The Dalles daily chronicle. (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, September 24, 1891, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textlie 3m VOL. II. THE DALLES, OREGON, -THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1891. NO. 86. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. WM. SAUNDERS Architect. Plans and specifications furnished for dwelling, churches, business blocks, schools and factories. Charges moderate, satisfaction guaranteed. Of fice over French's bank. The Dalles, Oregon. DB. J. SUTHERLAND Fellow of Trinity Medical College, and member of the Col lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario, Phy sician and Surgeon. Office; rooms 3 and 4 Chap man block. Residence; Judge Thornbury's Sec ond Btreet. Office hours; 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p. m. DR. O. D. DO AN E PHYSICIAN and bur geon. Office: rooms 5 and 6 Chapman Block. Residence No. 23, Fourth street, one block south of C ourt House. Office hours 9 to 12 A. M., 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 P. M. AS. BENNETT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Of . flee In Sehanno's building, up stairs. The Dalles, Oregon. D6IDDALL Dentist. Gas given for the . painless extraction of teeth. Also teeth set on flowed aluminum plate. Rooms: Sign of the Golden Tooth, Second Street. AR. THOMPBON Attorney-at-law. Office . in Opera House Block, Washington Street, The Dalles, Oregon . P. MAYS. B. 8. HUNTINGTON. H. 8. WILSON. M AYS, HUNTINGTON dt WILSON ATTOR NEYS-at-law. Offices. French's block over First national Banc, xne Danes, Oregon. E.B.DCrUR. GEO. WATKINS. FRANK MENEFEE. DCFUR, WATKINS & MENEFEE ATTOR-neys-at-law Room No. 43, over Post Office Building, Entrance on Washington Street The Dalles, Oregon. WJ H. WILSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Rooms W . 52 and S3, New Vogt Block, Second Street, The Dalles, Oregon. SNIPES & KIHERSLY, Wholesale and Retail Droiists. DEALERS IN Fine Imported, Key West and Domesti CIGARS. PAINT Now is the time to paint your house and if you wish to get the best quality and a fine color use the Sherwin, Williams Co.'s Paint, -v. For those wishing to see the quality and color of the above paint we call their attention to the residence of S. L. Brooks, Judge Bennett, Smith French and others painted by Paul Kreft. Snipes & Kinersly are agents for the above paint for The Dalles. Or. COLUMBIA CANDY FACTORY W. S. CRAM, Proprietor. (Successor to Cram & Corsono Manufacturer of the finest French and . Home Made DI IE S East of Portland. DEALER IN Tropical Fruits, Nuts, Cigars and Tobacco. Can furnish any of these goods at Wholesale or tietaii In Every Style. 104 Second Street. The Dalles. Or. Nicholas & Fisher, BARBER SHOP. -AN! Hot and Cold Baths! REMOVAL. H. Glenn has removed his office and the office of the Electric Light Co, to 72 Washington St. $20 REWARD. t it.:.. i.'D s. VTV . THJTV"VT XT A TTTO the ropea or in any way interfering with the wire poles or Urapi of The ICuctrxc Ljght OUR FALL STOCK Is Complete with the Latest Novel ties in Dress Goods, Trimming, etc. And we are Offering Them at Very Close Prices. Call and Inspect our Stock Before Purchasing Elsewhere and see Some of Our Bargains. PflBLP liorth naa111u51u11 tlrVAH SITUATED AT THE HEAD OF NAVIGATION. Destined to.be the Best Manufacturing Center in the Inland Empire. For Further Information Interstate Investment Go., 0. . AUOfl THE DALIES. K BETTINGEN - Retailer and Hardware, Tinware, Graniteware, Woodenware, Silverware, Croekery, Glassotare, Etc. -AGENT the: garland stove. Pumps, Pipes, Plumbers All Tinning, Plumbing, win do aone on snort .Notice, and at tne Lowest Prices. Seeond Street, next door to Snipes & The Opera Hestautfant, ....... ... ........ No. 116 Washington Street, MEALS at ALL HOURS Handsomely Furnished Rooms to Rent by the Day, Week or Month. Finest Sample Rooms for Commercial Men. ; .:'. : Special Rates to Commercial Men. WILL S. GRAHAM, W.&T.JVIeCoy, BARBERS. Hot -:- and-:- Cold-:-Batlis. HO SECOND STREET. & mm Dalles, Washington Best Selling Property of the Season in the North west. Call at the Office of 72 WASH1HT0H ST., PORTLAND Jabber in - FOR - and Steam fitter's Supplies. Pipe Work and Repairing Kinersly. THE DALLES. of the DAY or NIGHT. PROPRIETOR. $500 Reward! We will pay the above reward for an j case of Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Bick Headache, In digestion, Constipation or Costiveness we cannot cure with West's vegetable Liver Pills, when the directions are strictly complied with. They are purely vegetable, and neverTail to give satisfac tion. Sugar Coated. Large boxes containing SO Pills, 25 cents. Beware of counterfeits and imi tations. The genuine manufactured only by THE JOHN C. WFST COMPANY, CHICAGO. I t tvmo ' ULAKELET A HOCOHTOK, Prescription Druggists, 175 Kerond St. - . The Dalles, Or. EASTERN POLITICS. The Nebraska State Convention in Ses sion Today and Dcelare in Favor of Honest Money. Nine People Killed in a Railroad Wreck in Pennsylvania Washington . . Democrats in Session. Report of a Hunting Party in Alaska Attacted by Indians Funeral of , - - Hon. Wm. L. Scptt Lincoln, Neb. Sept. 24. The republi can State convention was called to order here"ai ten o'clock this morning. Chairman Watson in his opening speech ',8aid : "If signs are true the republican national convention at Omaha (cheerslin 1892 will nominate the next president of the United States, and that man will be the glorious captain of the gallant ship State, skillful navigator, fearless leader, bright, brilliant, match less Blaine." At mention of the name Blaine, a cord from the rear was pulled and the portrait of the secretary of state dropped in sight. The effect was mag ical. Five hundred delegates immed iately sprang to their feet and cheered. . Among the resolutions introduced and referred to the committees was one op posing any fashion whatever with the democratic party. The information of a platform there was little, asno difference of opinion as to the financial and trans portation question. It was finally de cided to place the republicans of Neb raska on record as declaring for honest money, and endorsing the republican legislation in the last congress on the silver question. The administration of President Harrison Was approved. ' A FRIGHTFUL WRECK. Nine People Killed In a Railroad Wreck in Pennsylvania. Newcastle, Pa., Sept. 24. A terrible wreck occurred this . morning on the KUtburg & Western railroad,! at Mc- Kern's 'siding. At this point Is a work train with a force of fifty men who are engaged in putting down a new track. While they were on the train shoveling off dirt a freight train crashed into theirs piling cars and engines up in a mass, Steam and boiling water poured over those caught in the wreck. For a mo ment there was silence, then the air was broken by shrieks of the dying. One of the train men, who escaped injury, fainted with horror. The train laborors who were not in jured at once began to assist ' those who were imprisoned in the debris. By 11 o'clock the bodies of eight Italian labor ers were taken out from the wreck, and with Engineer Houghton this swells the number of dead to nine. At least twenty men were injured, several of whom cannot recover. All of the bodies are terribly mangled and disfigured. Washington Democrats. Spokane, Sept. 24. The second day's session of the convention of democratic societies was well attended. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows : Henry Drum and George Hazzard of Tacoma were . re-elected respectively president and secretary. C. F. Warner of Colfax, vice-president and Francis Henry, of Olympia, treasurer. New Whatcomb was chosen as the place of meeting next year. ' Senator Faulkner spoke this afternoon and Congressman Bynun speaks tonight at the closing of the convention. A party of eastern democrats will ar rive in Portland next Thursday and will leave the Saturday following. INDIANS IN ALASKA. . A Report of a Party Being Attacked by a Hostile Party on the Upper Yukon Portland, Or., Sept. 24. A letter was received today by the associated press from Juneau, Alaska, under date of Sept. 12, which says : "Intelligence has just reached here from the upper Yukon that a band of hostile Chilcats attacked a small hunting party of two whites and five indians and that several were killed. It is thought here that the party is the Ewing-Earts Cliff party, and is composed of E. B. Ewing, a prominent citizen and journalist of Missouri, and Herbert Earts Cliff a young Englishman, and five Indians, all were well armed No ' particulars could be learned from the Indians who brought the news. Funeral of Hon. Wm. I.. Scott. Erie, Sept. 24. The funeral of the late Hon. Wm. L. Scott took place from his late residence this afternoon. The services were simple but impressive. Among the most noted of many, diet in guished persons present were ex -Presi dent Cleveland, Daniel S. Lamont and Governor Patterson. Another movement for Gettysburg. . Gettysbtbg, Pa., Sept. 24. The Tam many braves today dedicated the monu ment erected on this battlefield to mark toe position held by the forty-second New York infantry, which was recruited and sent out by the Wigwam in '61. A Fatal Railroad Accident. Pittsburg, Sept. 24 A wreck occur red this morning on the Pittsburg and Western railroad at Ellwood, about eight miles from New Castle, in which two men were killed outright, and six or eight others injured, several fatally. Another Famine Feared. St. Petersburg, Sept. 24. The winter crops will be scanty, and a renewal of the famine is apprehended in 1892. The failure is due to bad weather, late sow ing, and unwillingness to use the grain for sowing during the famine. Small.pox In Mexico. New York, Sept. 24. Word has been received from the city of Cawpeche, Mexico, that small-pox is raging there. One thousand cases and more than 200 deaths are reported. The people are panic-stricken and the disease is spread ing. More English Gold. . London, Sept. 24. The amount of bullion which was withdrawn from the bank of England on balance todav. amounted to $100,000 pounds, and was tor shipment to America. Turkish Harvests Good. Constantinople, Sept. 24. An abun dant harvest is reported from most of the Turkish provinces. Two Desperate Ruffians. Dayton, Wash., Sept. 23. Marshal Wick arrested two men this evening. When they reached the jail he was set on by both of them, who took his re volver and ran. One was overtaken and he turned and knocked Wick down with a brick. Subsequently he was captured and handcuffed and is now in iail. The other man is still at large. A deputv sheriff is in pursuit. Trouble is antici pated when he is captured, as he has the revolver and thinks nothing of his own life, as he tried to hang himself in tha jail here last week. A Drummer Charged With Committing a Forgery. Seattle, Sept. 23. Isaac T. Walker is wanted at Tort Worth, Tex., where he is under indictment for foreerv. He was captured at Snohomish today and is in the county jail. Walker is a travel ing salesman, and came here last August. He came into prominence by giving evi dence by which James E. Miller and Thomas Tynan, steamboat pursers, were arrested and bound over for committing small forgeries on Dexter & Horton's bank. A Steamer Shipwrecked. Panama, Sept. 23. The steamer Cali fornia, Captain Pichthall, bound from Liverpool to Colon, was totally wrecked on September 10, on the north side of Oruba, one of the islands of the Dutch Antilles, near the coast of Venezuela. She was at the time en route from Cura- coa to Savonill, United states of Colom bia. 1 he passengers and crew, with the exception of the second engineer, were saved. The mail was also rescued. The Utah Commission Chicago, Sept. 23. The Utah com mission consisting of ex-Senator Alvin Saunders, of Nebraska; General John A. McClerna, of Illinois ; Colonel G. G. Godfrey, of Iowa; Judge A. B. Wil liams, of Arkansas, and Lieutenant Governor R. L. Robertson, of Indiana, held a secret session here today, and will continue to discuss until Saturday, their annual report to be submitted to the secretary of the interior. New Law Against Foreigners. St. Petersburg, Sept. 23. The min ister of the interior has drafted a law providing for exportation to Siberia of all foreigners coming under the decree of expulsion, if their own country refuse to receive them. The measure will chiefly affect the Jews and Polee. Cholera Raging In Turkey. Boston, Sept. 23. The latest advices from Turkey, in Asia, to the health omcer at Boston, states the cholera is spreading in the stricken districts. In one day, July 21, Mecca and Mina lost forty of their population by the epi demic. ' " Three Boys Killed in Chicago. Chicago, Sept. 23. Three boys, rang ing in age from 11 to 14, were killed -in the Rock Island yards today. They were stealing a ride on a freight car loaded with lumber, and the lumber fell upon them, crushing them. 'Weather Forecast. San Francisco, Sept. 24. Forecast for Oregon, and Washington: Fair weather. - - Chicago Wheat Market. Chicago, ' Sept. 24. Close, wheat steady, cash 95 ; December 8. Portland Wheat Market. Portland, Sept. 24. Wheat, valley, 1.52J1.55; Walla Walla, 1.45. . AN IRRIGATING SCHEME The People of Ellensburg Think it Will Relieve the Financial Situation as Well as Benefit the Land. The Itata Case Again. A Second Libel Suit dismissed -Four Men Killed in a Railroad Accident The Chinese Have a Little war of their Own A Branch Train gets in the Way and Causes a wreck. Ellensburg. Sept. 23. Notice of elec tion has just been issued by the director of the middle irrigation district, propos ing voting to bond the district for $200,- uuu. Bids for the construction will then be asked. One of the most reliable con tracting firms in the state has a repre sentative nere who oflers to take the bonds at par for building the ditch. Tt is understood that other similar propo sitions will be made. In the present condition of business it is expected that some low bids will be received. This ditch will be fifty miles long, twelve feet wiuc at. iub uottom ana eignteen leet at tha ton. wit.ll vatpr fnn. faat ilaan T- will bring under cultivation about 40,000 additional acres of land and will be of great benefit to the people of Ellensburg and this valley. There is a demand for the bonds, and the certainty that the ditch will be built causes a revival m the spirits of the people, and they think the uuaiiuai rjbriugeuuy w in soon ue over. THE ITATA CASE. A Second Libel Snit Against tha Steamer Dismissed. Los Angeles, Cal., Sept; 23. United States Attorney Cole, acting under in structions from Washington, has dis missed the second libel against the Itata. Mr. Cole states that the action taken by him was in entire accord with the gov ernment's handling of the case. The district attorney has the right to insti tute proceedings for a violation of the laws of the United States, especially the cases of emergency subject to the con trol of the law department at Washing ton He telegraphed the attorney-gen eral asking his news, and receiving the reply on Saturday, deemed it advisable to file a libel. The marshal went to San Diego on Sunday with the process in his pocket to await instructions from here and Washington. He afterwards re ceived instructions not to serve the process, and did not. Mr. Cole believes it to be the law that a vessel escaping from the United States is liable for the expense of bringing her back. i FOUR MEN KILLED. An Accident to a Train Running to a Mexican Mine. Nogales, A. T., Sept. 23. Four men were killed yesterday afternoon by an accident on the Imuris Mines Company's railroad, at Cerro Blanco mines, forty miles south of here. The railroad is a twenty-inch gauge, and U twenty-nine miles in length running from the Cerro Blanco station on the Sonora railroad to the mines up a very steep grade, On the down trip the engine was thrown from the track, and four of the seven men on board were killed, including both the engineer and fireman, who were scalded to death. The fifth man is not expected to survive. Small rocks were placed on the track by some one, supposed to be a recently discharged -Mexican employe, and caused the engine to leave the track. The Mexican au thorities are investigating the cause, and should tho proof be convincing, the sus pected party will be taken to the scene of the accident and amid the debris shot to death. . THE CHINESE REVOLT. Rebels are Gathering In Force and Trouble is Feared Soon. Shanghai, Sept. 23. The situation here is much worse. Disorders are in creasing at Ichang and this is the pre lude to other disorders.. The valley of the Yang-tse-Kiang is in rebellion. Wu chang, the central seat of the vicerov, is ready for revolt, and Hankow and Chan king are likely to follow. The latter town is difficult to defend by war ships, owing to the shallowness of the river. Great excitement prevails. Strangers are fleeing from Panghai, whjch is am ong the threatened towns, but measures of defense are being taken. Three ships of war are at Wuchin and fleets are con centrating at Shanghai. Minister Le rnaire, of France, has left for Pekin. A SLIGHT COLLISION. Caused by a Branch Train Getting on the Main Track. Walla Walla, Sept. 22. There was a collision on the Union Pacific this af ternoon at Bolles Junction. The regular south bound passenger from Spokane collided with an engine on the Dayton branch. The engineer on the branch went down on the main line to get water. He heard the passenger coming and endeavored to get back. He did not get far enough, and the two locomotives came together like a wedge, and both were badly wrecked The passengers were shaken up and scared, but no one was hurt.