WEEKLY
VOL. X
THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1900.
NO. 35
GERMAN TROOPS
9TAY IN PFKIN 'Sewl numbers of the customs staff
O I n I III I L ll M at Pekin arrived at Shanghai yesterday.
They stat that the reuef of the lega
j ti-ns was effected most opportunely, aa
mpcror William Said to Have Declared
He Will Mobilize the Whole Ger
man Army Rather Than Have Hie
Troops Leave Pekin.
New York, Sept. 4. A dispatch to
the HeraM from Berlin says:
It is learned from a thoroughly well
informed source that before Count von
Billow left for Norderney he had an in
terview with Count von der 0teo-Sack-en
Russian ambassador to the Berlin
start, in tne course of which he inform
ed the latter confidentially in regard to
Germany's attitude in the Chinese
question. The St. Petersbury govern
ment therefore is thoroughly informed
in regard to the intentions of Germany.
The Weltam Hontag, which is often ex
tremely well informed, states that it
learns from a we'l-informed source that
at a dinner given to the officers of tho
corps of guards, the emperor declared
that under no circumstances would the
German troops leave Pekin, not even if
he had to mobil'ze everv corps in the
German army.
The Chinese legation has received a
telegram from Li Hung Chang, accord
ing to which the empress has asked him
to associate with himself with a view to
peace negotiations Prince Ching, Gen
eral Yung Lu and two viceroys of the
southern provinces. Of the latter, one
is known to be unfriendly to foraigners.
Berlin, Sept. 4. An official dispatch
from Taku announces the leceipt of a
telegram from Pekin dated August 25,
saying the German troops had taken
possession of a hill within the imperial
city. Tho dispatch says that 2000 ad
ditional Italian troops have reached
Taku.
American Policy Applauded.
Shanghai, Sept. 4. Dispatches an
nouncing that the American government
refuses to agree with the withdrawal of
the troops from Pekin before satisfaction
for the outrages upon and the losses of
its BiilijectB is given, have been received
here and applauded by the entire for
eign colony in Shanghai. Any other
policy, according to the business men
and missionaries with w hom the Associ
ated l'ress representative has talked,
would be a vital blow to the prestige of
foreigners, and would weaken their
status in China. The local English pa
pers fiercely denounce the proposals to
evacuate Pekin and say that tho Chinese
would interpret evacuation ai defeat.
The uiasBea of Chinamen now believe
that the Chinese arms are victorious.
The Chinese papers printed in Shang-
hai contain long circumstantial accounts
of alleged Chinese victories at Pekin,
Tien Tln, and Tung Chao, and the
inopa in the native q darter display for
sale lurid pictures of the celestial army
driving the European soldiers into the
sea t Taku, and cutting them to pieces
at Tien Teiu. They also Bhow pictures of
the foreign admiral being tortured in
the presence of the viceroys. Vice-Ad-miral?
Seymour is represented with his
sruie pinnioned, kowtowing before the
throne. The people accept these reports
d pictures as correctly representing
u't situation, and consider the reports
the English pres hh "merely foreign
lies."
Ak rir Kuiperor'a Kentorailon.
Ciik A(.o, Sept 4, A dispatch to the
l;' "d from Shanghai says: The
American Association here has just met
nd agreed to request Special C itniuis
wrier KookkhUl to ask President Mc
toltjr nut to give hi consent to the
withdrawal of the American troops
from I'i kin, to refuse to recognizi the
uprcBs dowager and Li Hung ("hang,
Ir,d to lend his influence toward the
'Mtoration of the emperor. Mr. Rock
Ml remain for the present in Shanghai
until he can commnnicaio with the ad
miflot the United States squadron.
' lark i.nnty rrimegmwers.
AV('"t vi;u, Wash., Sept. 4. Prune-
V
hily
"ycrs ore making an r.ctive canvass of
the 0
ark county orchardiets. The rul-
'"ii prlca
now offered for the season s
llenberg prunes is 4'., cents
top of i
,or Wl and 50s
larger sixes
hve already
and 4'u and 4'4 cents
A number af contracts
been seen reel at these
Pr"-e, but as a rule
fruitmon are slow
contract their
crop in advance. A
Hlbtrol orchardiets In this vicinity
picking their Fellenberg prone
d neck, the crop of French iironea
hvingb"cn pretty well harvested.
Heller l ama .Mint In Tim.
Jfcw Yoiik, Hpt. 4. A dispatch to the
ri from I..,..l0n saya: No preclso
l th atate of affairs at Pekin is
el '''Hhcoming, although telegrams re-
ceired last niirht give some indication ol
toe situation down to a week ago.
ii was aiterwarus discovered that prob
ably with the co-operation of some traitor
n.ine had been driven through one
small section of the boundary, and that
this mine the Chinese intended to fire
on the following day.
The same correspondent says its is im
possible to exaggerate the feeling of
amazement and disgust in Shanzhai at
a , , ' "l
hn-!a s proposal to withdraw from PR-
kin. The Times' correspondent in Pe
kin has receivtd from a friend holding a
high diplomatic position, a letter in
which it is stated that tho origin and
motive oi kihsu's recent action are to
be found in a desire to correct the im
pression provid' d by Emperor William's
statement that the appointment o Von
Waiderseo to the chief command of the
allied armies was largely due to the in
itiative of the (V. ir.
This statement was net in accordance
with the facts, nnd could not be formally
contradicted, so Russia adopted the ex
pedient of proposing evacuation of Pekin
as an indirect method of frustrating
Germany's schemes.
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Arthur Hawaii Dead.
Bata, Me., Sept. 5. Hon. Arthur
Sewali died of apoplexy at 8:30 a.m.
today at his Bummer home, Small Point,
about twelve miles from this city. He
wm (14 years of age.
Mr. Sewall had not been in good
health for some time, although he was
not considered to be eeriously ill. He
had been advised by hia physician to
rest as early rb last June, and he at
tended the democratic national conven
tion duly 4th against the advice of his
doctor. He appeared to have suffered
no ill effects from tho jonrney, however,
and was passing the summer quietly at
Small Point, when the fatal stroke at
tacked him last Sunday. The uncon
sciousness which followed the attack
continued until death came.
Tlx Bent Itemed; lor Stomach and
towel Troubles.
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twenty years and have sold most all of
the proprietary medicines of any note.
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any thing to equal Chamberlain's Colic,
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faction. It affords a quick and sure cure
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Blakeley & Houghton.
I nd ut 1'erslali Itevolt.
CiiifACio, Sept. 4. A dispatch to the
tUHOti from Morcow says:
A report comes from Teheran that,
sfier a desperate fight, Ali Mohomit
Bey, the rebel who, at the head of a few
hundred followers, has been trying to
get possession of the throne, ban been
defeated hv the cassocks hastily sum
moned to oppose his march on the capi
tal, and has been thrown into an under
ground dungeon. When captured, he
emphatically denied that ho had har-
liored any Intention of usurping the
Shah's throne.
Ill hire Was Saved.
Mr. J. K. Lilly, a prominent oitisen of
Hannibal, Mo., lately had a wonderful
deliverance from a frightful death. In
telling of it ho says: "I was taken with
Typhoid fever, that ran Into Pneumonia.
My lungs hecnnio hardened. I was so
weak I couldn't aven sit up in bed.
Nothing helped me. I expected to soon
die of Consumption, when I heard of Dr.
King's Now Discoverv. One bottle gave
great relief. 1 continued to use it, and
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medicine is the surest and quickest cure
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ELECTION RETURNS
FROM VERMONT
Republicans Have a Plurality of
Least SMfi and a Majority
Over 31,000.
Wiiitk Rum Inaaiaat. 't.. Sent .V
n . w .
Hie republicans of Vermont elected
their state and congressional ticket by
a plurality of at least 32,250, and a ma
jority of over 31, OCX). If the towns yet
to be heard from give a vote correspond
ing relatively to the vote of the towns
reporting to day. the figures mentioned
will be about right. The state senate is
solidly repub ican and the republican
representation in the general assembly
will be substantially '.00 out of a mem
bership of 246. The various county
tickets are, as usual, Republican.
Returns from 239 c t es and towns in
the state, leaving onlv seven to be heard
from, give Stickney, rep., 47,870; Sent
er, dem., 15,842; all others, 1273. The
same cities and towns in livJb gave
Grout, rep., 53,024 ; Jackson, dem., 14,
929; all others, 1632. Stickney 's plu
rality in these cities and towns is 32,034.
and his majority over 30,761.
It is claimed by the democratic lead
ers that the will have a slight increase
in the general assembly over 1898, when
there were 42, while the representation
will be more that double that of 1896,
when there were 21 democratic repre
sentatives. As a result of tho. fight for representa
tives in the inteiest of four candidates
for United States senator to fill the un
expired term of the late Senator Morrill,
returns from 176 towns- show republi
cans elected with preference as follows:
Dilliughan, 53; Grout, 30; Ross, 9;
1'routy, 2. The remaining members are
democrats non-committed or unpledged"
Two republican candidates for con
gress were elected by figures generally
with the vote for governor.
Sheffield elejcted II. C. Simpson, re
publican, for representative. He favors
Grout for senator. Morristown, with a
total vote of about 600, showed a gain of
twenty-one per cent for the democrats.
Morristown elected S. G. Fleetwood,
republican, as representative. He fa
vors Dillingham for senator. Whitting
ham and Worcester, while giving plural
ities for Stickney for governor, elected
democratic nominees for representatives.
Whittingham elected a democrat in
1898. Sheffield, which two years ago
elected a prohibitionist as lepresenta
tive, now sends a republican.
BOER WAR IS
NOT ENDED YET
Burghers Have Ladyhand in Dire
Straits Again. Roberts Has Sent
Relief.
New York, Sept. 5. A dispatch to
the Tribune from London says: Lord
Roberts' annexation of the Transvaal is
generally regarded as proof that in the
opinion of the military authorities both
at home and in South Africa, the war is
prsctic illy over.
The war office has received a dispatch
from Lord Roberts giving an account of
a slight engagement north of Pretoria in
which the BoerB were driven off, losing
100 rifles and a supply of ammunition
and a few prisoners. About the same
time a party of Boers made an unsuc
cessful attack on the Johannesburg
water works.
More serions fighting took place on
Mondiv in the mountain paeses near
Lydenburg, where General Boiler was
fighting. Tho burghers were 2000 strong
with several guns, and they seem to
havo held tho British in check, since the
position was not carried by nightfall
and a column was sent by General Rob
erts to assist Duller. It is thought,
however, th.it Botha's army was fight-
ing to cover tho removal of his transport '
and supplies from Lydenburg and that
he will retire to the mountains further
north, where the next stand will be I
made.
The effect of the proclamation will be
to cause Transvaal burghers now in
arms to be treated as rebels and forfeit
lielligerent rights. It is hoped by this
means tho hopelessness ol further reaist
ance will be brought speedily home to1
the Boers.
Hut the experience of the Orange j
Biver colony is not altogether encourag
ing. After six mouths of annexation,
the burghers are still in arms in the
Eastern Kroe State and In sufficient
force to pot a British garrison in danger
of surrendering. Telegrams from the
BasntoUnd frontier show that the Boer
commandces have surrounded Lady
brand and reduced the defenders to each
straits that they have burned all their
stores in the market place to prevent
them from falling into the enemy's
hands. General Hunter is hastening to
the relief ot the garrison and it
hopeJ that he may be in time to save
it.
Craglu Cooceaalon Haa Keen Annulled.
Managia, Nicaragua, Aug. 13. (Cor
respondence of the Associated Press.)
El Comercio, daily semi-official news
paper published here, in its issue of
August 12th contained an editorial an
nouncement that the government ot
Nicaragua had informed the li ter
Oceanic Canal Company that its conces
sion had been annulled August 3 of the
present year, because of the failure of
the company to deposite $400,000 in
American gold in the treasury of Nic
aragua within four months of the or
ganization of the company, aa required
by article 6s at tne canal concession,
granted to Messrs. Eyre and Cragin
October 30, 1898.
This apparently leaves the Nicaragua
canal route free from any complications
other than the demand for the sum
which the Caribbean a Pacific transit
company may ask for its concession, ob
tained in 1897 or early in 1898, granting
to it, the company declares, the sole
right for thirty years of steam naviga
tion on the Rio San Juan and Lake Nic
aragua the canal route qualified, how
ever, by the reserved right of Nicaragua
to in the meanwhile grant a canal
construction concesBion to any one
whom it saw fit. It was agreed that the
receivers of such a concession should
pay to the Caribbean & Pacific Transit
Co. for the Lake Silicia and San Juan
River Railroad (a few ruileB in length,)
for such improvements as it made in
deepening the San Juan river, and for
their steamboats, lighters, etc., referred
to in the concession they received.
This company is an offshoot of and a
feeder to the Atlas Steamship Company,
of Liverpool, England.
Kuiperor Not the Killer.
Nicw York, Sept. 5. A dispatch to
the Tribune from London says: The
edict addressed to Li I lung Chang in
the name of the Chinese emperor, nnd
dated August 19th, en route to Tai Yuen
Fu, explains that although the foreign
powers have given assurance that their
only object in bringing troops to the
capital is the suppression of disorder
and that no harm is intended to the
imperial house, the emperor haa felt it
his duty, in view of the dangers appre
hended from the assault on Pekin, to
comply with the wiehes ot the empress
dowager and accompany her westward
after instructing Yung Lu, Hsu Tung
and Tsung Chi to remain In the capital
and carry on the government.
The Times, commenting upon this
news, which ia reported by its corres
pondent in Shanghai, says that if it be
genuine, it shows that the movements
of the titular sovereign are still di
rected by the imperious will of the
dowager empress to whose initiative nnd
support the outbreak of the Boxer
movement is attributed.
The Standard's correspondent in Tien
Tein sends an account of the first party
of refugees from Pekin. Most of them
were American missionaries. Tho jour
ney to Tien Ttln by boat occupied four
days. No hostile Chinese were en
countered on the way, but it was im
possible for the refugees to take a rest
and all the party seemed completely
worn out.
From the stories told by these refugees
it would seem that the reports which
had been circulated regarding the suffer
ings of the inmates of tho legations
during the siege were exaggerated. No
body actually went hungry, and the
chief strain on the besieged was the
constant fear lest the enemy should rush
the defenses.
Turkey Preparing for War.
New Yohk, Sept. 5. A special to the
Herald from Washington says: Turkey
evidently intends to he prepared to re
sist nny attempt which may be made
by foreign governinants to collect indem
nities tiy force. Consnl-General Dickin
son, of Constantinople, has cabled fo the
state department announcing that the
Sublime Porte has awarded a contract ! aprxiintiiicnt of a more satisfactory com
for the construction of two torpedo- i mission and give Russia giound for de
boats to a ship-building firm at once, laying the withdrawal of her troops
The department haa also been in-, 'ro, Pekin t,,e Ghinese imperial
formed that the Turkish naval depart- party shows a more conciliatory dispo-
ninnt ham Piirti nl I Oil tin. nlaiia anil ' Sition.
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ifications for the cruiser w!:;c
built in tho United Stater.
is to tie
Wanted.
Four or live boys, going to school
during winter, to board. $12 a month
with room and plain washing. Across
street from High school. Apply at
CinioNK i.g office. d.twlm
CHIEF BEAT
EN TO DEATH
Fool Murder of a Yakima Brave by an
Indian who Coveted His Property
and Position.
North Yakima, Wash., Sept. I
-An
old Indian chief known as Ah-le, was
brutally murdered at a point near Relief,
in the eastern end of this county last
Sunday. His slayer was Indian John
nie, the next in line of power to be the
chief. It is alleged that he became
jealous of the old man, and desired to
have him mil of rim u?v n,.. ,,..i.
waslwithm,! - - ' . i .,
warfw itiiout provocation, and the means
of disposing of the chief was by beating i
him to death with stones. The murder- j
erhasesciped in the brush along the,
banks of the Columbia river. The j
Yakima county officers are searching for !
him and will bring him to this city for
trial if he ia arrested.
The murder is described by eye wit
nesses as one of the most cruel and bar
baric assaults ever known to the savages
ot the 1 akimas in early days. The old
chief has been the recognized leader of
a band of Indians residing on the banks
of the Yakima river for many years.
They recognize the head chief, White
Swan, as the big ruler, but do not ac
cept bis civilized notions. The band
over which Ah-le has presided live in
the primitive manner of the race, dress
ing and acting much as their forefathers.
They perform the dances and incanta
tions of the olden times and are more of
the original Indian disposition. They
do not send their children to the mission
schools and have nothing to do with the
mission churches.
Indian Johnnie is a young bravo who
would be the recognized chief of this
local band in case old Chief Ah-le should
die. He has been waiting for this event
fir many years, but Ah-le did not die.
Last Sunday, it is alleged, without any
immediate cause for tho assault, John
nie procured some stones and litterally
mauled the head off the old chief, muti
lating the body beyond recognition.
The deed was witnessed by several by
standers who claim it was equal in cruel
ty to the days of a quarter of a century
ago, when the whites were being treated
in such manner. The county coroner
visited the place as Boon as notified and
summoned a jury for an investigation.
The verdict was that the chief came to
his death by atones in the hands of
Johnnie.
Borne members of the Siincoe band
were interviewed this afternoon and
were verv earnest in their demands for
tho arrest, of Johnnie. They say he is
cultue, or no good man, who has always
been trifling and lazy. He wanted to
become chief in order that his worthless
life might be made pleasant in tho grat
ification of ti i b ambitions to be a bad
man. ThcTndisn is said to he about M
ycarB of ago anil fond of liquor. He does
not like the white people and has no
love for the Indians who will ba ruled
by the agent. He will probably be cap
tured and brought to justice, as all the
Indians appear to be much incensed
over ths murder.
RUSSIA MAY
BACK DOWN
China's Continued Refusal to Do Any
thing lor the Protection of For
eigners and Their Interests Ex
cuse for Delay in Withdrawal.
London, Sept. (. What is now desig
nated in some quarters as an attempt to
establish a "Russian Monroe Doctrine"
in Asia seems doomed to modification.
Hence the prospec's of the continued 1
concord of the powers ate believed to be
Improving. It is thought that the an
nouncement of the names of the four
personages appointed by imperial edict
as Chimse peace commissioners will
furnish Russia with a plausible reasoii to
join in the American demand for the
WAMHJTOtOX, S..pt. 6. The attitude
of the Germ m government in the Rus
sian proposal to withdraw troo, s from
I'ekiu has been made known to the
United States, and is to the effect that
Germany considers it nectnary to re
tain her forces In Pekin.
W siiim. ion, N'pt. tt The tta'a de-
partment n ade the following announce
ment today :
"A telegram has been received from
Minister Conger, dated Pekin, Septeiu
her 1, stating tha-. a military parade
passed through the imieriai palace on
that date and that European servants
were the only occupants."
Oregon at Shanghai.
Washington, Sept. tl - The arrival of
the Oregon off Shanghai brings the fa-
mous battle-ship again into position to
j take part in operations for the solution
ol the Chinese problem and for the ef
fective protection of American interests
for the first time since she ran on the
rocks near Che Foo more than two
months ago. From Captain Wilde's
dispatch it is said by the officials of the
navy department that he seized the op
portunity to telegraph his safe passage
across the ellow .Sea from Mire to the
1 , ., ... , , , ,
tang uf him- waning lor a lavorau.e
tide which would permit a shii of the
Oregon's deep draught to cross the btr
and reach the neighborhood of the Woo
Snug forts, where the New Orleans and
Princeton have been representing the
United States for several weeks.
The advent of the Oregon with her
powerful battery and formidable armor
protection will remove much of the dan
ger to foreign interests which has been
due to continued Chinese occupation of
these dreadod fortifications, which could
close the river to all unarmored vessels
hurrying to rescue foreigners in Shang
hai in case rioting should begin in that
city.
No orders were issue d by the navy de
partment for the dispatch of the Oregon
to Shanghai, and her sudiL-n appear
ance on the scene is attributed to the
wishes of Admiral Romey, who has full
authority for the disposition of n.u ves
sels of his fleet t) meet all possible
emergencies.
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Tho Vermoul Klectlou.
Wiiitk Rivkr Junction, Vt., Sept.
0. The election returns for Verment are
all in. A careful scrutiny of the county
returns, based on official returns in all
but a few towns, show that Stickny, re
publicuu for governor, lias a plurality of
31,468 and a majority over all of 30,192.
Tho complete revised returns give these
results: Stickney, republican, 48'466;
Senter, democrat, 16,998; all others,
1276. The republican plurality this year
exceeds by 2691 the average of the last
three preedential years, and by 598 the
average for the last six election years.
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Kallon Trip liver Kugllsli.
New, York, Sept. I A dispatch to
the Herald from Paris eays:
M. Jacques Fanre, treasurer of the
Aero Club, has successfully crossed the
channel in a balloon. He left the
Crystal Palace, London, at S o'clock
Saturday night and arrived at Alette
Pas de Calis at '.' o'clock yesterday
morning. The crossing of the channel
occupied four hours. During this time
the aeronaut kept his ballon at a height
i of 700 meters.
Itiiinlianllug the Ifrlllih Cinii.
Crocodile Rivkr Yallky, Transvaal,
Sunday, Sept. 2, General Bnller today
reconnoitered tho Boer position in the
mountains overlooking Lydenburg.
General Both I and 2000 burghers had
previously joined the forces bidding the
pass. The Boers opened with three
long toms and tired continuously all day
long. The British had few casualties.
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