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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-26
THANKSGIVING DAY.

The observance of one day in the
year as an occasion of national thanks
giving and prayer dates from the
Puritan settlement of New England,
when those religious enthusiasts be
lieved that it was necessary TO punish
the body by abstinence from food and
drink-after the Jewish customer to
make loud and earnest prayers to pro-
pltiate the anger of the deity, and ac-
cord to him the most fusome praise
for continuance of his favor. AS
the fall season was after the crops had
been harvested, it was considered a
duty for all persons to rest from secu-
lar employments and to render praises
to God for bountiful returns for their
labor, whether they were satisfactory or
otherwise. FROM this it finally became
national custom, although the primi-
tive significance Of it was forgotten.
As an evidence of our advancement,
its observance at the present time is
generally devoted to an annual reunion
of families, feasting and devotional ex-
ercises. On ordinary occasions the
pulpit dlscourses consist of giving vent
to national egotism and OF praise
of the great and supreme intelli-
gekce. The minds of the people, by
reason of early training and inherited
prejudices, appear TO require such ser
mons, and the more egotism displayed
and fattering terms applied to deity
the better are the hearers pleased.
The family reunions, the rest from
labor, and the proper appreciation OF
our dependence upon higher power
for life are very desirable, and tend to
unity the people and make them law
abiding; but the higher acts of Wor-
shin are the distribution of alms to
the unfortunate, the relief of the dis
tressed, and a generous self-sacrifce
for the benefit of our fellows. As we
advance in benevolence, liberality and
charity we praise God in a more ac-
ceptable manner, and render to him
that alteration which is the incumbent
duty of all creatures.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-26
DIED ut the Age of IIO.

ST. JoHNs, N. F., Nov. 24-Mrs.
Joanna Ward, of Cabonear, the Oldest
woman in Newfoundland, died on Sat
urday aged 10 years. She was born in
1882, and, having received tair educa-
ton, was mine of information on all
matters transpir:ug at The end of the last
and early part of the present century.
She retained possession of all her facul
ties almost to the moment of her death,
and enjoyed excellent health.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-26
Fata, Train Wreck.

OMAHA, Nov. 22.-Three people were
killed and two injured by wreck on the
Union Pacific at Aida, Neb. The wreck was
caused by a collision between the "Overland
Flyer" due at Omaha at Io:4o this morning.
and a freight which had just pulled cut OF
Aida yard. Both engines were completely
smashed and the baggage and postal cars tel
escoped and freight cars piled up on the
broken mass. The killed are: Engineer A.
G. Barrett, Conductor B. Mcdonald, Fireman
]. w. Keeler. Injured: Fireman Sutherland,
badly. Only one passenger was hurt, and he
only slightly
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-26
aomes.ead str,kers Apply for: work..

PITTsBURG, Nov. 22.-Strikers applying
for work at Homestead are required to sign
an agreement to refrain from belonging to
any labor organization, and be goverened en-
tirely by the regulations of the company.
The rush for employment continues. Many
of those who took the strikers places are
leaving; some were discharged, but most OF
them are leaving of their own accord. The
borough of Homestead is in financial embar-
rassment owing to failure TO collect taxes.
Measures are being taken to relieve the strin-
gency.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-26
Guilty of Murder.

OREGON CRY, Or, Nov. 23.-Willism
Henderson was tonight convicted of
murder in the first degree. The trial be-
gan this morning and the entire forenoon
was consumed in impaneiug the jury.
At the opening of the trial Henry Nc
CHM, for the defense, moved for pest
ponement, which Judge Mcbride denied.
The trial began after noon and consumed
less than five hours. The evidence show
ed That September 19 Henderson. Cy Su
ter and Others were IN a saloon in Candy
PLAYING cards, when quarrel ensued.
Names were called and the game was
broken up, Henderson and Su:er swear
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-26
A Magnificent GIFT.

NEW YORK, Nov. 22.-It is reported on
good authority that an individual whose iden.
tity is for the present concealed has slgniied
to Bishop Henry C. Potter his intention of
donating 100000 toward the fund for the
building of the new Protestant Episcopal
church of St. John the Divine. 1t is claimed
that the giver of this princely sum is we'll
known and wealthy New Yorker. and one
high up in the councils of the Protestant Epis-
co,,ol church
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The sItuation at Tacoma.

TACOMA, Nov. 22.-Reports are being re-
ceived of persons who have been drowned
while trying to escape from their homes
which were threatened by the valley foods
Frame houses of all descriptions have been
seen floating in the Snohomish, Snoqualmie
Nooksak, Green, Chehalls, White, Duwam'
ish, Black, and in fact nearly every stream oi
any size west of the mountains. All railroad
communication in this section is stopped, ex-
cept on the Northern Pacific main line. 1t is
raining hard, and the floods have greatly in
creased since last night, making certain still
greater destruction of property.
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His Identity Is Proved.

Clerk (at country postofice to gentle
man desiring to cash a money order}-
Have you any proof of your identity?
Gentleman (searching through his
pockets finally finds his photography p
VIII this do?
Clerk Tegarding first the photograph,
then the original why. yes, that is
you. That is all right.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-26
Vote In Harney Co.nty.

BURNS, Or, Nov. 22.-The official vote
of Harvey county for presidential electors
is as follows:
Caples 213, Dunno gig, Irwin 212,
Miller 215. Butcher 276, Colvig 279, No
land 27T, Pierce 121. Galvani 146, Holt
149, Barleigh l4S. The election for joint
representative of Grant and Harney
counties is tie.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-26
Governor mcKInIey,s Father Dying

CANTON, o., Nov. 24-The attending
physician has given up all hopes of the
recovery of William Nick inley, ST. father
of the governor of Ohio. His death i
only question of few hours.
William Mckinley, sr, aged father ol
Governor Mckinley, died this morning al
Canton.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-26
why Army Pepper Was So Poor.

There is an old weather beaten shet
that stands on the brookside, near the
road leading from the West Shore rail
road station at Highland up to the vii
lage, in which two men during the re-
bellion made snug little fortune.
The building is in the shadow of over.
hanging boughs and directly behind a
mill that stands at the point where an.
other road leads up hillside and to
the Bellevue villa.
was driving by there a few days
ago when the driver of the vehicle, in
which 1 was the solitary passenger,
turned around to me, and indicating
with his whip exclaimed:
'D'ye see that little buildin?"
"Yes; what of it?"
''Waal, b'gosh, dye know two fellers
made nigh on FORUM in there during
the war times, pom my word?"
''Making counterfeits, eh?'
''Counterfeits? Nav; better'n that.
It was the darndest thing y ever heard
of, that business stroke was. I'll tell y
it. You know there's lots O. slate in
those hills-piles of it-and it breaks to
pieces almost when y look at it.
"Those two fellers just looked at that
slate and then started to thinkin. They
talked over what they thought and the
next thing people hereabouts knew was
that grindstones was bein hauled into
that buildin.
''Then load after load of slate was
hauled and dumped in the buildin, and
the next thing the people knew there
was a rollin of them grindstones and
piles of powdered slate were carried out
and put in wagons and carted off.
5"People wondered what was goin on,
and if they asked, the two men just
smiled and replied, .Nothin,' or else ex-
planned how the powdered slate was
bein used all over for soft fillin for
teeth.
"But the thing leaked out after awhile.
Them two fellers were grindin that slate
and shippin it away to be mixed in the
pepper that was supplied to the army.
Bgosh, they made a fortune apiece.
''Say, wonder how many of the G.
A. R. fellers now ivin etc the slate from
Highlands hills? Gee't ap," said the
driver.-New York Herald
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-26

CINCINNATI, Nov 22-"Cooney" Seam
ers, notorious character, was fatally shot
week ago by an equally notorious man named
Dorsey. The affair attracted wide attention
because both men are political bosses with
big followings. The shooting occurred very
late at night in scrap dive" and there was
a mysterious man who also took hand in the
shooting. No trace of him could be found
until yesterday, when he surrendered, and
proved to be Henry Brown, one Of the richest
tobacco planters in the Ohio valley. He was
Summing, and fired the shot in self-defense,
he claims
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Wns Literally Roasted.

PITTsBURG, Pa, Nov. 22.-The body OF
Anthony Newhouse, employed in the Home
stead mill, who was found dead in his room
last night, was brought to the morgue here to-
day. Newhouse had the chllls, and procur-
ing bottle of whisky went to his rooms.
Then he sat near the roaring gas fire. The
escaping gas asphyxiated him and his body
was so close to the fire that it was literally
roasted. His legs were baked black, and his
breast and face Drowned. The body had
been subjected to the terrible heat more than
"a hours Every time the undertaken touched
it part of the body would crumble away.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-26
Every Ones Business Is No on.,..

Though road is public property and
devoted to the use of each and all, yet
no one has sufficient private interest
therein to permit him to cease farm op-
erations in order to look after the roads.
1t is only when the roads become i'm
passable that their condition is noticed
and regretted.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-26
Desperaaoes Terrarlze az Ohio Gown

DtSpetAuOCS 1CTEIEALt O4kiO LOtt
LIMA, o, Nov. 24 "A gan of despera.
does crested terror IN the city Yesterday
by playing highwaymen and having a
shooting encounter with posse of puice.
G. FL. Anspaigh was held up near the
Chicago & Erie railway track. A man
showed two revolveIs into his face while
one behind him rubbed cold steel against
his neck He knocked tbs revolver near
his face away. and brought his lantern
down on the mans head. The blow
knocked his man to the ground and Ans
paigh ran Several shots were fred at
him. Another man named Rpmer WAS
next attacked He was severely choked
and his pockers iifl-d. He Is in "a serious
condition. Frank Herrod lost his over
coat, gold watch, his pocketbook and
contents. By this time the police were
in pursuit. 10 an encounter the chief of
police was injured, and all the highway
men escaped Getting rslniorcements
and ammuuition, the police started again
buggIes to scour the country for the rob-
bers, who were all armed. A hot battle
with bloodsted may result.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-26
Two FIends Conyieted.

OREGON CRY, Nov. 2a.-Tbis morning
Bert Bacon was found guilty of an at
tempt to commit rape, and tonight Bob
Gardner was also convicted OF rape. The
crime was committed jointly last sumner
and caused an Indignation meeting, so
intense was the public feeling.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-26

Aunt Hilda-Think this world is i'm
provin, do ye? Folks lie as much as
ever, don't theyp
Mr.. Jnks-N-o, not by good deal.
Mighty few epitaphs put on tombstones
nowadays.-NewY York Weekly.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-26
Due to CareIessness.

By being little careful and thought
full you can preserve the beauty of form
In your shoes; running them over at the
sides and heels is matter of pure care
lessness only and habit that is a rather
expensive one, as it makes the shoes look
worn and old long before they would if
properly cared for.-Detroit Free Press.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-26

She-Why don't You pick out some
NICE g1rI IN your set and marry her?
He-Humphl You don't know the
girls in our set. They do the picking
out-Life.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-26

In one OF SIX miles square amounts TO
$4,000 per annum. In such township
there should be at least one through
road of the first class, with six Of the
eocond class intersecting. 1t is probable
that with abundant capital, machinery
and skill, well organized labor and spe-
cial arrangements for transportation of
materials, such economies in construc-
ton would be brought about that first
class stone roads could be made for
So, 200 per mile in most localities, and
for half that price class of roads hav-
ing one track of stone and one of earth.
At these rates the expenditure for the
township would be:
Thirty-six miles at 5000. 0.............. lOS,OOO
Total. ......................... Sl44,OOO
Superintendent, etc. 10000
Total. .sl54. 600
Such sim could not be raised by
taxation nor borrowed by the township
or even by the county, save at high rates
of interest and short term of payment.
If, however, the state and nation
should share equally with the county
and township, and if, moreover, the
high credit of the nation could be used,
under sufficient limitations and safe
guards, to strengthen the local credit,
all difficulties would disappear.
In that case the interest charge would
not exceed 211a per cent, to which a
small amount could be added for a sink
ing fund to repay the principal in long
term of years.
Suppose the total to be 3 per cent,
the share of the township on its one
fourth would be 81, ,155 per annum, or
only half the amount of its present road
tax.
The townships and counties would be
quick enough to avail themselves of aid
on such terms, but would it pay the
state and nation to give it?
For the state, whose revenue comes
from direct taxation, the answer is easy;
the increased taxable values of prop
erty, due to the improvement of the
roads, will certainly not be less than
the cost of the improvement, and So
much as the tax rate exceeds the three
fourths of per cent. which the state
pays for its share of that cost will be
clear gain to the state at large.
The nations interest is less direct but
certainly not inferior. The tax of bad
roads falls first upon the farmers, but in
the end is more evenly distributed than
any other, and is undoubtedly heavier
than all others combined.
Good roads will benefit producers and
consumers alike and everywhere, while
the nations share of the tax proposed
will be trifing compared with the bene-
fits accruing.
For each 800, 100000 expended the
three-fourths of 1 per cent. would be
$3.50, 900, or one cent Per head on 75,000,-
900 of people. Roy STONE.
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Cutting the ears of children is a wicl

and dangerous practice. The concus-
sion of the air In the ear passage is ex-
tremely likely to fracture the tympa-
mum Of the ear and thus render the
child permanently deaf.
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wanted.

A position to do general homework
Apply at this Office.
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WARM COMMUNICATION.
Comments of Leading Interior Pape
on William III. Mills
from the Chico Daily Enternrisa

5.
From the Chico Daily Enterprise.1
"Wm. II. Mills" says the Colusa Sun,
sis recognized as the most public-spirited
man in the State. Where is there another
doing as much for the common veal? He
would get just as much salary to sit in
his office and do routine work; spending
his leisure hours hunting for good invest.
ments for his sayings. But, instead
there is no place where good word NAV
be said for the State that he is not on
hand"
To the above we might be permitted to
add, that from an intimate acquaintance
with Mr.. Mills for over a quarter of a
century, his philanthropic public spirit is
born in him, and he cannot suppress it il
he would. Nearly thirty years ago, when
quite young man, it was his brain that
first formulated the idea of giving con-
victs in prison credits for good behavior.
Later on, in 1869, it was he who first con-
ceived the great enterprise of the Good
Templar's Orphan Home at Vallejo, and
carried it to a successful issue, and many
there are who revere his name for this
great enterprise.
By diligent application Mr.. Mills has
made himself familiar with the needs OF
the State to further its advancement, and
his whole soul is in the work for the
benefit of his fellow man. Long may he
be spared for the good work he has now
on hand to settle up the waste places
with comfortable homes for the home
seekers to our shores.
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THERE is no ground for fear that the
adoption Of the new charter will give the
bondholders freedom to sue the city.
The Act creating their security, the Act
under which they hold the evidences OF
Indebtedness, declares that the city shall
not be sued. 1t is part of the contract.
and the adoption of the new charter does
not and cannot destroy it. Had the law
that gives the bonds any value been in
corporated in full in the new charter. it
would have served no other purpose than
to increase its length. Expressing the
fact in the charter neither adds to nor
takes from the contract with the bond
holders, which has the form of an Act of
the Legislature, and concerning which
we cannot by charter expression so much
as turn hair. Some there are who have
raised this question, but it is not worth
consideration for moment. No one
should be misled in this matter by the
fears of doubters and timid people.
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SUFFRAGE AND ILLITERACY

The San Francisco Chronicle insists that
the RECoRD-UNIoN gives away its case in
favor of the reform ballot law, because
we concede that the illiterate must be al
stands. But this is q weak charge; the
reform ballot law could not change the
qualifications for voters-it requires an
amendment to the Constitution to effect
that end. The situation is now precisely
as it was under the old election law. The
illiterate voter then, as now, had to con-
suit some one as to what ticket was ex-
pressive of his will.
But we assume that our contemporary
will reply that under the old law the
voter could have his ballot prepared at
his home and carry it to the polls, while
under the new law the preparation must
be IL the voting booth. But under the
new law the voter is entitled to sample
ballot, and this he may prepare at home
and carry into the booth and mark the
official ballot precisely as he has had the
sample prepared. In either case, if he is
dishonest and salable voter, the vote
broker can use him.
To the suggestion that the adoption of
q proposed amendment to the Constitu-
ton excluding the voter who cannot read
will be wise, the Chronicle replies that
the Fourteenth Amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution prohibits an educational
qualification, except at the expense of
sacrificing a portion of our Congressional
representation. That is erroneous.
Massachusetts, and Connecticut exclude
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the illiterate from tie polls; Rhode Island
hxes property qualification; Tennessee
and Virginia make payment of certain
taxes condition precedent; yet no one
contends that these States are subject
TO reduction of representation because of
these requirements.
But if it were admitted for the sake of
the argument that such an amendment to
the State Constitution as is proposed
would be operative only under penalty,
the llliterate voters in California are not
IN any Congressional district, or in aggre-
gate, sufficient in number, if excluded, to
orlng the requisite of population below
the standard emitting the State to its full
representation in Congress. Thus, we
have now six Congressman and will soon
nave seven; to lose one of them under the
possibility suggested, one-seventh of the
males over q years of age, and not other
wise disqualified, must be illiterate. Yet
IN the whole State there are not, of all
ages from 10 years and upwards of both
sexes, $4,000 who cannot read.
In 1880 those over 10 years illiterate
numbered but little more than As, 600.
The vote of the State in 1883 was 25O, 0OO.
Conceding that SO large a number as ten
per cent. did not vote, and the total male
citizens over q were $4,000. But those
over q unable to read and not disquali-
he'd from voting do not exceed $4,000.
Therefore, to suffer loss of any represent
alton whatever under the constitutional
construction advanced by the Chronicle,
the excluded mber would have to reach
nearly 10000.
However, all this cuts no important
figure in the debate The people of Cali
lorna are almost unanimous in the opin-
ION that the man who cannot read, hav-
ing the physical capacity to learn, should
not be permitted to vote. We venture
the assertion that the Chronicle will not
advocate the rejection of the test of that
proposition at the approaching election,
neither will the people consent to the re-
peal or any Gripping of the reform ballot
law which is the conservator of the
secresy of the ballot, is not responsible
Tor the error of admitting the illiterate to
the polls, and is the chiefest blessing that
has been bestowed upon the State in all
its political activity.
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NOTE AND COMMENT,

The Woodland daily Democrat has be-
become a live and valuable paper since
it passed into the hands of E. E. Leake.
He is shaking up the dry bones" in
Yolo County in manner which must
astonish the natives. If Woodland does
not wake up and take its proper place
among the leading interior cities of the
State it will not be the fault of the Demo
crdt, which is pointing the way to pros
perity with vigor and perslstency which
is highly commendable.
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SICK so LONG.

c. w. HOPKINS, Postmaster at East
Lamoine Me-, writes that Mrs. Kelly's
son, who had been confined TO bed four
teen months with an Abscess, has been
cured sound and well by Swift's Spe-
cifc. The boy is fourteen years old,
lives next door to me, and know the /
statement to be true.
S. s. S. has wonderful effect on
children, and should be given to every
weak and debilitated child. Send for
our book on the Blood and Skin. !
SWIFT SPECIFIC Co, Atlanta, Ca :
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Notaries rubItc

Governor Markham appointed the fol-
lowing Notaries yesterday: Henry Mich
OILS, Mayten, Siskiyou County; E. c.
Love, Riverside, San Bernardino County;
Charles league, Amedee, Lassen County.
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Weather FORECAST.

Forecast for the period ending at midnight
Tuesday: For Northern California-Fair,. pre-
ceded by light rains in the northern portion;
slight temperature changes, except slightly
cooler at Eureka and slightly warmer at San
Francisco.
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Agricultural Director.

Governor Markham yesterday com
missioned A. w. Glass of San Ramona
Contra Costa County, Director of Agri
cultural District No. 2S, vice r. o. Bald
win, resigned.