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SATURDAY.. .SEPTEMBER 12, 1896
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Wednesday's Daily,
t Joe Folco went to Cascade Locks
. today. -
Miss McNulty returned to her home
near Mosier this morning.
: Misses Cora Joles and Lizzie School
log1 returned home from Portland last
night.
Sirs. J. M. Filloon went to Multno
mah falls today and will return to
morrow. -
Mrs. Wm., Miehell and daughter,
Miss Rose, returned last night from
the coast.
D. P. Ketchum went to Stovenson
this morning to receive a flock of mut
ton sheep.
A ULUtim-piiibttU iUUUblUU peu was
. . found on the streets yesterday and left
- at.this office for the owner.
J. L. Harper has returned from An
, telope where he has been engaged at
. carpenter work the past two months.
Mrs. I. M. Hork and family arrived
night for their former home in III
: inois.
Mr. and Mrs. MacAllister were pas-
, 8engers on the Regulator this morn
ing. They eo to" Portland for a few
day's visit.- ' .- -
Hod. W. H." Wilson' left this after
noon for Tl nu.n. '-'TXfic. will rwl-.nrn
Friday accompanied by Mrs. Wilson
and daughter.
No. I wheat is selling at 41 cents a
- bushel in The Dalles today, only one
cent lower than the same grade is
bringing in Salem.
Messrs. John Unper. A. A. Barrev
' and Joe Desco, of Lyle, were in the
city last night and returned, home on
- e,
v. a. oaniora ana iamiiy nave re
turned from their summer outing, and
- aui. K7. una LftiLcu uls luriutsr ii.ua
in A. M. Williams & Co.'s store.
Pete Staddleman, . manager of the
Commission Co., went to Mosier this
morning to attend to the shipping of a
quantity of fruit from that point.
J. S. Messinger, of Erskinvilie, is in
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- Sherman county will roll up a hand
some majoJity for Bryan this fall.
Phil Brogan, who recently visited
. his stock farm beyond Antelope, says
the recent rains started the crass erow-
- ing nicely on the hills in that section,
and fall feed for sheep will be good.
A Dartv consisting of Mrs. V,. R.
Coman and two daughters and Mrs.
A. D. Morse and two sons, came up on
the' Regulator line yesterday from
Portland and returned home today.
Jack Whike, a former engineer on
the O. R. & N. , arrived in the city
this morning' from St. Paul, Minesota.
TTa will vtait. frlonilo in t.Tic .it.v -frti o
fewdavsand continue his iournev to
San Francisco.
Messrs. C. S. Van- Duyn and C. I.
Hood, our second hand furniture
J l . a l . t . . t- .
uoaiars, reuurneu last mgat irom i-ors-land
where thev boncht .laro-elv nf
goods in their lines..
fTl. ' . -J - .IT! T TT TT J
will be pleased to learn that the Heth-
. dist conference has returned him to
UB UOWw'l t.w VI UUw wUUtwU. 4U villa
o f V. Air W nfA upplvpii hnma liTt tn
r. 6.-E. Perry, of the firm of Perry
Bros, whose sawmill near Lyle was
burned 'some three weeks ago, was in
the city last night, and left today for
Portland to purchase new machinery
for the mill which has been rebuilt.
A good audience greeted Prof. Ben
Dillon at Baldwin's opera house last
night .to hear his first lecture on
"Human Nature." All pronounced
the gentleman a "decided success as an
entertaining speaker and his public
examinations were sure hits. Subjeet
tonight at 8 p. M. "Animalityof Man."
Admission free.
It is a little tiull around the East
End today, however some business is
being done at the warehouses and
stock yards. Fargher Bros, shipped
10 cars of lambs ' to Chicago, C. M.
.Grimes got three cars of beef off to
Troutdale for the Union Meat Co., and
the warehouses received some ten or a
dozen loads of wheat.
By a vote of the school board of
f ortiana yesieraay, miss rueine
Sutler, of this city, who taught in the
Holliday school last year, was promoted
to a position in the Harrison school.
Miss Butler ' is an accomplished and
progressive educator, and the promo
tion was an acknowledgment of her
ability and thoroughness.
It is a pleasure to announce that the
. Sunday afternoon concerts will be con
tinued during the remainder of the
- month, Mark Long having been
elected director of the band for the
nrponnL Tn t.hn ttipati timA fcbft mpm-
bers of the band will endeavor to se-
both a cornet player and violinist.
The enterprising firm of Johnston
Bros., who had their store and entire
.stock of goods at Dufur burned a short
time since, have reopened in the Brig
ham VinilrHnir whfirfit.hpv trill cjinlinilfi
business until next spring, when they
will erect a large fireproof building.
The Johnston boys have a quality of
enterprise that cannot be daunted even
iby fire.
The report of Superintendent Paine
of the state insane asylum for the
month ending August 31, shows 1090
patients confined in the asylum at that
date. During the month 42 patieuts
were received, J8 discharged, four
died and one escaped. There were 134
officers ana employes engagea in me
institution during the month, and the
aggregate pay-roll was $4963.
For a number of days past a Mrs.
Brown has beeu borrowing a whole lot
of trouble over an alleged attempt on
the part of certain' parties to alienate
the affections of her husband, and she
has been giving the officers of the law
no small amount of annoyance. But
.yesterday her troubles all came to an
end. The big hearted John Parrott
-assumed the roll of peacemaker and
smoothed out all her supposed wrongs.
The case of the state vs. Hans "Mil
lar, tried in Justice ; Filloon's court
yesterday, was dismissed. He was ar
raigned on a charge of obtaining
money on false pretenses, in having
given F. W. L. Skibbo an order on
Carl Peetz, and afterwards having
drawn all money due him from Mr.
Peetz. The evidence showed that at
the time the order was given there
r
was a balance due Miller, hence it was
beld by the court that there was no
violation of law.
Just before noon today Wm. Drum
mond's team made things lively in
-various and sundry parts of town. Mr.
Drummond had just finished unloading
a load of hay on 10th street when some
boys chirped to the horses and away
they went down the cut on Union
street. At the Gates' building the
wasron knocked two posts out from
under the corner awning and hung up
on a post in front of the Oregon
market. There the wagon stopped
but the horses kept on running until
one fell in front of Williams' store.
No damage was done except to the
awning and the hay rack, which was a
complete wreck.
'rom Thursday's Daily.
Miss Anderson went to Portland this
morning.
Fred Hill went to Portland on the
2:30 train.
W. C. Allaway went to Portland
this morning.
A. L. Roberts went to Cascade Locks
this morning.
Billy Mansfield went to Hood River,
on the 2:30 train.
Deputy U. S. Marshall Humphry
was in the city this forenoon.'
Frank Summers is seeking health
and recreation at Cascade springs.
Mis3 Emma Jacobsen returned home
yesterday from a trip to Stevenson
Tonight Herrick's cannery will ship
a car load of canned salmon to New
York.
Alex Thompson was a passenger on
the Regulator this morning, going to
xroutdale.
A. P. Jones and L. Henry
the city today, and returned
2:30 train to Hood River.
were in
on che
C. L. Schmidt, a prominent business
man of Cascade Locks, spent yesterday
in th6 city attending to business be
fore the county court.
Otto Pieper, a former Dalles boy
now a resident of btarbuck, Wash., is
spending a few days visiting friends
and relatives in this city.
Seufert Bros, are making prepara
tions to ship fresh salmon east by the
car load as soon as the fishermen can
begin taking them from the river.
Tuesday morning there were three
inches of snow at Helena, Mont., and
all the Rocky mountain section was
covered with snow yesterday morning.
Judge Sol Smith, wife and two
daughters, of Goldendale, were in the
city today en route to Portland, where
Miss Alma goes to re-enter the univer
sity.
'. Since the first of the month the
Oregon Fruit Union have shipped four
cars of fruit from The Dalles, and will
get two more cars out by the end of
the week.
Murphy & Knox, of Salem, have
been awarded the contract for doing
the plastering in the new dormatory
being erected at the Warm Spring
Indian agency.
Prof. J. M. C. Miller, who has been
elected to the principalship of the
Hood River public school, was in the
city last night and left on the Regula
tor this morning.
The combine convention in Klicki
tat county could have made no better
selection for county surveyor than A.
W. Mohr, of Rockland, who was the
unanimous choice for that office.
Last night the Commission Co.
shipped a car of prunes and plums from
Mosier and one from The Dalles.
Another car will be shipped from
Mosier either tonight or tomorrow.
This morning one citizen asked an
other "why it was the state board had
ordered the portage at Cascades torn
up?" The answer was: "To keep the
Days from appropriating what is left
of it."
A sample of 21 Hungarian prunes
raised in W. H. Taylor's orchard, was
left at this office yesterday. They were
simply beauties, all of uniform size
and color, and the flavor could not be
surpassed.
This morning Misses Daisy Allaway,
Julia Hill and May Sechler left for
Eugene to enter the state university.
All three of the young ladles are grad
uates from The Dalles high school, and
are prepared to take up the collegiate
course of the university.
"Everything has been active on the
river today, the fishermen getting
their apparatus in readiness to begin
fishing tonight and the canneries mak
ing preparations to handle tne catch.
The river is said to be full of salmon,
and a phenominal fall catch is ex
pected. Gus Brown, Joe Crate and George
Monger are off for another winter's
trapping expedition near Mt. Adams,
where they will hide themselves away
from the world, until next spring.
They spent last winter in the same
place in the mountains and were quite
successful trapping for fur animals.
At the stock yards' are 2c0tborough
bred Merino rams from Chas. Durbin's
place at Antelope. They will be
shipped to Idaho for distribution
among the sheep raisers of that state.
Only a few years ago Oregon sheep'
raisers were importing thorougbred3
from the east, now they are able to
supply growers in other states.
Today the county court went out to
the forks of Mill creek to examine a
pioie of road for which the citizens of
that section ask aid to build. After
examining the ground over which the
road is to be built and calculating the
expense, the court determined the ex
penditure would be too great for the
benefit to be derived.
N. Whealdon arrived home this
morning from Spokane.- flir. Wheal
don says business appears to be fair in
Spokane; he noticed very few vacant
business houses, and heard a general
demand for residence property. From
general appearances, he judges Spo
kane to be one of the most thriving
cities in the Northwest.
J E. Cass, secretary of the Wash
ington state board of horticulture,
calls attention to the great danger to
fruit interests from the landing of new
fruit pests from the Orient. He says
shippers and fruit-raisers cannot le
too careful in this regard, for the scale
and other pests of the Orient are far
more destructive to trees and fruit
than the scales of more temperate
zones.
Today Sheriff Driver was deput'sed
by U. S. Marshal Grady to servo sum
mons in the cases of the United States
vs. W. H. O'Dell, Chas. B. Donn, E. A.
Griffin, Thos. Harris, Wm. Wiley,
John Karlin, Wm. Gilhouseo, Wm. E.
Hunt and Alsx. Thomson. They are
summoned to appear in the U. S. cir
cuit court and show cause why they
should not be permanently enjoined
from herding stock on the Cascade
timber reserve.
From rnaay's UaUy
County court adjourned at noon to
day.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Durbin and son,
of Antelope, are visiting in the city. -
Hon. W. H. Wilson and family ar
rived home on today's local from
Ilwaco.
Mrs. T. J. Rpbinsou went to Hood
River today to spend a few days visit
ing in that city.
Hon. B. F. Allen, of Prineville, and
J. P. VanHouten, of Hay Croek, are
In the city today.
Mrs. W. H. Van Bibber and Miss
Katio Lamb went to Lyle this morn
ing for a day's visit.
Mrs. Sutford, who has been visiting
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Riddel I, returned
to Portland this morning.
D. W. Claypool, a prominent farmer
and stockraiser of Crook county, is in
the city today buying supplies.
Tomorrow John Karlan will ship 13
cars of sheep to Chicago and on Mon
day Smith and O'Leary will shin 18
cars.
W. T. Shaw and wife, of Dallas, are
in the city en route to Burnt Ranch to
visit Mrs. Saltzman, Mrs. Shaw's
mother.
Mrs. John Micheil and daughter re
turned home last evening from Port
land where they have been visiting the
past week.
Miss Freda Hatch returned this
morning to her home in Portland.
She has been visiting Mr. and Vrs. O.
L. Barrett in the city.
W. H. Dufur and W. H. Staatd, of
Dufur, are in the city. They report
harvest over in the vicinity of Dufur,
and farmers busy bringing their grain
to market.
This morning the Regulator went
down to Lvle and got 500 head of
sheep which were brought to The
Dalles and shipped to Troutdale by D.
P. Ketchum.
Prof. Birgfeld came up last night
from his summer camp at Geer Lake,
and knowing the editor's weakness,
supplied him with a choice mess of
mountain trout.
L. E. Farington left this morning
for Eugene to enter the state univer
sity. This is Mr. Farnngton's sixth
year in the university and he will com
plete his course of study this year.
Still the wool from the interior seeks
storage in The Dalles. W. C. Buick
and J. K. Horning arrived last even
ing with 48 sacks from Summer Lake,
in Lake county, 250 miles south of this
place.
G. Siebold, of St, Louis, Mo., who
has been visiting his old friend and
school-fellow, Judge G. A. Lieeb, in
this city, left on the 2:30 train for be
low. He will visit California before
returning home.
Today Geo. Luckey, Ed Montgomery
and Louie Volroth delivered 258 head
of Crook county beef cattle to T. K.
Long, of Iowa. The cattle were loaded
into ten cars and started on their east
ern journey this afternoon.
Wheat is coming into The Dalles at
the rate of about 100 wagon loads each
day. Most of that coming from the
Washington side is No. 1, while a con
siderable amount of the Wasco county
wheat is more or less shriveled, and is
graded as No. 2.
Yesterday Porter Bros. Co. sold in
Chicago for The Dalles Commission
Co. a car load of fruit shipped from
here on the 3d, at the following prices:
Jewett's Hungarian prunes, 81 per
crate; Bennett's egg plums, $1.2o;
Italian prunes, $1.15. This is the
best sale made so far this season.
At the meeting of the National
Women's Relief Corps recently held
in St. Paul. Mrs. Mary Scott Myers, of
this city, was elected a member of the
national executive board. This is a
just recognition of the services Mrs.
Meyers has rendered the corps in .this
state, while acting as its head officer. -
A rather questionable moral atmos
phere must prevail in the vicinity of
Heppner. A dispatch from that place
states that eight divorce cases occu
pied the attention of the circuit court,
which is now in session, for three
days, and the grand jury has indicted
Chester Sargent for rape of a 7-year-old
girl, and old man Beach for rape of
a 11-year-old girl.
Sick-poison is a poison which makes
you sick. It comes from the stomach.
The stomach makes it out of undi
gested food.
The blood gets it and taints the
whole body with it. That's the way of
it- .
The way to be rid of it is to look
after your digestion.
If your food is all properly digested,
there will be none left in the stomach
to make sick-poison out of.
If your stomach is too weak to see to
this properly by itself, help it along
with a few doses of Shaker Digestive
Cordial.
That0 s the cure of it.
Shaker ' Digestive Cordial is a deli
cious, healthful, tonic cordial, made of
pure medicinal plants, herbs and wine.
It positively cures indigestion and
prevents the formation of sick-poison.
At druggists. Trial bottles 10 cents.
Xke JUethodlst Conference.
The Methodist Episcopal conference
for the Columbia river concluded its
work last Sunday night and supplied
The Dalles circuit as follows:
Robert Warner, presiding 'elder;
Antelope, supplied by D. H. Leach;
Arlington, G. W. Barnhart; Belmont,
Henry Moyes; Bickleton, G. R. Moor
head; Cascade Locks, William Hoskins;
Columbus, supbiied by J. G. Alford;
Dufur, John Evans; Ellensburg, M. H.
Marvin; Fort Simcoe, G. M. Booth and
J.W.Helen; Fossil, F. S. Johns; Glen
wood.supplled by G.. W.White; Golden
dale. F. Hawk: Heppner.E. P. Green,
Hood River, H. K. Hines; Long Creek,
W. H. Henderson; Moro, E. C- Alford:
North Yakima, N. Evans; Prairie City,
R. C. Motor; Prineville, W. C. Smith;
Pros3er, S. L. Burrill; The Dalles, J.
H. Wood; Wasco and Grants, C. D.
Nicholson; Waldron, Roy O. Had ley:
Yakima circuit, supplied by G. R.
Archar; West Kittitas, Edward Baker.
A Good-Sized Melon.
H. T. Corum writes from WapiniMa
that he has a water melon grown on
Juniper Flat, without irrigation, that
is four feet in circumference the long
way, three feet 2i inches the smallest
way and weighs 44 pounds. This, he
says, shows the productiveness of the
soil that the McCoy ditch is intended
to irrigate. With plenty of water with
which to irrigate, Mr. Corum thinks
that section will become one of the
most productive in the Northwest for
all kinds of fruits, vegetables and
grains.
Children In Need of Homes.
On Tuesday , morning I. F. Tobey,
district superintendent of the National
Children's Home Association, took to
Portland two boys, sons of John F.Root.
They are . for placement in homes
where they will have good instruction
and care. Families desiring children
of any age for adoption, will please
correspond with the Oregon Children's
Home Society, room 500 Marquam
building, Portland, Oregon.
Prices right and goods satisfactory
at Johnston's. . Remember the place,
next door to A. M. Williams & Co's,
THE LORD AND THE LOCKS.
Ob sir, dear Lord
Why did you do it!
Shut up the portage
You'll surely rue it.
The rains will come,
The snow will fall.
But our portase is done
For good and all.
The Lord's against U3.
That allcanee
The commission stands lu
With the powers that!.
The Days have conquortd.
With help from the throne
The portage is closed.
So, Hobart, come home.
The Regulator can whistle
And can puff, and can blow.
Handle apples and peaches.
But take no wheat below.
The locks will be opened
November 15, they say,
And the boats will go through
Some very cold day. GrsGLEB.
INFORMATION WANTED.
11 Some Gold standard Man
Please
Answer This Question.
Mb. Editor:
The Dalles, Sept. 9th, 1896,
The Republican Editorial Associa
tion which met yesterday at Canton
Ohio, resolved itself into a board of
education, to instruct the masses how to
vote in this election. So maybo we may
have something different from kinder
garten lessons in politics in future.
but even at the risk of giving aid and
comfort to the enemy, I wish to Bug'
gest that they get together and hold a
sort of normal school first to instruct
some of the teachers. For instance in
the Oregonian of the 9th, (today,)
find this bright "squib."
The workingman , who votes for
Bryan volunteers to turn half his wages
over to millionaire mine-owners and
speculators in silver bullion."
Now the "campaign statement that
if silver wins workmen will be paid in
53-cent dollars," is familiar enough to
all of us. The changes have been rung
on it for months, and also that other
familiar campaign statement that "free
coinage, will enrich tne mine owner
and bullion speculator. These two
seem to me to be like oil and water,
they don't mix; either, without the
other, misrht serve as the basis of a
good argument perhaps, but put to
gether as the Oregonian attempts to
in its little "squib" above quoted, they
make a very poor emulsion that must
be well shaken, before taking.
Will some good gold man, editor of the
Chronicle preferred, please reconcile
the two statements for me. The ques
tion, in the simplest form I can putit,is
this: If,, after free coinage a workman
will be paid in 53-cent dollars, the
bullion in a dollar now being worth
about 53 cents, where does the big
profit to the mine owner or bullion
speculator come in? Or vice versa, if
this is a mine owners campaign and
they are spending money to win it,
and will get a dollar for 53 cents worth
of bullion; a profit we are toltl of 47
cents on each one coined, how can
that dollar shrink again to 53 cents
the moment it is used to pay wages?
Mr. McCamant, in a speech recently
made statement No. 2 very dear, but
without touching No 1, he said: "Any
one may get rich speculating in
Mexican silver dollars if we have free
coinage, all that is necessary is to take
down $1000 in our gold and buy
2,000 Mexican silver dollars, return,
have the Mexican dollars coined into
United States dollars, demand gold
for them at the treasury; go back to
Mexico and repeat the process until a
multi-millionaire. This being so
perspicuous, wa -will not ;K3!i- the
Chronicle man to tackle it. With
his knowledge of financeering, Mc
Camant will soon be rich enough to
retire and will of course not care to
bother with the kindergarten class
any more. But the Chronicle man is
respectfully asked how it is, if the free
coinage does make the bullion worth
more, that the workingman gets his
wages cut in two by the same process
and by being paid ths same kind of
dollar that the mine owner gets.
Excuse the suggestion that Mc
Camant bo sent to the Normal.
Yours,
' ' Pascal,
the state fruit exhibit.
It Mnst be Made by Eastern Oregon This
Tear.
Ordinarily Oregon has been able to
make a most creditable exhibit of
fruits from all sections of the state at
the Portland exposition, but this year
the display will have to come from
Eastern Oregon, and largely from
Wasco county. Wm. M. Evans, who
has charge of collecting the fruit
exhibit, informs the Times-Mountaineer
that he has trayeled over
Western Oregon from one end to the
other, and in no county on that side of
the mountains has he been able to get
a collection of fruits that would do to
place on exhibition, hence he has come
to Eastern Oregon, and from what he
has seen of the fruit here, is satisfied
that an attractive display can be made
of the products of this county.
A committee of the-Commercial Club
will take the matter in hand, and will
attend to packing and forwarding all
exhibits that are presented. If Wasco
county is ever to derive full benefit
from making an exhibit, and is to be
Awarded the credit that is due it as a
fruit growing section, this is the year.
. In many other sections the fruit crop
has been an utter failure, and although
we have had the most unfavorable
season ever known, the quality of our
fruit is perfect, and the quantity is
fair. Let such facts as these be known
abroad, and not only our fruit but our
fruit land will be in demand. Wasco
county can be better advertised by a
fruit display at Portland this year than
eyer before.
MEXICO HEARD FROM.
A Former Oregonian Writes Gil ins Some
Idea of Prices.
A gentleman who resides in The
Dalles and has a friend who is a rail
road conductor at Silao, Mexico, re
cently sent to his friend a table pub
lished in the Chicago Times-Herald,
and printed for several days in the
Oregonian, which pretended to
give the comparative prices of
articles of general' consumption
in Mexico and- the United States,
and asked him if the figures published
were correct. He received substan
tially the following reply:
Silao. Mexico, Aug. 31, '96
In regard to the furniture business,
I have furniture for four rooms, includ
ing a No. 7 cook stove aod utensils,
that cost about $130, Mexican money.
"I can buy foi eign goods here for
very little more in silver than I can
get them for in the United States for
gold; some things are even cheaper.
Beefsteak is about 12 cents a pound.
Oil is high here but is getting cheaper.
In my judgment a. Dedstead that costs
$13 here would cost from $12 to $14 in
the United States.' For . $1 - Mexican
money I can buy a can of American
baking powder that costs 65 cents at
home. Hams and bacon are high, as
the people do not raise hogs, although
they could, but are too indifferent. I
can buy a good blanket here for $3,
and an imported French blanket for $4.
"American furniture is high here
because of the duty which is very high.
The duty on other foreign goods is low,
However, I can get an American sew
ing machine here for SG5 to $70 in sil
ver that costs $50 in gold at home.
"Labor in this country is verycheap
of course, but it has raised in the la:
three years from 2 C3nts to 50 cents a
day and some laborers demand one
dollar a day."
MORE ABOUT MEXICO.
Some of the Reasons Why Wages are Low-
in That Country.
Walter F. Jackson, of Ot9ego, North
Carolina, contributed the following to
the New York World, in which he
shows some of the reasons for low
wages and high living in silver Mexico
"Of all the papers I ever read I find
The World not only the be3t but the
most liberal and just. Siill in its issue
of July 23, it published under the head
of .'The Shorter Catechism' some
statements regarding Mexico that may
prove misleading to those who know
nothing of the conditions obtaining in
that country.
"Of course, the World cannot be
ignorant of the fact that the laboring
class of our sister republic is densely
ignorant; that not more than a third
of the entire people can either read or
write.
"Conklin, whose 'Guide to Mexico'
furnishes me with the foregoing facts,
says further that 'high wages will
tend to attract Oermnn and . British
miners to Mexico. ' All of which goes
to show does it not? that ignorance
and incapacity (and is there not also a
generous supply of laziness?) are at the
bottom of the low wages received by
the working classes of Mexico for their
labor. Besides, is labor organized
there as it is with uj? Have the peo
ple sufficient intelligence and spirit to
demand their rights? One never hears
of collisions between capital and labor
there. Give us the same people that
Mexico has an exclusive Spanish
aristocracy ruling, with Indians, mez-
andstizos, mulattoes, zambos and ne
groes serving, how would our country
compare with theirs them?
"Nevertheless, if the latest reports
from Mexico are to be believed, she is
now in a more prosperous condition
than ever before in her history while
we, the great mass of the American
people, are daily growing poorer and
more wretched. . JNow, what is pro
ducing these results a silver standard
there and a gold standard here?
You speak of the high cost of living
there. Sugar, at 19 cents a pound, is
pretty steep in sober truth, but the
Mexican farmer, according to a recent
report made by Judge Walter Clark,
of the supreme court of North Caro
lina, receives 13 cents for his cotton
and $1 for his wheat the latter price
accounting doubtless for the higher
cost of flour. And as for the sugar, I
shouldn't wonder if that were con
trolled by a trust. For it must be ad
mitted that Mexico's tariff laws un
less they have been greatly modified
since 1885 are exceedingly favorable
to the growth of that hideous product
of our boasted modern civilization.
In conclusion, since you have favored
us with a comparison of Mexico, a sil-
er country, with the United States,
've no doubt that many of your read
ers would be glad to see Spain or Por
tugal or Italy, gold countries, com
pared with Mexico. If the percentage
of ignorance, wretchedsnewB - and beg
gary is not alarmingly high -ia those
countries; if the great' majority of
their people, living on a bunch of
grapes and an onion with bread, but
no meat, do not 'live at less expense
than a farm horse in : New England
and not so well,' then American
travellers in those countries have
given free run to fancy and drawn the
long bow with a vengeance."
BYRNE THROWS A SCARE
He Fears Bryan Will Carry New York
State by Defanlt.
Major John Byrne, president of the
Democratic Honest-Money League,
who has spent several . days up tho
state, returned yesterday, says the
New York World of the 2d instant.
Last night an interview with him was
given out from headquarters. He
says: ' "Both central, western and
northern New York are rotten on
silver, and unless something is done
we will lose the state. - Bryan had
wildly enthusiastic' meetings and has
left an ugly trail behind, him.
"I am alarmed, because if the esti.
mates on the other critical states are
as erroneous as those on Now York
there is no hope for the country. To
day an election would give this state
to Bryan with 100,000 majority.
"The truth is the campaign is goihsr
by default; there is too much confi
dence and not enough work.
"There is a large class railroad
men, farm laborers and others whs
are for Bryan and free -silver through
ignorance, and should 'be save. This
education alone will do. : They are not
getting the needed instruction and
cannot hope to get it unles means can
be .had to enable the work to go on.
Our league here could do 80 per cent
more for the cause than it is doing if
it had the means."
An Attractive Store.
The recent changes that have been
made in Mrs. Briggs' millinery store
make it one of the handsomest and
most attractive places n the city.
The store has been thoroughly reno
vated, the shelving and show cases
have been rearranged, and nothing
will be omitted to make the immense
new fall stock of millinery the most
complete that has ever been brought
to the city. The ladies of The Dalles
will be pleased to learn that Mrs.
Briergs has again secured the services
of Miss M. Bottorff as trimmer, and
that she is now employed in Portland
selecting and arranging Mrs. Briggs'
fall stock. -r'-
Land Transfers.
Columbia Lodge No. -5. 1 O O F to
T F- Campbell ni lot 2 row K, in Odd
Fellows cemetery $15.
Hood River Town site to J B Watt,
lots 1 and 2, block 21, Town of Hood
River, $1 - .
Mathew Randall to Bertie J Bagley,
lot 3, block 7, Bigelow addition to
Dalles City. $184.
Columbia Lodgo No. 5 to Henry A
Deitzel lot 24, row M, in Odd Fellows
cemetery; $25.
G G and Sadie Harpham to O R &
N Co., right to lay water pipes through
ni neiin sec 1, 1 2 n, r 8 e; $100.
Notice.
Male or female help furnished cn
short notice by the Dalles Employment
Office, Cor. 2d and Court' streets, Tel.
309. Lock Box 250. ... . 9sep3t
Or. Price's Cream Baking Powder
World' Fair Highest Medal and Dlptuma.
INFORMATION GRANTED.
Mr. Gourlcy Tries to Harmonize two Cam,
paiga Theories.
The Dalles. Or., Sept. 11, 1390
Editor TiHEs-MotrsrAiNEEB:
"Pascal," in yesterday's TIMES
MOUNTAINEER, facetiouslv asks
"some good gold man" to reconcile th
two statements frequently made by
sound money campaigners, that free
coinage of silver at 16 tp 1 means 5
cent dollars for the wage-earner and
profit to the mine owner of 47 cents on
every dollar coined. If "Pascal" will
admit an answer from a gold man who
modestly disclaims the qualifying ad
jective "good ' I should say that the
two statements, contradictory as they
seem, can be reconciled at least in
part. There is not a gold etandard
man on this broad earth, there
hardly an intelligent free silver man
either, who does not know from ex
penence the only lamp we have to
guide us and universal experience at
that that the free coinage of any
metal at any ratio means the current
use of that metal at its bullion value
and no more. This rule is now and
always ha-i been as invariable as the
law of gravitation, as constant in its
operation as the ebb and flow of the
tides.
So fully has this principle been rec
ognized by the founders of this repub.
lie and all our subsequent law-makers
mat no law has ever oeen placed on
the statute books of the nation making
any coin that enjoyed tho privilege of
free mintage legal tender for any
amount above its bullion value. The
trade dollar is no exception. It
was never intended for home use and
when its bullion value fell below 100
cents its limited legal tender power
was taken away. The statement,
therefore, that tho triumph of free
silver means 53 cent dollars, or dollars
like those of Mexico, Japan and China,
passing current at their bullion value,
which today is 53-cents and tomorrow
may be 40 or 60 cents, and is true
to all human experience. But the
second statement, namely: that under
free coinage the silver miner would
enjoy a profit of 47 cents on every dol
lar coined, while only true within cir
cumscribed limits, is a very proper re
tort on those who insist that a simple
a3t of congress, opening the United
States mints to silver, would double the
price of every ounce of silver on the
globe.
Now the limitations to which I refer
are these: Under the proposed free
coinage Uncle Sam is asked to stamp
his dollar mark, (including our national
emblems, the American eagle and
goddess of Liberty and the legend "In
God we trust" for the balance I pre
sume,) on a lump of silver worth today
in the markets of the world less than
53 cents. But this1 is not all nor by
any means the worst. Uncle Sam is
asked to make this 50 odd cent dollar a
legal tender for all debts public and
private. A resolution to provide for
maintaining its parity with gold was
scornfully and overwhelmingly re
jected by the convention tnat nomi
nated Mr. Bryan. Thus the silver
miner, after Uncle Sam had put his
lying, sacreligious stamp on 50 odd
cent's worth-of silver and hauded it
back to him, might and (who doubts?)
would pass the dollar so coined over to
his employes in payment of a hundred
cents worth of labor. Would, that is,
till the employes would block the game
by demanding a "specific contract,"
or in case that right is denied them
by the decision of a packed supreme
court, (which the - deiao-populist plat
form threatens,) 'as a dernier" resort,
with p. d. q. velocity, refuse to workT
Within such limitation only, manifest
ly circumscribed by time and opportu
nity, would the eilver miner reap a
prout of 4i cents on any like sum on
the dollars so coined.
Haying thus answered "Pascal" in
all candor let me, in turn, ask him to
reconcile two statements constantly
made by free silver orators and espe
cially, with like constancy, by tho
boy orator of the Platte." Mr. Bryan
hardly ever opens his mouth, and it
has been wide open for lo these many
days, that he does not commend free
coinage to the debtors of the nation
on the ground that it will give them
cheap money wherewith to pay their
debts, while in one a and the same
breath he maintains that it will raise
the price of silver to $1.29 an ounce,
that to, to an equality with gold.
Now no one would be better pleased to
see silver on an equality with gold at
the present legal ratio than the very
men whom "Pascal's" congeners ap
probriously dubb gold bugs, but in
that case where would the poor debior
get his cheap dollars ? But pshaw!
there is not a man with a thimbleful of
brains on the American continent
capable of believing such stuff. But,
if otherwise, the sooner Willie Bryan
is entered a? a pupil in "Pascal's" kin
dergarden the better for himstlf and
the country. . HUGH GOURLAY.
Bather Premature.
The state board of portage commis
sioners have ordered Superintendent
Hobart to take up the tracks, frogs,
etc., of the state portage road at Cas
cades. This action was determined
upon through the recommendation of
Mr. Hobart, who expresses his con
fidence that the canal and locks will
be completed by Nov. 15, hence ho
deems it unadvisable for the state to
mako any expenditures for repairs on
the road. The order to tear up the
rood would seem to be premature.
The canal and locks are not . yet com
pleted, and possibly may not be for a
year to come. In such an event the
portage road would be a most con
venient thing to have lying around.
Of course we all hope the locks will be
opened by Nov. 15, and that after that
date there will be no need of the port
age, but -if they are not, and the peo
ple of Eastern Oregon are deprived of
the use of the Columbia river as a
means of transmittingfreight, through
the action of the state board in order
ing the portage-torn up,the impression
will prevail that the state board has
exceeded its jurisdiction.
Bryan Club.
All persons, irrespective of former
political belief or affiliations, who are
in favor of equal rights to all and
special priviiedges to none, who have
the good of the common people a
heart, and believe in unholding the
principles now being so ably enun
ciated by William J. Bryan, candidate
for president of the United States, are
hereby requested to meet at the court
house, in Dalles City, on Saturday
evening, September 12, 1896, for the
purpose of organizing a W. J. Bryan
club. Let everybody who is inter
ested in thiaause come out.
J B. Crossen,
J. L. Story,
Ai.. Reese,
Committee.
Attention t Attention!
Good fresh pasture with plenty of
water on Three-Mile. Horses $1 per
month, cattle 50 cents. Address, John
Byan The Dalles.
. .. . Letters Advertised.
" The following is the list of letters re
maining in The Dalles Dostoffice un
called for September 11, 1896. Persor
calling for these letters will please
give date on which they wore ad
vertised:
Armstrong, H V (2) Slake, G W
Brown, L L Bere.-ford, Jennie
Clark, M J Mrs Donaldson, Laura
uavis, Alias K .11 Davenport, Miss
Kichlick, M Grant, Carrie
Herman, Dora HmTington. Marcus
llarsell. Agues f) Koisay, 1? S
Ludwick. Emma
Meador, E H
Kelsny, D A
Mathews, Jno
Nicola. E
Rice, W B
Smith, Mary L
Thomas, Melvin
Loh'-ei, Konrad
Owens, Tliss N
Patterson, Culbert
McDonald, Millie
Nesson, P
Reed, Geo M
Smith, Daniel L
Templeton. Will
Whipple, W H
Wartield, J M D
Yeackel, Henry.
J. A. Crossen , P. M.
The Wasco Warehouse Co. beg leave
to inform farmers that they havestor
age room for 200,000 sacks of wheat and
any one wishing to store their wheat
and hold for later market can do so
on usual terms. Also, thev will oav
tho highest cash price for wheat, oats
barley and rye.
tf
UARBlEo.
URQUHART-MAltyUIS At the residence of
me uriue puri'Dis. seven miles west or The
uauea. on Sunday. Sept. 8, Mr. A. A. Urqu
nart ana Miss Ada Marquis, Rev. L. Gray
wlllUlUUUg.
BORN.
HAGAN In this city. Sept. 7. to the wife of
.fiuit.-3 nuu, a son.
WEBSTKR-In this city. Sept. 7. to the wife
ot ai vv cDstt-r. a son.
KINEKSLY In this city on Sent. 7.th to
wiiu u wtiuu n-merso , a son.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT,
TO WHCM IT MAY t'OVr-Env: TlntlpB 1 horo.
by Kiven that Thomas W. Glavcv lias filed his
final account as administrator of the estate of
i-atricK Dorns. deceased, and that said llnul
account will come on for hearing on Monday,
the 2d day of November, ifm. nt the hour of a
o ciock p. m. or said day, at which time a bear
inif will be had as to any and ail objections to
sam un-i account ana tne settlement tnereor.
This notice is given by order of Honorable
Robert Mays. County Judire of Wasco Countv.
ure(,-uu.
Dated this 7th nay of September, lf98.
THOMAS W. (iLAVEY.
AdrrTr of the estate of Patrick Dorris, deed.
2sept.l.W9.
-TO THE
TI
GIVES The
Mca of Tbo T aiiECOHtinenial
Rentes
VIA
SPOKANE
MIXEEAPOLIS
VIA
DENVER
OMAHA
v AXD
KM3AS
AND
ST.PAUL
Low Rates to All Eastern Cities
OCEAN
STEAMERS leave
. five days for
Portland every
SAN FRANCISCO, CALfl.
For full details call on the O. R. & N. Atrent
at THE DALLES, or address
E. McNElLJ President and Manager.
. W. H. HURLBURT, Gen, Pass. Airt.,
'"' . Portland, Oregon
New O. K. A N. Schedule.
Train No. I arrives at The Dalles
50 A. M., and leaves 4:55 A. M.
Train No. 2 arrives at Tho Dalles
10:40 p. M. , and leaves 10:45 p. M.
Tram No. o arrives at Tho Dalles
2:(5 P. M., and west-bound train No. 7
leaves at 2:30 p. a.
Train 23 and 24 will carry passengers
between The Dalles and Umatilla,
leaving The Dalles at 1 P. M. daily and
arriving at The Dalles at 1 P. M. daily,
connecting with train Nos. 8 and 7
from Portland. E. E. Lytle,'
Agent.
R
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PULLMAN
SLEEPING CAES
ELEGANT
i)INING CARS
TOURIST
SLEEPING CARS
MINNEAPOLIS
ST. PAUL
GRAND FORKS
DCLTJTH
FARGO
CKOOifSTON
WINNIPEG
HELENA and
nCTTE.
to
THROUGH TICKETS
TO
CHICAGO
WASHINGTON
PHILADELPHIA
NEW YORK
BOSTON and all
POINTS EAST and SOUTH.
For information, time cards, maps and tloltets,
call on or write, W. C. ALLAWAY, Agent
Or A. D. CHARLTON, Assistant General Pas
sen er Agent. No. KS Morrison Street, Cor
ner Oj Third Street, Portland, Oregon
pator
The Dalles, Portland anil Astoria
Navigation Co.
THROUGH
F:eioni ana Passsnosr Lins
Through Daily trips (Sundays ex
cepted) between The Dalles and Port
land. Steamer Regulator leaves The
Dalles at 8 a. m., connecting at the
Cascades Locks with Steamer Dalles
City. Steamer Dalles City leaves
Portland (Oak street dock) at 7 a. m.,
connecting with Steamer Regulator
for The Dalles.
PASSENGER RATES
Oho way. . .
Bound trip.
:2 00
. 3 00
Freight Rates Reduced
Shipments for Portland received at
any time, day or night. Shipments for
way landings must be delivered before
5 p. m. Live stock shipments solic
ited. Call on or address,
ial O HLLHWHY.
General Agent
THE - DALIES - OREGON.
The
i i
Lie
B'
.EST with a big B. Blackwell's Genuine
Durham la in a class by itself. You will
coupon Inside each two ounce bag, and
pons Inside each four ounce bag of
Blackwell's
Smoking
Bay n bog of this celebrated tobacco and read the coupon
which gives a llstof valuable presents and how to get tbem.
Till BOTH
OF
leeond Intern Oregon
District
WILL BE
THE DALLES,
COMMENCING
Tuesday
And Ending Saturday,
October 24th, 1896 . . .
For Premium Lists. Entrv Blanks and all infnrmn-
ion, write to the Secretary,
A. S.
J. O. MACK, Sec,
...Oregon Industrial Exposition.,..
PORTLAND,
September 19
GREAT RESOURCES
HE
Agriculture, Horticulture, Fisheries, Mines, Manufactures,
Machinery, Transportation, Trade and Commerce will be
made more completely than ever before. . . .
Grand Band Concert Every Afternoon and Evening
. .. Special Attractions Every Night ..
owest Rates Ever Made
ADMISSION 25 Cents.
For Exhibit space, apply to UbUKUC L.
K C. MASTEN, Secretary
Wlien You Want
Seed Wheat, Feed Wheat,
Rolled Barley, Whole Barley,
Oats, Rye, Bran, Shorts, Hay,
: Or anything in the Feed Line, go tothe :
"WASCO - WAREHOUSE
Our prices are low and our goods are first-class. Apents for the
celebrated WAITS BURG "PEERLESS," and DYERS' BEST
PENDLETON MILLS FLOUR. Highest cash price paid for
WHEAT. OATS, and BARLEY.
Mon
arc
Mixed Paints
A PURE LINS1D OIL PAINT
NO WATER
NO BENZINE
MANUFACTURED BY THE
Senour . Manufacturing Co., ojL Chicago -
For sab by Jos. T Peters & Co, agents for Senour's
Monarch Floor and Carriage Paints
7 t? ; Amnnu
km I mmm and forraiDg Merchant .
391. 393 HND 395 SECOND STRE6T.
(Adjoining Railroad Depot.)-
ConsigniiieDts Solicited
Prompt Attention Paid t3 Those Who Favor Me With Their Patronage
Fruit Boxe$ of KDcutat pme
AT PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.
Teach Boxes $5 00 per 100
Cantalopo Crates $9 50 per 100
Lumber and Building Materials at proportionate prices.
ROWE & CO.
Bull St X
And one X
two ooa
lorl
Tobacco
ANNUAL FAIR
THE
Agl Society
HELD AT-
WASCO COUNTY,
Oct-'20, 1896
The Dalles, Oregon.
MACALISTER, Pres.
OREGON.
to October 17.
OF FACIFIC NORTHWEST
on all Transportation lines
CHILDREN 10 Cents.
BAKER, Superintendent, at tbe Bulldlnf
to Buy
no baryt:
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