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THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 1899.
NO. 61
CORNELIUS VAN-
laiss (tercel StiKeiil? at Hew M
City at a EarlyHsnr Yesterfiay
ILLNESS CAME
WITHOUT WARNING
left Newport Yesterday Apparently In
Good Health Death a Great Shock
to Citoos of That Place Was
Grandson of Founder of Vanderbilt
Fortune.
Sew York, Sept. 12. Cornelius Van
derbilt died at 5 :15 thu morning at his
home, Fifty-seventh street and Fifth
avenue.
Mr. Vanderbilt arrived from Newport
with Mre. Vanderbilt at 9 o'ckck last
niiflit. He appeared in good health and
spirits and retired Boon afterwards.
About midnight ho wan seized with a
serious stroke of paralysis, the second
from which he liar suffered. The house
hold was aroused, and telegrams were
tent to Dr. James, Dr. Janeway and
eeveral other physicians, who arrived in
a short lime. Everything possible was
done for the patient, but ho grew rapidly
worse and died at 5:15 o'clock. Ha was
semi-conscious until death.
When he died, his wife and his
daughter, Gladys, and his son, Reginald,
were with hiui.
(Cornelius Vanderbilt was the son of
William Henry Vanderbilt, and the
grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the
founder of the famous Vanderbilt
fortune. Ho was born November 27,
1813, and upon t!.e death of his father
became chief manager of the fortune
with his brother, William Kissam Van
derbilt. In 1K87 he erected a fine build
ing in New York for the benefit of his
railroad employes.)
Surprise at Newport.
Newi-oht, R. J., Sept. 12. The an
nouncement of the sudden death of Cor
nelius Vanderbilt in New York this
morning was a. heavy blow to residents
of Newport, among whom he had been a
familiar figure for fifteen years.
Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt left Newport
yesterday for New York. On his de
parture Mr. Vanderbilt appeared in ex
cellent health. He has taken promi
nent place in summer life at Newport,
nd fits entertainments have been of a
must elaborate character. He has al
ways kindly nod or word for bis many
acquaintances. He was a generous con
tributor to local charity and gave an
nually a good sum in aid of the lccal Y.
M. C. A. His purse was ever open to
aid the sick und distressed in Newport,
and on his departure In autumn each
year he left a considerable fund for die
tribution among the poor during winter
walla" WALLA
SMALLPOX CASES
Cost the County, I'p to Date, Over Three
Thousand Dollars.
'm.i .k Walla, Wash., Sept. 11. The
""tease of smallpox was discovered In
""" Walla May 29. It was traced
'r"m the railroad camps on Snake river,
here hundreds of men were engaged in
construction of the extension of the
0- K. A N. track up that stream towards
'wiston. At once vigorous measures
ere taken to prevent the spread of the
"'ease. An Isolation hospital, or pest
house, WM e,ubllshed several miles
ota the city, snd the doctors were all
"'l engaged in vaccinating the people.
A meeting of tha iiialnaaa min and
heaviest taxpayers was held, and a reso
lution was adopted, unanimously,
Erecting the authorities to take all
P'opnr gteps to prevent the spread of
he disease, without regard to cost. From
"e first case to the last, which was dis
ehrg,., cured a few days ago, seventeen
ere discovered and treated In the Uola
Hon hospital, all of whom recovered.
" the total number, fifteen were traced
directly t0 the railroRd camps and the
"rounding country.
The bills for the care and treatment of
thebn mi.f a .. n
'"iio smaiipox patients are
being audited by the county com
missioners, who share the cost with the
city council. They aggregate, as far as
preeenttd, $3276,02. Some $-100 more
will, probably, have to be added. Con
trary to the popular belief the nhveicl
bill for services during the 100 da..- thev
attended patients was only $600.
Boy Beggar Murdered.
Oakland, Cl., Sept. II. Fred
i .
-e.son, a Jo-year-old toy, who has been
begging in this city for Oliver Lsvigne
otherwise known a."Montreal Frenchy
was arrested last night, and today con
fesstd to the police that Ljvigne is the
murderer of another boy bepgar who
was with Lavigne previous to young"
Nelson becoming his be.gar. According
to young .eieon, the victim of Frenchy:
anger was murdered in the raiiroad
yards at Lirarnie, Wyo., some u-ne in
September, 1898. Lavigne is incustodv
Will Move Town of Dyea.
v ictokia, is. v., Sept. 11. The town
of Dyea is soon to be moved across Lynn
canal on scaws to Skagway, to augment
tne growing town at the head of Lynn
canal. 1 he promoters have been work
ing on the novel scheme for some time
sir. foreman, ol ban trancieeo, who
conceivea the plan, has been working
quietly at Dyea for torn time, and has
secured 320 buildings, large and small
A email army of mon has been employed
for the work of transporting these houses
to Skagway.
PETITION TO
PRES. LOUBET
Paris Is Unexpectedly Quiet, hut Trou
lie Is Looked For When De Kou
Icde's Trial Opens.
Rennes, Sept. 11. The judges o: the
Dreyfus court-martial today, by a mu
tual agreement, expressed to the preei
dent of the republic, thron.h General
Lucas, the commander of the army
corps at Rennes, their sinceredesire that
Dreyfus would not be submitted to a
fresh degredation.
A state of calm prevails here. All the
troops and gendarmes who were quar
tered in the town and Its environs have
lefr, and journalists and others interest
ed in the trial have departed since Satnr
day. Cafes which for the last few weeks
have been thronged with excited crowds
are deserted. This afternoon a solitary
gendarme paced up and down before the
military prison, and there was not a po
liceman or soldier near the Lycee, which
last week resembled n btrracks. Work
men were busily dismantling the court
room and packing chairs, tables and
benches on trolley-cars outside.
Madame Dreyfus visited her husband
in the prison this afternoon, but not (he
Blighest interest was shown in the meet
ing by the populace. She found him as
calm as yesterday. The prisoner smoked
his pipe todav for the first time in many
days, which indicated that he was in
better spirits than could be expected.
Mathicu Dreyfus' Next Move.
Pahir, Sept. 12. The dossier of the
Rennes conrt-mai tial proceedings ar
rived here tonight for submittal to the
military court of revision, consisting of
General Mareillo, Colonel Courbeobouese,
Lieutenant-Colonel Li Grene, Major
Copp and Major AlIarH.
It is said that Muthieti Dreyfus In
tends to supplicate Emperor William to
order the publication of the documents
enumerated in the bordereau.
The Thresher Exploded.
Colfax, Wash., Sept., 11. The steam
threshing-machine of Joo Howoll ex
ploded this afternoon. The explosion
was caused by smut In tho wheat. No
one was Injured. The explosion set fire
to the threshing-machine, engine and
derrick apparatus, which wire totally
lo.trnv.!. Lo.ether with 500 lacks of
wheat. .
Kulilixl Ilia .
A startling Incident, of which Mr.
John Oliver of Philadelphia, was me
subject, Is narrated by him as follows:
"I was in a most dreadful condition. My
skin was almost yellow, eves sunken,
tongue coated, pain continually In back
and sides, no appetite-gradually grow
ing weaker day by day. Three physi
cians had given me up. Fortunately, a
triend advised 'Electric Bitters'; and to
my great joy and surprise, tho first
bottle made a decided Improvement. I
continued their use for threo weeks, and
am now a well man. I know they saved
my life, and robbed the grave of anotiier
victim." No one should fail to try them.
Only 50c, guaranteedat Blakcley
Houghton's drug storo. 6
IZOLA PROTESTS
Cass Before tbc World.
LETTER PRODUCES
GREAT FEELING
Dieyfus Health Is Breaking Nerved
Himself During Rennes Trial, but
the Reaction Is Such That the
Physicians Consider His Case
Hopeless, and Say That a Fatal
Collapse May Eosue Any Day.
New Y'ork, Sept. 13. A dispatch to
the Tribune from Paris says: Emile
Zola's impassioned protebt azaiuet the
Rennes verdict, which appears in Aurore,
causes an impression second only to that
of his memorable letter. "J'Accuae."
The following passages of Zola's remark
able document appeals with such irre
sistible force tn honest-minded French
men, and indicate so clearly the new
pnrase upon winch the tragedy seems
about to enter, that they are singled out
as of paramount importance.
Z jla, after stating that the moral Se
dan of September, 18U9, is a hundred
fold more disastrous than the Sedan of
September, 1870, when blood only was
lost, points out the national peril caused
by the president of the Rennes court
martial, when he refused M. Labori's
application to take the testimony of the
former German and Italian military at
taches and thereby prevented the pro
duction of the documents enumerated
in the bordereau. .
Zila affirms his absolute certainty
that a number of documents in Ester-
hazy's handwriting which I'terhazy
furnished to Schwarzkoppen are in the
archives of tho ministry of war at Berlin.
He declares that "Germany, which to
morrow may be an enemy ol t ranee,
holds in her hands these irrefutable
proafs of the triple judicial error com
mitted by the court-martial of 1891, and
by the court-martial of 1898, when Ester
hazy was acquitted, and by the Rennes
court-martial. In case of war, Germany
could thus at the very outset dishonor
the French army in the eyes of Europe
by simply publishing these documents
and revealing the abominable iniquity of
its chiefs.
Diplomacy has already removed the
main difficulty. Germany is willing to
return the documents enumerated in the
bordereau whenever the French govern
ment asks for them. These documents
constitue new facts which will make
necessary a Becond revision of the Drey
fus case befoie the couit of cassation.
Should the government hesitate to ask
for the documents in question, they will
nevertheless be surely forthcoming, for
ustice shall not have been accomplished
before November 23, when my trial be
gins at Versailles, even M. Labori will
pronounce the pleadings at Versailles,
hich it was Impossible for him to pro
nounce at Rennes."
Mme. Dreyfus fears that her husband's
health may soon break down completely.
Dreyfus nerved himself up during the
Rennes trial, but the reaction is such
that the physicians consider his case
hopeless ami say that any day a fatal
collapse may ensue.
Meanwhile the intervention of Presi
dent Loubot by according Dreyfus a full
pardon, Is regarded by those nearest the
president as almost certain, and this
would be followed by executing the pol
icy of the sponge and wiping out all old
scored and reducing the pending trials
which originated in the Dreyfus affair
to mere empty formalities, releasing
De Reroulede and his companions, and
liquidating the whole situation by a gen
eral amnesty preparatory to the world's
(air of 1900.
Oregon Pioneer Dead.
McMiNSNt ii.i.i, Sept. 12. D.'.W. Mc
Call, an Oregon pioneer, died last night
after a long illness of typhoid fever.
Mr. McCall was possessed of consider
able property. Ho is survived by a
widow and several children.
Larimore's Close Call.
Albany, Or., Sept. 12. Eugene Larl
more, manager of the Linseed oil works,
of Portland, with three other men, were
mmining several thousand bushels of
flaxseed stored in a barn at Scio this
evening when suddenly the building
collapsed. Tho men were caught beneath
t'ie falling structure but, strange to say,
the corner of the building where thev
were standing caught against tree and
left an aperture of a few feet, enabling
the men to escape. Laiimore was slightly
injured. ,
Orders Misunderstood.
Oxfoed, la., Sept. 12. Four men
were killed and two injured In a head
Jend collision which took place today on
j the Rock Island, two and a half miles
east of here. The dead are :
Engineer Quinn.
Fireman Poison.
Son of A. D. Smith. Iowa Citv.
Colored man, not indentified.
The injured are: Conductor Brien,
slight ; Simon Pierce, serious.
The trains were extra freights, and it
is said the accident was due to misun
derstanding of orders.
Burned Baby and Self.
Sedalia, Mo., Sept. 13. Mrs. Wil
liams, 'wife of a Missouri Tacitac brake
man, saturated the clothing of herself
and 2-months' old babv with coal oil
today and then set fire to the garments.
The woman was burned to death, and
the babe was fatally scorched.
Mrs. WillianiB was a Christian scien
tist and for sorue time has been con
sidered of unsound mind.
HOBOS SOWING
SMALLPOX
Scattering Germs Broadcast in Inland
Empire.
Pullman, Wash., Sept. 12. The first
death from smallpox to occur in Eastern
Washington since the recent epidemic
began in Spokane last spring occurred
two miles southeast of Johnson last
night, when Wilbur Haines, died, after
an illness of but five days. Thejdeceased
had confluent smallpox, the most ma
lignant phase of the disease. He took
the disease from association with, his
brother-in-law, Chris Hagey, who came
to this county from Oregon two weeks
ago. Hagey had the disease on the road,
but in in a mild form.
When Hagey and Croissant, who aho
had the smallpox, came to this country
thoy beat their way riding in on and
under boxcars. One night they were on
a freight train on the O. R. & N., when
Hagey and another man, whose name is
not known, sat together on top of a box
car, i he night was cold, and they threw
one of Hagey's blankets over their heads
and huddled together to keep warm, lhis
was at the time Hagey's "blood was bad
and he was broken out with sores all
over his body," as described by Croissant.
That .11 an is at large somewhere.
The blankets in which Hagey and his
friend slept while camped near the de
pot here were stolen, and thus has the
disease been given another excellent op
portunity to spread among the ho'-os,
who are no doubt now scattering the
germs in every direction. Tho disease
germs have been sown broadcast over
the Inland Empire.
President Made An Honorary.
Chicago, Sept. 13. The Times-Herald
says: The Bricklayers' and Stone
masons, Union, of Chicago, at its regular
meeting last night, voted a card of
honorary membership to William Mc
Kinley, so that when he handles a trowel
in laying the corner-stone of the new
government building, O.tober 9, he may
not be branded as a "scab."
Recommended fur First Lieutenant.
Sai.km, Or., Sept. 12. Governor Geer
this evening recommended Capttin R.
E. Davis, company E, Second Oregon
volunteers, for appointment as first
lieutenant of one of the volunteer regi
ments now forming, vice J. F. Case, who
declined the appointment. The recom
mendation was made at the request of
the secretary of war.
There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all othe diseases put
together, and until the last few years
was supposed to be incurable. For a
great many years doctors pronounced it
n local disease, and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced
it incurable. Science has proven catarrh
to be a constitutional disease, and there
fore requires constitutional treatment.
Hall's Catarrnh Cure, manufactured by
F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure on the market.
It is taken internally in doses from ten
drops to a teasnoonful. It acts directly
on the blood and mucous surfaces of the
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KliHGER HAS
MADE REPLY
Forecast of Answer to tbe Last Britisn
Note.
NATURE NOT
YET KNOWN
South Afn.aa Advices on Subject Are
Most Conflicting Message an Im
portant One Field Marshal Lord
Wolseley Immediately Summoned
General Stewart White.
London, Sept. 14 A forecast of the
Transvaal's reply to the last note of the
British secretary of state for the colonies
Mr. Chamberlain, now under discussion
by the volksraad, has been received by
Secretary Chamberlain, but its nature is
not known.
At the colonial office, a representative
of the Associated Press was informed
that nothing w ill be given out for the
present. It was regarded as significant,
however, that the nature of the Boer
reply was communicated to the com
mander-in-chief, Field Marshal Lord
Wolseley, who immediately summoned
General Stewart White, former quarter
master-general, who is the prospective
commander of the British forces in
Natal
the South Alrican advices are most
conflicting regarding tho tenor of
Kruger's message of reply to Chamber
lain.
The Morning Post, in its second
edition, prints a special dispatch fron
Pietermaritzburg, the capital of Natal,
saying that the reply is "truculent,
loquacious and blasphemous." The Man
Chester Guardian s correspondent at
Capetown telegraphs saving that the
outlook is of the gloomiest character.
Capetown papers themselves take a
more hopeful view of the situation, baa
ing ineir oenet on the probable ac
ceptance by Krnger of the franchise
measures suggested in Chamberlain's
latest dispatch. But even thev admit it
is impossible to learn or foreshadow
Krnger's attitude towaids the snz iiaiut?
of Great Britain, which, after all, is still
the main Issue. Y hatever the nature
of Kruger's reply, it is probable that
several more stages ol diplomatic pro
cess will begone through with before
there is definite war or peace, unless of
cours, Kruger should take the initiative
and raid Natal. It is tl.e possibility of
this move that makes definite news of
the reply so eagerly and anxiously await
ed.
A Ihouainid Tuituri
Could'not express the rapture of Annie
E. Springer, of 1123 Howard St., Phil
adelphia, Pa., when she found that Dr.
King's New Discovery for Consumption
had completely cured her of a hacking
cough that for many years had made
lite a burden. All other remedies and
doctors could give her no help, but she
says of this Royal 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 w ho tries
Dr. King's New Discovery forany trouble
of the throat, chest or lungs. Price 50c
and fl. Trial bottle free at Blokeley &
Houghton's drug storo: every bottle
guaranteed.
Knife Pierced His Heart.
Astoria, Sept. 13. Robert West, a
prominent citizen of this county and a
resident of Westport, acciduntly killed
himself this afternoon nnder circum
stances that were very peculiar. For
the past few years he has been almost
totally blind, but tbe loss of his sight did
not interfere with his doing light work
bout his home. This afternoon he
went to the woodhouse in the rear of his
residence to cut some kindling with his
pocket knife. While doing ro a dog
suddenly startled him, i nd be fell with
CO.. fw vrm.
the knife in his hand, piercing his side
and entering his heart. lit) lived but a
few minutes after the accident. Th
coroner held an inquest, and the jury re
turned a verd.ct of accidental death.
The funeral and interment will take
p'ace at West port on Friday.
wnMitiiux crust ok Di.tiuttiorA
A rromliiftnt Virginia Editor llail A I -uioat
Olven I'p, hut Wit Brought
Hark to I'errVrt llrallli by ( hniiiher
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covery and await the result, but notic
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A DISASTROUS
TRAIN WRECK.
North Bound Passenger Crashed Into
Caboose of Accomodation Train, at
Formosa, Near BakcrsGcld.
Bakehsfield, Cab, Sept. t4. A disas-
trom wreck ccourrtd at Formosa iate-
last night. A north-bound Southern
Pacific pastenger train ran iutoand tele
scoped the cit'Oo;e of the Porterville ac
commodation train. The killed are:
Mrs. Maggie Maj rs,of Los Angeles.
A woman supposed to be Mrs. Larue,
of Porterville.
The Porterviile accommodation train
came in from Porterville and left the ca
boose on the main line while the engine
and crew went in on the siding t pick.
up some cars. The ladies who were
killed boarded the caboose as it stood in
front of the depot and took their seats'.
Tiie engine and some c trs were just
being coupled to the cat oose when t he-
crash came. The heavy pus ient r eu.ine
tore through ths caboose as if it were-
cardboard, and tho hap'ets inmates were
crushed a id thrown aside. The mail and
baggage an I express cai s were derailed
and serve;! to prevent tbe heavy train
from teleeoping by pctin; ai a buffer to
dirair.is i trufoioof I tie impact of the
train agtiust the mass of wreckage ia
front.
The p:issenzer9 on the north-bound
train were shaken up and bruised by the
jar of the collision and an arm of one
man was broken. F"nineer Wright was
badly ecaldid by the l nrs'.ing of the in
jector lpe, but he will probably re
cover. The to lies of ihe women who
were killed wire terribly mangle ).
Thu disaster is attritu'ed to the fact
that H e cab ose of the Porterville train
was left on the main trck, which should
have hern left clear for the passenger
train from the south.
Will Go On The Staec
New Yobk, Sept. l:'.. The Earl of
Yarmouth, who has been spending the
summer at Newport, has decided to
adopt ihe tta as a irofession, and will
make his debut as an uitorinthls city
at a very early date.
Mr. Chutes Fiohuin bai tngaged
him for hi t U reel, i n I be wid make his
first appearand on tha pre fess ona" sta.e
in "Wheels Within Whoels" at the-Madison-Square
theater.
I'lajail tint.
Pull Head che. Pains it varioui parts
of the body, Sinking at the lit of the
stomach, Loss of appetite, Feverishness,
Pimples or Sores all positive evidences
of impure blood. No matter how it
became so it must be purified in order to
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remedy and we sell every bottle on
a positive guarantee. BlakeleyA Hough
ton Druggists.
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