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in 0,cchiy VOL. VIII. THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1897. NUMBER 2. W) m ffl lllf f f J lTliDlillT f AT WORK ON BIG GUNS New Armaments Wanted in a Hurry. RUSH ORDERS HAVE BEEX ISSUED Two Factories la Pennsylvania are ine OlieratPfl Nlglit ami Day In C.-nqnence. . Philadelphia, Nov. 16. For more than two months people living in Tio.a and Nicetown have commented on the fact that the Midvale steel works had ."not shnt down even for Sunday, and the jarring noise of the big machinery has penetrated at midnight or the early hours of the morning the same as during the day. Sickness has beon the only plea that would permit any of the em ployes to enjoy a days rest, and three relays of men have beeen alternately . kept at a high tension. All this excitement, it leaked out to dav. is due to a harried order from the government for an increase of arm ment.The order placed with the Midvale steel works is for 50 10-inch disappear ing guns and 10 12-inch mortars. The urooernment inspection is in the hands of Captain T. A. Lisle of th army. He is ont of the city, and the manager of the Midvale company de clined to talk regarding the big contract made with the government. An open gate of the main building in the Midvale discloses to view three nn finished castings of the 10-inch pattern To one side of the furnaces upon tempo rary wooden mountings were two weap ons apparently ready for being trans ported, 'There is enough work on the unfin isbed contracts to keep the entire force ' at both places ba9V for several months yet. THE DAUNTLESS AGAIN BOARDED ' The Irrepressible Filibuster Bobs Up at Key West. New York, Nov. 16. A Special to the Tribune from W ashington says : The filibustering steamer Dauntless is again causing serious concern to naval authorities. A telegram to the navy department from Key West, where the cruiser Montgomery and the gunboat Anapolis are supposed to be on the watch, announces the sudden arrival of the Dauntless at that point, although on Saturday the commanding officers of the Vesuvius, who was watching her at Jacksonville, reported her in dock there. being repainted and generally placed in . condition for another expedition. He thought the would be ready in an other week, and wondered what steps he wonld take to prevent her departure if - she had men and . arms on board, and the department had scarcely informed bim he mast follow her to sea and make every effort to prevent her reaching Cuba, when the word came that she bad slipped into Key West, violating the quarantine regulations by leaving Jack eonville without notice, and completely . disconcerting the naval officers who are afraid she will get away from her pres ent berth as readily as from her last ' without anyone being the wiser. If ebe has men and ammunition, the Dauntless is in a fine way to reach Cuba for all the navy can do to prevent it, Bince her speed makes it difficult for any of our smaller warships to catch her in the daytime, and she can easily elude them at night. The only sure method to prevent her reaching Caba, in the .. opinion of the naval officers here, is to destroy her. WHY THE SILVER ENVOIS FAILED England Alone Blasted the Hope of Wolcott vo. Washington,- Nov, 16. The official reports of the correspondence in regard to the bimetalic proposals of the United States monetary commission to the gov ernmentjof Gnat Britain has reached this country. It fully confirms the re port cabled to the American Press Octo ber 21st and 22d. The negotiations fell through, notwithstanding the expressed 1 willingness of the French government to open their mints, owing to the "re jection by the British' government of the proposition to again open the Indian mints to the free coinage of silver. .. . None of the : other propositions were replied to, because one of the most im portant concessions requested of Great Britain could not be conceded, : ' -Great Britain, in making answer, re ; ferred to the wishes of the government of India, to which the proposal was re ferred, and the reply of the latter gov ernment therefore is the most important ; communication in the correspondence. The most potent reasons urged against the proposition ij that the bu.-den of failure, if failure should come from the experiment for re-establishment of bi meulistn by France and the United States, must inevitably fall on India. Both the United States and Francerthe reply argues, with their gold, could to a greater or less extent protect themselves if the experiment did not prove to be a success.. The document contains a reservation which wou'd seem to indicate taat if the scope of the proposed experiment was tulliciently broadened India might be wil ing at lend i reconsider thp propo sition. ' HITCH IN TUB NEGOTIATIONS. Canadians Will Not Discuss the Sealing matter Alone. Washington, Nov. 16. The Canadi ans have determined today to meet the4 propositions for the immediate suspen sion of pelagic sealing with a counter proposition for the establishment of a committee to arrange a general settle ment not only of the sealing question, but the reciprocity, border immigration, North Atlantic fisheries, and all pending-questions between the United States and Canada. It was stated that the proposition would be submitted when diplomatic phases of the subject were taken np todly. The contention ot the American rep sentatives is that the Behring Sea mat ter is Che first question to be disposed of. The Canadians are equally insistent that they will not surrender on the sealing question without at the same time se' curing action on all the other subjects which are to them of quite as much im portance as the sealing question. Their suggestion of a commission, therefore, will contemplate the assembling of duly organized commissioners, to be appoint ed by the president and Canada to con sider all pending questions, and if pos Bible, negotiate a a treaty covering the settlement of all of them. The plan necessarily implies a suspension ot the action on the Behring sea question for the present. The Behring sea meeting began at 11 o'clock today under the usual circum stances of secrecy. The commercial organizations of the country are becoming interested in the question of reciprocity, as it is evidenced by the communications received from Boston merchants, who make a strong plea for Canadian reciprocity. At the morning session the experts concluded their work on the technical features of the seal question, reaching an agreement on all points of difference. The signing of their report was deferred until 2:30 this afternoon. It was agreed that the nature of the report should not be made public until it had been submitted to their respec tive governments. . ' Cash In lour checks. All county warrants registered prior to July 7, 1893, will be paid at my office. Interest ceases after Oct. 27th, 1897. C. L. Phillips, , Conntv Treasurer. Nebraska corn for sale at the Wasco warehouse. Best feed on earth. m9-t 2000- says " It is worth a great deal to us to have you try Schillings Best baking powder and tea." m W ' 1 1 Money-back says deal of confidence in your good faith and in Schillings Best baking powder and tea." Schilling's Best baking powder and tea are hfij-.n.usp. What tke missing word? not powder and tea are safe. Get Sckilling's Best baking powder ticket (brows ticket in every package t;;-ari a Sdket with each word to address below before December 31st UntH 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 f 2000.00; if several find it, f 2000.00 will be equally divided among them. . ' : Every one sending a brown or yellow ticket will receive a set of cardboard weeping babies at the 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 the last contest Better cut these rules out. Address: MONEY-BACK, SAN FRANCISCO. AUSTRIA IN EARNEST! She Will Enforce Her De mands on Tnrkey. MERSIXA WILL BE BOMBARDED Austrian Embassadors Ready to Quit Constantinople Porte Shjws n SiEim of Weakening Vienna, Nov. 1. The Turkish gov ernnent not having yielded to the de mands of the government of Austria for redress on account of the indignities of fered to Austrian merchants of MerBina, Herr Brazzafelli. the Austrian embas sador, Baron de Cecele, will leave Con stantinople, and an Austrian warship will bombard the port of Mersina, Asia Minor, if the demands of Austria are not complied with by noon Thursday, Austria demands of the Turkish gov ernment an order . for a salute of the Austrian flag, that the vali of Adena be dismissed from his position, and that the lieutenant-governor be removed Tbesultan, buoyed up by in easy vie tory over Greece during the late war, will not. it is believed, yield until the last moment. Austria, in addition to the demands mentioned, will insist upon the porta furnishing her with definite assurance resnectinz other matters, notably the complaints made by officials of the Aus trian company operating Oriental rail roada. which have frequently been brought to the atteution of the Turkish government. In this connection it is announced that in addition to the de spatching of warships to Mersina, . with instructions to obtain satisfaction for the conduct complained of, the ship will at noon tomorrow unless the porte has granted the demands of Austria by that time, stop all traffic on Oriental rail roads. Will Stave off Action New York, Nov. 17. A special to the Herald from Washington says : It is said to be the present intention of President McKinley to incorporate the recent Spanish correspondence in his annual message to congress. He does not deem it compatible with the public service to publish the full text of the noteB, pending farther correspond- ence and the carrying ont of the prom- ises made by the Spanish government. The papers will be accessible to the members of the committee on foreign af- fairs for their guidance in dealing with various resolutions which will come be- fore them. It is reported that Spain asked to have the correspondence withheld for the present for political reasons. The new ministry fears that the conciliatory at titude toward the United States, as shown by the notes, may cause em bar rassment at home, and thereby make it impossible to carry .out the proposed re forms. On the other band there is the - ' , . T T T " We have a great they are money-back. SAFE, although Schillings Bfst baking or tea at your grocers'; take out the of baking powder; yellow ticket in the be different from the ones offered in I aott -1 fear that jingo members of congress who have been expecting so much' at the hands of Mr. McKlnley may not be sat i'fied with all that Spain has promised anu idri anoiner ouioreait in congress will tend to aggravate the situation in Spain. " The president's chief desire now is to stave off action of any kind by congress uatil it can be definitely known whether Spain's new plan is to succeed or fail.' - Sagasta la Cautions. New 1 obk, Nov. 17, A dispatch to the World from Madrid says: The government will not dissolve par' liament.nor fix a date for the election and the meeting of the new cortes until Premier Sagasta can definitely form an opinion as to the attitude of the Amer ican congress toward Spain, and until President McKioley's message and the contemplated note on the question of filibustering expeditions enable him to see the drift of MeKinley's policy. The government and leaders of - the opposi tion deem it to be unadvieable to risk being without a parliament in case com plications ebonld arise in its relations with the United States. Should the at titude of the American congress and president be reassuring. Premier Sagas ta will dissolve the cortes in December, and, appoint the elections tor February, thus bringing the next meeting of the cortes early in March. With a view to getting snpport easier from the house in which, like all past Spanish governments, he is likelyVto get double majorities, he is anxious to have the election take place at the same time in Spain and the West Indies, even if the state of Cuba in February obliges bim to adopt exceptional measures to carry out at the polls the policy that General Blanco and Senor Morrel are already concerting. it is 8am that the bpamsh govern ment will provide the state department at Washington with the text of the co lonial reforms and full details of their working with alljtbat is required to give President McKlnley an insight into that new policy before drafting bis mes sage.' The Spanish ministers and Minister Woodford seem to get on very well to gether ' Roundlng-np Boomers Wichita, Kas., Nov. 17. George M. Hughes, of Anadarko, I. T., has arrived in Wichita on a trip to secure 20,000 col onists for the Wichita country, who are to settle in and about the Wichita moan- tains before the first of January, and by sheer persistency and force of numbers compel congress to open the country to settlement, - Hughes is one of twenty men who are now making a systematic canvass of Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas for boomers to settle in the new country Tbe Plan is to inaugurate a promiscioas immigration into the Indian country at once and begin to hunt for gold, de manding of congress, at. the same time, the opening of the Wichita country. The movement promises to surpass the famons colony expedition in Okla homa by Captain Payne. i ' , A Blizzard In Nebraska. Omaha, Nov. 16. Heavy snow has been falling all over the north-western part of the state for 24 hoars, and the storm has assumed the proportions of a blizzard. Some enow has fallen in the eastern part of the state and at Omaha. The storm attained its greatest violence in the north-western part of Nebraska, extending into Wyoming and Montana. The mercury is hovering around zero all over Nebraska. State of Ohio, City of ToledoJ Lucas County, ) . Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City ofT.Medo, County and state afore said, and that said firm i!l pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the nee of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1896. - , : , A. W. Gleason, fsEAL Notary Public -Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal ly and acts directly on the blood and mucuos surfaces of' the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney a Co., Toledo, O. gg"SoId by Druggists, 75c, No. 3-11 Chinese Actors Barred Oat. ' New York, Nov. 18. The Chinamen who were sent to England to appear in the reproduction of the play, "The First Born," aro in a peck of trouble. They returned on the Kaiser Wil helm der Grosse, and they were not allowed to land because of the Chinese exclusion law, The Chinamen are now being fed at the expense of the German Steam ship Company, and divide their time between feasting and praying to a Chi nese god that they may be permitted to land. -v REFORMS IN NAME Cuba Not Benefited by the Change of Policy. BLAXC0 MAY POSSIBLY RESIGN Spain's Failure to Hedeena Pledges the Canse Autonomist Rapidly Losing Hope. New York, Nov. 18. A dispatch to the Herald from Havana says : There are no signs of the appearances of the full text of the proposed reforms and consequently the hopes of the most optimistic autonomists are dwindling. The fault lies not with General Blanco. There is every reason to believe that his promises on arrival were made in good faith. He is evidently deeply incensed at the false position in which he is placed. . . He cabled a day or two ago to Madrid, saying General Weyler had de ceived him as to the condition of the army and the government, and misled him regarding its sincerity in promising autonomy, and broadly hinted that b felt inclined to ask to be relieved. In addition to Spain's delay, Spanish officers here have thrown obstacles the way of autonomy by procrastination in carrying out instructions to adopt less harsh methods of warfare and en deavor to destroy the suspicion of the rebels. The Herald correspondent has just re turned from a two day's trip through Havana to Artemisa. Every military commander of a town who was met said he had not yet received any orders re garding the extension of the zones of cultivation. The condition of the reconcentrado9 is nnaltered. Their sufferings are appal ing. To put any one sugar estate into a condition to grind would cost a con eiderable sum, which neither the plant ers nor ye Spanish-govern merit can at prssent afford. These delays, it is be lieved, have killed the chances of auto nomy. " . ' ; The Herald's correspondent with the Cuban army writes : Unless - General Blanco speedily makes more headway than he has dcine yet, autonomy will be a dead letter in the Cuban issue." ' '"! General Pedro Betancourt, chief of the insurgent army in Matanzas province and an intimate friend of General Go mez, writes from the field nnder date of November 11 : "Notwithstanding this, you may rest assured that all patriotic men in Cuba are determined and in a condition never to surrender to the Spanish flag. Such is the resolution of the liberating army, known already to all the nations through out the world, and you may therefore give to this expression the utmost pub licitv.i' Stands at the Head. Aug. J. 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Public opinion demands instant action of some kind, and it is ex pected that the ministry will be com pelled to bow to itfl impatience. Major Esterhazj's story of how he re ceived an intimation that a plot was afoot to implicate him has excited sus picion against him instead of allaying it. His statement that be can give no clew whatever to'tbe identity of the veil ed lady who volunteered an assignation with him and handed him a letter clynching the Dreyfus' guilt is regarded as very dubious. ; Why this alleged lady should interest herself in bis behalf, and why he, knowing the Eupreme import ance of ascertaining her identity, should have failed to make any effort to ascer tain it, are questions that are being asked with many skeptical headshakes. Esterhazy's tale may be true, but; if so, Royal makes the food pure, . wholesome and delicious. Fovczn Absolutely Pure ROVAl BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. Celebrated for Its great leavening strength aud bealthfulness. 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When the country is really' opened there will be inaugurated a period of excitement unprecedented in the Southwest. The mineral is there, and there will be a rush. The Rock Island already has a survey running through the mountains and the Choctaw .road could easily di- . vert a branch into the' heart of these hills. The three-year-old boy of J. A. John son, of Lynn Center, 111., is subject to attacks of croup. Mr. Johnson says he is sure that the timely use of Cham berlain's Cough Remedy, during a se vere attack, saved bis boy's life. He is in the drug business, a member of the firm of Johnson Broa.,ot that place, and they handle a great many patent med icines for throat and lung diseases. He had all these to select from, and skilled ' physicians to answer to his call, but se- , lected this remedy for use in bis own home at a time when his boy's life was in danger,. becanse he knew it to be su perior to any other, and famous the country over lor its cures of the croup. Mr. Johnson says this is the best selling cough medicine " they handle, and that . gives splendid satisfaction in all cases. -Sold by Blakeley A Houghton. The Santa Fe Bold Dp. Santa Fe, N. M., Nov. 18, A mer-"' chant from Grant, N. M., where the re cent robbery of the Santa Fe passenger train occurred, states that fully $150,000 f not more, was secured by the robbers. About 100 pounds of gold coin was taken ; according to the statement of Fireman Abel, given the merchant half an hour after the robbery, and "then they piled ; isto their sacks bundle after bundle of paper currency,'' added the fireman- United States Marshal Foraker admits . that at least $35,000 in gold was secured by the robbers, and an unknown amount of greenbacks. The marshal has gone ' south to meet Arizona officials. It is believed that the hiding place' of the robbers has been located. Chinese Kebellion- Victoria? Nov; 18 The Express of China brings these oriental advices. The rebellion in northern China is spreading and fears are expressed that the insurgents will advance onTien-Tnir. The imperial troops have been defeated is several engagements and the number of insurgents is increasing. The in surgents also expect to be joined by members of secret sce'eties who revolted unsuccessfully just before the war with Japan. They are well supplied with arms and ammunition abandoned by Chinese "bravos" in the recent war. : NOTICE. ' I have a stray horse, a roan, 9 years old, br.tnded with a figure 2 on the right hip, at my place on three mile. The owner can have the same by paying the cost of this advertisement and proving ' property. Seth Morgan. The Dalles. I