HEPPNEft GAZETTE.' HEPPNER,, OREGON.
JUST HEAR 'EM HOWL!
Don Cameron is in Hot
Water Now Sure.
WANT HIM TO STEP DOWN.
Queered With Honest Ileiiuhllcnns and
Now Itourbon KenuhlicauB Go
llnck on Him.
l'ln'smmo, Jan. 28 Senator Camer
on's vote to shelve the elections bill has
caused the greatest indignation among
Republicans in Alleghany City. The
Senator was burned in effigy last night,
well known Republicans taking part in
the ceremonies. C. L. Magee to whom,
more than to any other man, Cameron
owes liia re-election will say editorially
in his paper, the Times, tomorrow :
"Senator Cameron's vote against the
elections bill has confronted his enemies
and mortified his friends. It was a de
liberate betrayal of the Republican's
c.uiso. 1 le had just been re-elected, the
day before he was nominated he had
voted for the bill against a motion to lay
it aside for the financial bill. His per
sonal and political friends on the
strength of his actions and his acclama
tions, pledged their word that he would
maintain his fidelity, lie was re-elected
in full confidence that he
would not betray his party.
Had he said plainly that the
proposed legislation was unwise, or that
his experience and fuller thonaht had
shown the pledge of the Republican na
tional convention to the country to have
been hastily given and then alter elec
tion to have voted accordingly, he would
have been respected at least, or had he
been defeated and the obligation of his
representative capacity been thereby in
any degree cancelled, there would have
been some excuse for him, but he was
then in his full representative capacity.
Ho had just been reelected on the ex
plicit understanding that ho would sup
port the special caucus of his party. 1 le
had allowed his friends to assume 'he
responsibility for his fidelity, and in the
face of all deserted to the enemy in the
critical hour. There is no excuse for
him. Only one thing can bo done to re
gain his damaged reputation, that is to
rilK Sl l SERI'KNT.
It !- Sei'ii Rain Ily a San Francisco
Pn. pr.
San Fiianci. cy Jan. 28 The Com
mercial News today says: "Westward
the Star of Umpire" moves, is no longer
correct. It is Northward.
San Francisco is now scarcely in the
race of progress, while on the Columbia
and l'uget Sound they are making a
good second to the enterprising citizens
of the Great Northwestern Empire, the
Dominion of Canada. Hacked by impe
rial funds and Dominion subsidies, the
Canadian J'ucific Railroad does all the
American through business of Great
Britain, of the Dominion itself, and has
time and energy to devote to doing the
transportation business of this country
as well.
The Pacific trade will soon largely be
controlled by British steamers, anil by
the time Senator Mitchell gets his cable
bill through the Senate if he ever does,
for the cablo can't draw a pension or
vote the Canadians will have a cable
laid to the Orient. According to a press
dispatch, Senator Mitchell is preparing
a bill which shows that the people of
the north propose to forestall those of
San Francisco, if possible, in laying a
cable across the Pacific ocean.
TIIK OLD AND TIIK NEW.
IiiKiills Talks and rfell'er Outlines His
Policy.
Toi'eka, .Ian. 28 Senator Ingalls, in
an interview this afternoon, said he had
no plans for the future, except that he
know s he will remain in Kansas.
William Alfred Pfeffer was born in
Cumberland county, Pa., in 1831, and is
of Dutch parentage. In 1850 he caught
the gold fever mid went to California,
where he remained two years. He made
considerable money and returned to
Pennsylvania and soon after removed to
Indiana, and later to Missouri. He
served during the war in the Eighty
third Illinois Volunteers. At the close
of the war he settled in Clarkesville,
Tenn., practising law, and in 1870 moved
to Kansas, taking up a claim. At differ
ent times he edited various papers,
served in the Btate senate, and was a del
egate to the national Republican con
vention in 1SS0. In that year he moved
to Topcka, assumed the editorial control
of the Kansas Parmer and afterwards
bought the paper, lie has been engaged
in the publication of the paper ever
since. The paper has a wide circulation
among Kansas farmers and much in
fluence over them. He joined the Al
liance a year ago, and in the spring of
last year heiran a bitter, determined
warfare against Ingalls' election. Up to
a year ago Pfeffer was a staunch Repub
lican, when he joined the Farmers' Al
liance. He outlined his policy as senator to-
dav. He said he favored absolute free
coinage of silver and a conservative ex
pansion of the currency. Ho was in
favor, he said, of protection to home in
dustries, but believed the best protection
did not always result from high tariff.
Protection bv tariff as a general princi-
p'c, s'lid, was wroner. High tariff
(.hi, " 1 i aid i iid, vid nn I
striiL1 0 '' 1 ixi rie . i'' now favored
an !tir a 4 valorem duty of
20 ner en . le was opposed to the
force ' :1 ,
rt XfOlil) TALKS
About His Pet Scheme and its Eft'ecl.
New York, Jan. 28 Senator Iceland
Stanford, before his departure for Wash
ington today, had something to say
about his bill now before Congress.
The Senator sail he intended to press
the bill because he thought if it passed
it would prevent any more financial
panics in the country.
"The idea," said the Senator, "that
failure of one firm, Baring Uros., in Lon
don, should cause a money'panic in this
great country is preposterous and absurd
in the extreme. If my bill goes through
the failure of many Baring Bros, would
not affect the money market in the
United States. Money would be eo scat
tered among the people that it would be
impossible to have a panic.
"The idea that the passage of the free
coinage bill, or a bill like mine, would
drive gold out of the country is ridicu
lous. "By the act of 1SS2 just $100,000,000
of gold was placed in the United States
treasury to be drawn out by legal tender
notes, if the owners so desired. Has
anybody asked for any of that .gold?
No"; it is in the treasury yet and will re
main there.
"Hardly any one uses gold this side
of the Rocky mountains, but every one
uses silver. It is the coin used by the
baker, the grocer and their customers.
"Any money stamped as a dollar by
the government is worth 100 cents. The
intrinsic value of the silver dollar is
only 8ii cents as a commodity. It is
worth so much, but when the govern
ment puts its stamp upon it it is worth
100 cents.
"Now the system I wish to see in
vogue is the hypothecation of land to
the government for money at a rate of 2
per cent. It will put plenty of money
in circulation and bring about an era of
lasting prosperity.
"If any borrower fails to pay the 2
per cent, to the government some one
will step in quickly, assume the obliga
tions by borrowing the money from the
government and buying thedelinquent's
land.
"We have the richest country on the
face of the globe. Our land is far more
valuable than that of Kngland, Franco,
Germany and Austria, and perhaps
Italy, all comoinod. vt nv not let it as
sume a cash basis?
"In your opinion will the tariff be the
issue in 18i)2," Stanford was asked.
"It looks as though the tariff will be
relegated to the background. Some
question of finance, I think, will come
to the front. Ihe tarilt is only a ques
tion of modification. We have to have
revenues and the only difference be
tween the Republicans and the Demo
crats is as to what articles shall have or
not have a tariff on them. If the Dem
ocrats had control of Congress thev
would not cut off the government from
its easiest way to raise inonev. Alreadv
the financial question is assuming vital
importance, i'ou hear little about the
tariff now."
JOHN L.'S ALL P.IG1IT.
Says McKlnIcy's Dead Cleveland is tlie
Coining Man.
Ciiicauo, Jan. 20 Boston's modern
Ajax, John L. Sullivan, breakfasted here
today. He came from Detroit, on his
way to Milwaukee. lie was clothed in a
clcse-fitting suit of gray. A neat pair of
patent leathers encased his feet, and his
broad expanse of calico shirt, topped by
a high white-winged collar, was orna
mented by a huge ruby, circled by dia
monds, while a carefully brushed tile
crowned all.
Sullivan said acting agreed with him,
and that he and Harrison were prepar
ing to appear in a war drama called
"F'rom '01 to '65."
His success may bo the cause of a
starring tour aroung the world, an offer
for which is now under consideration.
John L. hasn't the highest respect for
.uston. "Why," he exclaimed, tossing
the butt of his cigar into a cuspidor, "if
the papers were to show up Boston poli
tics as they have done New York and
Chicago politics, half the aldermen and
all the other public officers would goto
jail for their natural born lives. We've
got a Democratic Governor ana Mayor
now, though, and the law that makes a
man sit down todrink in a Boston saloon
may be repealed. There they have the
bar fenced in, and instead of taking a
drink and going, a man sits down, a
bottle of whisky is brought to him and
he drinks himself silly. The saloons are
clis.'d on Sunday, so that a man who
wants a drink on that day has to take
home a quart of whisky or a barrel of beer.
"Boston is full of cranks, that's the
trouble cranks and hypocrites. I have
no use for them. They go to church, not
to hear what the minister says, but just
to bo thought pious, and to look around
and pipe off the bonnets and dresses of
the other hypocrites. Then they go off
and booze, or anything else that suits
their fancy."
The champion doesn't devote his en
tire attention to the drama. He takes
an active interest in international, na
tional and Boston politics, and can give
an opinion with as little hesitancy as a
professional statesman.
He is out and out for Parnell, and says
that the deposed leader "is dead sure to
come out all right. 1 didn't used to
think so much of him till his friends
went back on him. But now I'm with
him. I've got no use for Healy, O'Brien
or Sexton. Home rule for Ireland is
bound to come, and England is giving
way every day.
"Four or five duffers see this, and not
wanting Parnell to get the credit of it,
they try to down him. But they can't
do it."
On national politics John L. is equally
at home. "1 hear people talk every
where I go about the McKinley bill," he
said, "and they have got no use for it.
The McKinley bill is no good. For in
stance, 1 go to a cigar man who, before
the bill passed, had $10,000 worth of
cigars in stock.
"Before the bill I would lay down $1
and get four cigars. Now I go to him
and say : 'Give me four Carolina per
fectos,' and I lay down $1. Ho says:
'ICxeuse me, sir; they're $1.25 on ac
count of the McKinley bill.' However,
McKinley is dead. The bill killed him,
and that's the only good thing it has
done."
"The next occupant of the White
House," John L. says, "will be Cleve
land. He'll have a walk-over if he gets
the nomination, and I guess he's sure of
re-nomination. He was a clean Presi
dent. There wasn't a smudge on his
record. The only error he made was in
not kicking out the Republicans. To
the victors belong the spoils. That is
common Bense. A man should help his
friends. If you lire my brother and you
want me to give you "something that a
Btranger wants, I'll come pretty near
helping you, won't I ? If Mrs. Cleveland
wanted her husband to give her sister a
postollice that had a $10,000 a year sal
ary, he'd come pretty near giving it to
her, wouldn't he?"
"How about your going to eonirress?"
an acquaintance asKed.
".Not in 100 years," John instantly re
plied. "1 couid have gone from Boston
six years ago easy as snapping my lin
gers. But what would 1 do that for?
There is only $50 iO a year in the job,
and that wouldn't buy my cigars. No,
I wouldn't go to congress."
Movements of an Amerlcnn Singer.
Paris, Jan. 28 Min EaiittH, the
American prima donna, will soon leave
Paris for London, having signed an
agreement with Covent Garden.
A Liberal Minded King:.
London, Jan. 2i King Leopold, of
Belgium, is preparing, it is sail,
to take advanced ground on the
uffrage question now agitating that
country. If a majority cannot be
secured for revision of the constitution,
which means universal suffrage, the
king will dissolve the chambers and
make an appeal to tne people.
Rrarilaugh's Condition Critical.
London, Jan. 28 Charles Bradlaugh
was unconscious all night and his con
dition is extremely critical,
Newspaper Man Dead.
Portland, Jan. 28 W. A. Mcrherson,
ex-State Printer of Oregon, and one of
the brightest newspaper men of the State,
died today.
THAT OLD CHESTNUT
About Gladstone's Res
ignation Pops Up.
THE NAUGHTY HON. AUBREY
Makes Love to the Queen's Granddaugh
ter and is Threatened AVitli Loss
of a Hlg Salary.
London, Jan. 28 Current reports in
regard to Gladstone's resignation are
associated in the public mind with the
negotiations for a settlement of the
Irish difficulties. It is intimated that as
Parnell is not going to obliterate him
self, Gladstone, w ho has virtually -demanded
Parnell's withdrawal, now pro
poses to get out of the dilemma by him
self withdrawing, and leaving the
conduct of affairs to Sir William Har
court, who has not committed himself
seriously on the Parnell question. But
Gladstone, whatever his intention as to
leadership, will not retire, for the pre
sent at least, from the house of com
mons. Ho will take an active part in
debate, and proposes to advocate a bill
repealing Catholic religious disability.
It is said Queen Victoria has set the
seal of her displeasure on Hon. Aubrey
Fitzelarence, her majesty's third cousiii
who received 80 a year as one of the
gentlemen ushers of the court. The
voung man is a great grandson of King
William IV and on account of his rela
tionship he has been allowed i good
many privileges. It iB said that he has
gone bo far as to make love to Princess
Maud, of Wales, not altogether to the
dissatisfaction of the young lady but
much to the annoyance of the Queen and
Prince who are said to have another ar
rangement in view. Maud has been
relegated to her lessons and Aubrey, it
is said, has been told that if ho wants
his 80 to continue he must remember
the distinction between the legitimate
and illegitimate royal pedigree. The
stipend is quite important to young
Fitzelarence who would otherwise have
to do something useful for a living.
THE MAMMOTH EXPLOSION.
The. Cause of the Accident I SIM a
Mystery.
Pittsburg, l'a., Jan. 2S II. C. Frick,
of Mammoth Mine No. 1, the scene of
yesterday's terrible explosion, has been
in almost constant communication with
representatives of the pit since yester
day. Mr. Frick says this morning he
has private information to the effect
that up to an early hour this morning
103 bodies had been removed from the
shaft. Frick says in all there were 100
men working in the mine at the time
of the accident, and that only nine es
caped with 'their lives, some of them be
ing badly injured. Ihe rest, 151 men,
were either killed outright or suffocated
by the terrible aflerdamp.
Fire-boss Snaith, whose body was so
terribly mangled, had early yesterday
morning filed the following report in the
ollice of the company at the works:
Mammoth, Jan. 27 To Thomas I'l'iich,
General Superintendent: This is to
certify that we, the undersigned, have
this day, January 27, 1801, examined
the working places in the Mammoth
mine and found the same to be in lit
condition for men and other workers
employed therein. (Signed) William
Smith, tire boss; Thomas Smith, in
spector of machinery, and George
Pfeiffer, engineer.
The Mammoth mine was examined by
Inspector Jenkins, of the Second dis
trict, on January 23, 1800. His report
said the general condition of the mine
was good, with 5508 cubic feet of air in
the shaft.
Interviews were had this morning
with former owners of tho Mammoth
mine and others whose business interest
and duties required them to keep posted
on the condition of every mine in the
(,'onnolsvillo coke region. Their state
ments agree in that there is absolutely no
way to account for the accident. At no
time has there been a suspicion of gas
in the Mammoth mine, and on this
plant, as well all others owned by the
Frick Company, no expense had been
spared to make the mines as safe as ex
perience and science could do.
HE WANTED TO DIE,
Ho He Alined at Ills Heart Mysterious
Shooting of Father and Hon.
Cakthrsvillh, Ga., Jan. 20 Dr. Hor
ace Bates attempted suicide today, and
there is a big mystery concerning tho
affair that has made a big sensation. At
1 o'clock today Dr. Hales' father, Horace
Bates, sr., died. Four days ago the
father was found with a bullet hole in
his head. Nobody was with him when
the shooting occurred except this son,
whose only version was that his father
shot himself while handling the pistol.
me latner regained consciousness,
but refused to say anything about the
shooting, except when shown a news
paper report saving he shot himself, he
denied the story. The circumstances of
the son's attempted suicide are fully as
mysterious. About 2 o'clock this morn
ing he went outside the house, placed a
pistol to his heart and fired.
"I aimed at the heart," he said to the
doctor who was attending his father,
His only explanation was that he was in
trouble and wanted to die.
I'ajiers Do a Little Boycotting.
Glasgow, Jan. 28 The great Scotch
railroad strike has entered on a new and
novel phase. The orders of the striking
employes as the newspapers allege
have been persistent in watching
the reporters of the press whom
they accuse of having used their
inlluence to fortify the position of the
corporations against the dissatisfied
workmen. A a meeting of tho proprie
tors and publishers of the newspapers of
Glasgow held today, it was decided that
hereafter the papers of the city would not
assign men to report the proceedings
of any future meetings of the striking
railroaders. The leaders of the strikers
promptly called attention to the fact
that the action of the press managers
amounts at once to a suppression of free
speech and institution of an anti-labor
boycott.
Senator I'fein'er.
Toi'eka, Kan., Jan. 28 Vote for
United Senator in the joint session of
the Legislature todav resulted as fol
lows: Pfeiffer, 101 ; "ingalls, 53: Blair,
3; Baker, 1; Morrell, 1 ; Kelly, 1.
William is for Peace.
Paris, Jan. 28 Figaro, in reporting
the banquet given by Count DeMunster
Ladenburg, ambassador of the German
I empire to France, last night, in com
memoration of the thirty-second anni.
versary of the birth of Emperor William,
says that the German Minister, in re
sponding to the toast of the Eniieror,
said, among other things: "The future
appears in a most favorable light. The
young and valiant monarch of Germany,
always desirous for the good of his
people, is equally desirous to preserve
the peace of world. When he first as
cended to the throne of his ancesters it
had been feared his accession to power
meant the inauguration of a war-like
policy. It is an already established
fact that he meant to fill an eminently
civilizing mission, and no one knows
better than does my Imperial master
how indespensible is the maintenance
of peace for the successful consumma
tion of this mission."
STANI'OKD AUA1NST ILllTl'UE.
Elections Hill Is a Corpse Now With
out Doubt.
New York, Jan. 27 Senators Aldrich
and Stewart arrived here last night and
went to see Senator Stanford to decide
their Sennto dispute, which he did by
declaring that Senator Stewart was right
and that he (Stanford) was against clo
ture. New Yobk, Jan. 27 Senator Leland
Stanford, of California, came near losing
his life today at about 10 o'clock. He
and his private Secretary, John B. Mc
Carthy, took a cab at the Windsor hotel
and started for the American Institute
building to look over his great consign
ment of trotters from Palo Alto that w ill
be sold at auction. In Fifty-fifth street,
near Park avenue, the cab came in col
lision with a street car moving in the
opposite direction, and it was turned
bottom upward. The senator and Mr.
McCarthy stood on their heads for an
instant, and then found themselves
doubled up in the roof of tho vehicle
with the cushions, laprobes, etc.
Mr. Stanford was bleeding profusely
from a cut in the left temple, and his
right arm and shoulder were much
bruised. Mr. McCarthy's nose was cut,
and blood was dripping from a skin
wound iu his forearm. The two men
crawled out more dead than alive, but
quickly deciding that their injuries were
not of a serious description, pulled them
selves together and walked to a drug
store at the corner of Lexington avenue,
where their wounds were dressed. The
Senator determined to see his horses
and refused to return to tho hotel,' and
another cab was hired, which took him
and his secretary to the institute. At
7:;i0 the Senator went to bed, badly
shaken up but suffering less pain.
NAl'GHT V EDGlIt.
His Wife Hays He Practices as He
Preaches.
New York, Jan. 27 Mrs. Kdgar Sal
tus, wife of the novelist, has brought
suit for absolute divorce, alleging the
statutory offense and naming as co-respondent
a young lady friend and a fre
quent visitor nt their home. She is the
daughter of William G. Heed, a well
known and wealthy business man of
New York. The first publication of the
facts aroused the wildest attention and
gossip throughout the country, but for a
year nothing has been heard of the case.
It appears, however, that numerous
hearings have been had before a referee.
It was stated at the beginning of the
suit that Mr. Saltus had made a confes
sion of guilt and fled, to trope. Saltus
now denies that he rrirwjado a. confe-s-sion
of any kind, nature or description,
lie stated that he hail gone abroad on a
purely business matter, and he added
that in leaving the city it was without
the faintest suspicion that his wife had
any such step in contemplation.
HANGAP.TEli MAY HE HCNG.
He Said There Were Smarter Men
Than William.
Berlin, Jan. 27 Another German-
American is in the toils for failing to pay
due respect to his imperial majesty the
Kaiser. The man's name is Ilangarter
and he was arrested. for language used in
the hotel at Woklshut, a town on the
upper Rhine. Ilangarter was conversing
in the hotel when the subject of the
young Emperor's military talents came
up. Ilangarter expressed rather a
slighting opinion of the Emperor's
abilities and intimated with a sneer that
there were a great many smarter men
than AVilliara. He is also charged with
other expressions derogatory to the di
vinity that netiges around tne Kaiser.
He was arrested on a charge of lese ma-
ieste, and if convicted will probably re
flect on the virtues ot silonce during
several months in a German prison:
McAlLIFFE HLll'lS.
He Oilers to Fight Corhett and Talks
'Sassy."
New York, Jan. 27 Joe McAuliffe
and his backer and manager, Billy Mad
den, called at the Police Gazette this
afternoon and left a challenge for Mc
Auliffe to fight Jim Corbett for a private
wager and tiie $:1000 stake offered by the
Hudson County Athlotic Club. Mc
Aulilfe will meet Corliett or his friends
at tho office of the Gazette to arrange
the details of the matter on Wednesday
afternoon.
McAuliffe was seen this afternoon. He
said:
I don't care a rap about Corbett's pro
testations of friendship for me. He has
said a number of thingH behind my back
during my absence, lie has sneered at
my ability as a fighter. 1 have never
been able to call him down because he
always made the remarks when I was a
safe distance away.
I can get all the backing necessary,
and if I am the cumbersome boxer that
Corbett has been pleased to say I am,
he will not hesitate to give mo the
chance I crave, because it means so much
money for him.
SEATTLE'S Tit A I X I NtJ SCHOOL.
Tho Tools
for -Manual
Instruction
Arrive.
Seattle, Jan. 27 The tools for Ihe
carpenter shop, the first branch of the
manual training school to bo opened in
connection with the High school, arrived
here yesterday, and the shop, with its
schoolboy mechanics, will open during
the week. There were 12 complete sets
of tools received. The tools were stored
in tho carpenter shop, which is about
ready for occupancy, it is a large room,
probably 2lx40 feet in size, in the north
wing of the building in the basement,
and will serve the purpose excellently.
Three large double benches have been
built in the room and each is filled with
drawers and lockers for the tools. The
boys will have a large grindstone to ex
ercise and on w hich to keep the chisels,
hatchets, planes, etc., in edge.
It is not known yet just what day the
shop will open. One hour per day is to
be spent in the shop. Next year, should
the plans of tho department be carried
out, blacksmithing and the machinist
trade will be taken up.
The plans for the girls' branch of the
school are not yet completed, but some
action will be taken shortly.
FREE COINAGE BILL
Effecns on Deposits in
Savings Banks.
A LOSS TO DEPOSITORS.
Ex-Comptroller Trenholm Says that
Will Be Its Effect He Discusses
Defects In the lllll.
New York, Jan. 2(1 Ex-Coinptroller
of the Currency, William L. Trenholm,
yesterday gave his views on the Free
Coinage bill:
"ItBoems to me," he said, "that the
passage by the senate ot the Free Coin
age bill must have been a surprise to
those responsible for it and will prove
disappointing, because it is too crude a
measure to become a law in its present
shape. The house will never adopt it as
it is and the president must veto it.
"It seems to me to be crude, inasmuch
as it ignores existing and conflicting
statutes and makes no provision for ac
commodating tho administration and
construction of the proposed law to ex
isting conditions. For example, the
first section provides that 'on and after
the date of the passage of this act, the
unit of value in the United States shall
be the dollar, and the same may be
coined of 412l.i grains of standard silver
or 25 8-10 grains of standard gold.' The
terms standard silver and standard gold
are rather indefinite as a precise basis of
value, although no doubt the intention
is clear, but as the dollar was mado the
unit of account, under the confederation
that preceded the Union, and as it has
always been tho unit of our monetary
system there is no obvious reason for
specifying that it is to become tho unit
of value on and after a future day.
"The intention, no doubt, iB to enact
that after the passage of the act the dol
lar, which is now and always has been
the unit used in our computations of
value, shall be deprived of the definite
ness as to value that has heretofore char
acterized it, and shall, by force of law,
leeonie a term applicable to each of
two coins differing from each other, iu
value. Of course no one pretends to be
lieve that at any time between now and
the 4th of March 41 2 ! J grains of silver
and 25 8-10 grains of gold will be of equal
value, hence to enact that at some mo
ment not yet fixed the term dollar is to
become suddenly applicable to both is
to legislate confusion, and confusion
about that term which of all terms is
most intimately associated in the minds
of plain people with a fixed and definite
idea.
"It is the dollar's worth, not any par
ticular coin or note that men, women
and even children nil over this vast
country have in their minds in their
daily "dealings, and surely Congress
would not undcrstiindingly enact that
this dollar's worth shall be an uncertain
value. If this bill passes the whole pop
ulation will come by the ears, for buyers
will be entitled to pay in ono kind of
dollars and sellers will be equally en
titled to claim tfie other kind ; the hirer
will have a right to pay in silver and the
hired man an equal right to be paid in
gold; all fares and freights over our
transportation lines will be tumbled into
confusion, so that wrangling and strife
will be spread broadcast.
"Consider the army and navy dis
bursements, the postollice expenditures,
the pensions, the river and harbor
works, the public buildings nnd the new
navy all appropriated for before the
passage of the present bill. Are these
disbursements to be made according to
the dollar as now defined, or according
to the new duplex definition? or if the
latter, who is to decide between gold
dollars and Bilver dollars?
"The same turmoil would arise be
tween debtors and creditors were it not
that tho bill makes special provision for
allowing the debtors to select tho kind
of dollars in which they will pay their
debts. It strikes me that this provision
has not been carefully considered, he
cause it is inherently unjust, and is like
ly, moreover, to bear with especial hard
ship upon a large and defenseless class
of people I mean depositors in the sav
ings banks.
"There are nearly a thousand savings
banks in tho United States, anil they
owe their depositors over $1,500,000,000,
representing that much in gold value,
saved bv poor people out of their earn
ings, received by the banks-as gold or its
equivalent and presumably invested on
a gold basis. Here is a debt that should
be held sacred liy Gongress;yot under
the proposed bill these institutions can
settle with their depositors in silver, and
this will probably be effected at a lo s to
the depositors of 20 percent, in the value
of their deposits, or about $:;00,0l)9,0IH)
in the aggregate.
If the savings banks could realize this
as a profit they would, perhaps, distrib
ute it among their depositors, but they
cannot, The profit will go lo the debtors
to the savings banks, chiefly borrowers
on bond and mortgage. Not farm mort
gages either, but mostly good city prop
erty. Banks allowed to solicit the sav
ings of the poor are so restricted in their
investments by Slate laws as to be forced
to lend their funds only lo wealthy men
and still wealthier institutions, hence to
day they stand between hundreds of
thousands of poor creditors and a small
number of wealthy debtors, and Con
gress is asked by the promoters of this
bill, to make these inslitulions Ihe me
dium of confiscating about $:!00,000,ll00
of poor men's savings ill order that great
real estate owners maybe benefited to
the same amount.
"The 4'.j per cent, bonds are maturing
shall they be paid in gold or silver?
This question touches our National cred
it abroad. The greenbacks lire a de
mand loan to the Government by the
people, and like other debts are payable
in cither gold or silver. If the Govern
ment were personal they might be paid
in silver; if the Treasury is an interest
apart from the people they ought to he
so paid, but if the Treasury represents
the interests ol the p'upio, men mo
greenbacks should be redeemed in gold.
At the same time it is obvious that they
cannot lie, because the Ircasury lias not
gold enough to pay oil' the entiro issue
once even, and since present laws com
mand the Treasury to immediately re
issue all greenbacks redeemed, the en
tire issue might have to be redeemed
over and over again as many times as
they may lie presented at the Treasury.
Whatever may oe tne inuimi'e aim
speculative advantages expected by the ij
bill's promoter, the immediate .-fleet of
disturbing the has, s of value must neces-
I.. U l.trn tlint r.f iliutlirtilflir tllO
nmny in iiivv mv ... " ft -
basis of prices, as was done by the Mc
Kinley bill."
Stanford'! Hore Sell I'oorly.
New York, Jan. 28 The horse sale of
the Palo Alto trotting stock was resumed
today before a largo crowd of rcprcscnt-
ative horsemen. The prices obtained
were very poor. Carlisle, one of the
stars of the sale, a chestnut stal
lion by Prement out of Ida Bell,
sold for $1400 to F. A. Baker,
of Detroit. One of F.lectioneer's
daughters, out of Ivv, prettv brown
filly, went for $1800 to Robert Steele, of
Philadelphia. Luella F., bv Election
eer, out of Lillie I?., went to J. M. Forbes
for 1700. Ten other horses sold at
prices ranging'fromVf.jl00 to $120".
the hop citor.
What a San l-'rnncisco Firm Has to Say
Ahout the Outlook.
San Francisco, Jan. 20 A well known
hop firm, in their animal circular issued
today, say: The prediction as to the
1800 crop which we made in January
last proved only too true. The heavy
rains and resulting floods in Sacramento
and other counties of California drowned
out the roots in many hoi) yards, and
the result shows a falling oil in these
two counties of over 4000 bales from the
previous crop. At that time we also ex
pressed a fear that the Pacific coast hop
vines might suffer during lstlO's season
from diseases prevalent in other coun
tries, and we have now to record the ap
pearance in quite large quantities
throughout Oregon and Washington of
the hop aphis. This pest found grow ers
altogether unprepared. The total
acreage for lSDO's crop was almost 11,000
acres. As we predicted the crop in
these sections was greatly diminished
through the aphis, some yards hems'
completely ruined and in others such
portions of vines us showed mould were
not picked. If it had not been for this
fact, Oregon would have shown a crop
of 20,000 bales. We believe for 1801 the
acreage will again show a five per cent.
increase and that growers must expect
the re-appearance of the a-phis and they
will oe prepared to properly resist its
attack as can best be done. The total
stock remaining on the Pacific coast
January 1st, 18tll, was ii8;i4 bales. This
is dOUO bales less than the Pacific coast
stock on January 1st, 1N00.
Nothing can be stated in tho way of
estimates this early regarding the 1801
crop, The high prices ruling during t he
present season will enconrane some in
crease of acreage, and cultivation will
uocaretullv proceeded with, but to what
extent tho aphis will damage the crop
during August and September next can
not be predicted, nor can the crop be
estimated in advance of its actual pick
ing. In loriner seasons Ihe aphis was
unknown nnd an estimate could bo made
with reasonable accuracy, but, tho Pa
cific coast will no longer enjoy immunity
Irom the diseases and pests incident to
hop culture that previously existed.
SENSATIONAL WILL CASE.
Something Like Murder and Suicide
Hinted At.
Coi.iMin s, Ohio, Jan. 20 Van Sellzer
will contest the case which has just be
gun in the courts here, and at the outsot
produced some very sensational develop
ments. Hr. an Seltzer was a wealthy
but peculiar German physician of this
city who died about a year ago, his wife
preceding him about six months. Ihey
left no children and tho property was
disposed of by will among the numerous
kinslolk ol the lateral branch.
One of the witnesses produced in this
trial testified that there had been for a
lone time before the death of Mrs. Selt
zer an uiidiiiHtanding lietween her and
her husband that when she became so
ill that in his opinion she could not live,
he should ease her exit into eternity by
hypoderniicnlly injecting morphine.
This witness was familiar with the
domestic life of Seltzer's and being pres
ent the night that Mrs. Seltzer died saw
Dr. Seltzer give her a hypodermic injec
tion. After the death Ihe witness saw
him kiss his wife's corpseand heard him
say: "she has had her wish and I'll
have mine."
The inference sought tube drawn from
this was that Mr. Seltzer, in a fit of de
spondency after his wile s death, imag
ined that he was dying, and injecting
morphine m his arm really took his own
life. The estate in question amounts to
$5ijo,oo; i.,
THE ( 1 1 A I : i 1 0 DISMISSED.
Portland Tclcirraphers lEclcacd - M Is-
iniinau;ciuciit CluirKril
Portland, Or., Jan. 20 Tho case of
the State of Oregon against llrackett,
Zeller and Sophia, employes of the West
ern Union telegraph company, on the
charge of grand larceny brought by
Manager Patterson, was dismissed by
Judge Wood this morning. The judge
in his decision stated that tho evidence
introduced did not establish the guilt of
the defendants. Tho judge further said
the existing state of all'airs shows mis
management, nnd there is a largo leak
somewhere.
Considerable interest was manifested
in the case and the Judge's opinion
meets with general approval. It is un
derstood that the head officers of Ihe
Western Union will he here in a few
days and a thorough examination of the
books made, ami then, if possible, the
guilty party or parlies will be arrested.
It is rumored that llrackett, one of the
defendants, will bring n heavy suit
against the Western I'inon and .Manager
Patterson for defamation of character.
Inning the examination the fact became
known that several hundred dollars were
missing, which Manager Patterson can
not account for. The alleged money
missing was never reported bv Manager
j Patterson to headquarters.
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Klccllon in Austria, ami KefomiH
I' I'Olll IMI'll .
Yiknna. Jan. 2i Tho lower house of
the roichslnith was dissolved by the un
expected decree published iu the olficial
journal today. Elections are to beheld
immediately. Count Von TuHee, pre
mier, desires a new conservative major
ity iu the house, having abandoned de
Dcudancu on the Bohemian and Slav
members, w hom he considers unreliable.
The Gazette publishes as an election
manifesto an article attributed to Fi
nance Minister Dunajcuwaski, which is
the most libeial ever issued by the gov
ernment. Tho manifesto reminds the na
tion that legislation must be adapted to
the snirit of the times and promises (be
next parliament will deal will with the
social question. It makes a largo bid
for the support of the young Czechs,
hinting at the autonomy of various races
under Kuiporor Francis Joseph as desir
able. This hitter is the most important
feature of tho manifesto.
The election fur the parliament will be
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lhlnd , tliHHV0 t,L. iw(.r MSe by
, ()f (.oll(i(.tH 0I1 the bu.t.t and other
,K.stiollfl.
1
Ho Took an Overdone.
San Francisco, Jan. 20 Humphreys,
resident physician ol the Post house and
at one time quarantine officer for this
port, died last night from an overdose of
chloral, to the use of which he was
addicted.
REMEDY FOR TIIE SURPLUS.
Pickard, M. P., Comments on Lord
Derby's Dictum. . '
l-'ight of Shipping Federation Liberals
Still Standing by Their Home
Rule Policy.
London, Jan. 27 Tho Liberals have
determined to win the confidence nnd
support of the working classes by insist
ing on government interference in be
half of tho Scottish railway strikes and
until the companies or the government
conclude to do something for the strikers
the Liberals will obstruct the Scottish
railway bills now before parliament. It.
is claimed that the appointment of a
commission as is proposed by the gov
ernment to make inquiries and report
upon tho condition of railway labor
would be farcical so far as any ell'ect in
relieving the grievances which have
brought about the present struggle in
Scotland is concerned. The sittings of
the commission would be prolonged for
months, its report would be complied
in a huge volume or series of volumes
and laid before parliament perhaps two
years from now and in the meantime
the companies would have crushed the
life out of the present strike and
consolidated their forces for a
struggle in the future. This the Lib
erals are resolved to prevent. Mr. Benja
min Pickard, the Liberal member for
Morniauton, comments severely on Lord
Derby's recent declaration that the re
lief for the surplus of population in
England is for tho alleged surplus; 'to
emigrate. 1 lekard says, but for the use
less parks and woods reserved to the
uses of tho nobility there would bo
plenty of room in Great. Britain for
all peoplo of Great Britain (or many
years to come, and he thinks the aristo
cracy ought to emigrate leaving room for
the majority to make a living m.
The shipping federation is carrying on
with the utmost resolution its prolonged
struggle against the Seamen and Fire
men's Union nnd allied organizations.
The federation has succeeded in sending
out a vessel manned by non-union men.
Mr. Scbnnclerst, speaking nt Walsall,
Kngland, yesterday, said that the Lib
eral party hail mado and intended to
make no change whatever as to its pur
pose to give Ireland home rule if new
National party which Chamberlain pro
posed should bo formed it would simply
be the Tory party.
Kit, IK I) II IS WIFE.
A Terrible Tragedy After Itet iii-iilng
From Church.
San Marcos, Tex., Jan. 20 George I'.
Snyder, one of the wealthiest citizens of
this place and agent for the Southern
Agricultural Works of Atlanta, Ga., shot
and killed his wife yesterday. Mrs.
Snyder had just returned from church
when her husband shot her three times,
killing her almost instantly. No one
witnessed the shooting but two children
of the murdered woman who was a re
lined lady and well liked in the commu
nity. Snyder was arrested and the news
from San Marcos last night indicates a
lynching. Snyder refuses to talk and
jnvos no reason for his bloody act.
Neighbors say that he has often threat
ened to kill" his whole family. They
have three boys, two of whom were at
home when their father killed their
mother, hut they fled and up to the
present they have not shown up nor can
they be found. Snyder and his wife are
from Home, Ga., and havo been living
near San Marcos about two years.
Oj)ireKsci! ,!ci.
San Francisco, Jan. 20 At the an
nual convention of the Grand Lodge,
Order of Bnai Britli, last night, the fol.
lowing telegram was sent to Secretary
Blaine:
Pistrict Grand Lodge, No. 4, of the
Independent Order of linai llritli, com
posed of representatives of the Jewish
faith from Stales of California, Oregon,
Nevada, and Washington, in annual con
vention assembled, respectfully appeals
through you to tho United States gov
ernment in behalf of our sull'ering co
religionists in Hussia. Living as wo do,
in a country and under a flag
that recognizes the equality of man,
and that protects alike personal
and religious freedom, we consider it at
once our duty and our privilege as Amer
ican citizens, and in the interest of a
Buffering humanity, to appeal to tho
government to which we render allegi
ance to express the regret with which it
views tho restrictive and oppressive
measures formulated hy the Russian
government, tending to impoverish nnd
exile helpless people because of their
religion.
McKinley Colttlilclit.
Nnw York, Jan. 20 The Tribune's
Washington correspondent says that
early and favorable action in the house
may be looked for on McKinley's bill,
providing that nothing in the tarrilf act
shall be held to repeal or impair the
provisions of the reciprocity treaty with
Hawaii. McKinley has strong hopes
that the bill will pa'ss the house without
much opposition or protracted debate.
Si'lliellllliK Like II.
San Francisco,, Jan. 20 Weather
forecast Oregon and Washington: Light
ram, turning to snow in tnu mountain;
winds generally south lowest; nearly
stationary temperature, except cooler at
lioseberg, Portland and linker City.
Invited to Ciinie Weil.
Sn Fuancim o, Jan. 20 At the meet
ing ol the f-an I'rancisco rrcsoyiery
todav it was decided to invite the gen
cral assembly of the United Mates
meet iu San Francisco in 1802.
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The Town Nil d After Them.
ISkki.in, Jan. 27 Finland advices slate
that the Salvation army is having a hard
time ut llelsingfors. Thirteen of its
members have been sent to prison as
vagrants without visiblo means of sup
port, and the police have been instructed
not to permit their public parades. The
army is looked upon with suspicion as a
medium for the propagation of patriotic
principles among lower clssses of Finns.
Archbishop Crooko, of Ireland, re
proaches Parnell for doubting Catholic
treatment of Protestants, after himself
receiving testimonials of $200,000 from
them.