The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
WEDNESDAY,
- FEB. 3, ISO;
TIME CARD FOR TRAVELERS.
Below is published a correct time card
0I trains and boats which leave and ar
rive at The Dalles. Travelers may trust
it as The Chkoxicle is kept fully in
formed of revisions :
p. 1' & A. X. 0 . STEAMERS.
Cramer Kccnlfttor leaves every Monday, Wed
ndavnnd Friday at 7:00 iu m.
uri'vw evpr.v Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day at 5.S0 p. m.
OREGON RAILWAY .t NAVIGATION CO.
fast mail. Arrive. Leave.
n i wot-bannd -IM -tM a.m.
.Vo.2-Kntt-bound 10:15 a.m. 10:20 a.m.
DALLES rAPSF.NOKR.
v0 TWest-bound, leaves 1:00 p.m.
j;0; -Eatt-bound, arrives 11 :55 a. in.
K Tascncer trails ttop at Union Street, as
well a- the depot.
Advertising Kates.
Per inch
One inch or less in Pally ?l 50
Over two inches and under four inches 1 00
Over fonr Inches and under twelve inches. . 75
Over twelve Inches 50
DAILY AND WEEKLY.
One inch or less, per inch 12 50
Over one Inch and under four inches 2 00
Over four Inches and under twelve inches.. 1 50
Over twelve inches 1 00
Weather Forecast.
Portland. Feb. 3, 1S97.
Fon Eastekx Ohegon Tonight and tomor
row, rain and warmer.
Tague. Observer.
WAYSIDE GLEANINGS.
r.andoui Observation and Local Kvents
of Lesser Magnitude.
City council meets tonight.
Temple lodge, A. O. TJ. W, will enter-,
tain the members of the Degree of Hon
or tomorrow night. '
The Salem Statesman says the only
really pood bills passed by the legisla
ture are 'twenties."
v Mr. M. Shank wishes to inform the
public that he is located at Sexton &
Darnielle'e feed yard, where he will pay
Portland prices for hides, pelts and furs.
School district No. 21, in Linn county,
with a tax of 50 mills, is certainly en
titled to the sympathy of every Ore
goninn. Add 13 mills county tax to it
and you have 63 mills, perhaps the
largest in the United States.
The Astorian says that Clinton &
Sons, who have the contract for the
trestle work on the railroad from Astoria
to Knappa, Monday cut the wages of all
their men from $2 to $1.75 per day, and
that all of the men struck work.
Mr. R. K. Love of Portland will visit
The Dalles ehortly at the request of the
Commercial Club. It is the intention
of some of the members of the club to
give a minstrel show, with his assist
ance, if proper arrangements can be
made.
Sir Julian Pauncefort, British am
bassador, and Senor Jose Andrade, the
Venezuelan minister at Washington,
yeeterday signed the treaty providing
for the arbitration of the disputes be
tween the two countries, covering
boundary lines.
The Burns Herald say9 that a dis
covery of borax on the M. R. Doan land
in Wild Horse valley has been the cause
of 1C00 acres of land in that vicinity be
ing sold, and that the outlook ie prom
ising for a new industry to be opened up
in Harney county.
Do not fail to call on Dr. Lannerberg,
the eye specialist, and have your eyeB
examined free of charge. If you suffer
with headache or nervousness you un
doubtedly have imperfect vision that, if
corrected, will benefit you for life.
Office in the Vogt block. "
When the Woodmen closed their lodge
meeting last night, the Circle swarmed
in on them, and took possession of the
hall. Mr. F.J. McHenry, was called
upon for a speech which was given in a
manner to win hearty applause, and
then a general good time was had for an
hour or so.
A "Xehalem Taxpayer" recently wrote
to the Nehalem Times, protesting
againet the conduct of tramps who en
tered the house of Mrs. B. D. Solee,
while she was absent, and ate up about ;
all the cold victuals in the houee. This
"ray shot hit the editor ot the Times, I
who pleaded that be was one of the)
guilty "tramps."
They are having a regular love least
over in Olympia. A committee from
the legislature is trying to find out who
is to blame for putting a stop to candi
dates opening their sacks, and so forcing
the election ot Turner. At last accounts
Squire seems to be the man, as be
openly stated be would not permit him
self to be robbed further.
It developed in an argument In con-
!rAye8terdjr th8t tb, county Py
16,000 a year towards maintaining the
king of Samoa. Stone wanted to know
the king was under the civil service
'ules, and if not why. McMlllin moved
to strike out this item ; but as it is in
accordance with our treaty with Ger
many concerning the government of
Samoa, the house refused.
The people of Anacortes, Wash., are
thoroughly aroused over reports of the
possibility of anti-fishtrap legislation,
and many bitter thinirs are bei
by leading Populists as to what,they
wiuuo h sucn measures are enacted
into law. The council has naeeed rpsn
lutions addressed to the legislature and
protesting against the anti-tran leffisla.
tion. The council is composed of three
Kepuoiicans and four Populists. The
vote was unanimous.
Brownell scored a point of Simon yes-
tetciay in the course of the debate on
the motion to take a ballot for United
States senator. Brownell, among
others, said: "Do you want to assist
uarkiey, the high priest of dernogogy "
The speaker was interrupted by the
rapping of the president's gavel, and
Mr. Simon said : "Permit me to sav to
the senator that ho has no right to abuse
members of the legislature upon the
floor of this senate." "Have vou anv
evidence that they are members of the
legislature?" retorted Brownell. "There
is plenty of evidence in the office of the
secretary of state," was the reply.
TWO INDIANS DROWNED.
A Bl(- Sturgeon railed Their Host Un
der and Threw Them Oat.
This morning about 11 o'clock an ac-
, cident occurred on the river about three
miles east of town, resulting in the
drowning of two Indians, John Will
iams and Jim Waters, who were en
gaged in sturgeon fishing by Jake An
drews. They, with an Indian boy about 9
years old, were taking up a sturgeon
line, when in some manner the boat
swung in the current and one or more of
the hooks caught over the gunwale of
the boat, a big sturgeon on the line
pulling and assisted by the current,
turned the boat over, throwing all the
occupants out. The two Indians were
carried down by the current; and soon
succumbed to the chill and the whirling
waters. The boy, more fortunate, man
aged to secure three oars which floated
out of the boat and with their aid
reached the shore, and from him the
particulars of the accident were learned.
The boat was caught a short distance
above town.
Jake Andrews, for whom the men
were working, offers a reward of $20 for
the recovery of each of the bodies.
Forfeited Lands,
Register Moore, of the land office, re
ceived a letter from Commissioner Lam
oreux concerning the status of persons
claiming the forfeited Northern Pacific
railroad lands. The lands are all with
held from settlement at present, but the
bill extending the time of payment hav
ing passed, the lands will soon again be
thrown open to settlement.
Many of those living on the lands sup
pose they have a preferred right to
homestead them. The commissioner's
letter settles that proposition. He
holds that they only had the preferred
right of homeseadt for six months after
the extension of the time; that is, up to
August 20, 1891. Since that time those
living on the lands had no preferred
right of homstead, nor will they have
should the time for payment be ex
tended. We print herewith a portion of the
commissioner's letter, which is as fol
lows: Any preferred right to make home
stead entries under said act were con
tained in provisions of Section 2 of said
act, and all parties who failed to exer
cise such rights befote the expiration of
the time as extended by the act of Feb.
18, 1891, have forfeited the same.
It seems, therefore, that applications
to purchase only under said Section 3,
and only by persons protected thereby,
should be 'received as directed in the
telegram ; but no rights to said lands
can be acquired by any other persons
pending the suspension, no matter what
may be the nature of the application or
tb" pretext under which it may be pre
sented. Met In Joint Assembly.
The joint assembly met in represen
tatives hall at noon today to take a bal
lot for senator. There were thirty-seven
members of the legislature present, and
after some discussion the joint assembly
adjourned to 7:30 this evening without
taking a ballot.
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A SCRAP OF PAPER DID IT.
A Murderer Bounded Up to CoBfomton
and Conrlctlon hj n Hcrap of
Taper Onn Wadding.
Very few chains of purely nircum
stantial evidence have been so complete
as that which fastened the guilt of James
J. Irwin's murdor upon George Mat
thews. The crime was committed in
Charles county, Md., in the first week of
August last, and Matthews' trial began
on Nov. 23d and ended with his convic
tion four days later, Thanksgiving day.
He then confessed the murder, and is
now under sentenco of death.
As a sequel to Matthews triai came
that of Emu. a Irwin, the murdered
man's wife, which began Monday, Jan.
ISth, and ended in acquittal owing to
the stubborn refusal of Matthews to
testify in the case. In his own confes
sion last November Matthews fully im
plicated Mrs. Irwin as his accomplice,
ami Mrs. Irwin's sister as one of the
chief instigators of the crime. When
Mrs. Irwin was brought to trial Mat
thews flatly refused to give the testi
mony, without which it was impossible
to convict. The counsel for tho prose
cution tried every legal device they
knew to introduce Matthews' previous
confession, but in this they were de
feated at every point by the alertness of
Mrs. Irwin's counsel.
The murder itself was a peculiarly
brutal one. Irwin with his wife and
child lived .it the little fisning village
called Aliens Fresh, Charles county.
Matthews, a fisherman, lived a few
miles away. Letters intercepted by Ir
win and others, found in. the house after
his death, implicated Mrs. Irvin and
Matthews in guilty relations, and testi
mony showed that Irwin had knowledge
of the fact, and was much distressed by
it. His little child testified that there
was domestic trouble on the night of tho
murder and that Irwin was shedding
tearB before he went to bed.
In the dead of thnt night Mrs. Irwin
went to a neighbor's and said that her
husband was dead. She said that she
was sleeping cn the bed with him and
was next to the wall. She was awak
ened by a loud noise, and when she put
her hand upon her husband's head she
found the head torn and bleeding. She
then fled for help.
That was her story, and it was found
to be true enough so far as the murder
is concerned. The neighbors found Ir
win's head half blown off by a gun shot,
and what was left of it hacked aB with
an axe or hatchet. The little child,
sleeping in the room where the deed
was done, if awakened at all immedi
ately went to sleep again, and knew
nothing of what had'happened.
When suspicion first fastened upon
Matthews he gave so clear and circum
stantial an account of his movements
during the twenty-four hours which in
cluded the time of the murder that be
lief in his guilt was shaken. But one
small circumstance after another was
brought to light, until finally the chain
was made complete by the clue afforded
by the paper gun wad found in the dead
man's head. When spread out and
cleaned it was found to be a scrap of
newspaper with the printed words
nearly all legible. In Matthews' pocket
was found a scrap of paper which fitted
the tear on the side of the gun wad
scrap, and when joined together the
lines could be read. Still another torn
scrap of newspaper found in Matthews'
pocket fitted a scrap found on the floor
of the shanty in which he lived. It
was a Populist newspaper which Mat
thews had used in loading his gun, and
and it was a scrap from a Populist edi
torial which he had so brutally fired into
poor Irwin's head as he slept in fancied
security by the side of his wife.
This scrap of paper so conclusively
connected Matthews with the crime that
the jury were only a few moments in
bringing in a verdict of guilty. In his
confession Matthews said Mrs. Irwin
knew that he was coming that night to
murder her husband, and that she was
lying awake on the bed when he did it.
Speedy Financial and Currency It e form
Imperative.
, The selection of gold as a measure of
value is as distinctly the result of evolu
tion, the selection of the best "the sur
vival of the fittest," as the preference of
the ass to the ox; the horse to the aes;
steam and electricity to the horse, and
the wind pressing the ship sail ; the tel
egraph and the telephone to the sluggish
mail. The operation of modern mate
rial civilization is to eliminate four
things time, space, risks and doubts;
and nothing In the monetary world
serves this purpose as well as gold, of
which a sufficient quantity exists to
meet all the requirements of the human
family. The constantly increasing sup
ply of the metal and the Increased me
of checks and drafta have made It possi
ble for every nation to obtain practically
all it requires to settle the balances of
trade. It want no more ; for, as gold
earns no interest, and beyond that re
sults in a loss to the holder. Even the
Monetary Commistion of Japan has de
clared in favor of a gold standard. Tho
ambition of President Diaz Is well
known. All the clvilir.ed and hnlf-clvll-ized
nations of tha earth have taken the
same Btand, Then why do wo hesitate
to take an unequivocal position, especi
ally since tho American people have de
creed it at the polls? Having deter
mined upon this one reform in our na
tional finances, tho work would only bo
half done, did wo not discard the princi
ple of tiatism , retiring the greenbacks
and other demand obligations of tho gov
ernment, as was intended to bo dono nt
the earliest moment after the clotc of
tho war. The prudence of such a step
was shown by France at the close ol tho
Franco-Prussian war, when M. Tlilora
insisted that the French government
should nt once repay tho bank of France
its loan of $300,000,000 at tho rate of $-10,-000,000
a year, although it bore only 1
per cent interest, while tho French gov
ernment was paying six per cent on
bonds in perpotuhy. Hon. Chas. N.
Fowler, iu the February Forum.
Last XlRht' Lecture.
The lecture by President Penrose, of
the Whitman collego, Washington, de
livered at the Congregational church last
night, was tho best ever hoard in The
Dalles. From opening to close he held
the attention of the audience, and with
every sentenco expressed an idea worthy
of serious thought. The other lectures
were all good, but thero are no words of
praise too strong for that of President
Penrose. The attendance va9 quite
good; but we fear the committee in
charge has mnde a mistake, and should
have reserved Rev. Penrose's lecturo for
the last. It would have proved a fitting
close for a very instructive series.
I'KKSONAI. MENTION.
Hnn. Al. Lvlo who 1ms been at Salem
for some time, arrived here lust night.
Mr. T?(pvph. nrnnritftnr of tho Hood
River hotel, was in tho city this morn
ing.
.Tniit Uriulshnu, wlin liia been in
Salem" for a few days arrived home to
day. Here is a diamond, here a piece of
charcoal. Both carbon ; yet between
them stands the mightiest of magicians
Nature. The food on your table, and
your own body; elementally the same;
yet between the two stands the digestion,
the arbiter of growth or decline, life or
death.
We cannot make a diamond ; wo can
not make flesh, blood and bone. No.
But by meaus of tho Shaker Digestive
Cordial we can enable the stomach to
digest food which would otherwise fer
ment and poison the system. In all
forms of dyspepsia and incipient con
sumption, with weakness, loss of flesh,
thin blood, nervons prostration the Cor
dial is the successful remedy. Taken
with food it relieves at once. It nour
ishes, and assists nature to nourish. A
trial bottle enough to show its merit
10 cents. 0
Laxol is the best medicine for chil
dren. ' Doctors recommend it in place of
Castor Oil.
DnlleH-Mnro Stage
Leaves the Umatilla house 8 a. m.
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
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With this pump one man can churge
the receptable and leave it to direct the
spray just where it is wanted, and thus
with sufficient hose pass from treo to
tree. The solution is delivered in a fine
mist or spray, penetrating every nook
and cornor, thus doing better and more
effective work than is possible by any
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We have strictly First-class
FIR, OAK and
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To sell at LOWEST MARKET RATES.
JOS.
Phone 25.
Wasco Warehouse Company
Headquarters for Seed Grain of ail kinds.
Headquarters for Feed Grain of ail kinds.
Headquarters for Rolled Grain, ail kinds.
Headquarters for Bran, Shorts, oTmTLVId
Headquarters for "Byers' Best" Pendle-
tOTl "Flonf ThisFlour is manufactured expressly for family
vuix use; every sack is guaranteed to give satisfaction.
We Eell our goods lower than any house in the trade, and if yon don't think so
call and get our prices and be convinced.
Highest Prices Paid for Wheat. Barley and Oats.
etyool Bools, Stationery,
o MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, t
AT
Jacobson Book & Music Co.
No. 174 Second Street,
New Vogt Block, The Dalles, Oregon.
GEORGE RUCH
PIONEER GROCER.
(Sut'cckiior to UlirUiuun A Comon.)
STAPLE
Again in business at the old stand. I would be pleased to
see all my former patroim. Free delivery to any part of town.
Northern Grown Heeds.
Fresh Qnrdeu and Grass Heeds in Bulk.
Heed Wheat, Heed Ityo, Seed Oats.
Heed Ilarley, Heed Corn, Flax Heed.
Alfalfa Seed. Timothy Heed.
Bed Glover Heed, Millet Seed.
J. H. CROSS' Feed
nn.ic kji.i ...
Store open from 7
Job Printing
MAYS & CROWE,
T. PETERS & CO
FULL LINE OF
and FANCY GROCERIES.
Crimson Clover Heed, It) no Grass Heed.
White Clover Heed, Orchurd Grass Seed,
lieu Supplies, Fertilizers, Oil MeulCuke.
Hay. Grain, Feed and Groceries,
liarly Kote Pntutoes.
Poultry and Eggs bought and sold at
and Grocery Store,
ii.i.. . f.,
a. m. to 0 p. in.
$it This Office.