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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.
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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.
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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
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NORTHERN RY.
VIA
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MINNEAPOLIS
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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.
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Pacific and Oregon Short Line, arrives
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No. 4, east by Spokane and Great
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