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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-05-28
TELEGRAPHIC.
Four Lives Lost in the spokane Fire

Four Lives Lost in the Spokane Fire.
SPOKANE, Wash, May A.-The fears
that some of the workmen employed In
the factory of the Spokane Mill Company
had perlshed in the great fire yesterday
evening were confirmed to day, when the
charred remains of three men were found
in the ruins. Two of the bodies were
lying close together, and were identified
by means of keys found near them as the
remains of Richard Butcher and Adolph
Schultz. The other body was twenty
feet away. There was no means by
which it could be identified, but it Is the
body of either H. H. Winger or Louis Il.
Corn wall, both of whom are missing.
Richard Butcher was foreman of the cab
met makers, about 35 years old, and had
wife and child. Louis Cornwall was a
carpenter, about 80 years of age, and
leaves a wife and two children. Aiolph
Schultz, a carver, was about 80 years of
age, and leaves wife and two children.
FL. FL. Winger, carpenter, was middle
aged man and leaves wife and six chill
dren, who are now living on a homestead
near the city. The search for the fourth
body is beng continued. The bodies
already recovered will be buried Friday,
the mill company paying all expenses.
1t is thought that one or two men were
drowned in the river. The fire was seen
at long distance in the surrounding
country. Flames of great volume leaped
high in the air and the river was rosy
with the reflection. The fire orig gnated
from hot journal in the Spokane Mill
Company's property.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-05-28
After sixteen Years.

INDIANAPOLIS. May 25-Arthur Bisot,
a fugitive from justice for sixteen years,
to day voluntarily surrendered himself.
On Christmas night, in 1876, Bisot and a
young companion killed the city marshal
of Bedford. They were sentenced for
life. BIsot's mother fell Ill, and Governor
Williams granted him q sixty days leave
to visit her, on his promise to return to
prison at tbe expiration of that time.
Instead he fled the country and went to
Mexico, where be studied medicine and
lived an upright life. The mother has
appealed to every governor since for the
pardon of her SOD, but each refused to do
So. Governor HoVey said he would not
even consider the matter except upon
Bisot's surrender at the prison. To day
he appeared at Jeffersonville TO don the
stripes. 1t Is believed that the governor
will release him within few days.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-05-28

Wool is bringing Is cents in this
market, while the Australian clip only
brings II cents in Boston, after lC
cents duty Is paid. In other words,
the Astralian sheep man is willing to
pasture his locks, pay the expenses OF
shearing and transportation several
thousand miles for cents a pound
gross. There may be rhythmic and
soothing poetry in the songs of free
traders, with their plea for open
markets for all products; but when the
doctrine is carried to its logical results
the cold and rugged fact would stare
the fockmasters of Eastern Oregon in
the face that they would be forced to
winter their sheep and place the clip
in the Boston market for seven cents
a pound. If our fellow citizens en-
gagged in this industrial pursuit desire
free-trade poetry they can vote the
Democratic ticket and sell their prods-
uct in Boston for the free-trade price;
but if they are more practical and pre-
fer protection facts, they will support
the Republican policy and market the
product at The Dalles and other
poinJs-3000 miles nearer home than
Boston-for from 15 to 20 cents a
pound,
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Blew Up the Shop.

SAN DIEGO, May 25.-At II o'clock
last night loud explosion drew people
to place where blacksmith shop had
stood up to that hour. Some one had
blown it up with dynamite. The shop
was on principal street and was owned
by nan named George Schmidt, who
advertised to conduct the shop inde-
pendently of the blacksmiths' union.
Owing to the late hour the owner of the
place could not be found, but persons
who knew him say that the blacksmlths'
union had expressed the determination to
do him up, and 1t is the general belief
that the explosion tonight was in direct
execution of that threat. The building
was completely wrecked, the roof being
blown off and the sides blown out. A
night mounted patrol had just hitched
his horse in front of the building and
moved little way of, and the horse
narrowly escaped being struck by flying
timbers. Dynamite and fuse seems to
haYe been used to produce the explosion
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-05-28
The River and Harbor BiII

WASHINGTON, May 24.-Tbe house
committee on rivers and harbors reported
back the river and hsrbor bill in the
house to-day with the senate amend
ments, with recommendation that they
be not concurred in; referred to the com
mittee of the whole. The house then
went into committee OF the whole on the
sundry civil bill. In the paragraph rela-
tive to the coast and geodetic survey,
Diugley offered substitute in reference
to the Alaska boundary survey, providing
for a joint survey under the recent treaty
between Great Britain and the United
States to settle the boundary line dispute
The appropriation, carried with the
amendment, was reduced from $35. 900 to
$4,000. Holman offered an amendment,
vacating the positions OF all persons EN-
ployed in the work who could be DIS
pensed with; agreed to without disposing
of the bill committee rose.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-05-28
An Open Letter.
Hoop RIVER. Nav 25. 1899
IIOOD -OJ
Hon. G. ". ThoTn6ury,

Hon. c. ". Thornbury,
County Judge of Wasco County.
DEAR SIR:-As you have again placed
yourself before the dear people as a candi-
date for reelection, would like to ask you
few questions about certain official actions
of the county court of which you are the
recognized head, and as another member OF
the commissioners court is also up for re-
election, it would be well to have them
satisfactorially answered.
Flrst-Why is the keeping of the county
poor let to the highest bidder instead of the
lowest?
Second-Why are petitions for the ap.
pointment OF certain offices ignored and the
appointment made upon the recommenda.
tion of certain private individuals?
Third-Why are onr taxes under your
administration every year growing heavier
and the county debt increasing?
Fourth-The constitution of the state of
Oregon prohibits the county incurring any
Indebtedness over $4,000. How is it then
shoe Jou anu tuC CUuluilSSlOutIS WHO nave
sworn to support the constitution, allow
debts to be piled up ten and twenty times
that amount?
Fifth-Why was our property assessed
last year so much higher than usual and no
reduction made in the per cent levied?
Sixth-What assurance haye we that in
case we elected the same county board that
county matters will not continue to grow
worse and taxes increase as in the past four
years?
These questions we have right to ask,
and hope that they will be satistactorially
answered SO that the murky atmosphere
that surrounds the Wasco county court
house may at least be lifted, If only tenn.
porariallY. Very respectfully,
H. Q. Coz,
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-05-28

Even the premier of England, g
conservative of the old school, thinks
it is almost time to call halt in the
matter of free-trade, and no doubt the
distress of the people and the success
of protection doctrines across the
ocean have forced him to this conclu-
sion. Salisbury is careful, consid-
crate statesman, and will not rush the
country into financial disasters be-
cause a few theorists on political
economy are determined to perpetuate
their fancies.
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THE COLLEGE REPUBLICAN,
LEAGUE.

A few free trade college professors
like Professor Sumner, of Yale, and
Professor Perry, of Williams, have
done much to turn young students
from the established facts of protection
to the vague and indefinite theories of
free trade, says an exchange, but in
spite of their teachings and their great
influence as men of learning, the ma
jorlty of the young men in the col
ieges are protectionists and Republi-
cans. The American college student
as rule is am bilious to do rather than
to theorize, and he finds his ideals
among the men who haye done some-
thing rather than among those who are
afraid to move for fear 1t will be in
the wrong direction. He prefers the
place of the leaders in the team tug
ging at the traces rather than that
of the wheel horses holding back IN
the breeching to help the brake.
The Republican party has been In
the place of the leaders and the Dem
ocratic party has been tugging at the
hold back straps for fear the Republi-
cans would run the country to the
demnition bow-wows. Whether the
college boys think there are
enough old fossils blocking the wheels
or whether they have no concern
about brakes they are generally to be
found with the Republicans, who are
forging ahead.
In Ohio last fall Major Mckinley
had the college students on his side
wherever he went, and his meetings at
Oberlin and Delaware and Athens and
Akron and a dozen other college
towns were notable for the interest
shown by the students, who found a
hero In the Napoleon of protection.
The Republican League with its army
of young men has Few auxiliary.
Republican clubs have been organized
in most of the colleges in the country
in the last year. This movement be-
gan at the University of Michigan,
and on the 18th inst, there was held
convention at Ann Arbor with dele
gates from nearly every institution of
learning In the country, to organize a
college Republican league. In con-
nection with this convention there was
a mass meeting at which such men as
Mckinley, and Alger, and Fassett,
and Thurston, and Yates spoke.
There was also banquet in the even
ing to celebrate the organization of the
college league.
This new organization shows the
drift OF the young man IL politics. Ii
will be one of the powerful auxiliaries
Of the Republican organization in the
coming campaign. 1t will bring to
the. front the "young blood" whose
cause the late Senator M. w.
Mathews, of Illinois, so eloquently
advocated for half-a-dozen years. And
while fossilized dreamers are talking
of the theories of free-trade, the
young men will push ahead to meet
the facts of our economic policy. They
go into politics as they 60 into foot
ball, baseball, and rowing, to work
out their victory, and not to sit down
and dream or theorize how it might
come to them without work.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-05-28

Our respected neighbor, the Wasco
San, always hides himself behind the
screen of lnexperience and Adde'S
cency(D when the editor finds himself
defeated in argument. Persons un-
acquainted with our friend would
Imagine that he was just emerging out
of his teens, and if any faults appear
they should be covered charitably with
the mantle of forgiveness because he
had lately been ushered into existence:
while the editor of the TINES Noun
TAINEER is in ''the sere, the yellow
leaf" OF manhood, and is "fossilized"
specimen of past age. The fact of
the matter is, counting by years, our
brother and ourself have reached about
the same milestone of life. We do not
wish to be considered young or youth
ful; but we dislike very much when
our friend has failed to parry our
blows in an argument for him to plead
the "baby act' and say, tive are young
and inexperienced; and you are old
and have the advantage of training"
If. being "fossilized" consists in de-
Tending ourselves when attacked in an
unfair manner, and forcing an oppon-
ent in debate to successfully refute
our premises or consider himself
worsted, we must acknowledge that
we have been :'fossilized" for about
fifteen years-ever since we carefully
studied metaphysics and the rules of
Ionic
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-05-28

Some of our Democratic exchanges
are using all manner Of false state
ments in regard to Hon. W. r. Ellis,
to weaken his standing with the peo-
pie, and he is described as a tool of the
railroads and subservient to the in
terests of corporations. Those who
know Mr.. Ellis will need no refutation
of these baseless charges, as he has
been in harmony with the advance
ment of Eastern Oregon ever since he
came to the state. He has always
advocated an open river and been In
favor of the speedy completion of the
work at the Cascades. As a prouec-
zionist he represents the best interests of
the Inland Empire, and is opposed 20
the destruction of our wool industry
by following the suicidal policy of free
trade. The people of the second con-
gressional district will not imperil the
development of the country by sending
to Washington City Hon. Jas. Fl.
Slater, who would be falrer repre-
sentative of the wool-growers of Ar
gentine and Australia than those of
the Inland Empire, and these false as
sertions against Mr.. Ellis will change
very few, if any, votes on the 9th of
June.
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Pleads HIS Own Case.

MEMPHIS, May 25.-On Thursday will
be presented in the supreme court of
Tennessee, at jackson, the curious spec
tacle OF distinguished lawyer arguing
his own cause in an appeal from YER
dict which condemns him to death. The
man is Colonel FL. Clay King, of the
Memphis bar, who Is under sentence to
hang for the murder of David II. Poston,
brother lawer. The crime was com :
mitted on the street in this city on March
10, 1891, and was most deliberate and
unprovoked. The appeal was taken on
points of law which are in themselves of
unusual interest. By the rule of the su-
preme court, attorneys are limited to two
hours for argument, but Colonel King
has taken his case entirely out of the
hands of counsel, and, owing to the pecu-
liar circumstances attending it, the su-
preme court has agreed to allow him
three hours. Lawyers from every part of
the state and from other states will be
there to hear him.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-05-28
AFaIher's sad search.

UMATILLA, Or, May 25.-George Glib
bons. father of the 15-year-old boy who
was drowned Saturday, arrived to day to
assist in the search for the body. Mr..
Gibbons is well to do farmer living
near Mayville and favorabiy known all
over the state. The first he knewo OF the
boy's drowning he read in Sundays
Oregonian. The story the boy told when
he came here about being driven from
home was to conceal his identity, and
does greae injustice to his father.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-05-28
AN UNPREJUDTCED OPINION.

The editor of the Salem Journal has
pursued very independent course
during the present campaign, and after
carefully considering the charges
against Hon. f. A. Moore he has
come to the following conclusion:
From the findings OF the courts, the letter
exonerating Judge Moore signed by two
active and earnest Democrats, and from
| personal interviews with reliable men who
| haye knowledge OF the matters referred to
! in the accusations published against Mr..
| Moore, we not only conclude that he has
been most unjustly assailed, but that his
| assailants have been actuated by partisan
motives rather than a desire to ascertain
facts and arrive at just conclusion. 1t
appears that the judgments of the courts In
those matters have uniformly sustained the
contention favorable to Mr.. Moore's honor
able and upright conduct.
Continuing further the Journal
says:
The legal ability of the Republican can.
didate is attested by persons who know the
extent and importance of his law practice.
The printed docket of the circuit court of
his district for only one county shows that
he had sixteen cases for the May term. We
are reliably informed that the story that he
has no supreme court business is refuted by
the best authority. A lawyer who has
tried cases IN the U. S. district court, a
sample one of which involved over 500, 600.
and who has sixteen cases at a single term
of circuit court for one county cannot be
impeached because he doesn't happen to
reside in one of the larger cities of the state.
This comes from an unbiased
source, and should have great weight
with all thinking men.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-05-28

The progress of the age was never
better illustrated than in the
column-and-a-half description of the
hanging of the murderer Deem
ing, which took place in Mel
bourne, Australia, at 1901 this morn
ing, published In the Oregoniaaa, which
went to press about 8 o'clock A NJ. of
the same day, or speaking in every
day language, seven hours before The
event occurred. But the matter is
easily explained when the difference
in time and the rapid transmission of
news by the electric telegraph are
taken into consideration. Australia
is far distant from the United States,
and the electric current is much more
rapid in its course than the revolution
of the earth on its axes.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-05-28

The Baker City Democrat, like al
other exponents of the party in Ore
gon, is in favor of unlimited coinage OF
silver, for the reason that the bullion
of the Pine Greek mines would COM
mand higher price in the market.
These free-silver advocates are gov
erned only by selfish interests, and
can always be found in the vicinity of
rich, natural deposits of the metal.
But, although the party from Maine
to Oregon IS demanding silver in
stead of gold basis for coin, the Dem.
ocrats in congress did not possess tie
moral courage to pass the Bland bill.
The Republican has well-deined
policy on financial questions, and is
not ashamed to voice them on the
stump or vote them in congress.
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The tichets nominated by the st

The tichets nominated by the state
and county conventions are composed
of men that Republicans can support
heartily, and as this is presidential
year and all eyes are turned toward
Oregon the full vote of the party
should be cast. All things being
equal, we believe that those affiliated
with the Republican organization
should vote for state, district, county
and precinct candidates on their
ticket, and we can conscientiously
state that every candidate this
year is competent to fill the
Office for which he is nom
mated. Rhode Island has already
signifed her endorsement of the Re-
publican policy, and Oregon should do
the same In the most emphatic manner
on the 9th of next month.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-05-28
An Interview with Curt,s

New YORK, May 25-George W. Curtis
has been interviewed on the political
situation. He said:
1t is my opinion that Blaine meant
what he SAID when he wrote that letter.
He certainly did not mean to have his
name presented. l would be very much
surprised at any change. Blaire had no
occasion to write such a letter. There
fore, it is reasonable to conclude that be
would not have taken such a position
unless he was prepared to MAINTAIN it.
There is no doubt that Blaine is Uy far
the most popular Republican. That is
obvious. would be very much surprised
If, after all, he should accept the nomina-
ton. do not believe any doubt of be-
ing elected induced Blaine to write the
letter.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-05-28

As the time approaches for holding
the national conventions the interest
in probable candidates becomes more
intense. In the Republican ranks are
a dozen names that would lead the
party to victory next November, and
there will not be much dissenslon after
the convention has crystalized on
nominee. The administration of Mr..
Harrison has been remarkably able
and pure, and if he should be favored
with the nomination he would un-
.doubtedly carry the full strength of the
party vote. Mr.. Blaine would no
doubt be strong candidate, as dur
sne our recent interHational troubles
he displayed rare qualities OF states
manship and patriotism, and the sane
may be predicated of dozen other
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-05-28

UNION, Or, May 25.-In the circuit
court to day, Judge Clifford sentenced
George Link to the penitentiary for two
years on charge of larency from dwell.
lug. Let Knapp was sentenced to eight
cen months for larency from the person.
The jury In the case of the state VS.. Ad
ner Hall brought in a verdict of man
slaughter. The defendant will be sen
fenced to- morrow. He is charged with
killing Patrick Sinner at LaGrande about
a year ago.
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johnson County Invaders.

CHEYENNE, Wyo., May "a = The frat
of the johnson county invaders to get
into court is practically freed. The ap
plica,lon for a habeas corpus for DR.
Charles B. Penrose, the expedition sur
geon, was granted. He has furnished
bail in $1,000 TO appear when required.
He left the party the second day out,
rather than travel behind the wagons.
The indictment fled against him in
johnson county alleges that be murdered
Nick Ray, who met death with Nate
Champion, at No Mans ranch. Penrose
answers that he was not present, and
did not start out 10 kill in the first place.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-05-28
THE "BLOODY SHIRT"

There is no denying the fact that
the Democratic party has attempted
for years to use the term "Bloody
Shirt" as hush cry to muzzle Re
publican orators and the press of the
party from referring to some of
Its acts In the history of the past
thirty years. If this end can be ac-
complished, the late civil war will be
considered unfair discussion, and the
platforms of that party during those
eventful years of reconstruction, when
the bIrdensome duty devolved upon
the nation of rehabilitating in proper
union garments the states lately in
secession. 1t @ight even be applied to
matters of more recent date, and all
argument might be stopped regarding
questions upon which the parties have
been divided.
While we do not believe in doing or
saying anything that will arouse into
active life the bitter feelings which
once existed between the north and
south regarding matters definitely
settled by the arbitrament of the
sword, yet the principles for which the
citizens soldiers fought from 1861 to-
1865 and the settlement of the ques-
tions resulting therefrom, are a sacred
legacy which will descend to all gen.
erations, and must be maintained as
duty every patriotic American owes
his country. That this is nation and
not confederation of sovereign states
cannot be denied, and the reconstruc-
tion of the states by the method
adopted by the national congress and
executive must never be disputed. |
While these issues, which caused the |
terrible bloodshed during the late war
and the rancorous debates afterward,
are not questioned, he who fought in the
confederate ranks is entitled to the con-
sideration of American citizens, and
we believe the sense of honor of the
southern soldier-in a majority of
cases-was such that when he laid
down his arms in defeat he was willing
to forget the principles for which he
fought and to renew his loyalty to the
Did flag. A magnanimity should be
exercised towards all those of the
south who are willing to prove by their
oyalty in the future their atonement
or errors in the past, and nothing in
he nature of recrimination should be
written or spoken.
This Is the extreme limit to which
he doctrine Of forgiveness and forget
illness should be carried, and is ac-
ording to the rules which govern the
onduct of one gentleman towards an
ther. 1t should not go to the length {
hat would debar Republicans from
eferring to the platforms of their j
arty, in which national issues were I
utlined over thirty years ago, nor in
be criticism of the position Democ-
acy assumed on the tariff and on in
,rnal improvements before sumpter s
as fired upon. So long as the dis 8
assion is kept within bounds that will !. :
ot call up the bitter animosities of D