THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 10. 1898.
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TRIUMPH IN PORTO RICO.
The circumstances connected with
the capture ot Ponce, in Porto Kico,
give that affair a political importance
which even transcends its military
consequences, says the Gtobe-Demo-crat.
The port ot Pence surrendered
to Commander Davis, ot the auxil
iary gunboat Dixie, without any re
sistance, and the city, three miles
inland, capitulated to Gen. Ernest.
This puts the largest city in Porto
RjCofor Ponce has more inhabitants
than San Juan, the capital of the
island in American hands, gives us
a virtual mastery of the whole south
ern coast cf the island, aDd puts us
iu possession .of a good highway lead
ing to San Juan, seventy miles dis
tant in a northeasternly direction.
Over that road the heaviest artillery
can be drawn with ease. The country
between these two most important
points in the island is exceedingly
favorable for military operations.
This is the purely military side of
the capture of Ponce. Its political
side lies in the temper of the people
toward our soldiers. " The populace
received the troops and saluted the
the flag with wild enthusiasm," says
Gen. Miles in his report. "The
Porto Ricans," remarks the Associ
ated Press dispatch, "are glad
that the American troops bare
landed, and say they arc all Ameri
cans and will join our army." It is
clear from, these expressions that
the change of sovereignty for Porto
Eico will give satisfaction to its peo
ple. The visit of the American
troops has long been expected and is
welcome. The Spaniards have always
said, and all the other Europeans
i u i,. it... e
uuvc luuugui, luuii ofuuisu iuiu uua
been agreeable to Porto Eico, but
long before this war began Americans
learned that the Spanish yoke was as
burdensome in that island as it was
elsewhere. The reason the Porto
"Eicans have raised fewer rebellions
than the Cubans is that their island
Js smaller than that of their kindred
vlo the westward, it is intersected in
all directions by good roads, along
which troops can pass quickly, and
Hence risings could be easily sup
pressed. .
Porto Rico's political problems will
be as readily solved as its military
difficulties are being surmounted.
The American military forces M re
lease you from your former political
relations," says Gen. Miles in bis
proclamation to the inhabitants of
Porto Eico, " and it is hoped this
wili be followed by your cheerful
acceptance of the sovernment of the
United Stales." This aspiration will
undoubtedly be gratiGed. The Porto
Eicans, under American authority,
will have such home rule as their
seeds demand, will be part of the
greatest and most progressive nation
on the earth, and will, for the first
time in their . lives, learn just
what - liberal government means.
.Thus the capitulation of Ponce is
even more gratifying for what it
foreshadows than for what it imme
diately brings. It indicates there
will be very little resistance from
.the Spanish soldiers anywhere in the
island ana mat, alter Spanish author
ity is overthrown, the adjustment of
the inhabitants to their new relations
will be easy and pleasant. The en
thusiastic welcome which the people
of Porto Eico extend to the Ameri
can troops will show the Spanish
dynasty t,he necessity of immediately
making peace on any terms which the
the United States offers.
THE PEACE TERMS.
Our government has done well to
press its warlike movements while
discussing peace terms with Spain.
This is no time for weak wavering.
Spain must not harbor the delusion
that the United States is anxious for
peace, or be led into the false belief
that to gain peace this country stands
ready (o forego the just fruits of
victory, says the Spokesman-Re-Tie
w..-" . ". -Jf
Spain will accept the terms now
offered, she may reclaim the Philip
pines, which constitute the greater
part of her menaced colonies. In
population they outnumber Cuba
and Puerto Eico many times over.
and in many ways they are of greater
value to the Spanish nation. By
yielding Cuba and Puerto Eico, and
withdrawing her armies from those
islands, Spam may be able to put
down the Aguinaldo insurrection
and re establish her shattered sov
ereignty.
Indeed, there is reason to believe
that in accepting the terms offered
by this country, Spain will lose
nothing which she would not soon
have lost even if she had not gone
to war with the United States. In
attempting to hold all ber rebellious
color, ies. Spain would have
put all in jeopardy. Apart from the
war with America, she had come to
that point where wise 'statesmanshrp
would have dictated that a part be
yielded to make more secure the
grasp on the remainder.
Perhaps all this is understood as
well in Madrid . as in Washington,
but as a salve to wounded Spanish
honor, the ministry considers it es
sential that the Spanish government
should have the appearance of being
a potential party to the peace nego
tiations. Its obvious purpose is to
make it seem that the United States
is accepting its proposals rather than
have the masses of . the Spanish peo
ple understand that the United
States is dictating the settlement.
Herhaps when all the facts come out
it will be found that the difference
between our terms and the Spanish
counter-proposal is of minor import
ance.
OUR NAVY, PAST, PRESENT
. AND FUTURE.
Twice in history, the American
Navy has been the best and strong
est in the world. It is now that
again. It is by fighting demonstra
tion the strongest in the world.
In the war of 1812-14 our seamen,
with their live-oak ships, met and
overcame the sea power even of
Great Bntaio. At the end of the
civil war we again had afloat the
strongest navy in the world.
But our mechanical ingenuity bad
8 3 wed the seed of revolution in naval
construction. The Monitor and the
Memmac were father and mother to
all modern naval machines of war.
They created a new epoch.
Their exploits ended the career of
the wooden warship. Thej-. com
pelled tbe creation of battle ships,
armored cruisers and and all the rest
of it. . ' -
In this work of reconstruction we
lagged behind for the best part of
twenty years. Then we began in
earnest, and in an incredibly brief
time we have created a modern steel
clad navy of the very first "class,
whose construction has required in
finitely more of skill, mechanical in
genuity, inventive genius and thor
ough education in exact science than
the building of all the old navies in
the world required.
And for the fighting of such a
navy like qualities of high education
were necessary, In association with
the indomitable courage of the
officers and men who made the his
tory of our old wooden navy so
splendid a record of heroism. That
requirement has been fully answered.
For Hull and Lawrence and Perry
we have Dewey and Schley and
Sampson and Hobson.
-We have met these requirements,
and with the completion of plans
already made, the navy of the great
republic is the foremost and most
formidable fighting-force that ever
floated upon any sea. .
: And best of all, its mission will be
to command peace and compel justice
and enforce everywhere the unalien
able rights of men. N. Y. World.
Statehood for none cf our new
conquests has-been thought of yet,
but the people of Porto Eico are
getting themselves in training for it
They are showing an Americanism
and an intelligence which are im
pressing the United States very favor
ably toward them. It is known, of
coarse, that the proportion of whites
to the total population is larger in
Porto Eico than it is in Cuba or any
other Spanish island,' its per capita
wealth is greater, and its percentage
of educated people is higher. After
the Spaniards are driven out of the
island a stream of emigrants to it
from the United States is likely to
set in, and its population will rapidly
increase in the immediate future.
Porto Eico will probably not remain
in the crown 2olony status long. A
tull territorial government is reason
ably certain to be given to that island
before many years pass.
The WaL'a Walla Statesman an
nounces the return of Ex-Governor
Miles C. Moore, of Walla Walla, to
Republicanism. Mr. Moore never
was a silver man to hurt. He is a
politician," however, in the fullest
sense. Mr. Moore was at the head
of Banker Ankeny's senatorial boom
a few years ago, which was totally
burst by the election of Hon. John
L. Wilson, of Spokane to that place
If the writer isn't badly mistaken,
Mr. Moore will again endeavor to
lake a band in Republican politics
up in iLc slate of Washington.
The talk about peace reminds the
average American that we have not
given the Spaniards half enough
They have "bollored" too soon, and
now that they appear to be quibbing
about peace, it would suit most peo
pie of this nation if all negotiations
woul cease and the war be resumed
till the sight of an "Americano'
would be enough for any Don on
earth. -
The Porto Eicans are doing their
utmost to make General Miles feel
perfectly at home. Instead of sulk
ing and consuming bis rations tbey
are bringing in fresh meat and vege
tables for his command. This speaks
well for the Porto Eicans. and will
be remembered.
With its eyes on America the Lon
don Spectator is inclined to think
that " with good officers and an able
staff, three months' instruction turns
out men competent to fight great
battles." The theory is sound if the
men are United States volunteers.
The Dal'es, always a splendid
business point, will never lose her
position in the race for trade. The
Columbia is her commercial friend,
and though the hand of man way at
tempt to stay the progress of our
city, it will all come to naught.
Gen. Miles finds it difficult in
Porto Eico to fill the demand for
United States flags, and has tele
graphed for a large supply. There
is no doubt as to how the Porto
Eicans would vote on the change of
nationality.
The concert of Europe is behaving
itself with becoming modesty in re
gard to the arrangement of peace
between the United Sta'es and Spain,
which is to say that the powers are
looking on through a kuothole in the
fence. -
Gen. Wood is disliked by some of
the citizens of Santiago on account
of his energy in cleaning up the town.
The reason given will add to the
General's popularity everywhere else.
The insurgents at Guantanamo Bay
were of considerable assistance to
the American marines, and the reason
seems to have been that their leader
is simply a Cuban patriot, without
any desire to hold a cabinet office.
It is estimated from the present
rate of receipts that the new war
taxes will produce a revenue of
1175.000,000 a year. If peace comes
soon the war debt will begin to melt
away. .
- England has decided that its new
battle-ships must be good foreightern
knots. The Americans are at their
old business of revolutionizing the
navies of the world. '
Eegardless of the immense wheat
harvest ; the price will doubtless start
off at a figure above fifty cents per
bushel. .
If Spain will juit keep the present
war in progress six months longer
she won't have a tub afloat.
E. C. Blanks, of Lewisville, Texas,
writes that one box of De Witt's Witch
Hazel Salve is worth (50 to him. It cared
his piles of ten years standing. He ad
vises others to try it. It also cares, ec
zema, 'm diseases and obstinate sores.
For sale by the Snipea-Kinersly," Drag
Company. '- ;
SOMETHING ABOUT .
THE FOREST FIRES
NEW FEDERAL LAW WILL BE EN
FORCED. "
Orea-on-to Be Protected Against Pall of
Smoke, sod Shep Kept From
v the Reserve.
The department of the interior at
Washington last sommer published a
notice calling the attention of the pub
lic to the fact that immense areas of
public forests are annually destroyed by
Sre. Originating, in' many instances,
through the carelessness of prospectors,
campers, hunters, sheep-herders and
others; while in many instances the fires
are started with malicious intent.
Warning was given that the origin of
all forest fires would be carefully inves
tigated, and, where the fire is ascertain
ed have originated through carelessness
or design, the persons implicated will be
prosecuted to the fall extent of the law.
The public generally was requested to
aid the officers of the government in.
their effort to check the evils referred to
and in the punishment of all such of
fenders. The act of cangress, approved Febrn
ary 24, 1897, provides that any person
who willfully or maliciously sets fire to
timber or underbrush on the public do
main, or carelessly leaves fire to burn
unattended near any timber or tnflama
ble material, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor,' and, " upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined not more than
$5,000 or be imprisoned not more than
two years, or both... Any person who
builds a campfire, or other fire, in or
near any forest, timber, or other inflam
able material on the public domain, and
fails before breeking camp or leaving
eaid fire to totally extinguish the eame,
sbali be fined not more than $1000 or be
imprisoned not more than one year, or
both. -
1 he fines collected shall te paid into
the public echooi fund of the county in
which the lands where the offense was
commuted are situated.
Capt. S. B. OrmBby. of Salem, was
appointed forest supervisor for this state,
and Mr. Dufar, superintendent for the
nortern district.- They, with their gang
of forest rangers, have been instructed
by Binger Hermann commissioner of
the general land office,-to make every
effort to check the fires or punish the
ofienders. .
The commissioner, mindful of the fact
that the water supply of Portland would
be greatly damaged if sheep were herd
ed on the watershed of Bull Bon lake
and river, has instructed them to keep
sheep out of all portions of the Bull
Ran reserve and that portion of the Cas
cade reserve north of the Barlow road
and west ot the east fork of Hood River.
Between the Barlow road and the east
fork, the boundary line extends from
the point where the road croseeeJSnmmit
creek northeasterly about six miles to
the east of the east fork of Hood river.
Capt. Ormsby has recently had this line
marked by blazes on the trees, two or
three rods apart. He will be very care
ful to prevent any roaming sheep-herder
with his flock from - trespassing within
the limits described.
FROM A MANILA LETTER.
D. C. Allard, Formerly of Boyd, Writes
to Ills Mother. -
The following extracts are from a
letter written by D. C. Allard, who was
formerly a teacher at Boyd, to his mother
at Troutdale. Mr. Allard is a member
of company L, and the letter was written
at Manila: - -
''The boys who went ashore in small
boats and captured the Ladrones were
wet to the skin by the rain storm. All
the officers went ashore and brought
back lots of fruit. The islands are cov
ered with tropical vegetation, even more
than the Hawaiian islands. Life on
board ship is very monotonous, and
quarters are so cramped. Everybody
was vaccinated,- and I have been very
sick from the effects of mine, and still
have a very bad arm. A good many are
having the meaeles. -"It
was terribly rough on the China
sea, and even after thirty-seven days on
ship many of the boys were sick again. '
A good many natives visited the boat
this morning here in Manila harbor,
with vegetables, fruit, eggs aud poultry
to sell, but as our pocket books are very
nearly empty, no rushing business is
being done.
"The islands here eeem to be very
mountainous, though there is much level
land. Manila looks beautiful from here,
five miles distant. The weather is very
warm, though it rains every day.
After leaving Honolulu we had only
two meals 8 -day, . with coffee in the
morning at 7.- Perhaps that accounts
for the ill-health on board."
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SUNDAY AT THE CASCADES-
Dalles Visitors Are KotertaJned Rot
. all. Where Are All the Rsqnlsites
. v for a First-Class War.
. A large number of Dallesites visited
the campers at Cascades Sunday, and to
say that they escaped the heat does not
put it forcible enough., No doubt the
young man who reached there at 5
o'clock, clad in a linen suit, could give
some pointers as to the change in tem
perature. As the morning train reached there,
they were met by Miss Sampson; who
greets everjr visitor from home cordially.
She escorted them to Camp Sampson,
and after being served with a lunch
which tasted as only lunches at camp
can,- the Regulator and locks were
Visited.
After dinner, there being a number of
musicians in the crowd, .a concert was
enjoyed. Mr. Counini being present,
entertained the party with a number of
his Italian selections,lhe"Sweet Potato"
being among them.
The boys and girls later on took a
walk through the beautiful wooda sur
rounding the camp, and no prettier
walk can be fouud. ' Of course they re
turned fairly etarved and ready to de
vour everything in sight, which they
did when supper was served. The
event of the visit was the camp-fire in
the evening, around which the young
men in summer costumes gathered
gratefully, and, strange to say, the girls
were near by. The air was filled with
the melodies which arose from camp
that evening, among which were some
solos by Miss Maie Cuahing, and a num
ber of German songs by 'Arthur Clarke.
The campers there claim they lack
only the Spaniards to have a veritable
outfit for a first-class war. The princi
pal part of the affray being minus, how
ever, they have not as yet declared war.
There may be found Camps "Sampson"
and "Dewey;" also the Philippines
C. L. Phillips and wife; a Fleet, from
the Locks, often is seen in their vicinity ;
then, too, they are supplied with Sar
geants, while Hobson was in their midst
Sunday. In spite of these facts, all is
"peaceful along the Columbia" we judge
from the fact that the following items
have just been received from there, with
no hint of a disturbance :
Mr. Butts spent Sunday at Camp
Dewey.
Mrs. Marden, of The Dalles, is visit
ing Mrs. Morgan.
Bert Barrett, of Camp Ornery, Steven
son, Wash., spent Monday at Camp
Sampson. -
Mrs. Seabrooke, of Portland, is a guest
of her sister, Mrs. Brown, at the govern
ment headquarters.
Mrs. Barrett chaperoned a crowd of
young ladies from Camps Sampson and
Dewey to the dance at Levans' Hall last
and Spray Pump. Call and see us before buying
elsewhere.
The Aermotor Mill is considered the best
machine on the market. Call and see it.
MAIER & BENTON,
Sole Agents for Wasco County.
Hardware and Grocery
Merchants .
(Toijey Saud is
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WIS.
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UNDERTAKING AND PICTURE-FRAME BUSINESS.
And persons needing anything in these lines can save money -by
calling on him before dealing elsewhere.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Saturday night. - They had a very de
lightful time.
Miss Morgan, who has been a guest of
Miss Sargent at Maple Dell, returned to
The Dalles Mondav.
Misses Minnie and Winnie Williams,
of Portland, are the guests of their
grandmother, Mrs. Atwell.
Bob Teague and wife and Louie Fritz
and wife, of The Dalles, have a very
pleasant camp on Dry Creek.
. Mr. Barnett, of The Dalles, passed
through the Locks Sunday on bis way
to The Dalles after visiting Camp Homa
Homa. . '
Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Barrett, of The
Dalles, joined Camp Sampson Thursday
of last week. Mrs. Barrett is now help
ing to chaperone the many young ladies
visiting that cauip.
Visitors at Camp Sampson Sunday
were Mr. and Mrs. Crandall. Mr. and
Mrs. Tolmie, Mr. and Mrs. Hobson,
Mesdames Morgan, Marden and Burgett,
Misses Annette MicheH, Hendereon,
Rawson, Fisher, Winnie Williams, of
Portland. Delia Michelbach, Arthur
Clarke, Victor SampBou, Chas. and Roy
Burgett, Paul Paulsen, Harry dough,
Mr. Fleet, of the Locks. Visitors at the
Philippines Mr. and Mrs. Cushing,
Mrs. Lyle Misses Cushing, Mattie Cush
ing, Sybil Cushing, Alice Lyle, Mr.
Moore, John Weigle and Mr. Parkins.
The Weather.
Sunday the thermometer deigned to
to step down a few degrees from its high
and lofty throne, and the people appre
ciated the condescension. Toward even
ing it was delightfully cool and faces
which had worn a woe-begone expres
sion brightened up aud looked smiling.
Visitors at the Locks Sunday say that
it was quite ccol all day, and almost un
comfortably cool in the. evening, the
camp fire at camp Sampson being not
amiss. At Walla Walla the thermome
ter stood at 106 in the shade, but here
it was a number of degrees cooler than
the previous day, showing that the cool
wave, which made the temperature in
Portland 63, is coming this way.
Yesterday it was 96 during the heat of
the day, cooling off towardjevening, and
threatening a thunder shower, which,
had it made its appearance, would have
been very welcome.
The forecasts made Saturday by the
local weather bureau were fully verified
Sunday in Western Oregon, but failed
to connect this - side of the mountains.
It is predicted that next Wednesday and
Thursday will be very warm, but let us
not cross the bridge before we reach it,
and hope that Pague is again mistaken
as' to-Eastern Oregon.
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We also carry a complete
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