JS!' '"'"""'" 2' J -A - I. r: - . . SATURDAY OCTOBER 10. 1S97 ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY -ay A DOyTHIT, Publisher. 8UBSCBIPTION BATES. DAILY Oi eYa ,y mail - an Mouths - re Klobnlhs - WEEKLY- tme Vcar, by mail but mouths .. JO o. 3..K-1.51' Sl.W 7S All Subscription Payable In Advance. i WHAT CAN WE DO? " ' ' Scarcely had the ruins of Byers' mill 1 jr at Pendleton ceased smoking; when - propositions began pouring in upon ' - Mr. Overs offering him substantial in t duoements to put up flouring mills at different places in this state and v asn- - ington. Astoria offered material io- duGBments. and now Tacoma comes forward with an offer of 825,000 bonus to induce Mr. Byers to erect mills in thatcitv. In this Tacoma shows its r enterprise and business-like apprecia tions of manufacturing industries Thatcit.y wants large flouring mills and is willing to put forth an effort to ' get them. Its example is Indeed com mendable, and might with profit be ' followed by every other city on the , coast that has aspirations to become a pmter fi.r manufacturing' and com- ' mercial interests. The Dalles isf not at present in need of increased facilities for manufactur ing flour, having already one of the best equipped mills in the interior, bence cannot make a bid to Mr. Byers, but there are other classes of factories it does need and can well afford to pay ' liberally to secure. First of all, it needs a wool scouring plant that it - -- may be abl6 to continue as the great est wool center of the Inland Empire; . then it needs woolen mills to convert the wool into cloths. What can it af ford to offer as aa inducement for capital to come here and invest in such industries? Cannot it afford to offer a bonus of $25,000 for such industries? The natural facilitiesand advantages it possesses are not sufficient induce ments to attract capital to invest in manufacturing here, so long as other places are ready with more substantial inducements. In short, we cannot ex pect manufacturers to come to The Dalles and erect factories simply be cause there is ground here to build on. and an abundance of raw materials at hand, while there are other cities standing with their purse strings loosened ready to roll out thousands of dollars as extra inducements. Capital invests where it can do the best, and manufacturing industries are built in places where the people are willing to give them financial encouragement. If we cannot attract outside capital to come here without a bonus, then how much . can we afford to ' offer? What would it be worth to The Dalles ""to have a wool scouring plant here capable of scouring the 7,000,000 or 8,000,000 pounds of wool that comes here annually? What will it cost The Dalles to loso the wool trade of the in- terior? And what would it be worth to The Dalles to have woolen mills that would give'sleady employment to from 100 to 200 operatives the year round? ' The wool trade that has come to The Dalles the past 10 or 15 years has been a soiirce-of profit either directly or indirectly to every business in the city. On an average .the wool sales in The Dalles have been at. least $600, 000. At least one-third of this amount ( has been spent in the city by the wool ' raisers. To lose this trade would be serious to the business interests of the entire city. And without scouring mills are we not liable to' lose it? Let us see. If the Columbia Southern railroad is extended 20 miles further into the interior, the wool raisers of southern Wasco, northwestern Grant and all of Crook county will have 30 miles shorter haul, over better roads. to reach the terminus of the Columbia Southern than to reach The Dalles. Will they not go there? But if there were "a plant here with a capacity for scouring the wool, it would likely be hauled by wagon to v the termin-.i-of the Columbia Southern, then shipped to The Dalles to be scoured before be ing sold or sent on a long haul across the continent. Thus a scouring plant would retain the wool trade regardless f transportation facilities. Thea The Dalles can certainly affoid to offer some inducemenb-for the establishing of 6uch a plant; in fact,it cannot afford to do otherwise. As to woolen mills, few will deny that we need them and can afford to offer a liberal bonus to get them. 'Every property owner in the city realizes that there are more empty buildings, both store rooms and dwell ings, now than at any time in the past five years. The owners of property are desirous of filling their buildings with tenants, but the tenants are not here, nor will they be here until something is done to increase business and fur nish employment for more people. This can best be accomplished by creating manufacturing industries, and at present woolen mills seooi to be the most feasible. Then what can The Dalles afford to offer as a bonus to get them and a scouring plant? Can it of fer as much as Tacoma does for flour ing mills? WEST. know what to do with their money iu business or with their hands in polite society; the miners, whom they classify with the half starved workers of the east, and lastly the cowboys, who rank far below the J. Fenitnore Cooper In dians with A'hom they have peopled the west. Yet with such an estimate placed upou our intelligent, progress ive and law-abiding citizens, by many eastern people, we of the went move quietly alon cuming au honest living w ith our linemaiui-nts enlivened by the smilt! of contentment and Deuce. When the exigencies of the hungry east rob us of th power to mine sil ver at a profit," we do not permit the grindstone, offered in lieu of bread, to come in contact with our several and respective Rocky mountain noses We mine copper and eold and lead. We pay tribute to Ceasar through the unholy operations of a debased ad barbarous financial system, but the "supple binges of the'knee" are never bent to appease the incorrigible ap petite of the god of greed who has 6et up his throne upon the Atlantic sea board. - Fortunately, the west, with its il limitable resources of natureand its ir repressible energies of citizenship, can stand up under any conditions which the east may see tit to impose. The time will come when our eastern friends will heave a sigh of regret as long as the ten commandments that they did not build up a western market for eastern products, through a liberal policy toward the great mineral in dustry that, would have peopled the inter-mountain regions ith a vast army of we!l'todo purchasers of manu factured goods. ' In the ' near future European supplies for the west and south will come through Galveston or Aransas Pass instead of through New York and other Atlantic 3eaboard cities; and their Asiatic supplies through San Francisco, Seattle and other Pacific cities, if the present trend of events is prophetic of that which is to be. Then it will be pur opportunity to tell Mr. Dana that if be can't print the Sun at a profit be should herd cattle on bis premises, or dig for clams, Everything comes to him who wails. Western Mining World. XEUDS OF SAVIAQS BANKS. THE CONTENTED Some years ago the New Yorte Sun attempted to solve one of the ereat economic questions of the west by ad- -vising miners to raise potatoes on - their claims if silver could no longer be mined at a profit. Evidently this burst, of wisdom was based on the legend that they plant corn in the . " state of Maine with a shotgun. A pol . litical philantropist like Mr. Dana, who is reputed to be a yard wide be tween the eyes, could not permit an opportunity to fructify the benighted west with sage ad vic9 to pass by un- -improved. Hence his desire to see our granite hills converted into potato " farms, our porphory dykes in 10 water melon pastures and our limestone ledges into flower gardens, until the land flowed with milk and honey re gardless of the water supply. Although the denziens of the mineral belt were --struck below the belt, as it were, they - did not permit Mr. Dana's well meant idvice to grate harshly upon their serves. Inasmuch as advice is the -only import ition from tl e east that is . ioeeiyed in large quantities at small .cost, we frame all suggestions as that offered by Mr. Danna to enable us to more clearly remember the "'old masters" when they shall in the full- ticss of time pass away. A great many of our eastern friends have divided western people into three general classes, namely, the bloated ilver mine owners wno are Deuevea ti but ignorant, and who don't That there is a growing need for savings banks in every commjnity cannot be denied. Those whose earn ings are small and whose incomes are but little above the actual necessities of living are entitled to a system of banking wbere'they can deposit their savings in a perfectly secure institu tion where tbey will earn a income for the depositors are provided by the dif ferent and numerous savings banks, but in the rural districts, there is no such institutions. Consequently in the localities remote from the great trade centers the earners of small wages as a rulo do not lay by their ac cumulations from the simple, fact that they are not encouraged to do so. In small and sparcely settled communities there is no field for a savings bank, hence those in such localities whose earnings are small, do not lay them away, and at the expiration of a Jifo spent in toil find themselves with little or no funds to their credit, whereas, had tbey been provided with the faoil itles for depositing their small savings that the residents of large cities are provided with tbey would find them selves at the ei.d of their lives with a competency. To provido such a de paaitory as will reach all communities the postal savings b.ink seems the only logical solution. C. W, Twining, cashier of the Frst National bank of Monroe, Wisconsin, has written an able article on this subject in which he says. "A sayings bank pure and simple is an institution that should be found in every community. The ideal way of organizing and managing a pure sav ings bank would be under private en terprise, with a rigid and effective government supervision. As a private enterprise each community would re ceive the benefits of the circumstances under which it is situated. -D. positors, where rates are high as well as safe, would receive a greator rate of Inter est for their savings than where rates were low. Under a goy-rmueotsoheme the rate would necessarily bi level the United States over, probably not to exceed 2 per cent. But the fact that such an institution at tins time cannot be trade to Day fro.n an investment point of view deprive the citizens of the great ;r jart of tLu United States of its benefits, "I i a pure savings bank, where the absolute safety of the depositor is the main feature, the ex Den so of manage ment must be reduced to a minimum, as the fiinds deposited cannot well be used with entire safety at a greater rate than 3 or 4 per cent and in many cases less than this. Such institutions must be managed by a board of direc tors, the members, of which donate their services, the executive officer or officers and clerks being the only ones paid for their work. If a pure savings bank cannot be made to pay as a busi ness investment, private capital and brains will not be put into it and the result is thousands of men, women and children have no places to put their small savings where they can receive a return for them and at the same time feel their money is absolutely safe. " The only solution seems to be for the government to establish a postal sayings bank under such laws and rules ani emulations as will insure the safety of the funds and a sure, if small, return as interest to the depositor. The benefit to the depositors in 6uch a bank cannot bo overestimated. It would educate them rapidly to a mors economical and thrifty manner of liv ing; it would create an interest in gov ernment affairs; it would be of great assistance in all lines of retail trade, where cash payments are desirable, as people would have more available cash to give for necessaries sad less incen tive to spend it frivolously and for luxuries. The management of sucb a bank should be absolutely apart from politics, so 4bat confidence in its man agement would not be shaken by any political excitement r change. If the question of savings bank or no savings bank ere to be voted on by the peo ple the majority in its favor would be overwhelming." The theory of protection is to build up borne industries and keep our . C03IIXG ELECTION'S. Although this is an off year, the elections to be held next month in dif ferent states are of considerable inter est. While in vema states io.:ul issue? predominate, still national politic- cut more or less figure in all, und the money question takes a prominent par: even in towns and cities, arid has been undo more or lo.-s an issue in every stale where elections are to bo hebi. The result of theso elections will serve us an index to the feelings of the people- with reference to the change of ad ministration, and republican victories will be an indorsement of the acts of that party in the special session of con gress, while democratic gains will be read to mean an opposition to the turiff policy and lack of financial legislation by that party. Flections will be held in Ohio, New York, Virginia, . Iowa, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Maryland, Colorado, Nebiaka and Massachusetts. In Maryland and Ohio the legislature is to be chosen and a United States sena tor elected. In New York the contest for control of Greater New York over shadows everything else. In Mass achusetts, Ohio, Virginia and Io.va governors will bo elected, while Ken tua't v elects a clerk of the court of ap peals, Pennsylvania a stafco treasurer and auditor, NebrasKa a judge of the supreme court and regent of the uni versiiy, and Colorado ' elects a chief j. it lee. There ace various municipal elections in these states which also at tract much attention. In three states the fight will determine the election of a United States senator. A cable dispat:h from London says that in the four months since the new Canadian tariff went into force the British exports to Canada under the new preferential ratedeplined ,171,553 or 14 per cent. Imports from Canada have Increased 1" per cent. These figures are in comparison with those of the same period last year. The dis patch adds that the result is "disap pointing," The greatest decreases are in iron and manufactures of irpq and clothing. Tl)9 decrease in the iron trude with England is due to Canadian purchases in the states. THAT SPECIAL SESSION. It the current reports be true, there is to be next January a special session of the Oregon legislature, says the Cor yallis Times. Whether.after convened, bo assembly will apply itself to the dispatch pf business common to legis latures, or whether it will continue to be the colossal and idiotic freak that it was last winter, is information that is not vouchsafed the public. This is a sign! ant question taat confronts the state and is pf paramount interest to the people when it is known that the answer is lootal up in the ho vels of political bosses who gather at Salem during legislative sessions, wheedle and bulldose members into acts that violate the rights of QOQStjtuents, making knaves of some and fools of others, and ultimately bring into degeneracy and disrepute the law making branch of the state government. It is a known fact that man go to Salem to r present a consti tuency in the legislature, and f Ijut unr der the chicanery and manipulation 'of crafty political bosses the de termination to be honest and true is lot ' and often tbey return to their homes political wrecks, with reputations besmirched. These things j make dangerous any legislative ses sion and especial'y discourage the idea of having one when matters are to i;ome up like those with which the proposed special session must conr lead, A legislative session of the right sort could of course be of practical utility at this time, A very large amount of money is, or ought to be locked up in the vaults of the slate treasury. It cannot be used to pay bills the state owes for lack of legisla tive sanction, and on these outstand ing bills the state is paving eight per cent interest. If the assembly in a two week's .session, in which public needs instead of private gain were the prevailing motive, would pas$ an ap propriation bill, cut off useless com missions and then dscently adjourn much good would be accomplished. With, however, a uertainty of prolon gation with ever Increasing bitterness of the senatorial fight, it is not proba ble that the legislature in the proposed special session would do anything be yond making a fool of itself and the state. ment. and now that nation is ready to grant concessions to an English syndi cate. If the Nicaragua canal is finally built aud controlled by England, it will noo b'j a surprise to lhn world, aud only tlie fault t;f America. The patent editorial bureau at Wash ington says the ' Democrats of Ohio continue their mad raoe to escape from their silyer platform. It shouhl have addi-d the Ohio republicans are also making a hard race tt free themselves from Ifannu, but they will not succeed until they are bo itcn out of sight by the silver democrats next month. liecause Judge Van Wyck was ar- rested for druukenes3 one time, hi opponents are denouncing him as a ruffian, notwithstanding the records in the Now York police courts show the arrest was wholly unjustifiable. This is a sample of New York politics. If a man ha i any bad records they are bouuu to be brought out when he runs for mayor, The republican press have steadilv denounced democrats who have under taken to drag national issues into the Now York rounioipal elections, but they hail wkh delight the 'appearance of Senator Forakar advocating the election of General Tracy because he is a'protectionist and believes in the gold standard. Tt makes a difference whoso corns ae tramped on. R3cent arrangements, it is believed., will give the government lour or five million dol'ars more than at first cx peoted from the sale of the Union Pacific. The fact that English invos ors aro making irquiries as to whether they will be allowed to bid makes it possible that competition may run up the prices even beyond present at. tloipa'.lons. Reports reaching the int Buieau from time to time warrant the estimate that the world's production of gold for 1897 will be between $23),00:',000 and $240,000,000, an increase of more than $30,000,000 over the product of 1896, The United States will probably leid all other proaucing countries with total of $60,000,000. South Africa and Australia will be closo competitors for second place, with a total production exceeding $50,000,000 each. Tammany has discovered its mistake in trying to control the election of municipal officers and is looking around for another candidate fov mayor who can draw some of the votes away from Henry George. Von Wyck is such an avowed tool of Tammany that be cannot be pulled through. It will be no surprise if botb. be and General Tracy are pulled down and some more obscure candidate put up. General Weyler Is, or will soon be deposed, but he doesn't take his down fall much to heart, nevertheless he would prefer to hold on to his job. lie js said to have cleared $4,000,000 in the Phillippincs and 50,000,000 in Cuba, while he has airjed materially in bank' rupttng his nation, but he oan retire to private life very gracefully on this little fortune, and If Spain don't want him, he can buy a home somewhere else. Weyler can afford to be inde pendent if Spain cannot. A representative of th-3 Pendleton woolen mills has be ia in Tho Dalles and ha placed a num. bar of orders with, different merchants for blankets, robes and other yqjlen goods. Pen dleton is our nearest neighbor that n .nufioturas wo jldrt goods, hence it is right tQ paroni;j3 its industry, but instead of depending upon thst city to supply us with woalens we-should, bo manufacturing them ou'Melvos. . Henry . George stands before :the people of Greater New York as candi date, for mayor, and declares that his piatform is to tell the truth and con peal nothing. The Oregonian says George s ap anarchist. Possibly that paper copsiders it narcby to tell the (ruth apd be honest. It has trained so long with rough poliljciaus in Port land that alaiotst anything that has the semblance of honesty appears to be anarchistic. money at home. Notwithstanding The Dalles votes for protection everytime it has an opportunity it is not practic ing' what it preaebes. . . It bands - its money abroad for nearly every, manu factured article it . consumes. Its woolen goods, canned fruits, agri culture 1 implements, in fact nearly everything it consumes or sells except flour, in imported from abroad. This is inconsistent both as to theory and from a, business standpoint.' We ought to practice a JUtJe of our protective principles by manufacturing what we consume. New York pays great attention to Gleaning its streets, and hai them swept three times 4 day. It it woulJ pay as much attention to keeping its politics clean U would be a benefit to the community. The United Stales imports 1,700,000, tons of -sugar and produces only 400.000 tons. This is one of the industries that should be looked after. We ought to produce all our sweets, for we hava all the bitter we can stand. Office seekers have thus far over looked one desirable position. No body has yet applied to the president for appointment as governor of Hawaii Why not send the Hop. Ike Moore, of Saiera, over there? It would get him out of the way in Oregon and be would never be missed. Commissioner of pensions Evans pro poses to open the flood gates to pension appliances, and says 200.000 claims that were held up during . the demo cratic administration will be taken bp at once. As there are already only 070,000 pensioners on the list, it would seem there was immediate demand for an increase, 1 The silver cause may have flied a few months ago, as stated by the republican press, but it has been resurrected at least in Indianapolis, ivhere out of a total vote of some 30,000, the tllver ticket went in by 5,000 majority. Sixty-four Irish members of parlia ment have petitioned Lord Balfour to call an immediate session of that body, to take measures for tlie relief of the Irish peasantry on account of the fail ure of the potato crop. As usual the Eaglish govornment is slow to act. The commissioner rf pensions has issued an Qrder that hereafter no at torney will be allowed to examine the reports of examining physicians in any case, except upon the order of the bead officer of the bureau or a deputy. Tbp object is to stop the searching pf these reports for material for new oases. We are told by the editorial bureau pf the republican national committee that frea8ury receipts under the Dingley law are steadily increasing. This is indeed pleasing pews, though we would prefer to have it sub stantiated by a report from the treas ury before pinning too much faith up on the statement. - The inactivity of the United States with reference to the Nicaragua canal has disgusted the Nicaraguan govern- Australia has determined to raise a tariff wall against Araoric iu grain to .'protect'' if si farmers in this year of short crops in that country. Thus tl)e many will be compelled to eat dear ijor fgr tlje benefit f the few Thus it will be more difficult for A us tralians to get something to eat, but the farmers who hayo im ps will be enabled to charge more fir tbelrwheat This U ia accordance with present systems of protection. The many are made to pay tribate to tLe few. The Baker City Republican think it rathe- stupid for any 010 to imigioe that Mr. Corbatt is responsible for the delay in the Or jgo J falsral appoint ments. It m-.y bd stupid j think Mr Corbett has theoirof tYj preid-jut, but he favored C. B. Moores and he was appointed regir.f-.ir as Oregon City as soon a? hisreoooi nendatloa reach jd Washington, Mr. U rbett .does net favor Judge Hall, an I IU appointment is bld up. Looks llko he might be the obstructionist. The gold reserve In the treasury his crawled up to nearly $150,000,000, not from the effort of any rceenc legi.-U tion, but on account of the immense amount of money that has coma from abroad to pay for tho praln crop cf America and because of the demand for currency to handle the crop, whereby the government is enabled to give its notes in exchange for imported gold. The gold reserve grows uot ith- standing the fact that the govern ment is going behind every day. The result of the municipal elections in Indianapolis and Chattanooga last Tuesday is somewhat significant, aud indicates democratic gains that are encouraging. Iu Indianapolis Thomas Taggart as elected by 5,000 majority over his republic in opponent, and in Chatanooga, Col. Watkins has a ma jority of 093, whereas the city is nor mally republican by from 400 to 500. Taggars ran on a purely free silver platform while his opponent was an ad vocate of the gold standard. General Blonco, the new captain general of Cuba, will not wage a vigor ous campaign at once on assuming commasd, but announces that he will warm the insurgents ud next year. Evidett'y ho is the counterpart of Weyler. He will endeavor to gain the couli lence of the Cubans, and then be gin his slaughter if not prevented by the intervention of some other p-wer. The Cubans, however, are aware of his tacticg, and while he is-getting ready to fight will hit the Soamsh army some hard licks below the b. It. Muchly married men are so common, now-a-days thit it causosbut little rip ple in social circles when a man with a half dozen wives bobbs up serenely in the courts as a defendent in an adultery case, but a womin with more than one husband is somewhat of a curiosity. ' Hence Annie Solomon, with three living husbands, is attract ing considerable attention in the San Francisco courts. The charming Annie, not satisfied with winning the affections of three men, has sued on of them, the last one on her list of ac quisitions for S(i,000 for alleged ser vices, aud is confronted with the pos sibility of being prosecuted for bigamy. The state fair at Salem ran behind this year as usual in spito. of . tho fact that it had 55,000 of state money to wards meeting its expenses. About the best thing the fair accomplished was to provido an opportunity for gamblers, fakirs and sports to make a stake from Die "greonies"' who at tended the fair. Kut it brought a lot of people to Salem for a week and that put mony in tho pockets of a few people of that-town. Now, in all sei-iousnes?, do such tenelits justify the spending cf $5,000 a year of the peoples' money 0.1 such an enterprise. Eas-. Oregonian. Whatever may be said against Henry George for some of his visional y views, he is entitled to respect for his honesty and candor. He says what he means and believes what- bo says. Ho is a single-taxer and a free trader. He does not oonceal these facts, though for advocating them openly he will lose many votes for the offijo of mayor of New York. Nevertheless he will gain some for his. honesty, for such qualities as he possesses will draw sup port from those who want an officer whose position on all questions aro clearly defined. New York could do worse than to eleot hi n mayor. GEORGIA'S GOLD GLEANER An. Old Woman Who Hqnta the Precious MotaL for Report Saya She Haa a Rich Hoard am the Result of Many Year of Hard Work and. yS Hvlnd, STRANDED MINERS Three Hundred Must Winter at St Michaels. AGREEMENT REACHED The Union Will Paeiflc and Short Line Again Interchange Traffic. livestock J-or tho Klondike-A .llrxic-an Mining Meal To Control tlio Whis key Market Tacoma's shipping. Mary Odom, gold h-unter, lives in a lit tle cabin on the mountain side, about a mile from Auraria, the ancient mining town of north Georgia, whose best days were those prior to the discovery of . gold in California in JS49, The cabin. va9 bunt by a miner named Odom, ana ' when the excitement in California be- gan he bade bis wife and daughter Mary, then a girl 12 years, old, faurewell, and s tarted west. His family never heard from him again. I Ilis wife managed to support herself, ' and, having seme knowledge of gold mining, taught Mary how to wasn golden grains from the sand in the bed ( of the .mountain streams. The two, were; quite successful and gathered a great eal of gold du&i. When. Mary was 10 . vears old her mother died. That was in 152, and the United States mint was ; still in operation at Oahlonega. Mary soon grew expert in finding gold, anil . nn&ny a penr.ywi'ignt u;u sue carry 10 the nuu:. Having liispoeeil of it. sue. secreted, invariably, half her profits ia the cabin at the mouth of the gulch above Auraria. The war came on and tha mint was broken nip and for four years Mary lorn hai a hard time of it. The coiw I federate -nrovernment. needed all the Wasiiix&ton, Oct. 12. Infornaiion received at the treasury depn-tmeot from Captain Tuttle. of the cutter Bear, now cruising in Alaskan waters, does not give a rosy description of scene at St. Michaels and pro-peuts of the goldseekers. Writing f -o n St. Michaels September 10, Captaiii i'uttle says: "There are in port four se.igoiog vessels as.d six river steamers, with one steamer and one barge in process of construction on the beaeb. About 300 people are encampod 00 the beach awaiting the completion of these ves sels. At least seven vessels are ex peeled to arrive, many of them with passengers. Thero is no possible chance of these people reaching the Upper Yukou this treason, and they must winter here or at some point iu side the mou:h of the Yukon. "While there will be an abundance of provisions, as the trading companies have their main depots here, trouble is likely to arise from those who have no provisions and no money. This, however, is a small roaf-er when it is takep into consideration that matters are much worse above Fort Yukon. On September 13 tne riyer steamer Hamil ton returned from its up-river trip, having bean unable to reach Circle City. Captain Hill repor'.ed the river so low as to present his reaching his destination. His curg.i was landed on the river bank. The steamers Healy, the j Weare Alice, Bella and Marguerite arc now up me river, out tne pros pects arj that they will not be able to reach Circle City or Dawson. g Day-Dawn For Careful Biivers J H Bright and Shining Facts for All H It's one of the bright spots in life beautiful goods while you learn what to spend an hour with our "Low Prices" really mean Dre?s Goods Fancy Dress floods, 27-inch, dark colorings. . . " J'luid Dress Goods, 34-iuch " Black Goods 12J and 15c 25 and 35c . .15, 20, 2S and Sou We feel certain that the prices named above are 25 per cent less than real values Comforts Comfort? as low as Cotton Blankets as low as.. and Blankets t PC COc per pair Afid w know you cannot duplicate the goods at tho prices Ladies' Underwear ur full suit of Ladies' Underwear nil wool, for $1.00 Is unapproachable in price and quality. Ladies! Hose Heavy Wool Hose, libbed top, black 20c per pair. ST We Are Glad to Welcome Visitors and Heased to Show Our Goods ALL GOODS MARKED PLAIN FIGURES A Ktbflllon Crukiet. New York, Oct. 13. A dispatch to the Herald from Buenos Ayres says: Advices from the Herald's corres poodcDt in Rio Janeiro say that do tails of the last big hit lie at Canudoa have reached that city. There U no loDger aoy uoubt of the death of An tonio Conseilheiru, the fanatic leader. He was killed early in the battle, but the fact of his death did not become generally knowu until after the fltrht- money it could get and the tithe gather iaS bad been ffolngr on for several When they learned of it, the era juade frequent visits to her cabin In search of gold; but she- was able to la?ep her hoard hidden. After the war matters settled down a little, and when she was assured of the protection of the civil authorities she went about her work boldly and devoted all the time that she could spare from the. cultivat tion. of her little patch of cleared land o the business of gold hunting. Ihe fichest -deposits had been worked ovep so much that they were pot so profit able as they had been, when she first be gan to wash gold in tdie mountain streams, She lived very frugally nn4 raised her own crops of corn, cabbage and pOtatoesand spun and wove her own clothing. She has always kept up the habit of patting aside half her findings. whether, they were large or small. Sometimes -her- washings would not amount to much during the week, but if Sihe secured only 50 pents she would put aside a quarter and spend the rest, piecing out her wants by going into debt, phe is pow in her sixty-first year, and she, has hoarded r.wny a sock filled With gold dust, which she has shown to pome of Jier most trusted friends, and is worth several thousand dollars. Still she keeps at work, and on any fair day, when not busy about Jier cabin, she may be seen, tramping over the hills in. search of gold. She will tuck up her homespun skirt and stand knee-deep in the philf waters pf the mountain streams all day long washing the san and gathering up the shining particles. f'It ain't so easy as it wer' 40 year ago," she said, as she smoothed baek her ironrgray locks from her forehead "but I kin make, a purty good livin oirt'n jt yit, I've seed tho day when could wash out Fom four to five penny. weights a week, but I hardly everetrike aich a streak as that noVi-adays. I 'spect td pap to come home old an po' fur years a'ter he leF fur California, but I done gin up all hopes now. I seed so many o' them po ol' fellrirs come back broke down 'thout roth'n to live on 'at I thought I'd save up part of all I foun' so's to he'p ini out w'en he come back on that si how I come to save up my littjc pile. The Lord knows hit's little 'nough, in spite o' what folks say3 'bou ray bein' a rich 'oman an' oil sich as. tbnt." X, Y. Sun nauur for Minn CluoeroK. New York, Oct. 14. The Journal and Advertiser this morning says: Miss Eang-elina Cisneros will be iu- troluced to ths people of the United States ou Saturday evening, when a receotion will be tendered her at Delmonico's and later by a public dera onstration and presentation in Madison square. Eternal Vigilance, ' " nierr.al vigilance is the price of liberty." It is Uie price ot everyimng worm having-, n is inc price ot lile ltselt. A man needn't be ! always looking lor dancer, afraid that pomethinjr will happen to him; but a wise man will form a habit of care about the important things of lite. It isn't half so much trouble to take care of yourself as it is not to, A man who follows regular, healthy habits, feela Coi all the time. I.ifc is worth -living to him. Tint a man who '"don't want to bother" with taking cae of himself ha more pain and mis ery crowded into one day than a gooa health v. heart v man who lives right -would ever know of in a whole year. When a man's stomach is out of order, and his digestion don't work ; when his liver gets to he sluggish and won't clear the bile but of his Wood, it is time for him to look put for himself. . - He gets no nourishment out of his food. His blood gets thicker and thicker with impurities. His nerves get irri tated. . fie loses energy and fighting force. He may say, " I can stand it. I will feel better lo-morrow; " hut Ibe chances are he will feel worse to-morrow and worse still next day.'! He ought to put himsr-lf right at once. He needs Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.- It is made for just this condition. It rouses up the digestive and nutritive organs, and gives ihem power to extract from the- food all the- nutritious elements and transform them into rich, nourishino blood. It enables the liver to cleanse out all bilious impurities and ponr into the circula tion an abundance of highly vitalized blood, full of the life-giving red corpuscles whi'h build up healthy Besb. musculat strength and nerve-energy. It does not make flabbv ,esh. It is the only suitable tonic anil strength-builder for coipuleut people. Wmm A 1 If'- Hours. When tbey learned of it, fanatic;, who up to that time had been fighting savagely, lost heart and were killed by the hundreds. Conseilheiro's body was found in a street of Canudos. Around him were the bodies of about a hundred of his personal guard, who had died in a lat-l desperate fight to save their chief. The bodies were fearfully hacked and mutilated. Beside the body of Con selheii o lay an imperial flag, a red cross on a white background. Tho capture of the oity was accom plished by the government troops with tho aid of torch and dynamite. VVbea the fanatics sa.v certain de" feat tiey applied the torch to many houses, and scores of them rushed In and were burned to death, preferring that to surrender, The government troops burned the remaining houses. Three thousand of the rebels who e cu.ped tho awful slaughter at Canudos h ive been taken prisone.-s, and now the rebellion may be s lid to be over. AN AtiREEMEST KKACUKU. L PEASE & MAYS 2 Union Pat 111 c and Minrt Line Will Aeain j a Int reliance Tranlc. New York, Oct. 12. E. Cilery Anderson, of the Union Paoifjo re ceivers, made tha fallowing statement today: "Tho Oregon Short Line people have wired us tha,t an agreement ro kiting to an interohan?e of traffic be tween the two companies as submitted by the Union Pacific receivers to the Oregon Short Line officials, has been accepted, signel and mailed to us. So far as that agreement goes, tho differ ences oetween the two companies have been adjusted. A resumption of through passenger trains from Chicago to Portland will require the co-opera-tiou of tho Oregon Kiilway & Naviga tion Company, and we have every reason to believe this will be given at an early date." LV ANGELINA AT KEW YOBK. are said to be behind the deal are S M. Rice, of the American Spirits Com pany, and a few of the richest distillers in Kentucky. The object is to con solidate the Kentucky whisky interests with the American Spirits Company, and to control not only the spiri out put, b;t all the better branus of whiskies. Justice Field About to Retire. Washington, Oct. 13. Justice Stephen Field, of the supreme court, it is believed by his many friends, will announce his retirement from the su preme court bench some time during the present term, though he would say notbiog about the matter for publica tion today. He was appointed in 18(i3 to his pres ent position and has been- eligible for retirement on full pay for n earls 11 rears. He has been in feeble health for several years. Since he passed Chief Justice Marshall's record ho has bad retirement under serious consider ation. Attorney General McKenna is re fcrJed as beiug almost certain to suc ceed Justice Field. 1 A Phenomenal Freak St. Louis. Oct. 13. A local com mission merchant hus brought to llfht a phenomenon which is attracting the attention of scientists here. While one of the employes of the house was dressing a turkey he was dumfounded to And in its interior a live, well- formed young tui key as large as a full- grown pigeon. It Is perfect in every way, -excepting the head, which was nttached to tMe mother, and is a fatty growth. The little turkey died as soon as it was severed fro n Its dead mother. It was preserve! ii alcohol d is now in the collodion of the Missouri medical college, where it is attracting the mien tion of the medical fraternity. The Cohan Heroine Made Daring Break For Liberty. New York. Oct, 13. Evangelina Cisneros, who recently escaped from a Spanish prison iu Cuba, was a pas senger on the vVard line steamer Sen eca, which arrived today from Havana. Miss Cisneros askel to be excused from saying anything about her im. pnsonment and escape. On the pas senger list she was registered at Miss Juana Sola, She was traveling under the care of a gentlemau who accom panied her from Havana. Several newspaper reporters and four women went alongside the steamer, and after the health officers' inspection was over they accompanied Miss Cisneros to this city. Miss Cisneros's escape and safe ar rival on the Senac.i was one of the most daring feats ever attempted and successfully carried out. Oa Saturday when the Senaca was to leave Havana, detectives watched the gangways with extra caution. Their vigilance would have probably prevented the depart ure of Miss Cisneros from Cub had it not been for refreshments, Including wine, served them by friends of Miss Cisneros aboard the Seneca. A few minutes before the Senaca was ready to sail, a slim young fellow came running across tne wnari. tie had no bageage, and was fashionably dressed. The detectives stopped him. 'My name is Juan Sola," ho s-iid, and he showed his passport. Every thing was satisfactory, bo tne sen or wis allo.veii to go aboard. It is said if it had not teen for the wine, the 'ranee figure of Senor Sola might ive aroused suspicion. MUs Cisneros' friends, when they aiw everything was satisfactory, ais emb&rke I and watched the ship pull put, carrying the fugitive to safety un der the stars and stripes. Tp Contit i he Market. New YORK, ' Oct. 12. A whisKy trust of tremendous proportions i about to bo formed. If all tho whUky distillers who have been asked to join it do so, it will represent more than $50,000,000 capital. Among those who His L'i-uhI Dilatory Tactic. Madrid, Oct. 12. It is semi-oOicial-ly announced that Spain's answer to the note presented by Minister Wood ford has been drafted by tho minister of foreign affairs and will be submitted to the cabinet tomorrow. The reply will say that Spain is unable to fix the exact date when the war will be at an end, but the ministers are persuaded it will not be long. Owing to the situa tion and the concession of autonomy which will be effective before January, the government hopes actual hostili ties will finish shortly. llOl'MJAKir S (IF LINCOLN. Proposed Loral Inn oftht Dividing Line In Alaska. UNALASKA. Sept. 30. via San Fran cisco, Oct. 14. Should the proposed territory of Lincoln b created by the division of Aluska, it will have as its southeast boundary Mount St. Ellas. From that point the eastern boundary will run directly to tto Arctic, which ocean will form the northern bound ary. The western boundary will likely run along the coast line below St. Michaels to the top of the divide be tween the Yukon and Koskowin rivers. The boundary on the south will follow the C2.1 parallel east to the Copper river' where it will cut down to Mount St. Ellas. Should to division occur and the boundary lines mentioned prevail, Alaska proper will then include the Aleutian islands, the coaling stations of Dutch harbor and Unaiask and the balance of the Alaska peninsula, the Island of Unga and its quartz mines, Kodiak island, Kanal peninsula and the placer mines of Dock's inlet, Prince William sound and the placer mines along the Copper river,, the towns of Wrangel, btlki, ' Junt.au, Dyea, Skagmty a.i l the p isses on the overland route to the Yukon. Within the new territory will be the rich placer of -the Yukon aa far as the international boundary. It will also include the numerous settlements and the the trading posts from St. Mich aels to Circle City, nggregating a pop ulation at present of over 3000 whites and 8000 natives. HOOD JUVER KueseeY TILLIiTT H GALLIGAN PROPRIETORS. First-Class Nursery Slock n Specially.' Sole proprietors of Yakima Apple. Send for Catalogue and ask for Prices NOTICE FPU PUBLICATION! Land Ornca at Thr Dai.i.ks, Orkook, October vib, Isur. f Notice is hereby given that the following named HCttlcr dim filed notice of her Intention to make naal proof In support ot her claim, anil that said pioof will be mude before the register ' and receiver at The Dalles. Oregon, on batur duy, November SU, 1H7. vlx. AMANDA A. MARSH,.--M- - Of Mosler. Orccon; Homestead No. 3tK, for theeVkNEofSeo. 5. Tp. 1 N. It. li K. W. M.- Sbe names the following nllneitses to prove her continuous residence upon and .cultivation of Hold land, viz: . : Nancy Ulukeney. Robert Dnnsmore, A. H. ' Swasev. It. E. Swasey. all of Monter. Ore iron. Oct.itf JAS. F. MOOKK, Register. . ; Livestock for the Klondike. San FJ'.anoiscj, Ojt. 12. C. W. tVejler U Out of Jt. New York, Oot. 14. A dispatch to the Hera'd from Uavaua Bays. Captain-General Weyler's rule in Cuba will end with the iroseiit week. General Cant llanos will act as captain-general until Ceucr.il Blanco's arrival in Havana from , Spain on Sat urday next, when he will immediately take the oat h nf nfTi- I General Weyler, although express ing regret that be has been recalled before be had succeeded in crushing the rebellion, takes the matter philo sophically, and is making preparations to sail October 20. He nersisu in maintaining tha.t hia methods are the j oniy ones mat win eventually force the insurgents to surrender. TO THE- EMST GIVES THE . " - Choice of Two Tmscosttireiital Ro tes Rain In Texas. DALLAS, Tex., Oct. 11. The drouth of the last eight weeks has been broken by hurd rains over half the state dur CREA NORTHERN RY. VIA SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL AND CHICAGO 0: SHORT LINE VIA SALT LAKE . DENVER ' OMAHA AMD KANSAS CITY I Matthews, ex sheriff of Ashland, Wis., ing the pist 24 hours. The draught hi. returned from the Klondike to as certain whether sheep and cattle could bo shloped to the mining districts of Alaska and Northwest Territory with profit, and he is now on his way East to perfjct arrangements for sending a flock of 2000 sheep to DAwon City in the early spring. Matthews is as sociated in the undertaking with John Uea, of the firm of Kea Bros., of Cbioago, extensive shippers of stock. damaged the cdrn crop and lessened the state's eotton crop i.'iO.OOO bales. GERMANY'S An. POLITICAL POLICE. the Ilia. Tacoma's 6hlppiog. Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 12. The American ship St. Frances cleared to day for Europe with 100,000 bushels of wheat, valued at $88,000 making nine wheat ships already loaded at this season. They carry more tnan 1,000, 000 bushels of whoit alone. It is ex pected the wheat shipments this year here will reach 10,000,000 bushels, of the value of nearly $9,00.1,000. Affairs at Tacoma. Tacoma, Oct. 13. Mayor Fawcett thinks seriously of rosigt.log in order to go to tho rich gold fields of British Columbia that bo is interested in Should be do so and a successor be ap pointed to fill the unexpired term, it would make four distinct regimes in the mayor's oBice during the two years term. ' A Mexii-au Miulug Deal. Hermosillo, Mexico Oct. 12. The Mulattos nine one of the most noted gold properties of SonOra, located about 70 miles southeast of this city, has been sold to English capitalists for $1,000,000 gold. The new company is to put in new reduction works and is to open up the mine according to the most approved mining methods. Gold Strike la Colorado. Denver, Colo., Oct. II. A grt gold strike is reported near the Reve nue tunnel, on Mount Sneffels, in Ouray county. Tests run as high as $200,000 to the ton, and $1000 ba teen hkoa out cf two cubic feet of rock. . Burglary at (ioldendnle. COLDENDALE, Wash., Oct. 13. Tho general merchandise store of D S. Dunbar was burglarized ana rnnnen lust night. The lo has not been as certained. A nuinbjr of pursof oao.s were taken. Odlona Institution of aisrckisa Ileirlnie. One boast the German ia never weary of making in regard to his government us comparedTwith that of the United States, namely, that the offiicals of the fatherland are distinguished, if not for enterprise, at least for honesty. In the main this is true, but there are ex ceptions. The late Chancellor Bismarck had no sooner got his imperial ma chinery m running order, 5 years ago. than he introduced as pnrt of his gov ernment one of the most odious fea tures of Russia, namely, the secret po litical police. He set aside large euros or money with which to pny informers, spies, ar4 a class of wretches, unknown in America, called agents provocateurs. The business of these last gentlemen was to organize disturbances among socialists, in order that the government Plight have an excuse for making arrests of such as the great prime ministerwas pleased to call "enemies of the empire,' or such as we would call enemies to the Bismarckian policy. The fruit which this tree hns borne is very bitter. A recent trial in Berlin disclosed the painful fact that this se cret police, intrusted with the most delicate of all political tasks, has been using its powers for the purpose of ad v?ncing the interests of a court clique aa opposed to the constitutional gov ernment of the country. Bribery, for gery, perjury, have been used in the hopes of damaging Baron MarschalL who is head of the German foreign office, and a man wholly above the vul gar intrigues that flourish in the at mosphere of a court. But perhaps tha saddest feature ia the case is the side-. tight it throws upon the German press.' Our own papers are not models of puri ty, but it would be difficult to name a Xew York paper capable of doing such rty work as is expected cf so-called official and seini-oflielal papers in the land of Schiller ami Goethe. When we m America read that the German press etatcks this man or praises that one. it does not mean that the editors of these different papers have reached an inde pendent opinion in regard to their rel ative merits, but it too frequently does mean that they have been instructed by the political police, or some other organ of state, that they must say this, that, or the other. Harper's TVklv. LOW RATES TO ALL EASTtRN CITIES : : OCEAN STEAMERS leave five d&yj (or Portland!; every SHN "-RHNCISCO, For full details call on the O. R. A N. Agent at THE DALLES, or address W.H. HU EL BURT, Gen, Pom. A (ft., Portland, Oregoa) The Mew O. B. N. Time Card. Train No. 2 east via. the Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line, arrives here at 1:00 a. m., departs at 1:05. No. 4, east by Spokane and Great Northern, arrives at 5:55 p. M., departs 6.00. No. 1, west from U. P. and O. S. L,;-' arrives at 8:55 a. M., and departs 4:00. No. 3, west from Spokane and Great Northern, arrives at 8:25 a. m. and de- -parts at 8:30. Freight trains Nob, 23 and 24, second divisions, will carry passengers. No. 23 arrives at 5 P. M. and No, 24 leaves at' 1:45 P. u. Going 1! East? If you are, do not forget fm (rt'ntPninfs ire.1 IltfT. OovtsSt-Psulbecsui fwllnaitv ut i oint will sdord you the very bust service. See that the coup t beyond : o n'r SECOND. imui reaa Tia ir o isconain u n'rnl be-uii mat line irxuiea close connect!) - witn all UMa.-4.cnltueniai lines entennt Ibe Union t o-. aua lis service Is Uri.K-la.sa in particular. THIRD. For Information, sail yiluuui uu 1 1 u:.m luo lim TT. CHf lines, or oauress JAS. C POND, or GEO. 8. BAT uen. r.iss. Aire.. Uenernl j jniiwauicee. wis. ngsiutULFi To Cure Constipation Fcr Tfeks Cascareta Candv rHLthitrtl If C C. U. 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