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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-03-26
TELEGRAPHIC.
President Harrison X plies 10 Lord
Sa,i-burys Note.

sa.i>burys Note.
WAsHINGToN, March 23.-The Behr;ng
sea correspondence was laid before the
senate executive session al noon. The
reading of Saliobury's note refusing to
consent to q renewal of the modus vivendl
and making a counter proposition was
received with i'll suppressed lr'itniion by
by the senate. The note Is tvasye and
equivocat.ng.
The presidents ri Under broadly hints
chat Salisbury has not met the overtures
IN straightforward manner. He insists
on a renewal of the modus vivendl, with
cut referance to Insignificant or irrelevant
conditions. He closes with the stirring
assertion that If Great Britain declines to
assist in protecting the seals during the
arbitration he Will proceed to enforce the
laws and exclude poachers from Behring
sea, if the military force of the United
States is required to accomplish it.
The note created sensation in the
senate. After half an hours discussion,
the correspondence was referred to the
commietee on foreign relations.
The gravity of the case led to a re-
newal of the strongest efforts of the sen
ators to prevent the public from being
made acquainted with the facts until the
correspondence progressed further. There
was no expression of opinion by the pres
ident IN his letter of transmittal, bat this
is not needed in view of the clearly de-
fined position assumed by him in his re-
joinder to Salisbury, which appeared to
meet with the unanimous approval of the
senators. The debate itself was too short
to disclose the official standing of the
senators. although there has been nothing
in the nature of a direct vote upon the
treaty arbitration, and there is we'll de-
fined opposition to II as a surrender by
the United States of her rights IS ac-
quired by treaty from Russia. II can be
stated the treaty was soon to be ratified
by the senate, but resolution will &C
company it reciling that there does not
appear to be any sufficient reason for
abatement BY the United States of its
claims 10 jurisdiction pending arbitration,
and authorizing the president to use all
the military arms of the government to
insure protection of the rights OF the
United States.
A prominent senator who has taken
leading part in the Behrlng sea discus
sions in the executive sessions of the SER
ate said today: You can tell your peo'
pie on the Pacific coast that there is no
division of sentiment on the seal question
among the senators. 1rres pectivc of
party they are unanimous in support of
the administration They think as if
with one mlnd."
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-03-26

OTTAWA, March 23.-Gordon, of Brit
ish Columbia, has given notice of his in
tentlon of introducing bill amending
the Chinese Immigration act by lncreas-
in the poll tax on Chinese immigrants
from $50 to $1O0 per head. The bill en-
acts that after the expiration of four
months from the passage of the act Chi
nese immigration into Canada shall be
prohibited altogether.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-03-26
Importaut to settlers.

Senator Dolph's bill, authorizing the pay
ment of $I.2s per acre to settlers on the even
number sections within the forfeiture land
grants of Oregon and Washington, passed the
senate today by strong party vote. Every
Democrat in the senate recorded himself as
being against restoring these people the money
they had paid for their lands, believing they
were to receive railroad benefits, now that the
lands are forfeited and become part OF the
public domain and are sold at $I.z5 per acre,
while the older settlers and the PioEeers were
compelled to pay twice that amount for those
they own.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-03-26

OF office for the faithful discharge OF his
dnIy in such "tfice; that he shall re
GIVE cumpensatIo. of three dollars
per day for his services during all the
time necessarily given to the discharge
OF his said duties. The county clerk is
authorized 10 draw warrants not to tx
ceed the said sum of $1,000 in favor oi
said commissioner for said purposes in
such sums as may be required by said
commissioner after he has filed the
necessary bond and oath of office.
BILLS ALLOWED
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-03-26
Damage Salt Aga,.,st the Union.

WALLA WAILA, Wash, March 23.-In
the superior court this afternoon, James
Murray began suit against the Union Pa
cific fer $4,000 damages. He alleged that
on March be took the train from here
for Spokane, paying the conductor more
than the proper fare at Starbuck,
through no fault of his own, be missed
the train and was elected from another
train next day at Lacrosse, being serious
ly injured thereby.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-03-26

The mad hunt for proxies is not proving
of much comfort to those who want to get
into the Republican convention after being
defeated at the primaries. One offer of $25
made for proxy by one of ''the lately de-
feated" has been declined with thanks, and
other attempts to secure place in the con.
vention have proven equally disastrous.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-03-26
Roman Anarchists Sentenced.

ROME, March 24-The trials of Signora
Ciprianl and the anarchists for their share
in the disorder and violence of last May
Day were concluded today. Signara Cip-
rianl was sentenced to prison tor thirty
two months and to pay fine OF 1900
francs. Fifty other prisoners were SEN
fenced to various terms and to fines. Ten
were commuted.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-03-26
A Convict Pardoned

SALEM, March 2S-Bruce Crayton was
pardoned today from the penltentiary.
He was sent from Multnomah October,
1889, for five year term for assault
with intent to rob. The commutaiion
was recommended by the district attorney
and the Portland detectives, on condition
that he leaves the state. Crayton served
a portion of ten year term several years
ago, under the name of Sam Hayward,
for assault With dangerous weapon, and
was pardoned by Governor Moody.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-03-26

Protection does not signify that
duties should be imposed on all for
eign articles; but only OH those which
can be manufactured in this country
without being direct tax on the con-
sumer, and which would result in
creating industries and giving
employment to our laborers. If
the doctrines of free-trade had been
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-03-26

turd Christian burial t. the miners Who
met their tale In the Hill Farm nine,
June 10, 1890. The twenty three hudI.s
Iouuu yest, rdny Will be Drought 10 tue
surface Tor Uuriai tOdas. SIX more un
fultunates canntt be recovered until ali
the wafer is pumped uut. When founu
the b0uIes weIe huddled togeth r SHOW
Ing the imprisoned miners hau fled as faI
from death as possible. The bodies were
contorted in CHASTITY shapes. indicating
the III ners had suffered the most horrible
torture before death Owners OF the
mine have Expended 100000 in accom-
pllsnlng the rescue / the bodies.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-03-26
A TERRIBLE FALL.

IT'S to you, mothers and daughters,
that l wish to talk;
And to the children that are just
learning to walk;
And all who may need anything in
my line
l will give you prices that you'll hard
ly decline.
One needs Bonnets and Ribbons,
whilst others need Hats;
Some will need Dresses and Ruching,
and possibly Caps.
Possibly Aprons, Collars and Ties
there are many that do.
Should you want Flowers and Feath-
ers,you'li find them all new.
The Third-street Millinery is the
place to buy.
The prices are low, but quality high.
The styles are the latest-give US a
call;
And find that prices have taken fall.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-03-26

The silver question has not yet been
solved by the Democratic congress, and
they took an adjournment yesterday
until to-day to recuperate, when they
will try it again.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-03-26

sacks Is enormous, and after three or
four transfers amount to nearly the orig
inal price of the product. The states
which are dependent on the Columbia
river as a commercial highway can
grant these temporary expedients;
but the government at Washington IS
expected 10 undertake permanent in
provements. If Gov. Pennoyer is so
snxious for portage road he should
have called special session of the
legislature for this purpose, and the
matter would have been accomplished.
Producers N the INLAND Empire ear
nestly desire the LOCKS at the Cascades
to be completed at the earliest possible
date, and work on the ship railway
begun; but do not wish these to be
neglected and hampered in their
construction by portage railroad of a
few miles in extent which the state of
Oregon is able and willing to construct.
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Fate of the imprisoned Miners.

DUNBAR, Pa. March 24.-The dead
have been rescued from their untlmeIy
tomb, and all that remains now is to af
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-10
"Crowd Poison"

"Crowd poison" is the way physician
designates the peculiar fainting fits and
illnesses to which persons often succumb
in rooms crowded with people, or even
in the streets densely packed with hui
manity. Some persons yield much moro
readily than others to this combined ex-
halation from many systems, and per-
sons are overcome by it, according to
the same authority, who can Withstand
the exhausted air of room made close
from other causes. During the Colum-
bian pack in this city the foul air of the
crowded streets was noticeable. To such
as sat slightly above the sidewalk masses
the bad air was easily perceptible. One
realized that even in the open air good
air is not always to be had. And one
saw, too, how much valuable breathing
space will be secured, notably on close
and foggy days, when the thousands of
car horses now occupying it will have
been replaced by electricity and cable
power.--New York Times.
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STANDARD CLOTHING Co, Middle
The work of a Chinese Emperor.

Inc w DIX OF Cn1ncSe emperor.
Shuntsing, the last emperor of the
Mongol race, described as an effeminate
prince, with the physiognomy of mon
key, was man of great mechanical
skill, and amused himself with making
models OF automatic and timepieces.
His chief work was a machine con-
tanned in box feet high and 81 feet
wide, with three small temples on top.
In the middle temple were fairies hold
ing characters signifying the hours, one
of which made her appearance each
hour. Time was struck by couple of
gods, and it is said that they kept it
very excellently.
In the side temples were representa-
lions Of the sun and moon respectively,
and from these places genii issued, cross
ing bridge to the middle temple, and
after seemingly ascertaining the time of
the day from the fairies returned again
to their quarters. 1t is thought that the
motions were affected by strings. -Bos-
ton Globe.
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a banquet given to Mr.. Emil Boas, long
the agent Of the Hamburg American
Packet company. He is but thirty-eight
years old, but has been in the company's
employ twenty years and is a noted lin
guist. speaking the principal European
tongues with fiuency and having a smat-
tering of others, including the Chinese.
Somewhat akin to the Sea Serpents are
the Argonauts Of Chicago, though the
latter consist largely of railroad men.
Two years ago this club was organized
and obtained possession of landing
place at the end of the Illinois Central
railways pier.
Far out in the lake, at the end of the
long wharf, stands their peculiar club
house called the Argo. 1t is a club
house in ship which could be launched,
but probably never will be. AS the
club is the Argonant and the clubhouse
the Argo, so the membership is limited
to fifty-one, the number assigned by
Greek mythology to the famous crew
which made the often sung voyage in
search of the golden fleece. Since
June 1, 1891, the Argo has stood at the
piers end looking as if just ready to be
launched-a two stored structure with
a roomy deck, where the Chicago
Argonauts enjoy themselves and keep
cool in the hottest weather.
No other club in Chicago will be SO
handsomely housed as the Lakeside,
which was organized in 1884 and now
has 256 members, when it's new place is
finished. It stands st the southwest
corner of Grand boulevard and Forty
second street and will have five high
stories and an apex roof, the whole maxi
ing it nearly the equivalent of an ordi-
nary ten story structure. The whole bou-
levard front will be occupied by its hand
some parlors, and it will HAYES banquet
ing hall "a by 90 feet, and an assembly
hall 10 by 121 feet exclusive of the large
stage, besides many other rooms for club
use. The structure will be chiefly of
buff Bedford stone and will rank among
the finest buildings in Chicago.
Still another Chicago institution wor-
thy of note is the Gaelic club, composed
originally of Irishmen, but now contain
ing Scotchmen also, and all devoted to
the study and culture Of the Gaelic Ian
guage and literature. This club owes
It's origin to the election of Hon. John
F. Finerty to congress. All the world
knows his intensely Irish feeling, and
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-10
sHAw-wA-Nog-so-wAY CLUBHOUSE

when compelled to leave his paper, The
Citizen, and go to Washington he put
the scholarly T. O'Neill Russell, of New
York, in charge. Mr.. Russell is an en-
thusiast on the Gaelic, which he speaks
and reads with musical fuency, and soon
got other Irishmen interested, and SO the
club was formed, with Mr.. Russell pres
ident and Maurice Cream secretary.
With class of 1870 intelligent Irish.
men and Scotchmen such rapid progress
was made in the study that in a few
months Gaelic was the vernacular Of
the club. They declare with one voice
that it is a language very easily ac-
quired, though it certainly does not look
it in print. Two ladies Of the class,
teachers in the Chicago high schools,
testify that in eight months they learned
it sufficiently to translate English into
Gaelic at sight. No club in the country
has a more enthusiastic membership
than the Gaelic.
Last on this list of Chicago clubs must
be the Shaw-wa-nos-so-way SO named
from the Indians who once ranged
around Lake Shawano in Wisconsin.
The name has no particular bearing as
to the nature Of the club, as it is almost
purely social affair, and will study In
dian antiquities only when it has no
livelier amusement. 1t will make a
speciality Of hunting up good clubable
fellows from other cities who may visit
the Worlds fair, especially members of
prominent clubs, and will try to make
Chicago like home to them.
As the ladies began late they have
not yet developed SO great a variety in
clubs as the gentlemen, but the Woman's
Columbian club, recently organized at
Louisville, deserves special mention. As
its name implies it is an organization to
aid in representing Kentucky at the
Worlds fair, and very appropriately its
active president is Miss Ida e. Symmes,
granddaughter of the famous John
Clevis Symmes. This gentleman was
not only brave soldier in the wars of
the border and that with England, from
1902 to 1916, and a pioneer Of Newport,
where he died, but also puzzled the sci
entists with a plausible theory that the
earth is hollow and open at the poles.
"Symmes' hole" had long run among
the semiscientifc iokers.
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Destruction of Ants.

The ant is such an instructive creature,
so Industrious and so intelligent, that it
seems almost an act Of cruelty to sug-
gest methods for their wholesale destruc-
ton, yet their interference with the Gull
tivator is sometimes so unbearable that
a correspondent is compelled to write to
inquire how to get rid of them. IN
doubtedly the best method, if it is not
deemed too cruel, is to cut up meat into
very small particles, saturate with dead
ly poison, and put it in their tracks, en-
tirely secure from the reach of other
creatures. There is no way so effective
as s.-Meehan's Monthly.
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morists took it for granted that woman
was not clubable, and when the now
famous Sorosis was first projected the
paragraphers made merry over it, but
now womens clubs are a well estab-
lished institution.
The Manhattan, Union, Knickerbock-
er and few other New York clubs are
known of all readers, and the Union
league on one side and the famous Iro-
quois club of Chicago on the other are
powers in politics. In fact, this is the
clubbing age. So numerous are clubs
that the ordinary nomenclature is ex-
hausted, and when q new one is organ
lied the choice of title is recognized as
the task of the most learned and versa
tile member. There is, for instance, the
Whitechapel club Of Chicago, whose
name suggests the CHASTITY, and whose
performances, if reports lie not, are
worthy of its name.
There is also the Argonaut club of
Chicago, with its quarters on boat that
was never launched. In New York city,
in addition to those well known, are the
Catholic, the University, the Tender
loin, the Vaudeville, the Hoot, the Thir-
teen and the Glover clubs, the Colonial,
the Eccentric, the Federal, the Down
Town, the Clergy, the Snowshoe, the
Triple Alliance and many others Of a
social or literary nature, besides long
array of those composed of the foreign
born, each bearing d name designating
the nation.
The Thirteen club has for its avowed
object ''to combat injurious supersti-
tons" The Eccentric is much the same,
and membership is limited by the merci-
less restrictions, 1.-THE abolition of myth
and substitution therefor Of science and
reason, the possession of ideas and origi-
nal thought, and the faculty of express
ing the same orally or in writing in
prose or verse" Evidently such club
is to be very select, and has entered on
work which bids fair to last it some
thousands of years.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-10
LAKESIDE CLUBHOUSE.


The Holland society, as its name i'm
plies, collects documents and data on
the settlement of New Netherlands,
traces the connection between the old
families and their kinsmen in Holland,
and generally cultivates sentiment of
reverence for the Dutch ancestors Of the
Knickerbockers. 1t is of course strong
among the Four Hundred. and has done
"a great and valuable work for local his
tory. The Salmagundi is an cid and
famous organization of artists. The
Triple Alliance, oddly enough, has moth
ing to do with Germany, Austria and
Italy, or with American politics. 1t is
simply union of dealers in carpets,
furniture and upholstery.
The objects of the Players, Press,
Neurological, Turtle, Chess, Authors,
Glee, Jockey, Driving, Riding. Fencing,
Jersey Cattle and Merchants clubs are
shown by their names, and there are
separate clubs devoted to the raising
and improving the breeds of fox terriers,
spaniels, mastiffs and collies, aside from
the innumerable kennel clubs. The Gre
of the dead by burning, and its mem
bers agree to be thus disposed of after
death The Titans consist of "first
class business men and good fellows"
not one of whom is under six feet high.
The Storm King club takes its name
from it's summer home on Storm King
mountain, and finds its amusement in
collecting historical relics of the Hudson
valley and vicinity of New York gen.
orally. And in all the New World there
is no richer field. The mammoth and his
contemporaries first, and then in success
sion the mound builder, Indian, Dutch
man. colonial enterpriser and Revolt
tionary patriot have literally sown the
region with rich remains. At present
the club is industriously exploring some
ancient mounds and marking the graves
of the last Indians to die in the valley.
The Sea Serpent club is composed OF
ship news reporters of the New York
dailies, and it's latest social function was
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-10
THE STRATEGIC VALUE OF EGYPT.


How the Ancient Country Appears to q
Trained Military Eye.
Tie, the trained military eye Egypt pre-
sents itself as the eastern bastion of the
ill shaped African CONTINENT bastion
naturally strong and capable of resisting
attack, whose broad meats are the Medi-
terranean and the Red sea, together with
the dry moat of the desert. The bastion
at once commands the narrow strip of
coast extending to Tripoli and the cur
tain stretching along the Libyan desert
to the Soudan. It sweeps the peninsula
Of Sinai, and its influence covers the
whole coast of Syria from south to north.
The profile of this Egyptian bastion is SO
shaped that it's fortunate possessor either
Syria and Arabia.
The weakest side of the fortress is the
south, where it overlooks Nubia and
Abyssinia, the African Switzerland,
where no laurels are to be won, but on
account of it's arid wastes armies may
readily be lost. So it was in 1888, when
Hicks Pasha persisted at the three days
fight of Obeid, and none Of all his troops
were saved except the reserve command
ed by Aladdin Pasha. Even the Nile
expedition of the victor Of Tel Ell Kebir
undertaken to rescue the heroic Gordon,
in spite Of the support it obtained from
advancing alongside the river and in
spite of the remarkable gallantry and
endurance of its officers and men, had
to exhaust itself against the same diff
culties which the Persian King Cambyses
was unable to overcome 1900 years be-
fore.
Cambyses went up the Nile in order to
take possession of Ethiopia, but his vict-
uals soon ran down. he could get no
water to quench the fiery thirst of the
climate, and when the soldiers began to
cast losts which of them should be eaten
by the rest, the king returned to Thebes
and Memphis. The traces of both expe-
ditions have been blown away by the
sand of the Soudan. The difficulties
they encountered were the hostile hot
climate, which parches every living
thing, and the wild character and the
tough make of the inhabitants; for if
the desert is a limit 1t has no obstacles
that are insnrmountable to men who
have the camel's power of living on lit
tie, and can go for months together on
nothing but maize cakes.
Then the elastic method of fighting Of
the Soudanese, their cunning tactics, are
all devised for the purpose of exhaust
ing the enemy first by fatigue, in order
thus to annihilate him, for their own
forces quickly come together again after
they have been scattered like sand.
Nevertheless history has shown incon-
testably that the Soudan, which has al
ready drunk in SO much blood, is so
closely bound up with Egypt that no
complete settlement of the Egyptian
question is possible without an arrange
ment of the affairs of the Soudan.-Con-
temporary Review.