The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-05-13


Want to Have the Capital Removed
From salem.
RosEBuRG, May l2.-Siuce the in
junction proceeding enjoining the
Soldiers Home commissioners from pro-
Eceeding.with the building of the Soldiers
Home near Reseburg, because of the
constitutional provision that no state
public building shall be erected at any
place butt state capital, the citizens
I of Roseburg have been holding numbers
of impromptu indignation meetings and
the sentiment is working toward Great
ing public sentiment throughout the
state to remove the state capital from
Salem to Albina.
The provocation is SO much stronger
than that which caused the removal of
the capital of California from Sacramento
to San Jose that the citizens of South
ern Oregon would certainly have the
support of the entire state, because of
the greediness of the people. If this
| injunction should succeed, then, of
course, all the towns and cities through
out the state that now have pub
lie buildings would have to give them
up, and then the building, of course,
would have to be erected in Salem.
The citizens of Roseburg with good rea-
son. think the next legislature could be
induced to pass the necessary law to
place before the people of the state q
constitutional amendment, taking that
right away from Salem and also chang
4 ing the capital.
/ A Steel Serpent to Pillow the Pacific and
Carry Passengers.
In a few months a long, low and
ralxish craft, which will be one of the
wonders of navigation, will start across
the Pacific from this coast for China on
regular trips. At present says the San
Francisco Examiner, the queer vessel is
! nearing completion at Everett new
and lively town north of Seattle, which
was commenced only little over year
ago and now has some five thousand
people.
The vessel is being built by the Pacific
Steel Barge company, the same COM
pany that CONSTRUCTED the Wetmore,
lately wrecked at Yaquina bay. Like
4 the Wetmore, the new vessel will be a
4 whaleback, hut she will be much longer,
twice as strong, and viii also carry pas
sengers as well as freight. She is being
provided with sixty cabins, and these
= will be neatly and comfortably fitted.
4 She wil1be 1611 feet long and 4a feet
beam and 265< feet depth of hole.
4 About 900 tons of steel is being used in
her construction, and 100 tons OF rivets
are being utilized to hold the steel to-
gether.
The new and strange vessel is to be
1<1-
where she is being made Not much of
{ her will be out of water In general
she will look like great serpent with
only her back shown above the waves,
few turrets and the porthole-lilxe
places which will indicate where the
cabins are.
q The builders have learned a lesson
from the destruction of the Wetmore,
q though they say it would never have
r been lost. but for the carelessness of its
commander, and have taken great
pains to make it in all respects sea-
worthy. It VIII, it is stated, run from
= Everett to San Francisco and thence to
Yokohama and Hongkong, back again
3 here and to Everett 1t is said, also,
that it will be faster than any of the
Pacific Mail. or Occidental and oceanic
passenger ships now running FROM hero
to Chinese and Japan ports, and on
this account is expected to do much
business. L7
; Maritime men here are regarding it
with much interest. If it proves ihe
success that isaelEimed@ will be tl-o
d lstrangestl of sliipbltilhng-
II Kari's Glover Root, the new blood
3 purifier, gives freshness and clearness to
I the complexion and cures constipation.
!. 25c., SOC. and $f.0O. Sold by Snipes &
Kinersly, druggists.