VOL. VII.
THE DALLES, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1894.
NO. 83. ?H
COXEY'S ARMY SMALL
When it Comes to Actual Marcning
' . It's Different.
THE HEATH MURDER TRIAL
The Defense Says Mrs. Palmer's Tes
timony Was the Hallucination
.of a Dying Woman.
Coxey's Army Is Small.
Maximo, O.,' March 27. Coxey's
army, which left Lonisvilte at 9, arrived
here at 10. ' It has 143 men by actual
count in line. It is expected the com
mand will arrive at Alliance early this
afternoon. There Coxey will take the
train for Chicago, to eell some horses.
He expects to be absent two days.
ARRIVED AT ALLIANCE.
Alliance, O., March 27. Coxey's
. army arrived at 1 p. m. The streets
were crowded with people to get a
glimpse of the famous "good-roads"
leader and his followers. The army
went into camp in Rock Hill Park. It
is said 100 joined Coxey here. A woman
who claimed to be the wife of :in un
known marshal of the army left for
. Cleveland last night.
The Heath Murder Trial.
Fresno, Cal., March 27. At the open
ing of the Heath trial this morning W.
D. Tupper made the opening statement
for the defense, setting up what line of
testimony would be followed. ' Nothing
sensational was promised. It will be
shown that Heath was friendly to Mc-
' Whirter and on two . occasions has
thrashed . men who spoke evil of Mc
.Whirter. There was a promised sweep
ing contradiction and impeachment of
the prosecution's witnesses. ' An alibi'
was promised for R. B. Terry. Mr.
Tupper said that the testimony given
yesterday by' Mrs. Palmer was only the '
hallucination of a dying woman too near
the grave to know what she was talking
about. Not much stress will be laid on
the suicide theory, but Mr. Tupper
promised that enough evidence would
be introduced on that line to raise a
doubt fn the mind of the jurors.. Twenty
eight witnesses for the prosecution were
; named by Tupper, who would be shown
to have sworn to falsehoods.
Will Knlatge the Pension Koll.
Washington, March 27. Assistant
fcecretary of the Interior Reynolds ren
dered a decision today which will great
ly enlarge the . pension roll. It will
admit to pensions a large number of in
eane, idiotic and permanently helpless
minor children of deceased soldiers,
where pensions of the former had
ceased by children attending the age of
16 years prior to the act of June 27.
1890, the decision holding that the act
of 1690 has the effect of restoring these
dependent-persons to the rolls during
life, or a continuance of disability.
There is no necessity for buying East
ern smoked meats and lard when you
can secure a better article, of home pro
duction lor less money. Call at the
Central Market and examine the Col
umbia Packing Co.'s meats and prices,
and be convinced.
Now is the time to kill squirrels. Sure
Shot at Snipes & Kinerely's.
"Use Mexican Silver Stove Polish.
S2fet 1 . ... , ,
".as oia as
the hills" and
never excell
ed. "Tried
and proven"
is the verdict
of millions.
S immo ns
Liver Regu
Tf laor is the
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J-Jt't't'Cf aild Kidney
. medicine to
' . which y o i
can pin your
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H7T? cure- A
JL Ml ft mild laxa.
tive, and
purely veg
etable, act
ing directly
on the Liver
and Kid-
Pills
. neys. Try it.
Sold by all
Druggists in Liquid, or in Powder
to be taken dry or made into a tea.
The King; of IJer Medicines. ,
' I have used yourimmonsLlver Regu
lator and can conscienciously Bay it is the
kinct of all liver medicines, I consider it a
medicine chest iu itself. Geo. W. Jack
, sou, Tacoma, Washington.
J-EVERY PACKAGE'S s
Alas the t Stamp In red on wrapper
A SKXT ELDORADO.
Description of the Placer" Gold . Fields
- of Southern Virginia.
Under these headlines .the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, in its issue of March
5th, contained the following Special tel
egraphic account of a recent diecovery
of gold near Keysville, Virginia.
Washington, D. C, March 4. Col.
Pat Donan today told an interested
group of listeners some wonderful stories
of a recent gold discovery not far from
Washington.
"I have just returned," he said, "from
an examination of one of the most re
markable deposits' of placer gold I have
ever seen, and as you all know, I have
had some mining experience in nearly
every region from British Columbia to
Honduras and Peru. Think of a whole
Virginia farm literally sparkling with
gold nuggets, scales and grains of gold
scattered everywhere. Every shovelful
of dirt due on the place, fabm the crass
' ' S3
roots down; yielded gold, glittering, yel
low gold I Gold washed out in old dish-
pans and all sorts of odd utensils, and
thrown out bv wagon wheels in the
roadways ! All that, and more, I have
just seen!"'
The place is within six or eight hours'
run of Washington, on the Richmond
and Danville railroad, about a mile and
a half from Keysville, Charlotte county,
Virginia, it being the farm of a man
named Clifford.
"Mr. Clifford is' a man well on in
years, a Christian man. highly esteemed
by everybody in the legion. He re
ceived us - with old-fashioned southern
hospitality, and though the weather was
stormy showed us all over his. land.
me ending of several nuggets along the
little creek that runs through . his place
led to his discovery .of gold about two
years ago. . Since that time he has sup
ported himself and familv bv occasion
ally digging and washing our small quan
tities of the dirt. His mining imple
ments are a spade and a small ordinarv
dishpan. He has. often washed tl out
of a single pan, and has found. many
nuggets running from the size of a pin
head or a small pea to the size of a man's
finger-end, and worth $1 to $20. each.
Mrs. Clifford, a pleasant-facad, white
haired lady, showed . us a laree iron
kitchen spoon, with which she . has fre
quently dug and washed out along the
creek bed from 50 cents to $1 in a morn
ing. The old gentleman said : 'I have
never washed a pan of dirt on the place
that did not yield gold.' Venera
ble and truthful as he looked, this
struck roe as impossible. . Mr. Jones
promptly dug a panful of earth from a
hillside just back of the house and,
though entirely without mining exper
ience, he washed it and got two or three
grains of gold. Four more panfals, that
he dug out in different. places, yielded
over a quarter of an ounce of black sand
and gold dust, including one tiny "nugget
that weighed nearly two grains. The
old gentlemen brought out a rusty sheet
iron ecoop shovel containin $50.00 or
$60.00 in nuggets and coarse grain gold
that he had recently washed. Then, in
stumbling about, we found an outcrop
ping vein of quartz, which explained
where the placer came from. Some
pieces of this surface rock which we
broke off assayed $19.60 in free gold to
the ton. -
"The party dug all over the farm, a
shovelful here and a shovelful there ; in
old corn fields and tobacco patches ,that
have been in cultivation for forty years;
in meadows and grass lots, in the old
kitchen garden, in the woods, on the
hillsides and on the creek banks and
they found gold in every pan and spade
ful of earth they washed. . From all in
dications it is one of the biggest gold
finds of the last twenty years, and prom
ises to become another bonanza. The
veins have been clearly traced for. four
miles, and there is eveiy reason to be
lieve that the placer field extendsfar be
yond the limits of the Clifford farm."
Thus talks Col. Pat. Donan, of Astoria
fame.
The Keystone Progress believes that
the discovery will create a big boom
about Keysville, and would not be sur
prised to see another .Dead wood or X.ead-
ville rise as if by magic among the piney
woods ot "southern Virginia.
American Footgear.
American workingmen a:e more
lig-htly shod on the average than those
of Europe, and .nothing- excites more
scorn and astonishment in this country
than the heavy boots and shoes
Drought over by i immigrants. Shoes
thickly studded 'with hob-nails last
perhaps three times as long as the
lighter footgear, but . the American
workingman would feel 'himself
clogged and hampered by such foot
weights. The immigrant quickly
learns that with such a ' handicap he
cannot compete with the spry Ameri
can, and he adopts the footwear of the
country perhaps before his heavy im
ported boots are worn out. . -. .
Ask your dealer-forMe7ican Silver
Stove Polish. ,- . '. , .
NEWS NOTES.
Prendergast, the. murderer of- Mayor
Harrison,' can stand it to- have death
sentence paesed upon him, but when a
fellow prisoner wrote a" parody on
"After the" Ball," and made him listen
to it, it was too much, so he started in
to whip.- the other fellow and succeeded
in smashing his nose. . ' .
The smallest baby yet reported was
born March 4th in Killinsworth, Con
necticut. The parents are Swedes, the
father weighing about 190 pounds and
the - mother is a stout, healthy woman.
The child is a boy, perfectly formed, and
at .'its birth weighed only eight ounces.
Its. face is about the size of a horse
chestnut. The ring worn oh the little
finger, of its mother was slipped over its
foot nearly up to the knee.
The President Hesitates.
The president may intend to veto the
seigniorage bill, but it is evident that he
is in no hurry to get at it. We are of
opinion that he will veto the bill, for it
would be a wonderful manifestation of
inconsistency if he didn't. Yet he hes
itates for very good reasons. He may
be likened to an executive whose official
duty requires him to sign a death war
rant, or to a sheriff upon whom the law
devolves the disagreeable task of spring
ing the trap that hurls a soul into eter
nity. It is a very solemn piece of busi
ness that Mr. Cleveland has in hand,'
and is fraught wi(h results that will af
fect American politics long after he has
passed from the stage of action. He is
about to become the executioner of the
party which has twice honored him with
the. presidency a ' party that has sur
vived every shock of adversity from the
beginning of the government down to
the present time,- and which has always
been the bulwark of popular govern
ment. ' It is a very serious matter to de
stroy such a party as that, and particu
larly under such circumstances. It is
no wonder the president hesitates and
postpones action until the last hour.
Yet he realizes that if he does not veto
the bill he will belie all of his past pro
fessions and will be a traitor to the gold
power which bought his nomination.
It is a ead plight for a president to be
in, but he is there and will have to
make the most of it. . He's in the position
described by - the poet: .'"He will be
dammed if he does, and will be dammed
if he doesn't." There is condemnation
awaiting him whether he signs or vetoes
the bill. Telegram. .
- ' THE "AUDfSON."
An Invention to Brine About a Needed
Reform in Telegraphy.
At a competitive trial of skill be
tween the telecranh
-J wux uuidxu, . Allien WUa I
place recently, one of the most interJ
e&ung- xeatures was a test of the ca
pacity of a- receiving machine tech-,
nically known as the "Audisou" a
small instrument fitted1 to the head of
the operator, giving a sound which, al
though perfectly- distinct to him, is
wholly inaudible to anyone else. It is.
high time, says the Engineering. Mag
azine, that the use of a receiving in
strument of this character became gen
eral in the telegraph service.
unaerine' present condition of af
fairs it is almost literally true that he
who runs may read. Hundreds of tel
egraphic stations in' hotels, railroad
depots and other equally public places
are equipped with noisy .'sounders,
enabling every message that goes over
the wire, to or "from that or any other
station, to be read by any person with
in hearing who is able to do so. ' There
is not the slightest attempt to pre
serve the secrecy of communication,
which ought to be one of the all-important
requirements of the-service.
There are thousands -of ex-operators
and other persons, in the community
who can read these signals as easily as
they could read a bulletin board, and
there is obviously nothing whatever to
prevent any one of them from obtain
ing informat ion of other persons' busi
ness or Dersona! msttprs in ic -....
end using it to their own advantage.
is a state ot attairs which calls loud
ly for immediate reform.
French cashmere, as shown this sea
son, displays very beautiful designs of
groups of ' flowers, such as violets, li-,
lacs, morning glories, pansies am'
daisies. This material makes up very
prettily for girls and is much made use
of; as also is crepon, with or without a
figure, and camel's hair, both plain, and
figured. .
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report '
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' DEFECTS IN CAR TRUCKS.'
One Serious Difficulty 1h Found Where the
Track Are Curved.
"The degree of perfection attained
in mechanical production is wonder
ful," said a mechanic to a writer for
the Pittsburgh Dispatch. "In almost
everr line of mechanical 'inventions
you see faults and difficulties overcome
which make it seem nearly, impossible
to advance further. Viewed in this
light, the imperfections in the con
struction of our railroad car trucks
are strangely inconsistent, for they are
palpably at variance with, our high at
tainment in mechanical construction.
I refer to the custom, which has never
been improved upon since railroading
began, of using wheels securely fast
ened to rigid axles. It would seem
that, on such an all-important matter
as this, some improvements would be
made, but there has been none. 'The
running gear of cars, as now con
structed, is only adapted for use on
straight tracks. But, as there must be
curves on roads, the trucks are simply
forced around them. It is said that
it requires one-third more motive pow
er to carry a train around an ordinary
curve than on a straight track. This
is due to the strain to which the wheels
are subjected. In making a curve the
outside track is longer than the inside
one. Now, with a wheel on each track
and fastened immovably -to the axle,
both wheels must make the same num
ber of revolutions. .In rounding: a
curve how is the inside wheel, which
has a much shorter distance to travel,
to make an equal number-of revolu
tions with the outside wheel? It is
done in this way: . The" inside .wheel
slips upon the inner or shorter rail,
while the outside one covers the long
er distance. At the same time the in
clination of the track required in mak
ing curves throws most of the load
upon the wheel that is slipping, caus
ing a great strain -upon both wheel
ar-1 axle. It has been computed that
thus strain is equal to double that of
the rolling pressure on . a straight
track. To meet this the axle is made
much thicker between the wheels than
at the journals, where all the weight
of the car and load is carried. Though
it has been long coming I think the
day will finally dawn when these de
fects in car trucks will be overcome."
If you want any kind of garden seeds,
grass seed or field, call at H. II. Camp
bell's, where : you can get what you
want at reasonable rates. Next door to
the postoffice. ' .
What is the use to send for wine to California
when you ran have it for the same price at the
California Winehouse, in Thompson's addition.
The Dalles. Also a big lot of tine peanuts at
very low rates. ...
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. Castoria destroy a 'Worms. ; V
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Caatoria prevents vomiting Sonr Card.
Castoria cures Plarrhoaa and Wind Colic
Castoria relieves Teething Troubles. '
Castoria caret Constipation and riatnlency..
Cnstoria nentraliaes the effects of carbonlo acid gas or poisonons afcl '
Castoria does not contain morphine, opinm, or other narcotic property.
fa-OT-ia assimilates tho food, regnlatw the stomach' and towels,
- riviS healthy and natural sleep. .
,fi - Hvria ia put up in one-size pottles only. It ia not sold in hnlfe. .
Tca't aHoty azxy oae to sell yon anything else on the plea or promise
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