She Dall es
VOL. XII
THE DALLES, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER U, 1899.
NO 55
A CL4SH AT
ANY MOMENT
Oralis Free Slate Trups Reported to
Cnd lie Border Mi Natal.
EXPECTED TO OC
CUPY NEWCASTLE
Diplomatic Relations Between Great
Britain and the South African
Republic Have Been Broken Oil.
London, Oct. 11. Word of u cIobIi be
tween tho opposing forces of tho Boers
and Biitish in South Africa is expected
momentarily. Tliere nro reports in cir
culation that troops of the Orange Free
Stato have nlreudv crossed the border
and ure now advancing on L'.idysinith
If this proves correct newB of . i
Imttln may come ut any time. The
Boers nru said to lmvo entered Natal bv
tlio Oundy Clough paBS.
Motitaguo White, couBul-genoral of
tlio South African republic in London,
ehut up shop und left this afternoon for
tho continent. Conyngham Green, the
British diplomatic ngunt in the Trans
vaal, will leave Pretoria this afternoon.
Thus diplomatic relations between the
two countries are broken off.
The Gazette of the South African
republic contains a proclamation culling
on all burghers domiciled outside the
republic to return and present them
selves for sorvice. If they fail they will
be fined and imprisoned and their
property confiscated. This action is
taken in ord-er to catch British subject?,
with suspected Boer spmpathies, and
property within the South African
republic.
A force ot 4000 soldiers of the Trans
vaal, under General Cronje, ure threaten
ing Mafoking, and the inhabitants of
that place are excited.
Tho Boors are expected to occupy
Newcastle by tomorrow.
London, Oct. 11. A Petormartizburg
dispatch eaya : There are persisting re
ports ttiut Orange Free States troops
have already crossed the frontier, and
are advancing on Iadysmith. The Boers
entered Natal by the Important piles of
Candy Clough, thirty miles eouthweet
uf Newcastle.
London, Oct. 11. A dispatch from
Petormartistburg.Natal, Buys that intense
excitement prevails owing to the persis
tent reports that Orango Free State
troops have ul ready crossed the border
und are advancing upon Ladysmith.
Shot Down By His Wife.
Noutiu'out, Wash., Oct. 10. L. J.
Brown, proprietor of Brown's cafe and
dancehall, wus killed by a shot fired by
Ids wife about 10 o'clock this morning.
Mra. Brown und her father went to a
room and knocked at tho door. Brown
and u woman were in tho room. Afler
waiting thirty minutes Brown came out,
mid lucked tho door behind him. Mra.
Brown asked him for Home papotB,
w hich he had agreed to give her on the
previous day. lie gave her some sar
castic answer and turned around. As he
turned she drew n pistol and ehot him in
the back of the neck. Brown lived
about thirty minutes. Mrs. Brown gave
hureelfup immediately after the shoot
ing occurred, and is now in tho city jail.
Wounded at Novclcta.
Vanuouvwi Baukackb, Oct. 10.
Captain Hugh McUrath, Fourth-cavalry,
who is reported to have been seriously
wounded in the battle of Noveleta yes
terday, was stationed at this post for
eome months, in command of troop E,
Fourth cavalry, and accompanied it to
Wan Frondsco when tho regiment was
ordered to Manila. Before the troops
tailed Captain McGrath was appointed
major in the engineor corps, United
Ktatea volunteer, und ordered to
Savannah, and afterwards to Havana,
where ha was chief engineer officer on
the staff of General Ludlow. He was
Delicious
Hot
Biscuit
are made with Royal Baking Pow
der, and are the most appetizing,
healthful and nutritious of foods.
Hot biscuit made with impure
and adulterated baking powder are
neither appetizing nor wholesome.
It all depends upon the bak
ing powder.
Take every care to have your
biscuit made with Royal, which is
a pure cream of tartar baking pow
der, if you would avoid indigestion.
ROYAL BAK!iQ POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
mustered out laet April, and joined the
Fourth cavalry, at Manila, and has baen
in command of a Equadron of the regi
ment ever since.
I're vented u Irncecly.
Timely information given Mrs. George
Long, of New Straitsville, Ohio, pre
vented a dreadful tragedy and eavod two
lives. A frightful cough had long kept
her awake every night. She had tried
muny remedies and doctors but steadily
grew worse until urged to try Dr. King's
New Diecovery. One bottle wholly cured
her, and she writes this marvelous
medicine also cured Mr. Long of a Eevere
attack of Pneumonia. Such cures are
positive proof of tho matchless merit of
this grand remedy for curing all throat,
chest und lung troubles. Only 50c and
$1.00. Every bottie guaranteed. Trial
bottles freo at Blakeley & Houghton's
Drugstore. 0
Bicyclist Severely Injured.
Him.kiiouo, Or., Oct. 10. Charles
Doughty, late a private in company H,
Second Oregon volunteers, and who re
turned from Manila in July with the
regiment, had a narrow escape from
death yesterday evening while going
home on u bicycle. Young Doughty wae
crosslm ustrettwalk and his wheel gavo
linn a header. He fell on hit) head and
shoulders aud was unconscious for about
two hours. He received a terrible blow
on tho outer angle of the left eyebrow,
und his upper lip was badly torn. While
at first liis physicians thought the
accident would provo fatal, he is resting
easy, and will recover.
"I wish to express my thanks to the
manufacturers of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea lieiuedy, for
having put on the market eueh a wonder
ful medicine," 6ays W. W. Masslngill.
of Beaumout, Texas. There are muny
thousands of mothers whose children
have been saved from attacks of dysen
tery and cholera infantum who must
also feel thankful. It is lor salo by
Blukeley & Houghton Druggists.
Mistaken For a Deer.'
Okkoon Citv, Oct. 10. Last night
John A. Howland brought in from the
Upper Clackamas Ben Klmbley, of Da
mascus, who is suffering from a rifle-.
bill wound in the fleshy part of the
right fiido below the armpit. The two
men were following a deer, taking sepa
rate routes. Howland mistook the color
of Kimbley'a vest In the brush iora deer,
and firei. The bullet grazed through
the flesh to the depth of about half of its
diameter. The accident occurred Thurs
day afternoon, but they did not roach
here until laet night to have the wound
dressed.
There is more Catarrh in this eection
of the country than all othe diseases put
together, and until the last few years
was supposed to be incurable. For a
great many yars doctors pronounced it
a local disease, and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure witli local treatment, pronounced
it incurable. Science hue proyen catarrh
tobe a constitutional dieease, and there
fore requires constitutional treatment.
Hall's Catarrah Cure, manufactured by
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is tho
only constitutional cuio on the market.
It is taken internally in doses from ten
drops to a teaeooonful. -It acts directly
on the blood and mucous surfaces of tho
system. They offer one hundred dollarB
for any case it fails to cure. Send for
circulars and teetmoninls. Address,
F. J. Ciiknky & Co., Toledo, O
Sold by Druggists, 75c. 7
Uncle John Wrecked.
Victouia, B, C, Oct. 10. The barken
tine Uncle John, bound from Honolulu
to I'uget Sound, went ashore Sunday on
tho west coast of Vancouver island, and
is a total loss. The Uncle John left
Honolulu September 18, and made a
smart passage, being bound for Fort
Townsend for orders. She was driven
aBhore Sunday evening during a gale,
The officers and men escaped by taking
to the boats. The officers and crew will
return to"Victoria by the Willapa. The
wrecked veseel left Eureka, Cal., with a
load of lumbur for Hawaii last August.
The "Plow Boy Preacher," Itev. J.
Kirkman, Belle Hive, 111., saye. "After
suffering from Bronchial or lung trouble
for ten years, I was cured by One Minute
Cough Cure. It is all that is claimed
for it and more." It cures coughs, colds,
grippe and all throat and lung troubles.
Butler Drug Co.
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giBts. " 2
SMALLPOX
AT ASTORIA
Well-Developed Case Was Discovered
There This Morning Patient Has
Been Quarantined.
Astoria, Or., Ojt. Dr. Bisiiop, who
was called to attend one of tho Sloop
brothers, Young's river dairymen, this
morning, found aud diagnosed a well
defined case of smallpox. He called Dr.
Hill Hastings, United States quarantine
ollicer, who pronounced it a well
developed case of vaiioloid. Chief
Hallock, who is also health officer,
quarantined tlio patient in a house near
the ecow bav foundry, as the city has no
pest house. A special meeting of the
city'council was called this afternoon to
provide for such matters by arranging
for a pest house and physician as health
officer.
UUmarck'H Iron Naive
Was the result of his splendid health.
Indomitable will and tremeudous'energy
are not found where stomach, liver,
kindeys and bowels are out of order. If
you want these qualities aud the success
they bring, use Dr. King's New Life
Pills. They develop every power of
brain and body. Only 25a at Blakeley
& Houghton'e drugstore. 2
Kodjl Dyspepsia Cure cures dyspepsia
because its ingredients are such that it
can't help doing so. "The public can
rely upon it us a master remedy for all
Dicorders arising from imperfect diges
tion." James M. Thomas, M. D., in
American Journal of Health, N. Y.
Eat nlentv, Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will
diuest what vou eat. It cures nil forms
of dyspepsia and stomach troubles. E.
It. Gamble, Vernon, Tex., says, "It
relieved me (mm the start anil cured me,
It is now my everlasting friend." Butler
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"It did me more good than anything
I ever used. My dyspepsia was of
months' standing; after eating it wus
terrible. Now I am well," writes 8. B.
Keener, Hnisinglon, Kan,, of Kodol
Dyspephia Cure. It digests whiit you
eat. Butler Drug Co.
Fur Item.
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