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He served the warrant.

PORTLAND, March I'LL. Mcmahon
was shot and seriously wounded this
afternoon by Police Officer Day Hutchins,
while resisting arrest. The officer, who
had warrant for Mcmahon, who wa
charged with obtaining money on false
pretenses. attempted to serve it on one of
the principal streets. McMahon broke
away from the officer and started to run
down the street with a large crowd in
pursuit. Jumping into an express
wagon, he drew revolver and fred in
discriminatory into the crowd but with
out doing any damage. Officer Hutchins
drew revolver and fired at the fugitive.
The bullet passed through the base of his
skull. McMahon was then captured
Hutchins was also taken into custody.
1t Is thought McMahon's wound is not
fatal.
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in the west. The motto has been,
Protect the factory owner, and let the
sheep-grower compete with the prod
uct from South America and Aus
tralia. This was the doctrine of Mr..
Morrison, Mr.. Mills and Mr. Cleve-
land. On the contrary, MIR. Nc
Kinley, in his tariff bill, threw the
greater protection around the farmer
and producer. That there are rich
corporations in this country no one
will deny; but wealth is more nearly
equally divided in the United States
than in free trade England, and CON-
bined capital is not nearly as oppres-
sive. Amy prosperous country will
have corporation and these are sim
ply the result of prosperity and the
business qualifications of certain citi-
zens. Wealth and poverty have .ex-
listed side by side In all ages OF the
world, and always will. While, by
natural endowments and advantages
of education, there are different classes
in society, one portion of humanity
viii gravitate to the gutter and the
other enjoy the comforts and luxuries
of life. In this country, we do not
believe the success of any political
organization will make the least differ
ence regarding corporations. They
will exist under Republican or Demo-
cratic administrations, and If Jay
Gould or Vanderbilt were poor to-
morrow they would be rich in little
while, whatever party had control of
national affairs. The quality of ac-
quiring wealth is inherent in the IL
dividual, and is not governed, in but
few instances, by surrounding circum-
stances.
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Some of the ring organs in the state
appear to be pledged to the renomi-
nation and reelection of Hon. Binger
Hermann as the representative of the
first district in congress. We bave
nothing against Mr.. Hermann, for he
has been an indefatiguable worker for
the interests of the different portions
of the entire state; but the people have
sufficiently honored him by sending
him to Washington City as often as
they have. If this is free govern
ment, with a basis principle of rota-
tion in Office, and there Is any person
in the Willamette counties as capable
and honest as Mr.. Hermann, there
should be a change in the member of
the lower house. OF course it is
really none of our business in the
second district; but to say as little as
possible about the matter, it is very
strange that for the past ten or twelve
years, in the old settled counties of the
Willamette valley, there has not ap-
peared on the surface of politics any
man capable of representing that por-
ton of the state in congress except
this man from Roseburg.
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Hon. J. N. Dolph, one of our sena-

Hon. J. N. Dolph, one of our sena-
tors, has received more vilifcation
than any representative in Washing
ton City, and yet we. believe he has
done more for Oregon than any con-
gresham or representative we have
ever had. Mindful only of the best
interests of the state he advocated
measures for the betterment of the
state, and on several occasions have
increased the appropriations for the
locks at the Cascades. The people of
Oregon are perfectly satisfied with Mr..
Dolph, and only wish all representa-
tives were as earnest and 'indefatigu-
able as he IS regarding improvements
of the Colum bic river.
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Attempt Co Control RefnerIes of the
United States.

PHILADELPHIA, March 16.--Tbe belief
is general among business men here that
the American Sugar Refinery Company,
commonly known as the ''sugar trust," is
making extraordinary efforts to secure
possession of the three independent sugar
refneries IN this city, with good chances
of success A well-informed gentleman
says positively that, in at least one in
stance, deal was practically concluded.
The three great Philadelphia sugar re-
fneries-Spreckels'. Knights and the
Franklin-have been thorn In the side
OF the American Sugar Refinery Company
for years. This corporation. whose capi-
tai prior to January of this yeur was $780,
O00,00O, increased its capitalization to
$75, 100000, and with this addition to lis
money power has redoubled Its efforts to
bring within its control all outstanding
refneres. There were, it is understood,
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4 Democratic cotemporary, in its

A Democratic cotemporary, in its
puerile efforts to write an editorial
that will suit its Bourbon readers,
talks about it becoming necessary, Gin
order that the aristocratic and money
classes or both sides of the pond, may
retain their grasp on the reins of gov
ernment that the minds Of the COM
mon people be diverted from questions
of right, aud of government, even
though the alternative be the stornaing
up of dormant passions, the awakening
of the fighting instinct This "rot"
is given in regard to the policy of the
present administration regarding the
Chilian and Behrlng sea questions.
The brother is of sufficient age not to
perpetrate such balderdash as editor
iai, and which would sound much
better as Friday afternoon essay of
q ten.year-old school boy. 1t must be
recollected that the most belligerent
during the Chilian trouble. were south
ern brigadiers, who desired to shed
their blood for the honor of the flag
the stars and stripes, and not the "bon-
ME blug fag"-and who are to the
.'manner born" as Democrats. In this
emergency,the craftsmanship displayed
by Mr.. Harrison and Mr.. Blaine, con-
trary to the 'jlngo" policy of Democ-
racy, was admirable and received the
hearty endorsement of the best men
of the nation. In the Behring sea
dispute, the position taken by Mr..
Harrison is that dictated by safe,
conservative policy, and which will
make the nation strong and independ-
ent. Our cotemporarY should read
the history of his party for the past
twenty-five years for full illustration
of a shambling, indeclsive. '.jingo"
policy, and write no more school-boy
essays in the editorial columns of his
paper.
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PEOPLES Part, Convention.

OREGON Cry, March 1.-THE peoples
party state convention today made the
following nominations: For congressman
First district, M. V. Roork; Second
district, J. C Luce. For supreme Judge,
D. Wright. District judges-First dis
trict, Ira Wakefield OF jackson; Second
district, G. P. Edwards; Third district, ].
F. Hendrix; Fifth district. j. c. Archi
bald. This completes the work done up
to the hour for noon adjournment.
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THE COPPER COMBINE.

There is not much danger from the
sgreat combination" that is said to
have been formed for the purpose of
controlling the copper mines of the
United States, says an exchange. 1t
is but few years ago that much
greater combination was organized for
a like purpose. That combination
secured temporary control of the
principal mines in Europe as well as In
America. Its existence was brief and
its end disastrous 1t bankrupted
every one of its promoters and en-
dangered the credit of the French re-
public. And we had no antitrust
law in those days.
There are natural laws the strength
of which can never be overcome by
artifice. One of them is that when
ever natural product is very widely
diffused no combination of private or
corporate capital can control its pro-
duction for any great length of time,
unless it be by keeping prices at very
low margin of profit, and this seldom
is the policy of ''great combination" :"
Copper is very widely diffused and if
the "great combination" were SO to
limit its productions as to raj its
price much above present rates the
inevitable result would be the opening
of new mines by persons who are not
members of the "great combination.
After which one of two things would
follow; either the "great combination"
temporarily would have to sell its
products at a loss, so as to drive the
new producers out of the market, or it
would have to buy the new mines.
The almost unlimited cash aud credit
of the old copper trust were unable to
resist the tide of new copper that
flowed upon the markets whenever it
made a raise in price, and the funds
of this "great combination" are not
likely to be able to serve as bulwark
against competition.
Besides which, the Sherman anti
trust law is in force nowadays. That
which is too strong for the Standard
Oil trust is likely to be too strong for
any "great combination" that purposes
to regulate the production and price of
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The method adopted by "Boss" Far
ley for securing such delegation to
the county convention as will suit his
ends is scarcely one that will be gen.
orally approved by the community.
The postponement of announcing the
names of those proposed to represent
us in the choice of officers, both county
and state, smacks rather of Jobbery
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Sensational suicide.

SPOKANE, Wash, March ia most
sensational suicide occurred here tonight.
William Armstrong, wellknown young
jeweler, was sitting in music store next
door to his place of business listening to
selections from Lohengrin, which v. H..
Brown was playing on piano. Sudden
ly he arose and asked Brown if he would
60 for doctor as be was sick. Brown
started out to find doctor. when Arm
strong called out that he had "taken
strychnine." By the time a physician
arrived Armstrong had gone into spasms
and died in a few minutes without as
signing any cause for his act. He was
highly respected and leaves a wife and
two children.
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Guaranteed Cure.

We authorize our advertised druggist
to sell DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Cough and Colds, upon
this condluon; If you are afflicted with
a cough, cold or any lung, throat or chest
trouble, and will use this remedy as di-
rected, giving 1t fair trial, and expert
ence no benefit, you may return the bottle
and have your money refunded. We
could not make this offer did we not
know that DR.. Kings New Discovery
could be relied on 1t never dissapoints
Trial bottles free at Snipes & Klnersly's
drug store. Large size 80 cents and 81.
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The Dalles TIMES MOUNTAINEER re-
marks that s'there is no doubt tina. the
doctrine of protection is growing in the
west" This is important information,
if true. We had an idea, judging
from the last election, in 1890, that
there was very strong and dangerous
Stree trade" sentiment, even In the
west. Of course the protectionlsts
still hold their own in Oregon and
Washington, in Salem and Stringtown,
but the probabilities are that this year
will find them badly defeated even in
these places. The west, of all places,
ought to defeat and repudiate protec-
tion. 1t has no use for it, and it is
going to do it, too, even in Oregon.
-WaLla WallG Statesman. The
oracle has spoken: let human reason
be silent. In our humble opinion we
U6ll6N6 UIl6 WEST lS ldFOIaUiC W
the Mckinley tariff bill than to the
British free-trade equivocations of the
Democratic lower house. Bro. Parker
should acknowledge, if he believes in
fair play" which is considered char
acteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race,
that the issues in 1S90-an off year
were not on the tariff or currency, but
that the result was largely owing to
extraneous influences entering the
political arena. If the vote had been
decided simply on the questions which
caused the difference between the two
parties, Democracy would have met
lasting defeat. Bro. Parker is Dem
crat; but he should consider himself
sufficiently American to give facts as
they exist, and not misstate the issues
of any campaign for political capital.
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Senator David B. Hill. the prospe

Senator David B. Hill. the prospec.
tive candidate for president on the
Democratic ticket, has been enthusl-
astically received in the south. This
is as it should be, for Hill proclaims
himself Democrat of Democrats, and
men of such political predictions al
ways stand high with the people south
of Mason and Dixon's line. Free
trade and Democracy have always
been hobbies of the descenda ts of the
English cavaliers.
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The northwest is more interested in
an open river than in any other
project With free transportation to
seaboard the Inland Empire could pro-
duce grain as cheaply as any portion
of the continent Railroad monopo-
lies have been a great hardship on
producers for many years, and as soon
as these are given subordinate posi-
tion the people will assert their rights.
This is as it should be, and combined
capital should always be subservient
to the wishes of the individual elector.
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raking Active Measures.

New York, March I5.-The Herald,
Washington special says: A report has been
current in Washington that the cruiser BaIi
more has been ordered to do patrol duty ii
Behring Sea. 1t is also reported several othel
naval vessels will be sent to join the Balti
more and assist the revenue cutters in pro-
tecting seals from the feet of poachers already
under way for the sealing ground. Such pol
icy on theypart of the administration would
be in touch with the sentiment expressed in
the executive session of the senate this after
noon when the report of the joint commission
was read, showing that the English and
American experts who visited the seal islands
agree that seal life on the islands Is being rap
idly diminished. Nearly every senator who
spoke advocated the policy of sending fleei
into Behring sea with as little delay as posi-.
Bile to protect seals from slaughter by poachers
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Fatal Barroom Row.

RosEBURG, Or, March 17.-Abe Hans
brough, brother of United States Sena-
tor Hansbrough, of North Dakota, 6
sporting man. was fatally stabbed, once
In the back and twice in the breast, this
afternoon In Tom Criteser's saloon, by
Nick Jones, both being under the influ
ence of hquor. Hansbrough was very
abusive all day. Dr. Ozias attended to
dressing bis wounds, but the injured man
died at 7:40 In the evening Jones gave
himself up to the authorities and was
taken to the county jail.
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TELEGRAPHIC.


WASHINGTON, March 16 - Governor
Pennoyer has succeeded IN making Rep
resentative Hermann work in the river
and harbor committee exceedingly hard.
His letters to Chairman Blanchard,
which have been read before the com
mittee, have been used with considerable
effort, and Will probably succeed in cut
ting down the appropriations for the
Columbia River. Tomorrow Chairman
Blanchard will move to cut out the ap-
preparation tor further improvement on
the Cascade Locks on the Columbia
river, and to use the money that would
be appropriated for this purpose for u
portage railroad around The DalIes. This
is done in accordance with a letter re
Gently received bv Blanchard from Pen
nover, in which he states that the people
OF Oregon would prefer to have the Cas-
cades olarily abandoned, if this
could secure the portage railway. The
whole matter is very cunning as to the
Democratic policy. The Cascade locks
may be abandoned, and if the work is
abandoned upon it they will be liable to
go TO pieces and fall into rack and ruin.
But even if Chairman Blanchard succeeds
In having the portage road substituted In
the bill in place OF the Cascade locks i'm
pr0Vements, when it reaches the house a
point of order could be raised against it
that it would be committing the govern
ment to the building of railroads, and 1t
would be stricken cut. By this means it
would be easy for the Democrats to sue
ceed In preventing any appropriation for
the Columbia River. Perhaps Mr.. Her
mann will he able to defeat the cbsirman
of powerful committee as that on rlv
ers and harbors. He is making fight Tor
the Cascades, but at every turn Penney
er's letters are flashed upon him, with
the statement, "Here is what your gov
ernor says.' But Mr.. Hermann comes
back with the statement that be is the
representative OF the people of Oregon
before congress and the governor is not.
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Democrats frequently accuse the
Republican party of being friendly to
corporations because it has been the
champion of protection; but this can
not be substantiated by argument. In
every tariff measure drafted by the
Democracy in congress the manufac-
turers or corporations of New England
have been favored to the detriment of
the farmer or grower of raw material
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POLITICAL CRSARISM.

C@sarism in politics is as despicable
as arbitrary control in other matters
In free government, where sover'
eighty is presumed to rest with the in
dividual elector, any dictatorial policy
will meet with determined opposition.
The ballot should be as free as the ali
we breathe, and should be the express
sion of each citizen regarding his choice
for officials. This is absolutely neces-
sary to maintain the purity of free in
stitutions, and any deviation from this
rule is certain to undermine the foun-
datlons of republican institutions and
give the control of public matters to
corrupt cliques of few persons instead
of to the liberty-loving clubs of many.
There is no aphorism that has more
truth as basis than the one that
eternal vigilance is the price of lib
erty," and when any organization De-
comes SO corrupt as to wilfully tram
pie on the opinion of electors, its doom
is sealed. 1t may prosper for sea-
SON; but there Is an ominous hand
writing on the wall which surely fore
tells its defeat. Corporations and
combined capital may for tlme con
troll those subservient to their inhu-
ence; but it is only question of lit
tie time when the bands will be
broken and the elector will assert his
manhood.
This matter has appealed to us in a
very emphatic manner by one or two
of the ruling Republican faction at
The Dalles boasting that the candi-
dates next June would be only those
of their own dictation, and all others
who would not "pass under the yoke"
would be relegated to the rear and re-
ceive no consideration. This Is con-
trary to the traditions of the Repub-
lican party, which was originated as
as active opposition to the machine
methods and Bourbon control of the
old Democracy. Whenever it is at.
tempted it begets spirit of opposition
which results disastrously to the party.
In national politics it has caused the
defeat of presidential candidates, and
will produce the same result in local
affairs.
The lessons stated have been en-
phaslzed as facts in every campaign,
and the Republicans of Wasco county
should heed them. If there is Re-
publican majority in this county it is
so small that the least attraction to the
opposition may change it to defeat.
With the removal of the q. P. shops
from this city fully 300 voters were
lost to The Dalles and 10 per cent. of
these were Republican. Politically,
this will leave Wasco doubtful, and
it behooves those having the good
of the party at heart to attempt no
arbitrary action that will ALLEVIATE any
whe have hitherto supported the
ticket. County conventions should be
free from any extraneous influence,
and the delegates should crystalize on
candidates and not be rliant tools
under the operation of the machine or
the caucus. Henry Clay said he would
rather be right than be president, and
every American citizen should feel
that he would rather suffer continuous
defeat than be under the control of
bosses. Caezarism in
politics has been defeated on every
occasion in national politics. and the
same fate will meet it next June in
Wasco county if it is attempted on the
county or state tickets.
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5000 individual holders of the trust stock
before. the increase in capitalization. The
certificates paid Z per cent interest ON
preferred, and per cent on common
stock. A profit of 3s of cent per pound
on sugar means $15.O00,00O year TO the
sugar trust. A refner who gave infor-
nation regarding the sugar trust and its
plans, said: "The arrangement will be
effected, believe, within a month, if it
is done at all, and will be a grand com
blnaiion OF all thesugar refining capital"
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For Russia's Poor.

LIBAU, Russia, March 16.-Early this
afternoon a steamer was sighted off this
port. heading in from the westward, and
almost Immediately afterward the flag of
the United States could be distinguished
flying from the stern of the vessel. 1t
was then known for certainty that
the approaching vessel was the Indiana,
under the command OF Captain Sergeant,
which sailed from Philadelphia February
% with a cargo of flour and provisions
for the relief of the famine sufferers in
Russia. The Indiana will enter the bar
bor in short time. 500 after the news
of the arrival of the Indiana was received
at Llbau, the Russian cruiser Strdsch,
commanded by Captain Div;doff, having
on board j. nj. Crawford, American con-
sui at St. Petersburg; Count Bribrinsklcn,
chief of the famine relief committee;
Bernholdt, American consul at Riga !;
president of the St. Petersburg bourse,
and several other notable persons, pro-
ceeded out to welcome her. Flags were
flying on all the vessels in the harbor,
and the wharves were crowded with en-
thusiastic people. The warship was fol
lawed by the steamer C0ncordid, which
had on board the bourse committee and a
large number of guests. As the vessels
neared the Indiana the military band
played the "Star Spangled Banner" and
salute was fired. Gentlemen from the
Strascb and C0ncOrdia boarded the Indi-
ana, and speeches of welcome and thanks
were made.
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The Collection District Controversy.
WASHINGTON, March 15-The state
ment is made that one reason why the
Washington senators opposed the bill
cutting off portion of the Puget Sound
collection district was that they expect a
town to built opposite Astoria, at the
mouth of the river in Washington, and
the Washington statesmen claim the Ore
gon senators are afraid the town will far
eclipse Astoria aud become the real town
at the mouth of tne river. TIE Wash
ington senators claim to be as much in
terested In the Improvement of the Co.
lumbia river as the Oregon men, and
they did not take kindly TO the attempt
made by the people of Astoria to shut off
further improvements for deepening the
chanuel of the Columbia, making it
great water highway, snd if they can do
anything that will aid iu building a town
on the opposite bank, they will very
gladly avail themselves of the opportunl-
ty. These are the rumors that have been
floating about the capitol today, when
the recent contest between the Oregon
and Washington senators was discussed