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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-05-25
SEATTLE BANK FAILS.
Mercha,.ts' National of that City Will
Not Reopen.

MerchaA+ +s' National of that City VIII
Not Reopen.
SEATTLE, May 2l.-The first failure
of national bank in this city occurred
this morning, when the Merchants
National bank closed its doors and it
was announced that it would not re-
open.
The bank was incorporated July q,
1890, with capital stock of $500, 900.
In explaining the failure, Angus Mack
intosh, the president, said this morn
ing: "This misfortune is the inevita-
BILE result of the hard times and the
inability of the people to respond to
the calls made upon them. Our board
of directors met this merning ard de-
cided, in view of the position of things,
not to open today and to have the
cashier notify the controller of the
action taken. We can do nothing un-
til the examiner comes in. The plan
of consolidation fell through, and this
bank will simply liquidate. The bank
will pay all its obligations and I do not
thing that this will absorb any of the
capital stock. Our aim will be to call
upon our stockholders and not to go
through the hands of receiver. The
stockholders will be able to recoup
themselves from the assets as fast as
they are able to realize on them, and
they will be quite sufficient to make
the stockholders whole again. 1 cam
not give you an exact statement of the
affairs of the bank until the examiner
gets here, but can say generally that
there are no really bad assets, the only
difficulty being that they are slow to
realize on"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-05-25
CONSERVATISM NECESSARY.

The disposition of the American
people is very mercurial, and in this
Characteristic there is the greatest
danger to free institutions. Eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty, and
this is true in every instance. Repub-
ican government cannot exist with
out the responsibility devolving upon
each individual being thoroughly un-
derstood and carried out practically,
both in the relation to the government
and to the community. Freedom does
not imply license; but in very many
instances great restraint must be
placed upon personal desires and what
may appear at first blush personal
rights. The good of the citizen must
be subservient to the benefit of the
whole, and this will require many sacri-
fees of selfish desires and aims. This
is implied in the fabric of society in
all civilized communities, and the
same rule will hold good in all we'll
established governments. Man may
be a free moral agent, according
to the law of ethics; but
circumstances frequently control
him to so large an extent that he
is simply objective to the ends or pur-
poses to be accomplished and not in
the least subjective. In our relations
with each other and with the public
generally conservatism should be
exhibited which will keep down any
inclination to fanaticism and tend to
sink the individual in the composite
whole. This principle should be exer-
cised in the discussion of all questions
in which the nation is interested, and
wild, fanatical ideas which serve per-
sohal ends should be kept in the back |
ground. A free people must be con-
servative people, and any mistake |
made in government must be directly |
to the public not giving due |
to the matter. Every |
question decided at the ballot
box should be after due deliberation |
Of its effects, not on a single COM
but on the entire people
and the right of suffrage
are weighty responsibilities which the
state, in its sovereign capacity, should
only grant to the competent and intel
tigent. Manias in politics are very
destructive to the stability of free in
stitutions, and it is the duty of patri-
)tism to curb all wild notions with a
people, for they tend to rem
ler unsafe the fabric of popular gov
and may end in the complete
wreck and ruin of the best and freest
nations. The history of our country
urnish many illustrations of this dan
ger, but as we have escaped it in the
,ast the good sense of the American
people may be sufficient for any emer-
yency in the future. 1t is not neces-
'ary to point out any particular in
tance in the past or present; but if a
,eneral alarm is sounded it may have
ihe effect to keep down certain unsafe
political theories which periodically
,ass owes the land.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-05-25

Republican Prospects Depend ON How the
Silver Question Is Met.

Republican Prospects Depend on How the
Silver Question Is Met.
NEW YORK, May 22.-United States
Senator Thomas Carter is at the I'm
petal hotel with his wife and daughter.
Senator Carter is here on business,
and will start for his home after hav-
ing had talk with ex-President Har-
rison at Fifth-avenue hotel. Senator
Carter, who is chairman of the Repub-
ican national committee, was seen by
a reporter at the Imperial hotel. He
was asked to express his view on the
national situation, and more especially
concerning the silver question. Sem
ator Carter said: "The Republican
prospects west of the Mississippi de-
pend on how the party meets the silver
question. The Western demand must
be met in the national platform. Fifty
nine electoral votes depend on this.
These votes will not go to any man
not willing to pledge himself to sign
the silver legislation sent to him by
congress. I believe silver bills will be
passed by both houses next year.
GAS to the candidates there is no
pronounced sentiment. Allison is the
only man west of the Mississippi
named. 1 am unable to estimate his
following. John c. Spooner, former
senator from Wisconsin, has many
friends. The silver views of candi-
date, and not his personality will inter-
est US. Weshall insist on man max
ing declaration which will meet that
sentiment.
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SOUTH AMERICA.

Prospects of a Revolution in Venezuela.
NEW YORK, May 21.-The World
says: Private letters received here
tell of renewed political disturbances
in Venezuela, with prospects of anoth.
er revolution. The plan of general
amnesty, which was intended to draw
back to the country all Of its noted
exiles, has proved failure.
From New York there went General
Praza, General Monagas, General
Hernandez, General Sarria, General
Puildo and severrl others. General
Guzman Blanco, the greatest of Vene-
zuelan revolutionists, refused to be
drawn from his retreat in Paris, al
though the new government offered to
him every inducement.
By the last steamer General Monagas
returned to New York and General
Praza, who was formerly minister to
Washington, will go next week.
Nearly all the returned exils will leave
the country again.
Business in leading cities is poor.
In politics there is chaos which is
rapidly reaching a crisis.
President Crespo is reported to be
getting ready to form new cabinet.
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poUBLE-EDGED SWORD.
The Internal Revenue Law Declared
Killed.

The Internal Revenue Law Declared
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, May 22.-The
startling announcement is made by
Colonel Noble Smithson, Knoxville
attorney who has had much practice
before the United States supreme court,
that the decision on the income tax
has also killed the internal revenue
laws. In a careful prepared opinion,
Colonel Smithson says:
Justice Fuller, in his opinion, says
the constitution divides federal taxa
taxes; second, imposts and excises-
and that direct taxes must be appor-
toned among the several states in
the house of representatives. Appar-
is that all federal taxes, except duties
on imports THAT is to say, taxes col
lected under tariff laws) must be ap-
portioned among the states according
to their representation in the house of
representatives. An act of August 81,
1894 (the Wilson billy, section 4S, pro-
vides there shall be levied and collect
ed on all distilled spirits, etc, tax of
$1.O0 on each proof gallon; the statutes
of the United States levy a tax of
cents a pound on tobacco, etc. 1t
seems clear, according to this opinion
of the chief justice, that these are di-
rect taxes on personal property, and
not being apportioned among the sew
eral states according to their represen-
tation, they are unconstitutional and
void.
IF this view is correct, the supreme
court has not only wiped out the in
come tax but has practically repealed
the internal revenue as it affects to-
bacco, whisky, brandy, etc. If this
construction of the opinion be correct,
all direct taxes, including those on
real and personal property, must be
levied according to representation, so
that the rich people of New York,
Massachusetts and other eastern states
will pay no more tax per capita than
the poor western and southern states.
OF course, this is not to be thought Of.
The result would be that practically all
revenues for the support of the govern
ment must be raised by duties on i'm
ports, and instead of reducing the
tariff it will necessarily increase it
materially"
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TELEGRAPHIC.
KICKAPOO BOOMERS.
Rush for Lands ON the Reservation

Rush for Lands on the Reservation
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May pa
special to the Star from Guthrie, Okla
homa, says that late last night half a
dozen deputy United States marshals
raided camp of whisky-peddlers on
the line of the Kickapoo reservation,
four miles north of Shawnee, and in
the fight two of the peddlers were
killed and two wounded. A special
from Oklahoma City says all last night
the road to the Sweeney bridge, on
the edge of the Kickapoo country, was
crowded with horsemen and vehicles.
The dust was sitting as the horses
dragged through the deep sand and
STUN b1ed over roots Of trees in the
road. The crowd had filed up the
yard at Sweeny's bridge road house
and extended back mile. When day
broke every one got out to cook coffee
and hitched up to await the race at
noon. Down the river for miles BOOM
ers were camped on the edge of the
bluff leading down North Canadian
river. Their rush will be most danger
Gus, down an 1S-foot embankment,
across the river. which is in many
places too deep to ford. up on the bank
on the opposite side, through belt of
timber and thence across the famous
Kickapoo flats for claims. There are
many wire fences around allotments
which will have to be cut or jumped.
Before noon many crowded over the
| river and flooded the country, and
their names were noted down by hon.
est homeseekers, who obeyed the law
and waited.
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WAR IS BARBARLSM.

The old question of the cruelty of
the Japanese at Port Arthur is again
being discussed in the dispatches, and
this time by a correspondent OF an
English newspaper, who severely criti-
cises Minister Dun's report to the state
department as being prejudiced in
favor of Japan, because he has
Japanese wife and Is a subaltern to the
minister of foreign affairs of that gov
ernment. 1t is undoubtedly true that
the victorious troops at Port Arthur,
incensed by the barbarities practiced
on their comrades by the Chinese,
committed excesses of cruelty which
should receive the severest condemna-
ton of all civilized nations. But no
country is blameless in this regard, for
war. as stated by one of our greatest
generals, is barbarism, and there has
not been an armed conflict between
nations for centuries in which there
has not been instances of unquestioned
cruelty. The Napoleanic wars in
Africa and Europe were censurable for
this reason, and the name of Ma
polean was cursed because of the bar
barism he is said to have practiced
upon conquered foes. Not mentioning
intervening conflicts, our own civil
strife was blackened by the in
human treatment of prisoners at
Andersonville and the massacre at
Fort Pillow, and later wars in Europe
are subject to the same criticism. Sol
diers, when inf1amed by passion in the
heat of battle, are brutal, and the jap
anese, who have just emerged into
civilization, are not, perhaps, possessed
of the same chivalric regard for
fallen foe as other races who have en-
joyed the benign influences of ad-
vancement for centuries. 1t could not
be expected that the army that
marched into Port Arthur, seeing
their friends hanging to trees with evil
dences of their having been tortured
in the most cruel manner, should have
but little consideration for the Chinese,
even If they were non-combatants,
and, without strict discipline being en-
forced, would not retaliate upon the en-
emy when opportunities presented. The
science of war is science of killing men
in the most expeditions way, and those
who follow the profession of arms
must sacrifice many of the finer sensi-
bilities of civil life. They are accus-
toned to human blood and human suf-
fering, and the tender sympathies of
the heart are completely dulled and
obliterated. Japan and China enjoy
amicable relations, and the cruel deeds
which blackened the history of the
recent conflict should be forgotten by
each. Other nations should not be too
eager to condem acts which might find
examples in their own experience, and
the lesson taught. should be needed;
and that is, war and civilization are
antagonistic, and one cannot advance
without the other deteriorates.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-05-25
ESCAPED FROM JAIL.
The Man Who Killed Kincaid Walked out
of the Roseburg Jail.

of the Roseburg Jail.
RosEBURG, Or, May 22.-Samuel G..
Brown, who shot and killed Alfred
Kincaid at Oakland last August, and
who was, at the December term of
court, found guilty of murder in the
first degree and sentenced to be hanged
February Is, 1895, and whose sentence
was suspended pending an appeal to
the supreme court. walked out of the
county Jail some time after midnight
last night. Deputy Sheriff Shipley had
been guarding Brown at night, sleep
ing in the corridor of the Jail. 1t has
been the custom of Shipley every night,
about Z o'clock, to lock Brown in the
steel cage. 1t seems that last night
Shiply failed to do this. AS there was
only a spring lock on the outside door,
it was easy matter for Brown to make
his escape while Shipley lay sleeping
close at hand. The escape was not dis
covered until 4 o'clock this morning.
1t is generally known that Brown has
friends on the outside, who no doubt
aided him to escape, and no doubt he
is well armed and will kill before he
will be taken. Sheriff's posses are out
in all directions securing the country.
Sheriff Cathcart is leaving nothing
undone to capture his man. Deputy
Shambrooke is ON Browns tracks, and
it is expected he will soon be captured.
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ITS RECORD.

Political parties, the same as indi-
viduals, are known by their acts, and
from these conclusions will be drawn
regarding their characters. No man
can lead q dissolute life for years,
and expect to be trusted in fiduciary
relations without there is some evil
dence that reformation has been
effected; neither can political organ
ization make complete failure on
platform of principles for the manage
ment of national affairs, and hope to
be returned to power without there
has been Il complete change of base
regarding party policy. Reasoning
on this hypothesis, and we believe it to
be correct and fair one, Democracy
must stand or fall by the record it has
made during the past few years. 1t is
not necessary to go back two or three
decades to point out the errors of
which that party has been guilty: but
confining examinations within the
last three years sufficient may be found
for the American people to arrive at
the conclusion that it is not competent
to guide national affairs.
In 1892 the Democratic candidate for
president was elected on free-trade
platform by the largest majority ever
received since the war. Both houses
of congress were Democratic, and the
people, at the ballot-box, demanded
a change from the policy that had been
pursued by Republican administra-
tions. The Democratic party was
placed in power under the most favor
able circumstances. There was an
overflowing treasury, business was
prosperous, and labor was better paid
than ever before. The first act, after
repeal of the silver-purchase clause of
the Sherman law, was the passage of the
came. Factories closed, wages were
reduced, and business depression and
financial stringency were general all
over the country. These have con-
tinued for nearly three years, until
the people, rendered desperate by
want and starvation and the deprecia-
ton of values, are grasping at any
expedient that offers the least relief.
The test of Democracy has been made.
and the people have suffered from
the practical demonstration.
The issues of the campaign of 1895
will be based on facts and not on theo-
ries. Problems have been solved, and
the people have suffered in conse-
quence. The relief promised has been
demonstrated to be illusory, and faith
will no longer be placed in Democratic
pledges. From the depths of the mis-
cry now being suffered the people are
fully satisfied that times were good
under Republican administrations ,and
the change was most disastrous.
Democracy must face the music.
1t must stand or fall by the record it
has made since 1893, and no
amount of sophistry can make this
favorable to the prosperity of
the nation. This will be the line of
battle in 1896, and Democracy cannot
shift it to the free-silver ground. 1t
has solved problems in very practical
and the wage-earner and
toiler-to their great sorrow-have
been the factors in the solution.
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SPANISH AMERICAN REBELS.
Capture the Town of Machala With Arms
and Ammunition.

Capture the Town of Machala With Arms
and Ammunition.
NEW YORK, May pa special to a
local paper from Panama, says:
The steamer Loa which has arrived
here brought confirmation of advices
that the town of Machala and the arms
and ammunition of the government
have been captured by the revolu-
tionists. The entire province of
Manabi is reported to be in arms. The
capital Port Viejo, is in the power of
the patriots of La Honra Naccional.
General Yepez, OF the government
forces, is prisoner. Crowds of young
men of Guayaquil are waiting in the
city to join the revolutionary armies.
The government is said to be COM
pletely demoralized. Its official action
is in disccord with its friendly decree
that issued general amnesty while
calling an extra session of congress for
a popular election. Secretary of State
Sarasti is in .discord with General
Flores, commander of Guayaquil, who
is likely to be deprived of his office.
Doctors Vela and Fernandez are at the
head of the revolution. Ambato is
marching on Quito with force of 1000
men. Esmeralda was still in the
hands of the government May II, but
it was feared that the rebels intend an
attack shortly to regain possession of
the port.
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THE CHINESE ARE TOLD.
Imperial Announcement of the Ratii
cation of the Treaty.

Imperial Announcement Of the Ratifi-
cation of the Treaty.
LONDON, May pa dispatch from
Men-Tsin to the Times says that an
imperial proclamation has been issued
announcing the ratification of the
treaty of peace between China and
Japan. 1t is declared that the govern
ment deeply pondered over the advice
which had been offered to it to con-
tinue the war, rather than surrender.
but the crisis demanded decision, as
no victory had been obtained on land
or sea, owing to the incompetency of
the leaders, who had only been able
to recruit the rabble. The enemy, the
proclamation says, were menacing
Peking. The country was in a terri.
BILE condition. The proclamation then
goes on to say:
"Could we permit alarms to disturb
the dwelling of her sacred majesty?
Heaven had not withheld his augury.
The seas overfiowed the coast and the
camps were submerged"
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A Corvallis Suicide.

CORVALLIS, Or, May 21.-William
Uhlman, the superintendent of the
Coast Carriage & Wagon Co., COM
mitted suicide this morning by hang
ing from water pipe. When found
by one of employees during the after
noon, he had evidently been dead
several hours. He had attached cord
to water faucet, passed the other end
around his neck, and fallen forward
with his body nearly fat on the floor.
By the broken cords it was easily seen
that two or three attempts had been
made before he succeeded in getting
one strong enough to support his
weight.
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sKIFF DRAWN UNDER.
Three Drowned In a whirlpool Near the
Methow's Mouth.

Methow's Mouth.
WATERvILLE, Wash, May 21.-
Word was received this morning of the
drowning of G. F. B. Haskell, w. A.
Barton and Mrs. Prowell, wife of Mr..
Haskell's associate. The men were
conducting a government survey on
Columbia river. The accident occur
red at $50 P. NJ. yesterday, at a point
on the river a short distance below
the mouth of the Methow. They came
up the river on the steamer EllensbuTg,
and undertook to row from the Ellens-
burg to the government steamer in a
skiff, but were caught in whirlpool
and drawn under. Mrs. Prowell was
thrown out, and the men hung to the
boat. In a few minutes the boat was
again drawn under with the men, aud
never reappeared. The current car
ried Mrs. Prowell ashore, but before
assistance could reach her she disap-
peared. There were several witnesses
of the catastrophe, but they were un-
able to render any assistance. All
were from Wenatchee. Mr.. Haskell
was one of the best-known civil engi-
neers in the state. He had almost
completed his government contract.
He left a widow and child, and Mr..
Barton left widow and two children.
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TELEGRAPHIC.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
Fourteen Persons Killed in Nitro-Gly-
cerine Explosion.

Fourteen Persons Killed in Nitro-Gly-
cerine Explosion.
SAN FRANCISCO, May PA terrific
report and conclusion, which was dis
tinctly felt all through the city and at
towns around the bay for distance OF
forty miles, was at first believed to be
caused by an earthquake, but proved
to be an explosion in the nitro-glycer.
inc and mixing houses, storehouse and
gun-cotton departments of the Cali
fornia powder works at Pinole, across
the bay this morning. The crew of
the glycerine house, four in number,
and the foreman of the mixing house
were killed, as were also nine Chinese
working in the latter department.
The explosion occurred in the nitro
glycerine house at 10:45 A. M, and was
probably caused by Chinese dropping
can of the explosive. The cause
cannot be definitely ascertained, as all
connected with the building are dead.
There were 200 Chinese in the adjacent
mixing room, and at the sound of the
explosion all ran and escaped.
The force of the explosion was tre-
mendous. Huge trees were thrown
into the bay, a distance of half mile,
and nitro-glycerine tanks, weighing a
tOn edcn. are now lying OUU yarOS QlS-
tant from the scene. Toes, hands, legs
and other parts of the mutilated re-
mains of the dead are scattered along
the road for a mile.
The nitro-glycerine house first went
up. then the mixing house, storehouse
and gun-cotton departments. The
nitro-glycerine house, of which not a
vestige now remains, was three-story
frame structure, 200 feet by so. 1t con-
tanned 5000 pounds of nitro-glycerine
and 1000 pounds of Hercules powder.
A remarkable feature of the explosion
is the fact that, although the store
house containing 1000 pounds of Her.
cules powder is completely wrecked,
its contents are intact. In all, 10, ,00O
pounds of explosives went up with a
roar and sheet of flame. The fatali-
ties are as follows:
Killed-Clare johnson. foreman OF
the glycerine house, and D. A. Dean.
both of Pinole; II. M. Minugh, of Oak
land; c. Venegas, of Martinez; W. D.
Taylor, foreman of the mixing house:
nine Chinese.