THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1898.
The Weekly Ghroniele.
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge ..Robt Mays
Sheriff. .T.J. Driver
Clerk A M. Kelsay
Treasurer . C. L. Phillips
. Commissioner D. h. Kimsey
Assessor.....". H. Whipple
Surveyor J. B. -oit
QHnroriVant 'nt PtiKlff KrhoOlM.-.C. L. Gilbert
Sn:-:::.: .... w. h. Butt.
-8TATI OFFICIALS.
Governor W. P Lord
uTctnm niaota H B Klncaid
Treasurer Phillip Metscban
Bupt. of Public Instruction.
.G. M. Irwin
Attorney-uenerai
Senators
..CM. Idleman
IG. W. McBride
Mitchell
1 B Hermann
IW. R. Ellis
Congressmen.
Btate Printer
W. H. Leeds
AdvertUtor Kates.
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THE BURSTING OF THE BUBBLE,
The Corbett bubble bas broken at
last. The voices which for nearly a
year have been proclaiming the easy
triumph of Governor Lord's ap
pointee in securing a seat in the sen
ate now are still, and the newspaper
which has heralded his cause in sea
son and out, bides its grief in silence,
The dispaiches from Washington
announce that Senator Burrows of
Michigan, a Republican member of
the committee on privileges and
elections, will oppose the seating of
Mr. Corbett. and this will give a
majority for an , adverse report.
Senator Burrows gives as his reason
that the decision in the Mantle case-
where the governor of Montana
made an appointment to fill a sena
tonal vacancy is a precedent
against the appointment of senators
when the legislature bas bad an op
portunity to act, which cannot be set
aside.
The action of the senate com rr it
tee will meet the approval of the
people of Oregon. The reason may
not be the same technical one, for
the objection here to the seating of
-Corbett is that be does not represent
tfhe citizens of Oregon, but stands as
'the exponent of a political c'lque
which bas long been an eyesore in
-the politics of the state. Personally
-there can be little said against Mr.
Corbett. He is an able, successful
business man, and his private life has
of regret to many to see him placed
.in the ciicumstances which he has
een, and be will retire to private
meditations blamed only for the
company he bas kept.
-la view of all that has happened,
tlo" Simon acd the Oregonian think it
-was worth the while to hold up the
legislature merely to give Mr. Cor
bett the opportunity to spend a year
in Washington? However they may
feel aboift it, the people think differ
ently, and when next the Republicans
oT the state meet in council, these
wreckers of harmony may expect
.scant treatment, but none the less
evere.
The new city of New York covers
359 square miles, and has a popula
tion estimated variously at 3,200,000
and 3,388,000. London, which
ranks first among the cities of the
wona, nas iits square mues ior its
4,231,431 people, and Paris, which
now comes third, packs its 2,447,957
into thirty square miles. It thus ap
pears that New York has an opportu
nity for growth far greater than
either of its two greatest rivals; and
if the extension of population north
to the Bronx and east to Queens, is
forstered by wise government and
assisted by belter facilities of tran
sit, it is urged that it will before
many years take the first place. In
the United States, Philadelphia and
Chicago compete for the .. second
place. According to the census of
1890,' Chicago led with 1,099,850,
Philadelphia following with 1,046,
964. -
The latest sensation from Klon
dike is that Pennoyer'? ' brother-in,
law bas gathered up several hogs
beads of nuggets, and is coming
home with millions. With all this
money in the family, Pennoyer will
be able to fuse the Populists and
Democrats, or to accomplish any
other old thing he may try. Pen
nbyer's luck has become proverbial.
Portland stands in a fair way of
securing a woolen mill. . Parties
from the East, claiming to represent
sufficient capital, are negotiating for
a suitable site, ami the citizens are
eager to offer the necessary induce
ments. With woolen mills to the
right and woolen mills to the left,
The Dalles is in a peculiar position;
but we can have the satisfaction of
knowing that this city furnishes the
market wheie the woolen mills in
these other places get their supplies.
THE MARCH OF PROSPERITY.
A little comparative consideration
of the commercial and industrial con
ditions that prevailed at the begin
ning and at the end of 1897 shr.uld
convince any person that the latter
was a very paradise of prosperity.
The year commenced says the Pen
dleton Fnbune, with a deplorable
lack of trust in the stability of the
nation, There was but little business
being done, and all sorts of indus
tries were at the lowest ebb to which
they had sunk in many years. But
bv degrees the people began o see
that there was ' a solid, trustworthy
helmsman at the tiller of government,
and began to move a litter freer.
Then a spurt commenced, and the
last six months of the year were a
rapid succession of bounds toward
the commanding position of prosper
ity. .
Not in the history of the United
States bas the export trade so loftilj
scaled the heights of well being. The
t tal exports for the first eleven
months of the year amounted to
$947,500,000, to $888,600,000 in
1896, $732,300,000 in 1895, and
$740,200,000 in 1894, showing a
steady increase. The exports of
merchandise and silver for the period
exceeded the imports by $325,000,
000. In every branch of commerce
there has been the same gratifying
revival of business. Even on Wall
street, the great thoroughfare whose
inhabitants are first to feel a change
in conditions, the stock exchange
alings amounted to 77,401,720
shares, as against 54,490,643 in 1896,
and sales of bonds amounted to $544,-
530,530, an increase over 1896 of
$140,465,430, or nearly thirty per
cent. i
The earnings of the railroad com
panies are a gocd index of the gen
eral business conditions ibrougbout
the c dud try. During the month of
November the Pennsylvania railroad
system showed an increase of nearly
$1,500,000, of which about $760,000
was net. . The company's business
for eleven months of the present
fiscal year shows increased net earn
ings of over $4,000,000. For the
five months ending November 30th
the Atchison, Topeka .and Sante Fe
system shows an income from opera
tion of $4,401,101.74, an increase of
$900,241.33 over the corresponding
months of last year. The net earn
ings for the same period have in
creased $740,313.80. The same
satisfactory condition which exists in
the East is found also in the West, as
the recently declared dividend of
the O. R. & N. Co. indicates. Pros
perity bas struck the capitalist as
well as the farmer. But does each
begrudge the other his good fortune?
A, telegram from Pittsburg states
that an order has been placedfjwith a
bouse in Cleveland, O., by Sir Lo
thian Bell, the great English iron
king, for , 4,000,000 tons of Mesaba
iron ore, to be delivered at Cardiff,
Wales, at $5.15 a ton. This is an
entering wedge, it being the first in
stance in which American ore bas
entered Europe. It is hoped thtit
theresult of this order will be that
American ore will shut out Spanish
and African from the English market
The favorable winter which East
ern uregon is experiencing so rar
this season is proving of incalculable
benefit to f aimers and stockmen.
The ground is thoroughly moistened
and the fall wheat has received a
good start. In many . places the
stockmen have not fed their sheep or
cattle, the native grass is supplying all
necessary food. Should present in
dications continue, this section will
be favored again with bountiful bar
vests, and the hum of prosperity be
come all the louder.-
Governor Bushnell can imagine
the feelings of Phillip Nolan, "the
man without a country." The Re-
publicans of Ohio have read him
from their 'midst, and rightly so,
while the Democrats, will have no
use for him when this little brush is
over. He" may find resting place
among the Populists, for there, all
political outcasts congregate. , The
career of Bushnell 6bows that, even
in politics, dishonesty sometimes is
given its deserts.
BEGGING THE QUESTION.
The Oregonian, in replying to a
remark of The Chronicle, com
plains that "it seems to newspapers
like The Chronicle and there are
many of them in Oregon perfectly
incredible and incomprehensible
that there should be, or can be, a
newspaper entirely independent of
men or factions, governing its own
actions according, as in its judgment,
public ends are to be served; criti
cising and opposing men at one time,
and commpndins' and snDnortmo-
tbem , at another, 'as issues change
or as men's relations to them
change."
It does not seem incredible to
The Chronicle that there can be
newspapers with the utter independ
ence which the Oregonian men
tions, but the Oregonian is rot
among them. Nu ideal of journal
ism can be higher than that pictuied
above, and .were the woras applica
ble to the paper which printed them,
the enconium would be a gratifying
one. But the course of the Orego
nian has shown time and again that
it is not "independent of men or
factions," but absolutely subservient
to them. It this were not the case,
why does the Oregoniau support the
Simon faction now, when it is known
that Simon and bis followers have
broken the peace of the Republican
party in Oregon and wrought havoc
on the welfare of the state by their
hold up of the legislature lust win
ter? If the Oregonian is such a vir
tuous organ, why does it not rise
superior to factions and condemn the
methods used by both the Simon and
Mitchell men, and say to thj Repub
licans of the state, "Let us settle this
fratracidal strife, and since it cannot
be adjusted while Multnomah county
is a fictor, let the rest of the state
make the party nominations and
leave Multnomah county out nntil
she learns how better to behave her
self." It is useless for the Oregonian to
say that Simon is wholly right and
Mitchell altogether wrong in this
factional fight; it is useless for a
Mitchell paper to say the reverse.
Both have done things entirely rep
rehensible while trying to win the
political struggle, and though each
justified his action, to himself, from
the exigencies of the situation, yet
when it comes to fair speaking, both
factions are much to blame.
If the Oregonian is such a paragon
of independence, why does it not
condemn this factional spirit and
seek to heal the party's wounds. The
Chronicle is showing more inde
pendence in this one article than the
Oregonian has exhibited in the last
two 'years, or longer. And yet it
wraps itself in the self-assumed virtue
of being independent of all factions.
The. Oregonian's statements and its
actions (if a newspaper has actions)
are so inconsistent that fair-minded
people place no reliance in neither.
Any yet the Oregonian could, if it
would, be the greatest power in the
...... , , .
good.
Bryan is keeping up bis determin
ation to talk himself into the presi
dency. His last set speech was fin
ished at 2 a, m., though the dispatches
do not say when be began. It will
take more than Bryan's eloquence to
convince the people that prosperity
is not already here and promising to
come in larger quantities. .
, When, by process of. cremation,
Durrani's remains are turned to
ashes, it is to be hoped the San Fran
cisco newepapers wiil let them rest
in peace. Tne public has had a sur
feit of the morbid details of these
famous crimes, though the trial itself
will always remain a notable one in
legal annals.
The government customs receipts
for Wed sday were $889,024, the
heaviest since the new tariff law
went into effect All the Dingley
bill needs is a fair chance, and it will
demonstrate to the country the
merit of a moderate protective sys
tem. 1 -
Now that the chances of Mr. Cor
bett being seated have vanished, wil
Governor Lord call an extra session?
or is he afraid Mr. Mitchell would
be elected?
What ha3 become of one David B,
Hill of New York? Has he, too,
joined the procession to Klondike?
He has not even been heard to re
mark, of late, that he is still a Dem
ocrat.
Portland is making a record in
convicting criminals. Those who
seek to argue that juries fail to do
their "duty will have' to seek else
where for examples than in Multno
mah county just at present. ,
' Ohio is fortunate in the speedy
termination of its senatorial election,
With six years before him in the
senate and the friendliness of the
national administration, Senator Han
na will be able to repay some of his
political enemies witb interest.
NEWS NOTES.
' Wednesday's Daily.
The Elder arrived from Alaska last
night, bringing with her very, little gold
dost or news. -
A report received this morning, states
that the Seminole Indians are on the
warpath in the Indian territory. It
etated further that they have already
killed twenty-five people.
The president of the Montana State
Bank was killed yesterday by a crank
who was out of work. The only reason
for the crime, as far as could be learned,
was that the bank president refused him
employment.
Senator Carter, of the senate commit
tee on territories, and Chairman Cox of
the houee committee, bad a conference
yesterday, going over what legislation is
necessary for Alaska, it was agreed
that nothing should yet be done in the
way of giving Alaska a territorial form
of government, in. view of the different
character of the population of that dis-
district. It was decided that action
should be taken giving more United
States commissioners for the district.
.' Thursday's Dally.
Thethree men, Mulligan, Murphy and
Keller, who held np and robbed three
men who bad broken all the crap game?
in Bourne, near that place, last week
were captured Sunday in a dug-out
near Excelsior mill, by Sheriff Kilburn.
They were lodged in the Baker Ciiy jail.
Latest repoCa from Havana state that
rioting is going on at that place. Great
excitement prevails, and the American
citizens are thought to be in danger.
General Lee bas reported the condition
of affairs to the president, and it was
supposed this morning that a war ship
would be sent to Cuba at once.
A telegram was received by Adjutant-
General Breck, at Washington, from
General Merriain, commanding the de
partment of the Columbia at Vancouver
barracks, that may have some effect on
the policy of the war department in ex
tending relief to the miners of the Klon
dike. The general reports that passen
gers on two steamers, which have re
cently arrived from Alaska, state that
the miners will get throngb the winter
in safety.
Friday's Dally.
The George W. Elder leaves tonight
On another trip to Alaska. She will be
loaded to the guards, having 300 pas
sengers and a large amount of freight. '
A special report received this morn
ing states that Hanna's opponents are
going to contest bis rights to a seat in
the senate on account of the charge of
bribery. Their success is to be seen.
Latest reports from Havana Etate that
all ia quiet at that place, and that tbe
rioting ia over. Further trouble is ex
pected at any time, and our government
is in readiness to send a gunboat there
at a moment a notice on the slightest
intimation of trouble.
Tbe tornado that descended upon Fort
Smith Tuesday night crossed the Ar
kansas river one-balf mile south of Van
Buren, and tore a path 200 ya-da wide
through Crawford county, and dealt
death and devastation to everything in
itspath. A ecore or more of bouses
were blown down and many persons
were hurt. :
Pirates have been committing depre
dations in the French settlements at
Haiphong, China, and even in the vicin
ity of Hong Kong itself. On . December
loth, a gang of 800 pirates attacked tbe
suburbs of Haiphong, wbic ia inhabited
by Europeans, setting fire to places
simultaneously in the four quarters.
Tbe deeparadoes were fired npon by a
party of French marines, and about 30
killed.
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ANOTHER GREENHORN LETTER.
Fate of the Precocious Wood-Rat--Good
Words for Tbe Da!!::.
Gheknhoen, Or., Jan. 9, 1898.
Editor Chronicle :
. In my last eliusion I think I wound
up by talking about rats, or wood-rats,
and tbat makes me think of a story tbat
I have not time to tell. We nave a
wood-rat in our tunnel that is a bird, so
to speak; a daisy, and all that sort of
thing. He bas a nest (I sex the animal
by the whiskers) about fifty feet from
tbe month of the tunnel ; a nest made
of the uiobs that bangs from the liltlesj
black pines in graceful festoons, like the
chin-whiskers of a billy goat. The nest
is cunningly bidden on top of the lag
ging (the split timbers roofing the tun
nel) and there he sleeps by day, for
your true wood rat only works on tbe
night shift. Back there in the eternal
darkness, in some mysterious way, be
knows when the daylight fades away,
and be. rises np to work. Ic a short
cross-cut we have u powder magazine,
where tbe dynamite is thawed out', and
there is the scene of some of bis labors.
He is a cunning little "cuss," with long
grey whiskers, little beady eyes that
gleam in tbe darkness like1 a toper's
nose over a set of false teeth, and a tail
like a gigantic caterpillar.
"...
The boys found his nest one day and
swiped a part of it to use for tamping.
The wood-rat, whom I have named Co
pernicus, because he works only at
night, caugnt on, ana tne next morning
the boys were surprised to find a whole
wad of moss piled up by the powder
magazine, and they found tbe same
thing every morning. Soon after, Co
pernicus began piling chips on the
track, chips from tbe mining timbers,
and every morning there were two piles
of tbem, always at tbe same place. Tbe
boys began to get interested in Coperni
cus, and one evening they left a piece
of candle by tbe magazine just to eee
what be would do witb it. In the morn
ing they found ' it propped up by three
or tour pieces ol rock and close to (Jo-
perntcua' chip pile. Then an idea
struck the boys that 'may be Coperny
wanted a candle to work by, so tbat
night tbey left half a block of matches
along witb a piece of candle. In the
morning they found tbe candle propped
up as before, and the matches all broken
apart and lying near it. After that Co
perny didn't ehow np for a week, and
none of ua conld imagine what tbe
trouble was: but at tbe end of tbat
time, as they were quitting work, tbey
saw Copernicus standing on the powder
magazine, with a woe-begone expression
on his face and tears in his eyes. Even
as they gazed. Copernicus turned sadly
around, cocked bie tail over to port, and
showed his right bip, hairless and blis
tered. The little fellow had seen tbe
boys striking matches, and he wore all
the hair off bis southeast quarter trying
to get a light.
.
Then tbe boys made a pair of cute
little pantiea out of a flour' sack, with a
rubber waistband and a little pocket for
matches, and then you ought to have
seen tbat rat. Whv, he would climb up
car, reach down after a lucifer, raise
his hind leg so as to stretch bis trouser-
loons, and strike a match secundum ar
tem, or words to that effect, and then he
would cut up the queerest you ever saw.
If the boys left the car in tbe tunnel, he
always bad it filled with rock by morn
ing. And then he got so be would go
down to the mill, kindle a fire at the
forge and sharpen all tbe tools. We
bad to hide all the picks, because the
little ecamn scorched the bandies. But
his pursuit of knowledge caused bis un
timely decease. He bit off more than
be could masticate when be got to fool
ing witb - the powder, ut course we
don't know, just what happened, for we
can only reason from effect back to cause.
A small piece of wood-rat tail and a di
lapidated pair of diminutive overalls
made of flour-sack, these - were . found
near tbe face of the tunnel, and half a
stick of giant powder, left at tbe maga
zine the night before, was missing.
Whether Copernicus took it with him,
or it took uopernicus, is only conject
ural, but I incline to tbe latter opinion,
for Copernicus had an open countenance
and seemed honest.
Way np here in tbe snow, I look back
longingly to Tbe Dalles and old Wasco.
One has, after all, a pride in his home
town, and who would not feel proud of
having for a borne town the city tbat
sits at the foot of tbe mountains and the
head of navigation. I am more than
proud of her when I note tbe deliberate
manner in which her laws are enforced.
San Francisco' bas been nearly three
years monkeying with Durrunt. . Law,
there, has become a bv-word and Jus
tice is not only blind, but lame of both
legs as well, bhe should take a lesson
from The Dalles. There the evil-doer.
if be knows when he is well off, bitteth
tbe railroad track witb an exceedingly
hasty hit, or shinneth across tbe coun
try with both shins, anxious to be else
where. Tbe Dalles, alone, of all tbe
cities of the Northwest, is onto her job.
She knoweth a good thing when she
sees it, ana ner optics are gooa. no
tricks of tbe law, no quillets of techni
calities hamper her in ber criminal
jurisprudence. No sir I When she
sends ber officers ont to arrest a crimi
nal, she sends tbe coroner along, 'and
there is no appeal from the verdict of a
coroner s jury;' ana that " mates me
think of another story tbat X may tell
when I am no longer
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