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PART X. vj VOL. IX THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON", WEDNESDAY JULY 26, 1899, NO. 43 SEW YORKER TO GET IT EaoseTelt and Flatt Want General FOR SECRE TARY OF WAR But Elihu Root is Still Thought to Have a Chance Alger Will Remain Until August ist. Washington, July 21. Up to noon today, the best information obtainable at the White House ia to tbe effect that the president had not up to that time formally tendered the war portfolio to any one. That New York ia to have the vacancy, however, there appears to be little doubt, and there was a general im pression up to the time the cabinet met that McKinley had practically made up hi? mind to offer the war office to Elihu Root, the distinguished New York law yer. But it is said a New York organiza tion headed by Governor Roosevelt and Senator Plait had urged tbe selection of General Francis V. Greene. Looks Like Root. Washington, July 21. There was nothing to indicato at the cabinet meet ing today that a change was imminent in tbe president's official family. 'Alger was preeent, and brought with him a considerable amount of business from tbe war department, which was thor oughly ducussed. Proceedings were thoroughly routine ia character. The question of Alger's successor was not mentioned today, until after he had It ft the conference chamber. Then, for half an hour those who remained behind with the president discussed informally the names of those who had been under con sideration for tho vacancy. These included Elihu Riot, distin guished New Yorker ; Ambassador Porter Governor Roosevelt, General James II. Wilson, General Leonard Wood, General Harrison Gray Otis and General Francis V", Greene. After the committee can vassed names, with singular unanimity all uiemhtrs of the cabinet agreed with the president that tho man pre-eminent- ' mien ;or me responsible position was Root, aud there ii no doubt tho presi dent has made, up his mind to tender lilm the portfolio. Changed His Mind. Washington, July 21. Secretary Al gT has abandoned (he intention he en tertained of quitting as soon as Mr. Meiklej oh n arrived, and has concluded to discharge the duties an secretary of r until the ditto set for his resignation, AtlgO'tl. Gov. (leer's Appeal for Girard. Bi.km, Or., July 20. Gov. Geer to mtit wrote to General Summer, in c,l'iiig a statement of the circumstances "jnder which Frank Girard technically deserted from his company last week. Tlie letter says in part : "While his action was in violation cf 'tric,,y military discipline, he was coin ing from the war Instead of going to It, jd performed every duty rrquirod of h l". and really cli.I only what you or I ud be very much tempted to do un at,nittii!ar elrcumstancef). I would be Ver njncii pleased if yon can see your "ay cleur toward assisting in securing I ""norable discharge without re qmr nn return to San Francisco. To be bo to administer to tho wants of omh's 5'u.g mother is of far more consequence "n the mere formality of being in tin t erd out of eervico after every required " had been fully performed." NEW RAILROAD FOR IDAHO To Be Iluilt By Governor of Wisconsin From Moscow Through Grain Belt ,0 the East. Moscow. T.l.hn J.,l.or r. n i c'i'et local promoter of the Moscow stern railroad, has just received grm from Governor Schofleld, of . , ',CMn,ln which th- Dn,nn... w'grm M ' - ' - - "'ii arnye in Spokane tomorrow evening over the Northern Pacific, and requests Mr. Brown to meet him at tho Hotel Spokane to confer in regard to the proposed Moscow & Eastern railway, for the construction of which Govern Schofield is to furnish the capital. The governor is accompanied by his' son George, a wealthy Wisconsin lumber man. They intend to make a trio to I the coast, and, returning, arrive here JUiy lhe calculation is that George Schofield will remain here for several months in connection with the construc tion of the road. Lynching of Six Italians. New Ouleans, July 21. SpecUl dis patch from Tallulah, La., last night says : Silt Italians were lynched there lact night. The names ot the lynched were unobtainable. Yesterday, Dr. Hodges, a prominent physician of Tallulah, quar reled with an Italian. The latter wounded the physician with a shotgun. The shooting created intenee excitement. A mob Immediately rounded ud the would- be assassin and Ave of his friends, strung them all to trees and then fillca their bodies with buckshot. Ta'.lulah is a small town, seven ten miles from the river. It is in tbe heart of the beet cotton-producing section of the state, and many men prominent in state affairs are residents there and on surrounding plantations. WILL FURNISH THE EVIDENCE Difficulty Lies in the Obtaining of Wit nesses Who ate Willing to Testify. Albany, N. Y.. July 21. -P. E. Dowe, president of the Commercial Travelers' League, has been in consultation with the attorney -general and J. N. Fiero, who acted as special counsel In the en forcement of the anti-tru-t law two years ago, with regard to the enforce ment of the Donnelly anti-trust law. Mr. Dowe was authorised to consult the attorney-general at a meeting of the Commercial Travelers' League, held in this city some two weeks ago. Attorney-General Da vies stated that he was prepared to proceed to enforce the provisions of lhe act upon being placed in possession of facts which would warrant the belief that evidence could be obtained sufficient to maintain an action. Ho pointed out to Mr. Dowe thU by reason of the repeal of the net of 1897 by the present act it was ncces?ary to show violations of the law sine the enactment of the present law in May last, and that in vie of the difficulties in obtaining the examination of witnesses under the previous act it was desirable that lie should he in possession of enfli cirnt facts to warrant a vioruiH prose cution, in case proceedings should bo commenced. ROBT. INGERSOLL STRUCK DEAD Died at Dodd's Ferry of Apoplexy Yes terday Afternoon. New York, July 21. Robert O. In gersoll died at his home in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., this afternoon, of apoplexy. Ingersoll went to hia summer home in Dobbs Ferry two days ago, apparently in good health. Shortly after his arrival, ho complained of slight indisposition. He spent tho morning in his room, nn 1 shortly before stricken his wl.'o offered to have luncheon sent up to him. He laughed, and replied that while ho did nut twl niiitu as voung as formeily, he guessed he was not yet an Invalid, and would go down with the others, as no finished speaking and was about to I ise, ho fell back Into tho chair. A physician was Immediately sum moned.'bnt when he reached the house found that Ingersoll had died almost in stantly, 'lhe physicians did not give the cause of his death, but thp faml'y believe It was due to apoplexy. Inger soll' wife and two daughters were with him when he died. An Killcmlo ot Illarrhoca, Mr. A. Sanders, writing from Cocoa- nut Grove, Fla., says there has been quit an epidemic of diarrhoea there. He had a severe attack and was cured by four doses of Chamberlain's Cholic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He says be also rocomnionded It to others nd they say It is the bet medicine they ever used. Eor sale bv li'okeley A Houghton Druggists. ROOT HAS ACCEPTED Tte lira Tort Lawyer Estats Scere tart of fur. ALGER RECEIVES MANY LETTERS Tender of the Office Made After the Conference Between the President and Senator Piatt. Washington, July 22. Elihu Root, of New York, has accepted the war port folio in President McKinley's cabinet. The telegram of acceptance was received shortly after noon, while Secretary Long was with the president. Secretary Alger had just left. The tender of the war portfolio was made to Mr. Root last night after the conference at the White House. As the president will leave for tho Adirondack! Wednesday or Thursday of next week, it is probable that Mr. Root will come to Washington to confer with him beforo that time It is regarded as more likely that Mr. Root will meet the president at Lake Champlain in the latter part of the week. FearvThat Root Will Be Merely a Figurehead. Washington, July 22. Unless the new secretary of war takes hold with vigor and retains all the bureaus of the war departme.it withia his personal supervision, the change from Alger to Root will not result in very much good. It is feared that Root is going to be largely ft figurehead, and will conduct the business of the war department that relates purely to civil matters and in volves legal questions, instiud of taking hold of the military end of Ilia depart ment and reforming it. If there is to be a continuation of Corbinism, it will be fou.id that there is little difference be tween Root an I what the country has come to know us Algorism. Alger to His Friends. Washington, July 22. Secretary Al ger is in receipt of a great number of letters and telegrams from per'ons in every station in life, all touching upon his' retirement ' from the cabinet. So numerous are' communications on this ijubj-ct that tho secretary finds himself physically unable to muke proper sepa rate responses to all of them, therefore he fias requested the Associated Press to convey to the wrilers and senders hia deep appreciation of tho eentimenti expressed. Island May Be Gone. San Francisco, July 21. Tho officers of tho steamer Australia, w hich arrived today, soy it would not surprise them to hear that there had been n feat ful ex plosion at tho volcano and that Mauua Loa is no more. After leaving Honolulu, tho ship ran iuto a remarkable cross sen, which the crew thought was canned by a subuiarino disturbance of unusual force. A blush vapor l.nng over tbe water for day! and a heavy cloud, shaped liked on umbrella, came, borne on the winds from the direction of tho volcmo. INGERSOLL'S FUNERAL It Will He Held Tuesday, at the Dobb's Ferry Home. Nkw Yoiik, July 22. As yet no ar rangements for tho funeral of the lato Robert G. Ingersoll have been made. Monday bed been settled on for the funeral by the male member! of the family, but the widow and daughters wished the funnral Tuesday, and that Is the date set. It will be private. No one will he invited but those nearest and dearest to tho dead. It will be held at the home In Dobb's Ferry. It will be a secular funeral. Today there camo many offeri from mnaicioni of note to bring their orches tra! and play, but the family declined them all. There will be no music, per hnpi not even an address. No singing, no prayen ; nothing but a last leave taking. Regarding Calonel Ingersoll'! estate, his brother-in-law and private secretary, C. P. Parrel!, said: "If he left a will I do cot know it. Colonel Ingersoll died por. He wa! great money earner, but a poor saver. He has not left any estate worth speak ing of. What be did not spend on bis loved ones ho gave away In charity." Dewey Accepts Invitation. New York, Jnly 24. Mayor Van Wyek today received the following cable gram from Dewey : "Trieste. Mayor Van Wyck, New York: Letters received and invitation accepted ; expect to arrive about Octo ber 1. Will cable definitely from Gibral tar. Have written. DEWEY." Dewey's cablegram is in responso to invitation from the mayor, asking him to bo the guest of the city upon his ar rival in New York, and requesting him to express any desire he may bare in connection with the programme for bis reception. RAPID PROGRESS BEING MADE Entertainmcnlffor Officers and Men of the Regiment Honorable Dis charge. San Francisco, July 22. Four more companies of the Second Oregon A, L, B and E went before the medical ex aminers today. This work will con sume but little more time if the remain ing companies have their rolls ready when their turn comes. Examinations are not so detailed as when the troop mustered in, except where a soldier claims to have nr. fife red some disability in the service. In such cases, care is taken to learn whether the alleged trouble was so incurred. From present indications, not many of the Oregon men will be classed as perma nently impaired. Some of the wornided, of course, ore injured for life, although the number is not largo. General Btebe and stalfwere in camp most of tho afternoon greeting members of the regiment. Major Moore will re main a Jay or two later to aetertaln if anything definite can be learned con cerning the regiments's return to Port land. General Shafter was avray today, so that conference with him cjuld not be had. General Summers and bis stuff were this h her noon the guests of the Bo hemian club of San Francisco. The Oregon boys were tonight invited to two functions, and also bad tickets to the baseball iii (lie afternoon. Honorable Discharge. Washington, July 22. It is stated at tho war department that nothing will bo done to prevent tho honorable discharge of ll.e members of the Second Oregon regiment who have citioiaed General Otis and his management of the cam paign. Tho action of these men is severely condemned by officials in the war department, fti.d it ia amrled that they should have at leant waited until they had been dirtdiargsd before making any such statements. SON DEFENDS HIS MOTHER Kills a Tramp Who Attacked Her With a Scythe. Pasco, Wadi., July 22. About 10 o'clock tonight un unknown man entered the house of Frank Schunemann, at tacked Mrs. Schuoeniann with ft scythe, And was shot and killed by her son, Louis Schuncmftiin. The deed man was n train p. He had presented himself at the house the pr vious evening and asked for food, which was furnished him. During tho night he returned and entered the house, awakening Mrs. Schmipmaiiii, who called her son and left her room. Upon this, the intruder attacked her with thescythe which be had secured in the garden. Schunemann, heating his mother's screams, rushed tothescenn with a rifle. In the darknec bo was afraid to shoot, but Dually succeeded In getting tbe Intruder between himself and tbe window and fired with fatal result. Gun-shot wonods and powder-burns, cuts, bruises, - sprains, wounds from rusty nails, insects stings and Ivy poison ing qniekly healed by IMVitt'i Witch Hazel Salve. Positively prevent! blood poisoning. Beware of counterfeits. De Witt'! ii mfe and ture. Sutler Drug Co. ji2SCLUTEEY Makes the food more delicious and wholesome frvt fUKWrti rowpFi po., rw vowt. GUARD LIFE AND PROPERTY Eight nanirci Are Scrriii is ProEtctcrs in lis Riots. BOY SHOT AND KILLED Use of Dynamite Continues, Arbitration Has Failed and State Militia May Have to Be Called Upon. Cleveland, Ohio, July 24. The scenes of wild disorder and violence wit nessed in this city throughout yesterday and last night in connection with the car strike were succeeded this morning by marked quietness. The city authori ties were in conference nearly all night, and early this morning a call was issued for battery A, of tbe First Ohio artillery. Thrto companies of 'he Tenth Ohio in fantry and the Loverture Rifles. With the addition of theso organizations, the military force to cope with tho street car strike, now iiumlcrs 800 men, tho city's entire military force. Next will como a all for state troops. Mob violence will be suppressed at any cost. About 9 o'clock last night a sub urban car whs blown up between Wick liffe and Willounhby about fifteen miles east of Cleveland, The outrage was not repoited to the Cleveland police until this morning. Tho car was well filled with passengers, who were badly shaken up and made a ruMi for the doors. The forco of the explosion was so great that it shook all the houses In the neigh borhood, and was beard for a distance of two or three miles. There ia no clue to the identity of the person w ho placed the explosive on the track. Persons living in the neighbor hood sny they saw a man in. a buggy stop at thocornrr of Kensington street, wl ere the expiation occurred, and that he not out by the railway track. Ho re mained there for a tbort time, and then drove rapidly away. The police are now out searching for the buggy in which the dvniniiter is supposed to have ridden, an 1 ail stations have been notified to boon tho lookout fir it. Rioting is Renewed. Cleveland, Ohio, July 21. -A 12 vcar- old boy namel Corrz'ch was ehot audi instantly killed by Ralph Ilawley, a non union conductor this afternoon. Corn z;c!i was a passenger on a Broadway car and made somerenmik to the conductor. Ilawley was arrested. An imuien'o mob, enraged at the shooting, quickly gathered at the scene, and the police charged upou tho crowd and made several arrests. Tbe mob was partially dispersed, but soon another congregated. Another Itroad way car which came down Orange street was etoned ot Terry street. Police aain charged the mob wl ti their clubs and dispersed it. The state board of arbitration hr.s de cided it Cannot bring about n setilcinerit of the strike, by bringing the cmVials of the Dig Consolidated mid strikers to gether to tall: over their grievances and w ill abandon all t u"V.rts towards settle ment, or order a public a public investiga tion of tho strilio. INDIANS MAY MAKE TROUBLE Voting Ducks Threaten to Murder North ern Pacific Extension Graders He cause Line Crosses Their Reserva tion. Boihk, Ida., July 24. Word from Lew iston ovor tho long distanc3 telephone Is to the effect that while the Indiana on the Net Percci reservation havi out- ucc wardly submitted to the agreemnt ot their chiefs to permit the Northern Paci fic grade through the reservation to pro ceed, still the young bucks continue to manifest an uly spirit, which Is brutal iied by liquor furnished by white men. They threaten to swoop down on the graders again as they did a few days ago, this time not to scaro them off but to murder. There are no soldiers there and the workingmen have little protection. Deputy marshals at the scsne, report that trouble of a serious nature seem unavoidahlo unless liquor have can be kept away away from the young bucks, or a military force is stationed to protect the graders. Large quantities of liquor have been confiscated, but there seems to be no end to the reeourcefuluess of tt: bloodthirsty savages. ON THE ALASKA BOUNDARY Conservative, Cool-Headcd Men Regret the Occurrence So Conflict Is Necessary. New York, July 24. A special to the world from Toronto says : Professor Goldwin Smith, Bfter reading Premier Laurier's speech upon the Alaska boun dary dispute, said : "I am surprised and sorry Sir Wilfred Laurio should have even alluded to the possibility of war over the Alaska boun dary question. It wou'd be a disgrace to statesmanship if It were possible that war should break out between Great Britain and tbe United States nbout such a matter. "The question is not pre. sing. AM that is immediately wanted is some joint arrangement for tho preservation of order to the disputed territory. After a little reflection and everybody has bad time to cool, means will bo found for a settlement of tho question in an amica ble way. "I have thought from the beginning that it would have been better if the Ala?kt boundary question bad not been mixed uji wi',h other questione, such as reciprocity questions, with which it bad nothing to do. Let the Alaska boundary question be kept apart and let conference cn commercial reciprocity proceed. The two thing", I repeat, bavo nothing to do with each other." There is a great deal of talk about gen eral elections In Canada being neiu next fall. It is reported that th Liuricr gov ernment decided before Minister of Pub lic Works Tarte left for K vbitld ft lew weeka oyo to appeal to the country, and word comes from different provinces preparations are being made for general elections. Forgot One Method. Nkw Youk, July 24. A special to the Herald from Washington eays: There will bo neither war nor arbitration over the Alaska boundary dispute. It will l o settled by amiciblj a jrcement, both tho Uuited States and Great Britain making coiiceseions. 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