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THE TENDERFOOT MINERS.
It is no picnic ta go to Klondike on
ft prospecting expedition. In fact it in
the very opposite, and is fraught with
more trialb and hardships than the
average tenderfool imagines. The
San Francisco Chronicle in a loading
. editorial gives a pretty correct idea of
what the gold hunter must endure. It
V
says: . '
, "To obtain a chance on the Klondike,
a man, who very Jikely never saw a
. goia neia ln.nis me starts ior Lrawson
City now. Arriving at Dyea he faces
a savage mountain trail, upon which
-snow has already. begun -to fall.' He
-has a .ton of provisions and utensils.
' The Indian guides refuse to pack it
even over Chilcoot pass for less than
28 cents a pound, a sum which prac-
tlcally doubles its cost
"He starts on foot through drifts.
If the snow is soft he wades through
it; if hard he is expected to adapt him'
self to snowshoes. If any rivers are
open he must build a raft or boat to
navigate them, taking the chance of
, losing his stores in the rapids. What
does he' know about building rafts or
"boats'? As freezing weather has begu n
the chances are, however, that he will
have to walk. Fifteen miles a day
- through snowdrifts is excellent time,
and the space to be traversed is from
750 to 1000 miles. Accounts differ as
. ' to the distance.
"Our tenderfoot, after incredible
; hardships, crosses the Chilcoot and
- braves the long trail. There are no
inns for him to rest In. At nifcht the
guides get a sheltered place behind a
rock or in a ravine, and if they can,
, build a fire. This bonfire process is
not easy in the Arctic, which is one
, - reason why seasoned explorers cook
.with alcohol and Esquimaux with
whale oil. ' .
' "But we will presume that the tender.
- -foot gets through to the Canadian line.
He is stopped by the customs officials
and taxed from 25 to 60 per cent on
.' everything he brings into the country.
His beans and bacon, costing market
rates' at San Francisco, haye paid
' ocean freight to Dyea and Indian
. freight over the divide; and now are
made to yield revenue to the Canadian
: Government.
"The tenderfoot finds himself in a
log city. He can live atsa. tavern for
, $12 per day or build himself a log
house. As he never drove a nail In
his life he has to hire carpenter at $15
a day.- Finally, with pockets depleted
be moves in.
"When the innocent gold-hunter
looks about him he finds that the only
way to get a claim onvihe Klondike is
to buy it and the cheapest one costs
$50,000. He may have 8500 leftjper-
, haps but $100; possibly . less. The
plentiful gold he bad' been bearing
. about, if above ground at all, is packed
' away- with an armed man guarding it.
' If he wants any nuggets be must find
them for himself. Where? The oM
-'settler points vaguely to the frozen
hills and says: 'Go along and find a
creek. Everything is taken up for
fifty miles around, but you may get
something farther away. 'What shall
' you do when you find it? First pay the
- Government location tax. Then just
. move a hundred tons of ice to one side.
Below that you will . find twenty feet
' of frozen mud. Merely that, it . and
. toss it out. Near bedrock you will see
. gravel. Perhaps there is gold in it
. and perhaps not. That's a chance you
take. Just pile the gravel up and in
the spring you can wash it out. You
can't do so before because all the water
will be ice. ' What if there is no gold
in it, or not enough to pay? Oh, then
you won'tte any worse off than hun'
dreds of others. .You can hire mt to
-, other people if the alien labor law will
et youand work-around until another
freeze comes. What's that? You say
- your provisions won't outlast another
winter? Why, man, why didn't you
- bring" more, then? Did you take this
for a picnic?'
- "These are the frozen facts about win
ter gold-hunting in the Northwest Ter
ritory. : If they are not sufficiently
frozen, they will be. along with the
. tenderfoot who disregards them, when
. the mercury at Klondike gets well on
the downward path to 60 degrees
Fahrenheit." . ' ;
AFTER THE BACHELORS.
Charlotte Smith, president of the
- Woman's Rescue League, has a scheme
' which she asserts, if carried in to effect,
will at once solve the labor question
by diminishing the supply of wage
. earners and thus increase wages. Her
scheme is to compel all marriageable
bachelors to wed. She met with the
..- Central Labor Union of New York the
other day, and asserted that there was
an intimate connection between her
scheme and the' labor question, in te
- much as women were forced Tn to be-'
- coming competitors in the labor mai
kets because 60 per cent of the men re
fused to marry. If these were com-
pelled to wed an army of women who
. are now earning - their own living
-. would become housewives and would
fteaso
teas to be in the way of men seeking
rrnent, and wages would at once
logical, but she
oethods of warfare
i-hearted
tell U3 bow
BUS
4
ori
sex
market lhfo fall,
causo farmers or
lose their heads,
a bushel may . be
but it should cot
business men to
While one dollar
realized this year, it may not be next
year, and It bebovpis all to be conserva
tive in this temporary prosperity. The
boom for farmers that is just, now stir
ring very branch of trade cannot, in
tha course of natural events, last for
an indefinite period; in fact, at best it
cannot be expected to last more than
another year at the farthersst.
The real causef the rise in wheat is
the shortage in the cropof other wheat-
producing countries at a time when
we are biessed with abundant crops.
There is no assurance that these con'
ditions will exist another year, how
ever it will require ail of this season's
crop to meet immediate . demands
leaving no surplus to draw from, there
fore fair prices may be expected next
year, though should there be a good
crop harvested throughout the world
wheat will not go to any wheal' near a
dollar.
When Russia, Australia and Argen
tina have a surplus, of wheat they can
undersell the American farmer, be
cause their fields are either nearer the
base of demand or they have better
transportation facilities, consequently
they becoma formidable competitors
in the markets of the world. These
facts' should not be overlooked by
American farmers. This boom in
wheat should not cause them to loose
their heads and imagine that pros
perity will last forever. It is well
that they make hay while the sun
shines, for this is indeed sunny times
for them, but they must not conclude
that it will continue for ever. On the
other hand, they should profit by past
experience, when wheat was worm but
23 cents a bushel, and practice the
same conservativeness that they have
during their adversity. First of all, pay
off such obligations as they now owe,
and incur no new debts on the suppo
sition that there will be an abundant
crop to be sold at a dollar a ftushei
next year.
FUN WITH THE TAXEATERS.
Governor Lord is amusing himself
these hot days indulging in a slight
pleasantry with the members of the
boards and commissions that 'are
systematically consuming the funds in
the state treasury. He has appointed
Col. A. L Wagner for the office of rail
road commissioner, to succeed Gen. H.
B. Compson, and Hon. W. W. Baker
is named as state dairy and food com
missioner to take the place of Honi, H.
B. Luce. . i
The governor has refused to recog
nize the bonds of the bold-over com
missioners on the grounds that when
the legislature failed to organize, these
offices became extinct and that the
present Incumbents are not legally
Constituted officers. Nevertheless the
commissioners have gone right ahead
pretending to perform their duties and
presenting their claims for salaries
every three month?.
By appointing Wagner and Baker,
the governor hopes to get the matter
before the courts, and to get an opinion
from the highest tribunal in the state
as to who Bhall .have authority to in
spect our railroads, butter and meats.
Of course Compson and Luce will con
test the action of the governor. They
will not be thus summarily dismissed
from fat jobs without making a vigor
ous protest. In the mean, time, Gov
ernor Lord, having, stirred up a lior
net's nest among jthe taxeaters :san
sit back in his office and have all the
enjoyment possible out of their sorrow,
Now if he is sustained by the courts, if
he. will just proceed to remove all the
boards and commissions that are feed'
ing at the public trough,- he will merit
the praise of all who help pay their
salaries. " "
HERMANN AND THE RESERVES
It was indeed fortunato for the stock
raisers, of Eastern Oregon that Hon.
Binger Hermann was made commis
sioner of the general land office.
While it is true that certain conces
sions have been granted stockmen
allowing then to range stock on the
different forest- reserves at present,
with one less acquainted with the
oatnre of things on the Pacific coast
than is Mr. Hermann at the head of
the land department, that order was
in danger of being revolked at any
time and an order made closing the
reserves to the pasturage of stock.
But with Mr. ' Hermann as commis
sioner no fears be entertained of such
action.
With his practical knowledge of the
requirements of the people of the
Pacific coast states and of the growth
of forests, which is not retarded by the
ranging of domestic animals o'n the
timber. belts,' Mr. Hermann will never
favor a ruling that will exclude sheep,
norses or cattle from the reserves. He
is at present making a personal in
vestigation of the effect of pasturage
on the different timber belts, and it is
highly probablo that when he returns
to Washington he will favor; more
liberal rulings with regard to the
timber reserves', so that stockmen need
have no fears of being placed at any
inconvenience with reference therto.
Mr. Hermann is thoroughly conversant
with. every detail connected with land
matters in the West, and his appoint
ment wjs the putting of the right man
in the right place. .. --
A GRE IT COUNTRY.
Japan, with forty millions of people,
has scarcely more cultivated land than
Oregon, say9 the Welcome. France,
also with forty millions, has not a
great deal more. Holland swarms
with people whoso thrift, is famous the
world over. The 'Pacific Northwest
possesses as many natural advantages
as any of these countries, and is
capablo of supporting an hundred-fold
greater population than it now con
tains. Considering, the bountiful re
sources and wonderful advantages with
which this region has been favored by
ature, it is strange that its population
sn small. The - increase will be
and future generations will see
ounbry as densely peopled as
It is a splendid out-
pact that tho eyes of the
unconsciously out
ous region. The
the next half a
ulation. Sue-
magnificent
happy
les on
assured fact in this
JOOK
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THE SCRAMBLE FOR GOLD,
As silver goes dewn in price, many
cf the nations that have heretofore
been on a -silver basis have shaped
themselves to adopt the gold standard,
and ere another year rolls round it i9
doubtful if there will be a silver stand
ard country la the world. Japan rec
ently adopted tho goid standard and
the Salvador congress has just parsed
a bill putting that country on the gold
basis. Russia, Mexico and the South
American republics will soon be forced
to the same standard. When all these
nations shall have gold as their stand'
are of money, there will be such
scramble for the yellow metal, as was
never before known. And what the
final outcome will be, time alone can
tell.
When all the nations shall bare gone
to the gold standard the demand for
the yellow metal will be so great that
with the present supply the only po3'
sible result will be a sharp advance in
its price, unless there shall be an in
crease in the supply commensurate
with the demand. Whether this will
be accomplished remains to be seen.
However nature, in her efforts to es'
tablish an equilibrium ,to overcome the
mistakes of financial legislation by un
locking the long sealed doors of her
storehouses of gold, that civilization
may not perish through the averice of
man, may solve the problem aright. .
Should the recently discovered gold
fields of Alaska prove capable of sup
plying $100,000,000 of gold annually
there would be no immediate serious
results from the world going to a gold
basis. But without such an increase
in the supply,' gold cannot but become
so scarce as to make it an unsafe basis
for money. The scramble for the only
recognized money metal will be so
great- that it cannot be satisfied except
to the detriment of the majority of
people. When Russia, Mexico and all
South American republics shall enter
the field as consumers of gold, with
out a great increase in the 'supply,
there cannot but be a marked increase
in the price to such an extent that
those requiring money to meet obliga
tions made payable in coin will find it
most difficult to secure.
Nature's libei ality may be sufficient
to meet the demand through opening
up new store-bouses from the bowels
of the earth, but unless it is bad results
must come from this rush for the yel
low metal. Unless it is, it will force
upon human intelligence the neces
sity of using as twin factors the two
great money metals of the world. This
scramble for gold may ye' result in
forcing the resurrection of silver after
the world has found that its stock of
gold is insufficient to meet the demands
for a basic money metal.
THE FARMERS' JJANANZA.
While we are looking to tho Alaska
gold fields for an increase of money
metal, we must take off our hats to the
farmers and acknowledge that to them
we owe the temporary prosperity .- that
will be enjoyed throughout the the
United States in 1897. . The wealth
their efforts will produce 'far exceed
anything that may be expected from
all the mines of the entire continent.
The agricultural bureau's returns
of increased value , on eight leading
sources of agricultural production
foot up as follows:
Cattle . t 1,000,000
Wheat (5.X),iO
Corn 1 85,00,000
Potatoes 7i,C0O.iOO
Cotton 24,000,000
Sheep . 18.000,000
Swine 1S.O0O.00O
Wool 15,'I00,000
lotal .............';.. ...S4lO,0CO,0CS
To this largo sum must be added an
estimate of fully $100,000,000 for the
increased profits that will be realized
on other products of the farm fruit,
oats, barley, rye.hops, etj., so that the
increased wealth from the farms this
year wilt be in excess of $500,000,000.
' This means not only a ban an za for
the farmers, but for those engaged in -everyHther
line of industry. The rail
roads will realize increased profits
for handling the immense crops, mer
chants will find sales more brisk' than
in the past, and manufacturers will
meet with increased demand for their
products. In fact everybody will be
made prosperous through the bananza
struck by the farmers.
THE REAL CAUSE.
"The cauee of the present boom in
the We3t," says President McKinley,
"is undoubtedly due in a great meas
ure to tne large crops and high prices
caused by the failure of crops in other
countries. But the fact that prosper
ity has set in in the East cannot be ac
counted for in any other" way than by
the wise policy of the republican party
in restoring a protective tariff."
There is one otter way in which tho
return of prosperity to the East can be
accounted for, sajs the Telegram, and
it beats the McKinley theory all hol
low. .
It is an incontrovertible fact, that
any upward movement in the value of
farm products is accompanied by sim
ilar tendencies in other branches of
enterprise. The present wheat boom
is responsible for the general improve
ment of business throughout the coun
try, and the wheat boom was not cre
ated by the republican party or by any
act of congress, but by big crops in
this country and small crops abroad.
The Wilson-Gorman tariff law bad as
much or as little to do with causing
our whoat surplus and the foreign
wheat shortage as had the Dingley
law.
The mannfacturlng and wholesaling
interests of the East owe their return
ing prosperity to the improved condi
tions in the West and South, caused
by the boom in breadstuffs and cotton.
The movement of agricultural pro
ducts from the West and South to the
Atlantic seaboard will be followed by a
correspondingly large transfer of mer
chandise from the East to those sec
tions.' It is in an lici nation of this de-
mand for their goods that the manu
facturers and tho wholesalers are feel
ing the symptoms and exhibiting the
Bigns of renewed prosperity. For four
years they have been . fn depression.
Their stocks have been reduced to the
lowest point. Business has been
forced down to' bedrock, book accounts
have been curtailed, expenses have
been minimized and everything done
to conform mercantile interests to the
depressed conditions of agriculture.
This conservative policy of retrench
ment and economy has brought ' the
manufacturers and wholesalers through
the hard times in a solvent and desir
able condition.- and with the return of
agricultural prosperity they are pre
pared to entrr the markets on a solid
footing. When the. crops are har
vested their golden harvest will come.
The country retail stores are bare of
oods. There never was so manv
nts to supply as there are today, and
jnately the farmers will soon have
money to meet their my raid
n they, have had in a long
N
Vntb of It.
Politics apd J
politicians are entitled to no credit for
the work that nature has done to heln
the American farmer and through him
the American manufacturer and mer
chant and artisan and laborer in
brief, all the American people. The
increased prices of grain mean a raised
scale of valu9 and an increase of pro
fitable activity in all other Industrie.
With tho business of the country rest
ing upon a bats of agricultural pros
perity there is abundant reason to
hope for a long period of good times
for the whole nation despite the
Dingley tarilf.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
It is said that whisky wlls readily at
S3 a pint in Dawson City. Had this
fact been made known a few months
earlier, there would have been a grand
rush of dealers in spicit.s to the North
ern gold fields.
The attorney-general will soon give
an opinion as to whether or not a
county school superintendent has the
right to'charge a fee of $3 a day for
each day devoted to quarterly exami
nation in addition to his salary.
Since the Dingley law went into ef
fect there has been a daily deficit of
about $600,000, which proves the new
law no hotter revenue measure than
its predecessor. Instead of being a
revenue producer it seems to be a rev
enue destroyer.
Why should Black, Murphy and
Goody be removed from office? They
rendered as much assistance in elect
ing MclCinley as did any one of the
regular republican aspirants for their
positions, and ought to be entitled to
the spoils. Such McKinley democrats
as they are entitled to recognition.
When will that report of Superin
tendent Irwin as to the fees he has re
ceived for state certificates and dip
lomas be forthcoming? Probably the
diploma business has been so well
"farmed" that Mr. Irwin fears having
the report made public.
Bruiser Sullivan declares he will
run for mayo; of Boston in order to de
feat Mayor Quincey because the latter
refused to shake hands with him on a
public occasion. This ought to be all
that is necessary to give Quincey the
unanimous vote of the city of "baked
beans."
Taxed hides will mean higher shoes
and worse snoes. It will mean the
ruin of our export trade. Nobody will
profit but the Armours and their beef
trust. But so long as they furnish the
campaign fund that controls politics
they can have what they want at
Washington by asking for it.
-President McKinley has concluded
be has more important duties to per
form than taking part in the Ohio
campaign, therefore he will let Hanna
work out his own salvation. This is
as it should be. The president of the
United States should be above dabbling
in local politics.
The assassination of Idearte Borda,
president of the republic of Uruguay,
coming so noon after the murder of
Premier Canovas of Spain, is evidence
of an anarchist spirit existing that is
dangerous to powers. However if the
Uruguan government will deal as
speedily with the assassin of Borda as
did the Spanish government with the
murderer of Canovas it will have good
effect in preventing repetition of such
events.
High priced farm produce will make
dollars cheap in this country. These
dollars will stay in circulation longer
than do the dear dollars. When the
dollar is dear it is boarded, but when
it is cheap it stays in circulation where
it naturally belongs, hence dollars that
are dear are of no benefit to anyone
except the owner, while cheap dollars
are kept busy performing their natural
functions.
- The first month of the new fiscal
year under the present administration
6hows a treasury deficit of about $11,
000.000, and for August it will bo nearly
double the amount. The only excuse
for this deficiency is that we are spend
ing entirely too much. Tho receipts
of the government are ample to meet
the demands of economical adminis
tration but will not permit needless
extravagance. .
Governor Lord has wisely deter
mined to not call the legislature to
gether in extra session at present. He
should not convene it at all. Since
the supreme court has decided that the
secretary of state shall audit bills
against the state, there is no need of a
session until 1SU9. There is nothing
now fo'r the legislature to do but elect
a United States senator, and one would
cot be worth what a sesion would cost.
The favor with which the proposition
of issuing a special illustrated edition
of The Times-Mountaineer is received
by the people of The Dalles isdeed
encouraging, and we cannot but feci
grateful for the many encouraging re
marks passed upon the enterprise by
the leading business men of tho city
They f ally realize what benefit such
an edition will be to Wasco county,
and also recognize that it cannot be
issued except through the co-operation
of all who are to be benefitted thereby.
The fate that overtook Dau Maloney
in this city should serve as a double
warning to all young men to refrain
from carrying fire arms and from get
ting into unnecessary difficulty. Had
young Prahl not been armed, today ho
would not have the death of a fellow
man to answer for. Had Maloney not
sought to avenge a supposed wrong be
would be living still. Nature ordanes
that all men live peaceably together,
and when' the laws of nature are
violated retribution is sure to fall
upon the offenders.
Senator McBride and Congressmen
Ellis and Tongue have entered upon an
rrduous, if not not althogether foolish
undertaking, in attempting to sit as a
board of inquiry in Portland and de
cide upon the claims of the thousand
or more applicants for federal appoint
ments in Oregon. Many are "called"
to sacrifice themselves on their
country's altar, but only a few will be
chosen, and those who are not will
every one of them feel that he is a
better man than the one who succeeds.
As a result the Oregon delegation
after being half talked to death, will
fall under the displeasure of the hund
reds who will be disappointed.
Hundreds of hungry men gather
nightly, says the New York .World, on
Broadway before a baker's shop to re
ceive the remnants of the previous
day's baking of bread that is given
away to ail comers. Never before have
the crowds that . gather to get the
"crumbs" been so large in summer as
this year. The tariff legislation, which
is to restore prosperity to these hun
gry men, has not as yet had time to
fulfill Its promises. However, within
a few more months, if we can believe
what we hear, there will be work and
wages for everybody. There is a good
time coming in the sweet remotely.
' The coming municipal election in
Greater New York commands wide ,
attention. It will l:o the largest eity j
eliH-tion known in the world, and
when one contemplates tho magnitude
of the patronage involved it is beyond
ordinary conception. Greater New
York comprises five of the most popu
lous counties in the. state, and the
salaries o! the municipal officers to ht
appointed by tha successful mayor and
board of aldermen aggregate 575,000,
000 to say norhing tit tne expenditures
for supplied and improvements that
will be um;cr their supervision. Tho
election in this city fleets more people
and involves more money than did the
first national eWiion held in the
United State.-. .
The Salem Statesman, which Is al
ways out for the 'stuff," evidently has
not been "pen" lately by the officials
around the state house, judging by the
following little rub it gives the gov
ernor and state treasurer. "'In the
old days when Pennoyer was governor
and Uncle George Webb was state
treasurer, a good news item capitol re
porters received semi-annually (in July
and January) was the report of the
state treasurer. But in these days of
good government honestly adminis
tered, in these days of retrenchment,
reform and legislative hold-ups, in tho
days of economy, the state treasurer's
semi-annual report is withheld from
public inspectation. It is understood
there were $0,000,000 in the state treas
ury on July 1, last. Of course theso
figures are not official. The States
man stands ready to correct them at
any time upon official information."
.A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.
D. 8. Tuthlll. Cashier for Allen
Suicides la Portland.
& Lew!,
PoitTT-AND, Or.. Aug. 26. At some
time b tween 10:30 o'clock last night
and 7 o'clock this morning David S.
Tuthill, cashier for Allen & Lewis,
ended his existence by sending a bullet
from a 38-calibra revolver through his
brain. -
Few Inc'dents of this kind happen
ing in Portland have caused such a
seasation and such expressions of pro
found regt-et, as has the suicide of
"Dave" Tuthill. For 19 years he has
been in the employ of the great whole
sale house of Allen & Lewis on Front
street.' For the larger portion of that
period he has acted in the capacity of
cashier for the firm, a position in which
ho was eutrusted with the handling of
hundreds of thousands of dollars of the
firm's money, and year after year, has
gone by without so much as one cent
difference appearing in Tuthill's bal
ances.
Yesterday morning he came to the
Office as cheery as usual. Shortly after
his arrival he was called into the inner
office of the firm. . A consultation of
some length ensued from which Tuthill
emerged plainly affected. Throughout
the day he was nervous and distrait,
his former happy air of bonhommie
having given place to a morose gloom
he preserving an abstracted silence
throughout almost the entire day.
Tuthill left the store at 5.-15 last
evening, but what happened between
that time and 6 this morning can only
be surmised. Certain it is that he
reached home at 9:30 o'clock. He
spoke a few words to his ister, an un
married lady who has long been one of
the Tuthill household, and retired
His family was at Flavel for the sum'
mer.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Tuthill
transferred by deed all his property in
this city to the Security Savings &
Trust Company. This fact has. a ten
dency to confirm the rumors of a short
age in his accounts",' current upon the
streets. The deed ' was ' dated August
25, and was filed in the office of the
eounty tecorder this morning at 9:20
o'clock.
.A Grain Shipping Boom.
Chicago, Aug. 26. Shipments of
grain from Chicago are the heaviest
in the history of the lake trade. The
elevator companies have been in the
market for several days! and have
taken about all tho boats in eight,
Many crafts that up to this time have
been engaged almost entirely in the
iron ore trade arc being diverted to
the grain trade. Clearances at the
custom-house for the 24 hours ending
last night amounted to 1.112,59 bush
els of corn, and in addition there are
nearly half a million bushels of other
grains.
' The enormous crop that is coming
in has forced elevator managers to
make room for the new grain, and the
big call for boats is the result. The
rise in freights has forced the rates on
iron ore to take an upward turn, and
were it not for', the commercial
miners' strike, which makes it impos
sible for boats to get a return cargo,
the rates would be moved up still
higher. - -
- Tho University Clef Club, which
gives oue of their concerts in' the M.
K. church nest Wednesday evening
under the auspices of the Epworth
League, comes highly recommended.
Here is what Harlin J. Cozlne says of
the club: "It gives me pleasure to
say that the University Clef Club is a
thoroughly artistic musical organiza
tion. Their singing is marked bv that
delicate light, and shade, and beauty of
expression, which is the charm of
siugiog. Their voices blend perfectly,
delighting and captivating ail who
hear i.heui. "
" Down Brakes, and Reverse I
When a -train is discovered rushinff on to a
fngbuul col.
lision, it is a
thrilling in
stant as the
engineer
whistles
Down
brakes!"
and reverses
his lever.
Brakes alone
are not
enough ; the
whole pro
pelling' pow
er of the en-
fire must be
made to work
in the oppo
site direc
tion. That is
how it is
sometimes
with disease.
There are
times when
the system is flying- along the track of dis
ease at such a frightful pace that no ordinary
methods will prevent disaster. There are
plenty of rasdirines which act merely as
brakes to '.'slow cp" the disease and put
oS disaster for a little while; but that isn't
enough. What is needed is a medicine that
will instantly reverse the entire wasting,
degenerating process.
When peopte are losing flesh and strength
and vitality, with the life oozing out of thera
day after day, they need Irr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, which acts directly upon
the vital forces, completely transforms the
entire nutritive organism and totally re
verses the wasting, debilitating process
which is at the root of all diseases.
It enables the digestive and blood-making
organs to supply the circulation with an
abundance of pure, healthy, red blood. It
stops the. wasting of tissue, builds np solid
muscular flesh and healthy nerve-force.
Miss Mary Whitman, of East Dickinson,
Franklin Co., N. Y., writes: "For nearly ten
months t have had a bad cough, and instrad of
trettins better, it grew worse, until I wa.dvid
bv a inena to try Dr. nerce s i.oiaen aicuion
msGovei
-rv hMltatrd at firxt. lor u seemea to
not!
hina- would arive relief only death. - Mir
xents.were anxious about me. and I was said
lotion.- I tried your mwranm.
and before I had taken many doses there was a
great change. When the second bottle was em piy
J bad no cough and was a great oeai sireugcr.
.TTffffe
STRIKE WILL GO ON
Nothing Accomplished at the
Pittsburg Conference.
AFTER A NEW ROUTE
Canadian Authorities Send a Squid
of Police Across the Rocky
Mountains Into Klondike.
Nebraska ThrcslieU 43,000,000 RusheM nf
Wheat and W ill Harvest 35U 0O41..100
Bufctiels of Corn Month Iakota'
I
Will be 30,000,000 Bonne .
Pittsburg, Pa , Aug. 24. The linal
effort to arrange a plan for enr!i:tg the
big coal strike has proved a f.iilur,
and the strike goes on. At noon the
conferen6e between the coal miners,
national district officials and t ho opera
tors closed, and the confer ucj ad
journed, without day.
The miners' representatives did not
recede from their original proposition
to settle the strike by arbitration and
start the mines at the 69-cent rate.
Iho operators offered to divide th6 dif
ference between tho 54 and CS)-cent
rates, making the price at which the
miners should start 61 i cents per tou,
but this was rejected. Then addition
al propositions were made. One was
to start the mines without fixing any
price for 20 days, and then to pay the
rate agreed upon by the board of arbi
tration. This was also refused .by the
miners, as they said they had beeu
f mled too often to trust the operators.
They declined to work for a month,
giving the operators the output for
that length of time without knowing
what w&ges should be paid.
A proposition was then made to
operate the mines for ten days without
fixing the price, a board of arbitration
to fix the price for that time. Presi
dent Ratbford insisted that nothing
but the 63-cent rate could possibly be
accepted. The operators were firm
but the miners were equally de
termined. Everv argument of the operators was
met by the miners' loaders. It was,
therefore, decided to end the confer
ence. The European Crop.
Springfield,, Mass., Aug. 25. An
inquiry into European crop conditions
conducted by the Orange-Judd sydicate
of agricultural papers, including the
American Agriculturist, of New York
and the Orange Judd Farmer, of Chi
cago, and the New England Home
stead of Springfield, Muss.,- indicate
that the food crop situation abroad is
very grave.
Estimates- of Europe's (including
England) needs of wheat imports range
all the way from 300,000,000 to 400,
000,000 bushels. Europe's wheat crops
for 1895. 169i and 1803 averaged 1,500,
000,000 bushels. In 1891. the famine
year, it was only 1,200,000. The im
pression is -gaining ground that
Europe's wheat this year is even lem
than in 1891.
But this is not the worst of it. Europe
usually produces as much rye as she
does wheat. It is tho bread grain of
the masses. ' The rye crop of the prin
cipal European countries has aver
aged above 1,300,000,000 annually for
1896, 1895, 1891 and 1893. This season
the rye crop of thaae countries cannot
much exceed 875,000,000 bushels.
Quite as bad is the potato prospect.
Only about 1,850,000,000 bushels of
potatoes will be harvested in these
countries this year. Without regard
to the United Kingdom or other
European countries, there is a shortage
of some million bushels of potatoes.
The European shortago,com pared with
average, is as follows:
Wheat, bushels
Rye, bushels
Potatoes, bushels. . . .
TotaV bushels. . . . .
V 3i,000,000
. 3:15,000,000
.1,000,000,000
.1,025,000,000
MIMES.
WILL. OPKN THE
The Coarse Hi&a Been Folly Decided Cpon
- by the Operator.
Pittsburg, Aug. 25. Representa
tives of all the coal operators io i.be
Pittsburg district met this morning to
devise ways and means for opening the
mines immediately at all hazards.'
After the meeting the operators satd
the entire session had been taken up
with discussions of the following reso
lution, which was adopted:
"Inasmuch as the efforts we have
made to bring the strike to an end
have failed, therefore be it
"Resolved, that we have no course
left open' but to continue the struggle
along the lines that Jmay appear most
productive of the results desired in the
interests of the miners and operators
alike.
"Resolved, that we- discharge all
committees and adjourn sine die."
It is said that the operators will now
prepare to open their mines. Notices
will be posted notifying the strikers
that they can return to work if they
care to. After suulcient time . nas
elapsed and the men do not return, the
operators will engage employes from
other places and start their mines.
OVERLAND TO THE KLONDIKE.
Squad of Canadian Police to Attempt the
Jinrney.
Ottawa, Aug. 24. The minister of
the interior has left for a brief holiday
on the Atlantic coast, but before his
departure he eft a most important
decision. It was to the effect that a
small detachment of mounted police
should at once proceed from Edmon
ton, Alberta, aad endeavor to reach
the Klondike country from the eastern
slope of the Rocky mouutaios.
Edmonton is the most northerly
railroad point in the Canadian North
west territory, being 190 miles north
of Calgary. The route to be followed
is by way of the Nelson and Laird
rivers to toe uease, ana up tnis river
to the Pellv. They will follow the
Pellv river to Its junction with the
Lees and the Lees with the Klondike,
a total of 1370 miles. This is not the
Mackenzie river route.
As the police are to take horses with
them, it Is obivious that the authori
ties consider this route practicable, or,
at any rate, is worth examining.
. SALVADOR ON A GOLD BASIS.
A Bill Anthorlxing the Chance Baa Been
Fassed by Conerm
New Yokk, Aug. 25. A dispatch to
the Herald from Panama says;
The Herald' correspondent in San
Salvador ,says that the country has
been so disturbed by the lump in
silver that she has determined to adopt
a gold standard. Owing to the finan
cial straits in which Salvador found
herself, the depression In commerce
and the apparently hopeless future,
President Guiterrez invouea an ex
! srommmmmmnimmm
Talking
About Sh
Wc have decided to close out our entire line of
LADIES, Ox-Blood and Tax, LACE AND
BUTTON SHOES that sell regular for from
Three to Five Dollars . . . ' . .
At $2.50 Per Pair Until Sold
They will not last long at this price and first
comers have first choice. Displayed in centre
window. .
i?.'SSfcifPh'SE''S
rswi'
ALL OOOD5 MARKED IN
PLAIN FIGURES
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traordinary session of congress to con
sider the monetary crisis. At the
time he seat to congress a message
urging the necessity of a speedy change
in the currency system there wa? some
opposition in congress to a gold stand
ard, and the fight wa3 waged until yes
terday, when the bill passed.
Tha president was also authorized to
negotiate a foreign loan of $2,500,000
Tha new loan will go Into effect with'
in two moath3. After it becomes oper
ative all customs will be payable only
in gold. . .
Will go Overland to Alalia.
CHICAGO, Aug. 25. A party of 13
men and one woman will leave Chicago
this evening for the Alaska gold fields.
The expedition Is co-operative, each
member agreeing to share equally with
the others in the gold that may be
found iu the claims located. The secret
of their exact destination is carefully
guarded.
The party will travel from Chicago
to Edmonton by rail. From there
they will tro by team 50 miles to
Athabaska landing, where they will
build their boats and e-nbark on the
Athabaska river.' ' From that point
they will go by boat through "Atha'
baska river and Mackenzie river to
the confluence of the latter stream
with the Peel river. - The party is in
charge of Harry Card.
tirand Army Men at Buffalo.
Buffalo, Aug. 24."-' Another beauti
ful day greeted 'the veterans of the
Grand Army of the Republic today.
All uight long trains were arriving at
brief intervals, depositing their loads
of veterans and sightseers. This morn
ing thousands were '.'gathered around
tho different stations as early as 6
o'clock and the principal streets were
a jostling crowd of humanity. Th
features of the day will be the arrival
of President McKin this afternoon,
The banquet tendered by Columbia
post, of Chicago, and the parade of
naval veterans and ex-prisoners of war
this evening.'
Crops In the Middle Weat.
Omaha, Aug. 24. The wheat crop
of Nebraska has been threshed. The
quality is excellent and the yield is
unprecedented, aggregating45,000,000.
It is generally estimated Chat the yield
of corn will be 350,000,000 bushels, or
5o bushels to the acre.
; In South Dakota a close estimate
places the wheat yield at 20,000,000
bushels. , The average is 15 bushels to
the aero. In corn the yield will be
200,000,000, an average of 40 bushels to
the acre. There is an abundance of
oats, which averages up to last year's
crop.
The Thrust of a Sword Ush,
San Fkaxcisco, Aug. 24. When
the barkontine Catherine Sudden was
docked for repairs yesterday, it was
discovered that some time during her
last voyage the vessel had been struck
by a sword-fish. The sword had passed
through four inches of planking and
gone five inches farther into a solid
timber. The nine-Inch section was
broken off even with the copper sheath
ing.
' ' Good Tniuic lor OrgauUerg
New Yokk, Aug. 24. One of the
o-rxid thinsrs for the organizers of
trusts Is the new gluclose trust. The
quotations on its shares have reached
such a point that holdings represent
almost double what they cost less than
a month ago. At the present figure an
investment of $10,000 when the .trust
was formed cleared $8,178 for preferred
at 921, and common at 62.
flan of the Labor Leaders.
Kansas City, Aug 25. According
to the plans of the leaders of the great
labor organizations of the country, re
lnri-bv one of their number, the
labor conference to he held in St.
Tmia on the 30th will result in a gen
eral movement for an eight-hour day
and a uniform scale oi wages ior roeu
engaged in the same occupations the
country over.
Three Steamers for Alaskr.
Taooma. Aug. 24. The steamers
Rosalie, Willamette and Topeka will
sail from thls-port to Alaska this week.
Full cargoes of freight and many
horses will be carried, but the passen
ger lists will be light.
Tame Opening at Mew York.
NEW YORK, Aug. 24. Wheat bad a
comparatively tame opening today.
December dropped a cent a bushel on
first sales and then practically re
covered, the loss.'.
Ireland short on Sparta. -
Skibboeekk, Aug. 25. The potata
crop iu North Cork and Llmerlok has
been partly destroyed by blight, and
in those districts it will be the worst
year in the last bait century for potatoes.
oes,
Travel
In Style.
TRAVELING BAGS AND GRITS
A complete lino of Leather and Wicker
Grips, Traveling Bags and Telescopes.
Leather Grips at prices from $1.50 to $7.50
Vicker Grips at prices from 50c to $1.25
Wicker Telescopes, prices from 30c to 75c'
These Goods are Displayed in Our
Furnishing Goods yindow
PEASE
TOOK ANOTHER JUMP
Wheat Passed the Dollar Mark
in Chicago.
BORDA ASSASSINATED
The President oi the Uruguay Re
public Murdered as He Left a
Cathedral in Montevideo.
Business Circles in Portland Startled by
the Suicide of 1. 8. Tuthkll. Cashier
For Allen A Iwl Cause of
the Deed a Mystery.
Chicago, Aug. 20. Wheat shot up
ward today as if a volcano had burst
under the market. September, which
closed last night at 961, started today
on the regular board with sales all the
way from 93ie to el Within five min
utes it was selling at SI 03, amid tre
mendous excitement. Before the up
ward rush closed - the quotation was
$1 031 for Sapteraber. Today was the
first time the bulls had carried ' the
price past the dollar marie in Chicago,
dollar wheat having only just touched
for a moment some days ago.
Besides the action of the French
government In upholding the duty on
cereals, opening Liverpool quotations
showed an advance equal to from 21 to
3 cents a bushel. The shortage in the
potato crop abroad was estimated at
th enormous amount of 1,000,000
bushels, increaing the demand for
American . wheat. x
Later advices from Liverpool timed
1:30 P. M. show a further recession
in prices there, and Chicago followed
suit, September declining almost as
rapidly as it had advanced. The price
20 minutes after the opening was DSlo-
At 10 A. M. another rally carried
September up to .$1,021;
AN ASSASSIN' BULLET.
Death of Freslaent Borda, of the Bepubllo
of Uruguay.
Montevideo, Aug. 26. During the
national fete here yesterday. President
Gorda was shot and killed by an as
sassin. X
The assassin is a youth named Arre-
dondo. President Borda died almost
immediately after he was shot.
Senor Cued tag, president of the sen
ate, has assumed the presidency of the
republic ad interim.
The assassination of President Borda
occurred as be was leaving the cathed
ral, where the "To Deum" had been
sung. The assassin was arrested.
Other attempts had been made re
cently to assassinate Borda. A few
days agp the "president, accompanied
bv his aid. Lleuteaant-Cononel Ter-
rehene, was horseback riding. Just as
he dismounted in front of the govern
ment palace, a youth approached and
drew a pistol. ' Lieutenant-Colonel
Terrehene struck up the arm t-f the
would-be afsa-win and the ' ball passed
over the president's head.
ADDITIONAL HOMESTEAD . n'TKIES
They Can Be Made up to the Maximum of
ISO Acres. :
On August 10 Acting Secretary Ryan
rendered a decision in the case of
Nancy A. Stinson, an applicant for an
additional homestead entry in the
Walia Walla lacd district, that Is of
considerable importance to settlers
who have perfected titles to homesteads
in less quantities than 160 acres. Am.
Stinson bad. made final proof on a
homestead of SO acres, and on June 7,
189 i, had made application for an addi
tional homestead of 80 .acres on land
contagious to the original entry. This
application was -ejected by the com
missioner of the general land office for
the reason that the applicant bad at a
prior date filed a pre-emption on 80
acres which had .later been transmuted
to a homestead, and certificate for the
same had been issued.
The acting secretary reversed tha
decision of the commissioner, stating
thai he erred, and that bis decision
was in conflict with section five of the
act of March 2. 18S9, which provides:
That any homestead settler who has
heretofore entered less than one-
quarter nection of land, may enter
other and additional' land lying con
tagious to the original' entry, which
shall not with the first entered and
occupied . exceed in the aggregate 160
acres, wlthojt proof of residence upon
and 4 cultivation of the additional
entry."
By this decision the homesteader is
privileged to enter upon 40 acres at a
& HAYS 1
time and may continue making ad
ditional entries upon contagious land
until he eh&ll have acquired title
to 160 acres. The decision seems to be
just and will result in benefit to many
settlers who have filed on homesteads 1 n
less quantities than 160 acres.
1 HE lOCBIUMENT 18 OFF.
There Will Be Mo Meetins of the 8tate
firemen's Association This Fall.
Notwithstanding the fact that The .
Dalles has offered every possible In
ducement to bring contesting hose
team to take part in the tournament
that was to have been held, here .on
Sept. 6, 7 and 8, only one team, that
from the barracks at Vancouver, noti- '
fied the executive committee that It
would attend. On this account the
local committee, at a meeting last
night authorized J. S. Fish,' secretary
of the association, to request the ex
ecutive committee to declare the
tournament off.
The local committee regretted being
compelled to take this action, but no
other course was left open. It would
be Dstflesa to attempt to hold a tourna
ment with only one vlsivhig team At
tending to contest for the four prizes,
Including the championship cup.
' The people of The Dalles cannot bat
feel that they have been treated shab
bily by the departments belonging to ,
th association. Dalles firemen have
attended every tournament that has
been held by the State Association,
and has had araoing team at . every
one except that held at Oregon City, to
which they sent a delegation of 60 .
members. On this account, if nothing
elso, they fait that the different de- .
partments should have participated in
the tournament here. ;
An Honest Dollar.
I am on sound and scientific ground,
therefore, when I say that a dollar ap
proaches honesty as its purchasing '
power approaches stability. If I bor
row a thousand dollars today and next
year pay the debt with a thousand dol
lars which will secure exactly as much
of all things desirable as the one
thousand which I borrowed, I have
paid in honest dollars. If the money ',
has increased or decreased in purchas
ing power, I have satisfied my debt
with dishonest dolllars. While the
government au say that a given
weigh t of gold or all ver shall constitute
a dollar, and Invest that dollar with
legal tender qualities, it cannot fix the
purchasing power of the dollar. That
must depend upon the law of supply
and demand, and it may be well to sug- '
gest that this government never tried
to Bx the exchangeable value of a dol
lar until it begaaJtOJlmU-theaiilBDe r
of dollars coined. William Jennings .
Bryan, io Arena.
Letters Advertised.
The following is the list of letters re
maining in The Dalles postoffice un
called for August 28, 1897. Persons
calling for these letters will please
give date on which they were ad- -vertised:
Baker, Mrs Jennie Barton, F J
Brownv J C F
Clifton, Frank R
Connelly, V C
Gale, Chas
Cribble, Elmer
JohanseD. Frank
Lin key, Fred
Moore, N P
Nasker. Geary
toster, Wilbur ;
Gilmore, Alice
Jackson, Cora
Larsen, H.
Merrith, J M -Montgomery,
P
Newton, R J
Powell, Alice (2)
Klchson, Mrs Cbas
Robinson. Ben (5) Sanford, Lutle (2)
St Lawrence, Geo Saldren, Eva J3)
Tay. Frank Trepbagen, W A(2)
Thorn psou, Alfred Walker, C
Walk Id, Mrs Welsh, Mrs E A
Lottie Scott, Lucia Miss
Staller, Peter (3) Smiley, Thos
Wilson, Susan Melg, Bettle
Wilson, J n
J. A . Crossed, P. M
Lost.
Between Frank Taylor's plaoe on
Three-Vile and The Dalles, a black
embroidered wrap. If the fiuder will
leave it at this office, he will be suita
bly rewarded.
Karl's Clover Root Tea, for consti
pation it's the best and after using it
you don't say so, return the package
and getyour money. Sold by Blakeley
St Houghton, The Dalies.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. .
lnd Orrica at Vascouvkr. Wakhiotor,
AUglWt 4, 1W7.
Xotlse is hereby riven that tbe followuie.
nnmeu netUer ban tiled notlue of bis intention
to make BoiU proof in support of bin claim, and
that said proof will be made bufore w. R.
Duuhar, U. S. Commissioner for District of
WasblnKton. at hinonlce In Oolilenuole, Wasb
iiurton. on October 12th, 1W7, vl.:
. WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD,
Homestead Entry No. WOT for the B'J of NE
nnd SS of NW, Sec 7, Tp. 2 N.of R. 14 E.
W. M.
Hj names tbe following witneose tn prove
his contiuuous rusiueuce upon, and cultivaUon
uf mid land. Tit. :
William D. Ullmore. Vernan T. Cooke, Man
uel S. Lemardo ana 1. Krad Lucas, all of
Grand Dulles f. U., Warbttrton.
B. F. SHAW, Beflstor.