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old W JTL JrV A III El VOL. IX THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY JULY 1, 1899. NO. 39 RICHES, DEATH AND DESOLATION Slate ii EMJBlra Trail Mm Scam ail Cell. ATTEMPT -MADE TO GET FOOD French Pete, the Discoverer of Tread well Mines, is Missing from 'Frisco. Siatti.b, June 27. W. D. Doolittle, of Irvibgton, X. J., has arrived here after undergoing a series of fearful experi ences 'taring the past year. He was one of those unfortunateones who attempted to eater the Alaskan gold fields over the Edmonton rou'e. After an unsuccessful effort to get in he returned to Telegraph creek out of food and just able to make hia wants known. Speaking of the icenes witnessed by him at Telegraph creek, he said : "I have witnessed people coming in with bauds and feet frcsen, starving and differing with scurvy, all telling the same story of hardship and suffering in the Liard country. A party of fourteen men was on its way to Telegraph creek. Five led to break a trail through the enow, and the othei nine followed. A heavy enow storm came up and the nine be hind became lost. No trace of them has lines been found. "A week before I lett for Seattle men arrived from Teslin with the news that three men had been found dead in a cabin at Moose Lake. They all died from scurvy. They were two Allison brother, of Kent, Englaud, and Carter, oINew Zialand. Nine hundred dollars was found in the cabin. "The latter part of May, Porter, the government agent at Telegraph creek, sent in a relief party into the Liard dis trict, consisting of two Indian guides and lonr white men. They had a scow load ot provisions. It was reported just before I left that the scow had reached the district and distributed the food to the needy people, of whom there were about SCO. "I cannot describe the terrible suffer ing I endured on tho trail, and it ia a wonder to me that so many come out alive." "French Pete" Missing. San Francisco, June 27. P. E. Dcv 'lle.the well-known Alaskan ininer,com ttonlycilled '-French Pete," the dis coverer ot thecolebrated Treadwell mine near June in, has been missing since his 'rival in this city a week ago latt Sun-dT- He intended to go to the California hotel, whero mail and other matter were iling for him, but none of bli friends have seen him since he landed, and a M,r(;h for him has proved unavailing. Scheme for Smuggling la Chinese. Sam Fhan( ihco, June 27. It has been discovered that two dies, similar to those ned by the United States and British of ficl'at Hong Kong in stamping the wrhficates of Identification given to Umese merchants and students, so wey may fnter Americ,n xxt, have few made in this city. The order for r exec ution was given to an engraver bl two Chinese. . Il t resumed the dies are to be used !" ''tmPing forged certificates to be used 7 Chinese not of the privileged classes, oilector Ji ckin says that no action can J, k.,nin the matter until fir.ery is ly committed. PORTLAND WOULD BE A TERMINUS nation Would Have Boston, New Yrk and Portland for Its Termi nal, and Would Include Union Pa ci,ic anl Oregon Short Line. YoHK June 27.-The Tribnne J'1 The rlrt that the New York hM co,n o n agreement with thsN l" "'ny railroad, by which 'ewWk Central would lease tho u,J,,n 4 aii. i ' ,ur a lerui 01 Witt) years and guarantee 8 per cent on the stock' was not a eurpriae either in railroad cir- ties or in Wall street. That the lease i. i.ivi.iii tiuaeu was connrnieu irom a trustworthy source yesterday. From one of the most influential rail road officials of the Vanderbilt system, some facts were gleaned about the nego tiations to secure control of the Boston & Albany. For more than two years William K. Vauderbilt and bis friends have been working to get control of the Boston Sc Albany, as it is the Central's natural outlet to Boston for its western trains. About a year ago Dr. W. Webb, president of the Wagner Palace Oar Company, started in to buy Boston & Albany stock. As this stock is largely dealt In in Boston, he authorized a Bos ton broker to buy all the stock he could find in the Boston market and did not stipulate a price, but said to get it In about ten days his broker sent word that he had secured something over i thousand shares and wanted to know i be should go ahead, as tho price had gone up fifty points in these few sales. Then a stop was put to that. The stcck was so closely held that many thought control could never be secured. Despite this persistent work lias been done, and is said to have been crowned with success The general opinion in Wall street, al though no official confirmation of the transaction could be obtained, is in line with the information that the lease has virtually been effected and the view was taken that this New England arrange ment would before long be followed by the long-talked-of extension of the New York Central system to the Pacific coast from its present western terminus in Chicago, by consolidation with the Chi cago & Northwestern, the Union Pacific and tho Oregon Short Line, HOPE JAPAN WILL INTERVENE Voung Filipinos Garrison Every Port and State They Will not Yield to the Americans Though the Whole of the Islands are Destroyed. Victoria, B. C, June 29. Advices from Hakodate state that Captain Saki chi, of the steamer Ilokoku Maru, just returned from the Philippine?, reports that in the southern islands the young Filipinos are constructing fortifications against emergencies. Every port is garrisoned by a thousand or so volun leers, whose weapons, however, aro very crude, only about 20 per cent being armed with rifles (Remingtons). They are, however, full of patriotism and state that they will not yield to the Americans though the whole of the islands are destroyed. Tho Ilokoku Maru was warmly welcomed by the Filipinos, who consider the Japanese to be of a kindred race and hope for assist ance from them. The Filipinos were prepared to pay for arms and ammunition and that Japanese vessels visiting the islands could take return cargoes of hemp. Captain Sakichi says that he only sold the insurgents two revolvers and the cook's knives. Xcgro Recruits. Ciiicaoo, June 29. Captain P. S Bomus. In charge of the United States army recruiting station, has telegraphed Adjutant General Corbin asking permis sion to enlist colored recruits and to re store the Irnient physical examinations which were in use during the war with Spain. Recruiting Sergeant Jones says If tho station Is given permission to enlist nnlnred men. medically all of the mustered-out Eighth Illinois volunteers will be sent to the Philippines. Under the present physical examination but one man out of ten is feu id qualified. Fifty appVcants a day are ximined. Under instructions ixpectod, Captain Bomus thinks that within the next two weeks over 100 recruits bis'des volun teer bodies will bn sent from Ch'c go. Last fall I sprained my left hip while handling some heavy hi xes. The doctor I called ou said at first it was a slight strain and would soon be well, but it grew worse and the doctor then said I had rheumatism. It continued to grow worse and I could hardly get around to work. I went to a drug store and the druggist recommended me to try Cham berlain's Pain Balm. I tried It and one half of a 50 cent bottle cured mo entire- ly. I now recommend it to an my friends. F. Is for sale Druggists. Babcock, Erie, Pa. It Blakeley A Houghton, Ask your grocer for Clarke A Fnlk's pure concentrated tlavoring extracts, tf flDCD i Tf ftVC ) i A ) J ARE SUSPENDED Cams Will test Dolil Bat Waller is Eiiei. THE FILIPINOS GET A REST Meanwhile, Otis' Force Will Be In creased to io,oco Men Before Fighting Is Resumed. Washington, June 28. Secretary Al gtr, Adjutant Corbin and Colonel Bird, assistant quartermaster - general in charge of transportation, had an hour's consultation with the president today relating to the question of reinforce' ments for General Otis. A definite de cision was reached to continue recruit ing men at all the recruting stations, and Secretary Alger said after the con ference that General Otis would have 40,000 when the rainy eeason closed for resumption of active operations. The enlistment are to be for service in the regular army and recruits are to be organized into regiments or assigned to regiments already formed after enlist ment. No organizations are to be ac cepted if sufficient recruits can be ob tained by regular enlistment. General Corbin said the enlistments would be for three years. Arrangements are to be made at once for increasing tho transportation necessary to get these additional troops to the Philippines. The decision to reinforce General Otis by the end of the rainy season is inter preted to mean that active campaigning will cease until the bad weather ends. By remainingqnleecent under good shel ter during the rainy season it is hoped that the hetlth of our troops will be conserved and the danger from climatic fevers reduced to a mininum. General Otis has cibleJ to the war department that he has .the skeleton organizations of two of three regiments which he pro poses to raise in the Philippines. At the war department this Is said to mean that General Otis has the officers for these regiments selected and that they are now to be filled with enlisted men. The war department says that the recruits now being enlisted cannot be used for the volunteer army, although t would be an easy matter to transfer these men with their own consent to the volunteer service If it should be deter mined to raise additional troops. Mad Woman s Fortune. St. Louis, June 28. In a dingy, stuffy little room in the rear of No. 1221 South Third street, Officer Hanrahan found concealed in a dirty trunk and a valise sum of moiiey exceeding (15,000 in government bonds, gold and bills of large denominations. The police think that this small fortune is the property of Mrs. Walbonger Weckerle, an nged Gorman woman who is now a patient at the in sane asylum. But little is known by the neighbors of Mrs. Wackerle. They say that foi years past she has been living in that neighborhood ; always reticent, eccentric and demur. ABANDONS WESTERN TRIP He Will Not Ik Able to Conic Even as Far as Minnesota on Account of Mrs. Mckinley's Health. New York, June 28. A special to the Herald from Washington says: the state of Mrs. MiKinley's health at tins time is decidedly worss than mice she has been In tho White House, and the president will remain in Washington probably all summer, ana win tase very little vacation ont of the city. President Mckinley's projected trip the Pacific coast, which had been ooked lorward to In anticipation of en- oyment to himself and Improvement In Mrs. MiKinley's condition, nas Deen abandoned. His trip to Minnesota nas alro been abandoned. The unfavorable turn in Mrs. McKln- ley's condition is attributed to cold, which she contracted just before she left Washington. She is never strong and this cold seemed to weaken her to such an extent as to ruako It advisable to avoid the (xertion which woult have been necessary had she remained away as long as it had been Intended. Dreyfus Looks Old. New York, June 28. A dispatch to the Herald from Paris suys : La Martin has interviewed the mate ot an Ameri can steamer which passed the Sfax at Cape Verde islands on June 19. He saw Captain Dreyfus on deck and he says be looked broken down, and like a man of sixty. The captain of the Sfax ordered them to keep off. Captain Dreyfus sa luted the flags when the salutes were ex changed. IS NOT LIKELY TO RESIGN Politicians Have Advised the Presidcn to Put Him Out of the Cabinet. Wabuisgton, June 27. The adininis tration is thoroughly disturbed over the Alger-Pineree affair. Alger was down to meet the president as soon as he ar rived today, with the intention of show ing bis utmost concern and friendliness to tho chief executive. Other members of the cabinet saw the president and gave him to understand that the latest developments ought to create a vacancy in the war department. Several poll ticians have been in the city, and they, too, have given strong intimation that Republican administration has little room for Alger after his alliance with Pingree, who is an evident anti-admin istration man. A Iger is considerable of a oulldog, how ever, and he never struck a job that he liked any better than secretary of war He also must realize it is probably the last position he will have, and he wants to hang on to it as long as be can. There is no doubt that McKinley is in a tighter place than he has been during the ad ministration, and Alger does not intend to leave him by voluntary getting out. It will take all his effrontery to remain when he sees that every man w ith whom he associates thinks he ought to get out and relieve the president of tho em bar raesineut which is caused by his political alliance. Alger will probably find him self more and more ignored as secretary of war and snubbed by every member of the cabinet ; but he won't resign unless kicked out. Mt. Lowe Railway Sold. Los Angei.es, CaI., June 28 . Valen tine Peyton, who was the heaviest in vestor In the Mount Lowe railroad prop erty, at the foreclosure sale, has pur chased the Chicago interest, that was represented by A. B. Cody. The pur haee price is not known. The other Chicago interest is still held bv the Singer estate. Ate Phosphorus. Lebanon, June 27. Word was re ceived today of tlie death of the 3-year- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. T, Thompson, of Foster, fifteen miles from this place. Saturday evening the child ate the phosphorus from a block of matches. All night she suffered intense pain. " A ThoasRnct Fonzue Could not express the rapture of Annie E. Springer, of 1125 Howard St., Phil adolphia, Pa., when she found that Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption had completely e ired her of a hacking cough that for many years had made lile a burden. All other remedies and dectors could give her no help, but she says of this Iloyal Cure ''It soon re moved the pain in my chest and I can now sleep soundly, something I can scarcely remember doing before. I feel like sounding its praises throughout the universe." So will every one who tries Dr. King's New Discovery forany trouble of the throat, chest or lung?. Price 50c and f I. Trial bottle free at Blakeley A Houghton's drug store; every bottle guaranteed. 5 Ship Bringing Plague to America. San Francisco, June27. Information ot the presence of the bubonic plague on the Nippon Maru, bound for this port and now in quarantine at Honolulu, has caused no alarm among the qnarantne authorities here. There Is do expecta tion that the disease will tnter San Fran cisco. The federal system of quarantine has not yet been established at Honolulu, but there is a representative of this gov ernment attached to the American con sulate there whose business It It to see that so far as this country is concerned the quarantine laws are properly enforced. v ABSOLUTELY Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ovau BAtma TRYING HIGH EXPLOSIVES Professor Mlls's Tairiie Mests Wit Success. OREGONIAN'S INVENTION May Prove the Material Array Has Been Seeking Thorite Is Now Being Tested at Sandy Hook and Reports Show That It Is Believed to Be Satisfactory. New York, June 29. A dispatch to the Herald from Washington says : Im portant tests with thorite, a new ex plosive, are being conducted by the board of ordinance and fortifications at the Study Hook proving grounds. Little is known at the war department of the characteristics of thn new explosive. It is the invention of Professor T little of O.vgon, who asserts it is perfectly safe a id was willing some weeks ago to ut a red-hot poker In a charge of thorite, de clarlng II could be douo w ithout causing to exjilodo. Ic is believed to have picric acid at its base. Tests of the ex plosive by tho Inventor are said to have been very satisfactory, and it may prove to be the material the army has been seeking. Besides thorite, the ordinance depart nirnt of the army line been experiment ing with joyite, emmen-ite and dry and wet guncotton, paying more attention to the laM-named explosive than to any other. So far none of them has eiven the results desired before adoption for service use. Captain William Crozier, military at tache of the American delegation to The Hague conference was instructed several weeks ago to stop in England on his way home and ascertain if poeeiblo the ngredients of liddite and the eecret of the fuse used by General Kitchener's army in the Soudan with such excellent effect. It is untrue that he has been di rected to contract for any qu tnttty of he explosive. Military officers in England have ap parently been unable to secure ail the nforraation concerning the explosive he authorities would like to have. It recalled that emmensite, discovered ii and used by France, was kept a secret, but this government finally obtained in formation of Its Ingredients and has been testing it for some years at Sandy Hook. Tests of Jivite were made by the army officials several years ago and were not very successful. The navy department as tested thorite with considerable sue cess, and if it continues to bo satisfac tory it may be adopted by the naval service. OUTLAWRY RAMP ANT AT WALLULA Hold-ups and Robberies are of Daily Occurrence. Wai.i.a Wai.la, Wash., June 28. The wn of Wallula is a hotbed ot crime. ot a day passes that from one to ten robberies are not reported. The officers are powerless to apprehend all the cul prits, and lesi thltn half of them are brought to justice. One constable anil deputy are the only officers In the town. While they are attending to one offense, bait doftsn others are committed. Justice of the Peace J. V. Lewis, who endeavors to uphold the majesty of the law In that precinct, was in the city yes terday. He said of the lawlessness reigning there : "Wallula Is the roughest town I have ever seen. There Is an organized band POWDER tU RE powom o. , tttw vomt. of robbers operating tin r. They divide into squids, and while one or two ol the number engage the attention of the of ficers In one qu irler of the town, ti e re mainder are operating in another. "It Is no unouinion thing to stand on the main street and witness a hold-up a block away, but it Is ueeless for a citizen to attempt to interfere. I think th it the ringleaders have been captured, however, and the officers are making every effort to break up the gang and brlug the of fenders to justice." Three tough-appearing hobos were brought to the city yesterday from Wal lula. They wore arretted for robbery. A fourth, who got away, with the plun der, is being chased by the officers. Half of the criminal cases before the superior court at this term haye come from Wal lula. Whitman Wheat Prospects. Coi.rAx, Wash., June 28. Grain crop prospects throughout Whitman county have never been better, although the icreage in wheat is perhaps 25 per cent less than last year. During the past three days, fifty prominent farmers from all parts of the country have been Inter viewed. All tell the same story of splendid prospective yields. Both fall and spring wheat are now beginning to head out. The beginning of the grain harvest will be about August 1, in the westeru and southern parts of the country. Dangers of Plague. San Francisco, June 211. Tho bacter iologist who is examining tho glands taken from the bodies of thu two Jap anese who jumped overboard from the eteamer Nippon Maru, is expected to make his report today. The fact that the glands of one of the men were found to be above the normal siz9 gave rise to the suspicion that the Japanese may have been utilicted with the bubonic plague, but the facts wiil not be known until theexpert has finished his invest! tion. liobbed the Glare. A startling incident, of which Mr. John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the ubj.ct, Is narrated by him as follows: "I was in a most dreadful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eves sunken, tonguo coated, pain continually in back and sides, no appetite gradually grow ing weaker day by day. Three physi cians had given me np. Fortunately, a triend advised 'Electric Bitters' j and to my great joy and surprise, the first bottlo ma le a decided improvement. I continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well man. I know they saved my life, and robbed the grave of another victim." No ono should fail to try them. Only 50c, guarantee d,"ut Blakeley A Houghton's drug store. 5 Hawlcv Kc-.'lcctcd. Salem, Or., June 28. Tho trinleos of Willamette university, having consid ered the preposition of Preeidant Haw ley to elect a clergyman as piesident of the university, dicided this evening not to act at present on tho sugi eatlon, tnd ro-alected President II a ley to the presi dency for the ensuing year. Arsenic Put In Bread. Eugene, Or., 28. Dr. and Mrs. II. C. Schleuf had a narrow etc tpe from death by poise ning today. Arstnic hud been spread on a plate to poison r; ts. A sister of Mrs. Schleef, who has been staying at the house a ccnpla i f tlnys, thought the arsenic wus lion-, and emptied it into the flour bin. Fiom tl ia brad whs made anil eaten this mi rn ing. Mr. and Mrs. Shleef are recover ing. NOTICE, United Static Land Okeicb, Oregon Crrv, June 21, 181)9. Notice Is hereby given it.at IIih ap proved fractional plat of Township 2 north range 8 east, has been recoivel from the surveyor general of Oron, and on August 1st, 18(.i'j, at 0 o'ek ek, a. m., ot said date, said plat Hi I be tiled In this office, and the land tl.erein em braced, will be subject to entry on and after said date. Chah. B. Moorem, Wm. Gai.lowav, Register. Iteeeivur. Vincent Kyan Dead. Tacoma, June 2!). Vincent Ryan, prominent newspaper man of theTacoina News, drop! el dead this m nrng In a restaurant.