VOL. VII.
THE DALLES, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 22,1894.
NO. 13
FLOOD AND STORM
The Sptana VaUey, inPennsyi
yania, Again TareateM
.
PEOPLE PREPARED FOR THE WORST
The Storm and its Effects Extend From
Lake Erie South to the Ohio '
River.
were called out to help people from
their bouses. They did excellent work.
A carload of lime in a storehouse near
the track about Elm street became
watersoaked and fired the building
while undergoing the slacking process,
and in the flood to their waists the fire
men had further work to d 3. The rain
yesterday and last night and today fell
as if from a cloudburst, but this even
ing it has abated somewhat, and it is be
lieved the worst is over.
WiixiAMSPOET, Pa., May 20. With
the horrors of the disastrous fleod of
'89, which spread life and destruction
throughout this valley, brought back to
memory by the threatened danger of a
swoop of water that promises to be as
great as that of five years ago, the
people of this city and throughout the
west brai.ch of the valley are in a state
of panic that has turned the usually
quiet Sunday into one of remarkable ex
citement. Since Friday night a steady
and almost continuous downpour of rain
has been swelling all the streams, and
late last night numerous cloudburts
along Pino creek and other tributaries
of the west branch of the Susquehana
have made it impossible to confi'-e the
water within the banks of the sucama.
It has therefore spread out over the
country, and at every point is pouring
into the main river. Throughout the
day rain has fallen here and it continues
to fall tonight. Advices from all points
up the river say the same conditions
exist. A cloudburst at Keating, 20
miles above Kenovo, early this morning
raised the river there to 20 feet, and .the
river at Kenovo is much higher than in
the flood of 1889. Above there and ex
tending to the headwaters at Clearfield,
every town and hamlet has been re
duced by water to the conditions that
prevailed in 1889. Along the Philadel
phia & Erie railroad, between this point
and Emporium,- traffic has been prac
tically suspended since last night. The
trains are running between Williams
port and Lock Haven,' but above the
latter point landslides and track wash
outs have practically swept i the track
away, and the loss will be very heavy.
This Will B the Important Business
Before tbe House.
Flood Swept JSradford.
Bradford, May 20. The worst flood
in Bradford's history is rushing through
the Tuna valley today. Twenty streets
. contiguous to the creetc are inundated,
and hundreds of families are in the
swim. The east and west branches of
Tuna are both transformed into good
sized rivers. Below Foreman street, at
the confluence of the two streams, the
flood is a quarter of a mile wide, and is
high enough to ruin all the carpets in
the houses on Hilton and other streets
in the lower part of the sixth ward.
Douglass dam is partly torn away,
Weaver's ice house is in ruins. The
North-street bridge is gone, and several
railroad and street bridges are in danger,
The railroad people are holding down
their bridges with heavily-loaded cars,
In the sixth . ward 20 families - were
taken out ot their houses in boats during
the night, and on Clarence, River and
Hilton streets a corps of skiffs rescued
many. more. . Luckily there were no
fatalities. An 18-month-old baby fell
into the west branch this evening and
was swept away in the current. Thomas
Potter leaped into the creek, and after a
desperate struggle saved the child. The
flood from the east branch covered the
territory over which run the Erie rail
road tracks, the Western New York &
Pennsylvania tracks and those of the
Bradford, Bordell & Kinzua railway.
STREETS' TURNED INTO RIVERS.
Webster street is navigable by boats,
:v Across Corydon to Newell avenue to
Main and then down Davis street, there
is a rushing body of deep water, and
skiffs ply from the Kiddle house up and
down tne streets. At the Henderson
-bouse, on the ground floor, there is six
inches of water. Twenty business
houses on Main street, between Web-
Bter and the Erie railroad, are in a still
worse condition. Sixty feet of the
Bradford, Bordell & Kinzua track, just
. below the city's eastern line, has been
washed out the trains of that road come
over the Erie track from Limestone,
. The fire alarm bell was sounded this
' morning at Z o'clock, and the' firemen
.- , ' 1
TBS STATE "BANS. ISSUK.
Washington, May 20. The state bank
issue, which has been gathering strength
at caucuses and conferences ever since
congress assembled, promises to oe
fought to a finish during the coming
week. It will bring out a sharp contest
on party as well as on economical lines,
for tbe state bank plank of the national
democratic platform advanced the ques
tion to a place of importance second only
to silver. The advocates of state banks
have been restive for weeks to test their
strength. They failed to have a bill re
ported from the banking committee.
Thereupon a caucus was called and a
resolution adopted that the issue should
be made before the house on an amend
ment to the Brawley bill. This long-
deferred bill, with the state bank amend
ment, is now to be brought to a vote.
The bill is not important in its features ;
its main use is in serving as a bank bill
to which a -state bank amendment is
germane-. Chairman 'Springer, of the
banking committee, and Cox, Culberson,
Swanson and other state bank advocates
expect to begin the contest Tuesday or
Wednesday on a question of considera
tion. The anti-state bank men are ex
pected to insist that the Indian appro
priation bill has equal privilege, in
which case a test vote will decide the
strength of the state-bank men. They
are confident of winning on the- vote of
consideration, and Springer is prepared
to open tbe debate. Tbe main issue,
however, will be on conditional or un
conditional repeal of the tax. Swanson
says unconditional repeal can certainly
muster 14C votes and conditional repeal
155.
OTHER PROBABLS BUSINESS.
Aside from the banking bill,' Hatch is
hopeful of taking np the anti-option bill
during the week. Monday is the regu
lar suspension day, but it is expected
the executive bill will hold its place and
be. pressed. The Indian appropriation
bill is next on the calendar. The most
important committee work of the week
will be the reporting, from the rules
committee, of a recommendation that
the naval committee investigate the
armor-plate frauds. The report is ex
pected Monday, for Tuesday the judi
ciary committee will consider Judge Jen
kins and his 'strike injunction. Thurs
day, Bland will again try to have his
free-coinage bill reported from the coin
age committee. . .
RODE LIKE COXBY.
Two Hogs and a Gooie Carried Two
Hundred Miles.
Ellwood, Ind., May 20.- During the
heavy cyclone the other day two hogs
and a fat goose,' belonging to Sam
Wainscott. were blown from his barn
yard in Peoria, 111. These very pigs
and the companion goose are now in
the barnyard of T. J. Hancock, near
this city, where thev were dropped by
the cyclone which swept over this city
at that time. It was about 2 o'clock in
the morning when Hancock was arous
ed from his sleep by the storm. He
went out into the barnvard to look after
his stock, and his attention was attract
ed to the clouds, in which he saw dur
ing the lightning flash the pigs and
goose. Suddenly they dropped to the
ground in his yard and the next morn
ing they were as lively as usual, having
suffered little during their perilous trip
of 207 miles through the air. ' Mr. Han
cock wroteto Mr. Wainscott, asking for
a description of tbe missing pigs and
goose, and it tallies exactly with that of
the animals in Mr. Hancock's posses
sion. '
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Memorial Services and Decoration Day,
Hdqbs. J. W. Nksmith Post, G. A.
luE uALiiES, may zz, ia.
General Oedee No. 1.
Memorial day being near at hand, it
is fitting that we, as members of the G.
A. R., observe the day with appropriate
exercises : and in view of said observ
ance all members of the G. A. R., all
soldiers and sailors of the late civil war
W. R. C. and S. of V., are requested to
meet at G. A. R. headquarters at 1
o'clock p. m. May 30, 1894, from whence
we will - proceed to the G. A. R. ceme
tery, where the exercises of the day will
be held. . All military and civic societies
and citizens of The Dalles and vicinity
are invited to participate with us. A
detachment of Third Regiment. O. N
G., will act as escort.
Members of G. A. R., W. R. C, S. of
V. and O. K. G., stationed at The Dalles,
are requested to meet at G. A. R. head
quarters Sunday, May . 27, 1894, for the
purpose of attending memorial service
at the M. E. church. All other church
societies are invited to join with us in
union services. ' .
C. H. Bbowxe, Post Com.
J. M. Patteesox, Post Adj
ANOTHER MEANING FOR O. K.
Certain
In Russia It Csetl to Denote
Fiery Woman Patriot,
"O. K." ha another significance
than the one usually attached to it.
in Russia u. lv. used to mean a
mysterious brilliant writer who filled
columns of the Moscow Gazette, and
Russia with letters in favor of an
Anglo-Russian alliance.. The. mystic
letters meant Olga Kireeff , one of the
most prominent of all . the fascinating'
set of social-political Russian lumin
aries, says the New York World..
She was the only daughter of a dis
tinguished Russian family, and the god
child of Emperor Nicholas, and led
the usual life' of the upper class
Russian girl until her marriage with
Gen. Novikoff. . She was the typical
leader of the social diplomatic set for
awhile, put was not seriously inter
ested in politics until one of . her
brothers was killed in the Russo-
Turkish war. Then she awoke sud
denly to the fact of political life, and,
believing' - that had England and
Russia been on friendly terms such
sacrifices would not have been neces
sary, she became an earnest advocate
of an alliance between the two coun
tries.
In England she has many friends of
distinction. King-lake. " Hon. C P,
Villiers, Bernal Osborn, Prof. Tyndall,
Gladstone, Carlyle, John Bright, Prof.
Freeman, and Froude were all person
pi friends of hers, and some of them
supporters of her views. She always
stays at Claridges when she is in Lon
don, and it was to her that Kinglake
wrote the well-known nonsense verse:
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IT FILLED A BLANK.
Bow the- Term "Bore"-Came to Be So
Commonly Used. . . -
The first appearance of this preg
nant monosyllable in literature occurs
in the letters of Lord Carlisle and of
Selwyn; but there it is used to express,
not a creature, but a state or condi
tion induced by tedium. Thus, in 1767
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French, the Lord deliver you from the J
bore!" Thereafter, says the .Nine
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a verb in the correspondence of the
eighteenth century, expressive, ap
parently, of the intolerable anguish
inflicted on their fellows by a class of
men and women for whom, as yet, no
generic .term had been devised; and in
that employment it has been admir
ably explained of late in the new Eng
lish dictionary as'to weary by tedious
conversation or, simply by the failure
to be interesting." - .
But the nineteenth century had not
long dawned before the want became
too pressing not to be supplied, and
writers began to apply the word
'bore" to the agent" the tiresome or
uncongenial person; one who wearies
or worries." They did so timidly at
first, with due caveat of inverted com
mas;, but the term took on; it filled a
blank that had been felt for a hundred
years, and it had come into such com
mon use by the twenties that Byron
declared:
Society is now one polished horde
Formed of the mighty tribes Ibe Bores and
llorcd. . v
Disraeli rashly attempted a definition
in "Vivian Gray:' "The true, bore is
that man who thinks the world is'only
interested in one subject, because he
himself can only comprehend one."
Kotice..
FROM THE FAR NORTH.
All city, wa'rrants registered prior to
December 3, 1891, are now due and pay
able at my office. Interest ceases after
this date. . 1. 1. Btjbget, City Treas. .
Dated Dalles City, May 15, 1894. -
Rallc of aVhaler' Trip to the North
vest Fassaj?--
' One of the most interesting things to
be seen in Washington, says the Post,
is an old, battered harpoon head,
branded with the letters " Mon T,". The
history of the relic is remarkable. It
was found bedded'deep in the body of
a whale killed by the fleet after a ter
rific fight in the Compas grounds, oft
the northwest coast, some years ago.
It was a great swivel-headed spear,
well preserved , except where , the
shank of the iron had been eaten away
by the salt water down to the whale's
body. From the brand on the iron its
history could be traced." The mark was
that of the steam whaler Montezuma,
which was formerly a British man-of-war,
and nearly sixty ' years . ago was
purchased by the Nantucket whalers
and cruised in the North Atlantic.
During the late war the Montezuma,
which was then a worthless old hulk,
was purchased by the government and
sunk . as a part of the famous stone
fleet to cage in the blockade runners at
Charleston. Froin all the facts in her his
tory it must have been nearly fifty years
ago that she lost the harpoon ' in the
great whale in the Atlantic, and as the
humpback whale never goes south past
the tropics .this one must have worked
his way over throuch the northwest
passage and under the ice floes to the
Compas grounds off the northwest
coast, where he.was killed by the San
Francisco fleet nearly half a century
later. This harpoon was long in the
oflice of the whaling company in San
Francisco and was presented by Sen
ator Perkins to the Xatjonal ' Geo
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