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In refusing to grant the petition of
'some 500 citizens of Union county to
commute the sentence of Kelsay For
ter, Governor Lord has not only acted
wisely but 'justly. Porter wwoori
victed, after a fair trial, of one of the
'. most cold-blooded crimes ever perpe
trated in the state. His act showed
) that the murder was premeditated, and
-was committed after cool -deliberation
' Terhave commutedbJ&-eentence would
have been licensing such' crimes, and
would hare been a miscarriage of jus
tice. v The claim that he was crazed
from anger was. no. excuse whatever,
lor tne evidence showed there was no
; Immediate cause at the time of . the
killing to create great' excitement or
nger." The '.plea, that" no; had prev
iously .been confined in the '. insane
asylum: . and . that, a brother was
manlacVand Bad kiBed one' 6f his chll
dreit while demented, could be no ex
cuse for ' Fdrter18"'crime'. -'If his mind
. was so shattered that he could deliber
ately plan a murder and execute it, he
would be a dangerous person to turn
,- at large- or even to confine in the pen!
- tentiary.
The evidence against' Porter was
' most damaging, and Governor Lord
.' showed good judgment in refusing to
save 'his life. To have set aside the
. verdict of the court and jury that con
r victed him of murder in the first degree
: would have' been an exercise' of exe
r cutive clemency for which there was
no excuse. It 'would too have en
' couraged like crimes, in that it would
: remove the fear of death from ether
red-handed assassins whose temper is
( so ungovernable that they can plan-or
execute deliberate murder. Governor
'Lord's refusal to save Porter's neck
i will act as a -safeguard' to the com
munity in the future, as would-be
murderer's will know they must suffer
their crimes if convicted by the
urts. -..
NEXPECTED STATISTICS.
the last .-report of the commis-
er of internal revenue is to be
vGaa. criterion, the claim can ho
onger be made that we area nation of
; Jbeer drinkers. For years the impresr
sion has, 'been lodged in the public
mind that beer drinking was rapidly
'Dn -the increase in this country and
that it was fast supplanting whisky as
a national beverage, says the Telephone-Reporter.
' But the internal revenue com
missioner's report for the fiscal year
ending June 30 shows that, 'as com
pared with the previous year, there
was an Increase of revenue of 81,328,472
om distilled spirits consumed and a
decrease of about the same amount in
the revenue from fermented liquors.
Another curious fact set, forth -in the
report is that there was ' a decrease "in
the production of distilled spirits of
nearly 63,000,000 gallons, which ren
dered idle more than, three thousand
distilleries. There was also a decrease
' ' of a million and a half barrels in the
-production of beer. Buttheajaount ex
i - paridnd for tobacco in its various forms
. did not vary more than a thousand dol
lars from" that expended for this
iiafcotie. the previous year.
The report seems plainly to indicate
that the industrial depression of the
year under review bore - heavily upon
the makers of the beer, while it
actually benefitted the distillers The
explanation is, perhaps, found in the
fact that the poorer classes of wage
earners either did not have the money
t to spare for the indulgence of their
favorite beverage, beer, or that with
"-' remarkable self denial they abstained
in large numbers from drinking in an
ticipation of harder times yet to come
and thus have stored away the million
of their dimes and nickels that annually
. . go for the amber liquid,. .On the other
hand, , the whisky - drinkers, - being
more flush of funds and less apprehen
sive of the need - of cutting: down ex
penses as the sacrifice of appetite,
plunged into more reckless dissipation
than is their want when industrial
conditions are normal and business
Vis moving along at its acustomed pace.
'' StUf another view of - the matter is
. that (he poorer element of society is
becoming more frugal in habit.
- A QUESTION OF CHOICE.
One of the charges, often brought
' against the spirit of the age is that
marriage in the middle or wealthier
- circles of society . is more beset with
conventional obstacles than ever - be-
' fore. Young men with what was for
merly considered a reasonable income
. - say they can no longer afford to marry
or to engage in courtship, and so they
settle down from necessity to a bach
elor's life. But human nature is
powerful thing, and occasionally
- young man and a young woman break
!v"hrough the artificial barriers and get
- married without regard to them. If
both are of good character and suited
to each other in age, culture and in
; ,. telligence, and are not acting from
V mere impulse, the question of social
caste is not one appealing strongly to
1 tne eenerel judgment. The natural
Vcorder of things is that young men and
oung women buouiu Dittwi. iuu cer
tain extent, safeguards must be thrown
about them, but when the marriage
ploblem becomes merely a matter of
family ambition nature will, protest
and so will the vast majority of man
- kind. - A false view oi marriage and
-4 ' the family can destroy a nation and
f even a race. ..Marriage is not intended
to be a piece of machinery for family
. , f ; aggran dlaenjentt . ci
Elopements as a rule are not to be
commended. It is a grave; step to act
counter to parental wishes or advice.
Parents should be wise through ex
perience, and affectionate considera
' tion Is their due. But the parent who
L :-. i desires his daughter to make a grand
? match as the first object to be gained
by marriage is not well grounded in
' wisdom. The literature of every age
t. -. - cries out against sue n a yiew of mar
s' riage. Hundreds of the most power
1 ' .ful books and dramas tesr it to pieces.
7 ' If the course of true love seldom runs
a smooth yet it usually reaches its desti
nation, and the world applauds its
happy ending. Marrying exclusively
J .lti n. nnoitlnn la a. nuiminli
and is generally mentioned with a pre
! . diction that it will not turn out well.
The list of social sh:pwrecKs founder-J
b"ide"s grandfather reached one of the
highest places in the history of the
country, but it- was not through socixl
ambitions or alliances.
He was always a man of the people,
even homespun in bis ways, ' and it is
not conceivable that he would have
withheld his' blessing from the grand
daughter who has asserted the right
to' choose a life partner whom she
loves and respects. If any aspirations
for a grand marriage and establish
ment have been destroyed the two
persons most concerned are heartily
g'ad of it, and wisely so. As for other
sufferers from the event they have
only to look back one generation to
find better social ethics and a better
example. Globe-Democrat.
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COLUMBIA IMPROVEMENTS.
.After Chairman Hooker and other
members of the house river and harbor
committee examined the site of the
proposed boat railway around The
Dalles of the Columbia, they are pre
pared to report on the matter, and it
is probable that their report will be
adverse to that plan of removing the
obstructions. Mr. Hooker is some
what reticent about expressing an
opinion regardiner tne . recommen
dation he will make to congress, but
other members of the committee who
visited the coast last summer are free
to express an opinion that the boat
railway scheme will not be approved
in the next session - of congress and
that the committee on rivers and har
bors will not take favorable action for
any improvement there that does not
have for its object a different plan
than either a boat railway or a portage
railway. It is very probable that
what will be done is the authorization
of a survey to be made for the construc
tion of a canal and locks, and which
will secure the passage of boats of
about four feet draft. It is asserted
that boats of greater draft than this
cannot operate successfully above the
dalles, and that boats of this draft can
go far up the Columbia river, the
Snake and the Clearwater. It is the
general belief that a canal and locks
of the kind contemplated could be
built at an expenditure of less than
$1,000,000, and also that they could be
pushed to completion at an early day.
As a method for river improvement
a canal and locks are unquestionably
the most feasible and the least ex
pensive to operate. When once con
structed they are permanent, and are
ever ready for the use of vessels. A
boat railway between here and Celilo
might prove practicable, but it would
be largely experimental, and it has
ever been a wonder that the govern
ment engineers recommended it as a
means of overcoming the obstacles to
navigation. , Should congress 'at the
next session authorize the construction
of a canal and locks' it would have to
reverse the judgment of the engineers
which is an uncommon proceedure,
nevertheless it would seem to be the
most reasonable plan to pursue.
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PRESIDENT AND FINANCE.
The forth coming message of the
president to congress, it is announced,
will embody a lengthy decision of the
currency question and will make recommendations-
as to currency reform.
Just what these recommendations will
be has not yet been made public, but
likely they will follow the plan of
Secretary Gage to retire all the credit
jurrency,place the power to issue paper
money in the hands of national banks,
and authorize the issuance of bonds to
secure the same. This is briefly the
plan of Secretary Gage and also of the
self constituted monetary commission,
but it is not a plan that will result
beneficially to the people at large.
Delegating the sole power to issue
credit 'currency to national banks
would virtually be creating a monopoly
of the money issuing power. It would
be as if carrying the mails were given
to one corporation with power to
charge whatever could be extorted for
transmitting letters -and periodicals.
If this gigantic institution was in the
hands of a corporation the tax on
matter that go through the mails
would be limited only by the power of
the corporation to extort tolls. Were
authority to issue credit currency dele
gated to the national banks it would
be-no less a monopoly than turning
the mail system over to a single cor
poration.
It is possible, however, that the
president will 'take a broader view of
the question than- does Mr. Gage and
that he will recognize' that the whole
financial system should be in the hands
of the government, because it is of
vital importance to the whole people,
and it should not be left to private in
dividuals and corporations, who by
the reason of the power thus given
them, make a football of the govern
ment to the detriment of the greater
part of those governed. . By placing
the finances 'of the country- in the
hands of a few persons, by the reason
of the power of money those few persons,-'
become the governing power
notwithstanding congress and the ex
ecutive officers. .
political revolution of 1840
reins of government into the hands
of the whigs. At that time the whips
ware protectionists of a pronounced
type, however the tariff was not made
an issue in the election of 1840, but
flushed by victory the party proceeded
to put its theories into practice,
and the whig congress of 1842 passed a
protective tariff law, the first really
protective, measure in the history of
the nation.
In the' national campaign of 1844
protection was made the issue, Henry
Clay, the then greatest apostle of pro
tection, was the nominee of the whig
party. The democrats nominated
James K. Polk, and put fort a plat
form denouncing the tariff law of 1842
and declaring for a tariff for revenue
only, also favoring the annexation of
Texa9 as a slave state, a measure most
unpopular in the' North though ac
ceptable to the South (at that time
there was very little manufacturing
in the South cotton war king',) but
in the North ' manufacturing was
making rapid advances. Nevertheless,
with all the opposition to slavery in
the 13 free states, on the tariff for
revenue issue, seven of them gave
their electoral vote to Polk. Thus
emphatically repudiating the high
protective measure of 1842.
Polk was elected by an overwhelm
ing majority and with him a demo
cratic congress, which in 1846 enacted
the Walker tariff a revenue tariff as
demanded iq the democratic platform
of 1844 and which remained' virtually
unchanged until 18G2, when the de
mands of the civil war required in
creased revenues and the "war tariff,'
as it was termed, was enacted. The
Walker tariff proved adequate as a
revenue measure,- supplying all the
means necessary for conducting the
government, and the census taken in
1869 shows the nation to have been
more prosperous under its workings
than at any other period. It was
popular with the people, and in his
'Twenty Years in Congress" Mr.
Jjiaine says of it that it gave more
general satisfaction than any other
tariff law ever passed.
During the progress of the civil
war, and for several years thereafter,
the requiremenis of the government
were so great that the people sub
mitted uncomplainingly to increased
taxation, and in consequence tariff
duties were steadily increased, both on
lines of protection and for -the pur
pose of creating revenue. This con
tinued until 1890, when the McKihley
law was enacted. It was the highest
tariff ever enforced to that time, and
proved so obnoxious to the masses,
that at the next congressional election
following its'passage'when1' the tariff
was made the issue (the republicans
endorsing and the democrats denounc
ing the McKinley law in their plat
forms), it :was overwhelmingly re
pudiated by the people, the democrats
carrying every state in . the union, ex
cept Maine, Vermont and Washington ;
that is, electing a majority of the con
gressman at the election held in Nov
ember, 1890, gaining a majority of 150
in the house, and defeating Mr. Mc
Kinley. Again in 1892 the tariff was
made the issue, and again the people
expressed their disapproval of high
protection and burdensome taxation,
the democrats ' electing , the president
and a majority in both branches of the
national congress.
The Wilson law, as it finally came
from the senate, was not a fulfillment
of the voice of the people expressed at
the election of 1892, but a mongrel of
of protection principles and revenue
measures a tariff law as Mr. Walter
son very appropriately remarked that
a democratic dog wouldn't bark at.
Imperfect as it was when it passed the
house, it was so aoamended in the
senate as to foster trusts and mon
opolies, and had it been made the sole
issue in 1896 it would have been re
jected by the people. -
When the republicans again went
into power last March, their first act
was to convene, congress and pas! a
high protective measure that is how'
on the statute books, and is even
more obnoxious than the McKinley
law which was rejected by the people in
the elections of 1890 and '92. What
will the masses do with it at the next
election? Will they or will they not
endorse it? In connection with the
money question the Dingley law will
be put on trial before the people at the
elections to be held next year. Will
not history repeat ifself ? Will not the
great masses, who must ere anohter
year shall elapse feel the effects of in
creased taxation arise and with their
votes denounce the measure?
clasfes
dors.
Mr. Gage that his
ngthen the credit of
to make its paper cur-
ble; but while Mr. Gage
is a recognized successful financier
and banker, his plan is certainly not
one he would adopt in ordinary busi
ness to strengthen the credit of his
bank -or increase the stability of its
outstanding paper. If his bank had
an interest bearing debt of $100,000
and a like noa interest bearing debt of
$100,000, be could not expect to
strengthen its credit by cpn verting the
latter into a debt bearing interest.
That is. if he had deposits amounting
$100,000 on which he was paying in
terest and a similar amount on which
ho was not paying interest, his method
for creating confidence in the drafts
drawn against his bank would net be
by agreeing to pay interest on the
$100,000 for which ho is not now pay
ing interest. Yet this is just what
he proposes to do to create confi
dence in or stability of the drafts
against tne government, which he in
sists must be national bank notes.
The government has an interest
bearing debt of something over $800,
000,000 and anon-interest-bearing debt
of $750,000,000 in uncovered paper,
which Mr. Gage says must be converted
into bonds to be bought and deposited
by national banks with the U. S. treas
ury to secure their circulation..- Cer
tainly he could not hope to improve
the credit of the government by im
pairing its ability to pay, and this
would be what would result when its
obligations were increased by doubling
the interest payments it would be
forced to meet.
The credit of 'the nation is based
solely upon the confidence there is in
its stability, its ability to meet all de
mands made against it. Were it not
for this confidence, government bonds
would be at a discount and national
bank notes would be worth little more
than the paper on which they are
printed, for there is not one cent back
of them but the credit of the nation,
should Mr. Gage's plan succeed and
become a law, the government credit
would be impaired in proportion to
tne amount of increased burdens in in
terest charges that are created. Hence
his plan to increase the stability of the
circulating medium will diminish it.
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vo been in-
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itizenship. and
people of tbe
them in their
"its it is said, will be the firt time
that the Chinese shall haye openly de
clared - themselves. They have or
ganized the Chine'-e Riirhta League ef
America. -
Opinion of C'oui;r- 8;.in:tn Bell.
Denver, Nor 22. Con ...v.. m t
John C. Beil, of Colored , stopr - i -ff
a few hours in tlii- ciiy on his way to
Washington, where he goes to attend
a meeting of the appropriations com
mittee. Speaking of the probable ac
tion or congress at its commsT- session
on the financial question, he said:
"I think a bill will pass the honso
practically as recommended by the ex
ecutive, and it will then go to the sen
ate, where it will he abandoned by tbr.t
body and an appeal will be made to
tbe people that they must make the
senate republican before any remedial
legislation can be obtained."
Spain Willing to Buy Peace
With Cuba.
MANY CHINESE
Two Duels la Germany.
Berlin, Nov. 23. A sensation was
caused in Jiis city today by the report
of two duels fought between army olii
cers. - The first report came from Col-
berg; Prussia, and stated that Captaiu
Hahn and Captain Ostraki had fought
a dliel there and that the latter had
been : dangerously wounded. Both
-men" belong- to ' the same regiment,
stationed at Colberg. It is alleged
that Captain Hahn had seduced his
Vicr-im's wife. The second duel was
fought at Nuerem. Lieutenant Sieg
mund, . of .the Seventy-fifth regiment,
mortally wounded Lieutenant Schoen
. field, of the same regiment.
' "Woodrat Wood's Mine.
Goldendale, Wash., Nov. 25.
John M. Marble, an old resident of
Klickitat, and for a number of years a
residentof Fort Simcoe, on the Yakima
reserve, says he believes Woods has
found rock that rivals in richness that
of the Klondike, and that tbe location
of the find is on the Yakima reserva
tion. "Uncle John" Marble, as he is
better known, says the country Woods
describes is quite familiar. Should
the find be located on the reserve, it is
very probable the government will
have no easy task to keep back the
eager prospectors now waiting about
Goldendale and other points to seek
the new Eldorado.
WILL IMPAIR CONFIDENCE.
ECCELSl NEW JOB.
James H. Eckels, comptroller of the
currency, has accepted the presidency
of the Commercial bank of Chicago
and will assume his new duties on
January 1. He will receive a salary of
20,000 a year, or $14,000 more than he
receives as comptroller of the currency.
His term of Ji ye - years in the latter
office, to which he was appointed by
President Cleveland, will not expire
until April 28, 1898. When President
McKinley assumed office he requested
Mr. Eckels to serve out the full term
but be could not reasonably decline
the offer that has come to him from
Chicago. He is a young man, but
has made a brilliant reeod a finan
cier. He has been offered the presi
dency of the Metropolitan Trust com
pany of new York, and also the presi
dency of the CoUvaia Trust Company
of the same city. The Cbia&gp bask
to which he goes has a capital ot
$1,000,000, with a surplus of about the
same, while its deposits aggregate
$10,000,000. Mr. Eckles will send his
resignation to President Mc.Kinl.ey
after submitting his annual report to
congress on December )6,
Enough has been given out of the
proposition that Trill be submitted to
the coming session ofi congress for
reforming the currency to show that
it is the most gigantic scheme for rob
bing the people that Has ever been
proposed in this or any other country;
The plan outlined by Secretary Gage,
and the one that will probably be
recommended In the president's mes
saee, is to issue sufficient 3, per cent
bonds to cover all the uncovered
paper now in circulation, which in the
aggregate amounts to about $750,000,-
000. "Yhich in effeet is a scheme to
tax the people 3 per cent interest on
all the circulating medium outside of
actual metalic coin. It can be nothing
short of this, for it is proposed to issue
bonds equivalent to every dollar of un
covered paper money now in clrcula
tion, and to permit national banks to
issue bank notes in lieu thereof-, and
as Secretary Gage asserts that the
amount of circulation shall not he de
creased, it means simply that 4750,
000,000 in new bonds shall be issued,
thus increasing tbe annua interest pay
ment $22,500,000. As we have now la
circulation-of gold and silver coin, gold
and silver certificates and national
bank notes only about about $350,000,
( of which $206,000,000, is national
bank notes.en which the people are in
directly paying 3 pejr sent interest,
the interest upon the bonds deposited
to secure their payment, under tbe
operations of this plan there would be
but $650,qp0,Q00n circulation on which
no interest is paid.- while 9960,000,000
of, the money used in conducting the
bustpesa of the country would be an
Interest bearing debt. In short,
Senator Gormon's friends are en
couraging him to run for governor of
Maryland next year, but he prefers to
go to Europe to rest up. After being
a boss for so long, no doubt the sen
ator needs rest, and the longer he pro
longs it across the waters the better it
will be for Maryland.
A decision of the supreme court in
the case of the Dayton Hardware Co.
is a serious set back to the state board
of equalization, and in fact invalidates
the acts of that body. If tbe board- is
not clothed with authority to raise as
sessments where country authorities
have neglected to comply with the law,
it is deprived of all powers that could
be beneficial to tbe state at large.
Whersver they have been tried;
postal. savings banks have given satis
faction to the people. They have,
proven a constant invitation to thrift
and economy, and have been the in
centive that has built up many a small
fortune. The establishment of such
institutions in this country would be
in accordance with' the principle that
should characterize all legislation-
protection of those who are weakest
and require the greatest protection.
Portland wholesalers who visited
The Dalles Monday were most favor
ably impressed with the importance of
the city as a distributing point, and
much good may come out of their be
coming better acquainted with The
Dalles in its resources, and in return
The Dalles can be of advantage to
Portland in giving it trade that now
goes elsewhere, Portland depends on
the entire state for support, and it is
to the mutual advantage of ohe
metropolis and all parts of the state
that friendly business relations exist.
Little political bees are beginning to
buzz around in bonnet over on the
west side of the mountains, and the
latest one that has been heard making
his wings flutter lit on Harry Benson,
whispering in his ear that he would be
a favorable candidate before- the next
republican convention for superintend
ent of public Instruction. When this
dews was broken to Supt. Irwin in a
hotel lobby at Portland the other
evening, there was a palor came over,
the reverend gentleman's face that in
dicated that he expected to hold on to
the job another four years. Rev. Ir
win appears to think he has a sure
thing on the nomination, but sure
things sometimes crawl.
Carter Harrisen, mayor of Chicago,
is no doubt a shrewd politician, but
occasionally he makes mistakes,' He
tendered his services to Tammany in
the recent election in New York, and
was probably a factor in the election
of Van Wyck. After thus identifying'
himself with Tammanyt he comes out
with a declaration that-- he. will not be
a party to any scheme that Tammany
may originate to turn down Bryan
and take up some. other man for tbe
democratic presidential candidate in.
1900. It is difficult to see how . Mr.
Harrison is going to be of. much
weight' in opposing the New York
bosses, since haying so recently allied
himself to them, "
UIPDLE-BOAPER3 AT ST. LOUIS.'
The first Cold Wave.
Chicago, Nov. 23. The fir6t winter
weather of the season is enveloping
the whole Middle South and West to
day. The line of freezing temperature
extends as far south as central Texas.
The coldest place in the country is
Havre, Mont., where 16 deg. below
zero was chronicled last night, while
zero weather is being experienced as
far east as Moorhead, Minn. It is be
low that point through North Dakota,
At St. Paul it is 8 above today; at Chi
cago 8 above,and at St. Louis 26 above.
Moraes Bears a Charmed Life.
New York, Nov. 23. The Herald's
Rio Janeiro correspondent says that
Mello declares that the last attempt to
kill Moraes was the sixth affort that
has been made to assassinate the presi
dent. The other five attempts passed
unnoticed.
The charge that the conspiracy was
headed by Vice-President Perecia is
substantiated by the fact that Perecia
signed and gave to Mello a commission
of ensign.
judge ftahrs Yields. .
San Francisco, . Nov. 22 When
the attorneys interested in the Durrant
case assembled in Judge Bahrs' cham
bers this morning in accordance with
the arrangement made Saturday last,
when the court refused to settle the
bill of exceptions in the matter of the
proposed appeal from his order refus
ing to set the Minnie Williams case
for trial. Judge Bahrs announced that
he had changed his mind after think
ing the matter over, and thereupon
signed the bill of exceptions, thus per
fecting the appeal.
Drowned at Baker City.
Baker City, Nov. 22. Frank
Howard, a mining man and engineer,
recently at the Bonanza mine, yester
day afternoon fell from the Valley
'Avenue bridge and was drowned. He
has been on a protracted spree, and
was boadering on delirium tremens.
The unfortunate man was aged about
55 years. ' ' '
Moonshiners In Umbo.
;Hot Springs, Ark., Nov. 22. Dep
uty United Slates Marshal Marshall,
with a posse of 12 men, has arrived in
the city with 15 illicit distillers who
were captured in Scott county. The
officers destroyed four stills and about
4000 gallons of whisky and beer, The
officers got the drop pn the men and
captured them without trouble.
The Guatamlan Government
Taking- Steps to Exclude
Them.
Are
Krowned at Baker City Opinion of ( on
er.ssman lit-11 -O io More Truct
- Moonshiners in L.imo Judge -Bahrs
Yields.
CHILLED
PLOWS 1
Havana, via Key West, Nov. 22.
General Pando started for this city by
train last Saturday, according to of
ficial announcement, to take charge of
the campaign against the insurgents.
He wa9 accompanied by all his staff,
and was escorted by a company of
artillery.
It is stated on good authority, how
ever, that-Pando has been commission
ed by Captain-General Blanco to enter
into communication with the insurgent
leaders, with a view to arranging for
peace. This statement ia based upon
accurate knowledge of all the facts.
Pando first secured the release from
confinement of Damien Caballero, who
nas Deen imprisoned lor acting as a
spy for the insurgents. Pando fur
nished CaballerO, who is god-father of
Rabi, the man looked upon as being
the backbone of the insurgent govern
ment in the province of Santiago de
Cuba, with a considerable sum of I
money and caused him to be attended
to Manzanillo, where a good force was
placed at his disposal. Pando's peace
emmissary was also furnished official
documents empowering him to act in
behalf of the Spanish commander.
Pando instructed Caballero to offer
General Rabi high rank in the Spanish
army and a large sum of money to be
distributed among the other insurgent
leaders of that part of Cuba, and in
addition, a large amount of money for
himself in the event of his succesding
in arranging terms of peace.
Although Caballero has not returned.
confidential advices reaching Spanish
officials here seem to indicate that he
has so far been unsuccessful. It is
understood that Rabi replied that he
believed the successful ending of the
war in ' favor of tbe insurgents was
approaching. That the Cubans, with
the aid of the Uuited State", will gain
their independence, and therefore he I
desires to continue fighting the
Spaniards until the final victory is
won.
SAT3 FOOTBALL IS A NECESSITY.
Ilr. Bay, of Syracuse University, Defends
the Uame.
Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 23. Rev. Dr.
James R. Day, chancellor of Syracuse
university, and a Methodist clergyman,
says in a public address:
i Deiieve tnat some sue a game as
football, which contains elements of
roughness and danger, is necessary to
the development of many young men
in the universities and seminaries. The
future is tending towards a more open
playing of the game. I do not like the
hurling' of ..ope pjasspf . humanity
against another until one or tbe other
become exhausted, but I do not like
joining the universal outcry against
the game.
"The American people are easily in
fluenced into a general epldemij of re- j
form, but 1 think football has come to
stay. It is engineered by the faculty
of Syracuse university. Football would
fail in one of its chief features, I think,
if.it should noA(1teaoh the young man
self-control. A man who goes through
a season of being .trodden upon and
knocked down,.deserveq .fairly a diplo
ma in the art of self-control. It is very
good discipline."
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CHINESE TOO NUMEROUS.
Gaatemalan Government Taking; Steps to
- Exclude Them.
San Francisco. Nov. 22. A corres
pondent writing from Guatemala
City under date of November 6, says:
The government of this country is
taking steps tending to the exclusion
of Chinese who lately have been
getting over the frontier in large
numbers. For this purpose the gov
ernment has promulgated ' a decree
providing that within two months all
persons of Chinese nationality within
the limits ef the republic will have to
present themselves to be enrolled in a
registry which will be opened for that
purpose. Afcir the expiration of the
term fixed every Chinese who, on be
ing requested by thelocal authorities,
does not present a certificate, will be
expelled from the nation.
The New Superior Drills and Seeders
HAVE NO EQUAL .
In buying these goods you can ALWAYS GET EXTRAS
for them at reasonable prices, which is a big item to farmers.
Call and see these goods at
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The Dalles, Oregon.
one Blare Trust,
Whxiamsport, Pa., Nov. 22. The
American Woodworking Machinery
Company has just been organized and
will control 14 concerns ' manufactur-
ing seven-tenths of .the woodworking
machinery produced - in the United
Slates. The capital is f 8,500,000.
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National Oreanixatiqn of tbe' Populiit
Party Convened.
ST. Louis, Mo., Nov. 23. The na
tional organization committee of the
populist party representing tbe.middle-of-the-roaders.met
here today.-Twenty-nine
states wera represented. Among
those present are General Jacob S.
Coxey, of Ohio; Chairman Tilton
Parke, of Texas; Secretary W. S. Mor
gan, of. Arkansas; Braddoa D. Cowe,
of Alabama, treasurer, and Wharton'
Backer, of Philadelphia, editor of the
American,
- Chairman Parke said the purpose of
the meeting was to determine the fu
ture course. ' :-- - '
HVe are opposed to fusion with any
body or anything," he continued," and
we want a straight fight if we can pet
it."
Will Appeal to Congress.
Chicago, Nov. 23. American Chi
nese and native-born Chinese will ap
peal to congress for the right of 'suf
frage and ask that body , to' repeal the
Yoke Fellows.
Many women work too
nam. .There is no ques
tion about that If they
did not havi liim fn-r A
yoke r fellow they could
never endure the dailv.
hourly erind and drudeerv
of life. But they bear it
cheerfully, sustained by
rovine moments ot nus.
:: - - Band and children.
But when physical weakness or disease is
added to a woman's burden it becomes al
together too Heavy. Ho woman can be
cheerful or hopeful who is dragged dowr
by continual pain and physical wretch
edness. The special weaknesses peculiar to the
feminine organism are comparatively easy
to overcome if the earlier symptoms are
given proper attention. But if allowed to
go unchecked, they are liable, to develop
into serious, chronic complications.
" Any woman afflicted with these delicate
ailments ought to have the immediate aid
of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It is
a perfect and unfailing speci6c for all dis-.
eases 6f the feminine ' etgans. It was de-
Asks Bnssla to Help.
"aw York, Nov. 23. According to
a vvasnington aispatcn to tne Herald,
China has appealed .to Russia to oust
Germany from her territory as the re
sult of occupation by a German force
of part of the Shan Tung . peninsula.
As the Russian legation ia Peking is
in charge of the secretary, Count Cas
slni, the minister having been trans
ferred to Washington as the diplomatic
representative of RuEsla, the negotia
tions on the subject are being' conduct
ed in St. Petersburg. It is hoped by
the Chinese that the influence exerted
Jy Russia which prevented the rehabil
itation of the Turkish navy will be ex
ercised upon Germany with equal suc
cess in the matter of her occupancy of
Chinese territory.
Notwithstanding the efforts of the
Chinese government to get Germany
to name a date when she would with
draw her forces, the German govern
ment has taken no step in the matter,
and the fear is expressed in Eastern
and European diplomatic circles that
her occupation, if not permanent now,
is simply preliminary to such an end.
the palace, then coolly went to a
friend's house inside tbe Spanish lines
and took supper. All this was under
the guns of Cabanas and Moro.
It is learned from an inside source
that the object of the rebels was to re
lease General Rui Rivera, and hang a
citizen named Fu mi ro who is known as
a spy. They failed in the first object
only because of some misconception of
the appointed time on the part of con'
federates within the prison with whom
arrangements had been made to admit
them into the fortress. Fumiro man
aged to e9cap6,across the harbor.
SAYS DCSB1NI IS GCII.TXF.9S.
vised tor -this one purpose, and accomp
lishes this purpose as no other medicine
nas ever aone. ..
For nearly .yj years Dr.. Pierce has been
Chief consulting physician of the .Invalids'.
Hotel and - Surgical Institute, at Buffalo,
N. Y., where in conjunction with, bis staff
of associate specialists, be has successfully
treated many thousand cases of "female
complaint."
No physician living has had a more ex
tended .opportunity tg 'study this class of
diseases in actual practice. Ma medicine
ever invented has done for women what his
"Favorite Prescription" has. ' ?
Dt. ' Pierce's Tellets cure constipation..
Attack the Palace.
New Yohk, Nov. 23. On Sunday
morning, for the first time in the his
tory of the Cuban war, rebel bullets
sought the palace in Havana, says a
dispatch to tne Herald from Havana.
The shots came from Casa Blanca, 600
yards across the entrance to the har
bor, and while no one was hurt, the
palace, with its electric lights, was a
shining mark, and must have been hit.
The .Spanish authorities attempt to
make light of the affair, but at the
same time a reporter for La Lucha who
rote tip and attempted to publish the
faots in the ease, was put in prison. ;
The attack on Casa Blanca was made
by Brigadier-General Cardenas And 50
rebels.' They entered the town shortly
before midnight on horseback, and at
tbe end of an hour each man led out of
town a horse with one extra head aD
propriated, laden with clothing, pro
visions, silver plate and money. Be
fore they left they sent two vollevs
Blanther's Widow Talks of ttxa Emaunel
Chnrch Horror.
Fort Worth, Tex., Nov. 25. The
widew of Arthur Forbes, alias J. E.
Blanther, who was arrested at Meri
dian, Tex., charged with having mur
dered Mrs. Langfelt, in San Francisco,
and who committed suicide in the
'Bosque county jail, has been located
in this city. The woman goes by the
name of Ada Taylor. .
She says that she married Arthur
Forbes at Little Rock, Ark., in 1892,
and that they .taught in the public
schools in Boeque county in 1896. They
had some trouble, during whicn Forbes
shot her three times. About that time
Arthur Forbes, alias Blanther, was ar
rested, charged with murdering Mrs.
Langfelt, and be was lodged io jail,
where be subsequently committed sui-
Ide by taking morphine. X
Mrs, Forbes says there is no doubt
as to Forbes being the murderer of the
San Francisco woman. He ofte told
her that he was well acquainted with
Minnie Williams and Blanche Lamont,
having been introduced to them by
Durrant; that he often referred to the
murders in such a
Claims Were Compromized.
Victoria, Nov. 25. Owners of the
schooners Willie MacGowan and
Ariel, seized by tbe Russian cruiser
Zabika off Cooper islands in 1801, re
ceived word today that the Russian
government has offered $40,000 for
compensation. They will accept H.
The schooners were seized for being
within the prohibited zone, but it af
terwards turned out that the comman
der of the Zabika was insane. Tbe
owners claimed $60,000 for the loss of
the schooners and consequential dam
ages. .
tor Use In Alaska.
St. Paul, Nov. 25. The Northern
Pacific nas arranged to ship two cars
of dogs to Seattle, where they will be
put in service for transportations-pur
poses in Alaska. The dogs were gath
ered up in Wisconsin and other states.
Tbere are a number of packs of dogs
and each pack is in' charge of several
me:,
The Northern Pacific has also ar
ranged for a shipment of reindeer de
signed for Alaska transportation. They
were procured by the government in
Lapland, and will arriye ia New York
in a few days. From there they will
pass through St. Paul to Seattle, and
thence will be sent to Alaska.
progress In Bacteriology.
No seience, unless it be that of the
electrician, can boast such a wonder-
ful growth in the past quarter century
as that of bacteriology, which has de
veloped with remarkable rapidity
since Pasteur made his initial investi
gations. It is now known and con
ceded by all branches and schools of
the medical profession that nine-tenth
(and probably even a larger per cent.)
of all the diseases of both man and an
imals are due to the presence of cer
tain of the bacterial species, and, In.
significant as they are in size, their
presence may rapidly bring about
wonderful structural changes,' this
owing to the amazing rapidity with
which certain of the species propagate
twenty minutes in some instances
sufficing for the complete lifetime of
feneration of millions.
Her Health Restored
was convinced that he know of them,
Mrs. Taylor Bays that one of her
trunks is still in San Francisco, where
it was used ln evidenve during Dur
rani's trial, She today wired Durrant
as follows;
"Have courage; I believe you to be
an innocent man; if I can help to prove
your innocence command me."
Catholic Buildings Burned.
Oakland, Nov. 25. fire whioh
broke out shortly before 12 o'clock last
night at Temesca', a suburb of this
city, completely destroyed the church
and school of the Sacred Heart, the
clergy-house and all the adjoining out
buildings. Father Serda, the pastor,
had a narrow es :t.pe from death while
iryiug to save some of the school furni
ture. A menomenal Rainfall.
The most phenomenal rainfall record.
manner that she ed in the annals of Ohio took place on
m
7?:.
nil!
Warning: Persons who suffer from
coughs and colds should heed the
wrrnings of danger and save them
selves suffering and fatal results by
using One Minute Cough cure. It is
an infallible remedy for coughs, colds,
crouD and all throat and lune troubles
across the narrow harbor entrance at Snipes,in el-sly Drug- Co.'
me iztn aay of AueuKt. 1861. Mr. 8. R
McMillan, who gives an account of this
remarkable downpour, says that it es
tended over on area of at least 100 square
jnijes, The total amount of water which
fell during the 11 hours of precipitation
was 8V4 inches, and of that quantity 4.3
inches fell in 4 hours. What is meant
by a fall of 8 inches of rain, in so short
a space of time will be better under
stood when the reader is informed that
one inch of rain means 22,000 gallons to
the acre. This immense quantity of
water will weigh 220,000 pounds, or. 100
tonal ,:
THE misery ot sleeplessness can only be
realized by those who have expert-
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headaches, neuralgia and that mlserablo
feeling of unrest, can surely be cured by Dr.
MIlc3' Restorative Nervine. Bo certain is
Dr. Mlte3 of this fact that alT druggists are
authorized to refund price paid for tbe llrst
bottle tried, providing It does not benefit,
Mrs. Henry Bruus, wife of the well knows
blacksmith at Grand Junction, Iowft, aj
'I was troubled with sloeplessaoes, nervous
ness, headache and (regular menstruatloni
suffering untold misery for yean.. I used -various
advertised remedies for female com
plaints besides being under tbe care of local
physicians, without help. I noticed In Dr
lilies' advertisement the testimonial of a
lady cured of ailments similar to mine, and
I shall never ceaso to thank that lady. Her
testimonial Induced me to use Dr. Miles'
Nervine and Nerve and Liver Pills, which
restored me to health. I cannot say enough
for Dr.Miles'Remedics." U " MW!W1! -ri.
Dr. Miles' Remedies rL 1
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