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THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 1. 1897.
VOL. VIII.
NUMBER 4.
HAWAII TO BE OURS
Annexation at the Next Ses
sion of Congress.
THE PLANS HAVE BEEN MATURED
Should the Treaty Fall, Annexation will
Be Accomplished by Means T
Leclxlntlon.
New York, Nov. 26. A Washington
pecial to the Herald says :
Hawaii will be annexed to the United
States during the next session of con
gress. This is one of the certainties of
the session. Senators and representa
tives, both advocates and opponents,
who have thus far arrived in Washing
ton, are practically unanimous on the
question.
President McKinley's message - will
strongly urge upon the senators early
ratification of the annexation treaty,
and it will be one of the first subjects
brought up in the executive session
Senator Caffery of Louisiana, who will
oppose annexation in any form, said
'I am radically opposed to the annex
ation of any more territory to theTJnited
States. 1 think it is foreign to the best
policy we can pursue to extend the lira
its of our jurisdiction to other regions of
the earth far remote from our national
boundaries.
'-The acquisition ot territory now in
eluded in the United States, excepting
Alaska, was the natural results of pow
erful impulse to extend our dominion
from ocean to ocean between the Brit
ish possessions on the north and theLat
in possessions to the sontb. Now tfcat
this has long been accomplished and the
entire included region amalgamated,
with its population in iuteligent sym
pithy with the constitution and the in
stitutions which exist under it, the poli
cy of territorial annexation Bhonld
rest.
"I can see no reason nor advantage in
leaching out 2,000 miles into the Pacific
ocean to take in a little group ot alien
islands which are not geographically al
lied to this continent and the acquisition
of which can do little for us beyond con
stituting an outlying naval station which
we are already able to establish there
without annexation,
"That their territorial extent is small
does not prevent the annexation from
constituting a dangerous precedent for
the addition of alien peoples.
. "Cuba is so much nearer to us than
Hawaii that she is almost a part of us
geographically, but her people are aB
alien to us as if they- lived in the anti
podes. The annexation of Hawaii would
naturally serve as an argument for the
acquisition of that island also. The an
. nexation of more of Spanish American
territory would then follow, all of which
is foreign to our policy as I understand
it.
"I acknowledge the existence of a
powerful element in the senate in favor
of annexation of Hawaii, but can see no
reason in following its leadership."
Senator Cockerel of Missouri, is also
opposed to the treaty, though he believes
Hawaii will be annexed by legislation
probably during the next session. , He
said:
"I doubt very much if the necessary
two-thirds of the senators will be found
in favor of the ratification of the treaty
when the time comes to vote. I expect,
rather, to see the Islands become a part
of the United States by an act of con
gress in tne same manner in which we
acquired Texas.
"An annexation treaty could . not be
passed at that time, but legislation to
annex the republic was easily passed.
The conditions seem to tne to be similar
in the case of Hawaii. I do not know in
what political status Hawaii may become
a part of the Union, but she wonld prob
ably not be endowed with statehood im
mediately. Provisional government of
some kind will more than likely be es
tablished at first."
Senator Fairbanks of Indiana said :
"The ratification of the treaty will be
accomplished during the coming session
without serious opposition. The whole
, subject is thoroughly understood in all
its phases, has been thoroughly discussed
- for years, and there is a practical nna-
- nimity of feeling both here and ip Ha
waii in favor of annexation. . I antici
pate the speedy ratification .of the
treaty." . ; v
Senator ' Burrows of Michigan ex
pressed a belief that the majority of the
senators are ready to ratify the treaty,
and that annexation will be an accom
plished fact in a short time.
The Talk of Austria. .
Vienna, Nov. 26. The unparalleled
violence in the house of the reichsrath J
yesterday id about .the only 6ubjectof
co ivi rsliun tlnunhoiit Austria today.
The German r.roairepsiet. party has ptir.-li'lit-d
a note expressing regret at the
outbreak, and disclaiming any responsi
bility for it.
-CAUGHT THE EDUCATED CRAB.
It Had Spoiled Cap's Eph'a Flshlns;,
ilnt Waa Landed by Medford Rum.
The Educated Crab came to grief the
other day and Cap'n Eph Browles vis
ited the village to celebrate the event.
When last seen, bound over the hills of
Hardscrabble, he was close hauled and
laying a course as tortuous as the wake
of a mackerel smack beating to wind
ward against tide and a stiff no'th-
easter.
Cup'n Eph had been fishing for the
Educated Crab' eve since he was so
j afflicted with rheumatism that he had
to knock off cruising between Bishop
and Clerk's lighthouse and the Hand
kerchief ledge, and do all his fishing in
the. bay or off the breakwater. He had
always maintained that the Educated
Crab was raised in Buzzard's bay and
that it hod legs around New Bedford.
It showed a vicious knowledge, accord
ing to Cap'n Eph, only to have been
gained by long experience among;
whalemen.
"I s'pose that air crab hez been afoul
my line at least 'leven hundred times,
remarked Cap'n Eph when he stood in
front of the post office and displayed the
cadaver' of the crab, which he had
brought from the beach carefully
wrapped in a paper.
' "How do I know it's the same crab?
Don't yer s'pose I kin tell his figgerr
bead from vourn? (addressing the
neighbor on his left and pointing to the
one on his right.) Crabs hev phizes jest
ez much ez pussons. 'Sidesthere never
wus a crab afore that wuz sheathed all
along its keel and deck with barnacles.
I've beam tell thet yer could tell th' age
uv a rattlesnake by th' rattles he steered
by. Ef thet holds good in th' case uv
crabs this'n' must be nigh-, a thousand
years old.
"It ud steal bait faster'n a hull school
uv fryers. Thet's where his eddication
cum in. I've leaned over the gunwale
when I wuz fishing in clear water an'
watched him skirmish, 'round mor'n 50
times. He'd go skuttlin' 'round my hook
four or five times, jes ter get th' bear
ings uv th' bait, but he wouldn't make
no effort ter tech th' bait until he'd gone
up ag'in th' tide for two or three fath
oms. Then he d come saihn back with
the tide on his beam an' heave to about
three inches from my line. '
Every other crab would hev jea
nabbed fur th' bait an' made sail. That
wuzn't th' style of th' Eddicated Crab,
aowsomever he'd jes' port his helm an'
swing athwart th' tide till he'd got his
starboard claw fore an' aft with my line,
an then he'd grab th' hook by th' eye
an' pint its biziness end away from his
belly while he picked the bait off with
his port claw. It didn't matter how fast
hauled in th line, he d hev th' hook
bare by th' time I rized him to the edge
nv th' water. -
"He spiled my fishin fur three sum
mers, but I kotched him at last. How
it cum about shows that th' smartest
irab ain't no way superior to man ef it
meddles with rum. Night afore las I
opened half a bucket ur clams an' set
the bait down by the table right under
where I'd sot a nigh about full bottle uv
Medford rum; what I used to rub my
leg fur rheumatiz. I'd disremembered
all about that bottle when I cum hum
long about nine o'clock o' night an'
tried to light th glim. Whilst I wuz
foolin' 'round fur a match I knocked th'
bottle over an' most all the likker
swashed down on them air clams. I
:ussed myself fur a lubber all night,
fur I had pains in my leg an' stumach
mighty bad. But I ain't sorry thet I
spilled th' likker now, seein' that I
kotched th' eddicated crab.
'I thot ez the likker would be likely
to spile th' bait, an' sure enough I didn't
git a bite till th tide wuz about ebb an
th' ole crab hove in sight. He took to
the rum soaked bait jest ez kindly ez a
prohibitionist away from hum. He
cleaned my hook an' made sail fur his
port, but bimeby he cum back under
full headway an' seemed dreadful eager
fur 'nother bite. He got it, but acted
so wobbly that it sot me ter thinkin..
Says I ter myselif, 'you hev sartainly got
brains enough to git tangled up in
your latitude ef you hist in much more
uv that cargo. So I jist jambed th'
hook full uv rum-soaked clams an' let
Cap'n Crab navigate all over the bottom
with it. Bimeby I seed thet he was too
wobbly ter steer within three pints uv
his course. He bed to tack half a dozen
times afore he could lay himself along
side the hoolcwhen I baited up'agin
and then he jest grabbed at th' bait,
book and all, regardless o conse
Irecences. I let him git a good hold
afore I yanked, an' when I did give a pull
on th line I druv th hook nigh half
through his port quarter. It wasn't
time for th' wink ur a yallerleg's eye
afore I hed him in th' boat; an' he lay
:har an' blinked at me ez drunk ez a
shanghaied foremast hand in th' f o'kas-
tle uv a Baltimore packet. Thet's how
I kotched th' eddicated crab."; Boston
Traveler.
Mark Twain Was Bit. -
Berlin, Nov. 27. A private dispatch
from Vienna says that Samuel L. Clem
ent8,'"Mark Twain," while being forci
bly ejected from the lower house of the
reichsrath yesterday, was struck a ee
vere blow by a Czech delegate.
APPALING DISASTER
Tornado
Swept
Away.
inOUSanUS
FOUR HUNDRED EUROPEANS KILLED
Hurricane and Tidal Wave Devastated
Large Fart of the Inlands
6,000 Killed. :
Sax Francisco, Nov. 27. The typhoon
which swept over the Philippine inlands
October 6th, caused oue of the worst
disasters reported from the southern
ocean for many years, if not in the his
tory of that section ot the world. Thous
ands of lives were lost, including many
Europeans, and the damage to property
was appaling. '
Telegraphic advices concerning the ca
lamity have been very ' meagre. The
difficulty of getting news from the
islands at any time is great, and, owing
to the remoteness of some provinces vis;
ited by the hurricane, full details of the
storm did not reach Hong Kong till No.
vember 1st.
The steamer Gaelic, from the Orient,
today brought letters and papers which
contain accounts of the ravages of the
tidal wave and wind. Whole towns
were swept or blown away. Fully 500
Europeans were killed,- and ' it is esti
mated that 6,000 natives perished.
The storm first struck the island at
the bay of Santa Paula, in the province
of Samar. It devastated the entire
southern portion of the island.
On the 12th, hurricane reached Leyte,
and struck the capital, Tacloban,, with
great fury. In less than half an hour
the town was a mass of ruins. . The na
tives were panic-stricken. Four hun
dred of them were buried beneath the
debris of wrecked 'buildings,, and one
hundred and twenty corpses cf Euro
peans were recovered when the native
authorities instituted a search for the
dead.
Reports from tbe southern coast were
received which claim that a score of'
small trading vessels and two Sydney
traders were blown aBbore and their
crews drowned. .
Tbe sea swept inland nearly a mile,
destroying property valued at several
million dollars, and' causing wholesale
deaths among tbe natives.
The Philippines are in the range of
themonsoonB. and violent hurricanes I
are common. The islands, which lie oil f
the southern coast of Asia number 1200
in all, 408 of which are inhabited. The
principal islands are Lyte, Samar, Mas
bate, Lazon, Mindanao and Palawan.
The total population is estimated at . 7,
600,000, and Malays form the greater
part.
Tbe Negritos, or Oriental Negros, are
found mostly in the mountain regions of
the four larger islands. - Many Chineese
have also settled in the group.
The islands are of volcanic formation,
traversed by a chain of mountains from
north to so,tb, rising in seme of them
to 6,000 feet, with many active volcanos.
The coasts of most of the islands are
deeply indented by the sea, and the
larger islands are well watered by large
streams, with estuaries forming excel
lent harbors. '
The high temperature and abundance
of moisture produce a luxuriant, vege
tation. The chief manufacture is Ma
nilla cigars. ; .
Three seasons are usually recognized,
a cold, a wet and a hot. The first ex
tends from November to February or
March, when tbe eky is .for the most
part clear and the atmosphere bracing.
The hot season lasts from , March to
June, and the rain comes down in tor
rents during July, August, September
and October.
Earthquakes are sufficiently frequent
to affect the style adopted in the erec
tion of buildings. In 1874 they were
very numerous throughout the archipel
ago, and in Manilla shocks were felt
daily for many weeks. The most vio
Irnt earthquakes on record in the Phil
ipines occurred in July, 1880, when the
destruction of property was immense,
both in tbe capital and other important
towns iu central Luzon.
Fram the Far East. ,
San Feancisco.Nov. 27. The steamer
Gaelic, which arrived last night from
Yokahoma and Hong Kong, via Hon
olulu, brought the following Oriental
advices:
The Tong Haks have again risen in
the Corean provinces of Chung Chong
Do and Choi La Do. . A. detachment of
Corean soldiers was dispatched from
Seoul to suppress them on October 21st.
It is rumored that ex-United Slates
Minister Dun intends to open a large
mercantile house . at both Yokabama
an i Kobe soon.
The latest addition to the Japanese
navy, the cruiser Akaehi Kan, was sue
CRPsfnllv !unniArt at. tha Vflbrttn ta atttn
yards November 8th.: .
THE NEW PREMIER'S PLANS.
How Von Fran ken thurn Hopes to Pacify
tbe Anatrlans.
Vienna, Nov. 29. It is stated here
that as soon as the hew cabinet
formed Baron von Gutsch von Frank'
enthurn, the former minister of pnbltc
instructions and of ecclesiastical affairs,
who has been entrusted with the task of
forming tbe new ministry,, will enter
into negotiations with the leaders of
Germans and Czechs with a view to
bringing about a modification of the or
dinance making tbe Czach language co
ordinate with the German. Itistb
ordinance that has caused the riotous
scenes in the reicbsrath, which in turn
caused among the populace a ferment
bordering on revolution, in consequence
of which tbe Badeni ministry resigned
ASPHYXIATED IX A 'TUNNEL.
Fatal Accident to the Crew of a Grand
Tram Train.
Port Hukon, Mich., Nov.' 29. As
phyxiation caused the death of three
men in a Grand Trunk railway tunnel
last night. The train which was being
hauled through to the Canadian side,
broke in two. The engine, backed down
to get tbe detached portion of the train
but for hours nothing was heard of the
crew. t
Finally a searching party fonnd the
dead bodies, and also rescued two brake
men in an unconscious condition, Three
members of the searching partv were
also overcome, but were rescued by an
other party. The tunnel gas arises
from the use of hard coal on the loco
motives.
The three-year-old boy of J. A. John
son, of Lynn Center, 111., is subject to
attacks ot croup. Mr. Johnson says
he is sure that the timely ubo of Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy, during a se
vere attack, saved his boy's life. He is
in the drug business, a member of tbe
I firm of Johnson Bros.,of that place, and
ley 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 Be
lected this remedy for use in his own
home at a time-when his boy's life was
in danger, because he knew it to be sn
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 spienma satisfaction in an cases.
Sold by Blakeley & Houghton
Turkey's Abject Apology.
Vienna, Nov. 26. Dispatches received
from Mersina, Asia Minor, say :
As a result of the decision of the Turk
ish government-to grant the demands of
Austria for redress in consequence of
the treatment of Herr - Brazzafolli, the
agent of the Austrian Lloyd Steamship
Company at that point, and the subse
quent insults complained of by tbe Aus
trian consul there, the flag of Austria
was duly sainted at Mersina yesterday
by the Turkish guns, with all the cere.
raony demanded by the government of
Austria. ' .
State of Ohio, City op Toledo!
Lucas County," j
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
is the senior partner of tbe firm of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doing business in tbe
City of Toledo, County and state afore
said, and that said firm will pay the
sum of One Hundred Dollars for each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use 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,
r seal Notary Public
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal
ly and acts directly on the blood and
mucuos surfaces of the Bystem. Send
for testimonials, free. v
F. J. Cheney Co., Toledo, O.
"Sold by Druggints, 75c. ' No. 3-11
Growing-Weary of ReTOlution.
City op Mexico, Nov. 29. Reports
from Guatemala etate that business has
been interrupted by the revolution. Re
spectable citizens' not in politics are hop
ing for annexation to Mexico, or for
American protection. The people regard
Mexico with favor, owing to its orderly
and substantial government.' '
Bueklen'e Arinca naive.
The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fevei
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cuies piles, or no pay required
It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac
tion, or money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box. For sale by Blakeley and
Houghton, druggists.
. .. ' : ' V. :
INNOCENTS SUFFERING
Frightful Mortality Among
Concentrados.
FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DEAD
Reports of the Death Bate of a Few
Provinces Make an Appalling;
Showing. .
New York, Nov. 29. A Havana dis
patch to the World say s : ' .
The World's first figures of Cuba's
starvation were timidly moderate. They
showed the death of only 200,000 per
sons; but every painful fact unearthed
tends to prove them nearly double that
number. When the grim returns are
all in it is now almost certain that this
Cuban massacre of the innocents will
reach 400,000. And this awful number
does not include those killed in battle
or the thousands and thousands of
women and children who died of expos
ure, disease and massacre in , the
swamps.
It now seems certain that more than
half a million people, for the most .part
loyal subjects of Spain, have been killed
by the Spanish war in Cnba. A week's
trip through the provinces of . Havana
Matanzas and Santa Clara has tended
to make moderate this tremendous ex
treme figure. -
The figures of the Spanish official re
ports show but a part of the mortality,
They only give the number buried in
consecrated ground, and they do not
give that fully. And yet- these official
ultra-Spanish reports of burial permits
issued admit that in the province of
Santa Clara there have died and been
buried since Weyler's fiat, 71,847. per
sons.
The number of persons for whose ex
istence Weyler is directly responsible is
155,132, in Santa Clara province.- - And
ot these he has killed 86,216, or over
one-half of them. Santa Clara has so far
been by far the least destitnte of tbe
provinces. . It baa many cattle and not
a very thick population. Between it
and the fifty-three per cent admitted
dead in Pinar del Rio are the provinces
of Matanzas and Havana, with a sixty
ana seventy per cent mortality respec
tively.
These percentages are established by
tbe actual figures of some thirty cities
and towns. Applied to the denser pop.
ulation of their respective provinces, tbe
total deaths since Weyler's "bando"
will foot up nearly a million.
A GRATE SITUATION.
Famine In Dawson City and Other Points
Inevitaole.
Seattle. Nov. 29. Twenty-five men
arrived here yeBterday on the City of
Seattle, direct from Dawson City. They
were divided into two parties, the last of
which left Dawson City October 16th.
The various members of the party are
reported to have brought out gold and
drafts to the aggregate amount of $50,-
000.
All tell stories of a food shortage in
Dawson that is almost a famine. The
last person to leave Dawson was Jack
Dahon. When Dalton left the steamers
Alice and Bella had reached there, load
ed light.
It is said that the Bella's cargo con
sisted of whiskey and billiard balls. She
brought no provisions. The Canadian
mounted police chartered the Bella and
gave all . who wished passage to Fort
Yukon. The Bella is reported to have
left about tbe 12th with 200 men.
When the party left Dawson nothing
in the line of food could be purchased
there except sugar, baking powder . and
little dried fruit, and every restaurant
in the camp bad closed.
Thomas Magee, sr., the well-known
in Francisco capitalist, gives a graphic
account of tbe perils and hardships en
countered bv bis party in coming out by
way of the Dalton trail to Chilcat. Jack
Dalton, one of tbe best-known charac
ters of the Klondike, piloted tbem
through,
Two horses perished of starvation on
the way, and the men had several close
calls from suffering a similar fate, arriv
ing at Dal ton's various food caches along
the route in the nick of time. In ad
dition to Mr. Magee, sr., and Jack Dal
ton, the party was made, up of men
from this city, San Franciaccrand various
other points.
LIKTGERT'8 SECOND TRIAL.
Prisoner's Counsel Objects to Havinc;
Judge Gary Sit on the Case.
Chicago.'Nov. 28. The second trial
of Adolph L. Luetgert for the murder of
Royal makes the food pore,
. - wholesome and delicious.
F0VDIR
Absolutely Pure
RevM. BAKING MWOE CO., NEW YORK.
his wife was called before Judge Gary
today. The sausage manufacturer was'
represented by ex-Judge Lawrence
Marman and Attorney Eieee, Attorney
Pbalen having withdrawn from the caee
yesterday after a heated interview with
Luetgert and his new attorneys.
. The court room waa packed with visi
tors when court was called to order.
The most of tbe session was taken np by
Harmon in arguing that Judge Gary
should not try Luetgert, on the ground ;
that he was not qualified to sit as a
criminal judge. Judge Gary overruled
the motion, intimating, however, that
he was wil'ing some other judge should
sit in the case, provided counsel for the
defenee could come to an agreement
with th'e prosecution as to who should
hear it. .- -
The strength which comes to us from
eating nourishing fjod is belter than
stimulation, because ii is new strength.
The health which belongs to a strong
body, 'well nourished by proper food
(properly dige3ted is the only health
that is lasting.
The difference between Shaker Diges
tive Cordial and other medicines isjsim
ply that . it helps nature to make
strength. It does not profess to cure
sickness, except as that sickness is a re
sult of weakness caused by food not '
properly digested.
Shaker Digestive Cordial will relieve
the pangs of indigejtion, and make thin,
sick, weak people as well as if their
stomachs had never been out of order.
It iah gentle aid to the digestion of
nature's strength-maker, food. ' . ' ,
At druggists. Trial bottle 10 cents.
' Riot In Montevideo.
Montevideo, Nov. 29. A . monster
meeting of native Uraguayans and for
eigners was held in favor of the candi
dacy or Senor Cuestas for the presi
dency. His opponents interfered, and
a great tumult ensued, in which several
were killed and many injured.
Oar Treaty with Tunis.
Tunis, Nov. 29. The Depeche Tunia-
ienne intimates that France will ehortly
ask for tbe denunciation of the treaty of
1871 between the United States and Tu
nis.
"The worst cold 1 ever had in my life
was cured by Chamberlain s Cough
Kemedy," w.ites W.H. Norton, of Sutter
Creek, Cal. "This cold left me with a
cough and I was expectorating, all the
lime. Tbe remedy cured me and I want.
all my friends when troubled with a
cough or cold to nee it, for it will do
them good. Sold by Blakeley & Hough
ton.
Toll-Road on Skagruay Trail.
Victoria, Nov. 27. The provincial
government is calling for proposals for a
winter toll-road on the Skagway trail
from the boundary line over to Lake
Bennett. J '
Weyler at 1'alma.
Palma, Nov. 29. General Weyler, on
the Montserrat, arrived here this morn.
ing and was accorded a enthusiastic re
ception. .
Cah in lour Checks.
All countv warrants registered prior
to 'July 7, 1893, will be paid at my ,
office. Interest ceases after Oct. 27tb,
1897. C. L. Phillips,
Countv Treasurer.
LIST OF DEPUTIES.
To Whom It May Concern : -.'.',.
This is to certify that I have appointed
the following as my deputies, to serve
till March 1, 1998: .
Zachary Taylor, Antelope. .' - '.
Harry Cook, Eidgeway.
D. H. Roberts, The Dalles.
. J. H. Sherar, Sherar's Bridge.
Frank Gabel, Wapinitia.
A. S. Roberts',
' Stock Inepector for Wasco Co.,
n24-6t Box 507. The Dalles. .
B S HUNTINGTON. H S WILSON.
UXTIXGTOX Si WILSOX,
A'llOSJtlSATMW,
' Hit DALL13, UKbUUJN.
Office over First Nat. Bank.
IrRED. V WILSOy.
' ATTORNEY AT LAW,
T1IK HALLE-, OREGON.
Ollicc nei First Xat. Bnnlt.
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