V.
VOL. IV.
THE DALLES. OREGON; MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1892.
NO. 100;
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W. E. GARRETSON,
Leading Jeweler.
SOCK AGENT Fill! Tilt!
All Watch Work Warranted.
Jewelry Made to Order.
138 Second St.. Tbe DallcM. Or.
Kraoich and Bach Pianos.
Recognised as Standards of the high
est.grade of manufacture.
JUDGElELSON'S
DECISION.
Speaking of patent medicines, the
Judge says: "I wish to deal fairly and
honorably with all, and when I find an
article that will do what it is recom
mended to do, I am not ashamed to say
eo. I am acquainted with Dr. Vander
pool (having been treated by him for
cancer), and have used his blood medi
cine, known as the S. B. Headache and
Liver Cure, and while I am 7o yenrs old,
and have used many pills and other
remedies for the blood, liver and kid
neys, I must eay that for a kidney tonic
in Brights disease, and as an alterative
for the blood, or to correct the action of
the stomach and bowels, it is a very su
perior remedy, and beat9 anything I
er tried. " J.'Ii. Nejlsox,
Vakima, Wash.
At 50 cents a bottle. It is the poor
man's friend and family doctor.
JOHN PASHEK,
JTlercnant - Tailor,
' Next door to Wasco Sun.
Just Received, a fine stock of Suitings,
Pants Patterns, etc., of all latest
Styles, at Low Prices.
Madison's Latest System used in cutting
garments, and a fit guaranteed
. each time.
Hcpaiping and Cleaning
Neatly and Quickly Done. '
CHAS. STCBUXG.
OWEN' WILLIAMS.
Stubling & Williams.
The Gepmania,
SECOND ST.,
THE DALLES, - OREGON
"Dealers in Wines, Liquors and
Cigars. Milwaukee Beer on Draught.
Ul. H. Young,
Biacksmiin & VJagon snop
General Blacksmithing and Work done
promptly, and all work
Guaranteed.
Horse Shoeeing a Speiality
. TM Street opposite the old Liebe Stand.
Tiie St. Charles Hotel,
PORTLAND, OREGON.
This old, popular and reliable house
has been entirely refurnished, and every
room has been repapered and repainted
and newly carpeted throughout. The
house contains 170 rooms and is supplied
with every modern convenience. Rates
reasonable. A good restaurant attached
to the house. . Frer bus to and from all
trains. ' - "- -
. C. W. KNOWLES, Prop.
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Clothing.
Our pall Ijpe
Of Clothing and Furnishing
Goods is now complete. You.
can
5aue Tor;ey
By seeing our stock before
making your purchases.
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DRUGS
Snipes &,Kinersly.
-THE LEADING-
Witale iiml Retail Iininifi.
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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. .
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The Largest Dealers in Wall Paper.
Finest Line of Imported Key West and Domestic Cigars.
Agent for TansilPs Punch.
129 Second Street, The Dalles, Oregon
J. O. MACK,
I FlflEWlMEg and LIQUORff j
DOMESTIC
And KEY WEST
CIGARS.
FRENCH'S
171 SECOND STREET,
WM. BUTLER & CO..
: DEALERS IN :
Building
Material,
Lumber, Lime, Plaster, Hair and Cement.
A liberal discount to the trade
JEFFERSON STREET, between Second
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THE
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PABST BEER.
BLOCK.
THE DALLES, OR.
Rough and Dressed
in all lines handled by us.
and Railroad. . THE DALLES, OR
THE NICARAGUA CANAL
An Aflflress to tlis People of tlie Unite!
States Froi tie Company.
COST OF CANAL CONSTRUCTION.
One Hundred Million Dollars andjto be
Complete in Five Years.
THE GREAT SATING IN DISTANCE.
flow it Will Enable the Pacific voast to
Lead out on the High Koad of
Ironpenty.
The committee appointed by the Na
tional Nicaragua Canal Convention at
its meeting in St. Louis, to prepare an
address to the- American "people giving
information as to the feasibility of the
Nicaragua canal and its commercial and
other advantages to the United States,
has just finished the preparation of such
address, which takes the position that a
canal, joining the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans, should be constructed for the
BIRD'S-EYE VIEW .Q
or THE
NICARAGUA CANAL.
most important commercial, strategic
and patriotic reasons, and declares that
the only feasible route for such a canal
is by way of Nicaragua.
It appears that all the engineers have
agreed in expressing a decided preference
for the Nicaragua route, because, among
other reasons, only 26,? miles of the
entire distance of 169 miles from the
Atlantic. to the Pacific ocean through
Nicaragua, will have to be excavated.
The other 1423, miles consist of Lake
Nicaragua, the San Juan river and de
pressions in the surface of the earth.
Lake Nicaragua w-ill constitute a harbor
sufficient to accommodate tbe navies and
commerce of the world. It is 100 miles
long, sixty miles wide and is 250 feet at
its deepest points. Vessels entering the
canal from the Atlantic ocean will sail
on a'level with the ocean for 12 miles,
at the nd of which they will be raised
by three locks to the level of the lake.
They will eail along the San Juan river
and the lake on the lake level to a point
within three and one-half miles of the
Pacific ocean. Here they will be low
ered by the looks to the level of the Pa
cific ocean.
The committee says the cost, includ
ing the payment of interest during the
progress of the work, will be less than
$100,000,000, and the time required for
the completion of the work . is within
five years.
What a commentary this is on our
enail like pace at the " cascades of the
Columbia.
The address shows that , the distance
saved by the canal between New York
and the Columbia river is 5,665 miles.
The wheat crop of tbe Pacific coast in
1891 was over 1,800,000 tons and eighty
per cent of the wheat was ; exported by
sailing vessels and a large, proportion of
it passed around the Horn. The Nicara-
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gna canal by shortening the route to
Atlantic ports would not only save the
producer cost of freight but the revenue
of the canal at $2 per ton toll would be
nearly $3,000,000 on wheat alone. It is j
shown that there are 500,000,000 thous
and feet of merchantable timber in Wash
ington and Oregon to the value of which
over $2 per thousand feet would be ad
ded by cheap water transportation via
the Nicaragua canal. The gross
addition to the value would amount to
the enormous eum of $1,000,000,000, even
at this low estimate of $2 additional.
The fruit industry would quadruple in
two years from the opening of the canal
for business and fast refrigerator steam
ers would deliver fruit to New York in
ten days, to Liverpool in fourteen dayb,
and to New Orleans in eight days.' Tbe
mountains of the Pacific coast are rich
in lead, copper, silver and gold, while
the plateaux and valleys afford a cereal
belt with a soil more durable, and more
favorable seasons for seeding and har- j concludes, "as a nation conscious of the
vesting than any part of the world, and I power we wield and of the greater influ
the committee thinks the completion of ' ence we mav exert upon the destinies of
the Nicaragua canal is only needed to j tnis continent, to perform the duties
develop that country to production of j without delay which we deny other na
eigantic proportions and double the tiona the privilege of assuming, and to
population of the Pacific coast in a few
years."
Among the beneficial results foreseen
are a nkire practical drawing together of
the remote parts of the vast domain of
the world and a firmer cohesion of the
widely-separated sections of the United
States, added to a stronger feeling of
neighborhood and community between
if
the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards. " The
consummation of tbe work, whoee feasi
bility has already been demonstrated, is
asserted to be of far greater importance
to the western hemisphere than the Suee
canal is to the eastern. It is said that
no precedent can be cited upon which to
predict the future of American commerce
when the gateway of the Intez-Oceanic
canal across Nicaragua shall be open
to it. - ' -
The bigeest dredging plant in America,
that formerly used at Panama, lias bt en
purchased, and over a mile of the canal
has been dredged. The exclusive fran
chise of the steam navigation of the San
Juan river and lake Nicaragua and" an
extensive plant for the navigation com
pany have been acquired. The govern
ment of Nicaragua has acknowledged
that the company has complied with
the canal grant, which provided that
$2,000,000 must be expended the first
year. It is shown that the amount of
money spent to date on the enterprise is
over $6,000,000. The enterprise is en
dorsed by the leading business men of
the country, and that it will be judi
ciously and economically managed is
assured by the character of the board of
directors, who, by - the charter of the
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
company," are accountable to. the govern
ment of the United States. Thesecretary '
of the interior has the power to make
public all the details of the corporate
management, tbus protecting the in-
vestor against misuse of the money.
The Suez canal, it is shown, saves only
8,000 rnjiles around the Cape of Good
Hope, as against 10,000 miles saved by
the Nicaragua canal.
The committee says it is no longer a
question whether the canal will be built
or not. The only question is as to who
shall build it, and who shall control it
when built? It says it has been in
formed that. European syndicates have
already made overtures to the canal
company, but the committee . believes
the United States cannot afford by care
lessness, hesitation or neglect to permit
an enterprise of such maguitude and of ,
such far reaching advantage to puss nn- '
der the control of any foreign company.
"It therefore behooves us," the address '
adopt now the best means of securing
the early completion of this work, whose
advantages we are willing to share with -the
world but whose control should
neyer be allowed to pass out of our
hands."
THE SCREW STEAMER WINS.
Ilace Itrtveea Two of the Great Sound
Steamers, l'urltan and Peck.
New York, Oct. 8. A sight rarely
witnessed on the waters of Long Island
sound was seen this morning in a race
between two of the mammoth steam
boats that comes to this city. The race'
was between the Puritan of the Fall
River line and the Richard Peck of the
New Haven line. It was a test between
different systems of marine machinery,
and to determine the-relative qualities
of the compound beam engine that goes
with the sidewheeler and . the modern
triple expansion engine that drives the
twin screw propellor. '
The Puritan is a side-wheeler, one of
the largest floating sound palaces, and '
the v Richard Peck is the first screw
steamboat to go in service pn the sound.
She was bnilt on the Delaware river and
has only been in service a month. Tbe
agents of the Fall River line senf a chal- '
lenge to the people of the New Haven
line to test the speed of their fast boats.
The challenge was accepted, and - it was
decided-the ra;e should be between a
point near Stratford shoals to Fort
Schuyler, a distance of 56 miles.
The Peck left New Haven at 10:30
o'clock last night. When she got into
the sound she slowed up and waited un
til tbe Puritan came up and the boats
were stein and stem. Then they started,
and for the first fifteen minutes neither
seemed to gain an inch on the other.
The passengers on each boat shared in
the excitement, and though the weather
was cold and rain was falling, most of
them remained on deck. Finally , the
Richard Peck, began to forge slowly
ahead. Gradually the distance between
the two boats increased, and at last the
Puritan was left far astern. When the
Richard Peck passed Ft. Schuyler the :
Puritan was a mile and a half astern
and had loet the race. .
A True Story.
The Philadelphia Times has a letter :
from Col. Pat. Donan written at Vetoria,
from which we clip the following true
story: "Such a fishing ground I never
saw anywhere else on earth, and the
pitiful little fish stories one hears mis
guided eastern people trying to tell
make me seasick. Five weeks ago last
Monday a fishing party was given to me
by J. O. Hanthorn, one -of Astoria's
wealthy cannery men. We went - in a
steam yacht. . The party consisted of six
gentlemen and four ladies. . Among the
number were two Episcopal clergymen,.
Rev. W. S. Short, of ABtoria, and Rev.
T. A. Hyland, of New York. I am fx
trifle particular, as you see, in my men
tion of them. We started between eight
and nine o'clock 'in the morning, and ;
returned at five o'clock in the afternoon,
and we brought back 23,100 pounds of
fish. That sounds big, does it? Well,
it is exactly the size of the truth. We
had 700 fish that averaged thirty pounds
each, and 300 that averaged seven pounds
each. Now, go to Bat with your Lilipu- -tian
fish tales." . :" "
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