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VOL. X
THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1900.
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EX-CONSUL MACRDM
OFFERS PROOF
Tte Britisb Monties are Familiar
Wits American Ciwlar Ms
CABLEGRAMS
TO SAVE TIME
He Has the Envelopes Which Were
Opened bj British Officials and
Still Bear Both British and Ameri
can Seals Other Pertinent Facts.
New York, Feb. 20. A special to the
Journal and Advertiser from Washington
pays: unaries r-. aiacrum, late consul
Jut Pretoria, furnishes proof of his charges
hat United States official mail was
ipened by the British censor. Mr. Ma
rum has several envelopes, each bear-
ng the British sticker applied to the
pnvelope after it had been opened by
he censor.
He has one envelope which contained
nail matter from Consul-General Stowe,
lit Cape Town. It is the regulation blue
f the consular service. It bears upon
ts face the legend "U. 8. Consular
jService, and a stamp "Mail bus-
ended." On the reverse side is the
United States government sea), im
iressed upon the red sealing was of the
oneular service. The British sticker,
tesealing the letter after it had been
pt-ned, bears the potential Initials, "V
IK.," the initials of the clerk who opened
it he letter, the name of the place where
t was opened.
This letter was mailed at Cape Town
ctober 4, bv Consul-General Stowe. It
Jwas held there one month apparently,
lor the next postmark is that of Durban,
lated November 4. F.oin Durban it
was tent to Pretoria and reached Mr.
-Macrum in its routilattd form. The
ircnlars to consuls Issued by the de
jiartment, are not in themselves Im-
ortant, but nevertheless ''official mail"
lever reached Mr. Macrnm. They were
onfiecated without apology or explana-
ion by the British censor. As for Mr.
jMacrum's personal mail, he never heard
fit.
The British authorities are familiar
pith the American consular code. On
November 8 Mr. Macrutn sent a cable.
Vthui in code to the state department,
irgently requesting that he be permitted
o come home. Usually cablegrams, be-
ause of the difference in time between
ponth Africa and this country, consume
wo days In transmission ; that is to say,
he cable sent by Mr. Macrnm on No-
ember 8 would normally have been
received by the state department on
iNovember 10. But on November 9, be-
ore the cablegram was received by the
Ute department, certainly, and before
t was stnt from South Africa, probably,
'e British papers in Natal, hundreds of
1 1 let away, announced in impressive
ype that Mr. Macrum the American
onsul at Pretoria desired to be per-
itted to go home.
(THE ENGLISH AND
ALASKAN BOUNDARY
jl'hey Will Beat Us if Dispute Is Ever
Allowed to Go to Arbitration
They Are Dishonest, Unjust and
Highly Trained Aim to Control
Pacific.
Nkw York. Feb. 20. President T. C.
Nendenhall, of the Warcester, Mass.,
olytechnlc institute, formerly head of
he United States geological survey, de
vered a lectore last night In Chickering
"ill before tha Armv Geographical
Kwiety on "The Alaska Boundary." In
2, Dr. Mendenhall was member of
commission that surveyed the line
khich this country contends divides its
'orthern possessions from the Canadian
Northwest territory. He said:
We are exceedingly lax in accurately
'ling our boundaries, and in our dil
utes over them naturally with
ngland on the whole we have lost.
1 he trouble hat been lack of diplomatic
raining and the difference of the people.
1807, when we bought Alaska from
!nsia, the same langnage was used in
treaty as In that between Great
'"'tain and Russia In 1825, and it Is
ambiguous. The boundary of Lower
Alaska was to run from the summit of
mountain ranges parallel with Ibe coast,
never more than ten marine leagues, or
about thirty-five statute miles, from the
coast. There is no range of parallel
mountains, so the line must be located
by degrees.
"Great Britain has contended that the
coast means the coast of the islands. In
that case she wonid have all of the coast
line. Lately she has given up that
-claim, but seeks to get a harbor, most
probably Pyramid harbor. Then,
personally believe, she wishes to secure
a naval base. Already she has in EsquI
mault, on Vancouver island, one of the
strongest stations in the world ; far ahead
of anything we have. Should she control
Southeastern Alaska through another
naval key, she would have chief com
mand of the Pacific.
"Lately both nations have been too
busy with more important immediate
troubles, but within a few years the
Alaska boundary question wilt have to
be settled. I hope the American people
will not, from' sentimental or any other
reasons surrender what is theirs by right,
and what, until the presence of precious
metals in the region was discovered,
they possessed without diepute. But if
they submit it to arbitration they will
aain lose valuable territory, for they
will have to contend against men o! the
highest diplomatic training, the roost
faithful devotion to duty that the world
has yet known, and men who, when
their nation's trade is at stake, are
absolutely regardless of every principle
of honesty, justice and international
law. '
Reheli Charged With Murder.
Manila, -Feb. 20. A military com
mission meets at Calumba tomorrow to
try the Filipino members of the guerrilla
band which attacked a (quad of Ameri
cans on February 2, killing a corporal
The charges are murder and assault with
intent to kill. The case is important as
foreshadowing the policy of treating
guerrillas and bandits. It is supposed
one reason which has hitherto deterred
the American authorities from adopting
this policy is that the insurgents have
more than fifty American prisoners and
may retaliate.
Mananenee Was Unaeaworthy,
San Francisco, Feb. 20. Chief Engi
neer McDonald, of the transport Manau
ense, has admitted, on cross-examination
before British Consul Plckeregill, that
he signed an incorrect statement while
under pressure of favoring the owners of
the vessel. This statement was to the
effect that he considered the Manauense
was in a thoroughly good and seaworthy
condition.
Fortincatlona Not Needed.
New York, Feb. 21. Regarding the
contention that the United States should
not bnlld the Nicaragua canal w ithout
erectiugexpensive fortifications, Admiral
Dewey, in Washington, last night said :
"Fortifications 1 Why, of course not
As I understand it, the canal is to be
and should be a neutralized commercial
pathway between the two great oceans,
To fortify it would simply result in mak
tng.it a lattleground in cee of war
Fortifications would be enormously cx
pensive and ought not to be erected. Our
fleets will be a sufficient guarantee of
the neutrality and safety of the canal
in time of war as well as in peace."
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Mr. J. E. Lilly, a prominent citizen of
Hannibal, Mo., lately had wonderful
deliveranci from a frightful death. In
telling; of it he says: "I was taken with
Typhoid fever, that ran into pneumonia.
My lungs became hardened. I was so
weak I could'nt even sit up in bed.
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die of consumption, when I heard of
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French Treaty Wins I'olnt.
Wasiii.vuton, Feb. 21. The senate
committee on foreign relations today or
dered a favorable report on the treaty of
reciprocity with France. No amendment
was made to the treaty. The committee
did not take up the Hay-Panncefote
treaty relating to the Nicaragua canal.
Clark Falk are never closed Sunday.
D in'l forget this.
GOOD SIDE OF TOE
TRUST QUESTION
Minatiocs Caa an! Ststli Be Gaiici
ail CmtroM
THEY CANNOT
BE PROHIBITED
Only Those Which Sincerely Contribute
to the Public's BeoeGtCan Survive
Public Opinion Therefore It Is
Best to Control Rather Than Op
pose 1 hem.
New York, Feb. 21. The conference
on trusts before the People's Institute in
co-operation with the Cooper Union,
was continued last night in the hall of
the union when "The Economic Effects
of Industrial Combination" formed the
topic Of discussion.
The first speaker on the economic cus
toms involved in industrial combinations
was W. II. Baldwin, jr., president of the
Long Ieland railroad, who elucidated
the meaning of the term "trust." In
the first place, he said, a trust was a
combination of capital in order to pur
chase raw material ; secondly, to pay a
high rate of wages, and, thirdly, to sell
at a lower price than could be offered by
any smaller combination of capital.
That, said Mr. Baldwin, wai the only
kind of trust.either economic or political,
that could survive public opinion or the
final analysis of the great question of
trusts.
Mr. Baldwin drew a parallel between
the rate of wages paid in the times of
small railroads, when the average was
$00 a month, and the present rate, as
certified to by Mr. Arthur, of $150 to $225
a month for engineers working from
seven to eight hours a day, which latter
result, he said, was only possible under
the combination ot railroad interests
and economies of operation that could
be brought about under no other con
ditions. Mr. Baldwin gave it as his
opinion that the onward current toward
combinations could not be stopped, and
that the aim must be lo control the
trust and to guide it along so as to make
it serve for the common good.
Professor F. W. Taussig, of Harvard
university, drew the distinction between
public service industries and industrial
combinations, taking the ground in op
position to Bourke Cockran that there
were such things as partial monopolies.
He said that it was characteristic of
smaller combinations that they were
under single management nnder the
watchful eye of the man whose pocket
was affected by the methods employed.
The test of the large combinations, he
said, was whether they could survive
under hired management, and he con
tended that some of the alleged ad
vantages of combinations on a large
scale were illusory. He defended a tele
phone monopoly, and said that several
Competing systems would work as great
harm as if there were several postal
systems. He said that cities could regu
late such monopolies when franchises
were to be granted.
Professor Taussig said that neither the
protective tarriff, railway conditions
that gave advantages to large shippers,
nor the reckless offering of corporate
privileges In some state was to blame
for present conditions', but that al
together were in a large measure re
sponsible. Mere prohibition, he said,
could accomplish nothing. It led only
to legislative hair splitting and evasion,
yet this was the path that the United
States and the various states had fol
lowed with conspicuous failure. He
cautioned patience, quiet, the belief in
the ultimate triumph of right and every
effort to improve the machinery of gov
ernment and explanation as the remedies
that would work out the general welfare.
John 8. Crosby, the single-taxer, said
that the sole business of the government
is to establish justice and not to lend its
powers for private purposes. In arraign
ing Wall street and stock gambling,
Mr. Crosby said that the government
was responsible for the worst form of
gambling, that of stocks, while it often
sought to stop boys from "shooting
craps."
Quay's fata to It Decided Tomorrow.
Washington, Feb. 21. Senator Pen
rose this morning gave notice in the
senate that on Washington's birthday,
Immediately after the reading of Wash
ington's farewell address by Foraker, he
would rail np the senate resolution pro
viding that Quay is not entitled to take
bis seat in this body as senator Irom the
state of Pennsylvania. Penrose directed
attention to the fact that the question
involved was one of privilege and inti
mated, therefore, that it would take
precedence over other matters.
SULTAN WILL PAY
FOR HIS FUN
Losses of Americans in Turkey During
Armenian Troubles About ioo,oco
United States Better Known
Since Spanish War.
New York, Feb. 21. Oscar C. Straus,
United States minister to Turkey, after
conferring with the state department of
ficials on Monday in Washington, re
turned to Now York, and is now enjoy
ing the beginning of his three months'
leave of absence. lie said last night
that he had no intention of resigning
his office, although there had been
rumors to the effect that he had become
somewhat tired of the duties.
Asked as to what progress the Turkish
government had made with reference to
indemnifying the American owners of
property destroyed during the'Armenian
troubles, he said :
"Until my arrival there Tuikey had
denied liability for those property dam
ages, but since the government's liability
has bet n admitted, the sultan has not
only promised to pay, but he has twice
repeated that promise. That he will
have to pay the several claims within a
reasonably short time there is no ques
tion, and I credit him with the intention
of fulfilling his promise. The sum in
volved is less than $100,000."
"Did the Spanish war and the victory
ot Dewey at Manila make us any belter
known in Turkey?" Mr. Straus was
asked.
"They certainly did do just that thing
and the Oriental world has a far better
appreciation of the power of this coun
try than it had before."
NICARAGUAN BILL.
MAY BE PASSED
It Is Not Necessary or Probable That
Action on the Hay-Pauncefote
Treaty Shall Precede Passage of
the Bill.
New York, Feb. 22. A special to the
Herald from Washington says: It is
possible that the Hepburn Nicaragua
canal bill may be passed by the house of
representatives, and it may even become
a law before the senate acts on the Hay
Panncefote treaty. Representative Hep
burn is determined to press the bill at
every opportunity.
It is expected that the committee on
rules will report Mr. Hepburn's resolu
tion favorably, though it is possible that
some change may be made in the date
that he has fixed for the consideration
of the bill. Mr. Hepburn and many ad
vocates of the canal bill in both houses
of congress are in favor of passing the
pending bill conatining the authorizition
of the fori ideation of the canal, without
regard to the action of the senate on the
pending treaty.
In speaking of this subject, Mr. Hep
burn said it would make no material dif
ference w hether the treaty was ratified
or not. If it should be agreed lo by the
senate, anil it should be determined that
the president had no power under the
treaty to fortify the canal, he need not
act under the authority given him to
erect fortifications. He thought it wonld
lie well for congress to give the president
all the authority that he could possibly
want.
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0LGA NETHERS0LE
WAS ARRESTED
Charged With Offending Public Decency
In Her Play "Sappho."
New York, Feb. 21. On a warrant
charging her with offending public de
ceney, Olga Nethersol", the actress, was
arrested this afternoon and made to ap
pear in the Center-street police court
She was paroled in the custody of her
counsel, and tiie case set for hearing
Friday morning.
The arrest is the culhiination of the
attack upon and denunciation of
Sappho," Clydo Fitch's play, now be
ing produced by MisB Nethersole at
Wallack'e theater. The play is a stage
adaptation of Alphouee Daudet's novel
of "Sappao." The attack seemed to come
from all directions, the play being de
nounced by pulpit and press. With Mies
Nethersole were arrested upon the same
charge Hamilton Revelle, her leading
actor, and MarcuB Mayer, her marager,
A warrant was issued for the arrest of
Theodore Ross, proprietor of Wallack'e,
but as Mr. Ross was ill, Charles Burn
bam, the manager of the theater, ap
peared in tho policn court in his stead,
as the representative of the playhouse.
The provision under which the warrant
was issued is a section of the penal code,
applying to public nuisance, which is a
misdemeanor, and is punishable by im
prisonment in the penitentiary for one
year or a fino of $500, or botht
At the dictation of her counsel, Miss
Nethersolo said, In answer to the com
piuint :
"I have committed no offense against
the good morals or the law of this or any
other country. I especially demand to
know the source of this attack upon me
and my proprietor. The court cannot
order a too-speedy investigation."
At the request of Miss Nethersole's
counsel, the hearing was set for Friday
morning. The play was presented to
night. DAMAGE DONE
BY WATER
New Potlatch Bridges of Northern
Pacific Gone Much New Track is
Injured Paradise Creek Over
flowed at Moscow; Flooding Kail
road Tracks and Several Buildings.
Moscow, Idaho, Feb. 21. A heavy
rain began falling last night at 10 o'clock
and continued without abatement until
lato this afternoon. The warm rain melt
ed the enow and tiiis filled the gulches
and streams. There were fears today
of a repetition of the flood of last month
along the Potlatch, but unless the rain
should continue for two or three days
there is no danger of such a calamity.
Telephone reports from Juliaetta say
that three railroad bridges were washed
out between that place and Leaiston.
The rain has caused the streams to over
flow, and without doubt much of the
new track laid by tho Northern Pacific
in the washed out district id injured. No
loss is reported in Kendrick.
In Moscow the streets in the lower
part of town contain a good deal of water.
Paradise creek has overflowed its banks,
and the water is running over the rail
roal tracks. The city waterworks plant
has two feet of water In it, and several
houses down in the flat ate surrounded
with water.
t'ataha Creek on the Iteinpage.
PoMEKor, Wash., Feb. 21. The lower
part of the city is under water, Palaha
creek being transformed into a raging
torrent by the melting snow from the
mountains. A warm rain fell all day,
and the water is still rising. A bridge
t etween this city and Pataha and sev
eral crossings were torn away by the
rusliing waters.
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Forenter Kerime to Aid Kuglnnd..
New York, Feb. 22. At the last meet
ing oi the Co:irt Unique, Ancient Order
of Foresters, Brooklyn, the court with
drew from the British order and j lined
the Foresters of America. The Boer flag,
was unfurled and greeted with much ap.
plauee. Court Unique has a , member
ship of 144, and each meml er was re
quired to pay the per capita tax of 3f
cents each year to the Grand Lodge in
England. This tax was increased to 50
cents a head some time ago. It was
said that the increase was in a measure
a tax upon the order for the Boer war.
The members refused to pay and were
suspended.
An application was made to the
American Order of Foresters for admis
sion, which was granted. Inside the halt
of the res mbly rooms is a glasscontribu
ti m box to receive funds for the Nether
lmds Red Cross in aid ot the Boers.
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Chler Wathakle la Dead.
Chicago, Feb. 2i. A special to the
Tribune from Cheyenne, Wyo., says:
WaBhakip, chief of the Shoshonelndians,
died in bis tei.ee on the Wind River res
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was a devout Christian and by his ex
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Shoshones up to a hifh standard of
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Washington, Feb. 22. Kansas City
was chosen as the place for holding the
D?nrorratic National Convention by a
vote of 40 to Milwaukee's 0.
The Democratic National Committee)
met in the Hotel Rtleiuh at noon today
to fix a time and place for holding the
next national convention. Tho com
mittee was called to order by Senator
Jones, chairman. Every state and ter
ritory was represented, each by the
national committee or proxy. Speeches
in invor of Milwaukee were made by
Mayor Row, Representative Lent, ij
Ohio, and ex-Governor Peck, of Wiscon
sin, while those who argued for holding
the convention in Kansas City were
James A. Reed, prorecuting attorney.
Kansas City; Representative C-wherd.
of Missouri, and David Overmeyer, of
Kansay City. The committee at 2:10
took a recess for one hour. It will then
assemble In executive session to con
sider the time and place of ho'dinj the
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