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' WAR ON TILET MERIT SYSTEM
An organization has been estab
lished, or is trying to establish itself,
with its headquarters in Washington
which takes the name of "National Re-
publican Anti-Civil Service League.
Its object, as stated in a commuuica-
. tion sent out to solicit contributions;
is to "enlist all republicans through
out the United States who are opposed
to the civil service law in a movemen
to secure its modification or repeal by
con cress at its session in December
next." It is proposed to get up a pe
tition on this line and it is intimated
that it will require the expenditure ' of
some money and a great deal of work,
.The civil service law is a republican
v measure. It was passed by a republi
can congress and approved by a repub
lican president. The powerful public
opinion which demanded it found re
iterated expressions in the political
platforms of both the great parties,
and the policy inaugurated by repub
lican administrations was adopted and
carried out by President Cleveland
But notwithstanding all that it ought
not to be difficult for the National Re
publican Anti-Civil Service League to
- secure a large number of republican
and democratic signatures to its peti
tion for the repeal of the law. It will
be signed by all the political heelers
and rounders who demand places at
,. the public crib as the reward of party
services for which they have already
been paid more than they were worth.
It will be signed by the,whole army of
incompetent mendicants who are
incompetent and are incapcapable
of earning a living and want to be
taken care of at the public expense,
' It will be signed by office seekers of
every grade who have no hope of ob
; taining places in the public service
through merit and depend wholly upon
their political pull for getting some
thing good. ' Politicians and political
managers - and bosses, whose only
means of political success is in the pur-
' chased support they obtain through
the distribution, will sign the petition
and support it with speeches on the
floor of congress.
But all these petitions from-, the ar
mies of partisan mercenaries will avail
' nothing against the mighty force of
public opinion which extorted the
civil service law from a reluctant con
gress and has fostered and expanded it
during the last quarter of a century in
spite of all the efforts of the spoilsmen,
I in and out of congress, to defeat and
nulify it. ' The St. Louis convention
made the maintenance and extension
of the merit system the subject of one
of its most emphatic declarations, and
President McKinley, in his letter of
acceptance, heartily approved . this
declaration and announced that the
party would take no step backward on
this question. St. Paul Pioneer Pre9S.
bered that sugar has declined in value
during the period from . 7.58 cents to
2.92 cents per pound and that our per
capita consumption is from two to
three times as much as that of other
sugar producing countries. Of the
1,739,313 tons imported into this
country over one-fourth, or 500,000
tons, came here in the shape of brown
or raw German beat sugar. This, and
indeed all the important raw sugar,
whether from cpne Or beets, is pur
chased by the American Sugar Refin
iDg Company, and other firms of less
note, who refine it and put it on the
market as standard granulated sugar.
Of the two sources of sugar, sugar
cane and sugar beets, tho former is the
older and better known. It is said
that it was the blockade of France
during - the Nepoleonic wars that
turned the atlentiou of the French
people to the culture of sugar beet,
and that to this emergency Europe
owes its present sugar beet industry.
Be that as it may, the growth of the
industry has been steady, and in re
cent years truly phenomenal. Ger
many which in 1884 produced 1,147,000
tons of beet sugar, in 1894 produced
1,800,090 tons, an increase of 57 per
cent. Austria-Hungary in the same
decade raised ..her production from
63,000 tons to 1,050,000 tons, and in
crease of CI per cent, and in France
the increase has been from 303,000 tons
to 814,000 tons, a gain of 163 per cent
the increase for the whole of Europe
during the same period being 78 per
cent, and the production reaching the
great total of 4,792,000 tons.
With America consuming more
sugar per capita than any other coun
try on earth, it is not to be wondered
that the industry should spring in
to prominence; and with the atten
tion it is receiving and the encourag-
ment given it oy me government it j
bids fair to grow until this conntry
shall produce a1! the sugar it consumes,
In this event the $100,000,000 now sent
abroad will be kept at home and
good portion of it, at least one-third
will be circulated among the pro
ducers.
UNJUST CRITICISM.
AN EXPECTED FAILURE.
In justice to President McKinley,
it must be said that he made an effort
to fulfill the pledges ,of . his party for
International bimetallsm, by sending
a commission to Europe to confer
with the leading nations and sue
for a conference. But their mission
' was a failure, as all clear minded peo
ple believed it would be. An inter,
national monetary agreement without
Jija occurrence of England would be
useless, and this, nearly everybody
was satisfied could not be obtained, for
the simple reason that at present it is
not to England's interest to have any
money standard but gold throughout
the world. She is a loaning nation,
and holds securities in almost every
section of the globe. So long as the
gold standard prevails, her bankers
are assured of a fixed income, and the
value of the rent or interest they re
celve upon - their loans enhances,
whereas, if a double standard were
adopted they would diminish in pur
chasing power.
It was folly to send a commission to
that nation to plead for bimetallsm,
and the mission of Messrs. Wolcott,
Stevenson and Paine could result in
nothing but failure. It was almost a
foregone conclusion that England
would not even consent to the opening
, of the India mints, and it was certain
that neither Germany nor France
would - enter into an international
monetary agreement without conces
sions from Great Britain, hence so far
as any beneficial results were con
cerned, they could not be accomplished,
consequently nobody. is. disappointed
at the failure. There is only one way
by which bimetallsm will ever be ac
complished and that is by independent
action. One nation at, a time must
adopt a double standard, and others
will follow.
The Crook County Journal com'
menting on the recent district fair
held in The Dalles says:
'The district fair held at The Dalles
last week was not a success. Both the
attendance and exhibits were smaller
than usual. If the truth must be told
the whole thing always was a farce.
The $1,500 appropriated by the legis
lature is a wanton waste. The farm'
ers take no interest in the fair, and
The Dalles merchants less. The ex
hibits are so small that anyone can
get a premium for anything without
respect to its merits, while the at ten
dance would not amount to a corporal's
guard if it were not for the horse
races."
This is, to say the least, an unjust
criticism. While the fair was not the
success the people of The Dalles hoped
it would be, it was not a failure by any
means, nor was the horseracing the
principal attraction. True, extra ef
forts were put forth to get good horses,
and as a result some of the best horses
on the coast came and the trials of
speed were witnessed and enjoyed by
a great many people. But the exhibits
at the pavilion were equally as attrac
tive; there were displayed there pro
ducts of the farm, orchard and garden
that would have compared favorably
with the product of any country, and
the works of art were indeed creditable.
Farmers possibly do not take the
greatest interest in the fair, not so
much perhaps as they should, for the
fair furnishes an excellent means of
advertising the resources of the
country and the products of their
farms, still they take sufficient interest
to bring in most excellent exhibits and
are awarded' liberal premiums on the
same, it is to be regretted that greater
interest is not taken, but interest can
not be created by such criticism as
that coming from the Journal.
AN OUTRAGEOUS VERDICT.
WATER TRANSPORTATION.
The' 'complaints that have, been
raised by the San Francisco papers
against the O R. & N. Co. for charg
ing what are termed excessive rates
on freight between San Francisco and
Portland, have brought to light some
interesting facts with reference to
water transportation. It is shown that
the minimum rate from San Francisco
to Portland by steamer is $1 a ton on
sugar and salt, $9 a ton on the highest
priced merchandise and an average of
$2.50 a ton on all classes of freight.
The distance from San Francisco to
Portland by water is about 800 miles,
and a flat rate of $2 50 a ton for that
distance does not appear excessive, es
pecially to those who have to depend
upon railroads for transportation facili
ties or even upon river steamers.
Water transportation, either by
ocean or by river, is unquestionably
the cheapest poisible means, and can
ever be made lower than by rail, which
has been demonstrated wherever there
is competitions between water and
rail. For instance when The Dalles
depended solely upon the railroad its
freight rates to and from Portland
were about double what they are now.
But the fact that there is an ayerage
rate of $2.50 a ton between San Fraa-
cisco and Portland a distance of 800
miles and that the rate between
Portland and Tho Dalles a distance
of 100 miles is from $1.0 to 84.00 a
ton, would indicate that our great
rivers cannot compete with the ocean
as a thoroughfare for vessels. Never
theless all places situated on navigable
rivers are at a decided advantage
over those located on railroads. Only
compare for instance the freight be
tween Portland and Roseburg with
tho rates between Portland, and The
Dalles. . Roseburg has a rate of $4.75
to $9 a ton; The Dalles has a rate of
$1.50 to $4. Roseburg is 200 miles
from Portland, The Dalles 100.
mother
tressed.
country will be sorely dis-
WHERE TILE MONEY IS.
IKE SUGAR INDUSTRY.
within the next few years sugar mak-
in? is destined to become a very im
portant feature in the industrial and
commercial questions of the United
South are insufficient to anywhere
near supply the demand, the beet
must become the article from which
our sugar is to be made. Past unsatis
factory conditions of agriculture, our
present enormous and increasing im
portations of sugar and the legislation
by which the present administration
is attempting to foster sugar manufac
ture, render the question of beet farm
ing one of unusual interest.
The statistics of the industry for the
year 1896 show that the total consump
tion of sugar in the United States
nted to 2.093.891 tons, eaual to a
per capita consumption of 63 pounds.
Of this amount 1,739,313 tons were im
ported from abroad and 354,506 tons
represent domestic production that is
to say, for one ton of sugar manufac
tured in the United States we brought
in five tons from other countries. The
statistics of the past .sixteen years
show that the consumption during
that period was 25,182,649 tons of which
2,673050 tons, or only one-tenth, was
produced in the United States. Dur
ing this period we paid out for this im
ported sugar about fifteen hundred
million dollars, or in otner woras we
have paid to foreign countries .an
average- yearly tribute for the past
sixteen years of about one hundred
million dollars. These figures become
yet more significant when it is remem-
In the case of Richard Hinkle, ac
cused of murdering Scott, a book
agent for the J. K. Gill Company, of
Portland, aOout two years a?o, for his
money, and burning his body, a jury
in the circuit court at Canyon Citv on
the 23d inst, returned a verdict of
manslaughter," and the accused was
sentenced to fifteen years in the peni
tentiary. The verdict of manslaughter
was utterly absurd. ' If Hinkle was
guilty, he was guilty of murder, and if
there was not evidence enough to con
vict him of murder there certainly was
no evidence to convict him of man
slaughter, for killing a man for money
and burning the body to conceal the
crime do not stand for any form of
manslaughter. In the case of Profes
or Webster, of Harvard college, who
was hanged in 1850 for the murder of
Dr. Parkman, while there was a gen
eral conviction that Webster, had
struck Parkman a fatal blow while in
a fit of anger, nevertheless the proof
that he had deliberately tried to de
stroy tne body or nis victim was
deemed proof of murder, and of murder
he was justly convicted and justly ex
ecuted. But in the case of Hinkle the
charge was that be and one Bare
murdered Scott for his money and
burned the body to conceal the ' crime.
There was no suspicion of a quarrel;
the accused was either absolutely in
nocent or absolutely guilty of murder;
and not at all of manslaughter. There
fore Bare, who is serving a life sen
tence for his part in the crime, and
Hinkle, who gets off with 15 years, as
guilty of manslaughter, represent a
very gross miscarriage of justice, for
if there was evidence beyond a doubt
that those two men murdered Scott for
his money, they were guilty of a most
barbarous murder and deserved
death; and if there was not sufficient
evidence to show beyond a reasonable
doubt that they murdered Scott, they
should have been acquitted. .
This verdict cither means that the
state has suffered a great wrong aone
by the jury in convicting' of man
slaughter a man accused -of cold
blooded murder for the purpose of
theft, or it means that the accused
have been grossly wronged by being
found guilty of a crime of which they
were not accused and of which they
could not have been guilty, since the
evidence was not sufficient to satisfy
the jury that a murder had been com
mitted. Yet a man accused of killing
his victim for money and burning the
body is either innocent of murder or
guilty of murder; he is not guilty of
manslaughter. Oregonian. '
America makes the boast of haying
more money in circulation 'per capita
than almost any other nation on the
globe, and in fact has a very large
yolume as compared ' with other coun
tries; but in reality there is a very
small percentage of money in so-called
circulation that is in actual circulation
among the people. The 'controller of
the cursency in his report for 1696
showed the entire amount of money in
the United States to be $2,257,915,845,
of this $675,543,556 was held in the
treasury, leaving $1,582,302,389 in so-
called circulation, or $21.15 per capita.
This presumably is the amount that
circulates from day to day between the
people of the country supplying a
medium of exchange for the ordinary
transactions of business, but in fact
only a very small portion of it is actu
ally employed. Fully three-fourths of
it is lying in bank vaults where of
course it exercises, the functions of
money through a system of checks
given and received in commercial
transactions.
A journal called Money, published
in New, gives a list of what it terms
the "average per capita bank credit in
each state," which it explains is the
capital and deposits of the banks and
bankers, that is held ready for use in
legitimate business. The list shows
the average per capita bank credit to
be the lowest in Arkansas, $4.86, and
the highest in Rhode Island, $371.62
An average between the highest and
lowest would be $188.24. Thus with
our boasted high rate "of per capita
circulation, we find it 'absorbed many
times over by the banks of the country
in their deposits 'tfnd capital stock.
The fact is, a comparatively small
amount of money is in actual circula
tion or even held by the masses. Oc
casionally some of it gets into the
hands of the people',"fts It isJ now' flow
ing out to pay for the Crop just har
vested, but it soon will' find its way
back into ' the banks, troth' whence it
can only be drawn on loans. At least
nine months in every year, very nearly
all the money in the country is in the
banks, and all the time nine-tenths of
it is under their control.
HAS FAITH IN SILVER.
It has been asserted of late that
Senator Teller, of Colorado, had
abandoned the cause of silver, and
would fall back into the ranks of the
republican party no matter what its
policy might be, at the next national
election. This, Mr. Teller says, is one
of the little falsehoods of the gold
press, and he declares he never has
given up the cause of bimetalism,
though he considers that there is no
hope for It during this administration.
In a ltier to a friend in Pennsylvania
he expresses himself on the money
question and other political issues as
follows, which sets at rest all question
as to the position he will take in future
elections:
"The democratic party is committed
to silver, and the gold democrats will
go to the republican party, and under
the influence of the gold democrats, it
will degrade and debase the party to
such an extent as to cause the old
liberty loving republicans to leave it.
I expect to see the republican party in
the hands of gold republicans and gold
democrats, and under the domina
tion and control of the worst element
ever in American politics. I do not
care what your Pennsylvania papers
gay about the per capita circulation.
Governor Hastings and other poli
ticians of you..- state know that the
platform was made to get into office on,
and I expect to see the - influence of
your senators and members of congress
brought to bear on congress to retire
the greenbacks and treasury notes,
and let the banks and bankers of the
country issue whatever paper money
they think the country needs, and
that issue will then be determined by
the interest of the banks and bankers.
The fight for silver is still on and will
be until we get a righteous money
system, and we never will have one
until we open the mints for gold and
silver at a ratio to be established by
law."
There is a difference of $7:50 in the
price of American steel rails in Japan
and the United States. In Japan the
railroads get them at $20 a ton, while
here they are charged $27.50. This is
one of the beauties of the present tariff
which allows manufacturers to charge
local customers more than thev do
in foreign countries where they must
meet the competition of the world.
The gold currency commission! may
prepare all the bills that it pleases for
the benefit of the national banks, but
not one of them will get through the
present United States senate.
The campaign in New York City is
hot. The chances favor the election
of Van Wyck, the Tammany candidate.
George is talking too much and is los
ing ground.
A Kansas City jury has emphatically
said the despoiler of the home may be
punished by an agrieved husband.
John Schlegel, the slayer of Dr. Ber-
ger who assaulted Schlegel's wife, has
just been acquitted.
Another of Spain's refactory chil
dren is about to turn itself up to be
spanked by the maternal slipper.
Costa Rico is about to rebel, and with
the Phillipines, Cuba and Costa Rico
all on her hands at once, the poor old i
There are soma 13,000 more names
on the pension rolls than there were
a year ago. The increase in the num
ber of pensions keeps pretty close pace
with tho increase in population, and
there seems to be no hope of abate
ment. Boss Piatt expresses confidence that
General Tracy will be elected mayor
of New York. Piatt is one of those
politicians who never gives up the sMd
until it has sunk. However, after next
Tuesday he will hardly bo known as a
prophet in his own land.
. Every day we are given an object
lesson of the beneficial effects of good
roads by tho long string of Klickitat
teams loaded with wheat being hauled
into The Dalles. Good roads leading
in every direction will do much toward
retaining the trade of the surrounding
country.
So interesting has the campaign in
Ohio become that President McKinley
has determined to desert tho White
Houso and repair to the Buckeye state
where ho will remain until November
4. In tho meantime he will deliver
lew auuresses probablv intended to
help the cause of his friend Uanna.
. At last we must acknowledge that
General Weyler is nor. wholly bad
He has ordered the release of eleven
prisoners supposed to have been con
nected with the uprising that resulted
in the imprisonment of Evangelina
Cisneros. This, however, is the only
act of humanity placed to his credit
during his dictatorship in Cuba.
Captain-General Blanco goes to
Cuba with the utmost confidence of
being able to squelch the rebellion in
a short time. Compos and Weyler
were equally confident when they set
foot on Cuban soil, but tho war goes
on. Blanco will likely be less success
ful than either of his predecessors.
I'oor senator wolcott: ay espous
ing the cause of gold he has killed
himself off in bis own state, and now
his mission to Europe has heaped new
disgrace upon his head. He made
some erroneous statements about the
attitude of France towards silver that
has got him into a position where he
must defend his integrity.
Only what might be expected has
occurred in the discovery of a plot to
assassinate Sheriff Martin who ordered
his deputies to fire upon the strikers
at Hazleton, Pa. The miners look up
on his act as a coldblooded, deliberate
murder, and it is but natural they
should desire to avenge the death
of their comrades.
The Portland Chronicle asserts that
it matters not what an over-zealous
and sanguine opposition may haye to
say, the fact remains undisputed that
right will always triumph over might
and that Mr. Corbett will be seated as
senator next December." The
Chronicle has some peculiar ideas of
right.
The most important case ever tried
in the Chicago criminal courts that
of Sausage-maker Luetgest termi
nated in the disagreement of the jury.
After haying'been cooped up for eight
weeks listening to the testimony of
"expert" witnesses and the wrangling
of attorneys, it is a wonder the jurors
had even sense enough left to disagree.
Such long drawn out cases are a farce,
Eastern papers are complaining of
the increased number of tramp3 that
travel over the country since harvest
is over and work is not to be had in
the fields. Why are not the mills
opened up to giye this army of unem
ployed worn.' That is what was
promised a year ago if a certain thing
happened, and it happened.
Already merchants are forced - to
make telling campaign 'speeches to
their customers. They are forced to
explain why it is that they are com
pelled to charge more for clothing,
and must attribute it to the tariff, at
the same time explaining that the
manufacturer gets the benefit of the
adyance, while their profits remain the
same.
As election day grows nearer in
Ohio the prospects of democratic sue.
cess grow brighter, and the democrats
feel assured that they will elect their
full stae ticket and a majority of the
legislature. The republicans have
had but two issues to contend for in
the Ohio campaign Mark Hanna and
the gold standard and neither has
proven any too popular.
Road-making is to be a subject of
study and experiment at the agricul
tural colleges. Certainly no subject is
of greater importance nor presents a
wider field for inyestigation. Secre
tary Wilson, of the agricultural de
partment, advocates a steel track-way
for wagons as tho easiest solution of
the road problem especially on the
western prairies. He estimates the
cost at from $2,000 to $3,500 per mile,
exclusive of the cost of macadamizing
the treadway for the horses.
A jury in Maine gave damages t oa
man who sued a woman for breaking a
promise of marriage, but anyone might
have known that a California jury
could never be induced to assent to
such a verdict. In the suit of Thomas
Eragorri against Mrs. Stearns of San
Francisco to recover $10,000 for a simi
lar injury, the jury has just decided in
fayor of the defendant. There is too
much chiyalry among California ns for
a jury of native sons ever to give a
jilted swain damages for his blighted
affections.
The war that . has been waged be
tween the Tribune and Republican at
Pendleton is only the beginning of
the rupture in the republican party in
Oregon. The Mitchell and anti-
Mitchell factions have their knives
out for each other, and will never be
reconciled. It will be no surprise if
there are two republican tickets in the
field next year one whose only aim
shall be to elect Mr. Mitchell senator
aud the other to defeat him. .When
the interests of a single man shall thus
diyide a party it is time for the state
government to be turned over to another.
It would be more becoming for the
members of President McKinley'a
cabinet if they had less to say regard
ing the return of prosperity and if they
would devote less attention to boom
ing the administration of which they
are a part. While the people every
where are pleased to know that times
are improving, they believe the mem
bers of the president's cabinet have
higher duties to perform than trapsing
around over the country or seeking in
terviews that give them an opportunity
to tell what great things they have
done for the country.
The treasury balance for September,
as shown by the latest monthly sum
mary of the treasury, is lower than it
has-been, with the exception of last
February, since January, 1896. The
receipts of the treasury are way below
the expenditures, but this will not
serve to check the appropriations that
will be made by the next congress. A
majority of the members consider their
only duty to aid in the looting of
the treasury by getting fat appropria
tions for their respective states, and if
a deficiency occurs they do not hesi
tate to pile the taxes on a little higher.
And if taxation does not avail they
are ever ready to resort to tho sale of
bonds whereby future generations
may be made to pay for present extravagances.
Killed ills Father.
Redwood City, Cal., Oct., 27.
Thomas FianneTIy" shot and killed his
father, Patrick Flannelly. one of the
most respected citizens of this place,
last night, because he had been or
dered from the ranch for disregarding
the old man's wish. The crime was
committed in the elder Flannellv's
house, which the son had entered evi
dently with the intention of commit
ting murder.
Tho crime aroused the people of this
city to a high state of excitement,
Posses were formed to pursue the boy,
and he was located at tho ranch he
had been ordered from by his father.
When called upon to surrender, you ne
Flannelly fired upon Sheriff McEvoy,
of San Mateo county, and several of
his deputies, one bullet taking effect
in tha sheriff's left arm. The volley
was returned and the murderer was
wounded several times. He then sur
rendered. A BLOW AT AUTONOMY
Such the Murder of General Castillo ia
Likely to Frove.
New York, Oct. 28. A dispatch to
the Herald from Havana via Key West
says the outgoing authorities have
struck a heavy blow at autonomy by
permitting, the killing of General
Castillo. -''
General Castillo was not killed in
open fight; ho wasljetrayedby a Cuban
guard and captured by the Spaniards
last Friday and shot on Monday morn
ing. It was more satisfactory to shoot
him than to treat him as a prisoner of
war. Castillo commanded Havana
province, and was beloved as an able
and brave general by eyery Cuban un
der arms. His killing will arouse a de
sire for revenge that at the present
juncture will tend to prevent accept
ance of autonomy.
With an escort of seven men Castillo
was lying ill with fever in a secluded
spot when the guide betrayed him.
The exhibition of his body has aroused
indignation even among General Wey-
ley's officers.
Side by side with him in the morgue
was the body of a man who had starved
to death. The two presented-a plain
illustration of General Weyier'a
methods of conducting this war.
A manifesto will be circulated and
signed by President Capote and Gen
erals Gomez and Garcia, calling upon
all Cubans not to accept autonomy.
Government. Reconsiders.
Washington, Oct. 26. Indications
are that the government may yet re
consider its decision to ask a postpone
ment for the sale of the Union Pacific,
The reasons for belief are that the
government has received or is hourly
expecting to receive an additional
proposition from the reorganization
committee. This proposition is be'
lieved to be for a very material in
crease in the guarantee offer, provided
the sale is allowed to proceed on the
date "originally fixed This in
crease, it is reported, will make the
committee's guarantee equal to the
full amount of tho government claim
against the Union Pacific proper, or
about $58,000,000. In that event it is
probable the offer will be accepted and
the sale take place as originally agreed
on;' .-.'
FIVE BRAVES SLAIN
Colorado Game Protector Meets
Indian Braves.
TWO WERE DROWNED
Distressing1 Accident Caused by tbe
Breaking- of a Bulkhead at
Oregon City.
1 OLIVER 1
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Kifle, Colo., Oct. 26. Reports from
Snake river are to the effect that Game
Warden "Vileox attempted to arrest
some Indians near Lily Park for violat
ing tho Colorado game laws, and was
fired upon by the Utes. The officers
returned the fire, killing five Ut03,
Game Warden Wilcox with several
posses of deputies and ranchmen are
after the Indians, aud a further con
flict seems inevitable. The excitement
here is intense, and parties are orgn-n
mug to go to Wilcox's assistance, fear
ing a general uprising of tho Indians,
i no trouble commenced last wees,
when tho White River, Uncompahgre
and Uintah Utes began pouring over
the line from Utah on their annual fall
hunt. The White River Utes are ex
ceptionally ugly, and have apparently
been anxious to pick trouble with
parties of whites with whom they have
come in contact. The Utes were in
tho Meeker massacre and have never
been anything'but ugly and waiting
for an opportunity to do mischief.
There are several hundred of them
now in the state.
Governor Not Apprehensive.
Denver, Oct. 26. Governor Adams
has received the following from Deputy
Sheriff Watson at Rifle, Colo.:
"Game Warden Wilcox tried to ar
rest some Utes on Snake river, five
miles from Lily Park. They resisted
and fired on the Wilcox party. No
whites were injured, but several In
dians were killed and wounded. Gen
eral Otis should order the Duchesne
troops out at once to corral the Indians
and save further trouble, as there is
much alarm here."
The governor said he did not ap
prehend serious trouble, and would not
at present order out the state troops.
' From Summer to Winter.
OMAHA, Oct. 26. The warmest Octo
ber ever experienced by white men in
this region is closing in a blizzard.
Rain began falling' in western Ne
braska and southern Dakota last night,
turning to snow, which continued all
night. Dispatches have been received
from Valentine to the effect that a
heavy snow has fallen there, while in
the western part of the state the rail
ways are having trouble moving their
trains.
Fire at Baker City.
Baker: City, Oct 28. S. A. Heil-
ner's stone and frame warehouse op
posite the O. R. & N. depot was burned
early this morning. There were stored
there a large quantity of seed . wheat,
some wool, bides and several carloads
of flour, salt, furniture and missel-
laneous articles. The loss is $12,000,
with $7,500 insurance. The origin of
tbe fire is unknown.
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THE CCLKBEiO BIIOKE.
Two Men Drowned and Five Injured at
Oregon City.
Oregon City, Oct. 26. A terrible
accident occurred here at noon today,
causing the death of two men, and in
juring fiye others.
A gang of men had been working
night and day for a week to remove a
bulkhead, expecting to finish the work
this afternoon. The bulkhead was CO
feet long, and extended from the power
station on the east to the east wall of
the boat canal on the west. At the
lower end of the new extention of the
power-house another bulkhead had
been constructed, and it was the in
tention to take out tne old one, in
order to let tho water into the new
section for tbe turbines.
The workmen had removed a con
siderable portion of the foundation of
the old bulkhead, and today were en
gaged in taking off the nuts and cut
ting the bolts, intending to remove the
entire wall tonight..
The work gave way and a flood of
water rushed in upon the workmen,
filling the section. At first it was sup
posed that eyery man was drowned,
An alarm was given and the water was
drawn from the Canal as soon as pos
sible. After this was done a count of
the men in the gang was mado, and it
was found that two men George
Stouch and Jacob Macomb were mis
sing. Among the five injured men, the
most seriously hurt are Carl Newberg,
whose bead was severely cut and
bruised, and Harvey Little, whose left
arm was bruised and whose bead and
face were badly cut.
Thomas Smith had, his Vpine hurt
and William W. Smith had one bone
of his right leg broken.
Home Rule the Basil. . , '
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New York, Oct. 27. A dispatch to
the Herald from Madrid says:
Senor Morely Prendergast, the new
colonial minister, has outlined for the
Herald his plan for Cuban reform as
follows:
The autonomy which the cabinet of
Senor Sagasta proposes to bestow on
tbe islands of Cuba and Porto Rico in
fulfillment of the manifesto of June 14,
is a special autonomy founded on the
aspirations adopted in the platform of
the A.ntillian autonomists and not
identical with the other colonial con
stitutions. It is clear that in their es
sential principles the future constitu
tions of Cuba and Porto Rico agree
with those colonial constitutions that
start from self-government as the capi
tal ideal self-legislation, responsible to
the government; supremacy of the gov
ernor who, either under that name or
that of viceroy, shall represens the
mother country, and who shall choose
the ministers who shall be the execu
tive in that colony.
-Starting from the above basis, the
project of tbe Spanish government
contains the first partition of those
matters and concerns that belong to
the colon ial parliament and to the im
perial parliament, that is to the nation
al cortes. The partition is founded on
a careful discrimination between what
interests tho islands themselves nave
in a local sense and what is of national
importance. -
The project in operation will inter
pret in the most generous manner the
phrase "local interests,'' since it will
not only grant to the colonies com
plete control of all that relates to edu
cation, charity, etc., but it also in
trusts to representatives of the local
government tbe right of drawing upon
their customs tariff without any limita
tions beyond those mutually arranged.
Of these ministerial functions -re
served to the metropolis are:
First -those, that' concern inter
national relations; - second, military
and naval matters; third, organization
of the law courts; fourth, those deposi
tions that under the came of patronage
really regulate relations between the
church and state.
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The
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Dalles, OregDri
boat turning over repeatedly, until
Bradford was struck on the head by
the gunwale. He at once .sank and
did not reappear. The others man
aged to cling to the boat until it had
drifted as far as Kinney's cannery,
where they were picked up by two
fishermen, named George Nichols and
John Enquist.
THIS BOAT CP8F.T.
A Fatal
In Altorla
Accident Occurred
Harbor.
Astoria, Or., Oct. 27. A most dis
tressing accident, resulting in the
drowning of Edward F. Bradford,
health officers' boatman, and the nar
row escape from drowning of four
other men, occurred "yesterday morn
ing about 10 o'clock, when the unlucky
German ship Flottbek was making
ready to proceed to sea.
Bradford started down the river in
his Whitehall to put Pilot Doig on
board the Flottbek. Besides tbe boat
man and pilot, there were also in the
boat Captain Schumacher, of the
Flottbek, and J. M. Gillette and son.
The sail was hoisted at Flavel's dock,
and in a few minutes the party were
alongside the ship. Bradford then
stepped on the gunwale to unstep the
mast, when the frail and overloaded
craft upset, turningbottom uppermost.
All five of the struggling men grasped
the keel of the upturned boat, only to
cause it again to turn over. The strug
gle continued for several minutes, the
HO COMPBOMISE POSSIBLE. -
Cubans Keasaert Their Determination Sot
to Accept Antonomjr.
New York, Oct. 27. Tnomas Es
trada Palma, the Cuban delegate to the
United States, when asked his opinion
of the Cuban reforms proposed by the
Spanish ministry, said:
"As the representative of the Cuban
provisional government, l am in a
position - to state most emphatically
that the Cubans in arms will entei in
to no compromise with Spain. Tb
Cubans are fighting for absolute linde
pendence, and they will entertain .no
peace proposals from tbe Spanish gov
ernment based on anything but abso
lute independence. The Cubans are
firmly determined . to carry on the
struggle until their purpose is accom-
plished, and they will listen to no
proposition acknowledging Spanish
authority over Cuba. Cubans will
never accept autonomy, no matter how
ample, as a solution of their struggle
for independence. "The Cuban problem
must be settled this time once for all."
Bryan at Mount Vernon.
Columbus, O., Oct. 28. William J.
Bryan spoke at Mount Vernon to about
10,000 people. It was after 10 A. M.
when the procession formed. The
press about Bryan was so great as to
make it difficult for him to leayo his
carriage. He was very hoarse, but
spoke until 12 o'clock, when he left for
Newark.
ORDER FBOSt SPAIN.
Deposed Commander Mnat An alt Blanco
at Havana.
New York, Oct. 28. A dispatch to
the Herald from Havana' savs:
General Weyler has been ordered by
his government in Madrid to remain
in Havana until General Blanco ar
rives. This may mean that Weyler is
to be sent home under arrest for refus
ing to obey the order to give his com'
mand to General Castellanos.
General Weyler is using every means
to win sympathy here. On the way he
employes the power ho' has concen
trated depends to a very considerable
extent the stability of Spain in Cuba,
If be chooses to resist Blanco's au
thority, the latter will need a strong
lorce oenina aim oerore he can Jand
in Havana. If there is not serious
trouble it will be because Senor Sa
gasta and his ministers bend their
knees to General Weyler, ior the in
dication is that Weyler will not sub
mit quietly to them.
That tbe Spanish eovernmettantici
pates a disturbance is evinced by the
fact that it has telegraphed to General
Weyler to disband the volunteer forces.
This morning the caotain-t?eneral
called to tbe palace the colooe Is and
read them a telegram from Minister of
the Colonies Moret. statin? t-hat the
services of the volunteers would not be
longer required, and that they were to
oe aisarmea. Alter an excited con
sultation the colonels agreed to send a
considerable dispatch to Senor Moret
expressing their indignation and stat
ing that they would not be responsible
ior tne actions oi tne men it tne news
was conveved to them.
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Snow In South Dakota.
Minneapolis, Oct. 26. Specials
from many points in Central and East
em South Dakota are to the effect that
heavy rain has changed to snow and
sleet, and the temperature is rapidly
falling under the influence of a strong
north wind.
For Sale.
Mrs. C. Nelson & Co's. restaurant
on Court street, between be-'ond and
Third,is offered for sale at a roasonable
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desiring to engage in tbe restaurant
business. Call early and get terms.
Washington. Oct. 23. Senator Me
Bride, of Oregon, saw tbe secretary of
war and tne president today regarding
the report that the new military reser
vation in Alaska would create a monop
oly tor tne two transportation com
panies now operating between that ter
ritory and points in tne United States.
He was assured there was no such in
tention in the order: that no one would
be excluded from the territory or pre
vented irom engaging in any ousiness
on the reservation. Secretary Alger
said he would telegraph tho chamber
of commerce of Tacoma to that effect.
The intention of tho order was solely
that of protecting life and property in
the territory and any company or per
son entering the territory would be
given the same rights and privileges
allowed companies or persons already
operating there.
Senatoi- McBride said be had no
doubt there would be no trouble for
any persons operating in Alaska, and
tbe assurances of the president anf
secretary were sufficient to quiet all
apprehensions that might be felt either
in Oregon or Washington.
The steamers ot this line will leave
The Dalles at 7:00 a. m.
Shipments received at anv time, dav
or night.
Live stock shipments solicited.
Call on or address, '
Jul C HLLHWHY,
General Agent
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