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THE : DALLES. WASCO COUNTY, OREGON. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1897.
VOL. VIII.
NUMBER 5.
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MESSAGE SUITS SPAIN
The Cukn Attitude Entirely
Satisfactory.
FEARS OF TROUBLE ARE ALLAYED
Blanco'. Hand Strengthened by Amur
uee that Intervention I. Not
Cutmplate4l.
New York, Dec. 7. A Havana special
to the Tribune eaya :
President McKinley's message ia re
. ceived quietly. Satisfaction ia felt in
official circles over the statement that
the recognition of either belligerency i
independence ia justifiable under pres
ent conditions. The credit which the
president gives for conducting the war
on humane principles and for improving
the condition of the reconcentradoa will
strengthen Captain-General Blanco
carrying ont hia new policy.
The official feeling may be summarized
in the statement that the government
does not now ' fear the embarrassment
which might come from action by the
United States before instructions from
Madrid could be carried into effect. Toe
hint of ultimate intervention causes
some uneasiness and discussion has "al
. ready arisen over what is meant by
"reasenable time," bat palace officials
do not interpret it as likely to pravent
the application of autonomy within the
time needed for carrying out the details
ot the system as directed from Madrid
Autonomists reformists and conserv
atives who support Sagasta and Blanco
will make the message the basis of s
movement for the early anion of all par
ties to uphold the hands of the govern
ment in ita colonial policy. Commer
cial interests are pleased .with the pacific
tone of the message, though not taking
it as a conclusive settlement.
UNKNOWN BARK WRECKED.
Inaccessible
Iiland the
Disaster.
Scene of the
New Yoek, Dec. 7. Jfewa of the wreck
of a British bark on Inaccessible island,
one of the Trietans.in the Acunha group
in the southern Atlantic, has been
brought to this port by the bark Inver
rare from Java.
Uaptain Uharleson report9 that on
September 15th last he sighted the 9bip
J. B. Walker, which signaled the news
of the wreck. The name of the bark
and the fate of the crew were not learned
on board the In verrure.
Captain Cbarleson is of the opinion
that the crew of the ill-started vessel are
on board the Walker,, as she' displaced
signals that ehe'was short of water, in
dicatin'g probably that she bad on board
an extra number of persons.
' The wrecked bark may be either the
Cralgend or the Taymoont, which have
long been over due. '
The former, commanded by Captain
Lewthait, left Philadelphia May 3d last,
for Hiogo, with a 'crew of thirty-two
men and a cargo of lefihed oil in cases.
Inaccessible island is in the path af her
trip around Cape Horn.
The last time she was spoken was on
June 8, when she was off the Brazillian
coast.
The Tay mount waa bound for Sl
Francisco from Liverpool, whicn pun
Bhe left on May 1st, last. Inaccessible
island la not directly in her course, but
a storm may have driven her on the
shores of the island ,
The Taymonnt waa last heard of Jnne
6th, when she waa off the coast of Bra
zil.
Kansas Pacific dale.
Washington, Dec. 7, The secretary
of the treasury today took the first steps
to qualify on behalf of the government
as bidder at the sale of the Kansas Pa
cific. A transfer order for $900,000 waa sent
by Treasurer Roberts for certification to
: the National City Bank, of New York,
in tavor of the master of the court hav
ing jurisdiction of. the case. The order
will be delivered to the master five days
before the sale by an officer cf the treas
ury depatment, who, it ia believed, will
bid at the sale under instructions from
. the president. -
x ' A Chance for Voorhees.
Trknton, N. J., Dec, 7. It was settled
at an informal convention of republican
state senators today that Senator Foster
M. Voorheea is to be elected president of
the senate when the legislature con
venes. This will make Voorbees acting
governor. ;
Expedition Massacred.
Brussels, Dec. 7. The Mouvement
Geographique today .announces that it
! learns (hat a Frmch expedition under
Major Mircliaurt, wliild ou iu way to
the Nile, has been mastered near Da
heugahezt. The survivors of the party
it ia reported, retreated.
Kiotlng In Macedonia.
Sofia, Dec. 3.-Alarming news repched
here today from Macedonia. Albanians
are said to be committing great excesses
at Debria and Kitchevo, and the sur
rounding district, killing men. outraging
women aud stealing cattle. The author
ities are powerless. Wholesale persecu
tion and arre.ns of Bulgarians by Turks
is hIso reported from the Bulgarian fron
tier. The new- has caused great x
citesu-nt her..
" More itrltish Cnmment.
Nkw York, Ivc. 8. A Loudon special
to the World says:
Lord Revelstoke, head of the banking
house of Baring Bros., wa9 asked today
tor his opinion on the effect of President
McKinley s message. Lord Revelstoke
.replied.
"The currency suggestions have been
decidedly disappointing. , We expected
something more tangible than a scheme
contingent upon conditions which the
president gives no indication of. any in
tention to bring about."
"Da you consider the pacific tone of
the message calculated to improve the
market for American securities over
here?" he was asked.
"Yes," replied Lord Revelstoke. "It
is certainly a reiief to find nothing ag
gressive in the message. . I anticipate
tbat business with the United States
will be very brisk after the new year,
They are having prosperous times over
there, and confidence is being gradually
restored."
Mr. Gordon, who succeeded the late
Walter Barns in the directiug of the
London branch of J. P. Morgan & Co
said :
"Several stock exchange men who
have been in here this morning tell me
there is general .disappointment at the
wisby washy color of the president's cur
rency paragraph, and tbat American
stocks are weaker in sympatbv with
that feeling."
H. J. McNeil, secretary of the bitue-
talic league, said :
"Bimelalists regard the president's
reference to the Wolcott mission with
considerable satisfaction. We did not
consider the reply of the British gov
ernment as in any way closing negotia
tions finally. The fact that' the Wolcott
commission has not -"yet reported, to
getber with the president's expressions,
ehconrages the hope that the Lnited
States and the French government con
template further action early
German Official Report.
Berlin, Dec. 8. The official account
of the collection of the indemnity from
Hayti, accompanied by a salute of the
German flag at Port au Prince on Men
day last, owing to the alleged illegal ar
rest of Herr Lueders, says that after the
ultimatum of Germany bad been de
livered to the Haytian' government the
German cruiser Stein cleared for action
and took bp a position near the Haytian
war vessels. Displomatic requests for
delay in execution of the ultimatum
was refused and an hour before the ex
piration of time stipulated the demands
of Germany were conceded.
The Greater United States).
The distance across the United States
is found to be 2,625.2 geographical
miles from, the lighthouse six miles
north, of Cape May, N. J., to the light
house six miles south, of Punta
Arenas, following the thirty-ninth
parallel of latitude as closely
as possible. This is conceded to
be about the mean breadth of the
country. A glance at the . map will
show that the United States is much.
wider toward the north and much nar
rower toward the gulf coast, but "the
thirty-ninth parallel is about as fair an
average as-can be drawn. The meas
urements were made by triangulation
that is, by taking observations from
fixed landmarks and verifying them by
astronomical tests. The distance
across the continent thus obtained is
140 feet longer than that reported by
Bessels in 1856, and 88 feet longer than
that reported by Prof. Clark in 1896.
Chicago Becord. . .
Good things are worth a
a - m-- V
Good baking powder doesn't sell at 25 or 30 cents
a pound we don't care what anybody else says to the
contrary. . " . - . :
Your money back if you don't like Schilling's Best
at your grocers.
A GREAT LOAD LIFTED
Spain Rejoices Over McKin
ley's Attitude.
THE PRESIDENT'S PRAISES SONG
Lioeral Program May Now He Carried
Out Unrestricted More British
Cotnm.nt.
New York, Dec. 8. A Ma Irid special
to the World says :
The fir'H news received in Madrid con
cerning President McKinley's message
came in the shape of telegram to Gen
eral Woodford from the state depart
ment. Mr. Woodford immediately sent
it to the minister for the colonies, Senor
Morel. Minister Morel was at a banquet
which hia friends had offered him as
(compliment for hia colonial policy. He
translated the telegram aloud, and all
present expressed much satisfaction
with the president's declaration . touch
ing Spain and Cuba.
The friendliness of the message sur
passed the most sanguine expectations
of the friends of the government. There
is loud praise for President McKinley in
official and political circles for having,
as they say, thus cleared the way for a
fair trial of the new colonial policy in
the West Indies which will naturally re
quire time.
Meanwhile the liberal govern men
can unhesitatingly dissolve the old cor'
tes, call a general election for the first
week in February, and convoke a new
parliament on March 8.
The Spanish liberals are ' greatly
pleased with the president's argument
against recognition of the belligerency
of the Cubans, and the implicit repudi
ation of recognition of belligerency, an
Dexation of the ieland or extreme inter
ference with the rights of Spain in Cuba,
They are equally delighted with that
part of the message recognizing, how
quickly and completely they bavere-
versed the Canovas-Weyler policy, and
the sincerity of their own home-rule
measures.
Outside of official circles satisfaction
is visible in financial circles, and also
on the part of the general public. Among
statesmen the most pleased ia Castelar,
who compares the conduct of McKinley'
with that of Grant, and says that he be
lieves firmly that all the sane and re
spectable elements of the commonwealth
wili follow it,
UNION PACIFIC SALE NOT VALID.
Government Informed That the Commit
tee Violated Its Trust.
New Yore, Dec. 8. The following tel
egram baa been sent to the attorney-
general at Washington by Robinson &
Leslie, a firm of Loudon accountants, act
ing for a group of holders of Union Pa
cific reorganization committee certificates
for Union Pacific stock :
"We notify the government that the
committee's bid involves a departure
from the term 8 of the trust under the
agreement declared January 26, pur
snant to which stockholders paid nearly
$9,000,000. The committee was not pr
mitted to issue more than 75,000,000 iu
bonds for the purchase of the Union Pa
cific and Kansas Pacific. Under the bid
for the Union Pacific alonethat purchas
ing issue is practically exhausted, thus
violating the trust to the stockholders.
"This substantial deviation .from the
conditions of the purchase invalidates
the business. Therefore the government
is notified to hold the moneys received
or receivable as trustees under the com
mittee's trust, and not as the property
of the government."
Ibis notice, with the accompanyicg
document, has been lodged with the
United States consul-general in London.
Nearlng; the iind.
Canton, Dec. 7. At 3 o'clock Mrs.
McKinley ia still living, bnt seems to be
weakening steadily. Tcere has been no
rally since the last collapse, which has
fair price.
S2S8
now continued longer then any of the
earlier ones, . Mis. Dnncao, her daugb
ter, says sne is growing weafcer every
moment, and scarcely daree to hqpe that
dawn will find the breath of life in her
mother. The aged woman's re.-t con
tinues to be unbrokm. and the evidence
Of weakening ia iu her pnlee and respi
ration.
Fusillade at Port au Prince.
Port au Prince. Dec. 8. There was a
lively fusillade lit-re at 11 o'clock last
night. '. No damans was done. . ' '
'WILI. IIUUI rOR NINE HOURS.
New York Typesetters to to on Strike
January 2d.
New York, Dec. 9. At the annual
convention of the International Typo
graphical Union, a year ago,' it waa de
cided to make a fight for a working day
of nine hours in all book and job print
ing ehops as soon as possible. This fight
will be started In this city January
1898, and will involve 5,000 men, as the
employing printers have resolved to op
pose the demand.' '
It was announced last night tbat other
cities, including Brooklyn, would also
take up the fight tor nine hours, and
tbat before the year is a month bid it is
probable that 50,000 men would be on a
strike for a shorter work day. '
On December 2d,Typographical Union
No. 6, sent a notice to 120 offices making
an olnuial demand for a work day of
nine hours instead of ten, beginning on
January 2J. On Tuesday night an ex
ecutive meeting of employers was held
and resolutions were passed .denying the
demand of the printers and looking to
the raising of a fund of $50,000 as n de
fense fund to fight "Big Six."
President Donnelly, of Union No. 6,
says that within thirty days bis union
will have $100,000 with which to enforce
its demand.
Depends on Mrs. Fits.
Milwaukee, Dec. 9. It is almost a
certainty now that Fitzsimmons aud
Corbett will meet in the roped arena
again. The fact was gained bv a rep
resentative of the Evening Wisconsin,
after an interview with Mrs. Fitzsim
mons, now in this city. Before the con
test last March, Fitzsimmons promised
he would never enter the ring again
without her consent. In reply to a ques
tion as to whether she would give ber
consent, Mrs. Fitzsimmons replied:
"L will say, I don't care to stand in
my husband's way, and if he thinks he
had better give Corbett another chance,
I may change my mind, but until I do,
there is no prospect of the two men
meeting."
Snes tier father-in-Law.
Chicago, Dec. 9. Mrs. Florence Van
Schaack today began suit against ber
fatber-in-law, Peter Van Schaack, one
of the leading business men of Chicago,
asking damage to the amount of $75,000
for alienation of her -husband's affection,
and $50,000 for libel. The plaintiff re
cently secured a verdict by default of
$65,000 against the defendant in Brook
lyn, but tbat judgment noc being op
erative in Chicago, she brought suit
here. .
BRIDES CHOSEN IN
THE DARK.
a Indian Scheme for Mating;
the
Braves with Wealthy Maids.
An old custom waa revived by the
Nez Perce Indians and. their visitors
hiring the celebration on the last
Fourth of July.- The natives of the local
tribe are very wealthy, and there are
designing mothers among the) aborigi
nes as well as in the different classes of
civilized society. The young bucks of
the Nez Perce tribe are regarded some
what likf the scions of royalty in mat
rimonial circles. The maidens from all
visiting tribes were brought to Lapwai
to find husbands. The customs of the
tribes, which were revived for the occa
sion, were more effective man tne Jios-
ton roan's way.
The young men marched forth, and
none but candidates for matrimony
joined the march. "They were dressed
in their brightest colors, and each car
ried a white, willow cane. As they ap
proached the tents they chanted an In-
ian chorus that was as doleful as the
song .of the owl, and kept time by beat
ing upon the tents with their canes.
The drumming was deafening to the
distant spectator, and must have been
distracting to the waiting maidens in
the tenhs. ..-- :
At last the singing and drumming
had' the desired effect. The maidens
came forth after a delay Just long
enough, to satisfy that universal pas
sion of the mind of a woman to drive
lover mad with- doubt. There were
more men than maidens. The former
kept tip the march and the music with
out. The maidens countermarched on
tle line of the seme circle, each select-
a husband - from the line. The
chosen ones hastened to follow their
brides -away into the darkness. The un
fortunate suitors were left to despair.
Portland Oreeonian.
Cash In lour Cheeks.
AU count? warrants registered prior
to July 7, 1893, will be paid at my
office. Interest ceases after Oct. 27th,
1897. C. L. Phillips,
County Treasnrer.
INSURGENTS PROCLAIM
Cubans Warned Not to Be
. Misled. '
THE TIME FOR COMPROMISE PAST
Independence the Goal Which the Pa
trlots Are Shedding; their Life's
. Blood For.
New Yobk, Dec 9. A proclamation
signed by the Cuban military and civil
leaders in Havana province, proteettog
against the autonomy offered by Spain
was recently issued aa reported by the
correspondent of the Associated Press
The proclamation in full followed :
"Cubans:
. After all her efforts to subdue us by
force of arms have proved in vain, Spain
offers autonomy to the Cuban people,
She expects us to submit anew to her
rule under her pretended terms of peace.
Spain's pretension ia useless. The time
is already past to think of such compro
mise and transaction. Opposed to them
in an insurmountable manner are
the dignity and manifest destiny of our
country, the outrages inflicted upon our
families, the torrents of Cuban blood
that have been shed, the lives of so
many innocent human beings who have
succumbed to oppression, the sacred
memory of our heros who have died in
detense of ther native soil, and all other
sacrifices we have made in behalf of our
independence.
"To obtain this we have again taken
up arias, and we are determined to con
tinue unhesitatingly In the task of re
deeming our country until we attain the
success which is near at hand. We shall
not flinch in our efforts, nor ia it posei
ble that we shall be forsaken by the God
of justice in our sacred undertaking. -
"Let the world at large be aware that
this is our unalterable purpose, our only
aspiration, our supreme ideal; to which
we have consecrated our lives, our prop
erty, present welfare, and, in short, our
all.
"Let all the world know our 'full de
termination to carry on this struggle,
day after day, while the Spanish fl
floats over our beloved country. Let
everyone know that our watchword is
Independence or death.
"Cubans, long live Cuba, free and in
dependent." .
THE BOCNDAKY CASE.
British and Yenesaelan Briefs Kearlog
Completion.
New Yobk, Dec. 9. A Tribune special
from Washington says:.
The British andVenezuelan agents are
hurrying to completion their briefs
which mnet be presented, with all argu
ment and evidence, by February 14th,
next, to the arbitrators on the bound
ary dispute. . The tribunal, which is
considered fully organized, though its
members have not met each other, will
not assemble to receive the briefs; but it
baa been arraged by correspondence to
I hold EessionB in Paris, beginning nrxt
July, and the hope is expressed of be
ing able to arrive at a satisfactory de
cision before the arbitrators are com
pelled to adjourn for their other duties
next September.
The members are M. F. J. DeMartens,
the Russian authority on international
law, who is president; Chief Justice
Fuller and Justice Brewer, of the Unit
ed States; and Baron Hershell and Sir
Richard Ptnn-Collin for Great Brit
tain.
On or before February 14th copies of
the briefs and evidence will be delivered
to each of these judges and to both the
disputing governments, who . will then
have until May 4th to submit briefs in
rebuial, which will constitute the final
documents in the case.
Consul for Venezuela, ex-Minister
Scruggs, declares tbat the task under
taken by the commission appointed by
President Cleveland, especially the in
vestigation by Prof. Burr in the Dutch
archives, have proven ' invaluable and
swept away all doubt as to the strength
of Venezuela's contention.'
A Unique Invitation.
San Feakcisco. Dec.N 9. A slab of
quartz with veina of gold prominently
Bhowing will convey California's invita
tion to President MicKjnley to attend
the golden jubilee of the discovery of
gold. Chairman Parsons of the exec
utive committee, has promised to secure
a suitable piece of the precious rock, and
will have engraved on its face the mes
sage which will bid the president come
to California to receive a miners wel
come. Subscribe for The Cnnoxicus.
Royal makes the load pare,
wholesome and delicious.
PQUBER
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ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
UP TO DATE.
An
Indian Worpan : Who
with the Times.
Ia Up
she Wears Artistically Fashioned
Bloomers and Ia the Wife of a
Rich Merchant of the Lobs
I Star State.
The newest of new women, and yet
one of the oldest, if'the aborigines may
be classed as "old," was seen on the
streets of St. Louis a few days ago.
She was a splendid specimen of wom
anhood, strikingly handsome and su
perbly proportioned, pnd was dressed
in bloomers, although they differed in
style and cut. from any worn by the
St. Louis bicycle girls. She was an In-,
dian woman, the full-blooded daughter
of a chief of the Sioux tribe, one of the
fiercest and most bloodthirsty bands
which ever troubled the settlers of the
west, and her drees was one of the most
peculiar ever seen on the streets of a
great city. A dark hat of modern style
half hid a quantity of raven-black hair
on her splendid head, and a long ulster
of the. most recent fashion enveloped '
her, outlining her fine figure to advan
tage. But below this there flapped out
as she walked the most remarkable part
of her dress, and that which attracted
the most attentionvher bloomers. They
were cut long and straight, like men's
trousers, .and were small at the bot
torn, 'So that they were rather close
about the ankles. These bloomers were
of black silk, and the inner and outer
seams were decorated with four or five ,
rows of beads of various, colors and
worked in fanciful design. Flowers,
snakes end animals ran up and down:
the side, and made the bloomers, or
trousers, a thing to attract attention
anywhere, and especially on so hand
some a woman. Her complexion was
olive, like that of a Spanish girl, and
clear; her cheek were rosy and her
voice low, but her eyes were dark and
piercing, and seemed to look tnrougtt
one. But with ail her fanciful dross
and her name of Talaconqiia, she is
the wife of one of (lie richest merchants
of the great southwest,-and is on her
way to Europe, where she will doubtless
be received by royalty.
Indirect contrast to this woman was
one of her companions. Taller than
she, with hair as light as hers was dark.
and light blue eyes, his ruddy, sunburnt
face was partially shaded by the broad-
brimmed sombrero, which waa tipped
to one side ou his head. As he walked
there wad a swing to his gait that told
of the easy gallop of the mustang, and
everything in his manner bespoke the "
cowboy. His shirt, which was of ex- ,
pensive material, woe made negligee '
fashion and cut low at the neck, show
ing a powerful neck, tanned by the ex-
posure of many suns on the plain. His-
clothes, too, were of expensive material,,
but the cut was a trifle odd." Still, they
gave one the impression that they were-
paid for, end that the man who wore.
them had his own opinion as to how
clothes should be mode for him, as he
was the man to wear them. He walked
along, frequently squirting a stream of
tobacco juice through his white teeth
and stroking his long blonde mustache.
The man, Samuel Brennan, is worth
$250,000, and is one of the most success
ful merchants in Texas. - -
Between this strangely assorted pair
valked a youngster, about six years
old, and his dress was as stylish as that
of his companions was unconventional.
A. leather Tam O'Shanter was placed '
jauntily on one side of -his crown of
golden curls and he wore a velvet coat
of Fauntleroy pattern. His little feet
were incased in swell patent leather
boots, and above them, extending near
ly ' to the hip, were, leather leggings.
These were decorated somewhat after '
the manner of the bloomers which the
woman beside him wore, but were not
so noticeable because of the decoration, .
as there were only two rows of bends ,'
and they were dark in -color. The lit
tle fellow earried a cane, which he
swung to and fro like a Fifth avenue
dude, and yet the Indian woman is
his mother "and he is the heir.. to $2!,- .
COO, and is going abroad to .njoy the
advantages of foreign travel. St. Louia
Globe-Dornocr a t.
F
RED; W. -WILSON. ' -
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
THE llALLKi. OREGON.
OLcc ovci First Xat. Bier.