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" MILITARY TRIBUNALS.
The embalmed beef investigation
and its conclusion are a surprise to the
American people. Military tribunals
in' both the navy and army, although
very distasteful, especially when they
take jurisdiction of any matter relat-
lng to civil life, were never regarded
as necessarily corrupt. ' But the hope
of impartial investigations affeiting
jobbers ' or politicians will no longer
be indulged. The conclusion of the
meat trust investigation is based upon
' the idea that all who were compelled
- to eat unwholesome beef or starve
-were liars, and all those who were in a
position 'to supply themselves with
- luxuries were truthful. ' The people
S were not prepared to believe that the
' beef trust magnates could not under
any circumstances find tools and de
pendents, who would prevaricate for
sufficient consideration. They sup
posed that the meat trust had willing
witnesses equally with all other trusts
, and that it would be no more difficult
for the great Chicago combination to
find witnesses who would lie, than it
, would be for the ordinary railroad
company in case of a collision. But a
military tribunal has found that every
thing connected with the meat busi
ness is perfect and every person having
an interest in that connection is pure
as an angel and every, person who
dislikes to eat or to have his fellow
" soldiers eat rotten beef has some
affinity with the devil.
The question is, how have military
tribunals been furnished with the kind
of spectacles that can see no good in
honest soldiers and no truth i n the
testimony of faithful officers andcan
see everything perfect in the stock
' jobbing fraternity? It may not be
easy to account for all this, but we do
know that Shaf ter jumped from the
bottom of his professsion to the top
" and that his three hundred and fifty
pounds avoidupois did not retard his
upward progress. It is suggested that
General Merritt is expecting to sup
plant General Miles. Did he not
know that in order to supplant Miles
he must indorse Alger ism and swear
by Alger and McKinley?- There is no
doubt that if Sampson has been called,
although none of the objectionable meat
was used in the navy, be would have
given his" testimony as readily as Sbaf-
ter that every pound of meat was of
the best possible quality because no
one has Vet attributed to Sampson a
want of gratitude 'for favors to come
even if he was a little hard on Schley
' for furnishing him a victory upon
which to build his reputation.
As long as the administration excer
cises at will the power, which (he law
has not prohibited but does not con
fer of promoting favorites for political
services, court-martials will deside as
; the executives desires. It is to great
"a strain on ordinary human nature to
call upon them in the capacity of wit
nesses or as members of a court-mar-
, tial to swear or decide themselves into
oblivion. They are not likely to do it,
and the-spectacles through which they
can see everything right in the admin-
, istration and everything wrong in
everybody else are -furnished by the
. executive who promotes according to
political services and not according to
military merit. National Watchman.
can congress will convene next Decem
ber, and unless something is done dur
ing that session to check the formation
of unholy combines of capital and to
restrain the operations of those already
formed, the eotira platform maybe de
voted to declarations againBt trusts,
that will not be believed by the people.
Since the beginning of the present
administration, in 1897, trusts have
been formed whose aggregate capital
is over $6,500,000,000. Since the euact
ment of the present tariff law trusts re
presenting $6,000,000,000 of capital
have been organized, and more than
three-fourths of these are in industries
that are special beneficiaries of a pro
tective tariff. The republican party
has it in its power to deal a telling
blow to trusts at the coming session of
congress by removing the duty on
every commodity the producers of
which have entered into a combine for
the purpose of preventing competition
and limiting production. By such
action the sincerity of platform declar
ations against trusts would be estab
lished. The people demand and must
have action, mere promises will not be
accepted. The battle is on now be
tween the people and the pitiless spirit
of monopoly, and action, not future
declarations, is what the people demand.
MORE ALGERISM.
Secretary of War Alger supplied our
army with rotten beef, imperfect camp
equipments and incomplete means for
transportation while they were en
gaged in war with Spain on the island
of Cuba; and because of his mistakes
many a brave man's life was sacrificed.
And now the old renegrade seems de
termined to annihilate as many of
those in the Philippines as he can by
supplying them with old style rifles
and black powder, while there are
thousands of improved rifies and tons
of smokeless powder that should be at
their disposal. A New York Post
Manila correspondent shows up these
short comings of Alger as follows:
Many of the vouluteers feel very
sore against the authorities, whoever
they may be, who are responsible for
making them go into battle with short
range Springfields and black powder,
against long range Mausers and smoke
less powder. It does not soften their
disgust of the administration now,
to get Krag-Jorgensens, that were
here before the last heavy fighting be
gan, and to learn from the cases the
rifles were packed in that they were
packed in 1897, and hayo been lying
in the casas unused during the whole
war with Spain. These soldiers have
hour after hour and day after
day, marched up against entrench
ments from which fire was being
poured upon them at a range of 2000
yards, and could not reply because
their guns were inferior in range to
those of the enemy. They haye been
fired upon .by a concealed foe with
deadly effect, the smokeless powder
making it impossible to tell where
their assailants were; and yet every
time they fired their Springfields a
great cloud of smoke arose to disclose
their exact position to the enemy, and
to obscure their own vision and to pre
vent accurate shooting. Now they
have received smokeless ammunition
and 'Krags that have been lying in
boxes since 1897. Those who have not
got Krags are Btill -carrying black
powder around with them, though
there are millions ot rounds of smoke
less Springfield cartridges here that
might be substitued. In considering
the work the volunteers have done
here, the fact that they were
armed with Springfields and black
powder, while the regulars had Krags
and smokeless powder, must add to its
appreciation.
A REPROACH TO SCIENCE.
The army physicians and other med
ical men continue to discuss the ty
phoid fever deaths in the American
army last year, which were the most
disgraceful feature of our military ad
ministration. The more the subject
is discussed the more certain does it
appear that the great numbar of cases
of typhoid and the great number of
deaths were due to neglect of simple
sanitary precautions.
The government appointed a board
of three physicans to study the subject
ject, and one of them, Dr. Victor C.
Vaugh, recently read a paper in a
medical association in which be sup
ported this conclusion. He went much
further, in fact; he stated that the true
proportions of the epidemic had been
concealed by representing many of the
typhoid cases as being malarial fever.
He said that practically all the cases
reported by the surgeons as malarial
fever were really mild types of typhoid
fever, and that the army surgeons
showed a marked aversion to calling
typhoid by its right name.
Now, what was the cause of the
great outbreak of typhoid in the army
camps? It is a very simple matter.
Typhoid fever always exists in isolated
cases, and when a thousand men or
more are assembled in an army camp
they are sure to bring the germs of the
disease with them; that is, there will
be a few cases in every regiment or
brigade. The camp sinks, which
should be most carefully attended to,
were neglected in a most shameful
manner, and the flies having access
to the sinks, carried the poison to the
cook tents and deposited it on the
food. This was the cause of the enor
mous amount of suffering in such
army camps as Camp Merritt, in San
Francisco, and - the great camp ia
Chicamauga.
It is horrible to think that in this
age of progress in medicine and hy
giene the volunteer soldiers should
have been poisoned to death because
the camps are filthy. But this was the
case, as was well known even before
Dr. Vaughn made his recent an
nouncement. It at first was supposed
that in many instances the water sup
ply was to blame, but Dr. Vaughan
says analysis of the water shows that
it was generally pure and wholesome.
The spread of filth in the manner be
fore described was the beginning and
almost the end of causes of the terri
ble .epidemic of typhoid. Oakland
Enquirer.
THE OREGON REGIMENT.
All Oregonians feel a pride in the
regiment this state sent to the Philip
pine islands, for the men who consti
tuted the regiment have never faltered,
and wherever duty called them they
have faced danger with the fortitude
of true soldiers, wincing laurels for
themselves and honor for the state.
However, much of the honor won by
the regiment is due to the gallant col-
onel who led them to battle and drilled
. them during the time they were pre
paring for action. While the men are
brave beyond question and possess
every requirement of good soldiers,
they have had the advantage over
many other volunteer regiments of
having a leader who is every inch a
soldier, a leader who was ever willing
to go to the frentand head his division
In the hottest of the fight. Such a
man is Col. Owen Summers, and his
worth is recognized by the department
at Washington as well as by Major
General Otis who has recommended
- that he be made a brigadier-general of
volunteers by brevet, an honor which
few colonels of volunteers have had
conferred upon them. All of Oregon
may well do honor to the gallant col
onel, for he has won distinction for
- the state, yet while we are doing honor
to Col. Summers we cannot forget that
what, he has accomplished was made
possible by the splendid body of men
which he commanded. Had they boen
. inferior he would be only a colonel,
and on the other hand, had not the
regiment been favored with a splendid
leader, it would not have been accord-
' ed the place it has. Honors, there
fore, are even between the officers and
men of the Second Oregon.
A GOOD PLATFORM.
The San Francisco Examiner pub
lishes a list of six principles as its
platform, and everyone of them should
be embodied in the democratic nation
al platform of 1900. Upon such a dec
laration of principles, the party can
go before the people, and unless voters
have lost their heads, carry a large
majority of the states. They are:
First, Publ'c ownership of public
franchises. (The values created by
the community should belong to the
community).
Second, Destruction of criminal
trusts. (No monopolization ' of the
THE "UNCIVILIZED" FILIPINO.
We have been told by writers de
scribing the Filipinos that they are
an-uncivilized, nomadic race, In capable
of self government, h race of vaga
bonds whose sole desire is to plunder
and rob. These we are told are the
people who inhabit the mountains
back from the sea coast, and their
condition is likened to that of the
American Indian when the western
hemisphere was discovered by Colum
bus. But General Law ton in giving a
report of his campaign, which has
been conducted in only one of the
islands of the archipelago, and covers
a period of only one month, says:
'I have had during the last month
22 engagements. Six of my men have
been killed in the field, two have died
from wounds, and 35 have been wound-
ed. The losses of insurgents were over
400 killed, while we have taken 1000
prisoners. I released 11 Spanish pris
oners, establishing civil government
in San Miguel, Ralinag and San Isidro
and safely conducted 540 . Chinese
refugees who were in fear for their
lives. In the section traversed, I have
destroyed 200,000 bushels of rice, 165
tons of sugar and 10,000 bushels of
corn. The supplies I destroyed would
feed an army of 30,000 men six months."
If the inhabitants of Luzon are such
an uncivilized, improvident race as
some "'writers indicate, it is strange
that General Lawton has found such
evidences of civilization in the shape
of tons of rtce,sugar and corn. His re-
as not,' then she will not accept it un
der anycircumstances. I was as crazy
as all the rest to register in 1894, and
we all went over and registered and
later voted, but I have had no interest
in voting since."
This may or may not be the general
sentiment of women, but it serves, to
illustrate the lack of interest taken by
the sex In elections where they are
given the right of suffrage. -In this
state women are allowed to vote at
school elections, and less that one per
cent-have ever exercised that privilege.
If they will not vote at such special
elections it is not likely that any very
large per cent would be found at the
polls at general elections. American
women as a rule have not educated
themselves to the belief that they
should participate in governmental af
fairs, and it will be many years be
fore there will be a general clamor
among them for the right of suffrage.
IN THE INTEREST OF BOSSES.
A perusal of the law passed by the
last legislature reapportioning the
state into senatorial and representative
districts will readily convince any one
that the bill Was framed with the view
of enabling political bosses to control
future legislatures. It will be noticed
that a little more than one-half of the
members are joint senators and rep
resensatlves, which makes their nomi
nations necessary at state conventions,
thus enabling the bosses in any party
to bring influences to bear; in short,
to dictate who shall be nominated for
legislative offices.
In creating the Beveral districts
hairs wore split very finoly in "order to
create joint districts instead of giving
counties seperate senators or repre
sentatives. Care was - also taken to
look well to the Interest of the repub
lican party by attaching democratic
counties to those giving strong repub
lican majorities. The apportionment
was made on the basis of 12.C83 popu
lation for a senatorial district and 6041
population for a representative district,
but any county falling a few short of
the required number was not allowed
a senator or representative, but wan
attached to some other country or
counties, and many counties whose
population entitled them at least to a
representative were grouped with
other counties so as to make a major
ity of both houses joint members.
To illustrate, the 21st representative
district is composed of Wasco, Crook,
Klamath and Lake counties, with one
representative. The 28th district
consists of Grant, Gilliam. Sherman
and Wasco counties,! with three repre
sentatives. Wasco county, according
to the state censns taken in 1895, had
a population of very nearly 11,000, and
on the basis of 6041, should have had
one full representative and one joint
representative with some other county.
Grant, Gilliam and Sherman, each
have very nearly 6,000 population, and
the same Is. true of Croon:, Klamath
and Lake. But to have given each of
these a representative would have in
terfered with the bosses at stats con
ventions. Wasco is also-very nearly
entitled to a senator, being only a few
short of the requisite number, but in
stead of being given a senator, was
attached to three senatorial districts.
The 9th district is Klamath, Lake,
Crook and Wasco, the 20th Wasco
and Sherman, the 21st Grant, Gilliam
Sherman and Wasco. Even the boun
daries of judicial districts were not
considered, which shut off all posslbil
ity of representative and senatorial
nominations being made at any other
place than at state conventions where
bosses can have full sway. '
A GREAT NAVY.
Dinpinos are a tbriity, progressive
people, who are at least good producers.
A people who are capable of produc
ing such quantities of food caunot
wen be a roving race, for it requires
times and labor to grow, crops of corn
and rice. Probably when the truth is
told about the "uncivilized" Filipino
national resources by lawless private it will be learned that he will at least
There are now building forthe Unit
ed States navy eight first-class battle
ships and four monitors. The batle
ships are the Kentucky and Kearsarge
authorized in 1895, the Alabama
Wisconsin and Illinois, authorized in
1896, and the Maine, Ohio and Mis
sourl, authorized in 1898. The Kear
sarge and Keutucky will be in com
port would rather . indicate that the j mission this winter, the Alabama,
combinations more powerful than the
people's government).
Third, A graduated income tax
(Every citizen to contribute to the
support of the government according
to his means, and not according to his
necessities).
Fourth, Election of senators by the
people. (The senate, now becoming
the private property of corporations
and bosses, to be made truly repre
sentative, and the state legislatures to
be redeemed from recurring scandals).
Fifth, National, state and municipal
government of the public school sys
tern. (As the duties of citizenship are
bcth general and local, every govern
ment, general and local, should do Its
share toward fitting every individual
to perform them).
Sixth, Currency reform, (All the
nation's money to be. issued by the
national government, and its supply to
be regulated by the people and not by
the banks).
rank with the Japanese, and while he
is not equal to the American citizen.
he is far from being an aborigine, and
if given an opportunity would Eucceed
in self governing fully as well as the
Japanese have,
WOMEN AT THE POLLS.
Republican leaders view with alarm
the storm that is threatening their
party from the anti-trust movement,
and are ready to dodge the inevitable
cyclone by any manner of promise or
pledge. Senator Depew, the most cun
ning of them all, hastens to announce
that the next republican rational plat
form will contain a declaration against
trusts, and many other prominent
leaders agree with his statement.
There is no doubt that these men are
correct, for in 1888 their platform de
clared against "all combinations of
capital, organized in trusts or other
wise, to control arbitrarily the con
dition of trade among our citizens,"
and the declaration was repeated in
, . 1892. Even a stronger declaration
may be expected in 1900, and it will
not be surprising if they rant aeatnst
trusts as loudly as a ward politician
does against buying votes or a boodle
nAnrHdntA for United States senator
against corruption of legislatures, but
declarations at that late date will
vail nothing.
It will not suffice for the republican
party to wait until the convening of
their next national convention to show
their hand. They are now in full con
trol of the legislative and executive
branches of government. A republi-
One of the Washington syndicate
correspondents says, "it would be a
very fortunate thing for the republi
cans if John J. Lentz could be made
democratic candidate for governor of
Ohio. Coming from the president's
state, he was the first man to bitterly
assail the president. It was he who
attacked the policy of the president,
and who went further than everybody
else in declaring against the popular
policy oi expansion. xentz was an
easy mark for the Ohio republicans,
and by a little skillful maneuvering
be was easily drawn out and made to
place himself in many ridiculous
lights. Any republican ought to
have an easy time in beating Lentz, if
he should be nominated for governor.
If Lentz is such an easy game it is
strange that he has been elected three
times from the twelfth congressional
district of Ohio which is strongly re
publican.
No sane person or law abiding citi
zen can sanction the recent destruc
tion of property by the miners at
Wardner, but the fact that such des
perate means were resorted to by
laboring men to avenge a supposed
wrong should serve as a warning to
capital. When people are ground
down or oppressed they become des
perate, and do not hesitate at lawless
deeds; they will take the lives or de
stroy the property of thtir oppressors.
If capital continues to lessen the wages
of labor and oppress those who toil,
while it rolls in opulence, it sows the
Beeds of anarchy, and must someday
suffer (be consequence.
Very many brainey, good women be'
lieve they.aragentitled to the right of
auurage, bub are coouaent mas tney
are entitled to the right of suffrage,
and also believe that they could work
reforms in politics If granted the privi
lege of voting and holding office. Few
of the most radical anti-suffragUts
deny the ability of woman to reform
anything she might undertake, yet
they question the advisability of re
moving the barrier to women voting
at general elections on the grounds
that the best woman would not avail
themselves of the opportunity, and the
extending of the right of suffrage to
them would throw responsibilities up
on them that is needless. This, how
ever, is a question wbicb tbe women
who desire the right of suffrage would
prefer to settle for themselves, hold
log that u tbey are willing to assume
such responsibilities it is nobody's
business but their own. Whether the
rank and file of women are really de
sirous of voting is possibly best an
swered by themselves by their own
actions in places where the right of
suffrage is extended to them. .
in Ublcago some live years ago,
women property owners were given the
right to vote at school elections. In
the city there were 250,000 women en
titled to vote, and in 1894 only 29,815
registered and of those who registered
only 80 per cent voted. In 1896, 5,636
registered, one-half of whom voted and
in 1898 only 1,488 registered while
1,122 voted.
Dr. Julia Homes Smith, president of
the Chicago Political Equality Club,
being asked by the Times-Herald why
wemen did not vote at school elections
said:
I think we are like children with a
new toy. A novelty at first, it has
become something we do not care for
at all. I registered but I see there are
only 22 other women in my ward whose
names are registered."
Lillian Bell, another once proml
nent suffragist, gave her views to the
Times-Herald as follows:
Why didn't the women register?
Simply because woman is a contrary
beast. If she is denied a thing, why
that is the very thing she will have.
It is so with all women. But if you
eay, 'there, you might w well hare it
Wisconsin and Illinois in December,
1900, and the Maine, Ohio, and Mis
souri in the winter of 1902. Each of
these battleships will be larger than
the Iowa, five of them having a dis
placement of 11,525 tons each, and
three a displacement of 12,500 tons
each.
The four monitors Arkansas, Con
necticut, Florida and Wyoming are
to have a displacement of 3100 tons
each. Each will carry two 12-inch
guns and four 4-inch guns. The eight
battleships will carry all told 20 13-lncb
guns, 12 12-inch guns, 28 5-inch and 90
6-inch guns, . to Bay nothing of the
lighter guns in the secondary batter
ies. ?
In this new navy we have 12 vessels
with an aggregate displacement of
105,525 tons, carrying 164 heavy guns
all of improved models and with all
the modern appliances as to rapid fire
armament and smokeless powder.
The 12-inch'guns carried by the Maine,
Ohio and Missouri will be of great
length and will have a muzzle energy
of 48.000 foot tons, as against the 25,985
foot tons of the 12-inch guns of tbe
Iowa. The rapid fire 5-inch guns will
have 6000 foot tons energy as against
the 3204 foot tons' of the 6-inch guns
now id use. It 1b estimated than the
improved ordinance will represent in
muzzle energy an increase of nearly
100 per cent of tbe old weapons.
In war power, in measurement by
tons, in effectiveness, tbe navy now
building for the United States is
stronger than our present fleet of
battleships and armored cruisers by 40
per cent, and it is infinitely stronger
than was the whole of our navy 10 years
ago. Later it will be increased by the
three battleships, three armored
cruisers, and six protected! cruisers
provided for in the last hours oi the
Fifty-fifth congress. Spokesman Re-
View.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
It is said Dewey's home coming is
because of a quarrel with General
Otis. Such a report cannot be credited.
Dewey is not the kind of a man to be
scared because of a quarrel with a fel
low officer, and Otis is too good a sol
dier to quarrel with his associates.
The possibilities are that there has
been no disagreement between the ad
miral and the general.
A Connecticut court has awarded
only $10 damages for the death of a
railway workman who was killed by
the negligence of the railway's agent.
This is not surprising, for the Con
necticut courts don't place much
value on the life of a man who
toils for a living. A man must be a
millionaire or a government official to
be of any consequence in that state.
Pendleton must have a thriftyset of
city officials, judging from the follow
ing item that appeared in the East
Oregon ian's news columns: None of
the councllmen came around to at
tend the regular weekly meeting of
the city council last night hence the
recorder closed up the books and went
his way to tbe Frazer opera house,
where he found the members listening
to the play "La Tosca."
A postmaster down south has orig
inated an original idea. He has sub
scribed to a telephone for his office
and advertises that when authorized
by patrons of the office at a distance
he will open their letters and read
them over the phone to those to whom
they are addressed without charge.
Why not our postmaster introduce a
similar service in The Dalles office?
What say you, Mr. Rlddell?
And now the eastern woolen manu
facturers who are beginning to pool
their interests are trying to gobble up
the woolen mills on this coast into a
trust so that they cabnot compete -vith
the eastern factories. They are red
hot after the Ihomas Kay mill at
Salem and other mills in the state.
When they get them, we will begin
paying tribute as we now pay to the
iron, steel, tin and other trusts
Governor Roger's announcement
that be will be a candidate for renom
ination next year has developed the
fact that he has more strength among
the democrats than has been expected
says an exchange. He ought to hare
strength among all property owners
in Washington, for he is the best gov
ernor the state has ever had even if
he is a populist. It matters little by
what name a man is known so long as
he fills a position as ably as Governor
Rogers has.
The house republican caucus com
mittee has agreed upon a scheme for
fastening the gold standard a little
more firmly upon the country. It is
to redeem all government obligations
in gold, reissue greenbacks only for
gold, permit national banks to issue
paper currency to the par value of
their government deposts and permit
national banks to incorporate with a
capital of (25,000. The scheme is a com
promise measure, and does not meet
the approval of the administration
Owners of wool that is held on con
signment in Boston and New York are
pursuing a wise course in ordering it
shipped to London and Liverpool
where they can realize better prices
for it than can be had in the United
States. , By sending it "abroad they
will diminish, the supply here, and
possibly fores the wool syndicate to
come up on prices. But the fact that
wool is being shipped out of the coun
try to a free trade market does not
speak very well for the theory of pro
tection. :
A gentlemen from the east who was
visiting in The Dalles a few days ago
remarked that he could not under
stand why it is that this place is not a
manufacturing town, since it has all
the natural advantages of locality,
climate and raw materials. Many of
the old residents express the same sur
prise, yet they cannot tell wby we
have not factories, except it is that
Tbe Dalles has always been such a
good trading point that it was not
necessary for people to turn their at
tention to manufacturing.
The senatorial contest in Michigan
is assuming rather a disgusting as
pect. Russell A. Alger, of embalmed
beef fame, wants the legislature of
Michigan to vindicate his incom
petency and rascality by electing him
United States senator, while Senator
James McMillan thinks he is entitled
to re-election. It is said McMillan's
candidacy is favored by President
McKinley, while at the same time, tbe
only plan to relieve the president of
Algeria to make, him senator. Mc
Kinley has two friends in the Michigan
senatorial race that are like millstones
about his neck.
be discovered. Had such a policy been
pursued when the Filipinos first asked
for a conference, the war would prob
ably be over by this time, but Otiswae
acting under instructions from the
relentless Alger, and as a consequence
a number of lives have been needlessly
sacrificed.
A year ago we engaged in a war for
humanity to prevent Spain from de
stroying the lives and property of her
subjects in Cuba and we are carrying
on this humane war right merrily in
the Philippines. General Lawton
reports that in one month he has
killed 400 of the ex-subjects of Spain,
that we bought for two dollars a head,
and has destroyed enough of their
property to feed 30,000 men for six
months. We are falling into the ways
of Spain pretty rapidly, and are carry
ing our humanity to the heathens with
a vengeance.
The superior court of Colfax must be
out of joint or the judge thereof has a
peculiar way of closing his eyes to
justice. John Ryder was convicted of
rape and incest, his twelve-year-old
daughter being the victim, and tbe
judge before whom he was tried sen
tenced him to only four years In the
penitentiary. The penalty for such a
crime ought to be death, and it would
not be amiss to inflict it at tbe stake
surrounded with burning foggots. A
judge who will inflict so light a pun
ishment as tbe one pronounced at
Colfax is a disgrace to the bench.
Congressman-elect Roberts, of Utah,
has been resolved against by nearly
every church organization that has
convened in the United States since
tbe Utah election last fall, and wlthqut
exception they have advised congress
to refuse to seat him, because it is
asserted he is a polygamist. If the
charge is true, Mr. Roberts should not
be seated, but it must have ground tbe
conscience of some of the divines to
resolve so strongly against him be
cause of his indulging in a practice
openly that they have indulged in
secretly. Evidently they did not heed
the command, "Let him who is inno
cent cast the first stone."
DEWEY IS AN
IMPERIALIST
He
Wants to Hold the
Philippines.
New York, May 24. A dispatch to
the Journal and Advertiser from Hong
' Kong quotes Admiral Dewey as saying
on board the Olympia:
"The courtesy of these visitors
warmly appreciate, but I am too much
worn out and sick to receive them.
am not sorry to leave Manila at this
time, I could not stand the care and
responsibility much longer. It is
vastly easier to be under orders than
issue them.
"It is responsibility that kills. Dur
ing tbe year that has elapsed since we
came to Manila, 1 nave not bad one
sick day until now. A year is long
enough in thls cHmatefor an old man,
and I am glad to be permitted a rest.
On this account, I expect to remain in
Hong Kong two "weeks. That ought
to recuperate me. My intention is to
spend tbe time at Victoria peak,
where .1 hope to be absolutely free
from worry. Nobody is more sensible
of the kindness of the people who have
extended me Invitations, but I do not
wish for entertainment. My health
will not stand it at present. Two
weeks of perfect quiet at the peak
ought to make a new man of me.
"I have the greatest enthusiasm in
the future of the Philippines. I hope
to see America possess the key to
Oriental commerce arfd civilization
The brains of our great country will
develop the untold agricultural and
mineral resources of the islands. We
must never, sell hem. Such an action
would bring on another great war.
We will never part with the Philip
pines, I am sure, and in future years
the idea that anybody should have se
riously suggested it will be one of the
curiosities of history."
ALL THE SAME
AS ALGER
A Raseally Officer White
washed at Manila.
Some Hot Scrlmmmrei. '
Washington, May 25. General
Otis cables the war department:
Manila, May 25. On the 23d inst
the Third infantry, while returning to
Ballnag, were attacted morning noon
ana evening oy a large lorce, our
army suffered in casulties two men
killed and 13 wounded. The enemv
was repulsed, leaving on tbe field 16
killed and a large number of wounded
and prisoners.
Yesterday the enemy appeared in
the vicinity of San Fernando and were
attacked by the Kansas and Montana
regiments, which suffered a slight loss.
The enemy was driven through the
rice field, leaving 50 dead, 38 wounded,
28 prisoners, 50 rifles and other prop
erty. Their retreat through the
swamp lands saved them from total
destruction. ' Lawton is returning,
leaving with MacArthur on the front
regular troops to replace the volunteers.
Ask your grocer for Clark;& Faik's
flavoring extracts . . (
The United States authorities at
Sau Francisco have refused to permit
the landing at that port of ten Filipino
musicians who have contracted their
services to play during the coming
season at a summer resort in JNew
York . state. They are denied tjie
privilege of landing on the ground
that it would be in violation of the
alien contract labor law. President
McKinley has just paid Spain twenty
million dollars for the Philippine
archipelago, or two dollars apiece for
the ten million inhabitants thereof.
Our soldiers are fighting against what
the administration terms an insurrec
tion against the authority of the Unit
ed States in the Philippine islands.
With such an outlay of life and money
it would seem that the Filipinos are
pretty near, if not quite citizens of the
United States, and ought to be admit
ted into this country as such. But
there are some funny things going on
in this country at present.
"A protest loud and strong should
go up against the formation of a soap
trust. As an agency of civilization
soap occupies a leading place, and any
attempt to lift it from the status of a
necessity of life to that of a luxury by
an increase in price should be sternly
discountenanced as wholesale conscrip
tion into the great army of the malodo
rous and unwashed," says the Oregon-
Ian. Well why should not a loud pro
test go up against the formation of
all trusts? They tend to increase
the cost of living, to enrich the wealthy
at the expense of the poor. In fact
soap trust would be less detrimental
than a trust on any article of food.
A man might live in filth for want of
soap, but he will certainly starve wnen
his food supply is sou, off.
Shot by a Negro.
Chicago, May 23. In endeavoring
to carry out the order of his superior
officers, to place under arrest all col
ored men carrying weapons without
permits an order which was due to
the killing of two colored men and the
wounding of a third yesterday morn
ing Policeman James F. Sheahan, of
the Twenty-second street station, was
shot in the abdomen early today, re
ceiving a wound that may prove fatal.
Sheban and some other policemen
were arresting four colored men when
one of them, Jd Haraer, broke and
ran. Sheahan pursued him. Bamer
turnnd and fired. The policeman
dropped to the ground. Hamer was
followed by companions of Sheahan,
who arrested him and took him to the
station. Hamer's three comrades
were also locked up.
Coat Sixty-two Hundred Lives.
New York, May 24. A special to
tbe Herald from Washington says
Adjutant-General Cor bin has prepared
a statement of the number of of deaths
which have occurred in the army since
the beginning of the war with Spain:
In Cuba, 1399; in Porto Rico, 287; in
Honolulu, 45; in the Philippines, 606;
in the United States, 3872. Total,
6209.
Fertiliser Trust's Lou.
Pittsburg, May 25. The fertilizing
plant of Walker, Stratmal & Co., in
this city, was destroyed by fire today.
Edward Probst, an employe.is missing.
It is feared he was burned to death.
Loss, about $1,000,000.
New York, May 23. A special to
tbe Tribune from Washington says:
The war department has received from
the Philippines the official record of a
remarkable trial by court-martial ot
an officer who has escaped conviction
on a charge of a grave character in a
manner altogether inexplicable to the
military legal authorities here.
It appears from the order approving
the proceedings, which did not, there
fore, require action in Washington,
that Captain Jones B. Jeffrey, assist
ant quartermaster of volunteers, was
tried at Manila for "quitting his post
to pillage and plunder, in violation of
the forty-second article of war," and
for conduct unbecoming an officer and
a gentleman. Under the first charge
It was specified that Captain Jeffrey,
while on duty at Ilo Ilo one night in
JTebruary, left bis post and entered the
house of a native against her protest
and appropriated household furniture,
silverware, jewelry, etc, to the value
of about $500, which he divided among
the privates wbh him. The specifi
cations under the second charge de
scribe him as then appearing intoxi
cated among the men and offering
tbem liquor, etc.
Just how he was acquitted does not
appear, but he was found "not quilty"
and that Is the end of the affair so far
as the authorities here are concerned.
Captain Jeffrey is a native of Canada
and was appointed to the volunteer
army from Illinois, in May, 1898.
WIZARDS OF THE AIR.
Veritable Living Meteors With BlngUcg;
. Bros' Great Circus.
There is probably no single feature
of a circus program that claims so-much
breathless attention or that thrills an
audience to a greater degree than an
intrepid performance upon the flying
trapeze. This is strikingly true of the
Fishers, the wonderful aerial family,
who will be seen with Rlngling Broth
ers' famous big circus when it exhibits
in this city Saturday June 10.' The
performance given by this notable
family of aerialists is not only unique,
but also superior to anything of the
kind ever seen in this country. They
actually fly through space, turning
single and double, somersaults in mid
air, and never failing to catch each
other at the critical moment of descent.
Equally remarkable are the thrilling
aerial exploits of tbe marvelous Da-
Comas. Swinging under the immense
dome, forty feet apart, Louis and Rose
toss their Bister Facchon across the
intervening space, catching her with
outstretched hands, and repeating the
thrilling maneuver until the audience
is fairly electrified by the daring
dexterity of tbe performance. - In ad
ditiou to the Fishers and DaComas
Rlngling Brothers offer many high
class aerial novelties. Mile . Tumour,
the aerial equilibrist, is an unrivalled
artist in her line.,, As masters of the
aerial bars, Alvo, Boise and Pickard
are without peers in the arenic world
Among aerial somersault divers the
Great LeFleur stands alone. These
are but a few of the great artists whose
performances in mid-air excite the
wonder and admiration of the thou
sands who daily visit this stupendous
show. The trained animal features
include O'Brien's famous sixty-one
horse act, Sunlin's performing bull.
Mme. Ada Castello and her famous
menage horse, Jupiter; three distinct
troupes of performing elephants, em
bracing Lochart's elephant comedians,
Souder's elephant brass ba-J and
Marchand's boxing proboscidians, and
a complete circus ofjwonderfully train
ed ponies, goats, dogs, pigs and other
familiar I animals. The hippodrome
introduces all kinds of new and novel
races, as well as the always thrilling
and exciting contest of the Roman
Maximus. Superb exhibitions of rid
ing are given by the largest company
of lady and gentlemen equestrians ever
organized, including Albert Crandall,
whose burlesque somersault act upon
tb.3 back of a mule creates a sensation.
The menagerie is tbe largest zoological
collection in the United States, and
embraces many rare specimens of
costly wild beasts seldom seen in cap
tivity. Circus day will begin with a
magnificent free street parade. The
procession will be in thirty sections,
each of which will constitute a seperate
and distinct parade. Nothing so
eleborate, nothing that could compare
with it in length, brilliancy or gor-
geousness of custuming and decoration
has ever been seen in this city.
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For this day only we have made a sweeping aeduction on our Crash Suit
ings, and would suggest that if you will devote a little time to considering these
goods you will find them just the proper thing for your camping costume or street
wear during the anticipated warm weather that always follows after a protracted
cold spring. These goods are displayed in our East Window.
15c per yard, today... .isc
20c " " " .i70-
25c " " " i9c
30c " " " 23c
TTncle Rastus once said: " Er
man ain't gwine ter tek er
pumkin when he kin git er
watermelon jes es handy."
We leave the application of this quotation
to you.
0'
UR sale of boys' and little fellows'
clothing will continue during the
entire week and with each suit
sold, from $2 50 up, we present a watch.
A word about these watches: They are
not toys; they are ' the Ingersoll Watch, a
genuine time-keeper and durable, some
thing that will last the boy for a long
time and be reliable. Only by taking
these watches from the manufacturer in
large quantities are we able to make this
offer. We carry a large stock of boys'
clothing to select from, yat we would ad
vise you to call early as yesterday's
sales would indicate a rapid depletion of
the stock. ,
YOU CAN hardly wish for anything
- eatable not to be found in our
grocery department. , That's why people
come to us when they are at a loss to
know what to put on the table for lunch
or for any dainty affair. Our immense
stock of fine groceries makes easy pur
hasing for the epicure. - ' " . '
Just now we'll suggest salads to you,
simply because we have the necessary
dressings, or can supply the ingredients if
you prefer a home-made dressing. In
dressings ready for the table we carry
My Wife's Salad Dressing.
Bayles' Salad Dressing.
Durkees' Salad Dressing.
California Salad Dressing.
If you prefer home-made, we carry Olive
Oils, either imported or domestic; Vine
gars, either Malt, Crystal or Pure Cider,
and a variety of Mustards.
ALL OO0D5 MARKED IN
PLAIN FIQURES
PEASE & MAYS.
At last General Otis has come to his
sences and has ordered hostilities in
the Philippines to cease for a time un
til the Fhilipinos can ascertain
whether they will accept the terms of
fered by the peace commission or con
tinue fighting, and at the same time
he will bold his army In readiness to
trlka a decisive blow should treachery
President Has Decided.
Washington, May 25. President
McKinley has positively decided to go
as far west this summer as St. Paul,
but whether he will go on to Yellow
stone Park and tbe coast depends upon
such circumstances that it is now im
possible to make a decision.
Tacoma School In m fix.
Tacoma, May 25. The Oakland pub
lic school situated in the southern
part of the city, was broken into last
night and robbed of every book and
all other paraphernalia of study.
Scholars have nothing to use today.
- Mnvel Hero lemd.
Easton, Md., May 24. Captain
Slover, who was pilot of the Monitor,
during her fight with the Merrimao In
Hampton Roads, Is dead, aged 82
years.
Olatend a Bankrupt.
Habtfoed, Conn., May 23. Albert
H. Olstead, a member of the defunct
banking . firm of George P. Bessel &
Co., has filed a petition in bankruptcy.
Liabilities $203,311; asset 1100,
' DEWEY A SICK MAM.
Too 111 to Attend tbe Qaeen's Birthday
Celebration at Hone Kong.
Hong Kong, May 22. The cruiser
Olympia with Admiral Dewey on
board has arrived ' here from Manila.
She was saluted. by the ships of all
nationalities. Dewey, Captain Lam
berton. Lieutenant Brumby and Unit
ed States Consul Wildman were receiv
ed by a guard of honor composed of
the Royol Welsh fusi leers, when they
landed to visit the governor of Hong
Koag. Sir Henry A Blake, Major-
General Gascoigne, in command of the
troops, and Commodore Powell com
manding the naval forces. The visit
was afterwards returned by tbe of
ficials mentioned. Dewey is In bad
health, being too ill today to attend
the queen's birthday celebration. -The
Olympia is going to dock here and will
remain 10 days at this port.
Mr. Rynearson was crossing the river,
which is still a greatly swollen and
swiftly flowing stream, on a footbridge
a mile and a half from town. A float
ing log struck the bridge, demolishing
it and hurling Rynearson into the tur
bulent water. One of-tbe bridge
boards fell on him. He grasped it and
gained a footing, but the swift curren
again swept him away, and that was
the last seen of him. Searching par
ties are trying to find tbe body, but
tbe river cannot be dragged on account
of the swift current. Mr. Rynearson
was on tbe way to the city to superln
tend work on one of his houses. He
was 67 years old and leaves a wife and
a number of children -and several
brothers and sisters. He was aa old-
timer, and stood very high in tbe com'
munlty.
A BOW III A
Bicycle
TBCST.
raable to
Are
Vol.
OBCGOITIANM
Summers
PROMOTED.
to
Be
and Capt. Vase
Honored.
Washington, May 23. General
Otis cables the following under date
of May 23: On the urgent recommen
dation of Lawton, ! recommend that
Colonel Owen Summers be made brig
adier-general of volunteers by brevet,
for conspicuous gallantry at Maasan,
Bulao Bridge, San Isidro, and that
Capt. J..F. Case be made major of vol
unteers by brevet, for distinguished
services and gallantry at the above
placeB while acting as division engl
neer officer. Otis.
Summers is colonel of the Second
Oregon volunteers, and commanded
the advance brigade of Law ten's di
vision during the recent march north
ward to San Isidro.
Case is captain of company F. Second
Oregon volunteers.
Drowned In Grand Bonde River.
La Grande, May 23 A. W. Rynear
son, one of the wealthiest ranchers in
this valley, was drowned in tbe Grand
Ronde river at 7 o'clock this morning.
Manufacturers
Acre.
New Yobk. May 25. The Herald
says: More dissections nave arisen in
the bicycle trust and threaten to dis
rupt that giant combination. When
the hundred or more manufacturers of
bicycles and bicycle parts gave options
on their plants to A. G. Spalding to
June 1, it was understood that such
plants as were accepted by him were
to be paid for in cash by that time.
Scores of manufacturers came to this
city last week with the expectation of
closing their deals with the manager
for the trust. Tbey were more or less
indignant when they were requested
to extend their options to August 1.
It now develops that several of them
made determined protests against de
lay, and at least one of the biggest
makers in the combination refused
flatly to renew his option.
More than this, the opposition to the
trust, that was led originally by R. T.
Coleman, was revived and now threat
ens to develop more strength than it
at first possessed. It will be remem
bered that after tbe incorporation of
the American Blcjcl company with a ,
capital of 180,000,000, Mr. Coleman, who
bad previously incorporated the In
ternational Vehicle & Manufacturing
Company, with a much smaller capitali
zation, surrendered. The attorney for
Mr. Colncan said yesterday that Mr.
Coleman was now out of the trust for
gooa, having positively refused to ex
tend the option on his plant.
THB TBOUBLB NOT BETTLED.
Samoans Mot aa Peaceful aa They Might
Be.
Apia, Samoa, May 17. The Samoa n
commission, consisting of Bartlett
Tripp, former United States minister
to Austria-Hungary; Baron Speck von
Steinberg, representing Germany.
and C. H. Eliot, C. B., of tbe British
embassy at Washington, representing
Great Britain, arrived here on May
13. Their first sitting took place on
the 16. Tbe commissioners were en
gaged all the morning in a conference
with Chief Justice Chambers. Noth
ing is disclosed regardlog the deliber
ations, but it is reported they will up
hold tbe action of Admiral Kautz, tbe
American caval commander. Mataafa
sent the commissioners a letter of
welcome, and expressed the hope that
they would satisfactorily end the.
troubles in Samoa.
It is understood Mataafa will obey
the unanimous order of the commis
sion, though it is douptful whether he
will order his followers to disarm, un
less the Malietoans are first disarmed. -
The Mataafans will probably disperse
to their homes if ordered to do so, but
tbey will never recognize Malietoa as
king, and doubtless there will be
further trouble in the future, if the
kingship is maintained. Only one or
two cases are known of the wounding
of natives by the shell fire of the war
ships, and as they have not realized
tbe strength of the Europeans, they
may go to extremes if war arises
again.
Rocky Ridge whiskey is most the
popular brand. For sale by Bea Wilson