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VOL. IV.
THE DALLES, OREGON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 33, 1892.
NO. 65.
W. E. GARRETSON,
Leaiflug JeweleL
SOLE AGENT FOB THE
All Watch Work Warranted.
Jewelry Made to Order.
138 Second St.. The Dalle. Or.
Kranich and Bach Pianos.
Recognised aa Standards of the high
est grade of manufacture.
HA-Ik 3VT riirtIT
Fills ? UNTO X S
1 you take pills It is because you have never
tiled the
S. B. Headache and Liver Cure.
It works so nicely, cleansing the Liver and
Kidneys; acts as a mild physic without oausing
pain or sickness, and does not stop you from
eating and working. . "-' .
To try it Is to become a friend to It.. -
or sale by all druggists. - -
Annie Wright Seminary,
. Boarding and Day School for Girls.
Jlinth Year begins Sept. 8tb 1892.
For Admission, Apply to the Principal
Mrs. Sarah iC. White,
' Annie Wright Seminary.
TXCOMA. - - WASH.
JOHN PASHEK,
t - Tailor,
Next door to Wasco Sun.
Just Received, a fine elock of Suitings,
Pants Patterns, etc., of all latest
Styles, at Low Prices.
Madison's Latest System .used in cutting
garments, ana a ni guaranteed
each time. i
Repairing and Cleaning
Neatly and" Quickly Done.
Ul. H. Young,
BiacKsmiiu & Wagon stiop
General Blacksmitbing and Work done
promptly, and all work
Guaranteed.
Horse Shoeeing a Spciality
TM Street opposite the old Liebe Stand.
MRS. C. DAVIS
Has Opened the
REVERE RESTAURANT,
. In the New Frame Building on
SECOND STREET, Next to the
Diamond Flouring Mills.
"
Han
- Fi ClM Meals Furnished at all Hours.
Only Whit Help Employed.
100 Dozer TOWEIiS.
Worth 25 Cts., going for 12 1-2 Cts.
Just Received an Immense Shipment
- of the Celebrated
loyal Ubreester Corsets
IN EVERY
STYLE and PRICE.
in CuId W
DRUGS
Sni
:'&KlN
-THE LEADING-
loH and Retail Dnits
. ' ' Handled by Three Registered Druggists.
ALSO ALL THE LEADING '
Patent (Dedieines and Druggists Sundries,
HOUSE PAINTS, OILS AND GLASS.
Agents for Murphy's Fine Varnishes and the only agents in
the City for The Sherwin, Williams' Co.'s Paints.
-WE
The Largest Dealers in Wall Paper.
Finest Line of Imported Key West and Domestic Cigars.
Agent for Tansill's Punch. .
129 Second Street, The Dalles, Oregon
J O. mack;
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Liquor
Finest Wines
171 Second Street,
Frenchs' Block, The Dalles, Oregon
GRBLER"WEBSTER
PIANOS AND ORGANS
Sold ofi Easy Payments.
Musical instruments and Music.
' ' Booksellers and Stationers.
. J AbO BS
165 SECOND STREET.
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ERSLY.
ARE-
and Liquors.
EN Go..
The Dalles Or.
Dealer
CHOLERA SPREADING.
Has at Last (Jot a Pretty tiyely Start in
- Great Britaia. " J-
EFFORTS FAIL T6 KEEP IT OUT.
l-Excitement in .Dundee and Aberdeen
" Because of Deaths. -
THK KOCTOUS DISAGREE. AS TO-IT.
Porls of Colombia Closed Against Ger
many, Franca and Belgium
Other News.
New Yohk, Aug. 30. Great Britain
baa a serious visitation of the cholera at
last. From Gravesend, Swansea, Glas
gow and- Dundee, towns in England
Scotland and Wales, reports come of
death - from the disease, showing that
the efforts of the health officials to keep
it out of the country have proved fruit
less, and now this afternoon comes a re
port that a person has died from Asiatic
cholera at Bolton, a large manufacturing
town twelve 'miles northwest of Man
chester. The place is one of tho princi
pal seats of English cotton manufacture,
and thousands of- mill operatives live
there. The permission given by the
health officials at Middlcsborough for
the landing of the crew of the steamer
Geronia, from Hamburg,, promises to
have most serious results. A steamer,
which has been in quarantine at Elbe
owing two deaths from cholera, is ex
pected to arrive at Graveeend with' a
large number of poor emigrants. There
is much- apprehension concerning the
matter. Gravesend is only twenty miles
from London, and an outbreak of chol
era there is much feared.' The an
nouncement is made this afternoon that
the company which conveys most of the
aliens to Gravesend had decided to
cease passenger traffic from Hamburg.
Dr. Whitcomb, sanitary officer at Graves
end, who inspected the steamer Gemma,
which arrived from Hamburg Thursday,
three of whose passengers subsequently
died from what was supposed to be
Asiatic cholera, denies the disease was
the'true Asiatic scourge, and declares it
was merely choleraine. It is difficult in
the multiplicity of assertions and denials
to accurately determine the Teal . truth
of the matter. It is now declared the
sickness on the steamer Laura,' which
arrived at Lynn Friday with two suspi
cious cases, was not cholera, but acute
diarrhoea. .Excitement : was caused at
Gravesend this morning by the arrival
of a steamer from Hamburg, on- which a
baby died en route. An investigation
showed the baby died of an infantile
disorder, and those on board were' all
well aid were, allowed to .land. The
Federal authorities of the United States
of Colombia have issued an oeder clos
ing ports on the Atlantic- coast- of Col
ombia to all vessels arriving from ports
infected with choleraT ' This puts a stop
at once to communication with Ger
many, France or Belgium, as far as con
ducted through Antwerp, Hamburg,
Havre and other places where cholera is
known or suspected to exist. Official
returns of. .all infected districts show
4767 new cases of cholera- Friday and
2834 deaths. , -
. Indians as Cltlaens.
East Oregonian. Indians in Umatilla
county will probably ot receive their
franchise jn time to vote at the next
presidentiaTlectiou. They do not be
come citizens urHjl the report of the al
lotment commissioners has been ap
proved by' the department, which may
not occur-until next spring. The com
missioners will have finished the allot
ment by the end of this month,. but it
may take two months to prepare the re
port, which is an extensive document,
and there is n6 telling when the depart
ment will get around to its considera
tion so there is little use, as yet, for
the politician to begin shaking hands
with1 his Indian friend, and to inquire
after his family welfare. The Indians
will have all the privileges and all 4he
responsibilities of American citizenship.
They will be entitled to vote, bold office,
and exercise equal rights with white
men. j'Their property, now exempt from
seizure, may then be levied upon for
debt jby the civil authorities, r '
; In 1888,. underMr: : Cleveland, the
balance of trade against the United
States was $23,863,443. In 1832, under
Mr. Harrison and McKinley law, the
balance in our favor is (202,944,342.
: FOB THE CASCADES.
The Plans and '. Specifications Will Be
; . -. Forwarded to- Washington
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From the. Daily Di? jitch.l ,;-- '; '
; The" plans-'and specifications for the
completion of the Casca'de locks are
nearly; finished,' and' will probably be
forwardd '. to "Washington., the last of
this week. - The government will try the
contract system for the "finishing of the
works, and these plans and- drawings
are to be used by those who wish to put
in a bid for the work". This contracting
for the completion of. the work at "the
locks -is . the only way. that the works
will ever be completed. ' These locks
have been under way for tho past fif teen
years, and the amount of money already
expended by tho government," and its
red-taped employes, was more than
enough to have finished the ' entire
works by the contract system years ago.
The locks can be completed for opera
tion in less time than eighteen months
by " contract, whereas, by the red tape
system, it would require nearly that
many years more. The eight .hour law
in regard to all government works will
make it a little more expensive by con
tract than it otherwise would, and still
it will not reach within one quarter of
what it would actually cost the govern
ment otherwise. When the contract on
the works is let, the people of Eastern
Oregon will theu have a glimpse of the
beginning of the end. ' River steamers
of all sizes and class, not excluding even
the whaleback, can go at" will, without
let df hindrance from The ' Dalles to
Portland, Astoria, and even to the for
eign markets, if necessary," without
change of boat. When this is done the
day for general rejoicing and jubilee has
come for the people of Eastern Oregon.
; Taxing The Canneries."
' Astoriau. It is doubtful if the salmon
law, which appears to be troubling the
Salem authorities, is constitutional. - It
imposes a tax on cannerymen which is
not in accord with, the constitution,
which contemplates, just and equal tax
ation. It allows a fisherman who re
ceives a dollar per fish to go Scott free,
but coin pels, the cannery man to pay one
half cent per Chinook salmon, although
his profits are scanty, and he is forced
to compete with canners in Alaska and
British Columbia whose taxes arc very
light. The state should not overburden
this industry. The salmon cannerymen
of Astoria and the-Oolumbia in general
pay taxes on their plant to the state and
on their tin cans to the general govern
ment. They add to "the. wealth of the
state by their enterprise and turn to
good account the product of the sea
which would otherwise go to waste.
They exercise no monoply, for every one
is free to engage in salmon packing, and
some persons are both fishermen and
cannerymen - by virtue of the shares
which they hold in canneries. No such
tax is imposed in. Washington or in . the
Eastern states. Boats return loaded
from the fishing banks on the New York
shore,, but no one imposes any tax on
each fish that the excursionists catch.
People catch trout and slay"deer in the
Adriondacks without paying a. cent, to
the state government. Such examples
should have weight in this state, where
it appears the money is not urgently
needed, inasmuch its the fish tax collect
ed last year is still in the treasury and
cannot be used until the- legislature of
1892 appropriates it. We believe that
Attorney-General Chamberlain would
be warranted in using his own. discretion
so far as to forego all efforts to collect
this tax, on the simple ground that it is
unconstitutional. ' '
Send in Tonr Mnles.
Ochoco Review. The people of The
Dalles are making preparation's to enter
tain the Press Association C-hich . meets
in that city OXtobor 4th. Tn making up
a programme for entertaining the editors
why not give them a ree . excursion to
Prjneville! . ;Ther are plenty of Crook
county freighters who would "delight in
loading their ptaVie -schooners with
Oregon quill sbqver! and hauling them
over the beautiful sandy hills and plains
between the Columbia "and this place.
The Dalles committee Appointed to ar
range will please consider the feasibility
of such an excursion.
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Highest of all in Leathering Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
BIG DRAINAGE: PLAN.
A Florda Syndicate to Develop a Giant
C Sugar Monopoly. ..
WORTHLESS LAND M ADE VALUABLE.
An Eccentric Iowa Citizen Buried in a.
-""." --. Sitting Position.
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HAW H'S COFFIN MADE TO OKUFK.
Opeuluc or , The ' International tiraln
Market in Vienna The Harvest of ".
The World. .".."' ' V;
Cincinnati, Aug. 29.- Beyond all.
question ' the irrigation scheme being
pushed in Florida by capitalists of this ...
city', Philadelphia and New York is to
be the greatest North America has ever. -seen.
At present it is only - a big land
syndicate, but it may develop into -the
giant sugar monopoly of the world. Tho :.
company has had - an existence for -months,
and through its agents has se
cured at a few cents an acre a tract of .
land on the St. John and Indian rivers, -eighty-three
miles long and from three
to six miles wide. It has three feet of
rich muck, and it is estimated : to be
worth $100 an aero when drained. It is -estimated
that it will require $4,000,000
to complete the drainage. They are now -at
work digging out the trenches. - The
building of dikes' and laying of pipes
will begin in October.
A Queer Coffin. ?
. Ckxtervili.e, Iowa, Aug. 29. Heze- .
kiah Sheppherd, " a wealthy fanner
ninety years bid,, who lived at Drake
ville, was buried recently in a coffin in
the shape of a chair. . For fifteen, years
Mr. Sheppherd has been unable to rest,
except by Bitting, in an easy chair, and "
in that position he proposed to die. His
friends tried to' dissuade him from his
eccentric notion, but he had. a cabinet
maker construct the curious casket.;: It
was substantially' built of white oak,
with walnut trimmings. -It was kept
on exhibition in Mr. Sheppherd 's room
six weeks previous to his death, and he
took special satisfaction in displaying it
to bis friends.. He left instructions to
baare his body placed in this casket in a
sittirg posture, the wrists strapped to
the arms of the casket, the limbs to its
legs, and the head and the neek to the
back. A glass panel was placed in front,
to expose the face of the dead man. . .
International Grain Market. '
Vienna, Austria, Aug 29. The jjreat "
international grain and seed market was -opened
today with , a large representa
tion from American as well a3 Euro
pean countries. The proceedings were
opened With a conference in the great
hall of the agricultural bourse. An im
mense amount of statistical material has '
been sent infor the consideration of the
delegates, and tomorrow reports will be
presented giving estimates of the- har
vestsof 1892 in the United States, Cana
da. Russia. India, and othsii era in rro-
j during countries. . - . .
: Irtlgatlon Did It. ;
I East Oregonian. Evidence " aecuuiu-,
I lates every day that irrigation would
make Umatilla' county the richest, most
j prosperous and progressive county in
the state. One of the men who has done
much to strengthen this opinion is II. -B.
Thrasher, who some years ago took
up a ranch in the sands on the Colum
bia in the vicinity of Wallnla. Mr.
Thrasher this year with the aid of irri
gation has raised a magnificent crop of ;
the most luscious, and delicious" fruit.
Boxes of peaches, large as one's fist, of .
beautiful color and splendid flavor, and
tuagni Scent grapes have' been recently
received at this office as a testimonial of
the quality of his products. Finer fruit
never was seen anywhere, not even in '
California. Such work as Mr. Thrasher ;
is doing is of inestimable value to the
country as it encourages other men to
go and do likewise who would not other
wise be convinced that their - labors -would
meet with good results.: . - ;.