THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1898.
The Weekly Chronicle.
. COUNTY OFFICIALS
County Judge. .. ..Kobt. Maya
Sheriff. T. J. Driver
Clerk M. Kelsay
Treasurer C. L. Phillips
r . . IA. a. mowers
-Commissioners Id. B. Kimsev
Assessor...: W. H. Whipple
Surveyor J; i0'
Superintendent of Publio Schools. . .C. L. Gilbert
ur xt HnB
uaroner -
STATE OFFICIALS.
Sjvernor W. P. Lord
Secretary of State , H E Kincaid
Treasurer Phillip Metschan
Hnnt. of Public Instruction . M. Irwin
Attorney-General
Senators '.
...CM. Idleman
G. W. McBride
JJ.-H. Mitchell
Congressmen
Bute Printer....
I B Hermann
JW. E. Ellis
....W.H.Leeds
Weekly Clubbing Bates.
Chronicle and Oregonian . $2 25
Chronicle and Examiner .' . . 2 25
Chronicle and Inter Ocean 1.85
Chronicle and Tribune. 1 75
Chronicle and N. Y. World 2 00
TEE CENSUS OF 1900.
One of the subjects on which this
congress bhould legislate without fail
at this session is the census. It is
. . high time, says the Inter Ocean to be
laying the foundations of the next
decadal census. It is not too much
to say that the last census cost mill
ions more than was necessary through
the erudity and delay in the passage
of the act of congress under which it
was taken. -
But before even a beginning is
made in getting ready for the twelfth
' census, congress must legislate on the
subject. Ten years ago it made
some blunders which ought to be
; avoided this time. One thing, the
. act weDt into details too much. The
1 bill was largely the work of the late
S. S. Cox, a brilliant and able man,
' but one entirely . without practical
experience in that line. He had
studied the subject in the abstract
and found it very interesting, but
' there is no school like that of expe
rience. Congress may provide for a per
r . manent census bureau. A compara
tively small number of men could be
i kept at the work all through the ten
.. years ' from one census to another,
. and it would be economy to do it.
'Those men should be under civil
- service rules, not examinations pre
. scribed by the civil service com mis
sion, but by the superintendent him
,: self and his immediate assistants.
The men belonging to that branch of
the census bureau should be protect
ed from removal except fcr cause,
the superintendent being held re
ponible for their efficiency and ac
" curacy.' It would be demoralizing
to reduce the superintendency to a
figurehead. The chiefs authority
must be such that he will be master
of the situation, at the same time
exempt from the pressure of place
hunters, in congress ajid out, who
made such distracting demands upon
the superintendent of the last census,
Robert P. Porter. In a recent mag
azine article fr6m Mr. Porter's own
pen conspicnous mention is made ot
those distracting demands. ' Evi
dently they interfered seriously with
the work.
' V- But .the great bulk of the work"has
to be done by men who are employed
only a short time, a few weeks, per
haps only a few days. Their work,
in the aggregate, is really the most
-important of all, yet it would be im
practicable to apply to them civil
rules. "We refer, of course, to the
enumerators of population. . There
will be substantially the same num-
ber of them as there are election
precincts, take the country through.
Either by act of congress or rule of
": the bureau, the supervisors, under
.whose general supervision the enum-
.;.'.' eiation is to be made, should be re
quired to. follow voting distrbt lines,
so far as possible. The average
length of time required to make the
return for an enumeration district in
1890 was about two weeks. Every
applicant bad to make his application
. in writing, and, so far as practicable,
. lie had to be a resident of . the dis--.;
trict. No doubt this general system
;' . will prevail in 1900. . Chicago -alone
V will furnish employment for a fort-
- night for about 1,500 enumerators,
f No general examination would meet
""ihe requirements of the case. There
V are a good many districts in Chl-
' cago where it is necessary for the
enumerator to be able to ask his ques-
.. - ' tions in some foreign tongue. In
. one it will be Russian, another Pol
. eh, another Bohemian, and so on
;'. through a long linguistic list. The
enumerator must be able at the same
time to read and write the English
lflricnas'e correctly. The spirit of
re o- . J
the civil service system ought to
netvade the entire work of the cen-
sup. ' ' ' -
TEE YEAR AT, EOME.
The New York Independent gives
the following resume of the most
important feature of President Mc-
Kin!ey's administration : ,
"The most important aspects of the
past year are those relating to poli
tics and financial and industrial re
cuperation. President McKinley in
outlining bis policy, gave the first
place in immediate importance to
legislation for the enlargement of the
revenues of the' country, and the
second place to the question of cur
rency reform. He also indicated
his strong attachment to the merit
system and his intention to uphold
it. He took occasion shortly after
to promulgate an important rule for
bidding removals from office except
on written charges. . He has proved
a strong friend of the merit system.
".On March loth a special session of
congress was convened, and the work
of revising the tariff was entered
upon.- It was known in advance
who would compose the committee
of ways and means, and they had
been working diligently in preparing
new schedules. The house was,
therefore, enabled to act with great
promptness, and the new tariff went
into operation in July. It raised the
duties on many articles, notably wool
and woolens, to about the rates of
the old McKinley tariff, leaving a
few (as .in the iron and steel sched
ule) almost undisturbed. The re
sults of the new law are not quite
certain. - While there has been a
monthly advance in the receipts,
they are not yet sufficient to meet
the expenditures of the government.
The present policy is to wait two or
three months longer. Mr. Dingley
and others believe that there will be
such a substantial increase as will
justify their policy of retaining the
tariff as it is.
"The expectation that, the tariff
settled, there would be a gradual re
turn of the prosperity enjoyed be
fore the panic, has been justified in
a large measure. Business interests
have adjusted themselves to the new
tariff and the present conditions;
and with the most abundant crops
the country has ever had and large
demands for them from abroad, our
farmers have had a remarkably pros
perous year, particularly in the West
and Northwest, and have paid off a
large amount of mortgages and other J
debts.
"The elections in November were
of a mixed character. Where Re
publicans carried states it was gener
ally by a reduced plurality. The
Bryan Democrats hardly held their
own in JNeorasKa ana lost aoutn
Dakota. In an election for chief
justice of the court of appeals of this
state the Democratic candidate won
by a handsome majority, being
helped by the large Democratic vote
in the Greater New York, where
Tammany was triumphant over the
Citizens' Union and the Republican
ticket The Joss of Greater New
York came hardly as a surprise, be
cause the Republicans insisted upon
a separate ticket, making the tri
umph o Tammany certain. The
loss to good government is great.
On the other band, Baltimore was
carried a. second time by those in
favor of a good, clean administra
tion, and the state also went Repub
lican, insuring a republican successor
to United Stales Senator Garman.
"Our relations with Spain and Cuba
have at times been quite delicate.
Under the . new administration they
have somewhat improved, due partly
to the fact of a change in . the Span
ish cabinet, and the access of-the
Liberals, with Senor Sagasta at their
head, to power. Our new adminis
tration is regarded, as friendly to
Spain, although President McKinley's
policy of . ultimate intervention is
very distasteful to the Spanish people.-
, ' '
"One of the great events of the year
has been the discovery of enormous
deposits of gold in what is known
as the Klondike region, part of which
is in Alaska and part, in British
North America. The richest finds
so far have been in Canadian terri
tory. Many millions of, the gold
mined last winter have been brought
to the United States, and it is ex
pected that the next year's output
will be immensely larger. A large
number of persons from the United
States and Canada have gone to seek
their fortunes in. the new diggings
So many of them have pressed into
the country that starvation during
the long arctic winter is a possibil
ity, and relief expeditions are to be
sent forward with suppliea at the ex
pense of the United States govern
ment." v
TEE COMPROMISE REJECTED,
The Simon men have refused the
offer of compromise made by the
Mitchell Republicans, and all pros
pects of harmonious action in Mult
nomab county have vanished. The
course taken by Simon, Mallor', et
al., refusing to make peace in the
party will come with little surprise,
Unless, tbey can control the whole
machinery of the party and state,
these self-constituted leaders are dis
gruntled and revengeful. In their
selfishness they leave . room . for no
one to aspire to prominence outside
of their own favorites and hench
men.
JThe attack made by Rufus Mal-
lory on Judge Geo. H. Williams in
his letter published two days ago,
will go far towards strengthening
the cause of the Mitchell Republi
cans. To charge Judge Williams
with being unduly partial or preju
diced is to make allegations which
the people at large will not believe
rue. The very fact that the Simon
men are unwilling that this venerable
statesmen should act as an arbiter
of differences because they fear he
might, decide in favor of the Mitchell
Republican's contentions, will be to
many, strong evidence that the claims
of the Mitchell men are meritorious.
The letter of Rufus Mallory and
the answer of the Si men committee
will not find commendation in the
minds of fair-minded people. Call
ing people bard names is not argu
ment, and abuse does not win con
verts. ' .
We had hoped to see the trouble
in Multnomah countv satisfactorily
adjusted, but the action of the Simon
men makes this impossible. The
fault lies with the men who, in their
blind passion, would wreck the party
rather than Senator Mitchell should
be re elected.
TEE OEIO SENATORSEIP.
The Republican members of the.
Ohio legislature held their caucus
Saturday and agreed upon Senator
Hanna . as his own successor. There
was no other name before the caucus,
but there were several absentees, the
votes of some of whom are necessary
to Mr. Hanna's election. It is im
possible, at least for those outside of
the state, to understand the situation.
Are the anti Hanna people playing
for position in the game of patron
age ? . If that is all there is to it the
general public can afford to be se
renely indifferent to the outcome.
But if there is a clique of Republicans
at Columbus who really propose to
bolt the regular nominee and go over
to the enemy, then that, is a matter
that concerns the entife party v
There could be no excuse for any
such act of downright perfidy. There
have been times in the history of the
country when a few members of the
legislature, just enough to hold the
balance of power, were jusitified in
Stepping in and makiDg full use of
their advantage. That was the case
when five Trumbullites in 1855 re
fused to vote for Abraham Lincoln
fot senator to succeed General
Shields, and compelled the support
ers ' of . Lincoln to come to them.
They had been elected as Democrats
before there was any Republican
party. . They violated no political
pledge, were guilty of no perfidy.
It was much the same when Salmon
Pi! Chase was first elected to the sen
ate from -Ohio, John P. Hale from
New Hampshite and Charles Sumner
from Massachusetts. But no such
conditions now exist If Governor
Bushnell or any of his friends should
now repeat the bad faith which elect
ed Judge Christlancy to the senate
from Michigan in place of Senator
Chandler, he or they would invite
the contempt of all honorable men
of both parties. No public man can
afford to set himself against his party
in the mere gratification of personal
spleen. Inter Ocean-
. - The last act. has been played in
the drama of Durrant's life. The
meager dispatches announcing the
execution state that Darrant made
no" confession and met death with
the same self-control he has exhibited
at all times since first he faced the
charge of murder". ; While there can
be little or no .question of Durrant's
guilt, yet it was the general hope
that be would rrake some statement
which would remove any lingering
doubt which exists in cases like this,
where the evidence is purely circum
stantial. In the annals of criminal
cases the Durrant trial wil remain
for many years among the foremost,
while the crime itself rivals all others
in fiendishness. ' '
NEWS NOTES.
' Wednesday's Dally.
Robbers held up a train near Kansas
City last evening and secured $10,000
from the express car.
Last night an unknown man tried to
kill a girl in Eugene, by shooting ber,
through the window of her room. The
ballet took effect in ber arm.
Yesterday evening two robbers un
dertook to crack, the safe in the Van
couver postoffice. They were caught in
the act but escaped.
John C. Herren, a Jeturdy Oregon
pioneer, and citizen of Salem, died at
his home, shortly after midnight yester
day morning, in his 70th year.
Thursday's Daily.
Yesterday John Fox was appointed
collector of customs at Astoria. -
It is reported that the Spaniah gen
erals are having serious trouble among
themselves.
H. C. "Adams, one of Oregon's well-
krown pioneers, died at his home in
Salem laet night.
Reports received from Portland this
morning state that the MitchellJRepub-
lican proposition for harmonyhas been
rejected.
Addie Brown, who was- burned by her
clothes catching on fire while she was
asleep near a stove at Salem Monday,
died at the hospital yesterday mornir g.
. The surveying expedition attached to
the Nicaragua canal commission is still
in camp near Greytown. Everything is
progressing favorably.. The laborers
hired at Port Limon, Costa Rica, landed
at Camp Cheney, near the canal com
pany's breakwater, yesterday.
John Cardwell and G. Karg late last
night were crossing a long bridge over
Grave creek, about 25 miles north of
Grant's Pass. When they were about
half way across, a south-bound freight
train came along. Karg retained his
presence of mind and lay down on the
ties, the train passing safely over him,
but Cardwell became frightened and
jumped off the bridge, which is about
0 feet high, and was instantly killed.
Friday's Daily. , , .
A message received this morning
states that the time set for Durrant's
hanging is 10 :30 today.
Tonight's Telegram will say that Pres
ident McKinley will not remain passive
on the Cuban question.
Latest reports state that the contract
for supplies for the Dawson relief expe
dition has been awarded- to Portland.
Last night the Columbia theater in
San Francisco was destroyed by fire.
The loss will amount to over $15,000,000.
The question of calling Weyler to ac
count for protesting to the queen-regent
against the wording of .McKinley's mes
sage, is closed, the Spanish public prose
cutor having informed the supreme war
council that there is no ground for pros
ecution. The split in the ranks of the Republi
can members of the Maryland house of
delegates, which developed at Tuesday
night's caucus, continued yesterday,
with the result that the house was com
pelled to' adjourn nntil today without
having organized, and there seems no
immediate prospect of a settlement of
the difficulty. . i
Both branches oi the Ohio legislature
have adjourned until Monday, but both
sides of the senatorial contest remain in
conference daily and .nightly at the Neil
house and the Great Northern hotel re
spectively. . The suspense and secret
work will continue until , next Tuesday,
when the two branches of. the legislature
vote separately for senator. :
The last payment to the government
by the Union Pacific reorganization com
mittee for the Union Pacific was made
yesterday, a check for $8,500,000 (round
figures), being deposited at the subtreaa
ur Jr. The payment concludes practic
ally financiering of the reorganization of
the Union Pacific and the payment of
the debt of $58,000,000 to . the govern
ment.. ;-
Xo Exchange.
Twenty-four miles west ' of Spokane
and two and one-half from Deer Park,
on the Spokane Falls & Northern, is the
following tract of land, which I desire to
exchange for residence property in The
Dalles: ..One hundred and forty acres
seventeen cleared, one paled in garden.
Five-room, new house; two-story barn,
and- several other buildings. Value,
$2,000. Call at Sentinel office. 6-lw
CHRISTMAS AT THE MINES.
A Chapter .on. Memory .and One Con
cemlng a Greenhorn Wood-Bat.
Gbebnhoen, Or., Jan. 2, 1898,
Editor Chbonicxb :
Christmas arrived here on time, and
has passed back into the sand bank of
things that were. It was not the Christ
mas that Dalles people kept, bat an en
tirely distinct and different affair. There
was no candy, no popcorn, no presents,
no turkey, no cranberries, no smiling
friends no nothing. It snowed eix or
eight inches; but we really didn't need
it, having some three feet of it at the
time. Yet', it was really a "happy
Christmas" for me. Happiness is a
queer quality. It exists only in Abe
past and future tenses. With what we
have had we can rejoice; with what we
expect we can grow glad; but with
what we have, what sane man,or woman
either, ever wasor ever will be, happy,
chewing the "cud" of things past, and
scenting the green grass of things to
come, which will make ruminating ma
terial for some future date.
- ' -
Christmas the tiees were laden with
snow, the branches drooping tiredly,
like eyelids heavy with sleep; but since
the gay and amorous Chinook kissed
away the snow and the bare limbs are
flaunted unblushlngly before us Green
horns. Greenhorn creek, from its little
bed, grumbles complainingly of the cold.
It had no Christmas cheer upon its bars,
no flavor of nutmeg and cinnamon in its
drink ; albeit Us waters are the color of
Tom and Jerry. A few flattering mag'
pies, with absurdly long tails; a few
pine-squirrels, with abnormally busby
ones, and an occasional cotton-tail rab
bit, with no tail at all, constitute the
sum of the living things the forest
shows, and all these have taken their
moods from nature and are as silent and
voiceless as the dammed creek.
.
Christmas and New Years and hope
and new-born resolutions, these are for
all. Yet up this way we have the ad
Vantage of civilized folk, in that we do
not have to swear off.' Instead, we can
gaze into the glowing coals of an even
ing, and through the woof ot Memory
run the warp of Hope. Gaudy patterns
and bright colors come easy to the fire
gazer. Alas ! that they, like the embers,
should fade so. quickly to dull and
shapeless and sooty black. Wbat a
blessed goddess is Memory 1 With what
gentle toncb she covers the ills we have
borne, even as the green grass heals the
torn hillsides and carpets the harsh
earth ' that covers the form of some
loved one "gone before." Oh! gentle
and blessed Memory. Most merciful
gift vouchsafed to man by the Divine
Power, and fortunately fired out of the
Garden of Eden with him. We suffer
bat once ; past we cannot feel again the
anguish. Braised und battered by con
tact with the world. Memory holds up
her mirror that shows only the healthy
spots between the braises.
Have we loved? Memory recalls for
us the blissful dream. Have we been
amused? Again she shows the playful
picture. Sorrow and suffering and pain,
these,, and all their kindred brood, she
removes with loving hands, and pats to
oar lips the cup filled with the waters of
Lethe. She cannot weep like Rachel,
but she laugh s like Sarah oyer her first
born. True, she has her faults, for she
permits us to remember the debts we
owe, and fails not to aid, the fellow we
owe them to in the same direction ; but
these ace simply her foibles. True, she
fails to warn us about that spool of
thread our better halves told ns to get,
and so creates strife and discord between
those whom a justice of the peace and
God bad joined together ; bat then we
mast remember that she has been ont of
Paradise for a long time, and has been
associated with man alone ever since.
With the other brutes she cuts no ice.
By the way, did you ever see a wood
rat? We have one in our tunnel that is
a living cariosity.
A wood-rat is two pounds of industry
with hair on it ; two pounds of vital en
ergy with four legs. Two pounds of
storage battery with gray whiskers and
a bushy tail. Judging by the whiskers,
the wood-rat, in the first place, was in
tended to grow np into a Populist; by
the tail, that he started out to be a
squirrel, but got "ratty"-fied at a Dem
ocratic convention, and so failed to ma
terialize; while, from the utterly absurd
things that he does, and the way be in
terferes with things that do not concern
him, the inference is plain that he was
intended Jor a politician. He has the
eqergy of the colic, the persistency of a
corn, the cariosity of a woman, the
activity of a scandal, the meddlesome
ness of a sewing society. But I will tell
you about him later, only adding that he
is- crazier than a Klondiker and "fool
isher" than : A Gkkenhobn.
; Public Installation.
Tne G. A. R. and the W. R.' C. will
bold a public joint Installation next
Saturday evensng at 7 :30, at Schanno'a
hall. Friends of the order are cordially
invited. - Mary S. Myers, Sec;
When" von can not sleep for coughing
take Chamberlain's Cough Bemedy. It
always gives prompt relief. It is most
excellent for colds, too, as it aids ex
pectoration, relieves the longs -and pre
uents any tendency toward pneumonia.
For sale by Blakeley x uougnton. .
EAST and SOUTH via
The Shasta Route
" . of' the v I
Southern Pacific Comp'y.
Trains leave and are due to arrive at Portland
ntyiva
OVERLAND EX-1
Trea8. Salem. Rose-
Durg, Asnlana, bae-
6:00 P.M.
I ramento, Ogden.San
1 rraneiseo, iwoiave
Los Angeles, tl raso, i
I New Orleans ami I
I East : J
Roseburg and way sta
tions -. ...
fVia Woodburn fori
I MtAngel, 8ilverton,
West 8cio, Browns-
ville, Springfield and
(.Natron j
(Corrallls and way
i stations (
8:30 A.M.
-f
Daily
except
Sundays.
Daily
. except
Sundays
17:30 A. M.
:!$0P.M.
INDEPENDENCE PASSENGER. Express train
Daily (except Sunday).
4:50 p.m. (Lv Portland Ar.) 8:25 a. m
7:30n.m. Ai..McMinnville ..Lv- 6si0a.m.
8:30 p.m. (Ar..Independence..Lv.) 4:o0a.m.
'Daily. t Daily, except Sunday.
DINING CARS ON OGDEN ROUTE.
PDUJIAN BUFFET SLEEPERS -AND
SECOND-CLASS SLEEPING fARB
Attached to all Through Trains. ,'
Direct connection at Hnn Francisco with Occi
dental and Oriental and Pacinc mail steamship
lines for JAPAN and CHINA. Sailing dates on
aiplication.
Rates and tickets to Eastern points and Eu
rope. Also JAPAN, CHINA, HONOLULU and
AisiAALiA, can DeoDtainea irom
J. B. KIRKLAND, Ticket Agent
Tbrouirh Ticket Office. 134 Third street, where
through tickets to all points in the Eastern
States, Canada and Europe can be obtained at
lowest rates from
J. B. KIRKLAND, Ticket Agent.
All above trains arrive at and depart from
Grand Central Station. Fifth and Irving streets
-YAMHILL DIVI8ION' '
Passenger Depot, foot of Jetterson street;
Leave for OSWEGO, daily, except Sunday, at
7:20 a. m.; 12:30, 1:55, 5:15, 6:25, 8:05 p. m.
(and 11:30 1. m. on Saturday only, and 9:00 a. m
and 3:30 p. m. on Sundays only). Arrive at
Portland daily at 6:40 and 8;30 a m.; and 1:85.
4:15, 6:20 and 7:55 p. m., (and 10:05 a. TO , 3-15
5:10 p. m. on Sundays only).
Leave for Sheridan, week days, st 4:30 p, m
Arrive at Portland, 9:30 a. m.
Leave for ATRLIE on Mondav. Wednesdav and
Fridav at 9:40 a. m. Arrive at Portland. Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday it 3:05 p. m.
Except Sunday. "Except Saturday.
R. KOEHLER,
Manager.
, H. MARKHAM,
Asst. G. F. St Pass. Agt
Regulator Line
Ike Dalles, Portai ani Astoria
Navigation Co.' ,
strs. Regulator & Dalles City
FREIGHT AND PASSENGER LINE
BETWEEN I
The Dalles, Hood River, Cascade Locks and Port
land aaay, "swii sunaay.
DOWN THE VALLEY
i
OR TO
EASTERN OREGON?
Are you going '
If so. save monev and enjoy a beautiful trip on '
the Columbia. The west-bound train arrives at
Tbe Dalles in ample time for passengers to take
the steamer, arriving in Portland in time for the
outgoing Southern and Northern trains; East
bound passengers arriving in The Dales in time
to take the East-bound train.
For further information apply to
J. N. HARNEY, Agent,
wax street vocn. rortiana, uregon.
Or W C. ALLAWAY, Gen. Agt,
The Dalles. Oregon
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E M ST!
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TWO Transcontinental ROUTES
GREAT
NORTHERN
OREGON
SHORT
LINE.
RAILWAY.
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Spokane
Salt Lake
Denver
Omaha
: Kansas City
Minneapolis
St. Paul,
Chicago
Low Rates to ail Eastern Citiss
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KverT Five Days for
SAN: FRANCISCO, CAL.
Steamers monthly from Portland to
Yokohama and Hong Kong via North
ern Pacific Steamship Co., in connection
with O. R. & N. '
For full details call on O. R Cn.- Agent a
The Dalles, or address
W, H. HTJRLBURT, Gen. Pass. Agt
. . Portland. Oregon
. TIMK CABD. "
No. 4, to Spokane and Great Northern arrives
at5:25p. m.. leaves at 5:30 p. m No. 2, to Pendle
ton, Baker City and Union PacifleuTives at 12:45
a. m., departs at 12:50 a. m. -
No 8, from Spokane and Great Northern, ar
rives at 9 20 a. m., departs at 9:25 a. m. Ha l,
from Baker City and Union Pacific, arrives at
8:20 a.m., departs at 8:80 a.m. ! . -. t-
Nos. 23 and 24, moving east of The Dalles, will
carry passengers. No. 23 arrives at 5 p. m., ;
departs at 1:45 p. m.
- Passengers for Heppner tafce No 2, leaving
here at 12:50 p. B. . y .