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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-08
THE ONLY RELIEF.

The Smith bill, which passed the
last legislature and which s now in
force, may not afford much relief to
producers. Its object was to force the
o. r. q N. Co. to transport goods
from Cello to this city at pro rata
charges, thus giving shippers the ad-
vantages of cheap rates to seaboard.
Of course this was passed without con-
sulting the railroad company, and it
was expected everything possible
would be done to render it invalid.
Senator Smith, of Sherman county,
the author of the bill, held consulta.
tion with members of the transporta-
tion bureau some weeks ago in Port
land, and it was decided to submit the
matter to Attorney-General Idleman
for an opinion. AS that official be-
lieves that the question will come
before him in some other shape he
does not deem it proper to give writ
ten opinion; but he holds that. IF
citizen of Eastern Oregon, or any other
portion of the state, has right to take
single tie or yard of earth, he has also
the same right to take from the O. r.
& N. Co.'s ground for the inclines
needed, and also to insist on making
the company furnish means of trans
portation, as well as placing on, the
embankments to be constructed suita--
BILE rails in order to establish con-
nectlon between The Dalles and
Celilo." This opinion Of the attorney
general is based on article l, section
Is, of the state constitution, which
provides that no property can be taken
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-08
THAT FAIR WHEAT

There seems to be great rejoicing on
the part of wheat dealers in San Fran
cisco, says the Inter Ocean, over the
final sale for exports of all the wheat
the late Mr.. Fair, of Bonanza wealth
held in store at Port Costa. That vast
pile served as a dead weight on the
market.
This wheat was bought between
August, 1893, and June, 1894, and
amounted in all to about 216,OOO tons.
As sixty pounds of wheat make a
bushel, in this state, at least, little
figuring will show the magnitude of
the holding.
About 10000 tons had been sold be-
fore, this present sale being the bal
ance, 10000 tons. The net loss on
the deal is supposed to be about 81, ,5OO,-
600, which will come out of the three
children. Their fortunes will still be
ample. According to all accounts the
foreign supply is SO depleted that the
market will not be congested. Not
far from the time that Mr.. Fair began
to buy Mr.. Armour also showed his
faith in wheat, but with this important
difference: Instead of storing it in
warehouses owned by others he put it
in his own bins, and when they were
too small he built another elevator.
In the summer of 1893 he took out per-
nit for building an elevator, and at
once set about it's construction. An
electric plant was put in and the work
prosecuted night and day. By that
meane he was able to take the wheat
as fast as the bears fed it to him. That
elevator construction was in point of
fact great achievement. 1t was a
case of rising to an emergency worthy
great general defending the key to
the military situation. But Mr.. Fair
had; to pay $4,000 month storage
charge. 1t would not take the
wheat very long to eat itself
up in storage at that rate. Jo- :
seph's preparation for the prophesied
famine would have bankrupted the
Egyptian treasury had the surplus of |
those seven years of plenty been stored |
in hired elevators.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-08
THE GOLD STANDARD.
Chill Returns to it with Satisfaction and
Confidence.

| Chilli Returns to it with Satisfaction and
Confidence.
WASHINGTON, June 4.-Senor Dom
Cana, the new Chilian minister, has
received the following cablegram:
Santiago, June 3.-It is very
gratifying to me to inform you that
after II years of the regime of paper
money, Chilli has returned with salts.
faction aud confidence to the gold
standard. The law is in force.
FERNANDEZ, Minister of Finance. :"
The resumption of specie paymen Is
by Chill which occurred on last Satur-
day, promises to furnish some inter-
esting lessons on coinage legislation.
Reports from there state that the
government tried to famiharize the
people with the new forms of silver and
gold coin, by getting out prelimary
issue. These were quickly exchanged
novelty had worn off the people were
glad to go back to the more convenient
form OF paper currency.
Another embarrassment occurred
when the government found that the
coin was being exported in great guam
titles. The specie-payment law fixed
the ratio between the metals at Al to ].
This ignored the current ratio
of the world, that in the London
market at the present time being 81 to
l. AS result of this difference, gold
bullion began to flow out of Chill.
The silver coins were also exported
because the law provides that they
should contain 444 grains of pure sill
YER. Thus both gold and silver were
being drained out of Chilli, so that the
government ordered the mints to stop
further coinage. Under the new law
the mints began last Saturday and
there is much interest as to what will
be the result of this last step.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-08
On the Upper Columbia,

81. W. Nash and D. c. Childs arrived
at Revelstoke the other day, having
started from Golden and followed the
Columbia all the way around. They
are practical miners and prospected
every creek on the river, stopping a
fortnight on beach nearly opposite
Downie creek. Coming through the
canyon they had perilous time.
Their boat was small hat-bottomed
affair, and was easily overturned.
Nash swan ashore, whilst Childs sue
ceeded in getting onto the bottom of
the upturned boat with his dog.
Reaching the big eddy the boat made
three circuits around it, but Childs,
having no oar, could not make the land
until he used his coat for sail. Nash,
being on the west side of the river,
crossed Jordan creek by making a raft
of some logs, which he tied together
with his suspenders.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-08
LABOR STRIKES.

The labor organizations are right in
regarding the decision of the supreme
| court in the Debs case as a most i'm
portant one in it's bearing upon theil
interests and operations, says the Globe
Democrat. 1t sustains the Chicago
strike injunction, which was directed
not only against acts of violence, but
also against peaceful efforts to inaugur
ate strike. The offense of Debs anc
his official associates consisted in send
ing out kilograms ordering members
| of the union in various places to strike
Such proceeding is held by the court
to be contrary to law, because it is cal
| culated to cause an obstruction OF q
highway of interstate commerce.; and
such an obstruction is public nui'
sance to be restrained like any other
nuisance. "The difference between a
public nuisance and private nui.
sance," the court says, sis that the
one affects the people at large and the
other simply the individual" In both
cases, the quality of the wrong is the
same, we are told, and the jurisdiction
of the courts over them rests upon the
same principles and goes to the same
extent. sit surely cannot be seriously
contended," it is added, "that the
court has jurisdiction to enjoin the
obstruction of highway by one
person, but that its jurisdiction ceases
when the obstruction is by hundred
PERSONS"
This decision, it will be observed,
practically denies the right of labor
organizations to take any step in the
way of working up strike that i'm
plies interference with the operation
of railroad. That is to say, it is held
that railroad strike is public nuis-
ance, because it obstructs highway
that is for the use of the people at
large: and therefore organized bodies
of laborers may be enjoined from doing
anything to bring such result to pass.
1t will be remembered that in the
Northern Pacific case, Judge Jenkins
issued an injunction of this kind,
which was subsequently modified by
the federal circuit court of appeals
so far as it restrained the labor leaders
from counseling a strike, the idea
being to uphold the right of railway
employees to strike peaceably. The
court of last resort now says in effect
that Judge Jenkins decision was cor
rect, and should not have been modi-
fed on appeal; or, in other words, that
railroad employees have no right to
strike, peaceably or otherwise, under
any provocation. This is radical
view OF the matter, and one that con-
flicts with the general opinion upon
the subject. 1t has been supposed
heretofore that laborers had a perfect
right to strike at any time or for any
reason so long as they did not resort
to violent means; but the supreme
court declares that so far as railroad
are concerned, this is an er-
opinion, and they must find
some other way to protect their inter-
ests and accomplish their purposes.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-08
Ex.senator Buck is pead.

OAKLAND, June 4.-Ex-Senator L.
W. Buck, injured by being thrown
from cart Saturday while driving to
a conference with the chief of police
regarding the murder of his friend
Miss Harrington, died this morning.
He was unconscious to the last. His
death, without any statement as to his
knowledge of the murdered woman's
affairs, still further deepens the mys-
terry y-enveloping the tragedy. The
police hoped he could throw some
light on the possible assassin.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-08
CONSISTENT DOCTRINES.

The Democrats of Illinois have come
! out boldly and declared for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, and
this may be indicative of the, trend
of politics in that party. On the con-
trary the Republicans of Ohio have
came out boldly in favor of the sound
financial policy pursued by the party
for over a quarter of century, and
this will tend to show the direction OF
the current of public opinion inside
the organization. It will be perfectly
consistent with the traditions of both
parties for one to favor fat money and
the other the standard of value ac-
knowledged by the commercial world.
Democracy has been in favor of equi-
table adjustment of the public debt
in other words, repudiation; it has
fondled the rag baby to its bosom and
it now worships the silver goddess.
Very likely the Democratic party
will adopt this craze of free silver as
the watchword for the campaign of
1896, and this will cause dissatisfaction
and disintegration in the ranks; but
there are Democrats who will not
willingly endorse such fallacies even
if they, apparently, are popular, and
these will not keep quiet next year.
There can be no factional fight in
the Republican party on the tariff or
money questions. No new ground can
be taken on these subjects without re-
versing the history of the past thirty
years, and there is no desire or neces-
sity for any such action. Protection
and sound money were the doctrines
of the founders of. the Repu blican
party, and under these principles the
nation has enjoyed unexampled pros
perity. To see these again firmly fixed
as the policy of the government is the
desire of large majority of the Amer
lean people, and with such watchwords
it is not prophetic to speak of Repub-
lican success in 1895, for it is one of
those foregone conclusions that does
not require prescience to determine.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-08
THE CASCADE RESERVE.

1t will be good news to our flock
masters and sheepmen that Senator
Mitchell has had a conference with the
| secretary of the interior, and has Sc
cured rescission of the order issued
by the department prohibiting sheep
from running at large on the Cascade
| timber reserve. There will be no such
prohibition of grazing sheep on the
reservation, and this fine summer pas
ture will be open to cattle of all kinds.
To set aside a large portion of the
public domain for any purpose except
that which would be beneficial to set
tiers is wrong in principle. and savors
very much of monarchical despotism.
1t may have been that this reserve
contains many species of wild game,
which are rapidly disappearing: but it
is also true that it consists of some of
the best pasture lands in Eastern
Oregon, and these are becoming
scarcer every year as the soil is culti-
waited in increasing areas. Feed for
sheep is great aid to a productive
industry, which is source of consid-
erable revenue to the residents of the
Inland Empire, and this should be of
greater importance than to preserve
the deer, elk and other game
to furnish sport for those who have
the time and inclination. We
always felt assured that as soon as
the facts were known to the depart
ment the order would not be enforced,
and we are pleased that through the
active efforts of Senator Mitchell the
secretary of the interior has acted to
the best interests Of wool growers.
Our delegation in congress has never
been remiss in attending to the inter-
ests of their constituents, and in this
matter its action has been very
prompt.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-08
TELEGRAPHIC.
JEDDA PANIc-sTRICKEN.


An Attack has Been Threatened by Bed
ouin Arabs.
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 5.-AdviceS
from Jedda, Arabia, the seaport OF
Mecca, and the scene of the recent
murderous assault on the consular off
GERS of Great Britain, Russia and
France, announce that a panic prevails
there. 1t is feared the Bedouins will
attack the town. The latter are held
responsible for the attack upon tho
consuls, which resulted in the death
OF British vice-consul, and number
were arrested in consequence. This
has caused an angry feeling among the
Bedouins. who demand the release OF
those apprehended, and threaten to
use force if the demand is not COM
piled with.
The situation is so serious that the
Europeans in Jedda are hastily seeking
refuge on board the merchant vessels
in the harbor, taking all they possibly
can of their belongings. 1t is also
stated the arrival of the British Medi-
terranean squadron, numbering Il
warships of various classes, is anxi-
ously expected at Jedda. even by the
Turkish authorities, as the garrison is
very weak.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-08
SITUATION IMPROVING.
Turkey Must Inaugurate Reforms In
Armenia.

Turkey Must 1naugurate Reforms In
Armenia.
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 6.-The sit
uation as far as settlement of the
questions in dispute between the Turk.
ish government and representatives oi
the powers, regarding reform in
Armenia, is concerned, shows consid-
erable improvement today. The i'm
provement is undoubtedly due to the
firm attitude of the powers in posi-
lively refusing to accept any modif-
cations of the programme mapped out
for the improvement of the condition
of Armenia. The Turkish minister
for foreign affairs, Said Pasha, has
paid frequent visits to the British em-
bassy since the reply of the porte to
the note of the powers was delivered,
and it is hoped it will result in persuad-
ing the sultan to accept the inevitable
as gracefully as possible.
The incident of the assault upon 8
French officer by a Turkish officer may
be regarded as closed, for the Turkish
government has assured the French
embassy it will accord the fullest satis-
faction, and an indemnity will be paid
the French officer. In addition, his
assailant will be tried before military
tribunal and punished if found guilty.
Riotous Bedouins have destroyed
the cholera hospital erected at Jedda
for the care of the sick pilgrims travel
ing to and from Mecca. The Turkish
garrison at Jedda has been reinforced,
but the foreign population will remain
on the ships in the harbor until the
of warships, when their safety
will be guaranteed.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-08
THEN AND NOW.

In 1895 as in 1875 Ohio is the ad-
vanced guard of the honest money
movement, says the Globe Democrat
Twenty years ago. when the Repub-
licans in many states of the Mississippi
Valley were in favor of straddling the
greenback question. Ohio's Republi-
can convention declared against the
soft money iniquity and nominated
Rutherford B. Hayes for governor.
Hayes had held the governorship
twice, though at this time William
Allen, who was renominated by the
Democrats in 1875, was in that Office.
In Ohio, as in some other states, there
was and is prejudice against third
termism in the gOvernorship, and this
probably drove some votes away from
Hayes. He made his canvas strictly
on the finance question. In his letter
of acceptance of the nomination and
in every speech which he made in the
campaign he vigorously combated the
greenback delusion, and though op-
posed by the ablest Democratic cam
paigner in the west he CARRIED the
state by a majority of over 5000. Hayes
victory broke the spell of greenback
invincibility, and the rag money craze
began to subside from that time.
Ohio this year, as twenty years ago.is
the first of the states in holding con-
vention, and now, as then, it takes its
stand squarely and courageously in
favor of honest money. Twenty years
ago it was unlimited greenbacks that
threatened the country's solvency and
honor; today it is the related peril OF
unlimited silver. Now, as then, the
.infationists tamper with the currency
system, menace the national credit
and assail the interests of every wage
workerin the country, and now, as at
that time, Ohio leads the way in the
attack on the conspirators. Hayes
overthrow of Allen and the imitation
lists was the Saratoga of the honest
money campaign CT 1875, which
brought its Yorktown few years
later. Bushnell's victory in 1895,
which will be the Gettysburg battle of
the sound currency army, will bring
its Appomattox in 1895.
The example of Ohio in vigorously
condemning the free silver folly will
strengthen the hands of Republicans
in every state. Now, as always since !
the Republican party's formation, the
Republican has been the sound money |
organization. Outside of the four or
five miuing states the overwhelming
majority of the Republican party is
opposed to the free coinage of silver
by this country independently Every
Republican State Convention of 1895
outside of the Rocky Mountain region
will follow the lead taken by Ohio and
plant itself squarely on platform
which demands the retention of the
100c dollars. There will be no equiv
ocation or concession. The silver
declaration which Ohio's veteran
statesman, John Sherman, formulated
for his state, which is on the lines laid
down in the national platform of 1892,
will be indorsed by the other states
this year and be re-afirmed by the
party in its national convention next
year. 1t is based on the maxim that
honesty is the best policy, and this is
as good doctrine in national politics
as it is in morals.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-08
THE CHURCH OF HUMANITY.
Its Development the Object of a Congress.
Now In Session,

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CHICAGO. June 5.-"To unite in a
larger fellowship such existing liberal
societies as are in sympathy with the
movement toward undogmatic religion.
to foster the organization of unsecta,
rian churches and to develope to church
of humanity" Such is the object OF
the American congress of liberal re-
ligions societies which held its open
ing session last night in Sinai temple.
Rev. F. E. D. Hurst, of Indianapolis,
was the first speaker introduced. He
spoke for the Independents. DR..
Hurst said:
II am not flying the flag of indepen-
dence. There are times when we feel
the need of intellectual isolation, and
then independence is good thing.
But there are times when we feel the
current of more external things. Then
we crave independence and fellowship.
That feeling has brought us together.
1t is cheering and encouraging that
we are not here to fly theological flags.
but to find a platform where we can
meet in common"
W. L. Sheldon, of st. Louis, was in
troduced as the representative of the
Ethical Culturists. He attacked
phrases. "They have become bubbles
in the pulpit. They are used as almost
slang. What we want is equality and
brotherhood. We could let the word
religion go if need be, so that the
thing remained. The distinctions be-
tween creeds we must have. There
can be no brotherhood on a basis of
zero. Our brotherhood is the broth
erhood of suffering humanity. l long
to go from one end of the world to the
other and ask men what they have dis
covered that is helpful"
DR.. Hirsch presented the Rev.
Joseph Stoltz to give the message, not
of Hebrewism, he said, but of Judaism
and the Jews. He said:
''This congress is the prophet to en-
phasize that we must not idolize our
own little creed and pull down the
curtains lest ray of light get in and
a hereto get out"
Jenkin Lloyd Jones announced that
in the audience were represented 35
towns from Massachusetts to Dakota.
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Three To Hang Today.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 6.-In the
state prison at San Quentin three mur-
derers will be hanged tomorrow. The
condemned men are Patrick Collins,
who stabbed his wife % times because
she would not continue to relinquish
her earnings for the maintenance of the
husbands debauch; Anthony Axoff,
who shot Detective Len Harris, of the
Soutern Pacific, to avoid capture for
robbing the railway station at Boulder
Creek, and Amelio Garcia, Mexican
who slew James Guiltimot, an aged
resident of San Bernardino because
the victim would not give his money
to Garcia and two companions.
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cabinet, however, he has stated in
substance that he should ask Olney to
accept the place. He is delaying pub
fishing the announcement in order
that he might at the same time name
the successor to Olney as attorney
general. 1t is regarded likely that
Senator Gray's visit to Washington
may have been in response to mes
sage from the president, and it is pos
sible he may have been offered the
attorney-generalship or consulted
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Dallas, Texas, will very likely b.
chosen for the fight between Fitz Sim
mons and Corbett, and that will be 6
Mecca to which the pilgrimage of sport
ing men will tend in few months.
The dispatches state that cool east
erly breeze has made life bearable al
the east. In this portion of the coun.
try easterly winds cook grain and
burn vegetation generally. 1t is diff.
ferent east of the Rockies.
Oscar Wilde is reported insane: but
this is not believed by many, while
others have considered him and his
disciples fit subjects for lunatic asy-
lums for years. Perhaps he is as sane
now as he has been for long time.
The decision of the supreme court in
the income tax cases has received
nearly universal endorsement by the
leading men of both parties. Perhaps
there has not been an opinion of the
Judiciary branch of the government
for many years that has given such
general satisfaction.
The Savannah, Ca, Neps speaks
words of no uncertain meaning as fol-
lows: I'm 1873 there were no silver
dollars in circulation. At present
there are over six hundred millions of
them and silver certificates, and they
circulate on parity with gold dollars.
Doesn't this look as if silver had been
given pretty good showing?"
An exchange asks: "Why hasn't
the price of silver gone up with
wheat?- Perhaps the idea that one
controls the price of the other is after
all erroneous" Our cotemporary
shows signs of awakening to the true
realization of affairs. The price of
silver in no wise has ever controlled
that of any other article, and Is de-
pendent, uncoined, upon the law of
supply and demand. As coin, it is
very convenient for change, and when
supported by gold, has equal purchas-
ng power.
An English educationalist of repute
to introduce into the educa.
ton of young women and girls the
Of chivalry toward the. male
sex, says an exchange. He maintains
that this has been entirely neglected
in the teaching of girls, and while
boys have oeen taught to pay due def
erence to women, the girls have not
been taught that they owed any con-
sideration to anyone, either of their