WEEKLY
SThe
VOL. X
THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1U00
NO. 45
THE OREGON j
WAS FLOATED
Bat Sue Cannot Be Docked at Port
Arthur May Be Sent to Japan.
Shanghai. July 2. The United States j
battleship Oregon, which ran ashore off
the island of How Ke, in the Miatau
croup, twenty-fivf miles northeast of
Che Foo, on June 28;h, has been floated.
Washington. July 3. Secretaiy Long
this morning received the fol'owing
oblegrain from Lieutenant " A. L. Key
naval attache at the United States loga
tion at Tokio, Japan, in regard to the
grounding of the Oregon :
'Tokio, July 2, 1900. Secretary Navy,
Washington, D. C Russian dock at
Tort Arthur is too small for the Oregon
to enter. Japanese navy department
tenders the use of eitiier KureorKo
koshuina docks. Offers anv assistance
desired, lias ordered Akltisushima from
Che Foo to the Oregon. Have cabled
Wilde offir of docks. Key
The naval officials are disappointed at
the statement that the Oregon cannot
be docked at Port Arthur, as that place
isonlv about sixty miles from where
she struck. Nagasaki is 000 miles die
taut, but can be reached by the Oregon
without venturing far outside of the
emooth waters of tho Pe Chi LI bay.
Failed to Get Down to Kuiinetl
Kansas City, July 4. Convention was
called to order at 12:02 by Chairman of
the National Democratic Committee
Jones, and Rev. S. M. Neel led in
prayer.
Mayor James Read gave the delegates
welcome to Kansas City, after which
Temporary Chairman Thomas was in
troduced for the opening nddrees.
Following his speech came the read
ing of the Declaration of Independence.
At 2:18 the convention adjourned until
4 P. M.
From early morning the Lincoln
Kansas City long-distance telephone
has been overworked. Bryan has at no
time ceased to dominate the convention
by this av. nue ot communication.
There is no indication that the Ne
braskan will yield in his determination
to have the platform declare for Id to 1.
Opponents are organized to fight the in
sertion of such a plank, but the fight
will be made before the platform com
mittee and not carried to the floor of
the convention.
Karsas City's mammoth new conven
tion hall is pronounced the most perfect
and complete ever built. Its arrange
ment furnishes every facility for the
prompt and convenient disposal of bus
iness. Wrecked In Montana,
BuTTK.Mont , July 3. A very dir.
astrotia wreck cccured on the Montana
Central Railway, a branch of the Great
Northern at Trask Siding 12 mile from
Butte, by which two persons were killed
and thirty-two injured.
The train left Butte at 8:50 last night
and was on Its way to Helena. It had
made the climb up the Continental di
vide in safety, and was rushing along at
top speed on comparitively level ground
when the rails spread, ditching the
baggage car, s:noker,day coach, and
sleeper. The engine and one baggage
car remained on tho track. The cars
were thrown over on their sides and the
passengers who were not injured, or
only slightly so, climbed out through
the windows. All the lights were ex
tinguished, and from different portions
of the wreck came calls for helo and
groans ami cries of thu Injured. Con
ductor Zidck, w ho was eerloil sly Injured,
made his way back to Woodville, five
miles and telegraihed to Butte for help.
A special train with doctors and nurses
was dispatched irom that city, and
brought in tho Injured, who were tnken
to the different hospitals
lltered Worlhlena Cheek.
I'Kvni.Kro.N, Or., July 4 Fred Mox
It, of the ranchers linn of I'rotit A Mox
I'd, who were arrested in Walla Walla
on a charge of uttering worthless checks
on the First National Bank here, and
had tiieir examination herr, was releas
ed from custody, anil goes free from all
Imputation of guilt. Bert Pront is held
In the sum of f00, and is In jail in de
fault of bonds.
Moxley proved that he had nothing
to do with the making of the checks,
'id was in no manner responsible f .r
their issuance.
Why pay IJ.73 per gaon for Inferior
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IMPOSSIBLE TO
RELIEVE PEKIN
Powers Must Prepare to Meet Chinese
Forces Numbering One Hundred
and Forty Thousand, Stationed
Between Tien Tsin and the Capi
tal City.
LosnoM, July 4. 12:45 p. ni.. A dis
patch from Tuku dated Saturday, June
30th, and Che Foo, Tuesday, July 31,
says that the British and Russian ad
mirals at a council of war held June
30th, decided tiiat it was impossible to
attempt to relieve Pekin without great
ly ii;crasfd forcee. They also con
cluded that it would be impossible to
hold Tien Tsin, tut in the event of this
not proving feasible, they will endeavor
to retain possession of Taku. One hun
dred and forty thousand imperial troops
are stationed between Pekin and Tien
Tsin, while the total of the allied forces
which can be concentrated at the
preeent barely numbers 20.0C0.
It is reported that General Nieh Si
Chang is advancing for an attack on
Tien Tsin with O'l.OOO troops.
Another teport has been received nt
Taku to the effect that the German
guards rescued the body of Baron Von
Ketteler, the late German minister to
China, after he was murdered bv the
Chinese.
London, July 4. 12:52 p. ni. "Not
a single foreigner is now alive in Pekin,
is the latest Chinese report w hich has
reached Shanghai. Earlier reports from
the same sources describe the condition
of the British legation as something
awful. It is said that rooms of the lega
tion were filled with sick and wounded,
the killed lying unburied in heaps. It
is believed that many members and
officers ol the Teung Ii Yamen perished
when the German guard, maddened by
the murder of Baron Von Ketteler, the
German minister, set fire to the build
ings.
Emperor lVllllam lias Hope.
Bkiu.in, July 4. At a banquet at
Willielmshaven of the officers of a j;lub
yesterday, suhstquent to the launching
of the warship Witllesbach, Emperor
William, in response to a toast proposed
by I rince Kupprecht, ol Bavaria, "to
the head of the German navy," made
some emphatic declarations upon the
subject of Germany as a sea power, as
serting that the ocean is indispensable
to Germany's greatness.
''The German people," said he, "did
not cinquer and shed blood years ago in
order to be thrust aside when great for
eign problems are being settled. It
that happens then the position of the
German Empire as a world power would
be at an end. I am not inclined to let
matters reach such a pass. It is the
Emperor's duty and highest privilege
to employ suitable and eyen the sharp
est methods to prevent it."
Mkatonnla County Mill Itureil.
fTKvuNsos, Wash., July 4. The
Wilson and G rap per taw mill, one mile
northwest ot this place, was completly
destroyed by tiro Monday night. The
fire is supposed to have been of incend
iary origin. Tho property was valued
lit f5,0('O, and was injured. Thomas
Council, of Portland, had recently pur
chased the' mill of C. It. Williams, and
had operated the plant, hut a short time.
The mill was well located, being in close
proximity to large bodies of'fine timber.
After many Intricate experiments,
scientists have discovered methods for
obtaining all the natural digeatante.
These have been combined in the pro
pot tion found in the human body and
united with substances that build up
the digestive organs, making a com
pound called Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. It
digests what you eat and allows all
dyspeptics to eat plenty of nourishing
food while the stomach troubles are
being radically cured by the medicinal
agents it contains. It is pleasant to
take and will give quick relief.
marled bf Itorket.
Skatti.k, July 4. A ."(),000 lire
caused by a skyrocket in the hands of a
caieless hoy tonight burned a business
block occupied by Holden A Wilton,
Rtndolph Gross and Rhodes Bros., on
Second avenue. The building and mott
of the contents is a total loss. All are
bjiieved to be fully insured.
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UNIQUE POOH FA 101.
Has Bad But One Pauper to Care
For in Fourteen Years.
An f.vldeare of the I'roaperou Con
dltlon of KaiMi-The Inatllu
tlou llua l'lrul) of Help
and Money.
Kansas ofiicials say that Kansas bus
fewer paupers, according to its popu
lation, than any other state in the
union. While it is admitted that Kan
sas once "went broke" ami was uu
object of charity, the people of Kan
sas now say they have "money to
burn" mid that there is nn occupa
tion for everybody within the bor
ders of the state. Kansas was once,
swept by grasshoppers, but that
was in tin" dead and forgotten
past. The Kansas of to-day is an
entirely different state. An example
of the present prosperous condition of
the state has just come to the surface,
says the New- York- Herald. In ISHli
Kinney county spent $2.1,000 for n
county poor farm, and during the- I t
years since there has 'been but one
pauper to take care of.
The years 'HO and 'H7 were the years
of "hard times" in Kansas. The state
was overrun with tramps and beggars.
Through a succession of crop failures
tho farmers had become bankrupt.
Their money had been used up, mid
many of them most of them, in fact
were in actual need of the necessa
ries of life. The failure of the farmers
hud u resultant eiVeot upon the mer
chants mid business men in the towns
and cities. To express the situation
tritely Kansas was "dead broke." It
was about this time that Coxey raised
his "nrniy of the unemployed" in Kan
sas and started with it on a march to
Washington to "demand" relief from
the national lawgivers.
Together with many other counties
of the stale Kinney county voted to
provide n big poor farm, which would
give employment and shelter to the
large number of unemployed. After
the vote had been submitted and
carried, the county commissioner pur
chased from A. II. Burtis. afterward
representative from that county, a
tract of 2'.i2 acres of rich land. The
price paid for the land was $l(i,0i0.
Seven thousand more was put into
the farm for improvements, making
a total of $y:t.O0O. The farm was di
vided into n large number of small
er farms, and on each sub-farm was
erected a house large enough to ac
commodate a dozen persons or more.
K.uch sub-farm was under the control
of u sub-superintendent.
Having thus made elaborate prepa
rations for the shelter, care and em
ployment of its paupers, the county
waited in vain for many years for an
applicant. It so happened that thu
year following the purchase of the
poor farm was a very prosperous one,
especially in Kinney county. There
was an immense crop, money was
plentiful, and there was employment,
for everyone who wanted it. The
same condition has existed ever
year since. In nil these years only one
man has ever applied for care at thu
county poor farm of Kinney county.
He was an old man by the name of
Henry Hook, lie only remained there
n few months during the severe win-"
ter weather, lifter which, having m"
cured a position, he left. lie is nowl
employed in a hotel at (iarden City,
the county seat of Kinney county.
Charles Adams was the first man
placed in charge of the poor farm of
Kinney county. He had been a farmer
who, through crop failures, had lost
his farm. He contracted with the
county commissioners to assume
charge of the farm, to take care of all
paupers applying for care without ex
pense to the county, paying the ex
penses out of the proceeds of the
farm. As no paupers applied he had
no expenses to meet. Although per
fectly honest with the county, he
made a fortune out of his contract.
One day it leaked out that Adams had
saved up u bank account of something
over $:.'5.(hil) out of the proceeds of the
count v farm. A row was started, and
the county conmiis! ionei s removed
him. A closer contract was made
with the next superintendent, but he
wlso made a fortune out of it, and was
removed under pressure from the out
side. Then the count y commissioners
made a contract with the probate
judge of the county to net as superin
tendent of the poor farm, he to be
paiil an additional salary for such su
perintendence, to have rent for him
self ami family free and to turn the
proceeds from the farm Into the coun
ty treasury, Since the time of this
contract the income from the poor
fiirin has ranged from $4,0(111 to $7,ooO
annually to the county. This Is the
condition of the Hor farm of Kinney
county to-day. It U still awaiting
paupers. The present superintendent
is Probate Judge .1. I'. Dawson. He
lives there with his family, but being
busy with his ollieial duties he has
ii Kubsuperinteiidcnt to look after the
farm. The poor farm is located about
three miles out of Garden ( ily.
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CHINA'S EMPEROR
IS KILLED
The Empress Dowager Crazy Chinese
Forces Are Said to Auain Be in Com
plete Possession of Tien Tsin.
Shanghai, Jnlv 5. (Copyright, lOud,
by the Associated Press.) Emperor
KwaDg So committed suicide by taking
opium under couipulsionjof Prince Tnun
June 10. The Empress Dowager also
took poison, but is still alive, though re
ported to be insane from tho etfects of
the drug.
The above has been oflieiilly reported
to the German consular staff.
London, July 5. A statement, is
published in Berlin that the Chinese
have already taken Tien Tsin, but a
cable dispatch from Shat glial, dated
July 4,9:35 p. in., shows that according
to the latest advices the city is still in
the hands of the international troops,
though the Chinese forces continue their
attempt to isolate them, as they did at
Pekin. They were receiving constant
accessions, many troops arriving from
Manchuria.
The dispatch adds that Colonel
Wogack, commanding the Russians at
Tien Tsin, was almost exhausted. He
had been three days and nights in the
saddle directing the operations.
Paris, July 5. The French consul at
Che Foo telegraphes that a Chinaman
who left Tekin on June 25 reports that
all the ministers and residents were then
assembled at the British legation, the
French, German and Japanese legations
were guarded by their own detachments,
and Pinchon, the Frer ch minister, and
his wife were well. The other legations,
the customs-house and the missions had
been burned. The foreign troops had
lost six men wounded, including the
commander of the British detachment.
London, July 5. 2:50 p. m. Tho oft
repeated story of the murder of all the
whites in Pekin is being retold todsy,
with circumstantiality that almost con
vinces those who have hitherto refused
to credit the sickening tales. The only
hopeful feature of the evil news is the
fact that it comes from Chinese sources
at Shanghai, but it is realized that even
if the tragedy has not yet been enacted,
it cannot long be delayed unless help
conies from unknown sources. Even the
holding of Tien Tsin against the over
whelming hordes now seems to be a very
remote possibility, while the eafeiy of
our treaty porta is seriously threatened.
A dispatch from Che Foo, dated yes
terday, voices the fear that in view of
the imminence of the summer rains, it
will be impossible for the joint force) to
advance to Pekin until autumn.
According to reports from Shanghai,
tho Chinese army, on a march south
ward from Pekin, has reached Lofa.
This is presumably General Nieh Si
Chang's force en route to attack Tien
Tsin.
A force of 30,000 Chinese from Lu Tai
has appeared northeast of Tien Tsin and
is reported to have been driven back by
the combined forces of Russian and
Japan. The losses of the internationals
were heavy.
Fnurtn nf.Juljr Casualties.
Chicago, July 5. The Tribune says:
As, a result of the celebration of Inde
pendence Day with firearms, toy cannon,
giant crackers and other forms of ex
plosives, thirty persons were killed and
1:525 injured, according to lepotts re
ceived from 125 cities.
In Chicago, one boy was reported
killed, as against one death last year.
There were no costly (Ires in tho city.
Frankfort, Ky., alone mfl'ered a tire loss
of 150,000 doe to firecrackers. Oilier
cities also suffered heavily.
Out of this total of 1325 persons hurl
in an attempt to be patriotic, 442 can at
tribute their injuiies to firecrackers and
dynamite torpedoe. The deadly cannon
firecracker did most of this execution.
Oat of 152 injuries bv firearms, in 07
citirs, the toy pistol ranted 105. Gun
powder explosions, including the prema
ture blow ing up of many village anvils,
caused iniury to 1ST out of this list.
Many of the injuries included in the
lists were reported as prospectively
fatal.
An Ocean or Hum In; nil.
Nkw Yohk, July 5. The fire at the
works of the Standard Oil Company, at
Constable Hook, Bayonne, N. J., which
started early today, is still raging at 0
a. in., and no estimate can yet be made
of the damage, though it will run into
the millions. The entire plant Is almost
certain to be consumed. The oil from
the works it spreading along the upper
bv, and the Kill von Kull is blazing a
It flows, ami serious damage is threat
ened to ad j doing propeilr.
The fire was started about 1 o'clock
this morning by a bolt of lightening,
which fell during a thunder and rain
:orm. It struck squarely in the im
mense yard of the Standard Ol Coin pan y,
which covers O'W acre ol ground. King
was struck by I he bolt, and at the same
time it exploded two immensei reservoir
tanks of crude oil.
One hundred men were at work In t lie
yards, and whether more were killed or
not is not yet known. .The explosion
was heard for miles, and tho heavens
were lit up for hours afterwards by the
flames, which leaped a hundred feet in
the air.
Even at 8 o'cli ck this morning the
column ol so oke which roo from thu
still burning tanks spread out in such a
cloud ttiat to those coining from the
West tho bright morning sun ti
obscured.
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10 oe t ouuu liana and toot lor years
by the chains of dUcise is tho woist
tot in ol slavery. Gfurgu D. Williams, of
Manchester, Mich., tills how such a
slave was made free. lie sayB : "My
wife has been so helpless tor five years
that she rculd not turn over in bed alone.
Alter using two bottles of Electnc
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Overcome by the fleat.
West Point, N. Y., July 5. At dress
pRrade last evening fifteen cadets, in
eluding a lieutenant and a color sergeant,
were overcome by the heat and fell in
their tracks. They were removed to
the hospital. The detail for the day,
which was read by the cadet adjutant,
is an tinus ually long one, and the motion
less position in which the cadets are re
quired to stand Is attributed as the
cause of such a large number of prostra
ti iris at the time.
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Timely information given Mrs. George
Long, of New Straitsville, Ohio, pre
vented a dreadful tragedy and saved two
lives. A frightful cough had lung kept
her awake every night. She had tried
many remedies and doctors but steadily
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Han Francisco Tragedy
San Francisco, July 5 Mrs. William
Mitchell, a white woman, who wns the
wife of a colored man, ami their son
were shot dead by unknown parties on
their little ranch near this city late last
night. The tragedy was thought at first
to have been the result of a feud w hich
has l ing existed between the Mitchells
and their neighbors, but it is said there
are circumstances which w ill not bear
out this theory.
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in order to cure it you must taka inter
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Sai.km, July 5. Mrs. Eli. ibeth Chap
man, aged 80 yeirs.t! months and 19 1
days, died at her home in this city last
night. She was an early Oregon pioneer,
having crossed the plains with ox teams
in 1818 with her husband, Caleb Chap
man, who died here in 1S02.
It has been demonstrated by experience
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This is the favorite remedy for coughs,
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ANTI-IMPERIALISM
IS BATTLE CRY
The Platform Contains Declaration for
Free Coinage at Ratio of id to i, But
the Plank is Relegated to an Incon
spicuous Positiou in the Structure.
Kansas Cn v, July 5. Bitter fiht was
waged against the insertion of the Id to
1 plank in the platform, the debate be
fere the resolutions committee lasting
until 4 o'clock tins morning, when a
vote on the question resulted in a
victory for the Brrauites, the vote being
2d to 24 in favor of a specific declaration.
Early this morning David H. Hill de
clared the fight was not yet ended, it
being the intention to force the it-sue on
the rlior of the convention. He said
further that he was "opposed to im
perialism in an individual as much as in
a nation." General Warner, of Ohio,
voiced the same lenliuient.
At 10 o'clock Van Wjck, Now York'
representative on tho platform com
mittee refused to sign a minority report
on the money plank, thus precipitating
a break in the conservative ranks.
Other states' delegations then began to
weaken, and just before the convention
was called to order it was announced
that no minority report would be sub
mitted. The convention was called to order at
It :02, Rev. Glennan delivering the open
ing prayer.
When it was learned that the com
mittee on resolutions would not be Able
to report until 3:30, the convention ad
journed until that hour, after hearing
sliort Tsptei lies from llo?g, of Texas,
Dockery of Missouri, Beckham of Ken
tucky, and others.
The platform committee completed
their woik and adjourned sine die at
1:30. Although the document contains
a specific declaration for free coinage at
a ratio of 10 to 1, atiti-im perialieiu is
declared to be the leading Issue of tho
day ami campaign.
Imperialism, militarism, Cuba, ttio
Philippines and Porto Rico occupy fully
one-half of the platform. Imperialism
is declared to strike "at the existence of
the republic."
Anti-trust plan It demands that nil
articles manufactured bv trusts shall he
placed on the tariff free list.
Adlai Stevenson is much surprised at
prominence given Lis iiamo in connec
tion with second place on the ticket.
He had no inkling of any sn. h intention,
and is much gratified. His boom today
is strong, luuny delegates confidently
asserting that he will be nominated.
Charles A. Towne issued a signed
statement this morning sayinu that
support is coming to him from ail points,
and that he is more confident than ever
of getting second place on the ticket.
II is candidacy has apraren 1 made
little headway, although his fiiends
contend that the ld-to-1 declaration
alone will nominate him.
Both nominations may be made yet
tonight and Bryan will then go to
Kansas City to make a speech of ac
ceptance.
BILLY BRYAN IS
NOMINATED
The Unanimous Choice of the Kansas
City Convention.
Kansas City. Julv 5. William J"
Bryan, of Nebraska, was tonight unani
mously placed in nomination as tho
democratic candidate for President of
the United States, on a platform oppo-,
ing imperialism, militarism and trusts,
and specifically duclaring fer the free
coinage of silver at Ihe ratio of 10 til.
The nomination came as the culmina
tion of a Irer.z'ed demonstrath n in
honor of the parly leader; lastirg 'j7
minutes, and giving utterance to all the
pent up e.i.otions of the vast multitude.
It followed also a fierce struggle
throughout the last 30 hours concerning
the platform declaration on silver
and on the relative position which the
silver question Is to mai.itain to the
other great issues of the day.
There only remains the choice of a
candidate lor Vice-President, and the
work of the convention is over. There
is every evidence that this choice will be
quickly made tomorrow morning,
although there is still doubt as to whom
the nominee will he.
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