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The Dalles Daily Chronicle. OFFICIAL PAPER OF DALLE8 CITY. AND WASCO COUNTY. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. . BY MAIL, F08TAGB FRXPAID, IN ABVAHCB. Weekly, 1 year $ 1 SO 6 months. .-' 0 75 " 8 " ....... i 0 60 Daily, 1 year. . . .-. 6 00 " 6 months 800 per " 0 60 Address mil communication to " THE CHRON ICLE." The Dalles, Oregon. . Post-Offlee. OPTTCB HOURS General Delivery Window 8 a. m. to 7 p. m. Money Order 8a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays D. 9 a. m. to 10 a.m. CLOSINS OF MAILS trains going East 9 p. m. and 11:45 a. m. ... .. west 9 p.m. and 6:80 p.m. . "Stage for Goldendale 7:80a.m. " " Prinevill. . . . .. 6:80a. m. -. "Dufur and Warm Springs. .. 5:80a.m. tLeaylng for Lyle b Hart land. .6:80 a. m. , .. " jAntelope 5:30a.m. ''Except Bnnday. Tri-weekly. Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. t , " Monday Wednesday and Friday. WEDNESDAY, - - - FEB. 21, 189 'HIS J VST DESERTS. "The purpose of puoiehing a crime," Baid Prosecuting Attorney Wilson yes- terday, speaking in" the Hall case, "is , not for revenge, nor can it do the dead victim any good. Its only purpose is to deter others' from committing a similar crime by the fear of punishment." The verdict in the Hall case is satisfactory to that part of the community who were conversant with the evidence. With no living witnesses to the murder but Hull, the murderer, the state secured a verdict . in a'remarkably short .time for a convic tion. The reason for it was that Hull - did not tell the' truth'. His story was . shown up in all its frailty under the brilliant search light of reason - As the attorney said, if he bad been telling the truth, it would have welled up spontan- - eously. It would have come as a resist less flood which be could not keep back. Hull would have said : "Why, he was after me with a knife. He was terribly ercited," etc. That knife would have shown up somewhere. Instead he said : "He was a bigger man than I was, and I bad to do it," and knife never was men tioned until be bad formulated the story . for a defense. Hull's mind works slowly by reason of bis own excesses, and his conclusions even then are not reliable. The weakness of bis story is the natural product of a weak mind, unfortunately for himself and his victim, directed in ' the channels of guns and shooting. The verdict is just, and would not be changed by a new trial. John Cbattertori, Lillian Russell's latest husband, achieved fame early .in life. He' took the first prize at Bar sum's original baby show in New York. Tne old Bay state has reason to be ' proud. The statistics, show that of the 352 towns and cities in Massachusetts all but. forty-four contain free public -libraries. The children of the slaves of George Washington having largely died off, the man who was a personal friend of Lincoln's, and to whom tne martyred president told all his plans and secrets, is coming to the front in large num bers. According to the - Gotha Almanac which has . been issued for 1894, the queen of England has reigned longer than any other ruler in the world, hav ing ascended the throne in 1837. Next to her in point of time are Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria and! Fred erick, the grand duke of Baden. . Senator Mitchell introduced a bill in the senate on the 19th for the granting of two townships of land in Oregon for the state university at Eugene. If Ore gon is so hard ' pushed that she has to " have aid from the general government to maintain her state universities, it is about time .to take- back the criticisms made on Governor Pennoyer's Christ mas letter to President Cleveland. If a state cannot maintain her state institu tions she ought to ask to be put back into her territorial condition. The Forum will begin its seventeenth volume with an innovation, which it is hoped will prove very useful to serious, students of current problems. At the end of articles of such subjects as "The Income Tax," "The Programme of the . Nationalists,", and other kindred dis , cassions, there will be published a brief list of the most instructive books and articles bearing on lxtb sides of these discussions, so that a reader may follow - bis studies farther than any Review ar '. tide can take him. -Niagara has been . harnessed at last and it has been put through a few of its paces for the first time. The first , establishment to use the Niagara power is a paper mill and it calls for 6,600 - horse-power. The test was satisfactory - and soon the whole 120,000 horse-power ; will be in use. Some of the romance '' will be taken out of the great cataract by. the proceeding, but the reality will be worth a few millions per annum and the value of the realty in the vicinity will be considerably enhanced. " The fruit growers convention at Spo kane is the first Btep in the right direc tion, the inception of a positive pros perity. Heretofore, hatever methods may have been adopted by an occasional individual be was baffled by othf-rs working at cross purposes. A conven tion of all of them may formulate a plan of procedure which will be most advan tageous if it is known that it "will be generally followed, and the mistakes of one may be provided against and avoid ed by a recital of the experience in open meeting. The concessions already gained in freight rates, which will pay for the trouble and expense of the . Spokane meeting ten times over in one year, show what can be done by organization. There is a brilliant future ahead for Pa cific coast fruit growers if they will fol low up the advantages gained at their first annual meeting. ' . WASHINGTON LETTER. An Ugly Kaiuor Democratic Civil Ser vice "Fraudulent Pensioners." From our Regular Correspondent. , Washington, Feb. 16, 1894. A very ugly rumor is being whispered around Washington in connection with the contradictory reports which have been given out by friends of democratic senators as to what the democrats on the senate finance committee -propose doing with, the sugar clause of the Cleveland tariff bill. One day it is stated that sugar is to be allowed to re main on the free list and the next that it is to have a duty of anywhere from one-half a cent to one and one-balf cents a pound put upon it. . This rumor says that these contradictory statements are made solely for the purpose of giving certain men an opportunity to speculate in the' New York stock exchange. It is now stated by the democratic members of the sub-committee which has charge of the tariff bill that it will certainly be reported to the full committee early next week, but they said the same thing a week ago. There are some democratic senators who have not yet been satisfied and the bill will not be reported until they are. . . The house had a lively time this week discussing the Bland bill for the coinage of the seigniorage in the treasury. ' A controversy between Mr. Bland and ex Speaker Reed grew so warm that the acting speaker had to call on the eer- geant-at-arms before quiet was restored. As a parliamentarian Mr. Bland. isn't in the same class with the ex-speaker. Few men in the house are, for that matter. Let the mugwumps and the whang doodles blow a few piore blasts on their horns. Another great democratic reform in the civil service has - been consum mated. . This week 160 republican clerks in the pension bureau, many of them veterans of the war, were reduced, re gardless of their efficiency, and 200 dem ocratic clerks in the same establishment were promoted for no other reason, than that they were democrats. How is that for reform with a big R? - Representative Meiklejohn, of Neb raska, is after the administration with a little pension resolution that will come very close to convicting Mr. Cleveland of misrepresentation, either intentional or through lack of proper information, in his annual message to congress. In a preamble to the resolution Mr. Meikle john recalls the language used in the president's message of Dec. 4, 1893, and copies the order of the. commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., quoting Mr. Cleveland's statement that "thousands of neighborhoods have their . well known fraudulent pensioners, and recent developments by the bureau establish appalling conspiracies , to accomplish pension frauds," and urg ing, all comrades to report at once to the " commissioner of pensions the name of any person known to be draw ing a pension to which be was not justly entitled. Then follows : '.'Resolved, That the commissioner of pansions. is hereby respectfully requested to furnish the house with copies of - all reports re ceived by him under this order ,bf the commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. of persons who are in receipt of a pension who are not entitled to the same under the law." The commissioner will have a bard time complying with this order because there' have been no such re ports, for the very good and sufficient reason that there are no such individu als as "well known fraudulent pension ers." No one doubts that among the large number of pensioners there are some frauds, but it is an insult to every American citizen to say that ,they are well known to their neighbors as frauds. Some men - are caught by one thing and some by another, but the theory of Mr. Cleveland seems to be that all dem ocrats can be caught by. something. ' He has, this week 'added two democratic senators to the cuckoo band. Senator George of Missippi was caught by being made dispenser-in-chief of the federal patronage in bis state. . This was a double play on the part of. Mr. Cleve land. It turned one opponent into a supporter and gave, a new opponent Senator McLaurin of Mississippi a knockdown at the very, beginning of bis official life. Senator Faulkner of W. Va., the other new cuckoo, was caught through the social ' ambition of bis young and beautiful ' bride, Mrs. Cleve land aiding her husband. The administration pie department spread a gorgeous- lunch; for the hungry democrats this week, but there was nothing for the anti-cockoo wing of the party in the long, list of appointments made. It is not enough for an office seeker to be a democrat ; he must be vouched for by those who have endorsed every act of Mr. Cleveland, whether right or wrong, and who have promised to endorse all his future acts. The the ory of one man power in the distribu tion of official favors is not more strictly carried out by the czar of Russia or the sultan of Turkey than it is by Grover Cleveland under this republican form of government. He demands that every man who holds a presidential commis sion shall wear a Cleveland collar. : . -" Cas. - OPPOSED TO ALL." PROGRESS. Chinese Aversion to Railroads Manifested in Cnrions Ways. Engineering1 enterprise in China, particularly in so ' far as regards rail road building, has had, and is still having, a good deal to contend with in the.way of native prejudice, cupidity and superstition, sas Cassell's Maga zine, and the tales are many that have been told of the peculias difficulties encountered in that country by European engineers and engineering syndicates in the course of their opera tions. When, for example, the first railroad was built, a number of years ago, the necessary land, it was stated, was bought from several hundred different proprietors, all Of whom wanted additional bounties, for the disturbances of ancestral ' graves, which, as may be "known, abound In what the "foreign devil" would be apt to consider rather unusual localities. Onesproprietor claimed to have buried on his strip of land no less than five mothers-in-law, for whom he had - to bepaid. Satisfying him naturally re sulted in a' marvelous multiplication of dead mothers-in-law, who thus soon became the chief item in the cost of the land.- Another curious example, of the difficulties of railroad, construc tion in -the celestial empire has .more recently been mentioned, and has been afforded- by the conduct of the Tartar general of Moukden, the capital of Manchuria, in connection with .the surveying work "of the railroad from Kirin, another large Manchurian town, to NewchwangV the seaport of the province. . According to current re port it was proposed to make a junc tion of this line for Moukden at a place a short distance outside the city, but' the general got' a number of geomancers to investigate 'the effect of this selection upon Moukden. These sages reported that the vertebras of the dragon which ' encircles the-holy city of Moukden would be broken by driv ing the long spikes of the railroad ties into them, and-accordingly the general . .vetoed the decision of the engineers and directed them to carry the railroad in a straight line from Kirin to Newchwang, without ap proaching Moukden at all. This, while 'a' shorter route, would compel the crossing -of a low aid marshy tract of land, liable to floods and only spatsely populated. , - FATALIST, BUT CAUTIOUS. He Believed Id Predestination, Bat Wanted to Be at a Safe Distance. It was once said by some humorist that the chances were if a man intent upon committing suicide should meet an angry bull in- a field he would run to save hislif e. . ; And bo it goes, the New York Herald moralizes. ' Most men who profess a belief in destiny and an indifference to fate when brought face to faoa with a danger or placed in a desperate situa tion seek to avoid rather than embrace the inevitable result of the event re garding which they - have held such philosophical opinions. A" case in point is related by a trav eler returning from the south, and hinges upon tne experience ot a minis ter of the foreordination school of belief-on a Mississippi steamer in the good old-fashioned days of river rac ing, when a negro sat on the safety valve and the furniture and-woodwork of the boat fed the fire. The captain seeing, a rival boat half a mile ahead began to curse in true old-time) style,- and . ordered tar pine knots, naval stores,' bacon, etc., to be thrown in to kindle- the fire as. hot as possible. As the steam got higher and higher and the .old, boat trembled and groaned under the .'. . pressure, . the preacher drew nearer and nearer to the stern. ' . . . Noticing this aii8 never losing an opportunity- to crack a - joke, the bluff captain tapped : the fatalist on the shoulder and- said; "116110, Brother Blank, what's ailing you? I thought you was one of them fellows what be lieves what is to happen will happen nohow."" . - ; "So I do," replied the clergyman drawing himself up. !So I do, but I want to be as near the stern as . possi ble when it does happen." Mortality of French Infants. Owing to the enormous mortality of newly-born Parisians put out to nurse, and owing t6 the great mortality of in fants, principally among the laboring classes, from diphtheria and measles, and the high mortality of the citizens from consumption, the average life or average age of those whodie in Paris appears to be only twenty-height years, while for the whole of France the aver age age is forty. Nevertheless the popu lation of Paris increases more and more by the incessant immigration, of pro vincials' and .foreigners, who make up two-thirds' as against one-third of na tives. But owing to their feeble natal ity and high mortality, the families which are not united to these immi grants die out in three, four or at most five generations. .- Look 0ver Your County Warrants. All county warrants registered prior to January 16th, 1890, will be paid if presented at my office, corner of Third and Washington streets. Interest ceases on and after this date. - - Wsr. Micheli., Treasurer Wasco County. October 2lt, 1893. tf All Free, v . i Those who have used Dr. King's' New Discovery know its value, and those who' have not, have now "the opportunity to tr,y it free.' Call on the' advertised drug gist and get a trial bottle, free. Send your name and address to H. E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get a sample box of Dr. King's New life Pills free, as well as a copy of Guide to Health and House hold Instructor, free. All of wbicb is guaranteed to do you good and cost you nothing. -.v. Sold bv Snipes SrKinersly. See theJWorla's Fair for Fifteen Cents ; Upon receipt of your address and fif teen cents in postage stamps', wo will mail you prepaid our souvenir "portfolio of . the world's Columbian exposition, the regular price is fifty cents, but as we want you to have one, we .'make the price nominal.: You will find. it a work of art and a thing to be prized. It con tains full page views of the great bulld ingSi with descriptions of same, and ' is executed In highest style of art." If - not satisfied with it, after you get it, we will refund the stamps and let yon keep the book. Address - . ' , .-'.- .' . H. E. Bucklen & Co., - ' . Chicago, 111, ' . . The experience of Geo. A. Apgar, "of German Valley, N. J., is well worth re-, membering. He was' troubled with chronic diarrhoea and doctored for five months and was treated by four differ ent doctors without benefit. 'He then began using Chamberlain's Colic, "Chol era and Diarrhoea Remedy, of which one bottle effected a complete cure.' It is for sale by Blakeley & Houghton, drug gists. ' ' ' - . - - J Good Chance for m Bustler. A man is wanted by -Kerr & Buckley of Grass Valley to run their hay and grain ranch on shares, one with some means preferred, but can : furnish all horses, harness, plows,- etc., if neces sary, . provided be pays bis own living expenses for the year. ;' One hundred and fifty acres is already sown and now growing nicely, 100 acres are plowed, ready to sow in the spring, and there are 100 acres of old land to plow and sow. For further particulars address Kerr & Buckley, Grass Valley, Or. dwtf A Chines Very Seldom Offered. 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