THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY. MAY 18, 1898.
The Weekly Ghfoniele
The only Republican Daily Newspapet in
n asco oouwv.
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge.- : Eobt Mays
Sheriff. ;..T. J. Driver
Clerk A M. Kelgay
Treasurer c. u rmuips
Commissioner .. In. B. Klmsev
Assessor W. H. Whipple
Surveyor g. 'oit
Bupennienceai 01 rnouc ocnoois...v. v. oucn
Coroner W. H. Butte
Weekly ClobblDg Bates.
Chronicle and Oreeonian $2 25
Chronicle and Examiner 2 25
Chronicle and Inter Ocean 1.85
Chronicle and Tribnne.'. 1 75
Chronicle and N. Y. World 2 00
WHEAT.
Three years ago many shared the
belief that the day of high priced
wheat had gone by forever. There
was much talk of the enlarged wheal
area of this country, of enlarging
grain fields in Argentine and India,
find RncQian inorpnaa with f.riA nnn.
trnction of the Trans-Siberian rail
way, and many believed that these
factors would .bring down the price
of wheat permanently.
They were wide of the mark, says
the Spokesman-Review. The world
is clamoring tor wheat, arul prices
, bave'swung back to the market quo-
tations.of war times.
Prabably the world has really en
tered upon a lower average price for
that stape. In the long run the
enlarged area of wheat lands must
exert some influence, and imnrovinff
means of transportation tend to make
prices more uniform throughout the
world. But it is not probable that
. we are near the prevailing low range
of prices which many have pre
dicted.
When prices fall below the aver
age cost of production, a sharp re
striction of the world's wheat area
will follow. Soon the surplus stocks
will bo exhausted, and then will
come a sharp awakening to the fact
that the world is confronted by a
shortage. ' And a shortage in the
world's supply of breadstuffs is a
serious matter something altogether
different from a shortage in wine, or
-tobacco, or manufactured products,
"oreven tea, coffee, or cotton. To
'ibejrj&asses of Europe's population
people who cannot afford meats even
when times are "good," and to whom
bread is literally the staff of life it
aneans -hunger and possibly starva
tion. . . To governments it means
' bread riots and severe disorders.
Tbe prevailing shortage will prob
bBJy be followed by a sufficient
"crop, and after that wL'l come, by
degrees, another surplus. It seems
the American wheat grower has en
tered upon an era of fair prices. He
should make the most of his oppor
tunity while it endures.
bond buyers are pressing the gov
ernment for a $500,000,000 .loan.
There is reason to believe the proud
boast that our warships are the best
in the world. They are manned by
courageous crews who are well paid,
well fed and well cared for,' and
eager and impatient for sea fighting.
Against Spanish dissensions and in
trigues we array a united and deter
mined nation.
If tbe war be prolonged, Spain
will be ruined. The United States
is hardly jarred by the struggle.
WE HAVE SEEN OUR BEAD.
to
WOEFULLY OUTCLASSED.
Of the Spaniards Admiral Nelson
said: "In times of peace they are
great braggadocios"; in times of war
cowards but sreat thieves all the
. time."
Official thievery is tie tuberculo
sis wbioh has been eating at Spain's
vitals for centuries. It is the direct
-cause of Spain's present exhaustion
-and bankruptcy. Official thievery in-
-cited the Cuban revolution and
brought on tbe war with the United
Slates. It incited the insurrection
in the Philippines, and it' will make
-easy the downfall of Puerto Rico.
There is reason' to believe that
through official thieverv Spain's navy
4a a . sham. Nothing about it was
' built on honor. Its ships are plated
with weak armor, equipped with
inferior machinery, ana. mounted
with dangerous guns. Its officers
and men are unpaid aQd discontent
ed. The money rightly theirs has
gone to officials rascals. It is Big
nlficant that the rallying cry of the
Spanish rioters is "down with the
thieves." -
Through official ' incapacity and
theft Spain finds itself bankrupt at
the beginning of this war. Just be
fore the Maine disaster Spanish 4
per cent, bonds s61d at 62. Today
they drag around 82. In the face of
-such a slump, the Spanish govern
ment seeks desperately . for a war
loan. ; . . ;
uontrasi iuis who inesuperocreau
of the United States. ' Our 4 per
cent bonds command ; 122f, and
It was doubtful judgment to send
the Winslow and the Hudson against
tbe land batteries and Spanish gun
boat of Cardenas harbor, says the
Spokane Review. They are ms
quito crafts. Tbe Hudson is a rev
enue cutter of no fighting force
speak of. The Winslow is a torpedo
boat of only 142 tons, armed with
torpedo tubes and one-pound guns.
War craft of this description can
fight only at short range, and should
not be sent against land batteries,
It would have been wiser to have
sent the Wilmington into Cardenas
harbor alone, had that been possible.
It is a sheathed cruiser and carried
number of medium . sized guns. It
seems tbe$paniards could not strike
an effective blow against the Wil
mington and centered their hot fire
on tbe mosquito craft. They were
keen enough to profit by the mistake
of the American commander.
It is not surprising that tbeWinslow
was disabled and six of her men
killed. The wonder is that either
the Winslow or the Hudson escaped
destruction. They were directly
within range of the enemy's fire, and
if that fire had been well directed
both would have been demolished
It was a deed of superb daring for
the little Hudson to stay with the
disabled Winslow.
A number of reckless acts have
been indulged in by members of tbe
blockading squadron. Some of the
officers seem to have been incited by
Dewey's brilliant achievement to take
all sorts of senseless, daredevil risks.
If tbe Cardenas engagement shall
teach these reckless officers a lesson
of prudence, the .death cf six of our
brave defenders will not have been
in vain, in war times tne results oi
bad judgment and reckless folly are
not always so light.
In loss of life the sad affair was
merely as kirmish. If tbe war continue
for a year or two, we- must expect
innumerable such losses. Through
out the civil war skirmishes of this
magnitude jrere so frequent that they
hardly received a paragraph in the
newspaper reports of the'day. The
Cardenas engagement is memorable
because the nation suffered there its
first loss of tbe war. Spain will be
the chief looser from that engaga-
ment. To quote Kipling, we have
seen our dead, and the sight thereof
has put the stern thought of ven
geance behind every rifle and every
cannon beneath the stars and stripes.
Unfortunately the same sentiment
has prevailed in this country, and
those favorine it have been slow to
realize that the Cuban Question is an
American question, to be settled by
Americans. The conditions are not
like those prevailing in our own rev
olutionary war. We had then well
organized anrJ well-disciplined ar
mies, and a strong government act
ing through a congress elected by
the DeoDle. The Cubans, - when it
come3 to the test, have not . more
than 10,000 men ready to co-operate
with the United States army. Tbey
have made a heroic, resistance. Jto
Spanish tyranny, but - they have not
been able to prevent the most cruel
persecution of their own people or
the devastation of the most fertile
provinces.
Tbe United States ' goes into Cuba
because the masses of the people are
at the mercy of the most corrupt and
brutal government in the world; be
course hundreds of thousands are
starving; because American interests
in Cuba and Cuban waters have been
ruined and our commerce with tbe
island destroyed; because our chief
executive was insulted by Spam s
representative, and, most Important
of all, because our battleship,, visit
ing Havana on a mission of peace,
was destroyed and 266 American
sailors murdered.
This is a war between Spain and
the United States, not between Spain
and Cuba. Any question as to the
way we became involved in it is not
now a factor. Tbe .war is here and
it must be fought to the end by
Americans and in tbe interest of the
United States. By act of congress
this country is ple'dged to secure the
independence of Cuba and to estab
lish a stable government on the lsl
land. But we are pledged to do
many other things as important, and
the war must be conducted with all
these things in mind.
We can wait no longer on the Cu
bans. If they co-operate with our
army they will have an opportunity
to show their mettle. If they do not,
their interests will be looked after
just the same. Bat in no case will
the American army be subordinate
to the Cuban, and in no case will the
campaign be under tne direction oi
tbe Cuban Junta or tbe Cuban gen
erals. The American army will en
ter Cuba to drive the- Spaniards out,
and it will do it in its own way.
There can be no question in the
minds of the Cubans as to the mo
tives of the purposes of the United
States. We have taken all tbe risks,
will bear all the burdens of war, and
the Cubans will be the principal ben
eficiaries. Under the circumstances
their course is as clear as ours.
THE CUBANS AND THE WAR.
Nothing is clearer, eays the Inter
Ocean, than that the campaign in
Cuba must be American from start
to .finish. The Cuban imagination
has been filled with imagery of our
own revolutionary war. Many of
tbe Cuban leaders have clung to the
idea that liberation was to come to
their people, not through the inva
sion of American armies, but through
the coming to the island of some
modern Lafayette, who should place
Lis money, bis monitions of war, his
army, and himself, at the service of
the. struggling republic The Cuban
leaders at home and in this ccuntry
have believed that, with recognition
and - assistance, they could achieve
their independence and settle affairs
to suit themselves. Believing this,
or at least hoping that sucu a plan
might be tried, this opposition has
been carried to such an extreme that
it has embarrassed the United States
in carrying, out the plans of congress.
Even now some of the officers' of
the Cuban army oppose any move
ment from the United States that
wili take from the revolutionists the
honor of driving the? Spaniards out
of the island.- - This' is creditable to
them, but it is a mere sentiment.
PERSONAL, MENTION1.
It will be easy for the United
States to land troops at any point on
the Cuban coast. No forts on the
island could stand a fire from Samp
son s neet longer tnan fifteen min
utes, except . those at Havana, and
undoubtedly the Havana defenses
could be knocked down in an hour
at the farthest. The landing will be
easy, and within three days after the
American troops go ashore the in
surgents are likely to be fully
equipped with guns and ammunition,
and be. s'tarting on the warpath after
the Spaniards. Tbe Spanish soldiers
w.ho will be outside of Havana
will have a bard race to set into that
city. They grasp this truth, too, for
Pando'g retreat on Havana means a
general abandonment of all the island
by the Spaniards except that point.
'.. ' Saturday's Dally "
Fred Wilson went to Portland yester-
aay lor a snort stay.
'I. A. VanNorden arrived from a trip
10 rortiana last evening.
Hon. A. 8. Bennett went to Portland
for a short trip yesterday.
Yesterday H. S. Wilson returned from
a business trip to Sherman county.
John and Frank Yeackel. of Center
ville, Wash., were in town yesterday.
J. L. Lset, of Bickleton, Wash., is
the city attending to business, matters,
Phil Brozan left for Antelope yester
day to superintend the shearing of his
sheep. '
J. S. Cowan, agent at the Warm
Springs reservation, is in the city for
short visit,
Mis. A. Slusher came in from her
home at Dufar, and will leave todav to
Visit friends in Portland.
F. M. Fonts went to Portland yester
day to bid good-bye to his son, who
leaves with the soldier boys.
Prudence and Glen Patterson went to
Wasco on the 5 :20 train last evening to
visit tneir lather, Colonel Patterson.
W. H. H. Dufur and wife, of Dufar,
are in the city. Mrs. Dufur will leave
this morning for a few weeks visit with
her mother in Portland.
Yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stnb,
ling lert for .Portland where tbey go to
bid goodbye to their son. Arthur, who
leaves in a lew days for ban Francisco,
Willard Vanderpool was in the city
from his homa at Dufar yesterday. He
reports dry weather in that vicinity, but
states that tbe crops are not Buffering as
yet irom tne ary weather.
District Deoutv Mitchell of the Or
der of Elks, and H. Griffin, also a lead
ing officer, of that order, came up from
Portland last night on their wav to La
Grande to organize a lodge of Elks.
Mrs. George Ferguson returned on the.
overland train last night from Scio, Lane
county, wnere she has been for over a
month visiting with relatives as well as
taking a change of climate in hopes that
ner neaitn might be benehted. , She re
returns much improved.
, Sunday's Daily.
Mayor Klinger, of Duiur, was in the
city yesterday.
"A,, S. Blowers, of Hood River, is in the
city on business.
Dr. Shackleford returned from a short
business trip to Portland last evening
Al Lyle returned from Portland last
evening where be has been on business,
Dr. Eshelman left on the 11 :45 train
last night for Heppner on a profession
al trip.
August Camels, of Gervais, Marion
county, passed through the city to the
east last evening. ,
Mr 8. Geo. Ruch and daughter, Ursula,
returned on tbe boat last night from a
short trip to Portland. .
Mrs. P. M. Dekom, of Portland, came
up yesterday and will visit a week with
Mrs. S. L. Brooks in this citv. .
Misses Bess Isenberg and Hnlda
Rankin, of Hood River, arrived from
Goldendale yesterday and remained over
to visit friends.
J. H. Cornell, who for several months
worked as a printer in. this city, passed
through tbe city last evening on his way
to his old home near Spokane.
Yeeterdav C. M. Benson, of Ogden,
and A. Lucas, of Omaha, Neb., arrived
in the city and will leave tor the interior
to purchase cattle for eastern markets.
. Tuesday's Dally.
Fowler is in
W. H.
relatives,
the city visiting
, A. J. Smith spent Sun-
Manila was captured by the Brit
ish In 1762, but it required thii teen
Bbips and nearly 7000 men, 1000 of
whom- were lost in the assault .upon
the fortifications, to accomplish, what
Admiral Dewey did with a smaller
numerical force and with no loss save
that of the ammunition used. That
illustrates the difference between old
and new -naval methods and ma
chinery.. -' :
A little boy asked for a bottle of "get
up in the morning as fast as you can,"
the druggist recognized a household
name tor "DeWitt's Little Early Risers"
and gave him a bottle of those famous
little pills for constipation, sick head
ache, liver and stomach troubles.
Snipes Kinersly Drug Co.
For Sale Cheap
A lot 100x160 feet, on the bluff, east of
tbe fair grounds. A desirable residence
location. . A. 8. Mac Allisteb.
" Chronicle Office. '
Mr. and Mrs,
day in tbe city,
O. E. Brown, of Grass Valley, is in the
city on business.
Judge Dell Stewart, of Portland, is in
the city on business.
Al Kitchine, tbe Hay Creek stockman,
is in the city on business..
William Becker, of tbe Pendleton Tri
bune, was in the city Sunday.
Judze Pices, of Portland, was in the
city Sunday attending to campaign mat
ters.
Hon. E. B. Dufur left for Goldendale
last evening, where be has legal business"
to attend to.
Malcolm Moody and Hon. C. W. Ful
ton, of Astoria, left for Gilliam county
last evening.
Fred W. Wilson will leave this morn
ing to spend a lew days in the brass
Valley country. ,
Mrs. Geo. Blakeley, who has been
in Portland for the past month having
her' eyes treated, returned. home Sunday
afternoon. .
Mrs. Annie Winneck and little daugh
ter, who have been spending ajfew days
with Mrs. Winneck's sister, Mrs. Her
bert, "will leave this morning .for San
Francisco, where they will make their
future home.
Mies A. E. Landon, late of Heald's
Businass College of Sau Francisco, ar
rived in tbe city Saturday, and will take
charge of the Western 'Union office at
this place. Miss Baom, who was here
temporarily, wili leave for Portland in a
few days.
Mr. Fred Wilson left on last night's
east-bound train. ' He will go to the
sanitarium at Asheville, N. C, where
he hopes to entirely regain his health.
His brother, Parker, was also a passen
ger pn the same train, bound for Pitts
burgh, where he will resume bis posi
tion as electrician. -
BORN. '
Id this city, May 13. 1898, to Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Gilhoueen, a daughter;
weight 9 pounds.
The farmer, the mechanic and tbe bi
cycle rider are liable to nnexpected cuts
and bruises. DeWitt's - Witch Hazel
Salve is the best thing to keep on hand.
It heals quickly, and is a well known
cure for piles. Snipes-Kinersly DrUg Co.
Use Clarke & Falk's Floral Lotion for
rough skin. ,
Farmer Hopkins9 Evidence.
HE TELLS ABOUT THE SUFFERING OF HIS
DAUGHTER.
A Victim-of Nervous Prostration and Neuralgia,
Saved After Her Physician Abandoned Hope.
From the Republican, Columbia, IncL
Whila in the neighborhood of Rugby,
Indians, recently, a reporter was told that
Hiss Clara Hopkins, daughter of Mr. Dennis
Hopkins, a prominent farmer of Bartho
lomew County, had been tbe subject of
remarkable transformation. The reporter
aeciaea to investigate ana learn tne par
ticulars. He was driven to Mr. HoDkins'
splendid country home, where he had an
interesting conversation with that gentleman
reraruwK tne illness ox nis only uaugncer.
You nave been correctly informed." said
Mr. Hopkins, "for Clara has indeed had a
severe siege, ene tried vr. w imams' jfink
Pills for Pale People nd they did her more
good than all other medicines together that she
ever tooc. a tew traxes oi mat medicine
accomplished the care of a case in a few
months which had baffled physicians for
years.
' "About three years aeo her health becran
to fail. The doctor who attended her said this
was caused by weak digestion. This nrodrihed
nervousness, which was accompanied: by neu
ralgic troubles, which at first was located in
the nerves about the heart. Of course this
was a dangerous location for any such trouble.
and she rapidly grew worse, notwithstanding
that the physician' was treating her. This
con tinned till a year ago last November, at
which time she was almost constantly confined
to her bed.
Tbe nenralcna became cradnallv worse.
and finally sbe was a confirmed victim to it.
.Nervous prostration set in. and sbe was
toon all run down. Her blood was impure
and watery, and ner complexion became Sal
low and colorless. She had no strength, and
the least noise irritated her, she was so ner
vous. We had another physician, and he
treated her steadily for a year without doing
her any good. In fact, it seemed that she
was continually beooming worse. He finally
gave up the case as hopeless, and advised
us to get Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
People for her, as he said that they were the
only thing that would benefit her.
" I procured a couple of boxes of the pills,
and found that their use helped her con
siderably. She kept on taking them till she
used about a dozen boxes, witb the result
that she was entirely well, and since then
there has been no symptoms whatever, of her
old trouble. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are
certainly a wonderful medicine, which did a
wonderful good in Clara's oase. doiner what
several physicians railed to accomplish."
All the elements necessary to give new life
and richness to the blood and restore shatter
ed nerves are contained, in a condensed
form, in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Palo
People. They are also a specific for trou-
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sions, irregularities and all forms of weak
ness. In men - they effect a radical cure
in all coses arising from 'mental worry.
overwork or excesses' of whatever nature.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold in boxes
fnever in loose bulk at 60 cents a box or six
boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all drug-
S'sts, or direct by mail from Dr. Williams'
edicine Company. Schenectady, N. Y.
Bills Allowed. '
The following are the amounts ordered
paid at the last meeting of the commis
sioner's court :
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A Y Marsh ...
W A B Campbell
C L Morris
MB Znmwalt
H M Morgan
GLorenzen....... . . .
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L Marqmss
NF Davis
MO'Dell... .."
H Wickham ........
RBand... .
E Koontz :
R Doyle. ."
S Darnille
Ed Spencer ;
FTodhunter
H Snipes
Crate
A Hanna.-
W Wells
F Johnson. . "...
D C Floyd..
C Dunakin
Grazer...
Falton. . :
C E Eclntosn
RF Wickham...
L Bolton ..;
W Benson ; ,.
H J Coram
L H Leininger
Deckert
F Tell.
H Wickham
F Johnson
A Turner.... .
A, Siring, juror. ... .
C F Candiani, juror
O Olean, juror
McCary, witness. . . .'
L Broiler, witness
F Leavens, witness
O McCrory. ..... .
BConlio
D L Cates, cor jury .
Miller "
A G Hall -
W J Ashby, board and care pau
per ".
Mays & Crowe, suppUeB for coun
ty road
John Michel!, supplies for clerk's'
office
Dr O C Hollister, examining in
sane person
Stockmen's Union, bounty on an
imals ..
Chronicle Pub Co, printing and
publishing
Dalles Lumber Co, wood for pau
per.
Jacobsen Book & Magic Co, sup
plies.; ..... ;..
Mays & Crowe, office desk ...
B Durbin, remittance on tax.-.
D S Kimsey, mileage county com-
miesioner
A S Blowers,mileage county com-
Hjiesioner . .
BILLS NOT ALLOWED. ,
James Means, rebate on taxes. . -
M M Cashing, board and lodging
non-resident pauper
B Goit, establishing section
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