WEEKLY
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VOL. X
THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1900.
NO. 44-
TIEN TSIN HAS
nrrM pri irrrV 8 :t eo?" t'vel"?-f've to raise
DLL IN IlLLILVLU !clli,lteu- You can keep ten Belgian
harts in the same space necessary to
j keep one hen." One lien will raise
I aWout 100 pounds of meat in a year,
British Admiral and His Force of Inter j while tare will produce more than 500
national Marines Are Now Known to i
Be in a Bad Predicament Only Ten
Mi.es Fro. Tien Tsi aod Troops,
nave ijone io ncip uiui uiu.
Washington, June 20. The navy de
partment received the following cable
gram from Admiral Kempff :
"Taku, June 25.: The relief force
reached Tien Tsin the 23d mst., loss very
small. The Pekin relief force, which left
Tien Tein June 10, is reported ten miles
from Tien Tein, surrounded. A force left
Tien Tain on the 24th to render as
sistance." Washington, June 26. The Biz great
viceroys of China, acting through the
Chinese minister here, today renewed
their efforts to have foreign troops kept
outof Chinauntil Li HungChanit reaches
Pekin. The request was a formal ducu
ment signed by the six viceroys, includ
ing Li Hung Chang.
The answer of the United States gov
ernment was the same as that to the in
formal request of Minister Wu yesterday,
and amounted to a declination.
XkwYork, June 22. A dispatch to
the Tribune from London says: Two
facts stand out in this tangled mast of
uncertainties. One is the necessity for
an army of from 50,000 to 100,000 men,
if China is to be rescued from anarchy,
and the second is the fact that the
Chinese troop are well armed and in
better condition for a warfare under
modern conditions than they were in the
campaign with Japan.
Ciik Foo, June 20. The officers of the
British first-class -cruiser Terrible assert
that discord exists between the Russians
and Anglo-Americans, and they say be
lieve the Russians are planning to break
the concert and take possession of Pekin
independently. They assert that Vice-
Admiral Seymour's command lacked
unison, the foreigners sulking because
they were under British leadership.
They bitterly denounce the Russian
general's conduct as uncivilized and
barbarous, and the change that tbe
slaughter of the peaceful Chinamen at
Taku has aroused tbe othewise passive
natives against the foreigners.
Itunnla l Our Commercial Friend.
Nkw York, June 20. Adolph Roth
stein, the Rnssian financier, before (ail
ing for Europe, said to the Chinese
Kastern Railway :
"Up to the present time we have ex
perienced some $40,000, but before com
pleted an additional $100,000,000 will be
disbursed, The road will not be com
pleted for, I think, quite fifteen months,
as we find we shall have to bore a tun
nel i-me four and a half inches long on
tbe Russian side of Harbin, the head
quarters of the railroad. The benefits
which American Jianufaiturers will de
rive in the shape of contracts' will he
most important. -Mr. White, the minis
ter of finance, has assured me that he
will place no obstacle in the way of con
tracts being sent to the United States,
which in diplomatic language I take it
to mean that he might object to the
filling of orders In other foreign countries.
I am therefore safe in stating that
possibly everything required outside of
Russia will be purchased in tins
country."
Ilfwff HUM flan r..nil Hopes.
Newport, It. I., June 27. Admiral
Dewey, in an interview last night, said:
"I stand just where I was some :ime
age. If the American people want me
as their candidate for president, 1 am
ready."
Asked If he would stand for the nom
ination of vice-president, he replied he
would not.'
Concerning the political outlook in
the west, from which part of the coun
try the admiral recently returned, he
taid: "There is a strong feeling in the
west for Bryan, and if lie runs for the
presidency I believe he will be elected."
Admiral Dewey paid a high tribute to
President McKlnley. He spoke of the
mental strain under which the chief ex
ecutive labored, and cited the case of the
present crisis in China, which it ?;ry
terious.
Helftlan liar Meat I'roilucer.
There Is no animal, either wild or
domestic, which equals the hare in pro
ducing pounds of meat, and no known
meat of to fine a quality. It it fine
grained, tender, Jnicy and as white as
the breast of a chicken. It hat a deli
cate flavor which the stomach of con-
i vaiescent will not repel. It cost tut
j fifteen nnH to raise one to maturity,
pounds. A9 compared wit It a chicken
thp tiarA (TPfettr frntvi all Ba.tnAinla
j .
EMPIRE
ALL AFLAME
Immediate Outbreaks Expected in South
era China Sigas of a Rising in
Nankin.
London, June 27, 3:45 a. m. A fresh
phase of the ebullition in China is the
probability of immediate outbreaks in
the great southern provincial counties.
The popu'ace there is daily assuming a
more hoetile attitude toward foreigners,
and the latter perceive symptoms of a
general rising, especially at Nankin,
where, According to a dispatch to the
Daily Express, dated yesterday, Kang
Wn, one of the most truculent enemies
of foreigners, has arrived by way of the
Grand canal, armed with full powers from
the empress to deal with the southern
provinces. The friendly attitude of
Viceroy Liu Kun Yih toward foreigners
has brought him into disgrace with
Prince Tun, president of the Tsnng li
Yarxun. .
The unrest at Canton tb described by a
dispatch from that city to the Daily
Telegraph, dated Monday, via Hong
Kong yesterday :
''It is feared that we are on the eve of
a scene of bloodshed and anarchy in the
two quands only paralleled during the
Tai Ping rebellion. The signs of a mnr
derous uprising are so manifest ttiat
wealthy Chinese harrying from Canton
and vicinity, taking their wives families
and valuables.
"Li Hung Chang lias been again per
emptorily ordered to Pekin. His enemies
declare that they will murder him be
fore he can reach there. His presence
alone restrains the revolutionary ele
ments here. His departure will let loose
the 'black flags' and 'red girdles,'
knowing this, Li's trusted officials are
sending their families to Hong Kong,"
A NEW
GOLD BEACH
On Alaska Coast 55 Miles Below Cape
Nome Gold is Anion Grass Roots.
Nome, Alaska, June 8. More definite
and complete returns have lately been
received concerning the beae-h strike at
Topkuk, 55 miles below Nome. There
seems no reason to doubt that this it one
of the greatest strikes ever made in
this vicinity, as important as the strike
at Nome itself.
Thonuh the discovery at Topkuk is of
comparatively recent date, many have
struck it rich already, and several indi
vidual fortunes, running at high as $25,
000 have been taken out. Parties of two
or three working with ordinary rockers,
it is raid, are taking out $1000 a day.
One little plot of ground, just about big
enough for a good-sized grave, yielded
$15,000 worth of the preciout metal. It
lay just at the edge of the tundra, and
the gold was actually among the grass
roots. It is reliably estimated that one
stretch of beach 000 feet long by an aver
age of 90 feet in width has yielded $475,-
000 within tbe past two weeks.
Another strike, though of a less sensa
tional nature, tat been reported at a
point 011 the beach twenty miles south
of Nome. At this last-named place and
scattered along the beach between Nome
ami Topkud over 1000 men are now at
work.
There is little doing at present in this
Immediate vicinity, and some of tbe
new-comers, who expected to pica up
nuggets like shells on the seashore, are
somew hat disappointed. Work it pro
ceeding steadily on most of the claims,
but there is no excitement just now ex
cept over the newt of the new strikes.
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JOURNEY REQUIRED
TWO LONG YEARS
Story Keloid of Chrisiuan's Ul-Fated
Traction Freight Engine Venture on
the Dalles-Silver Lake Route.
Sii.vik Lakb, Or., June 27. Standing
by a blacksmith shop at this place it a
huge piece of machinery, patched and
wrapped and mended until scarcely a
bolt or nail it intact as originally com
pleted. It is called a traction or road
engine, and is a huge one at that.
Securing freight in this country tt the
object of every merchant'g'life. To The
Dalles, a distance of 120 miles, over
rough mountain roads and desert sands,
is the nearest point to the railroad or
water navigation. It takes a long time
to make this trip with an ordinary freight
wagon and team, so long, that many
goods that are fresh on starting out be
come stale before they roach their des
tination. F. M. Chrisman, a leading general
merchant of Silver Lake, was persuaded
that a traction engine wat the thing, and
he invested in one and determined to
revolutionize the freight business be
tween The Dalles and Silver Lake. More
than two years ago he started out from
The Dalles with bis big traction engine,
with a train of wagons loadod with
freight attached. The roads at tbe start,
were favorable, and the engine worked
like a charm. Up and down the long
grades leading out from The Dalles the
train moved with the ease of a railroad
train, if not with the rapidity, of one.
In fact, the start was so propitious that
Mr. Chrisman on the very start wagered
$1000 that be wonld be in SiHer Lake in
thirty days, thinking at the time that he
would make the trip in half the time.
But In an hour afterwards the trouble
began. A rod broke and be bad to send
back to The Dalles for repairs. In an
other hundred yards another break oc
curred and the blacksmith at The Dalles
had to be employed. Then water gave
out and the ranchers' wells were drawn
upon. Wood became an object through
the barren country and the ranchers'
wood piles were bought at their own
price. As they progressed, sometimes a
mile in a day, some days a hundred yards
and some days not a foot, the thing con
sumed all the wood and water for miles
in every direction. But Chrisman was un
daunted. He said that be would land the
thing in- Silver Like. He established
movable blakmith shops, carpenter
shops and shanties for tne men to shelter
under, and the traction engine and its
train of wagons and the shops and shan
ties were an odd eight as they moved
along tbe mountain and desert roads.
A big crowd also aocompan'ed the train
most of the time, as the ranchers of
every particular neighborhood, and their
families, csme to see the novel sight,
and followed along, when it moved for
hours. As they reached tbe more sparse
ly settled communities famine was left
in their wake. Wood, water and fuel
were completely exhausted. The com
bined effjrts of the ranchers could not
keep the thing in wood, as in many
olnces fuel had to be hanlad for many
miles. In a few weeks' time some of the
goods in the wagons began to get stale
and these wagons were detached and
taken on to Silver Lake by means of the
old-time power horses. Then bills were
reached where the engine could not as
cend and ail the homes for miles around
wero employed to pull the machine and
the train to the top. From morning to
night the shouts to the horses, thetwear
ing workmen, the axes of the wood
choppers and the hammers in the black
smith and carpenter shops kept np a din.
But this was pastime compared with
what was to follow. Out in the desert
water and wood had to be hauled fur 30
and 40 miles. Days were spent without
moving an inch. Privations and sum-ring
were endured. The wagons were all cut
loose ami taken to Silver Lake, drawn
by horses, but Chrisman said that the
traction engine had to go through. It
finally came to the point where wells
had to be dug along the route for water
and temporaiy wooding stations had to
be established, but the engine moved
along in one way and another, day bv
day, or every other day, or week, with
snail-like progress. The whole line of
road still thowt the tracet of this re
markable trip the camping places, the
fragments of broken iron, and the deep
holet in the tandt tint were once wells
to furnish water for the boiler. Any
rancher will look sad when yen speak of
the trip of the Chrisnun traction engine
when he thinks of the wood and water
and provision famine that lay In itt
wake.
But perseverance won at it always
does. A little more than two years fiom
tbe date of leaving The Dalles, Chrisman
pulled into Mlver Lake with his road
engine. There was not a wagon attached
to it and it wat the mass of patches and
mendings it now is. He stopped it near
the blacksmith shop, where it still
stands and will probably stand forever.
No one hat ever ascertained what it
cost to land it there and probably never
will, but Chrisman it still in business.
SEYMOUR IN
A BAD FIX
His Force
Is Said
Is
to
Short of Provisions and
Be Returning Without
Having Rescued the Ministers and
Foreigners.
Washington, June 27. The following
cablegram was received at the navy de
partment late this afternoon :
"Cho Foo, June 27. Secretary of the
navy, Washington: Pekin force and
ministers reported with the Pekin relief
expedition, entrenched eight miles from
Tien Tein.
London, June 27. A special from
Shanghai, dated last evening, sajs that
communication with Admiral Seymour
wat opened by the Tien Tain relief force
Sunday. Admiral Seymour was at that
time said to be ten miles from Tien Tein.
Three hnndrfd of the -members of his
party were reported sick and wounded;
only a few had been killed. They were
short of provisions, and were returning
without having rescued the legations.
Washington, June 27. The Chinese
minister called this morning on the sec
retary of state and communicated to him
the contents of a dispatch which he had
received from the Tsnng li Yamen, at
Pekin, dated on the 10th inst. The dis
patch stated that the foreign minister
had before (his date asked permission
for the legation guards to enter the city,
which permission bad been granted;
that they subsequently asked that these
guards be reinforced, which the Chinese
government was not disposed to permit.
The dispatch then goes on to Btate
that the consul-general at Tien Tein
(supposed to be the French consul-general),
hod demanded the surrender of
the Takn forts and that the foreign
ministers were shortly to leave Pekin for
Tien Tsin with their guards.
Hare Designs on Democrat.
Chicago, June 27. The Record says:
It has developed that the prohibition
ists of the United States expect to go
before the democratic national conven
tion at Kansas City July 4th, with a
list of 1,000,000 voters pledged to sup
port William J. Bryan if the Democratic
party will adopt a prohibition plank in
fit platform. Tbe advocates of this
movement do not expect the democrats
to favor such a plank, but they believe
and insist that it will be the entering
wedge which will finally split one or the
other of tbe two great parties and build
up on the ruins tbe foundation of a new
party.
The plan of pledging 1,000,000 voters
who signed an agreement tosnppoit no
candidate who did not stand firmly on
the prohibition issue, originated with
the Ram's Horn, a magazine which is
recognized as the mouthpiece of prohi
bition. It is said the national prohibi
tion convent ion today will endorse the
effort of the Ram's Horn. .
Many of the delegates, upon hearing
of the action to be taken at Kansas City,
wanted to know today why tho matter
was not taken np with the republican
convention at Philadelphia. Inquiry,
however, showed that the list of pledg
ers was not complete at that time.
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For Kent,
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SWINDLER WORKED
THE PEOPLE
Took Subscriptions for a 'i Magazine
at 75c Each Secured a Large
Number of "Subscriptions" and Then
Disappeared.
Albany, June 28. About the 15th of
the mouth a well-dressed young man
visited Albany and solicited subscrip
tions for the Cosmopolitan magazine
here at the rMeof only 75 cents per year.
He told a story to the effect that if he
secured the largest number of subsciip
tiont of any one in the state he would
receive a scholarship for one year in a
leading business college in Portland. He
worked nearly every business bouse in
town and succeeded in getting one or
more subscriptions from each one. .
Alter securing trie .1 cents the young
man presented a receipt sign'd by the
Cosmopolitan Publishing company, per
his name, which he claimed to be H.
Bennett. A note of the receipt reads as
follows :
''In consideration of the exceeding low
rate at which this subscription is re
ceived, we must insist ou same being
paid In advance, either to our agent or
direct to headquarters. Cosmopolitan
Publishing Co., L'td."
The young man claimed that he re
ceived over 800 subscriptions in Portland
just before he arrived here. It id under
stood that he has been operating
throughout tho Eastern states under the
name of II. Bennett Woodson, but here
he dropped the "Woodson" part of it.
It is also learned that be has been ar
rested in the South, but upon returning
the money promptly was not prosecuted.
It is claimed that he took in over $2000
last year in less than seven months
throughout the East.
A man here has just received a per
sonal letter from Frank A. Mansey, giv
ing a description of Woodson, and saying
that he had been working the people in
many different ( places under different
names.
He claimed to be going South from
herp, but several telegrams to towns
south hare failed to locate him. If
Albany people get a hold of him it is as
sured that he will not get out of it as
easy us he has heretofore.
MetliodlMt' Loaaeii.
Nkw York, June 2S. Tim following
cable wus received at the Methodist
board today from Che Foo fiom the Rev.
Mr. Brown, one of their missionaries in
the Tien Tsin dietrict. It is dated
June2S: .
"Mission destroyed by fire. About 100
killed. I think there is a serious risk for
for foreigners. Will return in a few
days to Tien Tsin. Shall I return home?
Will you permit?"
By the mission is meant the mission
at Tien Tsin, but just how much of that
mUsion is destroyed the home board does
not know what to infer. The mission
there is in three compounds, as they are
called. One compound is composed of
two missions and a church, another of a
mission and a school, and a third of a
mission, a hospital and a school. In all,
the property of the Methodist Episcopal
bourd is valued at something more than
$50,000.
The Rev. Dr. M. B. Leonard, secretary
of the Missionary Society, said:
"Presumably those killed were natives,
but it is not clear even that they were
native Christians. Many of them may
have been Boxers or Chinese soldiers.
The risk for foreigners evidently is in
Tien Tsin, where Mr. Brown expects to
go himself in a few days.
Dr. Leonard thinks tlmt none of the
Methodist missionaries were among the
killed or Dr. Brown would certainly have
mentioned the fact.
A flood Cougn Medicine.
It speaks well for Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy when druggists use it in
their own families iu preference to anv
other. "I have sold Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy for the past lire years
with complete satisfaction to myself and ! for me w ho was obliged to stop work fur
customers," savs Druggist J. Goldsmith, I several days on acotint of being trou
Van Etten, N. Y. "I have always used I bled with diarrhii'i. I mentioned to-
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Chicago, Jun20. Lsdy Curzin, vice
rein of India, w riting to S. D. Eldredge,
of the Chicago India 1 amine Relief com
mittee, sayt :
"The famine is greater in itt intensity
over the treat alllicted than at any pre-
failure of the two last Autumn and
Spring harvests and the un prtccdented
loss of cattle in Western and Central
India mike the tai-k of reoperation
more arduous than on any previous oc
casion. The government has reduced!
the rate of mortality, and even in the
word districts the figures show only a
slight excess over the normal rate.
" The government has spent $:V,000,
000 upon district relief, $10,000,000 upon
suspensions ami remissions of land
revenue, $0,0.10,000 upon advances for
the purchase of seed and cittle, and $5,
000,000 upon loans to the distressed
states. The relief committee has dis
tributed $2,51X1,000 throughout various
channels.''
GREAT ANXIETY
IN ENGLAND
Wcreaboiits ot the Foreign Ministers
Arc Still Unknown.
London, June 28. As was the case on
the occasion of the relief of Tien Tsin,
tho Associated Press was able to give the
foreign t tlice, the adimrality and the
Queen the first newt of the rescue ot
Admiral Seymour. The officials were
greatly relieved when this information
was conveyed to them, and expressed
their hearty appreciation at the welcome
tidings. An the same time it is recog
nized that the advices of the Associated
Press from Che Foo also add to the
anxieties regarding the fate of the
legationers and foreigners of Pekin, w ho,
it was hoped, might be with Seymour.
The world Hg.iin has to depend on
rumor 111 regard to the fate of tho sup
posed exiles from the Chinese capital. It
is generally accepted that they have been
compelled to leave Pekin, but whether
coastwards, under a Chinese escort, or
to a possible new capital, their plight
must excite the gravest anxiety, as even
if they are 111 the care of a Chinese escort
this is hardly considered a good guarantee
of the same safety of Ilia "foreign devils"
in a country cwnrming with their most
virulent enemies.
A telegram from Jardine, Mattherson
it Co., dated Shanghai, this afternoon,
suggests that the ministers are still at
Pekin, but admits that there is no news
from the capital. Tho ttlegrain adds:
"Admiral Seymour arrived at Tien
Tsin with 321 of his force wounded, be
sides 02 killed. The damage done to
Tien Tsin has been much exaggerated
Shanghai is quiet."
Other dispatches from Shanghai reiter
ate tiie announcements of the massacres
of the native Christains in the inland
districts, which rival the Armenian
hoirors. The officials of the place,
watched by gun boa's, made a show of
protecting the missionaries, hat there it
not even a pretence of protection for the
converts in the interior, who have been
butchered bv wholesale.
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