SATURDAY. ..SEPTEMBErTjTTsBB
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
' .From Saturdays Daily.
Mrs." A; J. Brown went to Hosier
this morning.
Mrs. Hal French vent to Portland
this afternoon. , r
, Mr. and Mrs. Smith French have re
turned home from the coast.
W. W. Wilson, of the Umatilla
House, has gone to Portland for
short visit.
Miss Mays, who has been visiting: in
the city, left this morning for her
home at Hood River.
The Dalles and vicinity was visited
bv a glorious (rood shower of rain last
night and this forenoon.
Messrs. C. M. Cartwright, J. P. Van
Housten and Wm. Eliery went to
Portland on the 2:30 train.
Frank Fulton came in yesterday
from Crook county where he brought
200 head of cattle for feeders.
A car load of Italian prunes from
Judge Bennett's orchard was shipped
east by the Commission Co. last night.
Herrick's cannery received about
four tons of salmon last night, and has
been busy today putting the fish in
tins. '
l Troop "A" of Burns, Capt. Gowan's,
was-mustered out of service, and be-
lonerings shipped to Portland last
. week.
Mrs. Minnie Glison left this morn
ing for- her home at Albina, after
spending several days in this city vis
iting relatives.
Last week a telephone was put in
the Academy Park school building, so
: now the different schools are all con-
. nected with phone service.
The heaviest vield of wheat so far
reported is a Geld belonging to Mike
Callaghan on Tygh Ridge. He threshed
53 bushels to the acre from a field of
summer follow.
"My friend," said the Baker City
evangelist, handing him a tract, "how
do you stand on, the great question?"
"I'm for free silver," responded the
' long whiskered man.
One thin? mav be reckoned on with
tolerable certainty. The next presi
dent of the United States will not wear
whiskers on his face and his front
, name will be William.
: Bob Ingersoll once said that he did
not want to say anything against either
place of future resort as he had fiends
in both places. That is the way a
good many people feel on the political
question. ,
Frank Hawley, a prominent Sherman
countv farmer, is in The Dalles today
He says the greater portion of the
grain in Sherman has been harvested,
though there is some wheat that has
not yet been cut.
. Schanno has returned from an
extended tour of the country lying be
tween Columbia and Deschutes rivers,
and reports harvest about over and
crops to have turned out better than
had been expected. .
- Some of the good results from summer-following
are made prominent by
the recent harvest. Wheat sowed on
summer-follow has yielded well, while
- spring sown grain in adjoining fields
has been almost a failure. ,
: The secretary of the treasury has
authorized the establishment of a sub
port of entry at Spokane. The salary
of the deputy collector of the port will
probably be 82000. Three or four in
spectors will be stationed there. "
George Albright, fireman on the
switch engine in this city, was married
In Portland last Thursday to Miss
Jennie Deutcher. ' Mr. and Mrs. Al
' bright arrived here yesterday and will
: make their home in The Dalles.
The gentleman who thought he had
discovered a gold mine in The Dalles
the other day was not far out of the
way after all. There Is gold In almost
every lot in The Dalles for the man
who invests at the present prices.
Mr. Grey will organize his 2d and 3d
classes In German on- Saturday after-
noon at 4 o'clock, Sept. 19th at the old
Lutheran chapel on 9th street. All
desiring to partisipate in the work of
either of these two classes will please
attend this meeting.
This is the year for Wasco county to
- advertise itself at the Portland expo
sition. Fruit and vegetables in nearly
all other sections of the state are fail
ures, but this county can mate an ex
hibit that will convince everybody
that crops never fail here.
: Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Hinton are visit
ing In the city, the guests of Mr. and
"Mrs. Fletch Faulkner. Mr. Hinton
has not fully recovered from the in'
juries he received some time since in
beini- thrown from a wagon.' but is
able to walk with the assistance of
cane. .
Wasco county can make a creditable
exhibit of fruits and vegetables at the
Portland exposition says Mr. Schanno,
who has recently visited a number of
different sections throughout the
county. . He thinks an exhibit can be
made that will surpass anything dis-
played from any other section in the
state.
County Physician Nowman reports
, that the experiment of inoculating a
diptheria case with anti-toxine, which
he recently imade and which waa the
first experiment of the kind in Spokane
as far as known, is meeting with per
fect success. The subjdct, a boy who
was far advanced with the disease,
was admitted to the hospital for con-
tageous diseases last week.
Today Ed Marshal was given an
examination before Justice Filloon on
a charge of having stolen $100 from
Mrs. Garfield (better known as Irish
Mollie) and was held in $200 bonds to
answer before the next grand jury.
Failing to give bonds he was removed
to jail. Marshal is one of the fellows
who served 90 days in jail last spring
for stealing blankets and clothing
from a feed yard in the East End.
. From Monday's Daily.
A car load of hogs was shipped from
the stock yards today.
J. EL Blakeney has just finished
burning a kiln of 400,000 brick.
- D. P. Ketchum went to the Mt.
- Adams range this morning to buy mut
ton. Mrs. Dr. Rinehart left this morning
for Portland to resume her medical
studies.
Today G. W. Smith and J. P.
O'Leary loaded 16 cars of mutton sheep
for Chicago. '
Today Kocher & Freeman began
laying the cement walk - around the
courthouse yard.
Hungarian prunes from W. H. Tay
lor's orchard in Dry Hollow near this
city, Bold yesterday in New York at
$1.55 a crate. Tbo crates hold about
75 prunes, and the price realized makes
them bring a little more than two
cents each.
S. W. Miles, of Wallowa county, has
been visiting his sister, Mrs. Kahlor,
for several days past, and left this
roerniogfor Portland.
A now postofllco called English
has been established at C. C. English's
place at the intersection of the roads
between Eight and Ten-Mile creeks on
the route leading to the free bridge.
Walter C. Gray arrived last night
from Salem, and will go to the Warm
Spring Indian agency tomorrow to
superintend the construction of some
of the government buildings at that
place.
: P. L. Kretzer spent Sunday in the
city, and returned this morning to
Lyle. He has struck a fair supply of
water in the artesian well he is sinking
at that place and expects to have it
completed in a few days.
Last Friday night Seufert Bros
shipped a car load, 25,000 pounds, of
fresh salmon to New York. They
will ship another car tomorrow night.
Their cannery has been running day
and night since the open season began
The Oregon Fruit Union will ship a
car load of prunes and plums tonight
to Chicago. The union has recently
made some excellent sales of fruit in
Chicago, Hungarian prunes selling at
$1.60, German at $1.25, Italian at $1,
$.10 and $1.15.
Yesterday H. D. Dunham and C.
McPherson, of Hay creek, delivered
150 head of beef to Chas. Butler. All
but 18 head of the cattle were shipped
to Port Townaend. The 18 left here
were turned over to J. B. Havely to
be fed for Christmas beef.
On Sept. 8th, Fritz Laubinger died
at Olex, aged 58 years. Mr. Laubinger
was born in Kiel. ScheleswigHolsteln,
Germany, and resided in The Dalles
for a long time, having worked for
Judge Lie be twelve years and left here
some fourteen years ago.
Today H. S. Hanna left at this office
a basket of sweet-water grapes that
were of the finest flavoi tf anything we
have ever tasted in the grape line.
Thev are crisp and fresh, and at the
same time almost as sweet as raisins.
They were grown on Chenoweth creek,
about six miles west of The Dalles.
There are at the Commission Co's
store today about 40 boxes of peaches
from Seufert Bros, orchard that are
simply beauties. Half of them are
from 10 to 10i inches in circumfer
ence They are very nice samples of
Wasco county peaches, and would
make an attractive display at the Port
land exposition.
In the will of the late Richard Clos
ter the Indian claim of deceased was
bequeathed to Giles Patrick, who had
been absent from The Dalles a num
ber of years and was thought to be
dead, but Judge Liebe received a tele
gram from Patrick, dated at Ferndale,
Cal., Sept. 12tb, and he will claim the
amount, whatever it may be, when
awarded by the government.
The band concert yesterday under
the leadership of Mark Long, was fully
as entertaining and the program was
as attractive as those given by the
band while Mr. Peterson was leader.
Since Mr. Long has thus shown him
self to be a capable leader, why should
the band desire to send away for a
director? They had just as well pay
him a salary as to pay it to some one
from abroad
Politics divides the students of the
university in Seattle this year as never
before. In the past a few zealons par
tisans maintained students' clubs with
more or less difficulty; but this year
almost the first day saw notices posted
calling for meetings, and instantly
there appeared animated discussions,
accompanied by not a few "football
gestures." Preliminary committees
have been appointed, and early this
week the young men will organize
their Bryan and McKinley clubs, and
interesting sessions, in which the ques
tions of the day will be debated, may
be looked for.
From Tuesday 'Daily.
J. P. Van Houton, returned on the
noon train from Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Allie Henderson went
to their farm at White Salmon this
morning.
Mrs. Bulger, of Portland, is in the
city today the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
John Michell.
Hon. S. S. Hayes and wife, of Sher
man county, were visiting in The
Dalles last night.
M. P. Isenberg, of Hood River, was
iu the city last night and returned
home this morning.
. H. N. and R. P. Patterson leave to
morrow for their farm near Mosier,
where they will spend the winter.
The west bound passenger was about
six hours late in arriving here today,
owing to a delay on the Short Line in
Idaho yesterday.
Mr. M. Robinson and family, who
for the past two weeks have been vis
iting friends and relatives In the valley,
returned on the noon train today.
Jabez Hinckley, - one of the early
pioneers of Eastern Oregon, died at
his home near Union yesterday morn
ing. He came to Eastern Oregon 35
years ago.'
Van Bannigan, who for the past
year or more has filled the -position of
night watch on the Regulator, re
turned from Portland last night and
accepted a position as deck hand.
Wm. Floyd, an old time resident of
this city, but who of late years has
been in the employ at the O. R. & Co's.
shops in Albina, was in the city today
in attendance on the funeral of J. H.
Graham.
M. L. Olmstead, of Baker City, yes
terday filed with the secretary of state
his second credentials as a candidate
for presidential elector. The firet was
from the populist party and the second
is from the democratic party.
Some of the largest sturgeon caught
in the vicinity of The Dalles this sea
son were shipped to Portland today by
Mr. Walter Klindt. The largest one
tipping the scales at 356 pounds and
several others weighing 250 and up
wards.
A rumor has been afloat on the
streets this afternoon that a shooting
affair in which one man was supposed
to be killed, took place at Rockland
this morning, but upon investigation
there appears to be no truth in the.
report.
We are pleased to state that Mr.
John Fritz, who for the past few weeks
has been suffering from a severe attack
of typhoid fever, is convalescing, and
with proper care and treatment we
hope to see him at his post within a
short while.
The rain which has fallen here the
past few days seems to have been gen?
eral throughout Eastern Oregon. So
far it has not been sufficient to do any
material damage in localities where
harvest is not over, though it has re
tarded threshing.
.The republican editors of the state
held a meeting last week in Portland,
the avowed object being to agree to
conduct a "clean campaign." This
makes one smile. A populist suggests
that the meeting was to devise ways
and means to tap Hanna's barrel away
down deep. Welcome.
The boat, which was occupied by the
parties that were drowned last night,
is lying upon the beach near the Reg
ulator wharf today, almost a total
wreck. Every seat was torn out of it
and a large hole knocked in the bottom,
which very much signifies that it has
gone through a most dangerous and
rough place.
This morning Mr. and Mrs. D. C.
Herrin and Mrs. C. F. Stephens, as
delegates of Fern Lodge, D. of H.,
went to Cascades to meet Mrs. Young
and Mrs. Holman, representatives of
the grand lodge, who are to be present
at the A. O. U. W. entertainment to
morrow evening.
The case of the United States vs. the
Tygh Valley Land & Livestock Com
pany, which has been set for hearing
in the United States court several
times, on an order to show cause why
defendant should not be permanently
restrained from trespassing on the
Cascade reserve, by driving and pas
turing herds of sheep there, was again
continued yesterday until Sept. 18.
As was expected, the election in
Maine yesterday resulted in an over
whelming majority for the republican
ticket. Powers is elected governor by
between 45,000 and 50,000, and Tom
Reed's plurality Is something like
10,000. Maine and Vermon furnish an
illustration of how the East will go in
,T . ... . A
November, while the result in A:
kansas is an expression of the senti
ment in the South and West.
Yesterday Forman and Laughlin, of
Oak Grove, delivered to C. M. Grimes
the finest lot of beef ever brought to
this city. There were 64 head of 3
year old steers and they averaged 1250
pounds each. One of them, a Hereford
grade, weighed 1510 pounds. All cattle
men who saw them pronounce them
equal to, if not better than ordinary
stall-fed beef, and they were fattened
on grass. They were shipped below
last night.
Independent Workers Lodge No. 7,
met in regular session last night, and
elected the following officers for the
ensuing term. Glen Allen, C.
Pauline Drews, V. r., G. E. Stewart,
Sec, Mrs. Dufur, Fin. Sec, Mrs. Leo
nard, Treas., Roland Wiley, Mar., C
Brown, f. V. T. The omce oi super
in ten dent of Juvenile Temple is to be
supplied later, and the other officers
have been changed from elective to
appointive.
The funeral of the late J. H. Graham,
who wa9 killed by being run over by
an engine at Grants yesterday, took
place from the M, E. church today con
ducted under the - auspices of Friend
ship Lodge, No. 9, K. of P- Thirteen
members of Red Cross Lodge, No.
27, of LaGrande, to which Mr.
Graham belonged, arrived on the
west-bound overland at 11 o'clock,
and assisted in the funeral. The
parents and brother of deceased
and ten railroad men from Portland
were also present.
Last night while a number of Indians
were having a sociable gathering oyer
at Rockland, across the river from this
city, several of the noble red mon of
the forest became too much under the
influence of whiskey, resulting in a
cutting szrape in which one, Harry
Dick, was stabbed in the back, though
notyery seriously. His associates
managed to secure the wounded man
with ropes, and assisted him to his
wigwam, however, he was able to get
about today, apparently not feeling
much the worse for his experience.
AiFarmer Who Makes Money.
G. C. Millett, of Junction precinct,
was in Eugene the other day, and in
formed the Guard that he had cleared
several thousand dollars in farming
this season, notwithstanding the
poor crops. He thinks that raising
wheat is the surest way to make money
in Jhe Willamette valley. This year
his entire farm yielded on an average
26 bushels about two-thirds of a crop.
He had 30 acres that yielded 431 bush
els to the acre. Last year this tract
yielded 62 bushels per acre. Mr. Mil
let has earned every dollar he is worth
by tilling the soil, and is one of the
most contented men in Oregon.
For Over Fifty Fears.
An Old and W ell-Tried Rem
edy. Mrs. Winalow'a Soothing Syrup
has been used for over fifty years by
millions of mothers for their children
while teething, with perfect success.
It soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is
the best remedy for diarrhoea. - Is
pleasant to the taste. Sold by drug
gists in every part of the world.
Twenty-five cents a bottle. Its value
is incalculable. Be Bure and ask. for
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and
take no other kind.
Johnston's cash store, next door to
A. M. Williams & Co.. is the place to
get oargains in groceries
Weak,Irritable,Tired
I Was No Good on Earth."
Dr. Miles' Nervine strengthens
the weak, bauds up the broken
down constitution, and permanently
cures every kind of nervous disease.
"About one year ago I was afflicted
with nervousness, sleeplessness,
Creeping sensation in my legr,
Blight palpitation of my heast,
Distracting confusion of the mind,
Serious loss or lapse of memory.
Weighted dawn xcith eare and
worry. I completely lost appetite
And felt my vitality wearing out,
I was weak, irritable and tired,
My weight was reduced to ISO ILm.,
In fact I was no good, on earth.
A friend brought
me Dr. Miles' book.
'new and Start
ling Facts," and
I finally decided
to try a bottle of
Dr. Mills' Be-
oratlve Nervine.
Before I had taken .
one bottle I could
sleep as well as a
JO-yr.-old boy. My
appetite returned
greatly Increased.
When I had taken the sixth bottle
My weight increased to 170 6s.,
The sensation tnmy legs was gone
My nerves steadied completely;
My memory was fully restored.
Uy brain seemed clearer than ever,
X felt as good as any man on earth.
Dr. Miles' Restorative Xervine is
A. great medicine, I assure you,"
Augusta. Mo. Walter K. Bursas k.
Dr. Miles Nervine Is sold on a positive
irantee that the first bottle will benellt.
druaclstssellltatgl. 6 bottles forSS. or
It will be sent, prepaid, on receipt of price
by the Dr. Aides Medical Co. Elkhart, lad.
Dr. Miles' Nervine
Restores Health
DEBTS AND MONEY.
The Effect of trree Coinage Upon Gold
Coin Tiebts.
En. Times-Mountaineer:
One of the stock arguments of the
gold standard people is that the free
coinage of silver will make it harder
for men who owe gold notes, and other
debts in gold coin, to pay them. This
is the argument: "Gold will go to a
premium, and therefore the man who
has to pay a debt in that money will
be compelled to pay a premium, and it
will be harder for him to pay the debt
than it is now."
It is a doubtful question whether
gold will go to a premium or not
There are very many reasons for be
lieving that it will not, and most silver
advocates believe that gold bullion
will fall and silyer bullion will rise un
til the commercial value of the two,
come together.
But suppose this should not happen
and that gold should go to a premium
of 15 to 20 per cent or to any desig-
nated premium stiil it is not true, that
under such conditions - it will be
harder for the debtor to pay a gold
debt. On the contrary, it will -be
much more easy.
If gold goes to a premium at all, it
will be over silver only. It will not go
to a premium over its present value as
measured by property. No gold stand
ard man who has been heard from, is
extreme enough to contend that the
buying value of-gold will be increased
by free coinage.
As a matter of fact, gold will be
much cheaper, measured ' in property,
than it now is, oven if it should be at a
premium over silver. This is in accord
ance with the well understood law of
supply and demand. The great demand
for gold is now what makes it so high,
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been taken out of competition with it
as a primary money metal. Since the
principal use oi coined money now-a-
days is for primary money that is,
as a reserve for llie redemption of paper
and other token money when you des-
troy the use of silver for this primary
redemption purpose, it takes it out of
competition with gold for that purpose,
and the result is, that the whole bur
den of supporting the token money of
the world government bills, bank
paper, checks, etc. falls upon the
limited supply of gold, and the demand
for it is thereby tremendously In
creased. It has become bard to get,
It takes a good deal of property to get
it, and when you say that it takes a
good deal of property to get a dollar,
that is only another way of saying that
prices have fallen.
To the man who owes a gold debt,
it does not make any difference how
much silver it takes to buy a gold dollar,
because few, if any, of us have ' silver
to buy gold with.
The question is not how much silver
it will take to buy a gold dollar but
how much of my property will it take to
buy one, or how much of my property
will it take to buy enough gold dollars to
pay my debt ; because it is my property
that I have to sell to buy tne gold with,
to pay my gold debt.
This is the keynote of the silver
men's position. Wlien you decrease the
demand for gold, you decrease its purclias
ing value. That is, the value of prop
erty measured in gold rises, and it does
not take so much property to buy a
dollar or a hundred dollars in gold as
it did before.
Very respectfully, -
- Silver.
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sores, tetter, chapped Hands, chil
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and positively cures piies, or no pay
required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or monev refunded.
Price 25 cents ver box. For sale by
Blakeley & Houghton.
COUNTI COUttT.
Proceedings of the September 1896. Term
of Court for Wasco County.
C. P. Balch et al, petition for county
road, granted. .
C. A. Cramer et al, petition for
change in county road, denied.
W. iiolton et al, petition for incor
poration of town of Antelope, granted;
boundaries of corporation established
in accordance with prayer of petition,
and Oct. 19 set as the day on which
the election of town officers shall be
held. T. J. Harper, P. A. Kirch-
heimer and W. Bolton appointed
judges of said election; E. M. Miller
and E. M. Shutt clerks.
D. S. . McCoy, petition for liquor
license, granted.
A. W. Calvin, petition for liquor
license, granted.
E. C. Rogers et al, petition for county
road, granted. C. J. Hayes, J. Hemiebs
and V. Winchell appointed yiewers.
and J. B. Goit surveyor.
J. T. Reynolds awarded contract for
furnishing pine and fir wood for court
house at $2 per cord and J. T. Peters &
Co. awarded contract for furnishing
oak wood at $3.75 per cord.
Kocher & Freeman were awarded
contract for building cement walk
around county court house for $375,
the walk to be constructed under the
supervision of the county judge.
balary of stock inspector fixed at
$150 per year. -
Serves on Edge.
I was
nervous, tired, irritable
and
has
cross. Karl's Clover Root
Tea
made me well and happy.
MRS. tj. U. WORDEN,
For sale by M. Z. Donnell.
Another Teacher Added.
The public schools of this city have
been in session during the past week,
and the attendance of pupils has been
so largely in 'excess of the enrollment
of last year as to tax to the utmost the
seating capacity of the . school rooms,
as well as the efforts of all concerned
to prevent overcrowding. With the
best arrangement possible to make, it
has been found necessary by the board
of directors to employ another teacher
to relieve the pressure, and at a special
meeting of the board held last Satur
day, Mrs. Ella D. Baldwin was engaged
as an additional teacher at the Acade
my Park building for the present
term, or for such time as the number
in attendance may require her services.
DeWitt's Sarsapanlla is prepared for
cleansing the blood from impurities and
disease. It does this and more. I
builds up and strengthens constitutions
impaired by disease. It recomends itself.
Snipes & Kinersly Drug Co.
Oregon industrial Exposition.
Saturday nigrht next, the Oregpn In
dustrial Exposition opens at Portland.
Arrangements have been made for
cheap railroad fares to and from the
city during the entire exposition.
There are also being arranged special
excursions at much cheaper rate to
run into the city at the times of the I
greatest . special attractions. The
management has provided an attrac-
tion for every day of the fair. Some
of these are extremely novel and highly
entertaining. There will be a grand
merchants' carnival; also a flower
carnival of children; there will be a
minstrel show iu which the performers
will be all well knowu Portland ladies:
there will bo a complete Chinese
theater; there will be special nights
devoted to the Odd Fellows, the Elks,
the Woodmen, the tWinen, the Work
men, and the Forresters. On these
occasions, excursions wiu De run irom
all points in the Northwest, bringing
the members of these orders and their
friends, for a grand celebration in
Portland. There will be a grand
choral night, at which there will be
chorus and solo singing, and there will
be a wedding night, when two couples
will be united amid great ceremony
and music and flowers. The exhibits
will be more numerous and finer than
ever before. The attendance from out
side the city promises to be the largest
in the history of expositions in Port
land.
If you have ever seen a little child in
the acony of summer complaint you can
realize the dancer of the trouble and ap
preciate the value of instantaneous relief
i rr i ,.i u.. 1 1.. lX7;-'c I tr
always auurucu uy ac ili. o
Cholera Cure. - For dysentary and
diarrhoea it is a reliable remedy. We
could not afford to recomend this as
cure unless it were a cure. Snipes &
Kinersly Drug Co.
AROUND BRIAN'S STANDARD.
Renresentatlvea of All Parties Join In
Organizing A Club.
Pursuant to a call published in this
paper, there was a meeting held at the
courthouse in The Dalles last Satur
day evening for the purpose of orga
nizinsr a Wm. J. Bryan club. A call
bad been circulated for the organiza
tion of such a club, and had been
signed by 210 residents of Dalles pre
clncts, and when J. B. Crossen called
the meeting to order, some 75 or 80
persons were present. The assemblage
was composed of republicans, populists
and democrats, former political affil
iation cutting no figure in the per
sonnel of those who banded together
to pledge their support to the great,
young commoner, William J. Bryan.
The club was permanently organized
by the election of Judge J. L. Story as
president; B. H. Thurston and J. B.
Crossen as vice-presidents; Frank Hill
and J. A. Douthit secretaries and R.
F. Gibons treasurer.
On motion A. S. Bennet, A. L.
Ree9e and B. H. Thurston were ap
pointed a committee on by-laws, and
E. B. Dufur, R. F. Gibons and T. S
Ward a committee to secure hall.
After the business of organization
had been disposed of, A. J . Brigham,
of Dufur, was called. upon, and enter
talned the audience with a half hour
speech. As an introduction to his re
marks, Mr. Brigham said he had been
a life-long republican, had never voted
for the nominee of any other party for
a political office, but if he lived until
the 3d day of next November he would
cast his vote for William J. Bryan,
the candidate, not of the democrats,
the populists or the silver party, but of
the great- masses of the American
people. Mr. Brigham declared that
the issues for which his party had de
clared in the past were all secondary
to the money question, and since his
party had declared for a monetary
system which he believed to be detri
mental to the best interests of the
masses, he was forced to break away
from old party ties, and go with the
party that was nearest in touch with
the common people. Mr. Brigham's
remarks struck a responsive chord
amouar his hearers, and bis address
was heartily applauded.
Judge A. S. Bennett was the next
speaker, and his argument tended to
show the dangers to the masses from
remaining on a gold basis, and the
benefits to bo derived from the free
coinage of silver. Hon. E. B. Dufur
followed with an enthusiastic appeal to
the masses to take a stand for their
rights, and announced that at some
future time he would more fully dis
cuss the money question. The last
speaker was Seth Morgan, who de
clared the populists of Wasco -county
were a unit for Bryan, and that their
allegiance was cemented to the demo
cratic -nominee since the gold demo
crats had read themselves out of the
party. '
After the meeting adjourned, .12
more names were added to the roll of
membership, making a grand total of
222 members with which the Bryan
Club of The Dalles was organized.
The secretaries were instructed to
invite prominent speakers to address
the club -at different times between
now and the November election, and
arrangements will be made to hold
weekly meetings at which noted
orators both of this and other states
will be present.
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Our Forefather's Dollar Was Hoth Sound
and Cheap.
The Dalles, Or., Sept. 14, 189G.
Editor Tuies-Mouktajneek:
When I handed in my letter of the
10th inst., asking some good gold man
to explain to me certain conflicting
campaign statements of theirs, I had
not seen the telegraphic account of
Hon. Thomas B. Reed's Brunswick
speech (in Oregonian of Sept. 10th) in
which he makes this frank admission,
" We make the same mistakeourse.ves
when we say the silyer mineowner is
going to get a 100-cet dollar and the
laboring man will get a 53-cent
dollar," else I should not have
tempted home talent to " rush in
where angels fear to tread." Mr.
Gourlay's heroic effort, however,
arouses my local pride, and I felt sorry
that even he had to admit that it could
only be done "in part" and ''within
certain limitations," for that reminded
me of the small boy who tried to work
the nickel-in-the-slot machine by tie
ing a string to his nickel.
Having answered me to bis own sat
isfaction, however, Mr. Gourlay asks
mo a question, which, pruned of
slighting references to Mr. Bryan, is
this: "How would you silver folks fur
nish cheap money to pay debts and at
the same time raise silver to $1.29 an
ounce?"
If Mr. Gouriay will excuse a brief
personal explaration, necessary to ex
plain possible shortcomings, I will do
my best.
I am, or rather was until very re
cently, a Cleveland democrat; was
proud of what I considered our presi
dent's patriotism and backbone in
maintaining the gold reserve at all
hazards. I read the Oregon ian al
ways, accepting its dictums faithfully,
and I believed that life was too short
to fathom the silver question. It took
a rude shock to arouse me. The St.
Louis convention furnished thatshock
You will remember that it denounced
the Cleveland administration as cor
rupt and incompetent, and yet, almost
in the same breath, declared for a gold
standard, with the admission that
bimetalism would be bitter, other
nations consenting. It kicked Mr.
Teller and his silver cohorts out yet
opened the door wide for Mr. McKin
ley, whom I had been taught was also
a silver man of a mild type.
Now these seeming inconsistencies
followed up by such self-contradistory
arguments as the ones I asked about in
my former letter, and also by other
such able ' arguments " as '" traitor,"
" anarchist " and the like, applied to
men who differed with them only as
they differed among themselves, led
me to think there was something radi
cally wrong with a cause that required
the use of such methods of offense and
defonse, so I began to study the ques
tion for myself and about the first
definite conclusion I arrived at may
possibly serve as an answer to Mr,
Gourlay's question. Our early nation
al history and coinage law furnished
it. It was this: "That the old
fashioned dollar, the dollar dollar,
sometimes called the ' dollar of our
daddies,' wr.s of silver, and was and
would be again 47 cents better than
the 53-cent dollar you harp on, and at
the same time something like 90 cents
cheaper than the inflated Rothschild-
Morgan dollar of the syndicates."
You will admit that this would answer
the question could I prove it, so I will
try.
More than 100 years ago our fore
fathers had trouble with the same
people over the water who then, as
now, sought to dominate our domestic
and financial affairs; they objected
strenuously and successfully, and have
been called patriots since, but the
thought that tb?y had been dubbed
' rebels and traitors " no doubt still
rankled a little yet. On April 2, 1792,
when by law (see U. S. statutes) they
established a national standard of
monetary value. This Is the law:
" Dollars or units, each to contain
371 4-16 grains of pure, or 416 grains of
standard silver." Thus were estab
lished the measure of values, the yard"
stick as it were, to which other kinds
of our national money must conform,
and thus the silver dollar remained our
standard until 1873. Despite the- fact
that very slight difference in the com
paritive values of gold and silver were
equalized, the one up the other down,
in 1834 and 1837, and in each case it
was the gold coin that was altered to
conform. For this whole period, 81
years, gold and silver varied in value
only about 6 or 7 cents, despite the
fact that England during the same
period 1816 demonetized silver.
In 1873, while our people were still
using war money greenbacks and
shin-plasters and their attention was
not so directly centered on coin of any
kind, a new coinage act was passed,
abrogating that of 1792. In it the unit
of value was fixed in these words (see
U. S. statutes): "That the gold coins
of the United States shall be a one
dollar piece which at the standard
weight of 25 8-10 grains shall be the
unit of value." Much has been said
pro and con of this change in the unit
of value, our national yardstick, but
the fact remains that the old measure
was discarded and a new one made.
Another fact is, that since that time, a
period of 23 years, the gap between
silver and gold has widened constant
ly, now amounting to some 47 cents on
each dollar.
But to return, Germany demonetized
silver four months after we did in 1873,
the Latin union France, Belgium,
Italy, Switzerland and Greece in the
January following, and recently India
followed suit. In each case new basic
money (gold) was required to maintain
its credit money in place of its fo-mer
basic money (silver) now become bul
lion merely, and this gold, the obliging
dealers in that community stood ready
to supply, at a profit, (we had a similar
experience again recently when- our
gold reserve was low) thus was an ex
traordinary demand created; the sup
ply being limited and controlled by the
few, the usual result followed for a
homely illustration thereof compare
the bicycle and horse demand, silver
being the horse.
Without following the successive
jumps in the price of gold, suffice It to
say that the English sovereigh, worth
in 1873 about $4.84 of our money, now
commands about $9 in silver bullion at
53 cents to the dollar in value (our
silver maintained at home, at par value,
with gold, as subsidiary or chanere
money only, tends to confuse these
calculations. "That lying, sacraligious
stamp" Mr. Gourley speaks of, getting-
its work in to a limited extent, but the
gold sovereign and American five dol
lar piece are nearly the same in size
and weight, so I use it in illustration.)
Thus the increasing value of gold has
kept pace with the abnormal demand,
and silver has correspondingly suf
fered, but it is, at least a strange coin
cidence, that while it takes about twice
as much silver to buy a gold dollar, it
l
takes about twice as much labor and
the products of labor now to do the
same thing.
Hence it seems to me that a re
turn to that standard silver dollar
which for 81 years served this people
well, would trive us at the same
time an honest 100-cent dollar, and a
much cheaper dollar to pay debts with,
than that held for speculation by the
gold syndicates, and then should the
other countries follow our lead like
sheep, as you will admit they once did,
as the law of supply ancUdemand still
applies, silyer will be in the greater de
mand; and instead of our nation going
to syndicates on bended knees for gold,
these gentlemen will be standing at
the doors of their shops barking their
wares in regulation bowery style, and
admitting that their wares are good,
wo will step in and supply ourselves
at the old price, 23 22-100 grains for a
standard silver dollar or at 1G to 1.
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RUN OVER AND KILLED.
Hank Graham Met With A Fatal Acci
dent at Grants.
A distressing accident occurred at
Grants Monday, resulting in i,he
instant death of J. H. Graham, a
brakeman on No. 23, in the employ of
the O. R. & N. Co. When the west
bound train reached Grants at about
9 A. M., with Mike Rice as conductor and
Charlie Johnston driving the engine,
a stop was made to take a car from the
switch. Graham cut the engine loose
from the train, opened the switch and
stepped onto the pilot in front. The
next seen of him he was lying on
the track, the engine having passed
over him cutting his body in two and
mangling his head fearfully. He was
brought to The Dalles, where an in
quest was held over the remains by
Coroner Butts. Mr. Graham had been
in the employ of the O. R & N. for a
number of years, and was a sober, in
dustrious man, commanding the re
spect of all. He was a brother of Mas
ter Mechanic Graham, of the Albina
shops.
Following is the verdict of the coro
ner's jury:
We, the undersigned jury empan
nelled by W. H. Butts, Coroner of
Wasco county, Oregon, to inquire into
the cause of the death of the body now
before us find as follows:
That the name of said deceased is J.
EL Graham, of the age of about 35
years, and from the evidence produced
at this inquest we believe that said de
ceased was a mm of family; that he
came to his death on the morning of
the 14th of September, 1806, at about
the hour of 9:05 a. m. at or near Grants
star i; that at the time of his death
he w is employed as brakeman on train
No. 23, belonging to the O. R. & N.
Co. and bound west, and was discharg
ing his duties as su.h brakeman at the
time of his death; that the cause of his
death as near as we are able to ascer
tain from the evidence of the witnesses
sworn at this inquest was from slipping
off of the pilot of the locomotive and
being run over thereby, producing the
death of said deceased, and we further
find that raid deceased came to ' his
death through an unavoidable accident
and that no blame attaches to any one.
J. B. Crossen,
Jacobsen,
- L.
J.
S. DAVIS,
. McAkthch,
L. Phillips,
C.
D.
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The Dalles, Sept. 13th, 1S96.
Editor Times-Mountaineer:
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The enrollment in the public schools
of The Dalles for the first week of the
present term shows an increase of 73
over the enrollment during the first
week of last year, and if this increase
continues as it did a year ago it is ex
pected the total enrollment will reach
762 during1 the year. The highest
number reached last year was 689, an
increase of 167 over the attendance
during the first week. A comparative
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term for the past three years is as fol
lows:
High
Total
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. 522
. 595
Gala Sch
First week Sept, '91
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C7 61
73 78
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