v:
1
r i if s - ' k u t v m a -a w m- - rf i m. m
VOL. IX
THE DALLES, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1896
NO 27
SAN BENITO WRECKED
The Collier a Total Loss at
Point Arena.
SIX OF THE CREW WERE DROWNED
The Steamer Struck a Band Bar la
a Gale and Broke In Two Hem
on the Wreck.
Point Arena, Cal.. Nov. 22. The
steamer San Benito, bound from Ta
coma to Saa Francisco, went ashore
seven miles north of Point Arena this
morning. The steamer struck on a
sandbar and broke in two. The San
Benito carried forty-foor men. Daring
the severe storm last night, she must
have lost her bearings. The wind blew
terrific and a heavy sea was running.
The vessel struck about 1 o'clock in
the morning, and an hoar later broke
just aft of the smokestack. Boats were
lowered, bat one capsized immediately
with five men in it, four of whom were
drowned. Another boat, with five of
the crew, capsized nine times, losing two
men. The three men by heroic means
reached the shore. Daylight found the
rest of the crew clinging to the rigging.
Such a heavy sea was running lhat it
was impossible to render assistance.
John Sherman, messboy.
C. Condon, second assistant engineer;
married.
O. W. Scott, first assistant engineer;
married.
Michael Pendergast, fireman.
Two men, names unknown.
The steamer Point Arena reached the
scene at 11 o'clock this morning, and
sent oat a boat, and, by great bravery,
and skilled seamanship, rescued spyn
men. In making a second trip, the boat
was almost swamped, and was compelled
to abandon all efforts on account. of
great breakers washing over the wreck.
A sailor was washed overboard and
reached shore almost dead. He was re
vived by a doctor on the beach.
At 4 o'clock this afternoon, a sailor
jumped overboard, and attempted to
swim ashore with aline. The shoulder
straps of his life-preserver broke and the
man went down.
Lighthouse-Keeper Brown, an Indian,
Lasaras, William Caumprey and Al.
Cunningham manned a boat and made
two heroic efforts to connect the wreck
with the shore line, bat were unsuc
cessful. The steamers Point Arena and Alcazar
are off the wreck, bat can render no as
sistance until the sea calms. A passing
steamer landed a gun at Point Arena
this afternoon, and the line will be shot
to the wrecks tonight. Both parts of the
ship are fast in the sand, 50 feet apart.
The sailors claim the accident was on
account of the foghorn not blowing, bnt
the night was clear and the light could
be seen many miies.
The wrecker Whitelaw left for the
scene of the wreck at 9 :50 tonight.
Late information from the sunken
steamer seemed to indicate that there is
still a chance of saving something. Cap
tain Whitelaw went prepared to do a
big job. With good fortnne, he ex
pected to reach the wreck by daybreak.
The San Benito was a four-matted
iron steam vessel of 3651 tons. She was
350 feet long, and was built in Glasgow,
in 1884. For years she has been used as
a collier by the Southern Pacific, to
bring coal from Tacoma to this port.
She was due here yesterday.
THK PURCHASE OF CUBA..
Plan of Consul-General I.e to Beenre
Peace on the Island.
Washington, Nov. 21. Appreciating
that the return of General Weyler from
We can afford to have
you try all five flavors one
after another of Schilling's
Best tea, and get your
money back if you don't
like any.
Your tea -trade for the
4next ten years is worth
' having.
A Schilling 4k Company
San Francisco . U
'
Absolutely Pure.
A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of
all in leavening strength. Latest United State
Government Food Report.
Koyal Bakino Fowsib Co.. New York
the present campaign without making
any headway against Maceo's forces will
greatly ' aggravate the already critical
situation iu Cuba, officials and diplomats
in Washington have been earnestly dis
cussing for some days various plans for
relieving the situation. The question of
a Spanish-Cuban armistic has been
widely discussed. If the conditions will
admit of this there is every reason to be
lieve that the administration will exer
cise its good offices to bring about an ar
mistice in the event that affairs become
more critical because of an unsuccessful
campaign against Maceo.
It is understood that one force of a
peaceful intervention which Consul-General
Lee has proposed to the authorities
here contemplates the use of the good
offices of the United States to bring
about a modus Vivendi for a sufficient
time to enable negotiations to be con
ducted for securing the independence of
Cuba by purchase, the United States
guaranteeing the payment of the debt.
General Lee has not advised the im
mediate adoption of this plan, believing
there would have to be a change in the
situation before it could be pat into
practical effect.
THE CALIFORNIA AIRSHIP.
Floated Over Sacramento Early Lut
Evening;.
Sacbamento, Nov. 22. Between 6 and
8 o'clock tonight, hundreds of people
azain saw floating over the city what is
no firmly believed to be an airship.
An immense white light was displayed,
and it was moving rapidly in a south
westerly direction. The light was so
high, however, that no object could be
distinguished. Tonight's visitation
created considerable excitement, and the
airship is the sole topic of conversation.
Orovllle Wants the Honor.
Obovillb, Cal., Nov. 22. The rumor
that the airship, which is alleged to have
passed over Sacramento, was constructed
near this town, seems to have a grain of
truth in it. The parties who could give
information if they would, however, are
extremely reticent. They give evasive
answers, or assert they know absolutely
nothing about it. Not a single person
that saw or knew of an airship being
constructed near here can be found, and
yet there is a rumor that some man has
been experimenting with different
kinds of gases and testing those that are
lighter than air. The experments were
made some mile? east of the town, and
no one is able to give any names of
the parties, who are evidently strangers,
who are seeking to avoid publicity.
Kdlson to Try His Kx pertinent on Ml.'
llonaire Rons.
New Yokk, Nov. 21. Charles Brad
way Roues is arranging with Mr. Edison
for treatment with Roentgen rays in the
hope that his sight may be restored.
Since the electrician began his experi
ments in applying "X" rays for the re
storation of sight no one baa taken more
interest in the subject than the million
are merchant, who, for more than two
years, has been practically blind. .
"That is a single ray upon which to
base my hope," said Mr. Bonos. "I
have tried every occnlist and every treat
ment that promised relief, and offered
$1,000,000 for a care, bat it has all been
of no avail. If there is power in this
man called the "Wizard" to relieve me
I want to know it."
John P. Martin has for some time
acted as Bouse' proxy, hoping for a re
storation of his own sight, and has tub-
mitted to all kinds of treatment, bnt
witbont favorable results. Now he is to
be a subject of the rays. Before Martin
becomes the subject of experiment, Edi
son wishes to investigate further and
solve preliminary problems. When this
has been done, a most elaborate and
carefully prepared line of treatment will
be entered upon with Mr. Martin as
patient. Every step and effect will be
carefully noted and the result reported
to eminent oculists for their professional
opions. Then if the treatment shows
any tendency to restore sight or even to
retard the waste of the optic nerves Mr.
Rouse will be given the same treatment.
A SEA TRAGEDY.
The Startling; Story of the American
Barkentlne Herbert Poller.
The sea has ever been a favorable scene
with romancers for desperate conspira
cies and tragic crimes. This has been
due to the 6eclusion which it offers
and also, perhaps, to the traditions of
piracy which hang- about it. There was
a time when the line of demarcation
between the pirate and the peaceful
mariner was not very sharply drawn,
and the late Prentice Mulford, who
grew up in a seafaring- town and had
even served on shipboard before the
mast, once wrote an article maintain
ing that the relations which still pre
vail between the master and the crew
of a ship are a relic of the days when
all seafaring- men were practically pi
rates. Possibly a juster explanation
of the harsh treatment to which sailors
are subjected, would be found in the
arbitrary authority which law and cus
tom necessarily bestow upon a. shipmas
ter, for it is almost an axiom that un
restricted power always leads to tyran
ny that nothing but lack of author
ity prevents every man from misusing
it. At all events, the reader of a sea
novel expects to meet with various
sorts of mysteriously dark deeds, while
the reader of the marine columns of
a newspaper is regaled with plenty of
actual crime, albeit of a generally com
monplace and uninteresting character.
The story of the American barken-
tine Herbert Fuller, which the newspa
pers have been recently telling, however.
is as tragically startling as any ever
related by Stevenson, or Russell. The
officers of a vessel have often enough
been murdered by the crew, who then
seized the vessel, and it has sometimes
happened that some officer has joined
the crew in mutinying against the cap
tain, as in the case of the Bounty. What
adds especially to the sensational fea
tures of the crime on board the Herbert
Fuller is that it does not seem to be
Known positively who killed the cap
tain, his wife and the second mate.
The evidence against the first mate
appears to rest on his supposed un
willingness to make port after the dis
covery of the murders. He is even sus
pected of having intended to turn the
vessel over to the Cuban insurgents.
What must have been the astonishment
of the pilot on going on board to find
the vessel in charge of the colored
steward and a Harvard sophomore pas
senger, the mate in irons, and the bodies
of the three murdered persons towing
astern in the small boat! That last
touch is characteristic. The survivors
did not dare throw the bodies overboard
because they were needed as evidence
to protect themselves as well as to con
vict the guilty; their superstitious no
tions were appalled at the notion of
keeping the bodies on board the ves
sel; bo they compromised by towing
them astern.
Undoubtedly the Herbert Fuller
tragedy will form the plot of many a
future sea novel. But no romancer
could have afforded to invent so extraor
dinary a tale. He would have been
laughed at on account of the inherent
improbability of his incidents. The
murders might have passed muster, but
the Harvard student and the colored
steward in their extraordinary role
would ' have been pronounced simply
impossible. Buffalo Courier.
The Wasco Warehouse Co. begs leav
to inform Farmers that they have STOR
AGE ROOM for 200,000 SACKS of
WHEAT and any one wishing to store
their wheat and hold for later market
can do so on usual terms. Also, thev
will pay the HIGHEST CASH PRICE
for Wheat, Oats, Rye and Barley.
Dalle s Cily and Mora StaieLine
Leaves Williams Hotel, Moro, on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at
8 a. m. prompt. .
Leaves Umatilla House, The Dalles,
Tuesdays, Thvrsdays and Saturdays at
8 a. m. prompt.
Freight rates The Dalles to Mora, 40c
per 100 lh; small packages, 15 and 25c.
Pasgeneer rales The Dalles to Moro,
$1.50; roand trip, $2.50. '
Agency at Umatilla House, The Dalles,
and at Williams Hotel, Moro.
tf
DOUGLAS ALLEN, Prop.
OUR TflftflrvSGnlNG SPEGIMiS.
Commencing Tuesday morning we -will offer our
Men's Finest Overcoats,
BLACK BEAVER, VELVET COLLAR, FLY FRONT,
SATIN" and FARMER SATIN" LINED.
Latest style and of guaranteed workmanship, at the following reductions:
Our $20.00 Coat for $15.00 I Our $22.50 Coat for... $17.50
Our 24.50 Coat for... 19.50 Our 18.00 Irish Frieze Ulster for 15.00
BOYS' OVERCOATS,
These have
SCHOOL SUITS.
Boys' Knee Suits, ages 4 to 14.. .Value 75c Special 50c
Boys' Knee Pants Suits ages 4 to 14 Value $1.50 to $1,75 Special $1.00
Special assortment of $3.50 to $4.00 Suits Choice $3.00
AT HIS WITS' END
Father Tells How His Baby
Suffered from
Eczema.
IN ITS WORST FORM
Grew Woiw Under Treatment of Beat
Physicians. Tried
CUTICURA REMEDIES
Great Change In Five Days. To-day
Entirely Cored, With. Mice Bead
of Hair. Lively and Hearty.
I had a baby that hail Eczema in its worst
form. 1 had one of the best physicians in
the city attending her, bat she continued to
pet worse all the time under his treatment.
He finally admitted that he was at his wits'
end. I then got Coticura Remedies, and in
a few dayt noticed great change in her con
dition. She continued to improve after that,
and to-day it entirely cured, has nice head of
hair, and is lively and hearty. 1 can fully
recommend them as being the best medicines
for the cure of this disease. I spent con
siderable money for drugs and doctor's bills,
which was useless in this case, for I think
if your remedies don't cure, nothing will. I
am telling every one that I see suffering,
about CCTiotiRA Rkhkdibs, and can cheer
folly recommend them to those in need of
them.
J. B. JACOBS, 2031 Wilkins Ave., Bait., Md.
CUTICURA WORKS WONDERS
Warm baths with Cuttcttra Soap, gentle
applications of Cdticoba (oi utmeut the great
Bkin Cure externally, and mild doses of
CoticurA RE80i.VE.vr (blood purifier) inter
nally, cleanse the blood and skin of every
eruption, impurity, and disease, when the
best physicians and hospitals fail. The cures
daily effected by them are simply wonderful.
They are beyond all doubt the greatest skin
cures, blood purifiers, and humor remedies ot
modern times.
Bold throughout the world. PoTTxa Tnro
Am Chem. Cobp., Sole Props., Boston, rj.6. A.
" How to Cure every Bkin Disease," mailed free.
PLASTER
THE I MINUTE
FAIN CURE
Harry Liebe,
PRACTICAL
Watchmaker! Jeweler
All work promptly attended to,
and warranted.
174 VOGT BLOCK.
SURE CURE for PILES
infcsUMorkM tumor, ApMlUremrt. Circulars Mat trwm. Prlaa
UU11UU1U1
with or without Cape, ages 5
been sold regularly for $1.50
When yog mant to bay
Seed Wheat, Feed Wheat,
Rolled Barley, Whole Barley,
Oats, Rye, Bran, Shorts,
Or anything in the Feed Line, go to the
WASCO : WAREHOUSE.
Oar prices are low and onr goods are firt-clafB.
Agents for the celebrated WAISTBURG "PEFRLESS" FLOUR.
Highest cash price paid for WHEAT. OATS and BARLEY.
-DEALER IN-
PAINTS, OILS AND GLASS.
And the Most Complete and Latest Patterns and Designs in
WALL PAPER. WALL PAPER.
PRACTICAL PAINTER" andPAPER HANGER. None bnt the best brands
of J. W. MASURY'S PAINTS need in all onr work, and none bat th
most skilled workmen employed. Agent b for Masary Liquid Paints. No chem
icel combination or soap mixture. A first-class article in all colors. All orders
promptly attended to.
Store and Faint Shoo corner Third and Washington Sts., The Dalles, 0reo
BLAKELEY
175 Second Street,
ARTISTS MATEEIALS.
Country and Mail Orders will receive prompt attention.
Lumber, Building Material and Boxes
Traded for TTny Grain, Bacon, Lard, &c.
ROWE & CO.,
$1.00
& HOUGHTON
The Dalles, Oregon
to 10, for .
and $1.80.
Tlie Dalles, Orego