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ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY - BY "'a!. DOOTHIT, PubUhr. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. , DAILY One Year, by mail. . . M.00 Six Months 3.00 Tone Moonlhs 1.60 WEEKLfY Om Year, by mail $ ISO SU months. - va All Subscriptions Payable In Advance. SATURDAY .' . FEBRUARY 22, 1896. SOMETHING IS WRONG. When the contract was let for the , construction and completion of the canal and locks at the Cascades, it was the universal belief, in fact it was ' promised, that they would be opened in 1895; but the high water of 1894 necessitated a change in the plans of ;J the work, and to comply with the new plans, the date for the final completion was extended to March 1,1896. But now we are confronted with the infor- mation that, even if the canal is opened for the passage of a boat on March 1st, which is not probable, the gates will at once be closed, and that they will . not again be opened for operation until another appropriation can be worked through congress to build walls be- tween the first and second locks. .' To say that this is disappointing to those who have for years looked for'' ward to.the time when we should have 1 an open river to. the sea, as an era of prosperity to the Inland Empire, as a ' time when Eastern Oregon could util- ize the great waterway for floating her ' - products to market, is putting it mildly i h indeed. The people are not only dis-- - ..; appointed, but they are lead to believe . - that there is something decidedly " . wrong somewhere; that either the gov ernment engineers who prepared the - plans and specifications when the con ; tract was let were a set of incompetent , ' ninnies, or that undue influence is ' somewhere brought to bear upon the engineers now in charge of the works, i i The encineero who prepared the - . plans on which the contract was award ed considered the natural walls be- - tween the first, and second locks suff- icient to withstand the force of the water when the locks should be oper- ated, and made no provision for having them protected . by solid masonry or . other artificial walls ; but now the ' engineers in charge condemn them as - being unsafe, and insist that they shall be protected before the canal is opened m' for traffic, necessitating an appropria- tion variously estimated from $8,000 to 8400,000. ' , - , . , If this proposition is true, why have not those learned engineers discovered ' the fact years ago,' bo that provision could have been made for this extra ' work while the other work was in progress? Those banks of dirt, as they call them, have been exposed to - view for years, why, then.ihave the ' engineers been so long discovering that they would not withstand the waves? Why have they waited until the other work is nearing completion I , TefniiA-riA- T ask for . further money ""v""1' with which to complete that particular part of the canal? , ' i The casual observer would naturally '. infer that the engineers have had an ' , object In retarding the work. What .this object may be, if there is any, we do not pretend to say; but we do be-- lieve that under the state of affairs that now exist, the people would be justified in insisting that the war de- partment cause an immediate investi- gation to be made, and ascertain if some of the engineers are not working in the interest of some one else than i the government and the people. Bet- ter still, a practical test of the locks should be made as Soon as the channels leading to the canal are opened and the machinery for operating the gates ' is in place. The passage of a few boats through the canal can do but little if any damage. If a dozen boats do no damage to those unprotected walls, then it would be safe to open the canal for general traffic If, however, they should suffer material damage from the effects of the water, that will be - abundant time to condemn the work, and order the canal closed for repairs. The opinion, or rather the skill of the engineers who prepared the plans on which the contract was let, is cer- tainly worth something, and it is but right that the work when completed in accordance with those plans, be given a test. Nothing short of a practical test will satisfy the people that the ' engineers are honest in condemning that portion of the work that is claimed to be unsafe WHAT THE DALLES NEEDS A spirit of prosperity and enterprise prevadesThe Dalles, as is shown by the amount of building that is now con- templated this season. The city will assuredly enjoy more substantial growth the coming summer than it has ' at any time in the past five or six rears "An immense amount of money will be invested in buildings, and a number of new mercantile establishments will likely erigage in business here; but with all 'this anticipated increase and general thrift there is one thing lack- ing. No efforts, so far as we are in- - , formed, are being put forth to establish any class of manufacturing industries here. In this, we believe the people of The Dalles are short sighted.- - We may erect mammoth buildings, in- - ; crease our facilities for transacting ' the mercantile business of the country, and offer inducements for trade to cen- ter here, but unless we can do some- - ' thing to increase the population, make ' more mouths to feed and more persons to clothe, our efforts toward advance- ment will fail to meet the reward to . which they are entitled. The Dalles should, in two years, be- come a city of 10,000 inhabitants, but this it will never be unless industries are built up that will giye employment to more people. There are now all the peqple here who can find profitable em piovment. THfere is nothing at present to Invite another wage-earn- er to come to the city. But if we had a wool-scouri- plant, another large flouring mill, a foundry, machine ' shop, wagon and carriage factory, woolen mills, etc., The Dalles would soon become the most attractive point on the coast for laborers. Without some such industries the city may soon outgrow its resources, as has nearly every other town on the coast. Seattle, Tacoma, Ellensburg and Spokane fur- nish good examples of cities that have been built up expecting to live on the resources of the country and without attempting to create any resources in the ' way of manufacturing. Today these are cities of immense brick blocks that are tenantless, investments in their real estate is no where near pay- ing interest, and in many instances not realizing enough to pay taxes. Let The Dalles profit by the ex- perience of those cities and instead of depending solely upon the resources of the surrounding agricultural regions, create resources for itself. HOW IT WORKS. A practical illustration of how the endless chain of greenbackism is en riching British usury at this country's expense was unexpectedly developed the other day in New York. When the steamer St. Paul ran ashore on the Jersey coast, 6ays the Portland Tele- gram, she had in her .hold $1,300,000 in gold. This guld was taken out and returned to the ry at New York, where it was found, upon ex- amination, to be the identical metal that had been taken out of the same sub- - treasury for export a short time before. It had been sent to Europe and shipped back again immediately, bearing all the costs of freight and insurance and dangers of shipwreck. Thus was inadvertently exposed the game of bide and seek ' by which the bond subscribers, foreign and domestic, have been attempting to cover their tracks. That cold had been drawn from the United States treasury and shipped to London for the osten- sible purpose of meeting the ordinary requirements of exchange, but in real ity it was taken out to precipitate .an other call for a loan by this govern ment and to be returned to the treasury in payment for its equivalent in bonds. Ere now it probably has been restored to the treasury reserve, but only to be drawn out again via the greenback route just as soon as the requisite amount of currency can be scraped up and presended for re- demption. The moat grevious feature of this expose is that it shows the new loan like all that have preceded it, is paid'ultimately, except an inconsider- able fraction, with gold withdrawn from the treasury itself, j It also em- phasizes the fact that so long as the greenback redemption system makes the periodical issue of bonds necessary, just so long will it be impossible for us to prevent the money-maker- s of Lon- don from profiting by It. Englishmen may, through their financial agents here, maintain a run upon our treasury if they please, and we cannot put an end to it so long as the legal tenders are outstanding. It is rather a costly price we are pay- ing for the poor privilege of seeing a. clownish congress do nothing. NO DANGER OF COMPETITION. In a recent editorial on the- - possibil- ity of competition with Japanese man- ufacturers resulting disastrously to the American manufacturers the Oregon-ia- n said: "This consideration is of special interest when we turn it to- ward the field of our greatest indus- tries iron and steel, wool and cotton manufactures. With ocean freights to pay each way, and , with an increasing wage scale, Japanese com- petition is scarcely to be considered in these lines. Considerable attention has been paid to an order from a Japan. ese syndicate of spinners lor iu,uuo bales of American cotton. But as our annual crop ia between 6,500,000 and 9,500,000 bales the goods made from this order or from others like it are more apt to be consumed in Japan than cross the ocean again in manufactured form. ' The great staple raw materials are our own.. Under wise policy we shall manufacture - them ourselves. We shall be excelled and undersold for a time in ornamental articles and fabrics. ; But the gains as time goes on should be all on our side." This admission on the part of the Oregonian is not compatible with the songs that great daily has been sing- ing in the past. It has always held that the manufactures of America could not successfully compete with those of Europe because of the differ- ence of wages in the two countries, and has ever held that a protective duty in favor of the American ' manu- facturer was necessary. . Now it sees no danger of competition with a coun try that pays lower wages than any other in the world except China. If it is true that we need no protection against the "pauper" labor of Japan, how then is it that we need protection against those European "paupers" who command twice the wages of the Japs? ' AN OBJECT LESSON. The deadlock that exists in the Ken- tucky legislature In the senatorial con- test is an excellent object lesson of that clumsy process we adopt for elect-- , ing United States senators. One of the duties of tho legislature is to elect a senator, but owing to a division on party lines, no election can be effected without the vote of the populist mem- bers, and virtually those two men have in their power to decide for the people of the entire commonwealth of Ken- tucky who shall represent them in the United States Senate. ' That is two men can cast the vote of the entire state. Thij state cf affairs should be a suf- ficient argument in favor of electing senators by direct vote. Speaking of the deadlock in Kentucky the other day Senator Turpie, of Indiana, in a speech before the senate, said: "But whatever else may result from this deadlock in the Kentucky legisla- ture, it should teach the People of the United States that the time has come when there should be adopted an amendment to our . national constitu- tion giving into the bands of the peo- ple the election of United States sen- ators, that the 'ballot of opinion,' ht and unawed, may settle the question of election to the. United States senator " " - FAIR TRADE A.ND THE TRUSTS Every man who is engaged in legit- imate trade is endeavoring to supply the largest possible number of people with all they can possibly use of the article in which he deals. Profits thus acquired are fair profits because they result from work which has benefited everybody. The principle involved is at all times a touchstone of trade. All commerce that complies with it is fair, useful and profitable to all who do not forfeit by incompetency. As trade departs from or defies this principle it becomes unfair, because it endeavors to take advantage of the wants and necessities of the largest possible number of people to extort from them the largest possible profit by supplying them the least possible quantity of what they need and pay for. This is exactly what the members of the-coa- l "combine" are doing. This is why their undertaking is dishonest and criminal. This is why every man of them is damaging the community and demoralizing trade. They are conspirators and law breakers. Why should not the laws be enforced against the lawless? N. Y. World. A REPUBLICAN HERESY. The majority of the republicans from the west say that, during the very hard times, when democratic politics have thrown so many people out of em- ployment, is the time when the govern ment should push the government work authorized, and expend all the money possible, so that there may be more work for the people and money kept in circulation. This has been claimed as the true policy, and democrats have been arraigned for not doing this in the past. Oregon ian's Washington Correspondents Is indeed the democratic party being arraigned for not having spent money extravagantly? Do the republicans desire to make this question an issue in the coming campaign? Will they advance as their policy that the "gov ernmentexpend all the money possible, so that there mav be more work for the people?" If they do, they had as well adopt the free silver policy of the populists, join hand and glove with Coxey in his demand that the govern ment supply the populace with means of earning a living, surrender party identity, and become out-and-o-ut com' munists. The idea of the government furnish ing employment to the people sounds well; it is a nice theory, but in prac tice it is a failure. The people are the government; it has no Jmeans of ob- taining money except by imposing taxes upon the people, then when it furnishes work for the people it simply takes money from them to give it back, less the cost of collection. The idea of creating good times by tax' ing one class of people to give work to another is a heresy that none but hair- - brained communists will accept, for it results in placing unnecessary burdens upon the farmers, the actual producers of the country, to give employment to a lot of poorly-pai- d laborers and well paid officials. It is a heaesy that will not be accepted by the masses, and if the republicans adopt it as a party principle, they do so at their peril. TIRED OF WAITING. Patience is indeed a commendable virtua under ordinary circumstances. but thero are times when this virtue becomes unbearable. This is now the case with those who have patiently waited for years hoping to see the Columbia river opened to navigation They have waited and waited these many years since the first ground was broken at the Cascade Locks, expect ing every year that it would be the last until their exports and imports should float unimpeded up and down the great waterway of the Northwest. They have seen over $3,000,000 ex pended on this work, and probably $1,000,000 squandered, and still have patiently waited without entering any vigorous complaints. But their pa tience has been sorely taxed,' and unless the locks are opened at an early date, they will no longer remain quiet. The prospect of the locks not being opened ' for traffic for another year, and possibly two or three years, causes every person directly interested to ask for an explanation of the cause of the delay. They want to know if it is really true that the canal and locks cannot be operated when the work of the present contractors is finished. This can only be determined by a prac- tical demonstration, and the people of the entire upper country demand of their representatives in congress .that they insist upon the war department allowing a practical 'test made.- - Let the locks be thrown .open, and if they prove to be unsafe, then let them be condemned, and speedy action taken to secure an appropriation for their ultimate completion. IS NOT DEMOCRATIC. Hon. .Napoleon Davis has lust re turned from Washington, and is quoted in the Oregonian as saying in refer ence to the appointment of receiver of public moneys at the Oregon City land office: " I think the president was a trifle sorry that he had only one position for 35 men so highly recommended, as he will necessarily lose the opportunity of making 34 good and loyal friends who would stand by him through good and ill report. The drawing capacity of a federal office is simply wonderful, and, to the dispenser of patronage, a great source of strength." If Mr. Davis is correctly quoted, it is not probable that he came any way near expressing President Cleveland's feelings- - in the matter. Cleveland is not the kind of a man who would feel any regret at being unable to furnish places for thirty-fou- r men to perform the services of one. Such an idea is foreign to democratic principlea Whatever else democracy may be faulted for having done, it has never been accused of creating offices as re- wards for loyalty to the party. Demo- crats have 'ever favored a government simple and pure, a government for the people, not for officials, and it is not likely that Cleveland has so far wandered from these time honored principles that he would desire to bur- den the people simply to make a 'few' solid friends. MARTIAL LAW IN CUBA. As was expected, General Weyler has issued a number of proclamations declaring . himself supreme ruler of Cuba, and announcing the island under martial law, threatening the direst vengeance uppn all supporters of the rebellion, and giving authority to sub- ordinate officers to cause the death penalty to be inflicted for offenses of treason, etc. ' General Weyler is a most brutal official, and a Cuban patriot who falls under his displeasure can e,xpect no mercy at his hands. Nothing short of death will appease the wrath of this unjust and barbarous soldier, and crimes against all laws of civilized warfare may be looked for under his rule. With such a tyrant in com- - mandiof the Spanish forces in Cuba, and in the absence of intervention of I foreign power, to prevent his cruelties to unfortunate rebels who may fall in to his power, there is but one course open to the patriots, that is to assasin- - ate Weyler. which will undoubtedly be the result if he persists in carrying out the terms of his proclamations. Ordinarily it has not been the policy of the government to allow internal improvements once be- gun or completed to suffer for want of appropriations with which to prosecute work or keep them in repair, hence there is little need of uneasiness about what action congress will take in refer- ence to appropriating more money with which to perfect the canal and locks at the Cascades. But it is often difficult to get appropriations for the commencement of new works, there fore the energy of all is required in an effort to get an appropriation for the boat-railw- project. A BUSINESS PROPOSITION. Within less than four months the people of every county in the state of Oregon will be called upon to select their public servants for the coming two years, and it behoves them to be- gin exercising their judgment as to who will best serve them in the differ ent official capacities. And is there any reason why business methods and common sence should not govern them in making these selections? Why should honest men, men successful in business, shrewd merchants and suc cessful farmers think of placing civic power in the hands of professional politicians, who use such power to de- stroy the credit of the county and state by incurring needless expenses, and whose sole regard is for the emolu ments of the offices to which they may be elected? Why should such men be' allowed to maniptlate conventions and name tickets which the voters of the respective parties are expected to march to the polls and blindly support, simply on party grounds, regardless of fitness, honesty or claims to public support? Why should not the busi- ness men of the state take the management of conventions out of the hands of professional politicianss and see to it that only honest, capable men are named for the different offices? Public affairs can . be conducted on business principles if business men are elected to all offices, from constable to governor, but this will never be if professional politicians are allowed to name themselves and their underlings for office. It is now time that the business men of the state bestir themselves, and by attending primary meetings take a hand in choos- ing who shall be named by conven tions to ask public suffrage in elevat- ing them to office. Politicians, who are in politics for revenue only, have run the affairs of Oregoo long enough, It is time that those who pay the '.axes take a hand. Let them consider the choice of officers as a plain business proposition, and the system of or ganized piracy that has prevailed in the state in the past will disappear. A DANGEROUS CURRENCY. Mr. Charles C. Jackson recently con tributed and article to sound currency that is a timely and interesting dis- cussion of the need of retiring our credit currency. In a most convincing way the article shows that we are using an ancient and discredited method of currency and heeding not the clearest and most convincing warning from experience of the danger that this form of paper money leads to. Mr Jackson thinks' that the gold has been flowing away from this country during the past eight years because we have had an excess of currency, and because our government has bo abused its power to issue paper currency that both our own and foreign, investors are doubtful whether that currency will always be redeemable in gold. This doubt has been growing with the decline in value of our large stock of silver, all of which is practically re deemable in gold, with no adequate gold reserve to meet such an ob ligation. Certain it is that for more than three years there has been such anxiety, about the maintenance of the redemption of our currency in gold as to greatly harass all business men' and seriously check investment and enter prise here on the part of our o wn and foreign capitalists. This anxiety would have no existence were it. not for the government notes which we have in circulation. . . Maintaining- - constant prompt redemption of these notes is a task for which the treasury is utterly unfit. Our banks, with $5,000,000,000 banking assets, are much better fitted to issue currency than is our govern ment, which has practically no assets, and which in times of stringency or emergency, can borrow gold only by selling its own promises to pay. The resources of this country are so great that it has succeeded thus far in keep ing Its legal tender notes at par with gold. Similar experiments have failed in every other country. No such paper except ours is at par today in the whole world. All other intelligent nations have abandoned the effort and substituted metal ap the only legal tender and now have all this paper is sued by banks. EDITORIAL NOTES. The senate don't want any tariff tinkering and the house won't have free silver. So there you have .it, a dead-loc- k in the great legislative body of the nation. ' One of Oregon's greatest ; needs is more employment for laborers and less employment for politicians. More far mers, mechanics and day laborers and fewer office holders would mean pros perity. . The democratic party is by no means short of presidential timber. It has Olney, Morrison, Pattison and Whit ney, any one of whom would be accept able to the masses of the people. The house very promptly sat down on free silver, defeating the substitute by an overwhelming majority. While the senate has a sort of silver liring the house still remains true to sound money. If to secure office is the only object to be gained in politics, then fusion with any and all parties is desirable; ut if we have a principle to contend for, the democratic party cannot afford to unite with any other at this time, John Burns, the English labor leader and socialist, recently coined this epi gram anent the Venezuela dispute: "If England is wrong, fighting won't make it any better; if England is right, ar bitration will not make it any worse. The present congress is making a grand success at doing nothing, and unless the members begin to get a move on themselves this session will go down to history as the greatest fail ure on record. Appropriation bills are about all thatreceive consideration' They seem to have the right-of-wa- y. Ex -- Gov. R. E. Pattison, of Pennsyl vania, is being urged for the demo cratic nomination for president. His record while governor of the Keystone state showed him to be well fitted for an executive officer, and a man of the peopie, one in whose hands their offices are safe. Senator Sherman cannot be classed among those Western republicans who are berating the administration for not spending more money on unneces sary public works "to give employ- ment to the people." He says Presi dent Cleveland would be be justified in suspending all public works that are not absolutely necessary. By so doing he would stop the deficit and place the treasury balance on the other Bide. Not only unnecessary public works, but a whole lot of unnecessary public officials could well be suspended, and the country would get along' just as of roll .. ... TELEGRAPHIC. BOLD BANK BOBBERY. The Cashier and Book-Keep- er Shut in the Vault. San Francisco, Feb. 18. Three masked men entered the Market-stre- et bank, a small institution in the Spreckles building, shortly after 10 o'clock this morning and ordered cashier Hopkins and book-keep- er Hay-hur- st to throw up their hands Hop- kins, who was at the counter, refused, and one robber fired a bullet pst his head, but which struck neither official. The three robbers then climbed through a hole in the wire screen at the cashier's window and seized the two bank officials and hustled them into the vault. A piece of carpet caught in the door of the vault, and the robbers did not take time to fasten the vault door. Hastily dumping the pile of gold on the cashier's counter Into the sack they escaped. Although Market street was crowded with passing people the robbers made good their escape. It Is supposed they secured only $800. CONFESSED XO HCBDEB. An Unusual Scene at a Revival Meeelng-- . Cedar Falls, Feb. 18. When Mort Truesdell, of Kenosha, Wis., confessed at a revival meeting to the murder of a man named Sheldon, at Leadville, Colo., September 10, 1890. he said: "I have been trying to lead a Chris- tian life for several years, but have been conscious all the time that I was a great sinner. I am guilty of murder and ready to surrender myself to the officers. I want to serve the Lord, and cannot do it without leaving off this awful burden." To a reporter Truesdell afterward made the following confession: "I first met the man I murdered at Springfield, 111., the 28th day of July, 1890. He and I traveled from there to Colorado together. I had been a private detective in Wisconsin. I was still a detective, but had no authority outside of that state. The fellow name was Bill Sheldon or Shelton, don't know which. At Tennessee Pass I was taken sick with mountain fever I was sick only one night. Sheldon was then with me, and while I was in bed he rifled my pockets, taking some private letters which contained matter showing I was a detective.. I did not Know ne toott the letters until we had trouble the next day. In the morning we started afoot for Leadville, When within a few miles of that city gave out and could ' go no further. Sheldon began swearing at me and spoke of the letters he had taken from my pockets. . He said he had found out that I was a detective,- - and would give him the worst of it for the crooked cases he had told me of. He became enraged, and as he came in front of me with a knife, I pulled a revolver and shot him in the head I fired two shots. The first bullet struck him in the temple, The other took effect in the back of the head. After the., shooting, I laid down the revolver by Sheldon's side. and took the knife and a watch and rode into Leadville with a farmer. do not know whether the body was ever found or not." - Little Girl Badly Burned. Jacksonville: Or., Feb. 18. Little Ruth Peter, 4 years Old, who resides in Jacksonville with her grandmother, Mrs. Newbery; met with a painful ac cident this evening.. While her grand' mother was absent from the house few moments she' opened the stove door and, in attempting to burn some paper, her clothing caught fire. Be- fore it could be extinguished, her face and one hand were badly burned. The child called to her grandmother number of times to come quickly and had the presence of mind to lie down androlL But for this no doubt she would have been burned to death, as the fire burned entirely through her clothing. The child is a niece of School Superintendent Newbery. Her mother, whose husband died a few years ago, is absent teaching school, House Proceeding;. . Washington, Feb. 18. In the house today Newlands of Nevada pre sented a resolution instructing the ways and means committee to inquire what effect the difference in exchange between gold standard countries has upon the manufacturing industries of the United States. "The Pacific coast, "he said, "was now threatened with the invasion of products of cheap labor of the oriental countries, especially Japan, and an In crease in the price of silver would take from the oriental countries the advan- tages they now possessed." The house resumed consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill.. Preacher Threatened With Death. Indianapolis, Feb. 18. Rev. R. G Hammond, pastor of the M. E. Church at Ambria, who has been very deter mined in his opposition to the saloon, is said to have received an anonymous letter threatening both his life and that of his family unless he stopped his warfare against ' the saloon. The preacher is not to be intimidated. Some weeks ago Constgble Charles Haver, a leader of the anti-saloo- n fac tion of Fowler, was waylaid and terri ble beaten, it is claimed, by friends of the saloon.'" Mies Barton In Turkey. Constantinople, Feb. 18. Miss Clara Barton, president of the Ameri can Red Cross Society, has arrived here, and is organizing a system for the distribution of relief to the suffer ing Armenians. ....'"" It has been ' arranged that Rev, izeorge f. unapp, the American mis sionary of Bltlls, accompanied by his family, is to come to this city to be examined by United States Minister Terrell regarding the charge of sedi- tion brought against him by the au- thorities. Authoress Marries a Nobleman. Charlottevtlle, Va., Feb. 18. Amelia Rives Chandler and, Prince Hierre Teroubetzkoy, a Russian noble- man, were married this afternoon at Castle Hill, the home of Colonel Alfred R ves, father of the authoress. ' i , Attempted Train-Wreckin- Stahbuck, Wash., Feb. 18 Some miscreant made an attempt to wreck the train . on - tbePomeroy branch. Only the vigilance of the engineer pre vented a serious disaster. The wretch opened the switch at Chard, and locked it with a key. Had the train attempted to go over the switch, it would certainly have been ditched. The engine was stopped within a few feet of the switch. Will Be From Eastern Oregon. Salem, Or., Feb. 18. Governor Lord expects to fill the vacancies on the board of regents of the university Oregon and the state agricultural college, in few days. He says both appointments will be made from East- ern Oregon, as that part of the stato is without representation on either board since the death of Mr. Sturgis and the resignation of Mr. French. THE DEADLY DYNAMITE. Great Lost ofLife and Destruction of Prop- erty. Johannesburg, Feb. 19. An explo- sion of dynamite has occurred at Vien-dendor- p, and the poor quarter of the town has been blown to pieces. Hun- dreds of houses are in ruin, and the havoc wrought is fearful. A number of persons have been killed and the populace has turned out en masse, and is working to rescue those who may be buried in the ruins. The windows of every house in Johannesburg were broken by the explosion. The dynamite that caused the catas- trophe filled eight trucks, which were being shunted. The explosion caused an immense hole 30 fet deep. Every bouse within a radius of half a mile of the explosion was razed to the ground. Forty dead, nearly all of them terribly mutilated, have already been taken from the ruirs, but the work of searching the debris has scarcely begun. Two hundred of the most severely injured were admitted to the hospital, where several died. It is believed only a few white persons were killed. A TEXAN'S REPORT. The Cubans, He Says, Have the Spaniards Whipped. Houston, Tex., Feb. 19. Captain J. H. MeGarvey, an old Texas veteran, has just returned from Cuba. October 16 last he left Key West for Cuba, in charge of the Viesta, with a crew of eight men. At Key West the Viesta was loaded with arms and ammunition j branded as lard, bacon, etc., and he was instructed to turn the cargo over to an insurgent commander. On reaching the Cuban coast he was chased by a Spanish man-of-w- ar and was com- pelled to beach his vessel, which he did and then burned her in order to keep the Spar.ish from getting her. He and his crew struck out from their landing place, near Matanzas, for the interior and joined the insurgents. Captain MeGarvey says the Cubans have at least 45,000 men under arms; that they are supplied with guns and ammunition and also receive supplies of money regularly from the United States. He remained with the troops until a fortnight ago and says he traversed nearly the entire western portion of the Island. He says the Cubans have the Spaniards completely whipped, and at their mercy, but he cannot understand why they do not take Havana and bring hostilities to a close. This he claims they can do at any time they see fit. The reports of Spanish victories, he characterizes, as tissues of lies. The Syndicate's Share. Washington, Feb. 19. The follow- ing announcement was made at the treasury' department today: J. & Co., and associates, under their bids for $100,000,000 United States bonds, of 1925, made in accordance with the recent'clrcular of the secretary of the treasury, are entitled to receive bonds of the face value of about $40,000,000, $7,00,000 in addition to those of which they have already been notified. The exect figures cannot be stated until returns from the various subtreasuries are fully verified. ' i ' ' -- '. Killed His Partner. , ' Great Falls, Mont, Feb. 19. Re- ports have reached here of a fatal shooting in Cherry county, fifty miles north of this place. Mike Clancy went to Fort Benton and told that he 1 had shot and killed T. J. Hanagan, his partner in the sheep business. Clancy claimed that Hanagan shot at him with a rifle and missed, where- upon he (Clancy) seized a shotgun and fired, the charge entering his oppo- nent's breast and causing almost in- stant death. The coroner's jury re- turned a verdict that the deceased came to his death by a gunshot wound at the hands of Clancy. Barely Escaped Burial Alive. Forsyth, Ga., Feb. 19. Mrs. Jeff Mapp, a middle-age- d woman living several miles north of here, has been very ill, and day before yesterday afternoon she was supposed to have expiredr To all appearances life was entirely extinct and the body was pre pared for burial. While being placed in the casket the body was seen to move.. In another instant . those around Mrs. Mapp were startled to see her open her eyes. The casket was hastily carried from the room and physician . summoned. Mri. Mapp, though very ill, is still alive and there are indications of her recovery. They May Fight on a Barge. Galveston, Tex., Feb.19. A rumor is current here this morning that Maher and Fitzsimmons will leave El Paso tonight and arrive in Galves ton Friday afternoon. They will take a steam tug with a barge attached, go three or four miles into the Gulf of Mexico and fight for the champion' ship' before a kiutoscope and a few witnesses, it is said tne Kintoscope people are willing topav the purse and an expenses, ana stuarc wiu ao any' thing that will let him out of the deal. Wo Clew to the Thieves.' BAN fRANCISCO. i'eb. i. The po lice have no clew to the identity of the masked trio who robbed the Market-stre- et bank of $3,000 yesterday. The detectives working on the case insist on the genuineness of the robbery, but have small hope of capturing the thieves, although the bank officials have furnished descriptions of the men. on . Will Reconsider the Tote. Washington, Feb. 19. The house committee on territories voted today to reconsider the former vote against the Arizona and New Mexico state- hood bill, thus leaving them still be fore the committee. To Exterminate the Seals. Washington, Feb. 19. The house committee on ways and means today voted to report a bill for killing all of the seals in Behring sea unless an ef- fective agreement for their protection can be reached. Great Loss of Life. of Lisbon, Feb. 19. Great loss of life attended a fire In Santaren last night. whiie the Artists' Club masked ball was in progress. Thirty-fou- r bodies the have been recovered. Many were in ured by jumping from the windows. me Compromise Kejected. Winnipeg, Feb. 19. The proposal of the Greenway government to settle the school question by making the schools absolutely secular and eliml- - just nating all religious exercises, has aroused a storm among the clergy. I by Both Protestant and Roman Catholic a 8 p Is the making of a pie. The fs making of a crisp crust depends gs ! largely upon the shortening. Lse jj Cottolene, Uie new vegeiaDie ! shortening, instead of lard, and g I sogginess will be an unknown g V- - element in your pastry. m should always be economically would ordinarily use gi lene as von - . . , , . i 3 ot lard or Duiter, Deing amuic iu produce the most desirable re--1 suits. The saving in a year rep- - i resents a considerable item. There are many imitations of Cottolene; you should therefore p be careful to get the genuine. y H Sold erwywhere in tins, with tndx-mar- j3 P Msussnlybr g U THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, SU.ou!s. g w York, . gg clergymen bitterly oppose the estab- lishment of what they term Godless schools. Roman Catholic clergymen say they would rather submit to the present system, while Protestant clergymen say they would prefer that the Roman Catholics have their own schools. BURGLAR AT H1LLSBORO. Safe at the Depot Blown Open and Thirty-Eig- ht Dollars Taken. HrLLSBORO, Or., Feb. 20. The de- pot of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, located in the southern por- tion of town, was entered this morn- ing about 2 o'clock, the safe blown open and its contents, $38, taken. Twenty-fiv- e dollars was in gold and the rest in silver. Entrance to the waiting- -room of the depot was effected by breaking the glaB, thea unlocking the catch, after which the window was easily raised. Once in the waiting-roo- the bolt of the night-latc- h on the office door was broken by prying the door open with a chisel. A hole was drilled in the safe door and filled with explosives. In the safe were a gold watch and. pin, aud other val- uables that were left untouched. sentenced to death. April 10 Fixed as the Time for Hanging; Kelsay Porter- - , Union. Or., Feb. 20. At 1:30 o'clock this afternoon i the time fixsd for pass- ing sentonr3 upon Kelsay Porter, con- victed c' in the first degree for killing l.ijainin Mache, sr., the at- torneys for the defense filed a motion for an order to set aside the verdict of the the jury, and for arrest of judge- ment. Both motions were denied, and Judge Eaklns passed the following sentence upon the defendant. "That he be confined in i the county jail until April 10, when ho be taken from thence, between the hours of 6 A. M. and 6 P. M., and, within the en- close of the jail, be hanged by the neck until dead." . The defense was allowed until April to prepare the bills of exception for an appeal to the supreme court. THE HIGH SCHOOL BURNED. Terrible Calamity Narrowly Averted in an Iowa Town. Muscatine, la.,' Feb. 20. The pres- ence of mind of the teachers in the high school, averted a horror yester- day. Flames were discovered in the building and at once the teachers di rected the pupils to arrange themselves in marching order. This timely advice was acted upon and the pupils began their march ' from the building. While they were descending the stair way the smoke became extremely dense , which created a small panic. Some rushed from their places with the result that for a time considerable confusion prevailed. All, however es caped uninjured from the building which, with its contents speedily be came a heap of smoking ruins. The Chicago Strike. Chicago, Feb. 20. Following the action of the meeting of the Cloth in Cu tar's & Trimmers' Association last night, 400 or 500 cutters quit work to day. The strike will be long and bitterly contested, and 10,000 or 15,000 people are likely to be thrown out of work. The issue seems practically whether the cutters shall work on the piece system. Cutters- - are paid a minimum salary oi zu a weet tor the maximum cutting of 14 suits per day. The manu facturers object, saying they are will ing to pay the minimum salary of $20 but cutters should be unlimited in the amount of work. - Coldest of the Season. Chicago, r'eb. 20. Chicago is ex periencing the coldest weather of the season. Since yesterday morning the thermometer has not risen above zero, and with a bitter north wind blowing. much suffering has ensued. Ad o'clock this morning 9 deg. below zero was reached, but some ther mometers in the suburbs indicated 14 below. Michael Hughes was frozen to death his way to work, and John Bradley was overcome by the cold and fell into the river. Scores of people compelled to re' main out of doors have been severely frost bitten. The cold snap is general over the Northwest. . Will Not Interfere. Washington, Feb. 20. The presi aent nas refused a pardon in the case F. M. Ohalston, sentenced in Ore gon to ten years at hard labor, for for gery. The president, in his indorse- ment, says: "I am decidedly in favor of he strict punishment of persons guilty crimes for whi h this prisoner is now suffering imprisonment. An of fense Involving forgery, swindling the poor and needy veteran soldiers, and prostitution of the benevolent con ditions of the government, as em- bodied in the slightest degree move to clemency. Berrlne's Comet. Oakland, Cal., Feb. 20. Professor Lenschner, of the state uriversity, has completed his 'calculi, tion of the orbit of the new comet discovered Berrine, of the Lick observatory, few days ago. The stranger, in the heavens was only 40,000,000 miles away from the earth yesterday and is now coming toward the earth at the rate of 1,600,000 miles a day. Profes- sor Lenschner says there is no cause for alarm. He has figured it out that the comet will take a new tack on March 1 and sheer off from the earth. The calculations made at the state uni- versity are the official figures. The Rope broke. St. Louis, Feb., 20. James Fitz- gerald was hanued at 10 this morning for the murder of his sweetheart, Annie Nessens, on the night of Nov- ember 24, 1893. The rope broke and the victim lay struggling on the ground beneath the gallows. The doctors found Fitzgerald still conscious. Stimulants were given and he revived. A new rope was sent for, and at 11 o'clock the sick and trembling, but nervy victim, was again taken to the scaffold. This time there was no hitch. Lost on the Ice. Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 20. The re- port is current that ten or twelve men were lost on the .ice outside the har- bor during last night's storm. They went out yesterday afternoon to fish through the ice, and were blinded by the squall that arose afterwards. It is possible they have landed somewhere along the shore. Waller Pardoned. Washington, Feb. 20. Secretary Olney this morning received the fol- lowing cablegram from Minister Eustis, at Paris: . "The president signed this morning Waller's pardon. ' Orders are being issued for his release." Bill Nye's Serious Condition. Asheville, N. C, Feb. 20. The conditiou of Bill Nye shows no mate- rial charge tonight. He remains In an unconscious condition and appears to be fciukiug. Daughters of American Revolution. Washington, Feb. 20. The Daugh- ters of the American Revolutions to- day unanimously elected Mrs. Steven- son, wife of the as president-gener- al. Speaking of the wheat market out- look, the Liverpool Corn Trade News says that the combined stocks in Europe and afloat have decreased dur-Janua- ry 16,000,000 bushels, and a still further decrease is looked for. Europe is eating up all its stock of wheat, and is not getting enough to supply its place. The shortage cannot be made up until supplies begin to come from Russia. And if there should be any chance w have a failure there too, we should get back to the old prices. The outlook for wheat, therefore, looks highly encouraging. The Portland University has found it impossible to pay interest on its bonded debt, and a receiver for the institution is asked for. Educational institutions like the State university, Monmouth normal school and others that haye a "pull" and are feeding at the public crib, are able to raise teachers' salaries and indulging in other extravagances. No wonder such institutions object to being choked off from the public teat. Baxter, the Portland who attempted to commit suicide after cutting bis wife's throat, is being nursed back to life by the physicians, to finally be tried by a court, convicted of murder and hung by. the sheriff. , Why don't the fool doctors let him die with- out heaping up expense on the taxpay ers, and forcing the brute to undergo more suffering? The Roseburg Plaindealer is raising a great howl in opposition to the fusion of the democratic and populist parties in Douglas county, evidently fearing the combine, if effected, would' capture the county offices. Hapily, though, the Plaindealer has not been called upon to dictate what policies those parties shall pursue. They have not burdened it wi:h such a responsibility. The aspirations of Senator Quay cjrtalnly cannot be seriously con- sidered by the republican party of the nation. Whatever other sins the re- publicans may have to answer for, they cannot afford to add to them by giving this old reprobate the nomina- tion for the highest office in the gift of the people. Mrs. Lease has given up politics and entered the minietry. After wasting her eloquence for years in an effort to convert people to populism, she has discovered her mistake, and will enter the field in a higher calling. It is to be hoped that she will meet with better success converting sinners than she did converting voters. $1,000.00 GIVEN AWAY Saturday, Feb. 22 'lhe assignee's auction sale of last Saturday beat the record. All arti cles were sacrificed without exception and the bargains realized were ridlcu lously cheap. Although the. sale was continued unuil 10 P. M., only one-hal- f of the suck was disposed of. The balance will be absolutely . CLEHNED OUT, On next Saturday. Be there at 10 A M. and if you don't bid, the auctioneer will load you up lor nothing. "Tk Regulator Line" The Dalies, PortlEnd and Astoria Nav'gation Co. THROUGH . Fieigfyt awl Passener Line Through Daily trips (Sundays ex cepted) between The Dalles and Port land, bteamer Regulator leaves Tne Dalles at 8 a. m., connecting at the Cascades Lo ks with Steamer Dalles City. Steamer Dalles City leaves Portland (Oak street dock) at 7 a. m., connecting with Steamer Regulator lor The Uaiies. PASSENGER. KATES One way.. 82 00 Hound trip 3 00 Freight Rates Reduced Shipments for Portland received at any time, day or night. Shipments for way landings must be delivered before 5 p. m. Live stock shipments solio- - ited. caii on or address, M' C' HLLHJnZTIY. Iikkebal Agent TH - DALLES - OREGON. SEEDS Seed Wheat, Seed Oats, e Seed Rye, Seed Corn . e Grass aud Garden Seeds Northern Grown Seeds. Early Minnesota Corn. Dakota Yel- low Deut Cora. Cootoe Mealy e Burbank Potatoes. Onion Sets, e Poultry and eggs bought and sold, Choice assortment of O rooertes. sold cheap. Terms positively cash or produoe, at d J. H. CROSS, d Feed and Grocery Store SEEDS TTTTTl THE DALL1.S National Bank. OP DALLES CITY, OR. President.. .Z. F. Moody Vice President. .Chas. Hilton Cashier .M. A. Moody General Banking Business Transacted. Sight Exchanges Sold on nam im PnnTT.iwn. minimim THE DAJ LES Cigar Factory SECOND STREET Opaotlte he Impluraant Wa aboua FACTORY NO. 105. Cigars of the Best Brands manufac- tured, and orders from all parts of the country filled on the shortest notice. The reputation of THE DALLES CIGAR has become firmly established, and the demand for the home manufac- tured article is increasing every day. A. ULRICH & SON. SAN Beer halL F. LEMKE, Proprietor. Fine Wines, Liquors, and Cigars ALL KINDS OF BOTTLED BEES. Columbia Brewery Beer on Draught Second Street, bet. Court and tJnlon. I TTVnTTTnTlTTTTTITl , THE 0R0 FL0 WINE ROOMS 7 AD KELLER, Mgr. ' . i Imported anJ Domestic No. 90, Second door from the Corner , . ot Court St. . . ' THP DALLFS, Oregoa. OREGON BAKERY -- AND CAF A. KELLER, Prop'r. Am prepared to furnish families, hotel and restaurants with the choicest Bread, Cakes and Pies. Fresh Oysters ' Served in Every Style. Second Street, next door to Ths Dalles National Bank. HAPPY nm laJTalAlA A. Practical :. watcM AND DEALER. IX decks, Watches, Jewelry, ft: REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. 162 Second Street, next door to A. M. Williams & Co. 'a. THE PLLES, -- OREGON Latest Styles Lowest Profits : In Mens and Boys : Clothing, Dry Ooods. MENS FURNISHINGS. : HONEST VALUES IN : : Boots and SIiocs c. F. STEPHENS 134 Second Street. Next door to the Dalle National Bank Mount Hood Sa p'e Room THE DALLES, OR. BeSt Kentucky Whisky FaIU lOUsVlLLt. Very B3t Key West Cigars and Best of laes. English Porter, Me and Milwaukee Beer always on hand. MAETZ fc PUNDT, PROPRIETORS

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SATURDAY .' . FEBRUARY 22, 1896.

SOMETHING IS WRONG.

When the contract was let for the, construction and completion of thecanal and locks at the Cascades, it wasthe universal belief, in fact it was

' promised, that they would be openedin 1895; but the high water of 1894

necessitated a change in the plans of;J the work, and to comply with the new

plans, the date for the final completionwas extended to March 1,1896. Butnow we are confronted with the infor-mation that, even if the canal is openedfor the passage of a boat on March 1st,which is not probable, the gates willat once be closed, and that they will

. not again be opened for operation untilanother appropriation can be workedthrough congress to build walls be-

tween the first and second locks..' To say that this is disappointing tothose who have for years looked for''ward to.the time when we should have

1 an open river to. the sea, as an era ofprosperity to the Inland Empire, as a

' time when Eastern Oregon could util-ize the great waterway for floating her

' - products to market, is putting it mildlyi

hindeed. The people are not only dis-- -

..; appointed, but they are lead to believe. - that there is something decidedly

". wrong somewhere; that either the government engineers who prepared the

- plans and specifications when the con; tract was let were a set of incompetent

,' ninnies, or that undue influence is

' somewhere brought to bear upon theengineers now in charge of the works,

i i The encineero who prepared the-

. plans on which the contract was awarded considered the natural walls be--

tween the first, and second locks suff-icient to withstand the force of thewater when the locks should be oper-

ated, and made no provision for havingthem protected . by solid masonry or

. other artificial walls ; but now the' engineers in charge condemn them as

- being unsafe, and insist that they shallbe protected before the canal is opened

m' for traffic, necessitating an appropria-tion variously estimated from $8,000to 8400,000. '

, - , . ,

If this proposition is true, why havenot those learned engineers discovered

' the fact years ago,' bo that provisioncould have been made for this extra

' work while the other work was inprogress? Those banks of dirt, asthey call them, have been exposed to

- view for years, why, then.ihave the' engineers been so long discovering

that they would not withstand thewaves? Why have they waited untilthe other work is nearing completion

I , TefniiA-riA- T ask for . further money""v""1' with which to complete that particular

part of the canal? ,'

i The casual observer would naturally'. infer that the engineers have had an

', object In retarding the work. What

.this object may be, if there is any, wedo not pretend to say; but we do be--

lieve that under the state of affairsthat now exist, the people would bejustified in insisting that the war de-

partment cause an immediate investi-gation to be made, and ascertain ifsome of the engineers are not workingin the interest of some one else than

i the government and the people. Bet-ter still, a practical test of the locksshould be made as Soon as the channelsleading to the canal are opened andthe machinery for operating the gates

' is in place. The passage of a few boatsthrough the canal can do but little ifany damage. If a dozen boats do nodamage to those unprotected walls,then it would be safe to open the canalfor general traffic If, however, theyshould suffer material damage fromthe effects of the water, that will be

- abundant time to condemn the work,and order the canal closed for repairs.

The opinion, or rather the skill ofthe engineers who prepared the planson which the contract was let, is cer-tainly worth something, and it is butright that the work when completed inaccordance with those plans, be givena test. Nothing short of a practicaltest will satisfy the people that the

' engineers are honest in condemningthat portion of the work that is claimedto be unsafe

WHAT THE DALLES NEEDS

A spirit of prosperity and enterpriseprevadesThe Dalles, as is shown bythe amount of building that is now con-

templated this season. The city willassuredly enjoy more substantialgrowth the coming summer than it has

' at any time in the past five or six rears"An immense amount of money will beinvested in buildings, and a number ofnew mercantile establishments willlikely erigage in business here; butwith all 'this anticipated increase andgeneral thrift there is one thing lack-ing. No efforts, so far as we are in--

, formed, are being put forth to establishany class of manufacturing industrieshere. In this, we believe the peopleof The Dalles are short sighted.-- Wemay erect mammoth buildings, in--

; crease our facilities for transacting' the mercantile business of the country,and offer inducements for trade to cen-

ter here, but unless we can do some--' thing to increase the population, make' more mouths to feed and more persons

to clothe, our efforts toward advance-ment will fail to meet the reward to

. which they are entitled.The Dalles should, in two years, be-

come a city of 10,000 inhabitants, butthis it will never be unless industriesare built up that will giye employmentto more people. There are now all thepeqple here who can find profitable empiovment. THfere is nothing atpresent to Invite another wage-earn- er

to come to the city. But if we

had a wool-scouri- plant, anotherlarge flouring mill, a foundry, machine

' shop, wagon and carriage factory,woolen mills, etc., The Dalles wouldsoon become the most attractive pointon the coast for laborers. Withoutsome such industries the city may soonoutgrow its resources, as has nearlyevery other town on the coast. Seattle,Tacoma, Ellensburg and Spokane fur-

nish good examples of cities that havebeen built up expecting to live on theresources of the country and withoutattempting to create any resources inthe ' way of manufacturing. Todaythese are cities of immense brick blocksthat are tenantless, investments intheir real estate is no where near pay-

ing interest, and in many instances

not realizing enough to pay taxes.Let The Dalles profit by the ex-

perience of those cities and instead ofdepending solely upon the resources ofthe surrounding agricultural regions,create resources for itself.

HOW IT WORKS.

A practical illustration of how theendless chain of greenbackism is enriching British usury at this country'sexpense was unexpectedly developedthe other day in New York. Whenthe steamer St. Paul ran ashore on theJersey coast, 6ays the Portland Tele-gram, she had in her .hold $1,300,000in gold. This guld was taken out andreturned to the ry at NewYork, where it was found, upon ex-

amination, to be the identical metal thathad been taken out of the same sub- -

treasury for export a short time before.It had been sent to Europe and shippedback again immediately, bearing allthe costs of freight and insurance anddangers of shipwreck.

Thus was inadvertently exposed thegame of bide and seek ' by which thebond subscribers, foreign and domestic,have been attempting to cover theirtracks. That cold had been drawnfrom the United States treasury andshipped to London for the osten-sible purpose of meeting the ordinaryrequirements of exchange, but in reality it was taken out to precipitate .another call for a loan by this government and to be returned to thetreasury in payment for its equivalentin bonds. Ere now it probably hasbeen restored to the treasury reserve,but only to be drawn out again via thegreenback route just as soon as therequisite amount of currency can bescraped up and presended for re-

demption. The moat grevious featureof this expose is that it shows the newloan like all that have preceded it, ispaid'ultimately, except an inconsider-able fraction, with gold withdrawnfrom the treasury itself, j It also em-

phasizes the fact that so long as thegreenback redemption system makesthe periodical issue of bonds necessary,just so long will it be impossible for usto prevent the money-maker- s of Lon-don from profiting by It. Englishmenmay, through their financial agentshere, maintain a run upon our treasuryif they please, and we cannot put anend to it so long as the legal tendersare outstanding.

It is rather a costly price we are pay-

ing for the poor privilege of seeing a.

clownish congress do nothing.

NO DANGER OF COMPETITION.

In a recent editorial on the- - possibil-ity of competition with Japanese man-ufacturers resulting disastrously to theAmerican manufacturers the Oregon-ia- n

said: "This consideration is ofspecial interest when we turn it to-

ward the field of our greatest indus-tries iron and steel, wool and cottonmanufactures. With ocean freightsto pay each way, and , with anincreasing wage scale, Japanese com-

petition is scarcely to be considered inthese lines. Considerable attentionhas been paid to an order from a Japan.ese syndicate of spinners lor iu,uuobales of American cotton. But as ourannual crop ia between 6,500,000 and9,500,000 bales the goods made fromthis order or from others like it aremore apt to be consumed in Japan thancross the ocean again in manufacturedform. ' The great staple raw materialsare our own.. Under wise policy weshall manufacture - them ourselves.We shall be excelled and undersoldfor a time in ornamental articles andfabrics. ; But the gains as time goeson should be all on our side."

This admission on the part of theOregonian is not compatible with thesongs that great daily has been sing-ing in the past. It has always heldthat the manufactures of Americacould not successfully compete withthose of Europe because of the differ-ence of wages in the two countries,and has ever held that a protectiveduty in favor of the American ' manu-facturer was necessary. . Now it seesno danger of competition with a country that pays lower wages than anyother in the world except China. Ifit is true that we need no protectionagainst the "pauper" labor of Japan,how then is it that we need protectionagainst those European "paupers"who command twice the wages of theJaps? '

AN OBJECT LESSON.

The deadlock that exists in the Ken-tucky legislature In the senatorial con-

test is an excellent object lesson ofthat clumsy process we adopt for elect-- ,ing United States senators. One ofthe duties of tho legislature is to electa senator, but owing to a division onparty lines, no election can be effectedwithout the vote of the populist mem-

bers, and virtually those two men havein their power to decide for the peopleof the entire commonwealth of Ken-tucky who shall represent them in theUnited States Senate. ' That istwo men can cast the vote of the entirestate.

Thij state cf affairs should be a suf-

ficient argument in favor of electingsenators by direct vote. Speaking ofthe deadlock in Kentucky the otherday Senator Turpie, of Indiana, in aspeech before the senate, said:

"But whatever else may result fromthis deadlock in the Kentucky legisla-ture, it should teach the People of theUnited States that the time has comewhen there should be adopted anamendment to our . national constitu-tion giving into the bands of the peo-

ple the election of United States sen-

ators, that the 'ballot of opinion,' ht

and unawed, may settle thequestion of election to the. UnitedStates senator " " -

FAIR TRADE A.ND THE TRUSTS

Every man who is engaged in legit-imate trade is endeavoring to supplythe largest possible number of peoplewith all they can possibly use of thearticle in which he deals. Profits thusacquired are fair profits because theyresult from work which has benefitedeverybody.

The principle involved is at all timesa touchstone of trade. All commercethat complies with it is fair, useful andprofitable to all who do not forfeit byincompetency.

As trade departs from or defies thisprinciple it becomes unfair, because itendeavors to take advantage of thewants and necessities of the largestpossible number of people to extortfrom them the largest possible profitby supplying them the least possiblequantity of what they need and payfor.

This is exactly what the members ofthe-coa- l "combine" are doing. This iswhy their undertaking is dishonestand criminal. This is why every manof them is damaging the communityand demoralizing trade.

They are conspirators and lawbreakers. Why should not the lawsbe enforced against the lawless? N.Y. World.

A REPUBLICAN HERESY.

The majority of the republicans fromthe west say that, during the veryhard times, when democratic politicshave thrown so many people out of em-

ployment, is the time when the government should push the government workauthorized, and expend all the moneypossible, so that there may be morework for the people and money kept incirculation. This has been claimed asthe true policy, and democrats havebeen arraigned for not doing this inthe past. Oregon ian's WashingtonCorrespondents

Is indeed the democratic party beingarraigned for not having spent moneyextravagantly? Do the republicansdesire to make this question an issuein the coming campaign? Will theyadvance as their policy that the "governmentexpend all the money possible,so that there mav be more work forthe people?" If they do, they had aswell adopt the free silver policy of thepopulists, join hand and glove withCoxey in his demand that the government supply the populace with meansof earning a living, surrender partyidentity, and become out-and-o-ut com'munists.

The idea of the government furnishing employment to the people soundswell; it is a nice theory, but in practice it is a failure. The people are thegovernment; it has no Jmeans of ob-

taining money except by imposingtaxes upon the people, then when itfurnishes work for the people it simplytakes money from them to give it back,less the cost of collection.

The idea of creating good times by tax'ing one class of people to give work toanother is a heresy that none but hair- -

brained communists will accept, for itresults in placing unnecessary burdensupon the farmers, the actual producersof the country, to give employment toa lot of poorly-pai- d laborers and wellpaid officials. It is a heaesy that willnot be accepted by the masses, and ifthe republicans adopt it as a partyprinciple, they do so at their peril.

TIRED OF WAITING.

Patience is indeed a commendablevirtua under ordinary circumstances.but thero are times when this virtuebecomes unbearable. This is now thecase with those who have patientlywaited for years hoping to see theColumbia river opened to navigationThey have waited and waited thesemany years since the first ground wasbroken at the Cascade Locks, expecting every year that it would be thelast until their exports and importsshould float unimpeded up and downthe great waterway of the Northwest.They have seen over $3,000,000 expended on this work, and probably$1,000,000 squandered, and still havepatiently waited without entering anyvigorous complaints. But their patience has been sorely taxed,' andunless the locks are opened at an earlydate, they will no longer remain quiet.

The prospect of the locks not beingopened ' for traffic for another year,and possibly two or three years, causesevery person directly interested to askfor an explanation of the cause of thedelay. They want to know if it isreally true that the canal and lockscannot be operated when the work ofthe present contractors is finished.This can only be determined by a prac-

tical demonstration, and the people ofthe entire upper country demand oftheir representatives in congress .thatthey insist upon the war departmentallowing a practical 'test made.- - Letthe locks be thrown .open, and if theyprove to be unsafe, then let them becondemned, and speedy action takento secure an appropriation for theirultimate completion.

IS NOT DEMOCRATIC.

Hon. .Napoleon Davis has lust returned from Washington, and is quotedin the Oregonian as saying in reference to the appointment of receiver ofpublic moneys at the Oregon City landoffice:

" I think the president was a triflesorry that he had only one position for35 men so highly recommended, as hewill necessarily lose the opportunityof making 34 good and loyal friendswho would stand by him through goodand ill report. The drawing capacityof a federal office is simply wonderful,and, to the dispenser of patronage, agreat source of strength."

If Mr. Davis is correctly quoted, it isnot probable that he came any waynear expressing President Cleveland'sfeelings- - in the matter. Cleveland isnot the kind of a man who would feelany regret at being unable to furnishplaces for thirty-fou- r men to performthe services of one. Such an idea isforeign to democratic principleaWhatever else democracy may befaulted for having done, it has neverbeen accused of creating offices as re-

wards for loyalty to the party. Demo-crats have 'ever favored a governmentsimple and pure, a government for thepeople, not for officials, and it is notlikely that Cleveland has so farwandered from these time honoredprinciples that he would desire to bur-den the people simply to make a 'few'solid friends.

MARTIAL LAW IN CUBA.

As was expected, General Weylerhas issued a number of proclamationsdeclaring . himself supreme ruler ofCuba, and announcing the island undermartial law, threatening the direstvengeance uppn all supporters of therebellion, and giving authority to sub-

ordinate officers to cause the deathpenalty to be inflicted for offenses oftreason, etc. ' General Weyler is a mostbrutal official, and a Cuban patriotwho falls under his displeasure cane,xpect no mercy at his hands. Nothingshort of death will appease the wrathof this unjust and barbarous soldier,and crimes against all laws of civilizedwarfare may be looked for underhis rule. With such a tyrant in com- -

mandiof the Spanish forces in Cuba,and in the absence of intervention of I

foreign power, to prevent his crueltiesto unfortunate rebels who may fall into his power, there is but one courseopen to the patriots, that is to assasin- -ate Weyler. which will undoubtedly bethe result if he persists in carryingout the terms of his proclamations.

Ordinarily it has not been thepolicy of the government to allowinternal improvements once be-

gun or completed to suffer for want ofappropriations with which to prosecutework or keep them in repair, hencethere is little need of uneasiness aboutwhat action congress will take in refer-ence to appropriating more moneywith which to perfect the canal andlocks at the Cascades. But it is oftendifficult to get appropriations for thecommencement of new works, therefore the energy of all is required in aneffort to get an appropriation for theboat-railw- project.

A BUSINESS PROPOSITION.

Within less than four months thepeople of every county in the state ofOregon will be called upon to selecttheir public servants for the comingtwo years, and it behoves them to be-

gin exercising their judgment as towho will best serve them in the different official capacities. And is thereany reason why business methods andcommon sence should not govern themin making these selections? Whyshould honest men, men successful inbusiness, shrewd merchants and successful farmers think of placing civicpower in the hands of professionalpoliticians, who use such power to de-

stroy the credit of the county and stateby incurring needless expenses, andwhose sole regard is for the emoluments of the offices to which they maybe elected? Why should such men be'allowed to maniptlate conventions andname tickets which the voters of therespective parties are expected tomarch to the polls and blindly support,simply on party grounds, regardless offitness, honesty or claims to publicsupport? Why should not the busi-ness men of the state take themanagement of conventions out of thehands of professional politicianss andsee to it that only honest, capable menare named for the different offices?Public affairs can . be conductedon business principles if businessmen are elected to all offices, fromconstable to governor, but this willnever be if professional politiciansare allowed to name themselves andtheir underlings for office. It is nowtime that the business men of the statebestir themselves, and by attendingprimary meetings take a hand in choos-ing who shall be named by conventions to ask public suffrage in elevat-ing them to office. Politicians, who arein politics for revenue only, have runthe affairs of Oregoo long enough,It is time that those who pay the '.axestake a hand. Let them consider thechoice of officers as a plain businessproposition, and the system of organized piracy that has prevailed inthe state in the past will disappear.

A DANGEROUS CURRENCY.

Mr. Charles C. Jackson recently contributed and article to sound currencythat is a timely and interesting dis-

cussion of the need of retiring ourcredit currency. In a most convincingway the article shows that we are usingan ancient and discredited method ofcurrency and heeding not the clearestand most convincing warning fromexperience of the danger that this formof paper money leads to.

Mr Jackson thinks' that the gold hasbeen flowing away from this countryduring the past eight years because wehave had an excess of currency, andbecause our government has bo abusedits power to issue paper currency thatboth our own and foreign, investorsare doubtful whether that currencywill always be redeemable in gold.This doubt has been growing with thedecline in value of our large stock ofsilver, all of which is practically redeemable in gold, with no adequategold reserve to meet such an obligation. Certain it is that for morethan three years there has been suchanxiety, about the maintenance of theredemption of our currency in gold asto greatly harass all business men' andseriously check investment and enterprise here on the part of our o wn andforeign capitalists. This anxiety wouldhave no existence were it. not for thegovernment notes which we have incirculation. . . Maintaining- - constantprompt redemption of these notes is atask for which the treasury is utterlyunfit. Our banks, with $5,000,000,000banking assets, are much better fittedto issue currency than is our government, which has practically no assets,and which in times of stringency oremergency, can borrow gold only byselling its own promises to pay. Theresources of this country are so greatthat it has succeeded thus far in keeping Its legal tender notes at par withgold. Similar experiments have failedin every other country. No such paperexcept ours is at par today in thewhole world. All other intelligentnations have abandoned the effort andsubstituted metal ap the only legaltender and now have all this paper issued by banks.

EDITORIAL NOTES.

The senate don't want any tarifftinkering and the house won't havefree silver. So there you have .it, adead-loc- k in the great legislative bodyof the nation. '

One of Oregon's greatest ; needs ismore employment for laborers and lessemployment for politicians. More farmers, mechanics and day laborers andfewer office holders would mean prosperity. .

The democratic party is by no meansshort of presidential timber. It hasOlney, Morrison, Pattison and Whitney, any one of whom would be acceptable to the masses of the people.

The house very promptly sat downon free silver, defeating the substituteby an overwhelming majority. Whilethe senate has a sort of silver liringthe house still remains true to soundmoney.

If to secure office is the only objectto be gained in politics, then fusionwith any and all parties is desirable;ut if we have a principle to contend

for, the democratic party cannot affordto unite with any other at this time,

John Burns, the English labor leaderand socialist, recently coined this epigram anent the Venezuela dispute: "IfEngland is wrong, fighting won't makeit any better; if England is right, arbitration will not make it any worse.

The present congress is making agrand success at doing nothing, andunless the members begin to get amove on themselves this session willgo down to history as the greatest failure on record. Appropriation billsare about all thatreceive consideration'They seem to have the right-of-wa- y.

Ex --Gov. R. E. Pattison, of Pennsylvania, is being urged for the democratic nomination for president. Hisrecord while governor of the Keystonestate showed him to be well fitted foran executive officer, and a man of thepeopie, one in whose hands theiroffices are safe.

Senator Sherman cannot be classedamong those Western republicans whoare berating the administration fornot spending more money on unnecessary public works "to give employ-ment to the people." He says President Cleveland would be be justified insuspending all public works that arenot absolutely necessary. By so doinghe would stop the deficit and place thetreasury balance on the other Bide.Not only unnecessary public works,but a whole lot of unnecessary publicofficials could well be suspended, andthe country would get along' just as ofroll .. ...

TELEGRAPHIC.

BOLD BANK BOBBERY.

The Cashier and Book-Keep- er Shut in theVault.

San Francisco, Feb. 18. Threemasked men entered the Market-stre- et

bank, a small institution in theSpreckles building, shortly after 10

o'clock this morning and orderedcashier Hopkins and book-keep- er Hay-hur- st

to throw up their hands Hop-

kins, who was at the counter, refused,and one robber fired a bullet pst hishead, but which struck neither official.

The three robbers then climbedthrough a hole in the wire screen atthe cashier's window and seized thetwo bank officials and hustled theminto the vault. A piece of carpetcaught in the door of the vault, andthe robbers did not take time to fastenthe vault door. Hastily dumping thepile of gold on the cashier's counterInto the sack they escaped.

Although Market street was crowdedwith passing people the robbers madegood their escape. It Is supposed theysecured only $800.

CONFESSED XO HCBDEB.

An Unusual Scene at a Revival Meeelng--.

Cedar Falls, Feb. 18. When MortTruesdell, of Kenosha, Wis., confessedat a revival meeting to the murder of aman named Sheldon, at Leadville,Colo., September 10, 1890. he said:

"I have been trying to lead a Chris-tian life for several years, but havebeen conscious all the time that I wasa great sinner. I am guilty of murderand ready to surrender myself to theofficers. I want to serve the Lord,and cannot do it without leaving offthis awful burden."

To a reporter Truesdell afterwardmade the following confession:

"I first met the man I murdered atSpringfield, 111., the 28th day of July,1890. He and I traveled from thereto Colorado together. I had been aprivate detective in Wisconsin. I wasstill a detective, but had no authorityoutside of that state. The fellowname was Bill Sheldon or Shelton,don't know which. At Tennessee PassI was taken sick with mountain feverI was sick only one night. Sheldonwas then with me, and while I was inbed he rifled my pockets, taking someprivate letters which contained mattershowing I was a detective.. I did notKnow ne toott the letters until wehad trouble the next day. In themorning we started afoot for Leadville,When within a few miles of that citygave out and could ' go no further.Sheldon began swearing at me andspoke of the letters he had taken frommy pockets.. He said he had found out that I wasa detective,- - and would give him theworst of it for the crooked cases he hadtold me of. He became enraged, andas he came in front of me with a knife,I pulled a revolver and shot him inthe head I fired two shots. Thefirst bullet struck him in the temple,The other took effect in the back ofthe head. After the., shooting, I laiddown the revolver by Sheldon's side.and took the knife and a watch androde into Leadville with a farmer.do not know whether the body wasever found or not."

- Little Girl Badly Burned.Jacksonville: Or., Feb. 18. Little

Ruth Peter, 4 years Old, who resides inJacksonville with her grandmother,Mrs. Newbery; met with a painful accident this evening.. While her grand'mother was absent from the housefew moments she' opened the stovedoor and, in attempting to burn somepaper, her clothing caught fire. Be-

fore it could be extinguished, her faceand one hand were badly burned. Thechild called to her grandmothernumber of times to come quickly andhad the presence of mind to lie downandrolL But for this no doubt shewould have been burned to death, asthe fire burned entirely through herclothing. The child is a niece ofSchool Superintendent Newbery. Hermother, whose husband died a fewyears ago, is absent teaching school,

House Proceeding;. .

Washington, Feb. 18. In thehouse today Newlands of Nevada presented a resolution instructing theways and means committee to inquirewhat effect the difference in exchangebetween gold standard countries hasupon the manufacturing industries ofthe United States.

"The Pacific coast, "he said, "wasnow threatened with the invasion ofproducts of cheap labor of the orientalcountries, especially Japan, and an Increase in the price of silver would takefrom the oriental countries the advan-tages they now possessed."

The house resumed consideration ofthe agricultural appropriation bill..

Preacher Threatened With Death.

Indianapolis, Feb. 18. Rev. R. GHammond, pastor of the M. E. Churchat Ambria, who has been very determined in his opposition to the saloon,is said to have received an anonymousletter threatening both his life andthat of his family unless he stopped hiswarfare against ' the saloon. Thepreacher is not to be intimidated.Some weeks ago Constgble CharlesHaver, a leader of the anti-saloo- n faction of Fowler, was waylaid and terrible beaten, it is claimed, by friends ofthe saloon.'"

Mies Barton In Turkey.Constantinople, Feb. 18. Miss

Clara Barton, president of the American Red Cross Society, has arrivedhere, and is organizing a system forthe distribution of relief to the suffering Armenians. ....'""

It has been ' arranged that Rev,izeorge f. unapp, the American missionary of Bltlls, accompanied by hisfamily, is to come to this city to beexamined by United States MinisterTerrell regarding the charge of sedi-tion brought against him by the au-

thorities.

Authoress Marries a Nobleman.

Charlottevtlle, Va., Feb. 18.

Amelia Rives Chandler and, PrinceHierre Teroubetzkoy, a Russian noble-man, were married this afternoon atCastle Hill, the home of Colonel AlfredR ves, father of the authoress.

' i, Attempted Train-Wreckin-

Stahbuck, Wash., Feb. 18 Somemiscreant made an attempt to wreckthe train . on - tbePomeroy branch.Only the vigilance of the engineer prevented a serious disaster. The wretchopened the switch at Chard, and lockedit with a key. Had the train attemptedto go over the switch, it would certainlyhave been ditched. The engine wasstopped within a few feet of the switch.

Will Be From Eastern Oregon.

Salem, Or., Feb. 18. GovernorLord expects to fill the vacancies onthe board of regents of the university

Oregon and the state agriculturalcollege, in few days. He says both

appointments will be made from East-ern Oregon, as that part of the statois without representation on eitherboard since the death of Mr. Sturgisand the resignation of Mr. French.

THE DEADLY DYNAMITE.

Great Lost ofLife and Destruction of Prop-

erty.Johannesburg, Feb. 19. An explo-

sion of dynamite has occurred at Vien-dendor- p,

and the poor quarter of thetown has been blown to pieces. Hun-dreds of houses are in ruin, and thehavoc wrought is fearful. A numberof persons have been killed and thepopulace has turned out en masse, andis working to rescue those who maybe buried in the ruins. The windowsof every house in Johannesburg werebroken by the explosion.

The dynamite that caused the catas-trophe filled eight trucks, which werebeing shunted. The explosion causedan immense hole 30 fet deep. Everybouse within a radius of half a mileof the explosion was razed to theground. Forty dead, nearly all ofthem terribly mutilated, have alreadybeen taken from the ruirs, but thework of searching the debris hasscarcely begun. Two hundred of themost severely injured were admittedto the hospital, where several died. Itis believed only a few white personswere killed.

A TEXAN'S REPORT.

The Cubans, He Says, Have the SpaniardsWhipped.

Houston, Tex., Feb. 19. Captain J.H. MeGarvey, an old Texas veteran,has just returned from Cuba. October16 last he left Key West for Cuba, incharge of the Viesta, with a crew ofeight men. At Key West the Viestawas loaded with arms and ammunition

j branded as lard, bacon, etc., and hewas instructed to turn the cargo overto an insurgent commander. Onreaching the Cuban coast he was chasedby a Spanish man-of-w- ar and was com-

pelled to beach his vessel, which hedid and then burned her in order tokeep the Spar.ish from getting her.He and his crew struck out from theirlanding place, near Matanzas, for theinterior and joined the insurgents.

Captain MeGarvey says the Cubanshave at least 45,000 men under arms;that they are supplied with guns andammunition and also receive suppliesof money regularly from the UnitedStates. He remained with the troopsuntil a fortnight ago and says hetraversed nearly the entire westernportion of the Island. He says theCubans have the Spaniards completelywhipped, and at their mercy, but hecannot understand why they do nottake Havana and bring hostilities to aclose. This he claims they can do atany time they see fit. The reports ofSpanish victories, he characterizes, astissues of lies.

The Syndicate's Share.Washington, Feb. 19. The follow-

ing announcement was made at thetreasury' department today: J.

& Co., and associates, undertheir bids for $100,000,000 UnitedStates bonds, of 1925, madein accordance with the recent'clrcularof the secretary of the treasury, areentitled to receive bonds of the facevalue of about $40,000,000, $7,00,000 inaddition to those of which they havealready been notified. The exectfigures cannot be stated until returnsfrom the various subtreasuries arefully verified. '

i'

'-- '. Killed His Partner. ,' Great Falls, Mont, Feb. 19. Re-

ports have reached here of a fatalshooting in Cherry county, fifty milesnorth of this place. Mike Clancywent to Fort Benton and told that he 1had shot and killed T. J. Hanagan,his partner in the sheep business.Clancy claimed that Hanagan shot athim with a rifle and missed, where-upon he (Clancy) seized a shotgun andfired, the charge entering his oppo-

nent's breast and causing almost in-

stant death. The coroner's jury re-

turned a verdict that the deceasedcame to his death by a gunshot woundat the hands of Clancy.

Barely Escaped Burial Alive.

Forsyth, Ga., Feb. 19. Mrs. JeffMapp, a middle-age- d woman livingseveral miles north of here, has beenvery ill, and day before yesterdayafternoon she was supposed to haveexpiredr To all appearances life wasentirely extinct and the body was prepared for burial. While being placedin the casket the body was seen tomove.. In another instant . thosearound Mrs. Mapp were startled to seeher open her eyes. The casket washastily carried from the room andphysician . summoned. Mri. Mapp,though very ill, is still alive and thereare indications of her recovery.

They May Fight on a Barge.

Galveston, Tex., Feb.19. A rumoris current here this morning thatMaher and Fitzsimmons will leaveEl Paso tonight and arrive in Galveston Friday afternoon. They will takea steam tug with a barge attached, gothree or four miles into the Gulf ofMexico and fight for the champion'ship' before a kiutoscope and a fewwitnesses, it is said tne Kintoscopepeople are willing topav the purse andan expenses, ana stuarc wiu ao any'thing that will let him out of the deal.

Wo Clew to the Thieves.'

BAN fRANCISCO. i'eb. i. The police have no clew to the identity of themasked trio who robbed the Market-stre- et

bank of $3,000 yesterday. Thedetectives working on the case insiston the genuineness of the robbery, buthave small hope of capturing thethieves, although the bank officialshave furnished descriptions of themen.

on. Will Reconsider the Tote.

Washington, Feb. 19. The housecommittee on territories voted todayto reconsider the former vote againstthe Arizona and New Mexico state-hood bill, thus leaving them still before the committee.

To Exterminate the Seals.Washington, Feb. 19. The house

committee on ways and means todayvoted to report a bill for killing all of

the seals in Behring sea unless an ef-

fective agreement for their protectioncan be reached.

Great Loss of Life. ofLisbon, Feb. 19. Great loss of life

attended a fire In Santaren last night.whiie the Artists' Club masked ballwas in progress. Thirty-fou- r bodies thehave been recovered. Many were inured by jumping from the windows.

meCompromise Kejected.

Winnipeg, Feb. 19. The proposalof the Greenway government to settlethe school question by making theschools absolutely secular and eliml- - justnating all religious exercises, hasaroused a storm among the clergy. I byBoth Protestant and Roman Catholic a

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clergymen bitterly oppose the estab-lishment of what they term Godlessschools. Roman Catholic clergymensay they would rather submit to thepresent system, while Protestantclergymen say they would prefer thatthe Roman Catholics have their ownschools.

BURGLAR AT H1LLSBORO.

Safe at the Depot Blown Open andThirty-Eig- ht Dollars Taken.

HrLLSBORO, Or., Feb. 20. The de-

pot of the Southern Pacific RailroadCompany, located in the southern por-

tion of town, was entered this morn-ing about 2 o'clock, the safe blownopen and its contents, $38, taken.Twenty-fiv- e dollars was in gold and therest in silver. Entrance to the waiting-

-room of the depot was effected bybreaking the glaB, thea unlocking thecatch, after which the window waseasily raised. Once in the waiting-roo-

the bolt of the night-latc- h onthe office door was broken by pryingthe door open with a chisel. A holewas drilled in the safe door and filledwith explosives. In the safe were agold watch and. pin, aud other val-

uables that were left untouched.

sentenced to death.April 10 Fixed as the Time for Hanging;

Kelsay Porter- -,

Union. Or., Feb. 20. At 1:30 o'clockthis afternoon i the time fixsd for pass-

ing sentonr3 upon Kelsay Porter, con-

victed c' in the first degree forkilling l.ijainin Mache, sr., the at-

torneys for the defense filed a motionfor an order to set aside the verdict ofthe the jury, and for arrest of judge-ment. Both motions were denied, andJudge Eaklns passed the followingsentence upon the defendant.

"That he be confined in i the countyjail until April 10, when ho be takenfrom thence, between the hours of 6A. M. and 6 P. M., and, within the en-

close of the jail, be hanged by theneck until dead." .

The defense was allowed until Aprilto prepare the bills of exception for

an appeal to the supreme court.

THE HIGH SCHOOL BURNED.

Terrible Calamity Narrowly Averted inan Iowa Town.

Muscatine, la.,' Feb. 20. The pres-ence of mind of the teachers in thehigh school, averted a horror yester-day. Flames were discovered in thebuilding and at once the teachers directed the pupils to arrange themselvesin marching order. This timely advicewas acted upon and the pupils begantheir march ' from the building.While they were descending the stairway the smoke became extremelydense , which created a small panic.Some rushed from their places withthe result that for a time considerableconfusion prevailed. All, however escaped uninjured from the buildingwhich, with its contents speedily became a heap of smoking ruins.

The Chicago Strike.Chicago, Feb. 20. Following the

action of the meeting of the Cloth inCu tar's & Trimmers' Association lastnight, 400 or 500 cutters quit work today. The strike will be long andbitterly contested, and 10,000 or 15,000people are likely to be thrown out ofwork.

The issue seems practically whetherthe cutters shall work on the piecesystem. Cutters- - are paid a minimumsalary oi zu a weet tor the maximumcutting of 14 suits per day. The manufacturers object, saying they are willing to pay the minimum salary of $20but cutters should be unlimited in theamount of work.

- Coldest of the Season.

Chicago, r'eb. 20. Chicago is experiencing the coldest weather of theseason. Since yesterday morning thethermometer has not risen above zero,and with a bitter north wind blowing.much suffering has ensued. Ado'clock this morning 9 deg. belowzero was reached, but some thermometers in the suburbs indicated 14below.

Michael Hughes was frozen to deathhis way to work, and John Bradley

was overcome by the cold and fell intothe river.

Scores of people compelled to re'main out of doors have been severelyfrost bitten. The cold snap is generalover the Northwest.

. Will Not Interfere.Washington, Feb. 20. The presi

aent nas refused a pardon in the caseF. M. Ohalston, sentenced in Ore

gon to ten years at hard labor, for forgery. The president, in his indorse-ment, says: "I am decidedly in favor ofhe strict punishment of persons guilty

crimes for whi h this prisoner isnow suffering imprisonment. An offense Involving forgery, swindling thepoor and needy veteran soldiers, and

prostitution of the benevolent conditions of the government, as em-

bodied in the slightest degree moveto clemency.

Berrlne's Comet.

Oakland, Cal., Feb. 20. ProfessorLenschner, of the state uriversity, has

completed his 'calculi, tion of theorbit of the new comet discovered

Berrine, of the Lick observatory,few days ago. The stranger, in the

heavens was only 40,000,000 milesaway from the earth yesterday and isnow coming toward the earth at therate of 1,600,000 miles a day. Profes-sor Lenschner says there is no causefor alarm. He has figured it out thatthe comet will take a new tack onMarch 1 and sheer off from the earth.The calculations made at the state uni-

versity are the official figures.

The Rope broke.

St. Louis, Feb., 20. James Fitz-gerald was hanued at 10 this morningfor the murder of his sweetheart,Annie Nessens, on the night of Nov-

ember 24, 1893. The rope broke andthe victim lay struggling on theground beneath the gallows. Thedoctors found Fitzgerald still conscious.Stimulants were given and he revived.A new rope was sent for, and at 11

o'clock the sick and trembling, butnervy victim, was again taken to thescaffold. This time there was no hitch.

Lost on the Ice.Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 20. The re-

port is current that ten or twelve menwere lost on the .ice outside the har-bor during last night's storm. Theywent out yesterday afternoon to fishthrough the ice, and were blinded bythe squall that arose afterwards. It ispossible they have landed somewherealong the shore.

Waller Pardoned.Washington, Feb. 20. Secretary

Olney this morning received the fol-

lowing cablegram from MinisterEustis, at Paris: .

"The president signed this morningWaller's pardon. ' Orders are beingissued for his release."

Bill Nye's Serious Condition.

Asheville, N. C, Feb. 20. Theconditiou of Bill Nye shows no mate-rial charge tonight. He remains In anunconscious condition and appears tobe fciukiug.

Daughters of American Revolution.

Washington, Feb. 20. The Daugh-ters of the American Revolutions to-

day unanimously elected Mrs. Steven-son, wife of the aspresident-gener- al.

Speaking of the wheat market out-

look, the Liverpool Corn Trade Newssays that the combined stocks inEurope and afloat have decreased dur-Janua- ry

16,000,000 bushels, and a stillfurther decrease is looked for. Europeis eating up all its stock of wheat, andis not getting enough to supply itsplace. The shortage cannot be madeup until supplies begin to come fromRussia. And if there should be anychance w have a failure there too, weshould get back to the old prices. Theoutlook for wheat, therefore, lookshighly encouraging.

The Portland University has foundit impossible to pay interest on itsbonded debt, and a receiver for theinstitution is asked for. Educationalinstitutions like the State university,Monmouth normal school and othersthat haye a "pull" and are feeding atthe public crib, are able to raiseteachers' salaries and indulging inother extravagances. No wonder suchinstitutions object to being choked offfrom the public teat.

Baxter, the Portlandwho attempted to commit suicide aftercutting bis wife's throat, is beingnursed back to life by the physicians, tofinally be tried by a court, convicted ofmurder and hung by.the sheriff. , Whydon't the fool doctors let him die with-

out heaping up expense on the taxpayers, and forcing the brute to undergomore suffering?

The Roseburg Plaindealer is raisinga great howl in opposition to the fusionof the democratic and populist partiesin Douglas county, evidently fearingthe combine, if effected, would' capturethe county offices. Hapily, though,the Plaindealer has not been calledupon to dictate what policies thoseparties shall pursue. They have notburdened it wi:h such a responsibility.

The aspirations of Senator Quaycjrtalnly cannot be seriously con-

sidered by the republican party of thenation. Whatever other sins the re-

publicans may have to answer for,they cannot afford to add to them bygiving this old reprobate the nomina-tion for the highest office in the gift ofthe people.

Mrs. Lease has given up politics andentered the minietry. After wastingher eloquence for years in an effort toconvert people to populism, she hasdiscovered her mistake, and will enterthe field in a higher calling. It is tobe hoped that she will meet with bettersuccess converting sinners than shedid converting voters.

$1,000.00GIVEN AWAY

Saturday, Feb. 22'lhe assignee's auction sale of last

Saturday beat the record. All articles were sacrificed without exceptionand the bargains realized were ridlculously cheap.

Although the. sale was continuedunuil 10 P. M., only one-hal- f of thesuck was disposed of. The balancewill be absolutely .

CLEHNED OUT,On next Saturday. Be there at 10 A

M. and if you don't bid, the auctioneerwill load you up lor nothing.

"Tk Regulator Line"

The Dalies, PortlEnd and Astoria

Nav'gation Co.

THROUGH .

Fieigfyt awl Passener Line

Through Daily trips (Sundays excepted) between The Dalles and Portland, bteamer Regulator leaves TneDalles at 8 a. m., connecting at theCascades Lo ks with Steamer DallesCity. Steamer Dalles City leavesPortland (Oak street dock) at 7 a. m.,connecting with Steamer Regulatorlor The Uaiies.

PASSENGER. KATESOne way.. 82 00Hound trip 3 00

Freight Rates ReducedShipments for Portland received at

any time, day or night. Shipments forway landings must be delivered before5 p. m. Live stock shipments solio--ited. caii on or address,

M' C' HLLHJnZTIY.

Iikkebal Agent

TH - DALLES - OREGON.

SEEDSSeed Wheat, Seed Oats,e Seed Rye, Seed Corn . eGrass aud Garden Seeds

Northern Grown Seeds. EarlyMinnesota Corn. Dakota Yel-low Deut Cora. Cootoe Mealye Burbank Potatoes. Onion Sets, ePoultry and eggs bought and sold,Choice assortment of O rooertes.sold cheap. Terms positivelycash or produoe, atd J. H. CROSS, dFeed and Grocery Store

SEEDSTTTTTl

THE DALL1.S

National Bank.OP DALLES CITY, OR.

President.. .Z. F. Moody

Vice President. .Chas. HiltonCashier .M. A. Moody

General Banking Business Transacted.

Sight Exchanges Sold on

nam im PnnTT.iwn.

minimim

THE DAJ LES

Cigar FactorySECOND STREET

Opaotlte he Impluraant Wa aboua

FACTORY NO. 105.

Cigars of the Best Brands manufac-tured, and orders from all parts of thecountry filled on the shortest notice.

The reputation of THE DALLESCIGAR has become firmly established,and the demand for the home manufac-tured article is increasing every day.

A. ULRICH & SON.

SAN

Beer halLF. LEMKE, Proprietor.

Fine Wines, Liquors, and Cigars

ALL KINDS OF BOTTLED BEES.

Columbia Brewery Beer on Draught

Second Street, bet. Court and tJnlon.

I TTVnTTTnTlTTTTTITl

, THE 0R0 FL0 WINE ROOMS 7AD KELLER, Mgr. '

.

i

Imported anJ Domestic

No. 90, Second door from the Corner, . ot Court St. . . '

THP DALLFS, Oregoa.

OREGON BAKERY--AND

CAFA. KELLER, Prop'r.

Am prepared to furnish families, hotel andrestaurants with the choicest

Bread, Cakes and Pies.

Fresh Oysters ' Served inEvery Style.

Second Street, next door to ThsDalles National Bank.

HAPPY nmlaJTalAlA A.

Practical :. watcMAND DEALER. IX

decks, Watches, Jewelry, ft:

REPAIRING A SPECIALTY.

162 Second Street, next door to A. M.Williams & Co. 'a.

THE PLLES, - - OREGON

Latest StylesLowest Profits

: In Mens and Boys :

Clothing, Dry Ooods.

MENS FURNISHINGS. :

HONEST VALUES IN : :

Boots and SIiocs

c. F. STEPHENS134 Second Street.

Next door to the Dalle National Bank

Mount Hood Sa p'e Room

THE DALLES, OR.

BeSt Kentucky WhiskyFaIU lOUsVlLLt.

Very B3t Key West Cigars and Bestof laes.

English Porter, Me and MilwaukeeBeer always on hand.

MAETZ fc PUNDT, PROPRIETORS

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