WEEKLY 0 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. That Throbbing fleadacha Would quickly leave yon, if you used Dr. King't New Life Pills. Thousands of sufferers have proved their matchless merit for Sick and Nervout Headachet. They make pure blood and strong nerves and build up your health. Easy to take. Try them. Only 25 centt. Money back if not cured. Sold by Blakeley 4 Houghton, druggists. 6 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. A Thousand fftngues Could not express the rapture of Annie E. Springer, of 1 125 Howard St., Phil adelphia, Pa., when she found that Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption had completely cured her of a backing coiih that for many years had maije lite a burden. All other remedies and doctors could give her no help, but she i says of this Royal Cure "It soon re-j moved the pain in my chest and I can 1 now sleep soundly, someining scarcely remember doing licfore. 1 can I feel ! like sounding itt praises throughout the universe." o w ill every one who tries Dr. King't New Discovery forany trouble of the throat, chest ftr lung. Price 50c and $1. Trial bottle free at Blakeley A j Houghton't drug store; evt'jr fottle! guaranteed. 5 For Kent, A five-room cottage on Alvoid street, i vioualy recorded visitation. Fewer per with bath room and patent closet, at $10 ! tone will die, yet incomparably more a month. Apply to Levi Chrisman. 21tf I persont are tuffering. The absolute 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- it in my own family both for ordinary j coughs and cold i and for the c mgh fol lowing la grippe, and find it very elfica CIOU9. ton. For sale by Blakeley fc Hough- Work or Heller. 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. Catarrh Cannot He Cured with local applications, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take inter nal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure in taken internally, and acts directly on tho blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was was prescriliod by one of the best physicians in this country for yetv-s, and is a regular piescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined w ith the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous suriaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces Biicli wonderful results ia curing Cutarrh, Send for testimonials, free. F. .1. Ciikney A Co., Props., Toledo O. Sold by drrnggists, price 75c. Hall's Family Pillt are the best. 12 Mr. W. S. Wticdon, cashier of the First National bunk of Wiuterset, lows, in a recent letter gives some experience with a carpenter in bis employ, that will be of value to other mechanic. He savs: "I had a carpenter working him that I had been similarly troubled and that Chamberlain's Coiic, Cholera ami Diarrl:et Remedy had cured me, He bniiglitjii bottle of it from the druggist here and informed me that one dose cured bun, and be is again at his work." For tale by Blakeley A Honglitoii. 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