the
machine was made yesterday and was
found to work like a charm, although
there was no frozen ground to try it on.
Six hundred machines will be ordered
at once and transported to the Klondike
in tbe spring.
A miner recently returned from Klon
dike, has examined tbe machine and
says it is just what the miner in Alaska
needs. The scheme is to generate gas
in a tank, the gas passing to a blowpipe,
where, becoming ignited, it is forced out
in a flame. It can be directed in any
position and cannot be blown out by
the wind.
WAR CLOUD IS LOWERING.
The Country on the Verge of Conflict;
With Spain.
New York, Sept. 22. "This country
$2000-
Schilling's Best baking powder goes a
third farther than any other ; gets to work
quicker; makes sweeter cake.
Schillings Best
taste better.
Schilling's Best baking powder and tea are
: because they are money-back.
What k tbe misting word? not SAFE, although Schilling's Bist baking
powder and tea art safe. '- - ,
Cmt ScailHmtfs Utst baking powder or tea at your grocers'; take out the
ticket (brown ticket ia ovary package of baking powder; yellow ticket. in the
tea) sad a' ticket witk eaoh word to address below before December 31st .
Until October 15th two words allowed for every ticket ; after that only one
word for every ticket
, If only one person finds the word, that person gets $2000.00 ; if several find
it, .2000.00 will be equally divided among them.'
,'. Ecry one sending a brown or yellow ticket will receive a set of cardboard
creeping babies at tbe end of the contest Those sending three or more in one
envelope will receive an 1898 pocket calendar no advertising on it These
creeping babies and pocket calendars will be different from the ones offered in
the last contest .. -
Better cut these rules out.
Address: MONEY-BACK, SAN FRANCISCO.
ia on the verge of a war with Spain."
These are the words ot Assistant Sec
retary of the Navy Roosevelt. He used
them at a conference of some of the
naval militia, whom he had summoned
to Washington to learn of tbe state of
their commands and the number of men
that can be depended upon to complete
the complement of the warships and the
auxiliary navy. Assistant Secretary
Roosevelt urged the gentlemen who had
been called into the conference not to
underestimate the gravity of the situa
tion. The navy department is preparing to
use every available man of the naval
militia. Commanders of the reserve
-who bave been called to Washington
during tbe last few days have had , tbe
importance of getting their divisions in
such shape that a sudden call will find
them in readiness, impressed upon
then4..'
II is believed that at a conference at
thenavy department within the last few
days the question was put as to bow
many men the commanders of the New
York and Brooklyn battalion would un
dertake to. report as available for three
months' war service. Commander
Slayton, of the. Brooklyn , battalion, is
reported to bave answered that , he
would guarantee 275 men out of bis bat
talion.. W. Butler Duncan, of the New
York battalion, estimates his number at
325. .
Tbe largest battalion in the country is
at San Francisco. Organizations on the
Pacific exist at San. Diego, Los Angeles,
San Francisco Portland and Olympia.
The navy department's estimate is
that 30,000 men will be needed for the
twenty-five merchant cruisers. Of this
number 3000 will come from the regular
warships.
Tbe significance of Roosevelt's re
mark, joined with the assemblage of mi
litia commanders at Washington and
the bunching of warships and ' man
euvers of the torpedo flotilla ia -very
great. .
Did You Ever. .
Try Electric Bitters t as a remedy for
your troubles? If not, get a bottle now
and. get relief. This medicine bas been
found to be peculiarly adapted to the re
lief aud cure of all Female Complaints,
exerting a wonderful direct influence in
giving strength and tone to the organs.
If you have Loss of Appetite, Constipa
tion, Headache, Fainting Spells, or are
Nervous, Sleepness, . Excitable, Melan
choly or troubled with Dizzy Spells,
Electric Bitters in the medicine yon
need. . Health and Strength are guaran
teed by its use. Large bottles only fifty
cents and $1.00 at Blakeley & Houghton,
Druggist- 3
'
"My boy came home from 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 ceaEed, 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." Tbe 25 and 50 cent
sizes tor sale by Blakeley & Houghton.
Nebraska corn for sale at the Wasco
warehouse. Best feed on earth. ni9-tf
tea makes good cake
sou
TO END THE CDBAN WAR
Pourparlers Opened Between
Washington and Madrid.
THE ULTIMATUM STORY DENIED
Present-Negotiations Bave for Their
Object a Peaceable Solution of
the Cuban Question.
S.
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Madrid, Sept. 23. The Correspond
encia de Espana asserts that Pourpar
lers are proceeding between the United
States and Spain for a friendly' settle
ment of affairs, in Cuba.
El Epoca, after denouncing as "sensa
tional" the story of an ultimatum,
points out that the Cubans have not
been at war with Spain without the
moral and material co-operation of the
American people.
There is a great deal of comment as
to the origin of the ultimatum canard
It has been attributed to a foreign am
bassador, but all the ambassadors deny
responsibility for it. Tbe people do not
think that war is inevitable.
It is asserted that the liberals will
soon form a cabinet, and that on the re
turn of the queen from San Sebastian
to Madrid, Captain-General Weyler will
be re-called from Cuba and autonomy
established in the island, thus leaving
no pretext for the intervention of the
United States.
WOULD EUROPE SUSTAIN US?
Circumstances Seem to Justify the As
sumption That She Would.
Washington, Sept 23. State depart
ment officials refuse to discuss tbe state
ment made in the Associated Press cable
dispatch from Madrid, namely, that tbe
countries of Europe, with the exception
of Austria, justify the interposition of
tbe United States in favor of a termina
tion of the Cuban war. Still, it is re
called that while Mr. Woodford was tar
rying in an apparently purposelesss
manner in London " and Pans, instead
of proceeding to his post in Spain, it
leaked out that tbe United States min
isters at various European courts bad
been instructed to sound tbe govern
ments to which they were accredited,'
with a view to learning how interven
tion in favor of Cuba would be re
garded.
Although it was generally supposed
at the time that this effort would not
succeed, there is now good reason to ac
cept the statement in the Madrid cable
as fully warranted by the facte.
NO ULTIMATUM WAS SERVED.
So Emphatically Declares an American
Diplomat in London.
JJaw Yobk, Sept. 23. A special to the
Herald from Loudon says :
In reference to tbe sensational tele
grams from Madrid about the alleged
ultimatum and inevitability of war be
tween the United States and Spain, the
Herald correspondent bad a conversa
tion with a distinguished American dip
lomat, who, though not personally con'
cerned in the American-Spanish negoti
ations, is in a position to know tbe ex
act state of affairs, but who, for obvious
reasons would not allow his name to be
mentioned. He said :
"I cannot, of course, pledge in ad
vance tbe government of the United
Stated, but so far as the present is con
cerned such a Etep is not in contempla
tion. The United States has probably
intimated through Mr. Woodford that
tbe present state of affairs is most de
plorable and that if we could be of any
assistance in bringing this condition of
things to an end we shouldbe glad to
offer our services. But ,,ypu may state
absolutely that no ultimatum! has been
sent to Spain by tbe .United States."
FOOD SHORTAGE 19 INEVITABLE.
Captain Tattle's Report on Conditions
In the North. -
Washington, Sept. 23, Captain Tut
tie, in command of the cutter Bear, of
the Behring sea patrol, in a report to
tbe Secretary of the treasury, gives an
official account of .the rescue of Captain
Whiteaides, his wife and a number of
tbe crew of tbe steamer Nevarch, which
was caught in the ice pack off Icy Cape,
July 30th, and also reports as to the con
dition of affairs at St. Michaels. . . .
The Bear reached St. Michaels August
28th, where about 300 miners were found
camping on the beach. , On arrival Cap
tain, Tuttle received requests from tbe
Alaska Commercial Company and the
North Amencau Trading Company to
reuiaia with his command, at St.
Michaels until some means could be de
vised to maintain law and order. He
was informed that among the sudden in
flux of people were many bad characters, j
Absolutely Pure
Celebrated lor its great leavening strength aud
bealthfulness. Assures ' tbe food sgainst alum
and all forms of. adulteration common to tbe
cheap brands.
KOYAL BAKISU POWDKB CO. NW YOBK.
and previous to tbe arrival of the Bear,
open threats bad been made as to what
tbey would do if the transportation com
pany failed to get them up the Yukon.
This was impossible with the means at
hand.
Captain Tuttle says that navigation
would close in a few days and that
twelve vessels were 4ben tn the way to
St. Michaels, tbe most of them with
passengers, and he thought if they did
not return on the vessels which brought
them, much suffering must reeult.
.The captain decided to comply with
the requeets which bad been made nntil
Captain Hooper, of the command of the
Behring sea fleet, could be communi
cated with, and another vessel detailed
for the duty until September 30tb, when
be says a military force will arrive.
In concluding his report Captain Tut
tle says that in his opinion the' situa
tion on the Yukon this winter will be a
very serious matter, and in his judg
ment the limited supply of food will re
eult in starvation.
ALL ARE FOR ANNEXATION.
Hawaiian Senate Unanimously Ratified
the Treaty.
Sas Francisco, Sept. 22. The steam
er City of Peking, which arrived in port
last evening and was at once placed in
quarantine, brought advices from the
Hawaiian islands up to and including
the 14th inst.
The senate convened September 8th,
but owing to the death of ex-Senator G.
Rhodes, president of tbe legislature, an
adjournment was taken to the following
day. The session lasted less than two
hour?, but in that time the annexation
treaty was presented and re ti fled with
out a dissenting vote.
Commenting upon tbe unprecedented
action of the upper chamber, tbe Lueo,
tbe newspaper organ of the Portuguese
residents, of September 13th, said :
"The senate of the republic of Hawaii
has unanimously ratified tbe convention
which concedes Hawaii to the United
States, not only with all mercantile prop
erty of doubtful title, bnt also tying np
privileges which about 5000 voters of the
Portuguese colony enjoy and bave en
joyed, and which can only be recovered
if the congress of tbe United States from
a sense of justice and equity shall con
cede to us the privileges to which we
have a right. . The session was closed on
the 10th, and will be convened . again
next March in regular session." .
Despite the action of the senate, the
opponents of annexation are continuing
tbe fight, and the leaders of the move
ment express the utmost confidence in
their ability to defeat annexation. Be
fore tbe Peking left a call had been is
sued for an immediate mass meeting to
be held on the 18th, and the indications -were
that it would be one of tbe largest
ever held in the islands. Some annexa
tionists hope to be able to bave Senator
Morgan address tbe meeting, with tbe
object of changing tbe sentiment of tu"
natives, but there was little likelihood
the plan meeting with success. "
There Is Nothing So Good.
There is nothing just as food as . Dr.
King's New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds, so demand it and do
not permit the dealer to sellyou some
substitute... He will not claim inhere is
anything, better, but in order, to .make
more profit be pay claim something else
to be just as good. , You want Pr, King's
New Discovery because you know it to
be safe and reliable, and guaranteed to
do good or money refunded. For Coughs,
Colds, Consumption and for all affec
tions of Throat. Chest and Lungs, there
is nothing so good as is Dr. King's New-
Discovery. Trial bottle free at Blakeley
& Houghton's Drug Store. Regular size
50 cents and $1.00. ;3) 1
Cash In Your Checks.
All countv warrants registered prior
to March 12, 1S93, will be paid at my
office. Interest ceases after Sept. 7,
1897. C. L. Phillips,
County Treasurer.