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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, .WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2, 1898 The Weekly Ghroniele.- COOTY OFFICIALS. County Judge. ' Bobt Mays rJnentt. r. J. Lnvei Clerk A M. Keliwy Treasurer C. L. Phillips Commissioners UkK? Assessor W. H. Whipple Surveyor J. B. t-olt Superintendent of Public Schools.. .C. L. Gilbert cjroner . a. cutis Advertising Kates. Per inch One fcch or less In Dally II 50 Over two Inches and-nnder four inches 1 00 Over four inches and under twelve inches. . 75 Over twelve inches 50 DAiLY 1SD WEEKLY. One inch or less, per inch 12 50 Over one inch and under four inches 2 00 Over four inches aud under twelve inches.. 1 50 Over welve inches 100 Weekly Clubbing: Rates. Chronicle and Oregonian $2 25 Chronicle and Examiner.. ..r 2 25 Chronicle and Inter Ocean 1 85 Chronicle and Tribune 1 75 Chronicle and N. Y. World 2 00 WE WELCOME YOU. The citizens of The Dalles extend a cordial welcome to the delegates of the Wool -Growers' Convention. We trust jour stay in our city shall al ways .be the occasion of pleasant memories, and that from your de liberations here much good shall result. It is entirey fitting that the city which handles more wool direct from the producers than any other in the United States, if not the world, should be the place where the first convention of the wool men of tbe Northwest should be held. The Dalles is glad to see its streets thronged by the class of men who by brains and force have made wool raising the important .industry it is; and we trust that the delegates will carry away with them pleasant mem ories of their visit to this city. ssssssssssssslsssssssssss OUR NAVY PREPARED. "In the West Indies, within imme diate reach, we have tbe Montgom ery, with ten guns and 250 men, now at Port Antonia, Jamaica, hav ing left Santiago de Cuba, perhaps fortunately, on Feb. 10th. The Nashville is at Galveston. She has eight guns and 150 men. The New port, sjx guns and 135 men, is at Colon; the Vicksburg, six guns and 135 men, is at St. Kitts: the Wheel ing, six guns and 135 men is at La Guayra. "So much for the warships injcora mission and within immediate strik ing distance. The' represent twenty-three vessels, with nearly 200 high power guns in the main bat teries, to say nothing of the secondary batteries and the hundred or more torpedoes with which the vessels- are supplied, and they carry fully 5,000 men, the bravest, sturdiest fighters in any navy.- "Our ships have powder and pro jectiles. Our plans of fighting have been made; week after week, -and steampship La Cbampage, for whose safety. fears were entertained, is an chored off the Newfoun Jland banks, unable to proceed because of a broken shaft, will bring relief to an anxious, public, while the incident serves to show the wonderful prog, ress which has been made in navi gation in recent years. The great companies whose vessels traverse the Atlantic have reduced danger to a minimum, so that the sea has lost much of its terror. ' WHY THE UNITED STATES UNPOPULAR ABROAD. IS far into into tbe nights, the naval au thorities at Washington have been making arrangements ' to meet any attack from Spain. If trouble comes it will find the administration prepared." The war talk in the East is of a considerably less conservative nature than it is in the West. Tbe eastern journals are inclined to the view that war is more than a possibility, and are giving a good deal of atten tion to tbe fighting condition of this 'country. The Inter Ocean sizes up . -our naval force as follows: "One of our battleships is lost. We have three others at Tortugas, .just below tbe Havana horizon There are 1,500 sailors, fighting mad, -on them, ready to fire fifty large sized guns from the decks. Tbe In -drana has sixteen of these guns, tbe Iowa 18, the Massachusetts 16, and the Texas, now at Galveston, 8. Each of these ships has a crew of about 450 men. With these battle ships, in Admiral Sicard's squadron, is the armored cruiser New York, with eighteen guns and nearly 500 'tnpn Within rnll nt. Pflmntnn Roads is the Booklyn, an improved , New York, foremost in that grade of warships in all the world, with twenty guns and 500 men. "In commission at Norfalk is that queen of fighters, tbe monitor Pun tan, with her ten guns, and at ber side is the monitor Terror, with her four guns. At Port Royal is the monitor Amphitrite, with six guns. These three monitors muster clcse to 500 men in their crews. The world has not improved on these ships in - H 1 111 I I. If J I.AWM M m .AMH. faster, mav go farther, but none can fight better than the monitors, and the Puritan leads them all. "Then at Tortugas is the cruiser juarDieneaa, rnu at juoone the cruiser Detroit, unarmored but strong and sinewy, each with ten guns and each with 250 men. These vessels might be shot through, and, although their thin sides would be as so much paper to the modern -projectile, their guns "would make havoc in a bom- bardmfnt or on vessels of their own Their eno-inpa. t.liA Yinart rt the warships anatomy, are protected, and only a torpedo's blow would 8 lop tbe firing of their guns. "At Tortugas or Havana we have the torpedo boats Cushing and Erics son ; at Mobile we have tbe new tor pedo boats Dupont and Porter; at Norfolk we have the torpedo boat Foote, and at New York is the tor pedo boat Stiletto. On these vessels arc about 150 men. They deal with the most deadly of modern weapons of war. EXTEND THE "GLAD HAND." Tomorrow the .wool convention meets. Tbe latest reports received confirm tbe estimates that a largi number' of delegates will be in at tendance and Tbe Dalles will receive more .visitors than at any time since the opening of the locks was so sue cessfully celebrated. Besides the distinguirbed guests from neighbor ing states who will address the meet ings, all sections of Eastern Oregon wi.'l be represented by men who are directly engaged in wool raising. J. be convention will afford many opportunities for good to result to wool growers, chief among which is the proposal to organize a general association of those engaged in rais ing wool, similar in object to the local asseciation now existing in sev eral counties, but having a wider scope' of authority. In many states these associations of stockmen have been of great benefit, and there is every reason to believe that such would be tbe case in this instance, At least the project is well worth careful consideration. Tbe Dalles has an excellent op portunity to favorably impress its visitors. The weather promises fair, and the city streets are getting in better condition. The various com mittees have fulfilled their duties admirably, and ajl that remains now is to entertain the visitors fittingly. Some of tbe city stores are already appropriately decorated for the occa sion, and the committee trusts that more will follow the example.. Let as much decoration be done as pos sible, and this occasion be made an impression one; and at every oppor tunity tbe "glad hand ' should be extended. Of tbe fact there is no doubt, says the Independent every visitor, more' than a mere hasty traveler in Europe, will testify to the fact. It is not true, we think, of other Amer ican countries, at least to the south of us.' But Americuns do not tiavel much on their hemisphere, and tbe Monroe Doctrine has made us to be regarded as a kindly elder brother wbo can be called on for help in the last emergency. But in Europe we probably have not one cordial friend among the na tions of Europe. Indeed, we are much in the position of Great Brit ain, whose isolation is more "splen did" than agreeable. The causes of this growing unpopularity would make an interesting study, and we note some of them. It is easy to see why we are unpop ular in Spain. Spain is unpopular with us. We naturally sympathize, all of us, with the Cubans struggling for their independence. But .it is a matter of the iotensest pride with the Spaniards to hold their choicest pos session. They know the Cubans de pend on our sympathy, that they smuggle military stores, from- our coasts, and that our government bas made it clear that we cannot allow the cruel wrong to the Cubans and the injury to our own interests to go on indefiritely. We are intensely unpopular in pam, ana the resi dences of our minister and consuls have to be guarded against popular attack. We are not popular in France, notwithstanding the hereditary friend ship.. For years there . bas been a large American colony in Paris, but its members find it difficult to get any entree into .trench society. French ideals differ from ours as much as they do from the English. Besides, tbe natural sympathy of France is withvits neighbor Spain, which has a large colony in Paris and Spanish bonds are held in Spain in connection with , tbe Republican nominee for governor. It is a man who is known by every voter in the state, and a man who bas more con fidence of the people than any other man m the state. We refer to Hon. George II. Will iams of Portland. Of course every one bas his favorite for this office, and among the leaders are T. T. Geer, C. W. Fulton, S. A. Lowell and George H. Williams. Any of these are true Republicans and would- make excellent officers, but of the four mentioned we re in clined to favor Mr. Williams. He has had experience in positions far more important than the governor of Oregon, In all of which he has shown good judgment and excellent tact.' He has been tried and found not wanting. . The continual attacks of the Ore gonian upon Mr. Fulton may result in bringing out that, gentleman as a candidate foi governor, even though he expresses his reluctance. The people have become tired of the Ore- gonian's methods in local politics, and will some day, as they have done in tbe -past, administer a stinging re buke. ' A POSTUASTER LOSES THE USE OF HIS LEGS AfiD ARBS- Edwin R. Tripp, of Middlefield Center, Meets with a Hazardous Encounter Which Renders Him Hp!nIpQ? ...... ..w..www. Mr. Edwin JL Trii NEWS NOTES. Saturday's Daily. Tbe senate yesterday resumed debate on tbe case of H. W. Corbett, claiming a senatorship from Oregon. Teller favored i .Miaoieneld Center, a. Y.. recentlv had a dangerous experience which left him in a helpless state. His .system was so much shattered that it was feared he might never recover. In an interview with a reporter of the jtepuoacan, regaining tins experience wnicn naa attracted considerable attention. Mr. Tripp stated : "In March. 1892. I was taken. with what I afterward learned was locomotor ataxia, and was unaDie to want, and x Kept getting worse until I lost the use of mv arms. I doctored with two skillful doctors but re ceived no benefit, and also used a galvanic battery but kept getting worse and the doc tors told me they could do no more. This was in May and June, 1893. I gave up all hope of ever having the use of my limbs again, and did not expect to live very long. I was unable to dress or undress myself, and could not get around the house unless 1 was moved in a chair. . "I think it was in June that I read of the case of a man in Saratoga Co., N. Y., who was taken very much as myself. He had taken Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People which contained, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shat tered nerves, and had been cured by their From OUego Republican, Gooperttown, IT. T. ip, the postmaster at . . , . . . . . .. I learned that the pills were' prepared by rnn roan nhnn nrauntAi n rha maini-if. I . ....... . . . . 1 . - , tnB urr wiinanis- Medicine uompa; GOOD ROADS AGAIN. Whether or not the proposed rail road is built from The Dalles to Sherman county, our business men must not lose sight of the necessity of having a good system of roads leading into the interior. During the past winter the condition of the highways leading to this city bas been horrible, and trade has been quiet because farmers could not draw produce' to town to sell or ex change for merchandise. Especially bad have' been the roads near The Dalles, and this season bas demon strated that the main thoroughfares need some scientific treatment. The Commercial Club has this matter in hand, and we may expect good results to follow. Even should a rai'road be built from here to Sherman county, there will always be considerable travel by wagon routes, provided the road is kept in good condition. ' , Whatever plan tbe committee of tbe Commercial Club has in view, we trust it will have the hearty in dorsement of our citizens and if it needs be that money be spent, it should be done willingly, as the re turns will exceed many times the investment. The receipt in New York of the intelligence that the French line and . would be almost worthless Cuba were to secure independence, The French believe what the Span lards tell them, that the United States is hungering to annex'Cuba. Of the great powers there remain Russia, which has no - public opinion and Great Britain. President Wash burn thinks that the mother country remains our friend. We trust this is so, certainly we are ber friend but the Venezuela incident, and the charges that our diplomatic cores pondent lacked curtesy, have cooled the feeling. Ibe prompt payment of tbe indemnity now awarded to Great Britain might relieve this tension. So for good reasons or bad we must probably submit for some years to be no .longer the most popular, but one of the most unpopular of na tions. We are strong enough so that we need not fear tbe enmity of for eign states; but it is our first inter national duty to see our own serious faults and to conduct our public affairs on the highest plane of honor and curtesy. We need not lav it wholly to the incapacity of the na tions to- understand our good quali ties when-so shrewd au observer of European affairs as President Wash burn cf Constantinople tells us that "we were never so heartily bated by tbe people of Europe as we are to day." ; JUDGE GEORGE H. WILLIAMS FOR GOVERNOR. Several Republican papers in tbe interior have announced their belief that Judge George H. Williams is the man whem the Republicans should place at the head of tbe state ticket. Notable among such jour nals is the Antelope Herald, which, in its last issue, says in this connec tion: Another name is being used now of the committee against seating Mr, Corbett. The officers of the Newport Newe ship yard aunounce that tbe double launch ing of the battleships Kentucky and Kearsarge will take place March 24tb, and will be tbe first doable launching of first-class battleships in thejworld. Tbe picking, drying and steaming warehouses of the National Tobacco Company, situated at Twenty-fourth and Maine streets, Louisville, Ky., was totally destroyed by fire yesterday morn in. Tbe loss will amonnt to $1,000,000, fully covered by insurance. A dispatch from Havana says : "In the uncertainty of the relations with the United States, the importance of tbe recent action of tbe autonomist party is overlooked. Its central committee bas formally approved tbe plan, which is a confession of the failure of the present scheme of autonomy and an offer to the insurgf-nts to concede everything except the withdrawal of the Spanish flag. ' The cabinet veeterday diecussed the Maine's disaster; bat no dtcision has yet. been reached.-. Almost general ex pression prevails in congress that Spain will be forced to give complete satisfac tion for tbe loss of the .Maine if it is found that she : was destroyed by anv other cause than accident. Extensive preparations for war are being made and big battleships are coaling for a two months siege. The cruiser Montgomery has been sent to Havana. nv. Sche nectady, N. Y.( and only cost 69 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 at any druggist's, and sent for two boxes. I used the pills faith- , fully and they gave me an appetite. I then sent for four more boxes, and before I had taken all of them my feet and legs which had been cold besran to sret warm. " I was a member of the Town Board that summer and had to be carried and put into a wagon to go to the meetings, and in fact was helpless, as my neighbors Know. In August . I could walk around the house by pushing a ' chair. 1 kept getting better and managed to move around more, until at election time that year, I walked with a cane to the polls, a short distance from my home. I continued to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People until I had taken eighteen boxes. I could then get around, and to-day walk to the. post office and back, a distance of one quarter of a mile, three times a day, and attend to my duties as postmaster. " In the spring of 1893 I was elected town clerk, which office I held for three years, I had previously been a justice of the peace for thirty-two years. I am now 70 years of age, and have lived in this town for about forty-six years. For nearly fifty years I worked at the blacksmith's trade. I am able to do work in my garden now, and saw some of my wood. I consider that my res. toration to Health is due to the use or ur. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. Edwin R. Tripp." Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23d day of June, 1897. UOJleb tt ANflAH, jxoiary inoiie. . Dalles Public Schools. Following is the report for the qoar ter (5 weeks) ending Friday Feb. 25, '98, a s ' . TEACHERS. ' a & a a o H ' 3 I ' Eatt Bill Primary. Miss Kan Cooper land2B 51 44 42 3 Mrs. Koche 3, 4 and 5B 52 48 46 6 Academy Park. Miss rhlrraan : 1 59 53 51 6 Mrs Baldwin o.nrtan MissFiinn . ...zanasu 86318,2 Miss U RiDtonl... 6 59 53 60 5 MissT. Bintoul .....6 A and7B 48 45 44 2 Union Street MUsRowe ...1 48 44 42 7 Miss E.Cooper 2B 57 53 61 5 Miss Snell 4 B 52 50 48 4 Miss Cheese. 4 A and SB 55 50 48 8 Vnum Street Annex. Miss Bali 5B 60 55 52 5 Court Street. MlssMlchell 7 A and 8 B 48 44 43 1 Miss Hill... I High School 8, 9, 10 Mr. Landers andllA 124122118 9 Totals 1 799742 715 56 No. days of school, 24. rer cent of attendance on number be longing, 96. xiib mgneac previous record was m Jan., 1898, and wai aa follows: In at tendance, 776 ; average nam ber belong' ing, 714": average attendance, 678. The record for February of last year was : Attendance, 711 ; average No. be longing, 640 j' average daily attendance, 607. John Gavin, Principal. A Pleasant Birthday Party. A large number of tbe friends of Miss Maude Gilbert gathered at the resi dence of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Saturday afternoon to celebrate herv 18th birth day. About twenty of tbe prettiest and most interesting young ladies mat could be found were present, and the time, which was spent in different games and amusements, passed only top fast. A delightful lunch was served, after hicb all offered Miss Gilbert warm con gratulations and best wishes for many more pleasant birthdays. Those present were: Misses Georgia Sampson, Edna Glenn, Grace Glenn, Aimee Eckler, ' Hattie Cram, Lena Thompson, Joeie Jenkins, Elizabeth Bonn, Lena Liebe, Grace Hobepn, Effie and Vesta Bolton, Martha Whealdon, Martha Schooling, Nettie Fredden, Ella Bice, Ann Mann, Sybil Cashing, Edie Fisher, Florence Hilton, Clara Nickel- sen. - - Try 8 chilling- Best tea and baking- powder. f Special peatur 1 Of The Chronicle office is the Job prii7tii7 D?partrei7t. We have better facilities for doing- artistic work in this line than any office in Eastern Ore gon, and this branch of our busi ness is in the hands of expert workmen. ' . Ue alle omparisor; both as to high grade work and reasonable prices. ?hror;icJe ptib.'?o. M. Z. DONNELL, PRESCHlPTIOtf DRUGGIST TOILET ARTICLES AND PERFUMERY. Opp. A. M. Williams & Co., THE PALLES, OR PIONEER BAKERY. I have re-opened this "well-known Bakery, and am now prepared to supply' every- 1 body with Bread, Pies and Cakes. Also all kinds of Staple and Fancy Groceries. GEORGE RUCH, Pioneer Groc has the best Dress Goods has the best Shoes as everything to he found in a first-class Dry Goods Store. C. F. STEPHENS. cabo