THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1897.
The Weekly Gto oniele.
county officials,.
County Judge.......... EobL Mays
Sheriff. - . ..T. J. utlver
Clerk A. M. KelHty
Treasurer .'.C. L. rhillips
Commissioner..... ..... in. H. Kimwy
Assessor..... W. H. Whipple
Barreyor.. J. B. ioit
Superintendent ol Public Schools. . .C. L. Gilbert
Coroner W. H. Butts
STATE OFFICIALS
Bjvernor. W. P. Lord
' Secretary of State HE Kincaid
Treasurer Phillip Metschan
Bnpt. of Pnbllc Inatructioo O. K. Irwin
Attorney-General CM. Idlemnn
. 4G. W. McBi
89Dators j. ! Mttcl
' B Hermann
.uux reoaiueu . . . v. R. Ellis
Btate Printer V. H. Leed
DEFECT OF LAWMAKERS.
The last legislature of Idaho has
much to answer for because of the
failure to properly pass laws w hich
were endorsed by the people. Elec-
. tion of a United States senator con
sumed so much valuable time that
important measures were pending up
to the last moment of the legislative
session. To get these bills through
it was thought wisi to pass them
without reading in full, although the
last feature is required by the con
stitution of the state. Idaho's crim-
. inal code was defective, and the
- law-breaker had numerou; loop holes
by which to evade just punishment
for his wrong doing, hence such
laws were introduced. He is not
slow to evade them now. In the
last three months half a dozen laws
passed by the state legislature have
been declared illegal by the supreme
court on constitutional grounds.
Failure to pass these laws in proper
form was due to nothing but care-
. lessness. In these days of civil ser-
vice reform and examinations for I
fitness in every department ofthe
government, it might be well to re
quire that a candidate for the legis
lature be examined as to bis under
standing of the constitution of his
state. If he be found deficient, the
' state could m:ike no better invest
ment than to start a night school and
educate him. It appears strange
that the Idaho senate bad not one
jman who was sufficiently acquainted
-with the constitution to know that
.-a bill cannot be made a law without
'having been read in full by sections
-on the third and final reading. If
-the decisions of the supreme court
nre of any value, the Idaho public. is
.forced to believe that the last state
vsenate lacked that one man. Spo
Ikane Review.
Recent dispatches from Washing
ton indicate that the government
looks more favorably upon the project
of building locks at the dalles rapids
than it does the proposal of a ship
railway. Notwithstanding, The
Chronicle is cf the opinion that it
will be a long time before -much
money is spent in removing the bar
riers to navigation at this point. The
country '8 finances have been sub
jected to a too heavy drain from the
late Democratic administration to al
low of much expenditure of money
upon improvements just at present
It may come later, but in the mean
time ,it would be well to urre the
bui'ding of a portage around the ob
structions as a temporary relief.
The charges of the Oregouian
against the. municipal oflicers of
Portland show that city to be run
by a scandalous set of men, and the
sooner some change is made, the
better it will be for the common
good. It is a sad commentary npon
the ability of the American people to
govern . themselves when tbey will
deliberately choose men for pcsitions
of high authority who have repeat
edly shown themselves incapable of
discharging the trust committed to
their hands. Pennoyer is an exam
ple in point. .
The' English press hastens to criti
cize President McKinley's message,
But then, Englishmen do not like
- anything that is done by an Amcri
can looking to the advancement of
his own country. It is well under
stood that McKinley has no other
object than to promote the. welfare
and prosperity of the nation whose
chosen guardian he is.
The election of the present board
of directors of the Commercial and
Athletic Club is a fitting compliment
to a body of men who, by their de
votion to duty, have earned the
gratitude of those who enjoy the
benefits of the meritorious organiza
tion known as The Dalles Commer
cial and Athletic Club." The Chron
icle extends its congratulations
both to the directors and to '.he club.
IT HAS COME TO STAY.
Especially inopportune just at-lhis
time is Congressman Grosvcnor's at
tack upon the civil service law. All
parts of the countrv are suffering
from an aggravated attack of spoils.
men in office. Healthy-minded citi
zens in Greater New York arc aghast
at the prospect of that city being for
years under the miserable domain of
Tammany. In different states dur
ing the last vear have legislatures
been held up and necessary legisla
tion thwarted through the voracious
selfishness of petty politicians hunt
ing for place and power.
Portland is awakening to the fact
that good government is denied her
because the spoilsmen, headed by
Pennoyer and Davis, are .turning the
city machinery into an instrument
for the protection and enrichment of
themselves and hungry Lenchmcn.
Only through the patriotic efforts
of Presidents Harrison, . Cleveland
and McKinley has the national gov
ernment been saved from being a
football, tossed hither and there by
men incapable of managing their own
private interests successfully, but
confident of their ability to serve in
the public capacity.
The advance of civil service re
form during the last ten years has
been the most gratifying phenome
non of our national life. Steady
progress has been made in lifting na
tional offices from out the clutches of
the spoilsmen, and though heavy
obstacles have been thrown in the
way, the work has gone persistently
on, till now most of the departments
in Washington are being conducted
on a business basis.
This government was not insti
tuted to provide positions for all who
want them. There are higher and
more weighty matters which should
occupy the attention of our execu
tive- and law-makers. The early
policy of the nation was in favor of
the government's work being done
by those most competent to do it,
and it was not uulil Andrew Jackson
found his waj to the presidency that
the idea of parcelling out the offices
on account of political preference be
gan to dominate. None will gainsay
that the heads of all departments
and such offices which depend upon
political policy, should be filled with
men in sympathy with the principles
of the dominant party; but it is just
as true that every small clerkship
should not be delegated every four
years as a reward of political merit.
The country has too much politics
now; what it needs is more business
sense in the conduct of its affairs. '
The continuation of the civil ser
vice idea offers the only hjpe in this
direction, and we believe the Amer
ican people can be depended upon
to see that it shall reman. President
McKinley was right when he said
"The civil service system has the
official sanction of the people.
Judge McKenna can probably re
alize the truth of the old proverb "A
prophet is not without bonor save in
his own country," as he reads the
remonstrances being sent in against
his proposed appointment ' to the
supreme bench of the United States.
That there is some merit in the ob
jections cannot be denied when such
names as Ex-Atty.-General George
II. Williams, Judge Gilbert and
other lawyers among the ablest on
the coast, appear in the remonstrance,
If( Mr. McKenna has not been able
to impress his fitness for the judicial
ermine upon those who know him
best, it is more than likely the presi
dent has been deceived in bis judg
ment of the man. Ihere are too
many men worthy of the position in
the country to make it expedient
that one should be chosen concern
ing whose fitness there is such well
founded doubt.
The Oregonian holds out the hope
that Mr. Corbett will be seated when
the senate gets aronnd to it. Such a
presumption is not warranted by the
facts, and in a few weeks Mr. Cor
bett will be settling his hotel bills in
Washington and hie himself to his
Portland home a place he should
never have left, feuch a course
would be extremely 'satisfactory to
the people of Oregon, who do not
wish to be represented in the senate
by an antiquated gentleman who
would be but the inouthf iece foi Joe
Simon, the displaced boss of the Re
publican party in Oregon...
A TAX ON INHERITANCES.
Massachusetts is always among the
first states to attempt reform when
needed, and very often sets the ex
ample for other stales to follow. The
special committee on taxation, ap
pointed under the act passed by the
legislature of that state last year to
investigate and report what changes,
if any, should be made in the state
system of taxations, has just made
its report, and the conclusions make
interesting reading.
Jineny summarizea tuey are as
follows: An inheritance tax should
be levied with respect to realty as
well as personalty al the rate of five
per cent., with an exemption for
estites not exceeding $10,000, and
an abatement of 15,000 on estates
between $10,000 and $25,000; a tax
in proportion to house rentals, only
the excess over $400 of rental being
taxable; abolition of the present
taxes on Intangible personality, such
as stocks, bonds, securities, loans on
mortgages, incomes, etc; the assump
tion by the state treasury of county
expenses, and appropriation by the
state of the revenue from taxes on
corporate excess now distributed
among the several cities and towns.
The committee concludes that "what
ever objections niay be urged against
the changes proposed, it cannot be
said that these recommendations In
volve any element of unfairness."
That some change must be made
in the piesent system of taxation,
every thinking man has come to be
lieve, and the plan suggested in
Massachusetts, if put in operation,
will be watched with interest by
other states. A tax on inheritances
would add to the revenues of the
state and inflict injustice on no one.
The Dalles can never expect to be
a town of greater importance than it
is at present unless some steps are
taken looking to the establishment'
of manufacturing . industries here.
Our city has kept pace with the sur
rounding countty in growth, and has
about all the adjoining territory to
support it that it ever will have.
Unless ' incentive is given business"
from new sources, we cannot expect
to grow as our geographical situation
would justify. If we do not ad
vance, a retrograde movement may
be expected. It is impossible to re
main just the same. Any movement
towards locating industries here with
pay rolls would pay both directly
and indirectly many times the cost
of the original investment.
Spain expresses herself as pleased
with that portion of President Mc
Kinley's message which relates to
the revolution in Cuba. It is good
the country of Castile can find some
thing whereat to rejoice. Surely the
real situation in Cuba can afford
little grounds for - congratulation
among the Spaniards.
The unexpected rise in wheat yes
terday at Chicago is due undoubted
ly to speculative conditions. There
is . nothing in the general reports
which justify any such advance,
But anything tending towards in
creased prices will be received joy.
fully by the farmeis, without refer
ence to the causes.
We doubt it Mr. Corbett will ever
be seated in the senate as senator
from Oregon. But if, in the uncer-
iainty of events, he should be, it can
never be said he is the choice of the
people of Oregon. . If left to a pop
ular vote, Corbett would not have
been within telescopic view of an
election.
President McKinley, by his devo
tion at the bedside of his dying
mother, shows that he has the heart
of a man, as well as the brain of a
statesman. .
Employment Wanted. .-
A N'o.'l bookkeeper wonld like some
thing to do in his line, or steady employ
ment. , Will open or close books, change
from single to double entry, and make
trial balance or business statement. I
have highest recommendations; know
my business and amj willing to earn my
alary. C. M. Sissox, City. - dec2d5w2.
GREENHORN VAPORINGS.
Ha
Tells Bow . Sunday la Spent; Also
About Numerous Other Things.
Editor Chboniclk : " ;
"Remember the Sabbath day to keep
it holy," or words to that effect, was
written eo many years ago that the
memory of Susan B. Anthony and others
of the oldest inbabitanta ran not to
the recollection thereof. It applies to
this neck of the woods on the western
boundary of Baker county, and called
(heaven only knows why the Greenhorn.
We do not keep it) wholly, but only in
part. In the language of the Thanks
giving proclamations, we "abstain from
our usual vocations" and do something
else. For instance, there are fiva of as
Greenhorns, or Greenhorners, in this
cabin. One has shed his clothes, or
part of them, and ia engaged in washing:
them, for Greenhorners are not of pro
lific wardrobe. Another is pounding I
rock in a mortar, vainly looking for
colors. A third is shaving the Sybar
ite. A fourth is down in the little mill
making shakes, and the -other ia pen
uing (with a pencil) these few lines to
let yon know that he is well, and to ven
tare the modest, but heartfelt, hope that
"you are enjoyitg the eame blessing."
So goes the Sabbath np this way.
Last night about six inches of (now
fell on top of other six inches already
covering the ground. It came down as
silent and still as a Qaaker meeting; no
bluster, no. blow, no noise, and this
morning the gray fog hangs over the
hills and thrusts its ghostly lances
through the fir tree tops as though it
would destroy them. The tall tama
racks, with their twiglets of limbs mak
ing a delicate tracery against the gray
skies, lift their minaret-like and grace
ful boles up, apparently to the very
heavens. There is something almost
oppressive in the silence of a forest when
the deep snow lies through and under
and upon it. It is the silence of the
tomb, the stillness ot a Democratic de
(eat, the holy, quiet calm of a Populist
Waterloo. The little twittering birds
that hang around all winter to twit a
fellow on being a greenhorn, are as
noisy as a twenty-stamp mill when they
give vent to their feelinge, and when
they quit, the silence is doubly deepened.
Occasionally breaking through, the bI-
lence comes from far np the canyon the
faint sound of the busy stamps in the
Don Juan quartz mill, aten-btamper
that grinds merrily night and day, week
in and oat, serving man and mammon,
if uothing else.
Speaking of the Don Juan mine, or
mill, reminds me that someone has been
ap this way with a taste for liters.
tare and a knowledge of the classics. It
is ebown in the names of the mining
cations, and their name is legion, be
sides other things. On the very summit
of old Greenhorn is a promising mine,
appropriately named the Diadem. Near
it is the Banzett, and scattered over the
hills are hundreds of .others, varying as
to wealth, incongruous as to name.- The
Union lies next the Imperial; the White
and Red Bulls are yoke fellows, while a
gang of Poly gam ists from Utah have a
group of claims named after the twelve
Mormon apostles and the heads of the
"stakes of Zion." They also have, so I
am told, a Mascottess in the shape of a
buxom girl, with a flowing sorrel . mane,
a white strip in her face and two white
hind feet. I do not vouch for the truth
of this, it being merely hearsay. I do
know, though that Psyche, she who,
with trembling band, spilled the hot oil
from her lamp upon poor Cupid, and
was transformed into a butterfly ; she,
poor unsuspecting maia, is lying along
side of the naughty Don Juan. But this
storted Oct for a sermon, and I fear I
am losing sight of the text and treading
closely on worldly things. Far be it
from me.
.
Until a day or two ago the weather
here has been beautiful. The skies
were as blue as a "sweetheart's" eyes,
the air warm, balmy, sott, breathing of
spring and sweet with the odor of cedar
and pine. - Just such weather as in the
spring time turns the young man's fancy
into love.
Writing these lines this peaceful Sun
day I do not feel at all above my old
Dalles friends, though at am altitude of
6000 feet. I know I am a mile nearer
heaven than they, but still I realize that
I am a . long ways from the goal. So
short a distance on the journey, indeed,
that. I wonld willingly be back and
start even in the race. It is a nice
place here for one who loves solitudo,
and to commune with Dame Nature.
A beautiful winter resort for an ancho-
rite, ot which I am not whom. I must
confess to a liking for the giddy whirl of
life in The Dalles, and if I could, by an
effort of the imagination, or the collar I
of my pants, or any little thing like
that, lift myself through space, I know
where I would be at this writing. ard
whom I should be talking to ;' but a-lass
it can't be done, and so I make this
simple statement that she may know;
but which she deponent sayeth not.
An anchorite indeed am I; such an one
as Butler described when he spoke of a
pretty girl who, . "like an anchorite,
gives over, this world for the heaven of
a lover." Dame Nature is too old to
mash, and Mother Earth just now too
cold. ' '
Well, I have written more, and less.
than I intended, and more certainly
than you will care to criticize, or the
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However, I shall, perhaps,, not soon
again inflict the good old papere's pa
trons with the idle vanorings of
GB2EKH0BX,
AN INDIAN BRIDE.
:ha Romantic Engagement
Sioux Maiden.
of
She Become the Wife of an Irish
nu Who Saved Her Father's
Life and Gave Her as Ed
ucation. A notable, wedding occurred at Bis
marck, N. D., on June 24. The bridle was
Picture Eyes, the daughter of John
Moose, an old warrior, who lias scalped
many a white man and participated in
many a tribal battle. The bridegroom
was Thomas Dulaine Cronan, an Irish
man by birth. The marriage ceremony
was performed first by a Roman Catho
lic priest, after which the Indians had
a genuine old-fashioned wedding feast,
The wedding was the culmination of
a courtship extending over seven years,
which has been attended by unusual
incidents.
Picture Eyes at the age of 18 was a
well-formed, pretty-faced girl who
could not speak a word of any but the
Sioux language, and had never known
the ways and customs of the white
man. bne uvea tnen in a tepee witn ner
parents. Now she is 25 years of age,
educated and refined. Her father, John
Moose, Uvea on the Standing Bock res
ervation, but the bride has. been a mem
ber of Col. Frank Duncan's family, hav
ing been adopted by him several years
ago with the consent of her parents.
It was about ten years ago that Mr,
Cronan first came to this country. He
was then about 25 years of age and
came out west through the mstrumen
tality of Moreton Frewen, an English
financier, who was at that time in
terested with.. Marquis de Mores in the
cattle raising and exporting business,
Cronan was sent to America as a sort
of special agent to look after the in
terests of the English capitalists, and
his duties brought him to the cattle
raising regions of Montana and Wy
oming once each year. On his third
trip he had occasion to stop off at Me-
dora, and it was there that he met the
Indian girl. Upon the day of his arrival
a Sionx Indian had been thrown into
jail for attempting to set fire to
ranchman's barn and .there was a mob
of white men gathered about the jail
door evidently bent upon lynching the
Indian. The plucky constable, who
was a small man, stood upon the door
step threatening to shoot the first man
that made a move forward, but it was
certain that he could not stand the mob
off very long, and already a detach
ment of the would-be lynchers had be
gun to batter in the lone window of the
building. : In the meantime an Indian
girl had appeared upon the scene and
was darting about making frantic ef
forts to have some one understand the
entreaties she was screaming in the In;
dian tongue.
Cronan, noticing the girl, asked who
she was, and was told that the man m
the jail was her father, and that she
wanted the mob to spare his life for
her sake. Cronan, moved by the help
lessness of the girl, decided to inter
cede for the life of the Indian, though
he realized that it was a dangerous
move and might cost him his life.
Elbowing through the mob, he sprang
to the side of the constable and shouted
out a plea for the Indian: He per
severed in his efforts whenever the din
subsided long enough for him to be
heard, and in time he was successful.
The mob dispersed, leaving the consta
ble in charge of the jail and his pris
oner. A few days later the prisoner,
who was John Moose, was tried and was
acquitted, having proved an alibi.
Cronan went back to England, but
returned in six month:; to Medora, only
to find, that John Moose and his family
had gone to Bismarck. He went to the
i latter place on his return trip from
Wyoming and found the Moose family
sungly quartered in a tepee on the bank
of the Great Muddy. He learned that
the girl had already been promised to
a young buck named Four Toe, who
had given her father a certain quantity
of tobacco for her Jiand. Cronan ana
an interpreter went to the tepee of the
lucky Four Toe and proceeded at once
to negotiate for the purchase of the
prospective bride. It was an up-hill
job at first, but after several trips had
been made to the lodge of Four Toe
the redskin finally relinquished all his
right, title, and interest in and to the
Sioux maiden for thex consideration of
$25 ' in hand paid and ten pounds of
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cabbage-leaf tobacco to be delivered on
the wedding day. Then the old war
rior's consent was obtained to the pro
posed marriage and Cronan returned
to England, after making' arrangements
with Col. Frank Duncan for the adop
tion. of the girl and for her education.
Picture Eyes attended the Indian
school at Carlisle, Pa., for two years
&ni then was placed in a seminary at
St. Paul, where her education was.
finished. N. Y. Sun. .
AS LETTER WRITERS. ;
Our People Bank First Among All
Nations. . .
The Enormous Business of the United
States Post Ofllees as Compared
;wlth That of Other .
Countries.
There are 200,000 post offices in all
the countries of the world enjoying or
ganized facilities of correspondence,
and of this number 70,000 are in. the
United States. In respect to the num
ber of letters and postal cards written
and received, the revenue and disburse
ments of the department, the extent,
promptness and accuracy of letter de
livery, as well as the number of post
offices, the United States stands at the
head of all other nations, Germany fol- ,
lowing second, Great Britain third,
and Austria, among European nations, ..
fourth. The United States sells in a
year 2,000,000,000 two-cent stamps,
which is equivalent to 1,000,000,000 let
ters sent through the mails in- a year.
In addition to this the United States sells
in. a year 600,000 one-cent stamps, some
of which are used for letters, though a
larger number for newspaper and cir
cular postage, 12,000,000 three-cent '
stamps, 20,000,000 four-cent stamps, and
50,000,000 five-cent stamps, mostly used
for letters sent from this country for
foreign delivery. More then 1,000,000,
000 letters a year, theref oret paying full
postage, and exclusive of postal cards,
are written in theUnited States. .
The business of the German and 'of
the English post office department is
less than, half as large. The postal card .
system in Germany is in much more
general use than, in England, and it is .
far this reason, perhaps, that Germany
keeps ahead of England .in respect to
the amount of correspondence done.
The number of post omces in Great
Britain by the last official statement,
made on January 1. 1897, was 20,275, ex-
elusive of what is officially called in
England "the road and pillar letter
box." There are 150,000 employes of the
post office department in Great Britain,
of whom 6,500 are women and girls.
The number of poet office employes in
Germany, where telegraphic communi
cation is a part of the post office system,
i3 125,000. The number of letters
handled by the Austrian post office de-
partment in a year is 750,000,000, and of
these two-thirds, are handled in that
portion of the empire which comes un
der the designation of Austria and one-
third only is handled in the portion of
ficially known as Hungary. The Ger- -
mans in Austria, as well as in Germany,
are great letter writers, and in those
cities of the United States in which the
German- population is numerous more
letters are written in a year proportion
ately than in cities in which the German
population is small. ' - - ;
The Italian post office handles 350,- ,
000,000 letters a year, the post office '
department of Spain, 120,000,000, of .
Canada 100,000,000, of Holland 100,000,-
000, of Belgium 125,00(1,000, and of Bus
sia 200,000,000, a considerable propor
tion of which is carried on what aire
called "the mail coach roads," - upon
which postal service the imperial gov
ernment maintains 50;000 horses. In .
France the number of letters handled
by the post office department is about
700,000,000 in a year and the receipts of
the department are about $35,000,000; or
one-half of those of the United States.
The French government, however, does
considerable express business, hand
ing -more than 40,000,000 parcels, or at
the rate of one to each inhabitant of
the country in each year. The expendi-
tures of the post office department in
the United States exceed the receipts by ' .
from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000 in an or-
dinary year. When times are bad there
is less corresponding done. N. Y. Sun.
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