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The Times-Monntameer
- SATURDAY JANUARY 23. 1892
THERE IS A CAUSE."
Bra Jackson, of the East Oreqonian,
is attempting to inaugurate Utopia in
this part' of the world, and this does
honor to his philanthropic desires and
honest intentions: bat we believe he
will be unsuccessful in the accomplish
ment of little, if any good, ami gen:
, ations yet unborn will witness the
same vileness and viciouaness in the
human race as curse the history of the
r present time. We quote the following
editorial paragraph under the caption
of this article from the issue of yester
day:
' Within five minute of the time a woman
fell dead in Washington Square, New York
eitv. thieves had trotten her pocket book
and stripped her fingers of valuable rings,
and yet in this same town the richest men
on earth are found, who consume, bat pro
; dnee nothing, and editors, ministers, law
. vers and other gentlemen "earn" as roucn
. as $26,000 or $50,000 a year. So the pro
' fesaional thief selects the same field to ply
- his operations, although in a coarser, more
volgar and offensive way. As intelligence
spreads and becomes more general the ranks
of the professions, privileged classes, as
. well as the "birds of prey," will be thinned
oat, and the burdens which weigh dow
mankind will be lishtened with benefit to
rverv soul. At present we all see darkly,
We look at things narrowly and through
.bedimmed spectacles. The thief's presence
tells us plainly thai ignorance and brutality
is still triumphant; that our dealings with
one another are only a tew degrees removed
from what is known as thieving netting
" something for doing nothing taking when
we do not create.
We agree with Bro. Jackson that
there is a cause that produces thieves
and murderers; but we do not believe
that tb.6 "professional thief selects the
, same field to ply bis operations" as the
editor, minister, lawyer and other pro
. fessional gentlemsn, "although in
coarser, more vulgar ' and offensive
" wav."- It may be a fact that these
professional men " produce nothing'
that go to support the functions of the
, body oi protect it from the inclemency
of the weather; but nearly two tbous-
- and years ago it was written iu
book, which is rendered venerable
: both by its antiquity and sanctity, that
that "man shall not live by bread
alone." It is necessary that his intel
lectual and moral nature be fed a3 well
as his animal, and if individuals were
to- pass their years of life in simply
eatiner to rerjair the decay of their
functions, men would not be removed
the least degree from the brute ciei-
' tion. To live, the faculties of t.fce biaio
and heart must be trained and devtl-
' oped as well as the functions of the
- body, and for this reason we claim the
' literary man and the miaister of the
gospel are producers. Regarding law
yers, we do not know where to place
them. Perhaps Jay Gould, Vander
bilt and the Johnathan Wilds of this
age of the world consider them a ne
: oessity; but doctors, members of f
-' very important professional branch, do
a noble work in prolonging life and
' combatting the ills and pains to which
flesh is heir. We cannot agree with
our esteemed ' oo temporary that the
only difference, between the learned
: professions and the common street
' thief or body-robber is the offensive
way in which the latter plies his voca-
, tion. "
There are undoubtedly causes that
ushered the murderer and thief into
'existence, and if as . much . attention
were paid to the human species as to
. the breeding of horses and hogs .there
would be less crime before ' our
courts daily. The spirit of unrest
which pervades the unfortunate classes,
or the unequal distribution of wealth.
is not nearly as productive of thugs
and thieves as the law of heredity.
Like begets like is as true as sunlight,
and an impure fountain , cannot send
forth a clear stream. When -philan
thropists pay the same attention to
the training of boys and girls as sport
ing men do to horses, there will be- less
crime and. many more good citizens.
But while boys are familiarized with
most revolting acts by a street educa
tion, and girls are not taught their
- proper, God-designed position in the
economy of creation, our penitentiaries
will be crowded and hideous vice will
stalk in open daylight on our streets.
TEE CHILIAN QUESTION.
The Chicago Inter Ocean dispaesion-
. f .tl t? Aannaaoa tkici anltiaf in ilia fr
lowing language: If the people of the
United States are to choose between
LUD piouu aiiiriuubiuua ui bucir uwu
citizens and the denials of foreigners
the choice will be in favor of their
own citizens, - The choice will lie more
quickly and irrevocably made if it ap
pear that the affirmations of American
citizens are made without motive of
self-interest, while the denials rf for
eigners are open to suspicions of hos
tility to the United State?, and of
. desire to avoid the juBt consequences
of wrong doing. There will be neither
hesitation nor retraction about such
choice if the honor of this republic is
involved by it.
That certain seamen of the United
States ship Batttmore were attacked
and wounded in Valparaiso is not in
doubt. So much the Chilian govern
ment admits. . That the seamen should
have any color of motive in making
false charges as to the persons of their
assailants is incredible. Tbat the
Chilian authorities may have a
motive for denying the participation
r9 ffiiiala if f.noii Vflnnklit in thA AO
sault is evident. If the seamen had
been assaulted by a mere mob of
Chilian toughs and rowdies, and if the
police and military of Chili had ren
dered service in rescuing them from
the mob, no reason could be imagined
for their saying that among their as
sailants were uniformed officers of the
Chilian government. But this is what
the seamen of the Baltimore do say.
On the other hand, if for a long period
immediately preceding the attack the
temper of the Chilian people and the
Chilian officials had been violently
hostile to those of the United States,
and if some of the Chilian police and
scldiery had been active in attack up
on the seamen, the natural tendency of
Chilian diplomacy would be to assert
that tLe attack was the work of a mob
of civilian?. And this is what the
Chilian diplomats do assert. The
question fast is narrowing itself as to
that of the credibility of witnesses.
Inevitably, the United States will in
cline to give preference to the testi
ruony of its own citizens. Under the
circumstances that we have recapitu
lated it is reasonable to expect that
the citizens of neutral nations will be
lieve as the people of the United
States do.
The president has acted with digni
fied courtesy and with great forbear
tnce in this matter. He nas not m-
ilimed the temper of the people by
adroit "appeals to patriotic zeal. He
has waited patiently for the collection
of all the evidence obtainable, and has
refrained from expressing opinion con
cerninsr it. But his eilence cannot be
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much longer maintained.
WAR.
The dispatches to-day state that
i.Vip nlr.ima.tum has been reached be
tween the United States and Chili,
and the South American republic must
apologize or fight. Of course, this will
arouse the enthusiam of our young
men aud those desirous of winning
military fame: but war in this age of
the world is somethiog terrible to con
template. A conflict between nations
i3 no longer a simple test of the phys
ical endurance and pluck of individ
uals, for advancement in the munitions
of war in the last decade has been as
marked as in any other department.
The engagements between armed
forces are determined in this age
of the w orld by the scientific appli
ances possessed by either of the com
"batants.
War is to be greatly deplored, and
every effort should be made to secure
peicp; but this government has suf
fered great indignities from the Chil
ians. That the murder of the two
American seamen in the port of Val
paraiso on October 16th was without
the least excuse cannot be denied, and
that the United States has given Chili
many opportunities - to make rep
aration for the injury suuered
is also true. These facts make
the war, if it must come, a simple vin
dication of bur rights, and not one of
retaliation or reprisal. Many enthu
siastic patriots claim that Chili would
be a desirable dependency upon this
country, and that the object of the
war should be the absorption of that
republic. This is contrary to '. the
spirit of our institutions and the con
stitution, and would be more plausible
in the dark ages than in the refulgent
light of the last decade of the nine
teenth century. If a conflict is inevi
table, it should be waged solely for the
protection of American citizens and
the maintenance of the dignity of the
"overument in the family of nations.
When this is secured the object is ac
complished, and filibustering and buc
caneering should by all means be
discountenanced.
War with Chili will be no holiday
sport. The citizens of the little re
public have long been known as the
Yankees of South America, and for
years their navy has received the most
careful attention of the government.
As a result she has some of the best
ships afloat, able to cope with
those of any European power. On
the contrary, the United States has
paid but little attention to coast . de
fenses, and until very recently did not
possess a navy. Some ships have been
constructed in the last few years of
the latest patterns, but persons con
versant with both countries say the
Chilian navy is far superior. '
Aside from these facts, war means
the expenditure of treasure and the
sacrifice of human lives. The martial
tread of armies means the desolation
of countries and the stoppage of in
dustrial development. A conflict be
tween nations, with the improved en
gines of death and destruction now in
use, should be the last consideration
when every other means of conciliation
have failed, and we are satisfied that
the authorities at Washington City
will be cautious and conservative in
the matter, bowever much the tern
per of the people have been aroused.
M'KINLEY AND THE (JERRY
MANDER.
The inaugural address of Gov. Mo
Kinley contained courageona language
regarding the fraudulent process of
eerrvmanderinc legislative and con
gressional districts to suit the political
party in power, and the New York
World says: "If Governor McKmley
is honest in his professions and has
the courage of them he will not ap
prove any such measure (as tho Car
penter gerrymander)."
Governor McKinley has had the
honesty and the courage to express his
disapproval of that measure in the
most forcible manner possible for him,
He has condemned it in his inaugural
address, and he would no doubt have
the courage 'o veto it after it passed
the Wislature. if he had the veto
O
power, as the Inter Ocean well says.
But Ohio is one of the few states that
has never given her governor the veto,
When General St. Clair was the terri
toriol governor he was somewhat
abrupt in his dealing with the legisla
ture, aud, it is said, did not even take
the trouble to notify that body of his
rlisannroval of certain bills, fl i fiim
ri
ply tore them into bits and threw them
into the waste basket. This incensed
the politicians of Ohio at that early
Jay, and when they met in constitu
tional convention they got even with
the governor by allowing that office no
veto power.
Several governors of Ohio have
found themselves unable to prevent
wretched legislation, notably Governor
Campbell, who.' after he called the
legislature iu extraordinary session,
could not veto the work they did,
which was unsatisfactory to him. He
was wiser and fairer than his party,
but he could not prevent ' the Demo
cratic legislature doing some very bad
work.
Governor McKinley has taken the
most courageous course that was pos
sible to him. He has condemned par
tisan gerrymanders in his inaugural
address and haa made his language so
clear that it hits at Republicans who
would engage in such legislation as
well as Democrats who have done bo.
There is little danger of the Car
penter bill passing the Ohio legislature.
It has been coudemned by Governor
McKinley, Senator Sherman, and the
Republican press of Ohio. .
Senator Carpenter is something of a
wag, and he probably framed the bill
to show the Democrats how he could
turn their tactics against them. There
is no danger of the Republican legisla
ture making that bill a law.
Free raw material means cheap
labor and cheap productions for the
benefit of corporations, and the Amer
ican people are not in iavor ot this
doctrine. Protection is broad-guaged
in its principles, and aims to benefit
the farmer, the miner, and the wage-
earner, it .Democracy were tri
umphant, our laborers would sim
ply toil to increase the dividends of
capitalists; but the Republican party
has the same solicitude fcr the wool-
grower that it has for the wool manu
facturer; in fact, it throws a safeguard
around eyery. industry that may be
injured by competition. Governor
McKinley voiced the sentiments
the people when he said: "There
one thing that they air might as wel
mako up their minds to down in the
east-- that is, that they can't have
wool free when it comes from the
sheep's back and put a tariff on
when it comes on our backs. They
can't have wool come into their facto
ries in New England free and come
out of their factories with a tariff to
the American people."
cons ;d d to an unhonored and un
timely grave in the house. The Dem
ocratic party is forced to go before the
country on something, and as its rec
ord for the past twenty-five years has
been everything but patriotic and
honest, it attempts to attract vot'
ers by an economic showing and
keeping a useless surplus in the treas
ury. We believe the people would
have a better opinion of the organiza
tion, and consider it mor9 patriotic
and possessing greater sympathy for
the laboring poor, if it would open the
doors of the treasury for the public
needs, and finish the great internal
improvements now in course of construction.
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The coming season the Inland Em
pire should make rapid strides in the
direction of development. With the
wealth of the soil pouring its grain
and wool into the markets of the
world, and cheap means cf transpor
tation to seaboard via the Columbia
river, no portion of the continent has
greater incentives to prosperity. The
only thing necessary to make Eastern
Oregon the New England of the west
the inauguration of manufactures,
and these should be established in
every town east of the Cascades.
Not one dollar should be sent east
for any article that can be raised
and placed on the market here,
Every grocer should have Eastern
Oregon canned fruits, dried beef, and
ary gooas mercnants iar-rics trom our
own looms. Until such a plan is
adopted, for every dollar earned, we
shall pay one-half or three-quarters to
firms in the east, and this will result
in impoverishment. If protection is
advantageous to the nation, it is to the
community and individual, and it is
time we learned the first princi
ples of the doctrine keep all the
money at home possible, and send
not one cent abroad that can be spent
to equal advantage in the locality.
The military spirit of our citizens
has been effervescing for some time,
and still there is no declaration of war
with Chili. If the present opportuni
ty passes with no occasion to satisfy
the thirst for blood it is - difficult to
calculate' when another opportune time
will occur.
benator JJavid Jj. Mill nas an
nounced that he is in favor of tariff
reform and the free coinage of silver.
Very well; now if he will explain just
wnat sort ot tana retorm ne is in
in favor of, and what he means by
tariff reform, he will silence a . good
many envious tongues. Telegram.
It would be in order at the fame time
for the Democratic party to inform
the country "what sort of tariff reform"
it advocates; for the fact is apparent
that, although it has howled tariff re
form from every platform in the
country tor years past, it- nas never
definitely formnlateJ its principles
on this great economic Question
whether in favor of '.'horizontal reduc
tion" according to Mr. Morrison, pro
tection to southern industries, as out
lined by Mr. Mills, "tariff for revenue
1 1 t - . m -w
oniy, or iiriusn tree-trade, it is
very important that as a great presi
dential campaign is approaching the
electors of the country should be en
lightened on this subject
The Oregonian and Astorian are
having a newspaper controversy, over
the respective merits of their two cities
as shipping points. Of course Astoria
is a hundred miles nearer the ocean
than Portland, and ships could receive
cargoes with greater facility and at
less expanse there than by being
towed up the Columbia and Willamette
rivers to the inland seaport. This
apparently is common sense; but the
great daily says this is net true, and,
perhaps, it knows. If there were a
railroad from the Willamette valley to
the mouth of the Columbia river, or if
a boat connected with the Regulator at
the Lower Cascades, we believe the
Astorian position on this Question
would be practically demonstrated be-
yound dispute.
THE TESTIMONY CLOSED.
Captain Schley was the last witness
examined before the court of inquiry
at Mare Island summoned to investi
gate the question of the assault upon
the Baltimore's sailors in the streets
of Valparaiso. The case is now closed
so far a3 the testimony is concerned,
and it is possible to review the evi
dence comprehensively and ' intelli
gently. The San Francisco Chronicle says:
The substance of the testimony given
by the officers and men of the Balii
more is that the attack upon them was
cruel, brutal and entirely unprovoked,
and that it was made in pursuance of
a preconcerted plan, the moving cause
being the hatred felt by the Chilians
toward Americans. It was shown
that the American sailors were not
boisterous, tha they were unarmed,
that they obeyed the directions of the
police when they could understand
them, and that in no sense or at any
time were they the assailants. It was
further proved conclusively that the
inducing of the sailors to sign a paper
exonerating the police of Valparaiso
and declaring that they had done only
their duty was a despicable trick
founded on a barefaced lie and carried
through by deceit and fraud.
In the face of such testimony, which
in borne out by the evidence of nearly
every officer on the ship, it is folly to
expect the United States to be bound
by the decision of the Chilian Court
of Crimes, which held an investigation
which has been shon to be partly
farcical and wholly prejudiced. .We
might with equal propriety expect
Great Britain to respect the decision
of a Chinese native court or Germany
to render obedience ;o the mandates of
a native tribunal in the Caroline isl
ands. The findings of Judge Foster's
court are so plainly contrary to the
evidence that they are entiCIed to no
respect whatever.
But what is the proper course for
the United States to pursue? Evi
dently to assert itself and insist that
Chili make an ample apology and due
reparation at once, or take the conse
quences. We have waited long enough
for Chili to do something now let us
see if we cannot compel that country
to do justice, since she wiU not do it
voluntarily.
TELEGRAPHIC.
- Mldlujr to Death.
St. Louis, Jan. 19. A Missouri Pacific
train ran into a sleighing pirty in the
suburbs of this city last night, and killed
seven or eight persons. The accident oc
curred at Forestvil!e, six miles west of
this city. At that place there is a steep
bill, which has been used bj persons in
the neighborhood duriog the prevailing
cold snap as a fort of toboggan slide.
The road down the hill lends across the
railroad tracks. Tbis evening there was
a party of twenty four on a s;td, who
bad been indulging in the sport for some
time. But finally their merry making
csme to an abrupt and sad ending. As
their sled, a pair of bobs connected by a
long plank", struck the railroad tracks a
train dashed into it. killing seven ot its
occupants and maiming many others.
Not one ot the twenty-four is said to
hayc escaped injury. An ambulance
corps immediately left the city for the
scene of the accident, 30 far as can be
learned the following is the list of the
killed.- Frederick Neubert, J. C.
Seine file. Gustave Neubert, William
Krone, James Connors. E. Vonbebren, Al
Miller. Andy Stephenson, the colored
driver, was injured, and Charles Frey bad
both legs broken, and was terribly cut
about tbe head and body.
tiiu Cniiian armored warship Captain
Pratt is to the effect the work shops will
have tbe vessel readv lor sea in thir
davs' time. A number of small fittings
remain to be placed in position, though
tbe larger part of the worn is wnat ai
most auv wide-awake offi.er would uo
dertake to carrv on at fea. It is even
thought probab.e the Chilian commander,
now witn tbe vessel, may isite mis view
ot the case, and, und-r pretense of
steaming trial, make off with the new
ship for South America. Among naval
officers htre it is recognized the Captain
Pratt, when fully completed, will be one
of the beat fitted-out warships in the
world.
A Knoaway Cable Car.
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 19- W. H. Schell,
a conductor on the Madison-street cable
road was killed about 6 o'clock this
morning by tbe collision of a runaway
car with the car on which he was riding.
Cat No. 6 had started from tbe power
house - to Lake Washington, and No. 7
was run out over the turntable imme
diately after. James Carroll, tbe grip
man on No. 7, left bis car on the track
white be went into tho power bouse for
lamps. He says he did not set tbe brakes
and that the car was not tsr enough along
the track t pick up the cable and the
grip was closed. When he came put five
minutes later, he saw rbe car disappear
ing over the brow ol the hill towards tbe
lake. He ran after it, but it ran down
the hill so rapidly that be could not
catch it. It struck the rear of No. 0 on
tbe trestle at the font of the .bill, and
telescoped, knocking Schell through the
door, dislocating bis neck and otherwise
injuring him, aud knocking R. A.
Ratbburn, the . gripmao, down. Rath
burn was stunned for a moment, and his
face liadlv cut by broken glass. When
he recovered be found Scbell lead in tbe
car.
Killed By Robbers.
Fairfield, Cat., Jaa. 20. Last night
while Watchman John Howard, ot Rio
Vista, was making bis rounds be came
across a man at the wharf with a shotgun
who ordered him to throw up his band
and not complying with the demand.
was shot hv the guard the robbers had
placed while robbing the safe of tbe
Southern Pacific company in a buiidin
on the wbarf. After the shots were fired
the robbers left in a boat, leaving their
tools behind them, which the officers have
now in their possession. 1 bey bad
drilled a hole in the safe and inserted
fuse ready to light when Howard came
along. They are supposed to be the
three men who stole a small sloop a few
days ago in San Francisco. Howard
died a few minutes after teing found by
citizens who wtre attracted to tbe spot by
the sbots.
The rip In England.
London, Jan. 19. ine influenza in
this city has reached the propositions of
epidemic, which is tauidly sprtadiug and
increasing in iolecce. - The total number
of case reported daily is going up by
leaps and bouuds, and the advance in the
death rate is becoming a cause or alarm.
The law courts are hampered in their
operations by the epidemic, and judges,
and jurymen, counsel, witnesses and om
cers are down with it, and manv cases
before the courts have been postponed
in consequence, lhe business classes are
not so much affected on account of their
rnoie active life, but the complaint is
beginning to make its appearance among
them. People who work out of doors, or
are much lp tbe open air, are not yet
tone bed, but all have to be extremely
careful, for a wold contracted at tbis
period is likely te lead to a more or less
severe attack of the dreaded grip. Tbe
disease is extending to the provinces.' In
Suffolkshire all tbe schools have been
closed. .-
Qmet as a Urave.
Washington, Jan. ZU. rnere was
nothing new in the Chilian situation this
morning, as to dispatches were received
Secretary Tracy had nothing to give ont,
and at the state department all was quiet
as the grave. Secretary Blaine was
home and sent word be was all right.
Tbe president s message will not go
congress to-day and probably not th
week. This fact has somewhat allayed
tbe excitement in Washington and is re
sponsible for the belief, now finding
mauy supporters, that Chili wiil at tbe
last moment make a lull apoicgy. J h
statement was made that some sort of
peaceful proposition from Chili bad been
informally submitted tor the considers
tion of the president and Secretary
Blaine, but this is not by any means
definite. Tbe navy department is going
ahead with its preparations as it war
were certain and Secretary Tracy was
almost overwhelmed with callers, Chair
man Cameron, ot tbe senate naval com
mittee, being among those who had long
talks with tbe secretary.
County Judge Moreland, of Mult
nombh, has received the opinions of
the best legal talent in Portland re
garding the constitutionality of the
action of the state board of equaliza
tion in classifying property and chang
ing the valuation by assessois, and in
consequence the' county court ignored
the report of the state board and the
clerk was instructed to "carry out the
extension of his tax rolls on the basis
settled upon by the county board of
equalization and the county court."
This will be precedent for other conn-
ties to follow. From tbe carefully
considered opinions of. these lawyers
the action of the state board is clearly
unconstitutional and void, and. no
county is bound by its actions.
Is It War or reace.
Washington, Jan. 19. Tbe cabinet
meeting to day was deyoted almost en
tirely to the consideration of tbe Chilian
question. The proceedings were only
temporarily interrupted by the slight ill
ness of Secretary Blaine. Tbere is reason
to bebeve lhe government Las received
dispatches through the Chilian minister,
looking to a peaceful solution of the
questions in dispute, and tbey were sub
mitted to tbe cabinet to day. This may
possibly do away altogether with tbe
necessity of referring the questiou to
congress.
The Mexican Insurgents.
Laredo, Tex., Jan. 20. A correspond
ent telegraphs tnat he has had an inter
view with one of Garza's chief Iieuten
ants. Tbe officer indignantly dcuied tbe
report that they were bandits, and said
tbey paid for everything tbey used
Garza, be said, represented a principal
He was a patriot, and was determined to.
overthrow the tyrannical yoke of Diaz.
Garza, be said, had oyer 15,000 followers
on this side of the country. All the
people aro with him, he added, and half
the army. Garza was not ready to strike
the final blow, but would do so iu six or
eight weeks, or not until the grass
sprouts, io that they might have lorag
for their horses and men. Tbe lieutenan
considered that they had a rich and
powerful backing, and that when thev
were ready to enter tbe field their forces
would be commanded by one of the moat
popular aad capable men in Mexico,
Garza bad no eye to tbe leadership bim
self, nor does he expect to succeed Diaz
when that governmeut is overthrown.
A Wreelt Krar Umatilla.
Umatilla, Oregon, Jan. 20 The west
bound mail tram No. 1 was wrecked by
a broken rail one mile cast of Maxwell
station at six o'clock tbis morning. Fire
man Pound was injured so that be died
after two hours and ten minutes sutler
ing. J03 Warner, a news agent on the
Spokane branch, who was asleep in the
rear end of the first coach, was scalded so
badly by steam from the car beater that
be will probabiy die. The eagineer
escaped with slight injuries. JNo passen
gers were hurt. Tbe mail, baggage and
smoking cars were thrown in lront of the
engine making a bad lookug wreck.
lateb particulars.
A train arrived from tbe scene of the
disaster at 2 :30 p. M., bearing tbe body
of the dead fireman, and tbe newsboy,
Joseph Warner, who was at last accounts
in a dying condition. Sio one else was
hurt except a tramp who was stealing a
ride, whose injuries were slight.
It was learned tbat a broken rail threw
tbe engine from tbe track on a level
piece ot road and it plunged off into tbe
sand. The mail and baggage cars fol
lowed, running by the engine. . Tbe
smoking car ran up alongside the engine.
tearing off the side of tbe cab on which
tbe fireman sat. He either jumped or was
thrown and could not be lound until about
forty -five minutes after the accident.
when be was discovered under the trucks
of the smoking car. Tbe newshoy was
in tbe car and ran to the front end, wheie
he was scalded by escaping steam from
the engine. Three other men in tbe car
managed to escape without injury.
Fireman Pound was conscious after
being extricated, and rallied for a time,
r n, . 1 - ... I uui in auouk iwo uuurs Banc into me
uuc. Bj,IUK , . of death. The mail car wis badlv
oegin in tnis locality, aud, witn cneap splintered, and tbe clerks had a narrow
means of transnnrt.it inn to soahnaril escape. The wrecking force is now st
and encouraging prospects for crops, and lt is expected that by five o'clock the
our .citizens should exercise enterprise track: win be cleared.
A Frightful Death.
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 20. News
reached this city tbis evening of a sad
affair which occurred about two miles
west of Seattle, near Colby, in which two
sons of Albert Baxter were burned
death, and tbe family residence burned
to tbe ground. Baxter is a rancher an
lives a remote distance from bis beigbbors.
Sunday morning the two sons aged 16
and 7 respectively, went visiting. Their
parents took their daughter about
o'clock in the eveniug and went on
similar trip. They returned about
o'clock, and found the honsc 10 ruins and
no sign of the boys. Oo searching the
ruins, tbe two charred bodins cf the boy
were discovered. It is supposed tbey
came home and went to bed, leaving
lire burning and that tbe bouse caugbt
Are and tbey smothered. Tbe Baxter
family are in destitute circumstances and
dependent on their neighbors. Tbe
community have appealed to Seattle
citizens for help.
J ustice 1 leids, by reason ot some
recent decision, has incurred the ani
mosity of thobe opposed to corpora
tions. There is no denying the fact
that aggregated capital is attempting
to rule the country in a very autocrat
ic manner, and yet tbe accumulation
of wealth is such an universal idea
with American citizens, that the hum
blest day-laborer, if he possessed the
means, would dictate legislation and
even subvert the ballot box to his
personal ends. Money is the. "open
sesame to tbe American heart and
conscience, and honor and honesty are
trodden in' the muck and mire of the
thoroughfare, when wealth needs
road to position.
The Pnjallnp Reservation.
Washington, January 20. Secretary
Noble is having prepared a resolution to
send to congress containing recomenda
tions in regard to selling certain lands
belonging to the Puyal.lup Indians, of
Washington. Tbe reservation of these
Indians is situated near tbe city of Ta
coma, and the town has, in tbe last few
years, grown to such an extent that it has
spread about patts of tbe reservation, and
to enable the city to continue its growth
it is thought advisable to buy parts of it
from tbe Indians, for wbicb tbe full value
will be paid. Some of it is valued as
high as $6000 per acre.
mills Resiens Ills Chairmanship.
Washington, Jan. 20. Representative
Mills has written a letter to Speaker
Crisp resigning bis position as chairman
of the committee on interstate and
foreign commerce Mills, in bis resigns
tion, says he is simply following out tbe
line of action indicated in bis former
letter to tbe speaker, in which be declined
tbe second place ou tbe committee on
ways and means. He is willing, he says.
to serve in tbe ranks, but does not desire
tbe chairmanship.
War has not been declared against
Chili, and the administration is acting
in a careful, conservative manner.
When the government of the United
States makes the orderl it will he
made with a vengenace, and the little
South American republic will regret
the day when she aroused the terpper
of the Anglo Saxons of the north.
Sanator Mitchell's bill for appropri
ating f 100,000 for public buildings at
The Dalles has again passed the sen
ate; but we are fearful that it will be
in inauurating manufacturing indus
tries. The fact is apparent to any one
that The Dalles cannot support any
larger population than it now has
without factories, and there is no. more
desirable point for a woolen mill, fruit
cannery and other industries than this.
It would be well for our business men,
if they desire the growth and pros
perity of the city and vicinity, to do
something in these matters tbe coming
spring.
The war-cloud which has been drift
ing over this country and Chili is fast
disappearing, and, according to the
opinion of many in authority, no con
flict will occur. If the president's
message should lean in the direction of
maintaining the dignity of the govern
ment regarding the Chilian trouble, it
will have the effect of unifying the
two great pr.rties in the United States,
and there will hardly lie a dissenting
voice against the opinion of President
Harrison in either tho house or senate.
The engineer jumped fiom tbe clear
siae ot tne engine and escaped the fate
which befell bis fireman.
1 be remains or f ireman Pound were
taken to the undertaker's and prepared
tor burial. Warner is lying m a sleep
mg car near the depot. His relatives,
who live in Chicago, have been notified.
A Mysterious Affair.
New Whatcom, Wash., Jan. 20.
Moses Younkin, an ex-Indian scout and
rancher at Fort Belliogbam, three miles
from Whatcom, was found at dusk by a
man named Bunt, beside the track near
Little Squallicum creek, with his head in
a poot of water and his skull ' frightfully
cut. Bunt went to John Bennett's place.
procured help and Younkin was taken
there. A physician was sent for and says
the. man will die before morning. His
head looks as though be bad been s'ruck
several times with an ax. Tbe skull is
fractured in several places, and the nose
is split so that be is a horrible sight. He
left New Whatcom about 8.80 p. jc. A
man named McAlpiue claims to bave
seen Younkin in oompHny wh two other
men near where be wasfoutii at S o'clock.
He obtained some pention monev to dav.
and the supposition is that hi slater
walked up the track with him. He was
Heavy Fire In Sew Xork.
New York, Jku. 21. A fire wbicb
broke out in the fifth story of a building
on West Fifieenttr street, this morning,
spread to tbe Brentanos and Lincoln
buildings, and the loss is already far
above $1,000,000. It is estimated tbe
largest losses are: Schneider. Cimpbell
& Co., 1375,000; Brentano Bros . $100,-
000; L. Rbeimo. $300,000: E. C. Bently
& Jones, $50,000; TiffaBy & Co., jewelers.
will also lose something. Tbe six-story
building adjoining Schneider, Campbell
& Go's will probably suffer heavily. It
is occupied, by three firms, Davis, Reed
& Alexander, Hoskins & Sewell and A
J. Mclnoths & Co. Shortly after 1
o'clock tbe fire spread to the Liucoln
building, a magnifictnt new edifice just
completed.
organizations in the United States.
"Our country whether right or wrong I conscious wben found, and, when asked
in war" is the motto of all political WD0 DBd "Jred him, be indicated tbat
later. No trains came along after be left.
sothat.be could not bave been injured
oy a train, lie was an old companion ot
Buffulo Bill, Wild Bill and other Kansas
and Colorado scouts, and was about 65
years, of age.
Salem Journal: D. D. Prettyman brought
into the Journal office to-day some very tine
specimens of apples, free from worms and
sound in every respect. He claims to have
kept oh tbe ravenous codlin moth by an
original and novel plan, and reports grand
results from the same. It consists in throw
ing strong wood ashes on to the trees whilst
in bloom and covered with dew, in lien of
praying.
Chill's Sew War Vessel. -
New York, Jan. 20. Tbe latest news
from France concerning the fitting out o
A Water Famine) In Vhieago.
Chicago, Jan. 21. This city is suffer
ing with water fojnlne. The trouble ex
tends over the entire city, including the
suburbs, and is caused by a stoppage of
the inlet pipes in tbe lake by ice. Pri
vate families, factories and business
building- are tbe greatest sufferers. Ele
vators are closed down and fires are
banked to prevent the explosion of
boilers. Business at the stockyards in
the great blauglitrr-hnuses is at a sland-
st li, and there is no water for the thou
sands i-f famishing animals ii tbe pens.
Efforts are being 111 are to remedy the
trouble, and ll will be but temporary.
Man Francis Harbor.
San Francisco, Jan. 19. In view of the
warlike tone of the dispatches in regard to
Chilian affairs and of the repeated asse.tion of
ban Francisco's danger of bombardment bv
Chilian fleet, the following statement by an
army officer high in authority, and perhaps as
weu miormed as any man .in the service, on
the subject of our ability to resist an attack
will be very reassuring: "I thu,k," said the
officer, who preferred that his name should
not be used, "that with our resources we
could withstand any attack made by any fleet
Chili could send. Our present armament in
fort Wmheld Scott and on the hills consists
of about thirty 8-inch rifled cannon converted
irom 10-incn smooth-bores, about i.n m,,.A
and fourteen unmounted is-inch smooth bore
guns, and thirty-two mounted and fifty-five
Mu.i.uumcu om 10 men smootn-bore guns.
Besides this, there are about 100 vannns nlH
guns in the boneyard, many of which could
m: maue 10 ao good serviee at short range,
15-inch euns fire a Droiectile weiohinu a cn lh
about four miles, but about tlir milf- with
enectiveness, and will penetrate Km inches of
iron at 1000 yards. The 8-inch rifled gun is
very effective for about two miles and will
carry a 180 pound projectile four and one-half
nines ana penetrate armor eioht inrhn in
uiickness at a distance of 1000 yards. There
are also some puns at RU. L- pn;, ..
Aicarraz. lhe Chilian navv has no vssels
which could withstand sunh nrnierliW as
t .1 U C J r ' J
vuui.u uc urea irom even our Dresent mins
r or nis reason, 1 don't think any Chilian
cruiser could enter our harbor. But it is
hardly a supposable case that a fleet would
appear off our coast simultaneously with a
declaration of war, and in all probability it
would be a month or more at least after such
a declaration before the city would be attacked.
By or before that time extemporized fortifica
tions would be made that would, I think,
prevent any fleet getting near even to the
entrance 01 tne bay. I he government has
some high-power rifled guns and mortars just
finished, and more nearly so, whose delivery
could be hastened if ciicumstances demanded.
We could have them readv a week after thev
arrived in this city. If the batteries of these
rifles and mortars were located back of the
CUB House and on Point Bonita, I do not
tninK a neet would dare approach near enough
to shell the city, we could also put up with
in a couple of weeks an extemporized bay
torpedo system that could blow up any vessel
that might perform the miracle of passing the
iuc uaueucs aiong tne snore ot the Uolden
Uate."
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A Dignified Keply.
Washington, Jan. 19. Justic Stephen
Field, judge of the United States supreme
court, has written a courteous and dignified
note to Senator Power of Montana, asking
him for an explanation of the charges made
by him that Justice Field was a lobbyist,
engaged in getting judges named in the in
terest of land-grant railroads. The charges
were first made at the irrigation congress, held
recently at Helena, Mont., and agaia yester
day 'in an interview in Chicago. When these
charges were called to the attention of Justice
i-ieia, ne very promptly characterized -the
statement as a falsehood. He said he felt
that the senator has been misrepresented, for
he could not emagine on what grounds such
a story could De based., baid the judge:
"I don't want to enter into controversy.
My associates on the bench tell me not to
notice the statement, but you may say that it
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ta lauilWU, llldl M UATC U3KCU IOr HO ap- I Q .
pointment on the rencb; that I don't know tfOTZ olt
the views of any man who is to be appointed;
that I don't care to know them, and that it
matters not to me what they are. The in
stance when I have spoken of a particular
man lor judge was recently when Senator
Hoar, chairman of the judiciary committee,
came to me and asked what I knew about
Judge beattie of Idaho. I told him that he
had been conducting court in San Francisco.
and so successlully that some lawyers had
spoken in favor of his nomination to the
bench. That is all. Occasionally I am
asked what I think of such and such a man
for judge. J reply as I would reply to you,
were you to ask me, "I think him a good
man." or ''an unfit man" T rrall that T
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Snow Blockade fa Illinois.
Chicago, Jan. 19. Of the twenty-three
mail trains due in Chicago this moming from
all points, fourteen had up to noon failed to
arrive, and not one of the others was on time.
The snow blockade is one of the most ex
tensive ever experienced. The delayed trains
are irom every point ot tne compass.
Chicago, Jan. 10. Reports from irAnv
points in Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas state
that blinding snow storms have raged for the
last twenty-four hours, and all business is at a
standstill and trains are delayed, Dispatches
trom Texas state tbe rain storm of Monday
turned into sieet, and tne live stock are suffer
ing terribly. This is the coldest spell Kansas
City has experienced, the thermometer regis
tering 25 deg. below this morning, but later
tne weatner moderated, lt was 26 deg. be
low at Atchison, where much suffering was
caused rjy tne cold. Last night in Minnesota
and Dakota was another cold one, but to-day
it is somewhat warmer. Private advices from
Charokee nation says the streams and pools
are frozen over and many cattle were drowned
by going onto the ice in search of water and
breaking through.
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that tbe league bad distributed nearly
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