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. THE' BOA T - RAIL WA T.
In.the first Issuejpt this paper under
. -its present management, it was prom
.. " ; ised among other things, that it "would
i stronirlv advocate the opening of the
- Columbia,' above The Dalles.'; There
: has been more or less feeling in the
couatrv'east Jf rus-that The Dalles
was selfish in its demand for an open
'river, aha that with the opening of the
locks and eanal at the Cascades, her
interest ceased. This is not true.
Although the locks are not yet com
pleted, The Dalies, owing to ihe sharp
; competition of the D. P. & A., boat
line is enjoying reduced freight rates
that are 6f inestimable value to her.
With the-removal of the obstructions
between this point and Celilo, all of
- Eastern -Oregon - and Washington
' would get, as we do, the benefit of
reduced freight rates. We- have not
''forgottbn that promise but we have
been slow about taking hold of the
matter -because we could not deter
mine what means of opening the river
it-were:best to advocate. We had but
little faith in a ship railroad, we re
alise that the government will not
- Under an' circumstances build a por-
tSge'rMlfoatl,'-"ahd in view of the
: report of the-engineer's recommend
ing -the ' boat railway, that a canal
seems to-be an impossibility. For
these reasons, and for the further
' reasons that an appropriation has al
ready been made, for a boat railway,
and the preliminary survey completed,
we believe that Kn.bJ-tho only plan
that has any chance of being put in
" execution?. '.' We do -v not profess to
know anything about boat railways.
but the United States engineers', who
do-understand : pronounce v the - boat
railway feasible and;ia fact better than
. a canal, and m$re quickly operated.
. Congress meets in December and the
; matter-of an appropriation should be
1 urged by the entire press not only of
Eastern Oregon, but by the states of
Oregon, Washington and Idaho. The
money expended-at the Cascades has
opened but a small section of terri
tory to the benefits of an open river,
but it was necessary - to the plan of
. -. - utilizing - the--" Columbia. .' Now that
the locks at the Cascades are nearing
completion, work on the obstructions
here should be begun, that all of the
Inland Empire, as well as The 'Dalles
' might get the benefit of the work.
- Senator Mitchell in- advocating the
: work at the Cascades, gathered a mass
of statistics concerning the immense
trade to be -developed,-and the vast
quantity of products the country pro-
duces, and that he will use these figures
to back up the further improvement
- of the Columbia goes without saying.
, Let the 'papers of the Northwest, re-
r gardless of politics stand together in
demanding in season and out, this im
provement, and let them' begin now.
' THE LAWS OF TRADE.
in their opinions, was the cause of the
low prices paid. The answer invaria
bly was, the Wilson-Gorman tariff.
They report that the Canadian farmer
undersells the American farmer in the
produce and livestock markets of Buf
faloour market town on every "occa
sion, and will continue to do so until
there is an increase in the tariff duties
so as to afford ample protection to
America products.
'"I have been a close student of
American history, past and present,
for-the past twenty years, being myself
engaged writing a history of the
United States, and I can truthfully say
that during the past 55 years there has
never been tf beneficial public measure
placed upon the national statute books
by a Democratic congress, nor a bene
ficial measure made law by any party
without the opposition of Democracy,
and dare say there never will be
time when the Democratic party , will
cease to be a clog, and a hindrance to
national prosperity. .'
. " '.Let every true American rise as
one man' and -smash that party of free
trade into atoms and bury it so deep
beneath an avalanche of votes in No
vember, 1896, that it will never appear
again in American politics.' "
Mr. McKellips should certainly
make a valuable and correct historian,
No doubt his work would be an author
ity as reliable as that of the modern
Ananias. Let us examine into Mr,
McKellips' statement concerning the
"Wilson-Gorman tariff" that is ruin
ing Mr. McKellips' market, first pre
mising that Mr. McKellips has no kick
coming at' the tariff of 1883, which
was a Republican measure,' and under
which Mr. McKellips' history will, no
doubt, show that the country was
happy and prosperous. The low prices
of .'"produce, livestock and poultry'
are what worry McKellips.- The pres
ent duty on some of the products
named is as follows: Eggs 3 cents per
dozen; under the law of 1883, 3 cents
per dozen. Poultry, dressed, 3 cents
per pound; under the law of 1883, 3
cents per pound. Cattle, present duty,
20 per cent; under 1883, not at hand,
but under McKinJey bill, $10 per head.
Hay $2 per ton, same as in -1883.
Wheat 20 per. cent; under the law of
1883, 20 cents per bushel. Vegetables,
unclassedf 10 per cent, same as in 1883.
Onions 20 per cent, same as in 1883.
Hops 8 cents per pound, same as in
1883. Barley 30per cent, same as Mc-
Kinley bill. Butter 4 cents per pound,
same as in 1883. Potatoes 15 cents per
bushel, same as in 1883. McKellips
100 per cent liar, same as .1883; ditto
under McKinley bill.
' When, the 'American people abandon
the idea of protection our commerce is
at the mercy of the money powers. If
y a nation, af corporation or an in
dividual is so situated tnat the prices
- . j , . j 5 l . ii
vi sue., proaucu are maue vy tne
purchaser and not by the producer a
... failure- id a business sense is an ine vit
able' result. The price of our wheat is
; . made by the purchasers in Liverpool,
and the out-puts of our factories are in
as bad a dilemma by the prevalence of
tne uieveiana idea oi non-protection.
iseiore we can be in a prosperous con
dition as a. nation we must be free from
the ban of British dictation. The price
'of our silver and our wheat, especially,
are in" the keeping of the. kings of Lom
bard street. Those.r two important
products of the great west are manipu-
. la ted to the ruin of what would be
. under normal conditions a land of re
. sources .'as rich as India was ' before
Lord Hastings dictated the financial
policy of that land of natural wealth.
The spirit ot Hastings prevails
Grover Cleveland acts the part of Gov-
. ernor-General and the bartered prov-
7 inces are the agricultural and mineral
. states.-" '.'"- ? . -
The above from the Lewiston Teller,
an Idaho paper, serves to illustrate the
wonderful and innumerable vagaries of
the human mind to which 'knowledge
. for 80m.e,T-perhapa wise, purpose, has.
not been given. The Lewiston editor
has not yet learned,' that law, old as
creation, that regulates all trade, the
lawof supply and demand. The editor
in question is not quite certain whether
the low price of wheat and silver is due
to "British dictation,' Grover Clever
land, or Lord Hastings,"' but insists
that the spirit; of Hastings prevails,
. Comment on so self-evident absurdities
. as the editor indulges in is hardly nec
: cessary.-. When one man or one nation
-. has a surplus of. its products to sell, it
-. mustsell them at the price the pHrch
- aseris willing to give, or at least that
he can be forced to give, .otherwise he
.' will not buy. . It is conceded that if we,
. as a nation, grew all the . wheat in
. the world, we could dictate prices to
the world, up to that point where prices
would become prohibitory, and the'
consumers would be forced to use some
- with less force of silver. But we do
.' not produce all the wheat, hence we
v must Bell it' at the same prce that any
otner nation is willing to sell it at.
The fact is lost sight of in dealing with
these questions that every producer of
others1, that we exist by trading the sur
plus of what we produce for the surplus
1 products of some one else. Money is
. simply the means by which the trade
is made convenient. If the producer
of one article demands and receives
' large prices for his products, the con
sumer must also have 'larger prices for
his products on account of his in
creased expenditures or he must go
broke ,-
PER CENT OF CHARITY.
The dispatches state that when the
decision of the U. S. court of appeals
in the case of the United States
against the Stanford estate was made
public at- Stanford university the
greatest enthusiasm prevailed among
the students. ?'They went wild, shak
ing hands, hugging each other and
yelling themselves hoarse. Steam
whistles were blown, . and ' students
with horns and cow bells marched
about the ' campus making as much
noise as possible. . A grand parade was
held in the evening." This , demon
stration serves but to prove that the
jury will not convict the hog thief, so
long as the individual members thereof
get a portion of the pork.- Stanford
and hi9 associates beat the government
out ot $70,000,000 in ' a ' way that only
the magnitude of the amount j pre
vented it from being classed as lar
ceny. At tne close, or about tne close
of a long, long life, when death had
taken from him his only child, and old
age had removed about all ability to
enjoy life,' Stanford eased his con
science by devoting 25 per cent of his
ill-gotten gains to founding an educa
tional institution, partly for philan
thropy, but principally for the perpetu
ation of the name and virtues of Stan
ford. The enthusiastic hilarity of the
young Americans at the university
was caused by a decision of the courts,
which however correct technically al
lowed the steal to become complete
and without a remedy. Bad the' de
cision gone the other way. no doubt
there' would have beefL mourning deep
and sincere among these same Btu-
aenis. As it is, it raav be set down as
a fact that the man who robs all ' the
people all the time to give a portion of
his stealings to a part of the people
part ef the time, will win the grati
tude of a part of the people all the
time. Nearly 25 per cent of Stanford's
stealings were devoted to a good cause,
when he had ne further use for them,
so it seems that charity not only cov
ers a multitude of sins, but that 25 per
cent charity will cover 75 per cent of
crime.
ANGELL1 S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
"Our Dumb Animals," published by.
the Massachusetts society for the pre
vention of cruelty to animals, has
broken loose in a new place. One
George T. Angell, who is an italicized
ass, has his signature appended to
most of the reading matter, and gives
his address as "19 Milk street, Bos
ton." From the milk and water char
acter of George T's writings we judge
the location was selected after much
deep and brain-wearying thought on
his part. Among the gems of thought
mined, with infinite toil from George's
mind is the following taken from an
article on the life on our "Great White
Ironclads." In speaking of boys join
ing the navy and going to sea on one
of these "great pieces of machinery"
he says:
- "We think it almost as bad business
for boys as going out on recommenda
tion of our yellow dime literature to
fight Indians, who are a hundred times
better and more peaceable than the
white ruffians that live around them."
It will be seen from this that George
let's knowledge of the Indian and us
"white ruffians that live around them"
is not by any manner of means lim
ited. The profound research into mat
ters pertaining to us border ruffians
which Georgia's writing shows, must
infallibly have weakened any intellect
more strong than his. But Georgie's
opinions were not confined to any one
subject. Oh! dear no. His thinklet
evolved another think, which he gives
form to as follows:
"In an address we gave to about
three thousand coachmen, drivers and
teamsters in the Boston Theater some
years ago we told the story of 'The
Bad Man of Naples' who was kind to
donkeys, and, who failing to enter any
heaven allotted to human beincs, was
received and permitted to join the
donkeys to whom he had been so kind,
and we said that we would rather pass
a thousand years with the four-legged
donkeys than with some two-legged
ones we had known. The audience
seemed to agree with us in that con
clusion." Of course Georrie would rather pass
a thousand years with four-legged don
keys than with some two-legged ones,
but did it never enter his homeopathic
think-box that the four-legged don
keys might feel the same way? Or i
that he might if permitted to so run at
large violate the laws he praises, by
being unnecessarily cruel to animals.
An Angell with an abnormal desire for
the society of asses, editing a paper
out of the italic case, with headquar
ters on Milk street, Boston, is a com
bination not often found, seldom de
sired and useless when discovered.
STIR IT VP.
- A WRITER OF HISTORY.
. We clip the following from the Pen
dleton Tribune of the 16th:
"Marcus W. McKellips, in an article
after quoting prices now received for
farm products and livestock at his
home in Holland, N. Y., says: 'Such
ridiculously low prices I never saw. I
have 'inquired of several dealers in
produce, livestock and poultry what, i
xne .rrineviiie review aevoted a
great portion of its space last week to
the discussion of the Cascade Forest
Reserve, and the gross injustice olt re
fusing sheepmen the privilege of pas
turing their flocks thereon. The
question is an important one, and
should be agitated until the senseless
ruling is revoked. The sheepmen, in
stead of injuring, protect the forests,
and as -we have before suggested,' a
comparison of the forests where sheep
range with those where they do not,
shows that the latter have dozens of
fires when the former have none. The
heavy forest fires are most numerous
where the hunting parties from Port
land are most plentiful. The forest
fires are usually on the went side of
the mountains and in the Coast Range,
while the sheep are mostly herded on
the eastern slope. The reservation
should never been made, but now that
it is made, it is absurd to prevent the
pasturage of flocks thereon. As
matter of fact, it is simply a game pre
serve, set aside at the behest of the
Portland Rod and Gun-Culb.
FINANCIAL OPINIONS.
The Capital Journal yerterday said:
"The Times-Mountaineer under
Democratic control echoes the Times-
Modntianeer under Republican con
trol on the money . question. Both
echo Harvey Scott, Carlisle, Cleve
land and the d 1."
We might answer the taunt with a
quip, to tne effect tnat we admitted
the first three counts, denying the last
becaus we do not follow the Capital
Journal, but we prefer to answer oth
erwise. The Capital Journal is a
stroug advocate of free coinage of
silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. We do
not doubt but ' that it honestly be
lieves what it says concerning- that
subject, but however honest it may be,
the reasoning thai, satisfies it. does not
change or modify our opinion. We
do not believe this government can
maintain silver at a parity with gold,
or keep its purchasing power at its
present standard, unaided by the bal
ance oi tne civilized world. The
straw has been rethreshed so often
that we do not care to go over it. Our'
opinion is our own and is reached
from a dispassionate examination of
the subject. If Hon. Harvey Scott,
Secretary Carlisle and 'President
Cleveland hold the same opinions we
do, it is only so much more proof that
they too drink at the fountain of wis
dom, and are refreshed thereby. We
submit the following for the considera
tion of our esteemed . contemporary in
balen:. 11 tnis government can by a
coinage law take $10 worth of . silver,
and make it worth $20 in gold,' then,
(the converse of every proposition be
ing true) iVcan take $20 worth of gold
and make it worth $10 in silver. ' Can
it do this? To a certain extent yes.
It can do so just so long as the govern
ment treasury will exchange one ' for
the other, but no further. It is doing
that now, and the doing of it is what
has made so much trouble in main
taining a gold reserve. That it -can
do so indefinitely is plainly untrue.
The moment the government refused
to pay a dollar in gold for a dollar in
silver, that moment gold would go out
of circulation and seek the markets
of Europe where the $20 in gold would
be quadrupled in value, to $40 of our
silver coin.
EDITOBIAL NOTES.
BETWEEN THE LINES.
"Senator Mitchell is accompained by
Congressman Ellis, of whom nobody
knows very much and of whom nobody
seems anxious to know anything. He
has not been in congress long enough
to let the people know the. kind of
mettle out of which he is made, and
his nearest and dearest friends, not
being able to show wherein he im
proves wim age or experience, are
perturbed lest his lease of political
life shall be limited to a few more brief
months. He is accompanied by his
factotum, one of the . trio of Patter
sons, who did the exclusive thinking
for the Morrow county Republicans
during the last session of the Oregon
legislature, and who so splendidly dis
tinguished themselves in a successful
engagement as 'all around chumps.' "
Between the lines of the above ar
ticle, clipped from , the Pendleton
Tribune, can be discovered the resig
nation of Judge- Fee, and the reasons
therefor.
Mrs. Cora Thomas, a colored lady,
has sued the Baker City Democrat for
$10,000 damages to her reputation
Colored reputations come high in
Baker City.
George T. Angell, editor of "Our
Dumb Animals" says: "We speSk for
those that cannot speak- for them
selves." It strikes us after reading
Georgie's dissertation,, that the most
cruel thing that ever happened to the
dumb animals came in the selection of
a mouthpiece. And the paper is pub
lished on Milk street, in the literary
north pole of the world, too.
The Pendleton Tribune makes some
rather bitter criticisms of the New
York World, and San Francisco Ex
aminer. . In speaking of the former it
says that it is the only paper that
comes out boldly against the enforce
ment of the Sunday law. Our contem
porary has evidently not been reading
the New York Sun.
The dispatches announce the sudden
activity of twenty or more volcanoes
in Alaska. This phenomenon is ex.
plainable on the theory that the com
bination of the state Democracy of
New York City with ' Dr. Parkhurst
and the Republican contingent known
as the "Googoos" hasca used an extra
pressure on the surface there that
found vent in the craters of Alaska.
The great Siberian railroad is being
built witn convict labor. It is stated
that the convicts working on the road
gtt double time, and when their sen
tences expire they will be paid at the
rate of 35 per cent of what free labor
costs. It would seem from this that
Russia is not so severe with her con
victs as some of the overly tender
hearted writers on that subject would
have us believe.
Lord Saokville West explains that
his now famous pamphlet was not writ
ten for publication, and he does not
see how it came to be published. The
same statement would apply to his let
ter which caused this government to
give him his passports. In view of the
trouble 'his writing has gotten him
into, it would seem that his lordship
should swear off scribbling.
The United States took advantage of
Spain's trouble with Cuba to make that
country pay the Mora claim. If the
United States would or could only get
into trouble serious enough to make
it pay its debts to private citizens, it
would be a national blessing. It is a
notorious fact that the departments
look upon every bill presented them as a
fraud, and every American citizen who
is a creditor of the government as a
thief. It is time the everlasting red
tape be dispensed with, and the clerks
who run the business made to pay
approved and allowed claims against
the government as speedily as they do
their own salaries.
Seattle has a mystery in the shape
of a human skull that "looks like an
orange that- has been squeezed. The
left side of the skull is abnormally de
veloped, and the right side is as fiat as
a board. The forehead slopes directly
back, and the nose bone is twisted to
the right." Ten teoth have been pulled
from each jaw. leaving three perfect
double teeth on either side of both
jaws." We have not heard of any
Washington politicians dying, but the
description would indicate the skull
belonged to either John B. Allen or
Ankeney of Walla Walla, the squeezed
part suggesting the latter, the ex
tracted teeth, the former.
"Lord Sackville is out in a pamphlet
attacking Americans in general and
President Cleveland and ex-secretary
Bayard in particular. Lord Sackville
was' the gentleman who mixed himself
up in American politics, and was
promptly bounced out of the country
by President Cleveland, near the close
of his first presidential term. He was
Sir Lionel West at the time, and made
such an utter ass of himself that on his
return home his own people rec
ognized his pecliar fitness for the
peerage. He retains all his pristine
asininity along with his' title, and is
easily recognized by his unchanged
bray.
The gold product of the world is
larger now than ever before, reaching
almost $200,000,000 a year. The in
crease is not all due to the newly dis
covered fields of Africa, . though
largely so. The non-use of silver has
stimulated gold production, and that
of the United States increased $7,000,
000, this year as compared to 1894.
From present indications throughout
the world, especially should the Afri
can fields yield anything like what is
claimed for them, the ratio of the met
als will be again favorable to silver,
and it will take its old place as a
money metal, unless,, indeed, gold
: should become so plentiful as to de-
' stroy it altogether.
i We are pleased indeed to note the
confidence - Senator Mitchell has
that the appropriation for the boat
I railway will pass at this session of con
gress, and that the work will be pros
ecuted to an . early completion. The
canal and locks at the Cascades will be
opened this winter, or at least by
March 1st. . This work ' will have cost
in round numbers $4,000,000, and un-
less supplemented by overcoming the
obstruction between this point and
Celilo the work will prove beneficial to
only a small section of the Inland
Empire. The completion of a boat
, railway will give all the upper country
the benefit of the work, and it is to be
hoped that the matter can be put in
shape that the .work can be begun
next year.
Some of our Republican exchanges
are making a great noise over the al
leged attempt of Bayard, Whitney and
others to nomAnate President Cleve
land for a thirtrterm. There is noth
ing to show that the president desires
a thiru term, but there is not a school
boy 10 years old in the whole country
but that knows that neither Mr. Cleve
land nor any other man could be
elected president of this government
for the third time. There never was
but one set of men who- seriously
entertained the idea of electing any
president to the third term, and that
exception was the 306 who detracted
from the reputation of Grant by their
enort. jvir. uieveiana will not be
nominated for the third term, if for no
other reason, that he knows he would
be beaten.
Doctor Parkhurst, for the past year
decidedly the most prominent man in
the great city of New York, already
shows signs of moral deterioration
from his contact with politicians.
When it is remembered that he is
preacher and a gifted preacher too, his
remark concerning the enforcement of
the excise law might be classed as sac
rilege. He said: "The excise law will
be enforced so long as God Almighty
and Theodore Roosevelt are with us,
Thus to make the Deity dependant
upon Theodore Roosevelt or any other
mortal is a catch-phrase jest unworthy
of its author. From present appear
ances Parkhurst is using the pulpit,
simply as a means of enabling him to
gather in the political plunder, and as
a clergyman he is demoralizing to all
NOT A CANDIDATE.
A number of our exchanges are dis
cussing the question as to Ex Presi
dent Harrison's withdrawal from the
presidential race, and of course vary
in their conclusions. We suggest thai
with his two old enemies, Piatt and
Quay, at the head of his party in the
two greatest states in the Union, there
is at least a strong probability that
the ex-president has concluded he does
not want the nomination. This con
clusion will probably be strengthened
by the recent election returns in his
native city, which convey to the astute
political Indianian a strong suggestion
of things unhoped for. This sugges
tion in turn is made more incisive by
the election returns from Massachu
setts. Ex-President Harrison is a
shrewd' politician, and while he has
not made public announcement that he
is not in the race the facts speak for
him. He is not a candidate.
TELEGRAPHIC.
told were to be found rich gold mines.
A Mexican guide accompanied them.
The guide returned today and re
ports that they met a party of Yaqui
Indians 100 miles southeast of here,
and that the Indians fired -upon the
Americans, killing both. Tho guide
claims that he was kept a prisoner for
two days, and was then released after
first being told never to revisit that
country again. The guide is beiDg
held until his story can be investigated.
He is suspected of having murdered
aud robbed the Americans.
. SAID PASHA YIELDS. . .
Scheme for Reform In Armenia Accepted
by the Sultan.
Constantinople, Oct. 16. Said
Pasha has accepted the scheme for re
form in Armenia drawn up by Great
Britain, France and Russia and it now
awaits the signature of the sultan.
The scheme is almost identical with
the proposals of last May, which was
in substance, that the governor of Van,
Erzeroum, Sivas, Bitlis, Khartown
and Trebizond should be Christians or
Mohammedans, according to the in
slination of the population, but either
the governor or vice-governor should
be a Christian, and the appointments
are to be confirmed by the powers.
The local and not state officials are to
collect the taxes and enough money is '
to be retained before it is forwarded to
Constantinople to pay the expense of
the local administration.
Complete changes are to be made in
the judical system. Torture will be
abolished and prisoners-will not be
under surveillance. The police will be
composed of Chriptians and Turks
equally, and the laws against compul
sorv conversions to Islamism will be
strictly enforced.
The ambassadors of the powers ex
pect the whole question will be finally
settled during the week by the promul'
gation of an imperial decree. '
Contrary to general expectation, the
high commissioner charged with the
execution of this scheme of reform
will be a Christian. This was the
hardest pill for the porte to swallow,
and for a long time threatened to
bring about the most serious compli
cations. A Russian warship has arrived here,
The situation at Ismid is critical, and
Christians are apprehensive of a
Turkish outbreak.
THE RIOT AT AKHISSAR.
Reports of the Latest Massacre Con
firmed. Const antdtlope. Oct. 17. The ap
peal of the sultan to the Russian am
bassador, A. J. Denelidoff, to cause a
recau oi tne oraer lor a isritisn gun
boat to go to Trebizond has proven
iutne. V rencn and Russian steamers
are taking Armenian refugees from
Trebizond.
Tne report of a riot at Akhissar, in
the village of Adin, on the Anatolian
railway, in which 50 Armenians were
killed October' 9, a market day, by a
Moslem mob, is confirmed. The Turks
picked a quarrel with unarmed Arme
nians, looted the market and massa
cred helpless Christians, afterwards
throwing the bodies into wells.
Twenty bodies have already been re
covered from the wells and interred in
the presence of the Armenian bishop
of Ismid. ' : '
Issett Effendi, a celebrated Turkish
lawyer, who was arrested recently
charged with' being the author of
placards in favor- Armenians, posted
in Stamboul, has, according to official
announcement, died at Yildis prison,
where he was confined awaiting trial.
DENVER BL ;
First Annual
Festival of
Plain.
Mountain and
Christian sentiment.
"Bloody Bridles" Waite, the quon
dam governor of Colorado, arrived at
Canton, Ohio, recently on Sunday. As
the Methodist conference - was. in ses
sion there Waite instead of speaking
on political matters, which would hare
been a violation of the law, delivered
a sermon on the text: "Render unto
Caesar that which is Caesar's, and unto
God that which is God's." It is per
haps needless to add that the sermon
was a red-hot Populist speech, and it
"imply serves to show to what lengths
a man will go when he gets astride of
his favorite hobby. ' Waite rather sac
rilegiously says, in speaking of the
members of the conference then in
session: "I wonder how many of them
rode to this conference on a half-fare
pass. Imagine Christ riding from
Galilee to Jericho on a half-rate ticket
countersigned by Pontius Pilate
lirice.
The Roseburg Review says: "Un
less the next Republican state conven
tion indorses free silver, Congressman
Hermann will be out, as he certainly
would not accept a nomination for
congress upon a gold-bug platform."
The Review is mistaken in the man.
In the first place Congressman Her
mann has never expressed what might
be called an opinion on the silver
question that would indicate that he
belonged on eithsr side of the ques
tion. ' It is true that he did. say he be
lieved in silver, but would have "a
dollars worth of silver in a dollar."
This was simply saying nothing, ex
cept that Hermann was ' a politician
keeping his balance on the fenoe, and
ready to fall on the softer side. Should
Hermann's ideas on silver prevail, the I
silver coin would have to be called in
and recoined every time silver fluc
tuated. Congressman Hermann wants
to succeed himself, or Senator Mitchell,
and will ride4o-anw T"hicle that will
get him to ms aescmation.
Denver, Oct. 16. Denver is a blaze
of gjory today, for the first of the an
nual festivals of mountain and plain,
inaugurated this year. The weather
is glorious and over 50,000 people have
flocked to town from the country dist
ricts, taxing the carrying capacity of
all the Colorado railroads.
The decorations are extensive, the
holiday colors, blue and white, being
seen everywhere., 4tl o'clock this
afternoon the great parade, a pageant
of progress, which illustrated the prog
ress of state, from the time when the
red man roamed over mountain and
plain up to the present, started on its
march. Although there was little
time for preparation, some Coats were
very handsome. .. One of the most mag
nificent features of the festival was a
human flag, composed of 400 children.
The festivities continue three days.
THE VENEZUELAN QUESTION.
Position Taken by This Government Some
Time Ago.
London, Oct. 16. A' representative
of the Associated Press has obtained
from the best source the following
statement aa to the state of the Vene
zuelan question: -
United Slates Ambassador Bayard
presented a long note to the Marquis
Salisbury on the Venezuelan question
some weeks ago, statin g at length the
views of the United States government
and the rules and policy which guide
it on such questions arising between
Europeans governments and one of
the American republics. Up to the
present no reply has been given, and
since it advances a doctrine of such
great importance and wide application,
the matter will engage the serious at
tention of the British government for
some time.
TARRED AND FEATHERED.
Punishment Inflicted for an Insult to Col
orado's Governor.
' Denver, Oct. 17. News reached
here today that a negro named Mar
shall had been tarred and feathered at
Greeley last night for having insulted
Governor Mclntyre there.
Marshall, who had been , arrested,
was taken from jail last night, escorted
out of town, tarred and fathered and
ordered to leave town. He was not
seriously injured, and today left for
Fort Collins.
Governor Mclntyre was surprised
when informed . this afternoon of the
incident at Greeley. He went to bi
cycle races at Greeley Tuesday in
company with his wife and Lieutenant
Governor Brush and wife. When they
arrived at the stand for teams they
found the way blocked by a long wagon,
to which was attached a team driven
by Marshall.
General Klee came up that moment
and requested the negro to move his
wagon so as not to take up too much
room. Thereupon Marshall delivered
a tirade of abuse, using jnost foul and
insulting language. Finally, however
he did as requested. Governor Mc
lntyre thought so little of the matter
he had not mentioned it to anybody
since his return to Denver. General
Klee said this afternoon that. Marshal
deserved to be sent out of town, but he
thought the punishment inflicted upon
him entirely too severe.
PEARY'S WORK.
His Arc-
Subsidence of Land.
New
Quinn,-
cbarge
Orleans, Oct. 16. Major
United States engineer in
of the lighthouses of this dis
trict, has just returned from Port Eads
and the jetties. . He insists, after a
careful examination, that the lower
delta and the sea marshes along ihe
Gulf of Mexico - are slowly sip king.
For more" than a year experiments
with tide gauges have been in progress
at the mouth of the Mississippi river
and as a result, Major Quinn has
reached the conclusion, that the level
of the gulf has 4een- raised one -foot
since 1877. This the major attributed
to the gradual, though irregular sub
sidence of the land, along the coast
and, he believes throughout the' Mis
sissippi delta and the southern portions
of Louisiana. ' '-
What He Has Accomplished by
tie Explorations.
. Chicago, Oct. 17. Professor R. D.
Sailisbufy, who recently returned from
Greenland with the Peary relief expe
dition, spoke yesterday, at the univer
sity of Chicago on "Peary's Work in
the Arctic Regions."
Professor Sailisbury declared that
Lieutenant Peary knows more of the
Esqnimaux, their life, customs and
language than any other man living.
"lieutenant f eary," be said, "was
the first man to attempt extensive
Arctic explorations by means-of over
land travel. He has authentically
established the northern limits of
Greenland, made an accurate chart of
1000 miles of west coast, discovered 11
hitherto unknown islands, collected a
series of valuable records and obtained
more knowledge of tbe native inhabi
tants -tnan nas ever beiore been se
cured." '
RECOGNITION OF CUBA.
Brazil's Reported Willingness Causes
Some Comment.
Washington, Oct. 17. The cable
report from Buenos Ayres of Brazil's
willingness, under certain circum
stances, to recognize the Cubans as
belligerents, is causing much comment
in officical circles, although cable in
quiries have not yet brought either
confirmation or denial. Under ordi
nary circumstances, little reliance is
placed in Brazilian reports coming
via Buenos Ayres, but in this case it
is known that extensive agitation in
favor of the insurgents has been going
on recently throughout Brczil. The
Brazilian papers, up to the 28th ult.,
have been received by officials here,
and show that the press and public
have been beseiging the ' Brazilian
congress, now in session, to recognize
the Cuban insurgents.
More Spanish Troops for Cuba.
Madrid, Oct. 17. It is officially an
nounced that 12,000 additional troops
will start for Cuba Tuesday next.
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but we wish to say to our patrons that our prices are net cash and that we do not allow 20 or 25 per cent discount.
Respectfully.
H. HERB RING,
Attorney Duprey's Condition.
san d rancisco, Oct. 1(5. The con
dition of Attorney Duprey was greatly
improved today. The physician at
tending him said it was probable that
the sick.man would be'well enough to
appear in court by Monday.
Six Hundred Killed.
Shanghai, Oct. 16. An explosion
occurred today on a steamship at Kung
Hai near Kin Chow. The steamer was
loaded with troops, and it is reported
600 of them were killed.
Callfornlans Will Aid Cuba.
San Francisco, Oct. 16. A com
pany of freshmen is being organized
here to aid Cuba in achieving inde
pendence. So far 27 men have en
listed. Queen of Corea's Body Found.
Yokohama, Oct. 16. A dispatch
from Seoul says the body of the mur
dered queen of Corea has been found.
HE WAS WILLING.
lime Bad Tempered Ills Urlef for Bis
lamented Partner.
There was an old man with a big and
bulky satchel at his feet and a weed on
his hat- leaning against the, Griswold
street front of the post office the other
dar, says the Detroit Free Press, when
a wag who had been hangingaround for
the right sort of a man to appear ap
proached him and said:
"I see that the grim destroyer baa in
vaded your hearthstone?"
"The which?" asked the old man.
- "The grim, destroyer the angel of
death. I take it your wife has goue
hence.' -
"Yes, gone hence."
"Allow me to extend my heartfelt
sympathies.'
"Yes, you kin extend 'em."
"You must be lonely."
"Yes, purty lonely."
"I have lost the partner of my own
bosom and I know how it feels. You
seem to be all alone in-this great
world."
"Yes, that's the feelin'."
"Life appears to be a desert to you?"
"Yes, a reg'lar desert, with sand a
foot deep."
"But in your loneliness in the seem
ing emptiness of your life has it not
occurred to you that you could do some
thing to add to the happiness of your
fellowman?"
"Yes, it has."
"And will you do it?"
"I will. It's 'leven months now since
my wife was taken away and if you'll
point me out a woman about forty
years old who wants to get married 111
pop the question so quick that it will
make her heels lift up. You betcher
life I want to da something for my
fcllerman and I'm waitin' right here to
get another 'sight of a woman whom
I've follered fur three miles and winked
at over a dozen times."
B.
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CASH GROCERY STORE
Is the place to buy Groceries, Confectionary, Fruit,
Nuts, Wood and Willow Ware, Crockery, .
Cutlery, in fact u General Stock
men's Supply store.
Wesell for cash, which enables us to give
More Goods for a Dollar
Than any store in The Dalles.
New Goods arriving every day and sold at Bedrock Prices. Call and examine
for vniirnalf.
Moses Old Stand
NEXT DOOR TO DIAMOND MILLS.
DON'
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dim light
JOHNSTON'S CASH STORE
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CHARGE AGAINST A MINI8TEB.
Letters
Cruiser Overdue.
New York, Oct. 16. A special from
Havana to the Herald says that much
uneasiness is felt here at the non-arri
val of the cruiser Marques Ensenada,
which is convoying from England sev
eral new armored launches purchased
i by the Spanish government for service
in Cuban waters. The cruiser is some
days overdue.
General Garrick, formerly the gov
ernor of the province of Santiago, has
assumed command of the forces in
Sancti Espiritu. -
Another Bank Failure.
Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 16. The Com
mercial National bank, Judge Frank
Allyn, president, failed to open this
morning. S. M. Nolan was appointed
receiver. The cause of the failure
was the sudden demand of the city for
$6000 of its deposits. The officials say
depositors will be paid in full.
AMERICANS KILLED. ,
They Wen Banting lot Gold In the. Ta
quls' Country.
Heemosillo, Mexico, Oct. 17.
George T. Harrison and G. F. Baker,
two mining men from Colorado, ar
rived here about 18 days ago and left
on the following day for the Yaqui
Jndian country, where they had been
Accused of Sending Defamatory
Through the Mall.
Denver, Oct. 16. Rev. Frank Hyatt
Smith, of Cambridge, Ma9s., appeared
before United States Commissioner
Capron today and gave bonds for his
appearance at Boston to answer the
charge of sending defamatory letters
through the mail to members of his
congregation. Mr. Smith says the
charge is unfounded.
Bussla Will Not Meddle.
New York, Oct. it. A special to
the Herald from St. Petersburg says:
Russia at present is inclined to al
low Japan a free band in Corea in
connection with the present outbreaks.
As a sign of pacific intentions, the
governor of the Amoor, . General Do-
ukhovsky. has been granted leave of
absence to come to St. Petersburg.
Will (:o to Guayaquil.
New-York, Oct. 17. A special from
Guayaquil, Ecuador, says:
General Alfaro telegraphs that he
and his family will leave Quito Thurs
day for Guayaquil. His departure has
been delayed by the courtmartial -pro-
oeedings against Bowen and Trivino.
Pendleton's Woolen Mill.
Pendleton, Or., Oct. 17. The full
amount of stock required has been
I taken for the woolen mill, and it will
be in operation within three months.
Flngon and Toaa.-
There is one curious fact respecting
the anunaJ creation with which you
will never become acquainted if you de
pend on your text. books for informa
tion. It ia this: No living representa
tive of the animal kingdom has more
than five toes, digits' or claws to each
foot, hand or limb. The horse is the
type of one-toed creation, the camel of
the two-toed, the rhinoceros of the
thrce-toed and the hippopotamus of
four-toed auimal life. The elephant
and hundreds of other animals belong
ing to different orders belong to the
great five-toed tribe.
Aasoy's Accommodating Lecture.
That satirical lecturer, the late David"
E. Locke, better known as "Rev. Pe
troleum VesuTius Nasby," had a device I
by which he saved time and brain. lie
himself once confessed to us, says the
New York Sun, that when a lyceum
committee from any place called upon
him to engage liis services, and asked
what be would lecture about, he al
ways told them to take their choice:
'Cursed Be Canaan," "Moses in the
Bulrushes," "Wisdom for Seekers,'' and
Our Country's Hope." "But," said
Nasby, confidentially, "I had onlv one
lecture all the time; and whatever title
they liked best, they got the same old
thing; it suited any title, every place
and all occasions."
Removal Notice
On and after July 15, 1895, the Book StOTe
M. T. Nolan,
Will be at No. 54 Second Street, -
NEXT DOOR TO GROCERY
Conrer of Union and Second Streets
Closing Out
Of Dry Goods, Clothing:, Boots
and Shoes, Hats and Caps,
At Less Than Cost
BED ROCK PRICES, as Goods
Will Be Sold Regardless of Cost
Call and Get Prices and Be Convinced.
No Trouble to Show Goods.
J. P. MCIN6RNY.
Cabinet Has Resigned
Santiago De Chili, Oct. 17. The
Chilian cabinet has resigned. . ..
A Compliment to Ills Host.
The German emperor is a master of
little surprises quite other than those
which occasionally fetch his troops out
of bed in the middle of the night when
they least expect it. While at Low-
ther castle, England, he took the op
portunity afforded by the absence of
Lord Lonsdale to unpack a very fine
marble bust of himself and put it in a
position screened by the leaves of a
large palm. Tbe sudden unveiling- and
presentation was quite dramatic in its
character and it need hardly be said
that Lord Lonsdale was highly de
lighted with the carefully planned
compliment.
Piscina; Goir'KeqalreV Brains.
A distinguished professor was one
day playing golf, and his skill and lnck
were so poor that he lost his temper,
and, turning to one of the college gar
deners, exclaimed: "How is it that I, a
man acquainted with all the arts and
sciences and the dead and living lan
guages, cannot play this confounded
game of golf?" "Well, sir," said the
man, politely, "it's just this: You may
know a great deal about small affairs
and ..have a lot of book-learning, but it
takes a man with a head to play golf."
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