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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15

UNITED IRELAND, commenting on the
land purchase BILL says that if the Irish
tenants yield to the combined forces of CO.
ercion and eviction, reputation will be-
come mere matter of expediency and may
hecoma necessity
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15
Damage by a Cyclone.

CLEVELAND. May 10.-A telephone mes
sage received from Akron says that cy-
clone this evening did great damage to
property there. Details are hard to be OBJ
tanned owing to the prostration of the
wires
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15
Rand LEGISLATION.

WASHINGTON, May 10-The senate
passed the army appropriation bill and
lS5 private pension bills and then adj
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15
Employees Gain a Point.

SEATTLE. Wash, May 8.-The strike
of the steamboat men on Puget Sound was
settled today by the companies acceding
to the demands of the employees.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15
Another Editor Gone.

OMAHA. May 100. H. Rothacker, a
former editor-in-chief of the Omaha Re
publican. and son-in-law of the late S. H.
Rounds, died of consumption this after
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15

become a necessity
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15
The Government Owed Gen. Fremont 81 8, :
900 for Forty Years.

WAsH1NGToN.-Am most curious incident
of delay in correcting official -mistakes
in the departments has just come to
light as a sequence of the passage of bill
placing John c. Fremont, upon the re-
tired list of the army with the rank of
major general. In 1913, when heuten-
ant in the army, Fremont's accounts with
the government were left in such a state
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-05-17

every principle of protection to permit
class of immigrants to come here al
pleasure who will certainly reduce the
standard of wages and assimilate it tc
the rate of the countries whence the
immigrants have come.
California and Oregon can with per
feet prorriety protest earnestly against
this class of immigration, for it is pre-
cisely in the line of their long contest
against Chinese cheap labor. The
east has never been willing to admit
that we were fighting for the rights Of
the Amer crn wsge-earner, but has
always talked about hoodlumism and
race prejudice as being the foundation
of our opposition to Chinese immigra-
ton. Now the shoe is beginning to
pinch them, only in place of Chinese
pauper labor they are threatened with
tidal wave of European pauper la
Dor. The contract labor law still
stands on the statute looks, but, as
Congressman Lehlbach of New Jersey
told the JOINT committee, in its present
form it is perfect farce.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-05-17
A Frightful Runaway,


Last Saturday afternoon as grandma
Hunt, of Huntsville, aged about IS years
was returning home, she met with an &C.
cident which will probably prove fatal
She was alone in buggy, was driving
the old family horse, I9-years-old, and for
the last twelve years considered perfectly
gentle. Bat passing train scared the
old horse and lie started to run; he had
gone but short distance when he left the
road and attempted to go between the
fence and telegraph pole where the
space was scarcely more than wide enough
for the horse The buggy coming against
the fence and pole threw the old lady out,
breaking a collar bone and cheek bone,
besides injuring her internally. Conduc-
tor Frank Cook stopped his train and ran
back TO the unfortunate lady whom he
found lying upon her face in an uncon-
scious stale. He then backed his train
sent man to look after the horse, and
with the assistance of others of his crew,
put Mrs. Hunt on his train and took her
10 Dayton where medical assistance was
at once summoned. Consciousness was
restored and the unfortunate lady made
as possible, and on the even
ing train for Portland she was brought
back to her home in Huntsville. Her in
furious are quite serious and it is ex-
tremely doubtful if she ever fully recov-
ers, as she is about IS years old and quite
feeble
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-05-17
Railroads are being constructed

Railroads are being constructed in
every portion of the northwest, and
The Dulles may have her desires graf
lied in this regard. Eastern capital
will have its representative in this city
in a few days, and will undertake to
construct and equip railroads to Gold
endale and Prineyille if sufficient SUBJ
sides can be received. Of course
these railroad builders do not invest
their capital for the love of the human
race, but for the purpose of increasing
their wealth. Through such rich
region as these railroads will pass, the
people could we'll afford to pay some
thing to have them built,as they would
increase trade to a great extent and
develope the country. Boats on the
river are of vital Importance, and
these will be constructed and operated
as necessity after the projected roads
are completed. The golden opper-
tunity for The Dalles has arrived, and
it must be taken advantage of while
within reach, or it may be forever
lost
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-05-17
FREE TRADE TACTICS.

Democracy recognizes the power OF
farmers at the ballot box and adults
that the great majority of farmers are
Republicans. All along the line free
trade Democrats, says the Chicago
Inter- Ocean. are making assaults upon
this Republican stronghold. The
great Democratic dailies of the cities
are sneerjng at "the mortgaged farm
ers" and ridiculing their stupidity and
making the slums of the city feel wise
by the contrast, while the country
press and Democratic orators are oily
and earnest in pleading with farmers
to come out for free-trsde. The COD
dition may well arouse protectionists
and Republicans to active work along
the same line.
They have been feeling secure, but
there is no safety in sleeping ON gaurd
duty. The census of 1880 fixes the
male population, engaged in all occu-
patiors, at IA, ,744,942 out of the total
working population, male and female,
of 17,392,O99. OF the last cited nun.
Der 7,670,493 were classed as agricult-
ural, and of the males in that vocation
there were 7,065,9S3. That is to say.
nearly one-half of the population of
the whole country was agricultural,
and one-half of the vote in 1880 came
from the farm. 1t was the vote from
the farms that elected Benjar,in Har-
rison president. 1t was the vote from
the farmers that elected protection
congress. 1t was the vote from the
farmers that declared in favor of living
up TO the promiss made the Union sol.
dier from 1861 to 1866.
AS far as appears the Democratic
programme is to make an assault with
a determination never before equalled,
upon the farmers of California, Con-
neccicut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Massachusetts,, Michigan, Minnesota,
New Hampshire, New York, Ohio,
Wisconsin. These states are devoted |
to the principle of protection. The
Democrats have no occasion to spend
a dollar or waste a breath in the solid
south. "The best citizens" will look
after free trade there, by seeing to it
that In any place where there is pos
sible Republican chance for success
will the vote be cast or else not
They can therefore spend
heir oratory and their millions in the
states specified. 1t has been asserted
md foretold frequently of late "that
he coming campaign will be fought
'ut by the newspapers of the land"
This is true every year, but the COM
ng year doubtless will be markedly
o, and Republicans oil along the line
hould be prepared for it.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-05-17

There is great difference between
a political organ and a newspaper.
The former lauds every candidate to
the highest pinnacle of fame, and the
latter expresses opinions on all ques-
tlons, and even has the temerity at
times to oppose the nominees of its
party. OF course, politicians believe
in party organs, and as soon as nomi-
nations are made the party lash is laid
on the backs of all such. An editor
is supposed to have brains, and some
have. sufficient to form opinions of
their own on subjects. They may
even have political preferences; but
that is no reason they should work for
the glory of the party during their
journalistic careers, and receive only
thanks in payment. Independence is
to be admired in oil departments of
mental labor, and the slave of the pen
and pencil should have the privilege
of standing erect among his fellows
and being man among men.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-05-17
IN THE SANTIAM MINES.
Letter from a Miner Who Was Alone
in Mountains Three Months.

The Real Estate AdUertiser of Albany
says that on February 22d last, DR.. Bar.
ker came out from the Santiam mines
leaving G. P. Herris, an experienced
miner, intending to return in a short
time. The heavy SHOWS that fell, how
ever. prevented his returning, and Mr.
Harris has since remained in the noun.
tains all alone, day by day faithfully
deiving for the riches which lie deep
down in the earth. A letter received
from him this week says he is bale and
heartily, but has had plenty of oppor
tunlty for pensive meditation. A quiet
life all sounds very we'll, but three
months of solitary life, shut in from all
civilization without even dog or cat
as o companion, is not SO pleasant.
He has been working in the &c. B."
and king Solomon" mines, having run
a tunnel 80 feet deep IN the former and
over 35 feet into the latter. The quartz
at the surface Of these ledge assayed
$45 in gold to the ton and gets better as
they 60 down. When it is remembered
that ore will pay at $5 to the ton, deliv
cred at the mill, it can be seen that these
mines are fortune to the owners now,
aside from the fact that every new de.
velopment proves them richer than be-
fore.
There need be no surprise if In few
years. as their value becomes known to
outside capitalists, who are ever ready TO
invest capital in paying mines, to see
thousands of men working these mines,
which now commands but passing a,ten
ton. When this is the case Albany will
be the furnishing point and will add 10
her many other untold advantages that OF
the hustle and hustle of true mining
city.
These mines are more accessible 10
The Dalles than to any point in the
Willamette valley. Our business men
should Immediately start a subscription
list to open the road to these mines, and
then this city would be the distributing
point for supplies and the market for the
precious ore. The Dalles leads all for
natural advantages.-ED.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-05-17

The Lexington Budget divides hon.
ors with the tickets, and has the names
of Repu blicans and Democrats at the
head Of its editorial columns. Perhaps
this is suitable to his political predi-
lections, or, it may be, that our con-
temporary considers its columns its
stock in trade, and uses them where
they will bring the hest returns. From
business standpoint this is no more
reprehensible than the attorney de-
Tending criminal by every device and
scheme known to cunning and crafti-
ness. when he knows he is guilty; and
this is daily practiced In the courts in
this country.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-05-17

The dispatches state that President
Adams has found the condition of the
Union Pacific in anything but prom.
Using condition, and there will be
come important changes made soon.
This is one Of the great transconti-
mental roads, and with proper manage.
ment should be in an excellent fnan-
cial condition. The trade of the
northwest has greatly benefited the
Northern Pacific, and, now, when the
Union Pacific is entering the field as
a rival of the former for this business,
it should look to its management and
financial basis.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-05-17

The letter we publish to-day from
Mr.. Shank, student at Yale univer-
sity, should be read by every one. He
is not dealing in fancies when he says
that the time will come when our
water power will be utilized, and
that if our citizens we're alive to
their own interests The Dalles in
few years would be the manu-
featuring center Of the northwest.
The best advertisement our city could
receive would be to manifest active
interest in developing our natural re-
sources. While we slumber and sleep
in this regard no faith will be placed
in anything we publish, and capitalists
will take their money where live.
actiye developing agencies are at
work.
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made. If his premises are correct,

made. If his premises are correct,
that the contraction of the currency
has been the cause of all the suffering
in the country for the past few years,
it is time that the government bought
up all the silver in the United States
and pledged its credit for as much
more, and gave the mints free scope
to coin all the dollars, half-dollars,
quarters and dimes they POSSIBLY
can. But if every bank in the land
was loaded down with silver, would
it make the purchasing price of a
dollar greater, or give more of these
dollars to the poor man for his labor?
If Senator Jones' silver in his mines
in Nevada were worth double as much
as it now is, would he be willing to
pay his miners double the wages per
diem2 The value of labor is its pro-
ductive power, and if one man can
make an article in half the time it
takes another to manufacture the same
thing he is worth double wages. The
price of any article is regulated by the
labor which produced it, and this
labor is worth just what it will bring
in the market. If there are very
many engaged i'll The same employ
ment, wages will be necessarily low;
and if there are few possessing the re-
auisite skill to manufacture some ar
ticle in great demand wages will be
high. When the wheat market is
glutted by over production, and there
is no shortage anywhere, the cost of a
bushel will verge to the lowest mini
mum price. The same is true of
labor. If there are an abundance of
printers, car, enters, blaoksmiths or
mechanics of any kind, wages will
gravitate to the lowest point. This is
an invariable rule, and has held good
in all ages and all countries. The lack
of consumers in the world at large, or
the greater facility with which grain
is raised in India, on the shores of the
Black Sea or in Egypt, have no doubt
lowered the price of the product of the
American farmer, and the influx to
this country of European mechanics
have created competition in the labor
market and consequently decreased
wages. Before the transcontinental
line linked the Pacific coast with the
east labor was at premium, but since
that event it has come down to COM
mon level with the Atlantic seaboard
The coinage of silver may be increased
without limit, but until we have more
markets for our products and less
laborers dependent upon daily toll for
bread the evils we now complain of
will continue. -
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-05-17

The divinity that doth hedge around
queen was shown to great disad-
vantage the other day, when Her
Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great
Britain and Empress of the Indies, re-
fused to pay Lockhart, the painter,
$1,000 for finishing picture, accord
ing to her order, representing the
scene in Westminster abbey on the
occasion of the jubilee, which contained
5S7 portraits, and on which he spent
three years time, and many thousand
pounds in travelling expenses. If
Victoria would lavish less wealth upon
her worthless sons-in-law and pay this
artist his just demands the "divinity"
would be more highly appreciated
by republicans on this side of the
ocean
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-05-17

The issues of this campaign have
been fairly presented by speakers on
both sides, and electors can now make
their choice. The record of the Re
publican party is all that could be
desired, while that of Democracy con-
sists of subterfuges and expedients.
To the patriotic citizen there is every
thing to induce him to support the
party of progress and protection, and
nothing to attract him to the other
organization, except moss-covered ira
ditions and affiliations. Two years
ago Oregon led the advance column,
and we firmly believe in 1890 she will
again make good her former record.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-05-17

will beat the record of Nellie Bly, and
Miss Bisland, and if circling the globe
has anything to do with the popularity
Of newspaper, the Tacoma Ledger
should surpass the leading metropoli-
tan papers. The Ledger is an excellent
paper, and up with the progress of the
new state; but the good it receives
from Trains trip will not make it
wealthy.
There was no inquest held over the
remains of the Chinaman killed at
Rowena. This should be done, as the
people have a right to demand the
same investigation if a man is killed
by railroad accident as by any other
cause. We hope our coroner in the
future will take charge of the body in
case of accidental killing, and fully
perform his duty under the statute.
The Republican senate is stultify-
ing its record for TIE past twenty-five
years on the silver question. When
Democracy clamored for equitable ad-
justment, greenbacks or any currency
to suit the people, the party was a
wall of strength against the enemies
of honest government and sound eco
nomic policy; and now, when the ma
tion's credit is established all over the
world, members of this same organiza-
ton are banded together to bankrupt
the nation and deluge the country
with a surplus of silver. The Repub-
lican party of 1861 and 1865 is far
different from the Republican party
of 1890.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-05-17

The tralnmen succeeded in their
conflict with the Union Pacific re-
garding wages and terminus of d.
vision. 1t is true that capital can ex-
ist without labor, and that labor is
very dependent upon capital for some
thing to eat and wear; but by careful
economy wage-earners may lay up
sufficient money to bridge them over a
time of disaster or of contest for their
rights. Combination and economy
will ameliorate labor from its wrongs
quicker than legislation by the nation
or state.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-05-17
OUR aOPEN.SESAME."

The business interests of The Dalles
lie in an open river. With this &C.
complished our trade would be ten
fold what it is now, and instead of
this city trembling with fear that the
railroad company would do something
that would lnjure our prospects, this
great aggregation of capital would be a
supplicant at our feet. With two or
more boats making daily trips between
this city and the Cascades freight
would be reduced fully ol.e-half, and
this would bc the cheapest shipping
point on the Columbia river. Goods
could be delivered here as cheaply as
to any point in Oregon or Washing
ton, and Portland would no longer be
in position to dictate terms to the
Inland Empire. There would then
be more than one city in Oregon, and
producers east of the Cascades would
he equally favored with those west of
that range of mountains. An open
river will tend to equalize matters
between all portions of the state, and
chickering's and strife would cease.
This feat which promises so much
good can be easily accomplished, and
this city can hold the key to the
wheat-producing region of the north
west. It is difficult of belief that our
merchants realize their position in re-
gard to the Columbia and still remain
so apathetic toward its navigation.
There is in this city from $5,O00,0OO
to ss,oOO,O00 capital lying dormant,
and this could be placed in channels
of trade that in year would double
itself. This is the first and most i'm
portant step to be taken, and after it
has been inaugurated. other factors
of development would follow. 10
build two beats would cost less than
$4,000, and this amount would be
saved in freight In single year; and
the river once open, the backbone Of
the monopoly would he broken. With
the navigation of the Columbia open
to the people, thousands more settlers
would make homes in Wasco county,
and the exports would be multi
piled ten-fold. We are not ex-
ageratlng in the least, but, if any
thing, Understanding the benefits to
he derived from this project. The in.
crease os populatiol would stimulate
industries of all kinds, and The Dalles
would soon become not only the great
shipping point Of the interior, but the
manufacturing center of the northwest.
No dependence can be placed on the
o. II. & N. Co. shops remaining here,
for there is every indication that they
will be removed as quickly as possible.
II something is not done to develope
our resources trade will constantly
be on the decline, and this bright, ac-
tive business point will simply be
whistling station on the line of the
Union Pacific. There is no use
mincing matters or hiding unwelcome
facts from our view, and for this rea-
son we have decided to talk plainly
and without the least equivocation to
the people. There are two futures
before us, either of which We can
choose. One is, an open river, manu-
featuring industries and prosperous
city cf $4,000 to 10000 population in
the next five or ten years. The other
is, a country village, buildings vacant
and deserted, and grass growing in the
streets. Which shall it b,?
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-05-17
REGULATING IMMIGRATIO

Representative Owen, chairman OF
the house committee on immigration,
made report a few days since at a
joint meeting of the senate and house
committees, in which he said that the
inspection Of immigrants at Castle
Garden was a perfect farce, and that
the immigrants were continually
feeced by clearinghouse harpies.
The observation of the immigrant Off
GERS is that the undesirable element Is
increasing very rapidly. Certain ma
tionalit;es are coming in hordes with
out money and without clothes except
what they wear or carry in bag.
There can be no question but that
the quality of immigration is deterio-
rating while the quantity is steadily in
creasing. The supply Of immigrants
who were self-supportins at home has
been practically exhausted, and now
theUnitej States is being overrun
with the sweepings and scourings of
Europe; with men and women who
have been either assisted by the gov
ernments which wanted to get rid of
them or by the employers of cheap
contract labor in this country.
It make little difference which of
these is the case. What the United
States must do in self-defense, forcibly
says the S. f. Chronicle, is to check
this tide of immigration before it be-
comes a torrent too strong to be re-
sisted. The country has given its
assent to the doctrine of
protection to American industries, and
it is too C ear for argument that it is |
the merest mockery to protect Ameri- !
can labor against foreign manufactured
products and at the same time allow
.ree ingress to foreign cheap or pauper
Dor 1t is an absolute negation of
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-05-17
We have heard little about the TO,

We have heard little about the for
feiture of the Wallula land grant in
the dispatches from Washington City,
and our farmers are becoming anxious
about the matter. AS fine a belt of
land as there is on the continent is
claimed by railroad company which
he's never constructed foot of road or
ever intends to, and it is time congress
took some action to place this in the
public domain, so that bona tide set
tiers can procure titles to their homes.