The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-03-01

| perlatlStS III, natlouai HDeieis u, SSnIiis i
90, German liberals II, socialists ~
Poles 8, Alasatians 10, democrats 8
Danes 1, independent liberals 1.
The National Zeitung estimates from
returns that the Cartel parties have al
ready lost eighteen seats, and says tha
owing to these losses of the Cartel partie:
the government will be unable to secure 6
majority in the reichstag.
The socialist vote in Berlin shows an
increase of $4,000; liberal vote increase
s, 1000; conservative vote decrease, 25.000
Two socialists are elected in this city,
In thee districts second ballots will be
necessary.
Socialists carried Magdeburg, Altona,
Hamburg, Dresden district, Leipslc dis
tr1ct, Chemniiz, Nurembuig, Mittelwalde,
Schneeberg and Elberfeld.
The Cartel majority is absolutely des
troyed at the elections. The entire
Catholic party has sustained unexpected
success. The liberals stand better than
was at first supposed. Lueders, Traeger
and Cartel have lost their seats for
Fiogan, Gutenberg and Schleswig. The
Berlin workmcn's political conference
will meet next March. The Swiss con
ference Is postponed indefinitely.
| The Stuttgart Gazette says that the en-
peror, speaking to Count Waldersee, said:
81 regard it as my holy duty to intercede
on behalf of the working classes. know
not what may come of 1t, but wish to
be free in the future of the charge of
having left anything undone in this
emergency"
BLAINE TRADES WITH CANADA.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21-A special from
Washington to the Mail and Express
says: 1t is reported that an understand .
ing has been reached by Secretary Blaine
and Sir Julian Pauneefote concerning the
fisheries question. The results reached
that American fisheries are 10 have the
same rights in Canadian waters as Cana
dams enjoy in the American waters. To
secure this concession Blaine is reported
to have agreed to the admission of British,
sealers in Behring sea on the same terms
that American sealers are permitted there.
The secretary, however. extends the priv
ilege merely as an offset, and NOT as re-
nunciation of the mare clausuns policy,
which he has at all times so positively
maintained.
THE STORY OF THE SIX KELETON.
9 The dispatch from Salem published in
yesterdays Oregonian and purporting to
give an account of the recovery of the
remains of Miss Ega Burbank, who was
drowned ON the coast north of the COlum
bia river several years ago, was sent by
drunken young man who has had some
experience IN newspaper work and thus
able to put 3his message in such shape
that lt.was forwarded and received. The
fellow was familiar with the circumstan
ces of the drowning and gave the initials
on the ring SO nearly that relatives of the
unfortunate Young woman were put to
some trouble in inquiring as to the truth
of the story. Their idea was that tire
ring only had been found and the finder
was seeking to obtain reward for its
return.
TERRIBLE STORM IN JAPAN.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21.-The Pacific
Mail steamer China arrived to day from
Hong Kong and Yokohama. Japan
papers state that the storm which ragged
along the Boshu coast, January "a, was
very disastrous. About 1000 fishing
boats, with between $500 and 5000 fish
erlnen, Grifted out to sea. Nine hundred
of these boats, with all the men aboard,
were lost Most of the bodies sack or
were washed out to sea, but during the
three following days $50 bodies drifted
ashore upon the beach and we're taken
care Of by sorrowing relatives. The grief
of the families and friends was heart
rending. The same day eleven boats
were wrecked on the sea of TObisbima
during the storm, and fifty fishermen
drowned. January 25 twenty three fisher
ava misima gun.
News is also received of disastrous
storm which swept along the Toukumo
and Ghost Kadsusa district the night of
January %. Over 300 fishing boats that
were out never returned. Funeral cere-
monies tor about 600 fishermen supposed
to have been drowned have been observed. |
Whole villages are in mourning.
JAPAN NEWS. -
A rumol was IN circulation IN Yoko-
hama, the 9th of January, that United
States Minister John F. Swift, of San
Francisco, had been mobbed IN Toxic. |
Telegrams TO the legation asking if there
was any foundation for the report received |
the following decisive reply from him:
"Nore whatever"
Four men.of war for Japan are at |
present. IN course of construction in |
Europe. One, the Chisima, which is /
being constructed in France, is expected |
TO be completed about April; !; two, also
being constructed IL france, about June |
or July, and one, at Glasgow, will prob
ably be completed about lbe same time.
THE BLOCKADE.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 81 On the |
Oregon road trains are running from here
to Ashland, transferring at the scene of |
the landslide. at tunnel 13, near Delta.
This landslide is 1900 feet long and
twenty feet WIDE in many places and 1t is
that Superintendent of Track
Curtis will have his hydraulic machinery
ready ton morrow 10 wash ii away. North
of Ashland, Assistant General Superln
tendent Pratt Is beginning the. construc-
ton of fifteen miles of new roadbed in
Cow creek canyon, the survey for that
purpose being completed to-day.
.s.a.s THE LOSSES.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21.-t is stated |
that Southern Pacific officials haye been
figuring on the losses sustained by the
Southern Pacific Company SO far this
winter, and the account is so large that |
even if the company earns in round
numbers this year the large sum of
S35 900, 600, the sure as 1t has done in
the past two years, there will be an actual
deficit of almost a round million. In one |
way or another the company has lost up
to date 81, 100000. Oftbis amount $780,
600 will be required to build entirely, the
new roadbed for distance of, fifteen
miles on the Oregon line in Cow creek
canyon, Oregon. The, extra labor em-.
ployed on this road and the Central
Pacific SO far this winter has cost seas, 900.
The traffic that has been diverted from
the Central Pacific amounts to $250,000. |
Loss of traffic on the Oregon line amounts |
to 100000. Local traffic for December.
January and February is now behind
what it. was tor the same period last year.
The damages sustained by the Les Angeles
line aggregates $500. 900, of which half
million is being paid out for construction
of roadbed for u distance of twenty miles |
in Soledad canyon.
From present indications it seems al |
most certain that the Oregon line will re-
main closed until April 1, entailing sd- |
ditional loss of S50,000 in traffic and |
$780, 900 for extra labor, which will swell |
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