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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
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UntH October 15th two words allowed for every ticket ; after that only one
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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
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or tea at your grocers'; take out the
of baking powder; yellow ticket in the
be different from the ones offered in I
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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
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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. Bogel, the leading druggist of
Shreveport, La., says : "Dr. King's
New Discovery is the o'hly thing that
cares my cough, and it is the best seller
I have." J. F. Campbell, merchant of
Safford, Ariz., writes : "Dr. King's New
Discovery is all that is claimed for it; it
never fails, and is a sure cure for Con
sumption, Coughs, and Colds. I cannot
say enough for. its merits." Dr. King's
New . Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds is not an experiment.
It has been tried for a quarter of a cen
tury, and today stands at the. head. It
ne?er disappoints. Free trial bottles at
Blakeley & Houghton's drug store. 1
Tale Is Not Credited.
New York, Nov. 18. A dispatch to
the World from Paris says :
Paris is in a condition of high excite
ment over the Dreylus : mystery, and
even if the authorities had any notion
of smothering the scandal, it wonld now
be impossible. 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.
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Dissatisfaction is beginning to be ex
pressed also with General Billot's state
ment. ,
Many Boomers Knlisted.
WicniTA, Kas., Nov. 18. Captain
Hewes, said to be one of the twenty.;
men who are raising a colony of boomers
to take the Wichita mountain country '
by storm, announces that he has already ,
enlisted nearly one hnndred men in'
Wichita and surrounding towns. He is
a forceful talker and carries samples of
the Wichita mountain mineral with him
to reinforce his arguments. He claims
to have at his command now in Okla
homa and Southwest Kansas 5,000 men
who will move upon the reservation at a
word. -
The Wichita mountains lie in the Ki
owa and Comanche Indian country, and
in Green county, Oklahoma. Along in
the '60s these Indians were given this
land to hold until October, 1897. 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.
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