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VL' THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY DECEMBER 9, 1899. N0. 11
BRIGHAM ROBERTS
HUNDREDS KILLED
AND WOUNDED
Sitiii! it BriUsh Camp al latomitb
Was Ten Effective.
NINETY BOERS
ARE MASSACRED
Ef Three Hundred British Other Ugly
Charges Made Against British
Soldiery Boer Losses at Battle of
Slodder River.
London, Dec. 5. Tho war office today
received the folbwinj dispatch from
General Forestier Wulkt-.r, under d.Ueof
December 5:
"General Metbaen reported ttiat at
ModJer river he found twenty-three
bodies and thnt twenty-eeven bodies had
eiuce floated to tlie surface of the river.
People say that some bodies were t.uried
end others were taken on mules to
Jacobsdal, where the seriously wounded
alto were taken. Commandant Albrecht's
wagon, perfectly fitted up for pharmacy
and surgery, was captured. The enemy's
loss was more than ours, and their
morale has been much shaken.
The Herald from Pietermaritzburg
says: News from Ladysmith Is beginning
to come in more freely. The latest die
patches say that from the beginning of
the investment up to last Saturday,
November 25, there were 632 killed and
wounded, including both military and
civilians. The Boers shelled the town
from all sides, their favorite time being
at midnight.
The heaviest casualties occurred on
November, 0, when the Boers made a
determined attack, advancing close to
the camp. They were routed with heavy
loss, our casualties numbering twenty
one. The next day General Joubert
begged medicines from the British.
We lest one in an attack on the 24th,
trie Boers attain losing heavily. On the
20th, bombardment, which bad been
more or less severe, damaged some
buildings. On the following day it was
announced that the Boers were going
south.
Ninety Boers Massacred.
2kw York, Doc. 5. A dispatch to the
w orld from London Bays : Ugly charges
are made against Britiuh soldiers at
Eland's laagto by a correspondent of the
leading Amsterdam paper, the Algemin
ilanilelshlad, who visited the Boer
prieoners aboard the guardshlp Penelope,
in Simons bay. It is charged that the
prisoners and the wounded were rob'ied
'A everything valuable, even wedding
rings, and that in one case a Boer's
finger was cut off to get a ring. The
correspondent says:
' Never have I thought Englishmen
to be such brutes. I imagine that about
ninety men were behind a kopj" when
300 lancers attacked them. The Boers
bail to surrender to such overw helming
numbers and threw down their weapons
in token of submission. But the captain
' H'o lancers shouted 'Kill the ,'
"hereupon a tremendous massacre
enened. Sousenthaler, the only prisoner
among them, was spared because he had
remained flat rm the ground."
Insane Asylum Report.
Salkm, Dec. 6. The report of Super
intendent Paine, of the Oregon insane
'lurr., r tjie month of November,
hows the following:
Number of patients October 31 1151
Number rccsivcd dunnir November. 35
Number returned escapes 4
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the stranger, who is a Iliodo, had been
suspicion in various American
cities. When he learned that he wa,
W'eved to be Agninaldo, be quickly
Senator Hayward Bead.
Nebraska City, D,c. 5.-Senator
Hayward died this morning.
Washington, Dec. 5. Another sorrow
had fallen upon the senate before it con.
vened today. Senator Hayward, of
Nebraska, while not officially a member,
was regarded as one of the senate!
Major Pruden, assistant secretary
to the president,' was recoL-ni!
by the chair and presented the mem
of the president.
At 2:38 the senate adjourned.
IS EXCLUDED
Fiie House Orflerci an lETcstiiatioa
of His Cass.
A Great
Exam
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entire
Flood,
Baldwin Hotel Site Sold.
San Fbascisco. Dec. 5. The
iner announces positively that
Baldwin has finallv sold the
Baldwin hotel site to James L.
for $1,423,000. It is understood that Mr,
noou will linnieniately begin the
erection of a modern building which may
cost as much as $2,000,000.
SIXTEEN MAJORI
TY IN SENATE
BY AN OVERWHELM
ING MAJORITY
The Utah Congressman-Elect Presented
His Own Side of the Case.
Anti-Expansion Leaders Met
Chilly Reception The
Delegation.
With a
Oregoo
Tutal 1190
charged, died and eloped 28
Number of patients November 30. . .1102
Average number of patients daily. ..1)55
Average psr capita expense, monthly,
"M; dailr. .32. Number nfumnlovcs.
Hi. " '
The account for articles consumed
hows a total of $5340 54 for the month.
The total payroll amounts to $3400 05 for
he month.
Mistaken for Aguinnldo.
Va.vcouvkb, B. C, Dec. 4. This city
thrown into a state of tremendous
Hciteniont today by the detention at
J"5 ' headquarter of a man supposed
l, Agninaldo. II. V. Treat, of New
u'i Informed the American consul
"'isafternom that a suspicious louklng
tranr, bearing a maiked resemblanre
,0 Attulnahtn, had cime over from Vie-
Washington, Dec. 4. A group of sil
ver senators gathered on the floor of the
senate after the Adjournment today and
held a forlorn-hope meeting. Teller was
the leader, and Pettigrcw was his second.
There were the populist, Harris, and
one or two Democrats. Neither Joiikb
nor Stewart, of Nevada, was among the
number. They are tilver men for effect
in Nevada only. To this hopeless group
came Chandler.
"I would really like to do something
for silver." he said.
"What can you do for silver?" growled
Teller, "with sixteen Republican majori
ty in the senate," and even as he spoke
his colleague, Wolcott, was In the finance
committee-room assisting in perfecting
the gold-standard bill.
As the provisions of the senate bill be
came known it became apparent that
tho measure finally agreed upon will fol
low the line of the eenate bill, if it is not
wholly adoptud.
Efforts will be made by leaders of
sound-money legislation on the Re
publican eido to get the bouse caucus to
adopt the features of the senate bill in
the hope of more speedy legislation and
harmony between the houses.
The leaders against expansion in the
senate Hoar, Pettigrew and Mason
met with a chilly reception today or
were laughed at and ridiculed w hen they
told their colleagues what they were go
ing to do. Hoar is regarded as a granny,
Pettigrew as a crank, and Mason as a
buffoon by nearly everybody in the
onatA ami (mansion will not suffer
under their aseaults.
Representatives Tongue and Moody
were both In the house early this morn-
na nt anavhred to the roll-call. After
casting their votes for Speaker Hender
son they were sworn in, and then gave
their support to the adoption of the rules
of the fifty-fifth bouse. In the lottery
for seats they were unfortunate, but
secured seats near together, in the back
row, about the center of the Republican
side. Thero is but one member separat
ing the two Oregon men.
Senator Simon represented Oregon in
the senate today, Senator Mcliri.le not
arriving In the city until after the senate
adjourned. There was nothing to do,
however, but answer to the roll-call, as
no bills were Introduced.
A tire And Ieth Fight.
Mr W. A. Hines of Manchester, la.,
writing of his almost miraculous escape
from death, says : "Exposure auer mer
les induced serious lung trouble, which
ended in Consumption. I had irequenv
hemorrhages and coughed night and nay.
All my doctors raid I must soon me.
Then I began to use Dr. King's New
Discovery tor Consumption, which com-nlM-lr
cured me. I would not be without
it even if it cost $3.00 a bottle. Hundreds
have used it on my recommendation anu
all say it never fails to cure Throat, Chest
ami Lung troubles." Regular ti 50c
and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Blskeley
A Houghton's Drug Store.
My son bus been troubled for years
wilh chronic diarrhoea. Sometime ago
I persuaded him to take, some of Cham
berlain'. Colic, Cholera and hw
Remedy. After using two bottles of tho
Washington, Dec. 5. After an inter
esting debate three hours, tho house to
day, by a vote of 302 to 30, adopted the
resolution offered by Taylor, of Ohio,
yesterday, for the appointment of a
special committee to investigate the
charges against Brigham II. Roberts, the
Mormon representative-elect from Utah.
Previously the house had rejected a sub
stitute resolution offered by Rxbardsou,
the leader of the minority, to allow Rob
erts to be sworn in and to send the whole
case to the judiciary committee. This
substituto resolution, however, by no
means commanded the full Democratic
strength. Only fifty seven members
voted for it. Of the thirty who then
voted against the Tayler resolution, all
wero Demociats except two Loud, a
California Republican, and Newlands, a
silverite from Nevada.
By the terms of the resolution Roberts
is not only excludud from all participa
tion in the proceedings of the house until
the committee reports and the house
passes upon his care, but he is denied a
seat in the hall. Whether this will be
interpreted to deny him admission with
in the chamber pending the disposition
of his case is vet to be decided.
The reading of the president's message
was completely overehauoweu Dy tne
Democratic proceedings which resulted
in the action of the house today. The
galleries were thronged with spectators,
mostly women, who eat patiently through
the three weary hours that preceded the
debate, and then waited on three hours
more Until it was concluded.
The most remarkable feature of the
debate was the fact that Roberts' presen
tation of his own ride of the caeo, which
lasted almost an hour, became so absorb
ing that he won the sympathy of many
of those in the galleries, and was several
times showered with applause. It was
evident that he realized that the house
was overwhelmingly against him, and ft
times he spoke very fiercely iind
defiantly.
Daring the debate, Gro6venor of Ohio
rose to repel indignantly an insinuation
of Roberts that the president had know
ingly appointtd men guilty of polygamy
to federal offices in Utah.
To Run Logs Down Hood River.
Hood River, Or., Dec. 5. The engine
to be used by, the Wlnans brothers in
dragging the logs from the bluffs of the
Upper Hood river down to the stream
has arrived, and is being transported
up into the timber belt, with 500 feet of
cable. Logs have been thrown into
the rlvsr, and some of them are coming
down of their own accord, showing that
it is possible to run logs down Hood
river, an experiment that has given no
little concern.
BATTLE WILL
BE TERRIFIC
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garrison up to November 29. In suite
of the rumors of a retrograde movement
upon the part of the Boers, the stories
just received show that the garrison, al
though still strong, was suffering from
confinement, restricted diet and the in
creasing volume of the liuer artillery fire,
especially thatof additional heavy-caliber
guns, placid in position 5000 yards from
tho Western defenses.
The dispatches relate that the Doers
had discovered the most vulnerable
points of the garriBon and that the shell
ing was Incoming disagreeably effective.
The rations bad been reduced and there
was a great deal of sickness; neverthe
less, the troops of the narriuoii were in
every way preparing to meet the assault
which it was anticipated the Boers !
would carry out In a final effort to reduce
the city. The belief was current in
Ladysmith that the tsoers were prepar
ing for a retrograde
another attack.
INSURRECTION
IS NOT ENDED
Hope of Ending Philippine War Has
Ag.iin Faded Into Uncertain Future.
HAD TO FIGHT
EIGHT HUNDRED
Filipinos Were Commanded by General
Mino, and Lieutenant-Colonel
Parker Commanded Americans.
Ladysmith Garrison Beginning to Cast
Anxious Eyes Southward.
New York, Dec.fl. A dispntch to the
Tribune from London say : From Natal
the press dispatches which came through
yesterday were forecasts of the terrible
battle impending on the Tugela river.
It Is now certain -that the Boers are in
great force on the further side of the
river. The Boer army, which invaded
Natal, was put by good judges at 25,000
to 30,000 men. If we accept the latter
figure, and deduct 20O0 for losses which
may havo been made good by disloyal
Dutch recruits from Natal, and another
10,000 for the remaining force at Lady
smith, the total of the army confronting
General Duller may be from 15,000 to
20,000 men.
Lisdos. Dec. 0. A budget of news
from Lxdysmith, which arrived today,
brings the history of the beleagured
Manila, Dec. 0. Lieutenant-Colonel
Parker, of the Forty-fifth infantry, com
manded at Vigan, province of South II-
cos, when that place was attacked on
Monday, December 4, (not last night as
previously announced), by a force of in
surgents. The American force consisted
of company B, of the Thirty-third regi
ment, and 150 sick men, many of whom
shared in the first attack, which was
made at 4 o'clock in the morning, and
lasted until 8 o'clock.
The Filipinos, who were estimated to
have nn inhered about 800 men and who
were commanded by General Mino, came
from the outskirtsof the town. Flu h ting
was from house to honse and almost
from hand to hand. The A more ins cap
tared eiuhtv-fonr rifles and several
prisoners. The official report says three
men were wounded. Colonel Bisbee is
sending reinforcements to Vigan on the
gunboat Wheeling.
Colonel Parker praises the bravery of
the sick American soldiers. Every man
who was able to stand, handle! a rifle
during the attack.
J. B. Clark, Peoria, III., says, "Sur
geons wanted to operate on me for piles,
hut I cured thorn wilh DeWitl's Witch
Hazel Salve." It is infallible for piles
and skin diseases, lie an of counterfeits.
New Youk, Dec. 7.--A disptach to the
Herald from Manila says: Hope of end
ing the insurrection and halting mili
tary operations in the Philippines, which
seemed so bright a few days ago, has
again failed into uncertain future.
Much lias been accomplished. During
the last few weeks the campaigning has
been almost phenomenal. In dreadful
weather, through a devastated country,
movement after I across swollen rivers, along roads that
were impassable for wagons, artillery
and in some cases for cavulry, the ad
vances of the troops have been so rapid
and in so many directions that they
have often been beyond the military
telegraph lines, and operations have
necessarily been independently con
ducted by the field commanders. The
army is rightfully proud.
The insurgent have had a series of
routs 1 1 il rlii i ili it The slaughter has
baen great. They have lost a largo
quantity of supplies and munitions of
war and more than 1000 armed men
have surrendered orbeen captured during
their retreat In the last few weeks. Their
government has been scattered or cap
tured. What of it is at liberty is in flight.
A portion of Agninaldo'a family are in
our linns. Aguinaldo himself is a fugitive.
Notwithstanding all this there is no
reason for an extreme optimistic view of
the situation. Nothing morn is heard of
having the rebellion stamped out in the
course of a few days. Thatsoitof talk
only lasted while the iii'nrgeM leader
mis slipping away last wet k. Field com
manders now think that the end is still
afar.
Actress Wants a Divorce.
Nkw Yokk, Dec. 5. A special to the
Times from Burlington, Vt., says : Julia
Marlowe Taber, the well known actress,
has applied for a divorca from her hus
band, R hcrt Taber, on the ground of
intolerable severity and neglect and re
fusal to support.
Treatment is Effective.
Pai.ru, Dpc. 7. It is the general opin
ion that the number of patients at the
Oregon insane asylum is rapidly in
creasing. This is erroneous, however,
as the records w ill show. On November
30, 1H!H. there were 1100 patients, ami
on November 30, 1899, thora arm 1IG2.
There are almost daily reports in the
press of patients received, but there is
seldom mention of patients discharged.
The records thuw that the treatment
given at the asylum is productive of
good results, for in the Un eleven months
the number of patients discharged was
187, or 17 per month. The greater portion
of thesw were fully recovered, w hile a
few were discharge d because their con
dition hud Improved sufficiently to
warrant their being given liberty.
As a euro for rheumatism Chamber
lain's l' in U il in is gaining a wido repu
tation. D. B. Johnston of Richmond,
Ind., has been trjub'.ed with that ail
ment since 1 852. In speaking of it he
says: "I never found anything that
would relieve me until I used Chamber
lain's Pain Balm. It acts like magic
with me. My foot was swollen and
paining me very much, but one good
application of I'ui-i Bairn relieved m. '
For sale by Blakeh-v & Houghton.
Senator Ouay Will Be Seated.
Nkw Yokk, Dec. 6 A special to the
Herald from Wadiingti.n says: As the
result of a canvass ma le by tjnay's
friends sincn the eenat convened yeetor
day, is is as-erted that forty-six of the
eigi.tv-five senators w ill vole to seat him
as senator from Pennsylvania. Thete
figures are u'ttuined by counting the
thirty senators row in the senate who
voted either for Corbett or Mantle and
sixteen others from whuur., it is asserted,
promises have been obtained lavorablo
to Quay.
Senator Chandler lias called a special
meeting of the committee on elections
to consider the c iseof IJ-iay on Thursdjy.
Ha Fixilrtt tli Nureon.
All doctors told Renick Hamilton, of
West Jefferson, O , after suffering 18
nnnths from Rrctnf Fistula, ho would
die unless a ros:ly operation was per
formed ; but he cured himself with five
boxes of Bnk'en's Arnica Salve, the
surest IMu cii'C on E trth, and the best
Salve in tho World. "5 cents a box. Sold
by Blakeley A H- u;bton Priwtists. 4
Result at Hood River.
Hoou Rivir, Or., Dec. 5. Thi city
election today resulted as follows:
Mayor, F. C. Bros u-; altfermon, A. S,
Blowers, C. A. Bell, J. J. Luckey, D.
McDonald, P. S. Davidson, Jr.; treas
urer, O. P. Crowell; ricorler, J. R,
Nickolson ; marshal, F. S. Olinger.
To His Post.
Portland, Pec. 5. Ex-Govern r W.
P. Lord, minister to the Argentine re
public, left for liis poft of duty tonight.
He will sto; In Washington to receive
final instruction! from the state depart
ment. Subscribe for The Cliranic e.