WEEKLY
VOL. X
THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, lbOO
NO. 49
MINISTERS ALIVE
LAST WEDNESDAY
Their Stronghold 1'nder Continued Shot
aad Shell, and Quick Relief Only
Can Prevent Massacre of the Oc
cupants by Chinese Troops.
Washington, July 20. The following
statement has been given out at tlia
state department :
On the llthofthis month, tbestatede-
partiuent communicated a brief message,
asking tidings from Minister Conger, in
the state department cipner. Minister
Wu understock to get this into Minister
Conger's hand, if he were alive. He
has succeeded iu doing this. Tula morn
ing the state department received a
telegram frou) Consul-General Goodnow
at Shanghai, saying:
"The governor of Shan Tuna informs
inethat he has received today a cipher
message from Conger of the 18tb."
A few minute' later Minister Wu ap
peared at the state department with a
telegram from Taotai Shang, dated the
20th of July, w'lich had been received by
Minister Wu at 8:31) o clock this morn
in, reading as follows :
'Your telegram was forwarded and,
a9 requested, I send reply from the
Tsung Li Vamun, as follows:
" 'Your telegram of the loth day of
this moon (11th of Julv) received. The
state (IctKirtnient telegram has been
handed to Minister Conger. Herewith
is Minister Conger's reply to the state
department. ' "
Mr. Conger's cablegram is as follows:
"In British legation. Under con
tinued shot and shell from Chinese
troops. (J ink reiief only can prevent
general massacre."
The message is not dated, but it is
understood was sent from Pekin on the
lxth.
This reply was in the statedepartment
cipher, and it is regarded by the state
department as genuine, inasmuch as
forgeries seem, under the circumstances,
impossible.
Washington, July 20. As eoon as
Minister Conger's cablegram had been
translated, a cabinet council was called
in the oflice of the secretary of state.
In reply to a question, Adjutant
General Corhin said it was impossible
to say now what effect the receipt of
Minister Conger's message would have
on our military operations in China or
our preparations here. He did not know
but that increased military haste might
precipitate matters in China.
The cabinet council between Secre
taries Hay, Long ami Hoot lasted about
fifteen minutes. The postmaster-general
and secretary of the treasury did not
attcd. No statement was given out
after the conference.
London, July 20. A special dispatch
from llng Kong says French gunboats
have landed 300 Ai.namese soldiers to
protect Shamlet, x suburb of Canton.
Washington, July 20. Secretary Long
has sent the following cablegram to
Admiral Reiney :
"Conger telegraphs that lie Is under
fire in British legation. Pekin. Use and
nrgi! every means possible for-itnmediate
reliet."
POLICY OF THE
UNITED STATES
Will Endeavor to Prevent Partition of
Chinese Empire.
Ciitcuio, July 20. A special to the
Tunes Herald tmni Washington says:
A re.ii t f (m ,., ,,,,1 nieetings held
riie-dny a il Thursday, Hie policy of the
I'nileil Stales concerning the great
worl.i's crisis in China is folly and
definitely decided upon. The substance
'his policy is as follows :
The United Slates will under no
ircninstHiices join in the partition of
Cniua aiiiong trie powers.
2. The United Stale w ill use all its
Influence, to the inmost extent, short of
War with Kurnpean nations, to prevent
di'iiiembcrment of the Chinese Km pi re.
I. The United States proposes lo
have a veritable settlement of the
Chinese troubles, ami its voice will ever
' rained against spoliation and in favor
preservation of China's territorial and
"overnim ntl entity, along the line set
'unh in S crelsry Hay's note to the
lowers, dsted July 3.
The United States will not declare
war upon China on account of the show- J
in of facts, no matter what other
powers may do.
5. The United States, actio inde
pendently and for itself, will co-operate
with the other powers in restoring order
in China, In ponishing al! officials, high
or low, found guilty of crimes againet
human life, and in setting op a stable
I government that may give guarantees ot
j security of life and property and freedom
of trade.
THERE WILL
BE NO DELAY
Whether the Conger Message Is Gen
uine or Not.
Washington, July 21. While the
state department maintains the greatest
confidence in the authenticity of ' the
message from Minister Conger, yet many
people well versed into diplomatic mat
ters doubt that this message was a reply
to Secretary Hay's cablegram. Those
who doubt the Conger niessago are at a
loss to undersand why such a message
was sent, if not autheuitic, which view
is taken by the state department. Such
a message, if a forgery, would not tend
to delay, the only object which could be
hoped for by those who would penetrate
the deception and this fact tends to con
firm the genuineness ol the message,
which, if not an answer to Hay, mnst
have been delayed in transmission or
held up pnrpoeely.
The story put afloat here this morning
that the ministers were safely confirmed
in an underground passage from the
British legation to the imperial palace
is ricnled. It is absurd to think such a
passage could exist without it being
known before the present emergency
arose, and if the legation has fallen it Ib
reasonable to suppose such a passage,
way has been expjsed and likewise de
stroyed. But even the existence of such
a passage is pronounced absurd, and the
story, emanating, as it did, without rea
son or guise of truth behind it, has been
held up to ridicule in Washington.
Senator Burows, of Michigan, says
McKinley will carry the country by 500,-
000 majority, deriving his main strength
from expansion. Imperialism, he says,
is not worry, ing the people, who will
stand by McKinlev and support his
Philippine policy as against the wild
cries of the democrats. He thinks the
10-to-l provision iu the democratic plat
form will tend to swell the republican
majorities.
Salmon T.io 1'lontlfiil.
Astoria, July 22. The fishing situa
tion during the past few days has
changed materially for the better, with
the result that today the cold-storage
men have been almost blocked; indeed,
one, Alter, was blocked. The different
canneries in operation packed more fish
today than any day during the season,
and while none of these were blocked,
they were busy all day. If signs are at
all reliable, the run will continue for
several days to come. The increased
run has lieen especially appreciated by
the gillnet fishermen, while the catch of
the traps has fallen ofT. The seines
scoop up everything that comes along,
and the present low water is to their
advantage.
Caul Crag- Humeri.
San Fuancihco, July 20. Word lias
been received here that the hotel at
Castle Crag, Shasta county, burned to
the ground at I o'clock this morning. All
the guests escaped with their baggage.
Castle Crag Tavern was a fashionable
Summer hotel, high up in the mountains
of Shasta county, ami was owned by tho
Pacific Improvement Company, It was
crowded with society people from San
Francisco and other portions of the state.
War Wmrl fr Klhrman.
Vanioi vkh, B. ('., July 22. --There
was little practical change in the salmon
fishermen' strike situation t-dy. Late i
reports from Stevenson show that the
liidirrmen have reinsed tiie latest oiler
nf the canners lo pay 20 cents a lih
throughout the eason. The men mill
hold out for So cents. Violence is
threatened if the
fish tomorrow, as
Japanese go out to 7-
it is reported thevl0'
will do. A war vessel may he sent from
Victoria to protect them.
I alirnrnla Wheal I'rnp.
Stockton, CaI., July 20. Kxperts in
this city sav that the wheat crop in Cali
fornia this season is going to fall below
the estimates niBilit six weeks or two
months ago. This shortage is said to be
due In some localities to several days of
hot weather that swept over the state
about the time the nhe.U was what is
termed "in the milk." In other sections
an Insect worked on the roots of the
plant nntil it reduced the sap li the
(talks and affected the grain.
PROPHESIES INTER
NATIONAL CRISIS
Relieves America Should Prepare for a
Crash Which Will Involve the
Whole World in a Gigantic Struggle
for Supremacy.
Nkw York, July 21. Lieutenant C. A.
Totten,. at New Haveu, Conn., had given
utterance to a etiring prophecy on the
present international crisis. He calls
the China war the "dragoniao one," and
compares the reported maesacres in
China with "the crime of Benjamin
against one lone woman, for which all
Israel nearly wiped out the whole tribe."
"Uni verbal war before universal peace;
it uust come," says Lieutenant Totten.
The duty of the civilized world is to ad
vance against the barbaric world. I be
lieve that confusion will confuse itself
more and more, year by year, until the
long predicted crash involves all con
cerned in a world-wide conflagration, in
finitely hotter than the Hoboken fire
and just as sudden.
"America must prepare for it. The
Anglo-Saxon world must, be in at this
death England, Ireland, Scotland and
Wales; the Germans if they are wise,
for it is the balance of power that is on
deck. It is our last chance and we mnst
improve it, onr best opportunity.
"Wo are at the parting of the ways
Events have thrust us into outside mat
ters ; the very operations of peace, the
natural ones commerce and vast inter
national treaties of reciprocity all over
the world have silently involved us in
a maze of environments that we cannot
escape. Before its magnitude tho de
struction of the Maine was naught. Yet
the latter led logically to a war just as
our own revolution. Why, even Mr.
Bryan took up arms then. Now, shall
we withdraw from mo concert of the
civilized nations in this common demand
for future peace and vast indemnity for
the recent outrage, or not?
"Let us prepare for war, anywav, if
we have any sense left. Matters of party
policy are but fardels before such issues
as confront ns."
MISSIONARIES HAVE
HAD THEIR SHARE
Some Were Also Politicians and Were
Too Grasping.
New York, Jnly 23. Rev. Dr. A.
WoodrubT Halsey, secretary of the Pres
byterian board of foreign missions,
speaking on the Chinese situation, eaid :
"The missionary has had his share in
fomenting this trouble, and must bear
his share of the blame. Some of the
mis9ionarins have been politicians, as
well as Christians, and their grasping,
selfish attitude hat helped to bring about
the present condition.
"Very significant is the attitndeof the
Chinese toward the Roman Catholic
missionaries.
t i r t i I
i anow oi many iiouian
. 1 . 1 1 I . . I T J
laiiioncs woo nave iiona reaiiy gouu
work. But it is true, unfortunately,
that the whole Roman Catholic propa
ganda is political, as well as religious.
This has been prominently exemplified
only recently in the Philippines, where
all the influence of that great church of
the ages was used for self-aggrandizement.
So it is In 1'eru, Chile and
Brazil. There missions are simply
monasteries (if the Middle ages over
again.
"In China, Hip Roman Catholics havo
suffered, first, because they meddled
with Chinese politics. Ministers Wu
said : 'Yon would not tolerate a hand
of Chinese missionaries coming to New
York and preaching Confucianism and
meddling with thegovernment.
"I point this out because I want yon
to iinderstane that there are two ideas
to the question. Of the Bi-t Presbyterian
missionaries who were in the dangerous
n,, 011 lmt nineteen aro now tn places
safety. Notwithstanding the great
commotion, the persecution has nut
been directed primarily against the
Protestants, because as n rule they do
their work as peaceable servants of
Christ.
"We have now 7000 missi.iiiaries in
China, l.'iOO schools and 121 hospitals
and dispensaries, at which latter places
last year were treated 1,700,000 persons.
You cannot go through villiage in
China without meeting someone who
has been blessed by the Christian
church."
Itm-fclisin Itvaninlnalitd In Kanliirkjr.
Lkvincton, Ky., July 20. Governor
Beckham was nominated by the demo
cratic state convention for governor if
Kentucky by acclamation at 3 :(i" this
morning. After the names of Judge
Black, of Barboursvilie, and Judge
Tarvm, of Newport, were placed in
nomination the roll call cl the convention
was begun. When McLean county was
reached at 3 o'clock, Beckham had tho
5-17 votes necessary to nominate. Then
Black and Tarvin's names were with
drawn and the latter moved that the
nomination of Beckham be made un
animous. The motion carried, and
Beckham was escorted to the platform,
where he made his speech of acceptance.
MINISTERS ARE
REPORTED SAFE
Prince Tuau's Alleged Message is in
Conflict With That of Minister
Conger, However, in Saying There
Was No Fighting in Pekin Last
Wednesday.
Washington, July 23. Tho state de
partment baa made public the following
The state department has received i
dispatch from Mr. Goodnow, the consul
general at Shanghai, dated today, saying
that Prince Tuttn wires that an officer of
the Tsung li Y'aninn saw all the ministers
on the 18th ; that none was Injured and
that no attack was at that time being
made. He does not say to whom the
dispatch of Prince Tuan was addressed
and it is to a certain extent at variance
with the dispatch of Mr. Conger of that
date, describing the legation as being
under fire at the time."
New York, Julv 23. A dispatch to
the Herald from Che too, July 21, says
that the captain of a British steamer
who has just arrived from New Chwang,
teports that there arrived there on
Thursday a Chinaman professing to be
a foreigner's servant who escaped from
Pekin on the 12th, on which date the
British legation was destroyed and the
foreigners butchered. The story is
credited in New Chwang.
Another telegram came from the gov
ernor of Shan Tung last night. He says :
"I have received definite information
from rekui that all the ministers are
well and there is no illness among them.
The proper Chinese authorities are de
vising means for their rescue and pro
tection. Sr. Peterhih no, July 23. Two en
counters are reported to have taken
place between British and Chinese
forces near Wei Hat Wei. Tho latter,
it was reported, were repulsed after a
stubborn encounter. No dates are given.
M. Krntizki the engineer of tne Eastern
Chinese Railway, telegraphing from
Algatchi, in the Trans-Baikal territory,
under date of Friday, July 20, reports
the occupation of Chailar, by Chincfe
troops. The Russians, according to this
dispatch, continued to concentrate at
Charbin.
Were .lllve Friday.
Bri sski.s, July 21. The minister of
foreign affairs, M. Faverau, has received
It. n foltna-inp teleirram from Shanghai.
I.,.,, - . ,n,Iav .
-
"A telegram from the governorof Shan
Tung announces that the ministers were
safe July 20. They were under the
guardianship of the Chinese authorities.
LI H nng Chang has arrived at Shanghai."
Tho Charge. d'AHVirs at the Chin 'se
legation here this tnorniag received a
telegram from tho Chinese minister at
London, saying he had just received a
telegram from the Governor of Shan
Tang, transmitted by Sheng, the admin
istrator of telegraphs at Shanghai, stat
ing that all the foreig.l representatives
at Pekin were safe. This dispatch was
communic ited to the Belgian minister
of foreign afTiirs. The oflicial demanded
that he bit put in communication with
tho Belgian minister at Pekin and in
formed as to the situation of the Belgian
refugees in that city.
liners llralell OH',
London, July 22. The war office has
receive! tho following dispatch from
Lord Huberts :
"Pretoria, July 22. The Boers made
a determined attack yesterday to destroy
a post at Trail Head, thirteen miles eait
of Heidelberg, which they attacked with
three gum and a pompom and sur
rounded. They were, however, beaten
oH after a Bharp engagement, before re
inforcements summoned from Heidel
berg had arrived."
Itftiiifmtier
That Chas. Stubling is still doing a
retail business at his new place. He
sells in quantities lo suit all customer.',
Irom one bottle to a barrel. Family
orders delivered promptly.
MINISTER BLAMES
THE MISSIONARY
Says He Meddles in the Civil Allairs
of the Orient.
Nkw York, Jnly 2.1 Rv. Robert S.
MacArthur, preaching in Calvary Bap
tist church last night on the subject,
"Why Ho the Heathen RigeT" said:
"The heathen are raging, that is cer
tain. China amazes the world. Five
years agj Japan aloua annihilated her
army and navy. Now she defies all the
Kuropean nations. Chin has been
called the riddle of the world ; the jest of
all nations.
"Doubtless some missionaries are
largely responsible for the present up
rising in China. All the missionaries
who refrain from civil functionsand con
fine themselves simply to preaching the
gospel are not responsible for these up
risings. They follow the American id. a
of separation of church and state. They
do not interfere between their converts
and the Chinese authorities.
"Those missionaries who combine
civil authority with their religions in
struction are pariiy responsible for the
condition of things in China. More
than 300 years ago in Japan the Roman
Catholic church persecuted the Japanese
who refused to accept their doctrine. At
this moment similar things are at work
in China. Bishops have told tales which
excite the jealousy of the Chinese.
"Some missionaries actually sit as jus
tices in civil cases and impose fines and
other temporal penalties. They soon
surround themselves with all the dignity
of kingly rulers, and the native heathen
do not distinguish between the ecclesias
tical and civil rule. The result is an
anti-foreign feeling. An anti-foreign
spirit has been developed, and no one
can help but see that the first attack is
made upon the missionaries who have
assumed to exercise civil power.
"I w as in China five years ago this
month, and many of the conditions I ex
amined on the spot. I also have the
testimony of missionaries on the ground
at this moment. They declare the bish
ops secure the release id their converts
when brought before the courts, an I
that the authority of the French consul
is often invoked to emphasize the do
mands of the priests and bishops.
riiu same thing is going on in the
Philippines at the present time. These
things lead to uprisings. The war with
Japan put an end for a tiuio to a con
templated uprising of the Boxers. Only
missionaries who confine themselves
simplv to their religious duties can do
any good. Those who do not only pro
voke uprisings on the part of the jealous
Asiatic.
'Nothing is clearer than that it is the
Inty ot the United (states government to
protect the lives and property of its citi
us. Ureal Britain has invoked the
admiration of the whole world because
of her army and navy, ami because she
is ready to protect her citizen with
them."
A fl'iml Ciiligh Mpfllrlne.
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health ami happiness by the use of
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beneficial. Coughs that have resisted
all othertreatment for years, have yielded
to this remedy and perfect health been
restored. Cases that seemed hopeless,
that the climate of famous lie. 0th resorts
(ailed to benefit, have been permanently
tired fry its usn. For ruo by Blakeley
& Houghton.
To Hold For H.-tli-r ITIie.
Houston, Tex., July 22. The Post to
morrow will print reports from var'nns
points in Tex as showing that 2,000, 1)1 0
lounds of wool are being held in the
stale because the growers refuse to ac
cept current prices and that there is per
haps as much more held m uncounted
po ii tn unci mi ram lies. The gtowtrs
have held a conference mi l nriu l to
hold the er.t're clip indi finitely. .
I lis Hrnt Kerned y for sioiii u 'a mid
iuwel TriiutileH.
"'I have been in the drug business fur
twenty years and have sold most all of
the proprietary medic. ties of any nole.
Among the entire list I have never found
anything to equal Chambeil uri's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for all
stomach and Imwel troubles," Buys (.
W. Wakefield, ol Columbus, tia. "This
remedy cured two severe cases of cholera
morbus in my family and I have recom
mended and sold hundreds of bottles of
it to my customers to their entire satis
faction. It alT.rds a quick and sure cure
in pleasant form." F'or sale by
Blakeley A Houghton.
You will not have boils if von
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take
JANICE MEREDITH.
lilt Sum larisri'lrd Additions mni
m rw tulul lo Ik
Aathor.
"Give Mr. Lord Clone thy baud
child," commanded her mother, stern
ly, "and place a seat for him by Uu
tire."
Janice pulled one of the chairs uear
er to the chimney breast and then re
turned to her quiltiujr frame, at which
she had been working wheu the inter
ruption came.
"Didst hear me?" demanded Mr
Meredith.
Janice turned ami faced the thre
biavely, though her voice trembled a
Mi l le us she replied: .
"I ill not shake his linjid."
"Yoieks! llere'a a kettle of fish!'
ejaculated the connni.st.ury. "What'i
wrong?"
"Janice, do us thou art told, or gr.
to thy room," ordered her mother.
The jjfirl opened her lips as if about
to protest, but courage failed her, tint'
she hurriedly left the parlor, mid, II y
injr to her chamber, she threw herself
on her bed anil wept out her sense ol
wrong on her pillow.
"Domrone it," she aobbed. "I'm not
Kiiii(r to be the first American j,''1! tl"
marry nil Kiijrlish lord, I don't enrc
whut they say. Mommy wants it. nnd
so does tliidda, and now it's up to his
lordship to jtet me, but, odsbndikins. I
vow I'll not set the pcijs for posterity
ill this iin-.niet'icniiiiiifr business, so
there," und Janice, chuckling- softly t.
herself, stilled her sobs once more in
the pillow.
The W Up Saved II.
The story is tfoing- the rounds that
when Kudyitrd Kipling had written
"The Recessional." w hich the editor of
the London Times declared lo lie tin
jrrctitest poem written in the nine
teenth century, and which the whole
w oi-ld has ivceivcd ns one of I lie trreat
cst pieces of work in our time, he whs
so depressed by its shortciiminK I hut
he threw the first rotiirh copy into tin
waste paper basket. But Mrs. Kipling
has learned her husband pretty well,
and so she rescued it. But for Mrs.
Kiplinpr we should have bad no 'lieees
sionul!" Many a rreiit deed that has
lifted humanity upward has been nour
ished and saved from defeat by the
wntchful and loving sympathy of some
unknown member of the home part
nertdiip. I'nrrteil ltl-e.
Boil one cupful of thoroughly
wnshed rice in two cnpfuls of boiling:
salted watt-r. Itoil for ten minutes and
strain. Add a tcaspoonful of curry
powder that has been nibbed smooth
in cold water. Boil the rice thus sea
soned in a cu,iful of stock until ten
der. Strain, place in the center of a
platter, cover with the liquor and
sprinkle with chopped parsley. N. Y.
Tribune.
W hy Me ua Marred Out.
Mile. Jeanne (iiuuvin, who is a pro
fessor of law in a woman's college in
Paris, baa sent a special invitation to
the l'ortias of ibis country to visit the
exposition. Mile, t'hnuviu is slight,
pretty and winsome. In her plea be
fore a famous Parisian jude for ad
mission to the bar she said: "I am u
doctor of philosophy, a doctor of laws
and a bachelor of literature.'' The
judg'e replied: '"I do not doubt your
word in the least. You lire indeed an
encyclopedia in miniature and we are
all so nfraid of you that I am sure it
wil be impossible to admit you lo our
ranks."- Sat unlay Keiiinj Post.
i tilt ntitaice.
Younir Bride (cestui icnllv) I can
never bejrin to tell you nil the ex
quisite ill-lights of married life. Now.
every niht, lifter dinner, my husband
sings to nte.
Old Maid -My teakettle does 1 ho
same Ihinj,'. . V. World.
Neil I lulled r'lah.
Take any cold boiled tis.1i. till an
carl hen dish with layers of fish, bread
cruiubs, boiler, sail and pepper: haw
bread irnuilis on lop: nearly till the
dish with iuill. bal.e in a quick oven
half a n hour, llotal HouseKi cpin.
AlniiiinirM I'laii.
f.itlle Kllu was telliny of their do
mestic economy . "Oh, y es, mamma is
very kind to us. I'very time ue take
eod-lixer oil without cry intr she drives
us a 1 1 1 1 1 n each."
"A lid w ha i ilo y lo with t he
nny V" .1 t he aunt.
"Mammy buys some more oil with
" said litlle :ila. r.dlier's Hecklv.
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the other ilay, but
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