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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-04-20
INSANITY.

The acquittal of Rev. j.. c Read on
the plea of insanity by a Portland jury
has again opened the question for dis
cussion, whether this should be taken
as an excuse where the element of the
crime are clearly proved. THIS rev.
erend gentleman was caught in the act
of attempting to rob bank in East
Portland, having disguised himself
and by the use of weapons having in
timidated the cashier. All these facts
were~brought out in evidences; but it
was also proved that the man had been
troubled with alteration of mind. and
medical testimony was given that he
had been and was at the time mentally
diseased.
The mistakes of jurors, deluded by
the arguments of skillful attorneys,
who would with equal facility prosecute
or defend criminal for fee-have led
the public to question the justice of
nearly all verdicts where any promi-
nent person is acquitted of an offense
charged against him. There has been
such a reversion of the public mind
because so many criminals go un-
whipped of justice. that the plea of in
sanity is frequently considered a
"dodge" which is used by lawyers to
afford men guilty of heinous offenses a
means of escape from just punishment.
This prevails to such an extent in com
munities that there is growing senti-
ment in favor of furnishing insane men
for crimes already proved to the same
extent as those who are in possession
of all their reasoning faculties, as
if insanity were not deplorable
condition of mind, superinduced
by heredity or a diseased body,
for which the unfortunate victim was
not in the least responsible.
We have no doubt in this country
that public opinion has so influenced
juries that men have been hanged on
the gallOws for murders of which they
were as innocent, morally and accord
ing to the true meaning of the law, as
those who rendered the verdict of
guilty or who executed the sentence.
In two or three we'll known cases we
are firmly convinced that lunatics
have suffered the extreme penalty of
the law because cOnscienceless and
autocratic press has perverted public
sentiment in this regard.
Insanity is legal defense, and it is
barbarous and inhuman to hold those
who are so unfortunate as to be afflicted
in this manner responsible for their
actions. Charity and humanity have
provided asylums for these deplorable
persons, where those who are harmful
are carefully watched, and those who
can be cured will receive proper treat
ment. The jury did right in acquitting
Read, and other juries who have con-
victed men of greater Offenses who
were equally guiltless must answer be-
fore a higher tribunal for their acts.
1t is time the people were coming back
to sense and reason, and, while dis
countenancing any dodge" if man
is insane send him to the asylum and
not to the gallows.
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developments are expected. No other
cause can be assigned for the deed than
passionate jealousy, which is known to
have a wonderful power to transform
the most peaceable into fiendish brutes,
and which usually gluts its vengeance
on the fairest and purest. The morals
of San Francisco are no worse than
those of any other city of the same size
in other parts of the country, and the
same motives would, perhaps, impel the
same cowardly deed in the north or the
south. in the east or the west. Every
fresh evidence of guilt will be read
with the greatest interest all over the
country, and the people will be suf-
ficiently just not to condemn Durant
until the proof is indisputable: but if
his guilt is shown there will be no sem
timental sympathy wasted on him, and
no man will ever go to the gallows with
less regrets for the fatal termination of
his career.
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TELEGRAPHIC.
, THE CHURCH HORROR.
Durrant Maintains a Smiling and Cain
ADpearance.

Durrant Maintains a Smiling and Calm
Appearance.
SAN FRANCISCO, April S.-Theodore
Durrant was very cheerful this morn
ing, and greeted everyone with smile
and pleasant words. The probable
reason for this change in the accused
man is probably caused by the belief
that the police have exhausted every
mine for information against him.
The searching of the church is COM
pleted, and no further evidence has
been brought to light. He rested we'll
last night, and ate hearty breakfast
this morning,
Police Surgeon Somers visited him
this morning to study his actions in
anticipation of a plea of insanity
when the case is brought to trial. DIR.
Somers says that Durrant shows no
signs of insanity: in fact, he spoke
with intelligence on every subject
that was brought up. Durrant seemed
very well pleased that he had not to
make the trip to the morgue today
The inquest will be continued tomor-
row morning
Shortly afser o'clock last night
Durrant was taken to the detectives
room. opposite the chiefs office. by
Detectives Gibson and Anthony. The
chief and all the detectives were in the
| room. Durrant was taken into the in
ner room by Detectives Seymour and
Handley. They made him strip and
carefully examined mis- underwear and
clothes for marks of blood, but none
| could be seen. Then they carefully
examined his body for any recent
marks or scratches. but the only one
was the abrasion on his chin, which
| he said he got in the brush al Mount
Diablo.
The police today incline to the
| opinion that Durrant, after the murder
| of Miss Williams, went directly home
and changed his clothes, and buried
those he had worn before going to DR..
Vogel's house. They say it would not
have taken him more than five min
utes to get to his house. and they think
| this offers more plausible explanation
of the mysterious disappearance. Rec
| ognizing the vital Importance of this
| link in the chain of evidence, the po,
| lice have searched not only the gloomy
| church on Bartlett street. but every
| place where it seemed to them there
| was the slightest likelihood of the gar.
ments being concealed. To that end
a thorough search of the Durrant house
| has been made, but without success.
Another witness has come forward
who thinks he saw Durrant and Miss
Williams, or a couple resembling them
very much. at about 11:15 o'clock on
Friday night on Bartlett street. AS
he passed them he heard the young
lady laugh and the young man was
smiling. He did not observe their ac
tions after he had passed them, but
| says they were walking toward the
church. The description tallies ex'
actly with the dead girl and Durrant,
| and if they were the persons, his testi-
mony will go to prove that the girl was
was not murdered early in the evening
as has been supposed.
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LONDON, April 18.-F'rederick Har
risOn, who says he has been a resident
of Hawaii for II years, has written tt
the press from San Francisco, com
planning of the treatment to which
British subjects have been subjected
in Hawaii.
He says: "When the plan of revolt
was prematurely discovered in January
the government seized the pretext to
make wholesome arrests. 1, with
others, was confined in crowded,
filthy prison. British subjects and
others were subjected in prison to tor
lures in the hope of obtaining evidence
and driving them into testifying as di-
rected. To the credit of England,
only one man surrendered to the das-
tardly methods. A dark cell, hunger,
being thrust naked into a tank of cold
water until the victim tainted, threats
of execution, the arrest of other mem
bers of the prisoners family and bribes
are only samples of the methods en-
ployed.o
Harrison also complained that the
British government did not take any
notice of affdavits forwarded to Eng
land by British subjects subjected to
the oppression.
The 81. Jdntes'S Gdzette, commenting
on Harrison's s letter, says the Hawaiian
government applied mild form of tor
ture to the prisoners accused of sedi-
tiOn against the republic, and expresses
the opinion that the British foreign
office should investigate the charges
made, adding: "If they are true, we
are bound to withdraw our recognition
from this government of secOnd-rate
rank adventurers.
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THE INCOME TAX.
A. lRehearing Desired by Attorney-Gene
Olney.

A. kehear1ng Desired by Attorney General
Olney.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE attor-
ney-general today filed in the United
States supreme court a memorandum
for the consideration of the justices,
giving the governments view on a
petition for the rehearing of the in
come tax question, filed by opponents
of the law: The memorandum is as fol-
lows: Charles Pollock, appellant, VS.,
Farmers Loan and Trust Company ct
al; Lewis Hyde, appellant, VS.. Cont
neltal Trust Company, of the city of
New York ct al, on a petition for re-
hearing. The United States respect
fully represents that if the rehearing
should cover all of the legal and consti-
tutional questions involved, and not
merely those on which the court is
equally divided.
First-Whether the tax on incomes,
generally inclusive of rents and in
terests or dividends from investments of
of all kinds, is or is not direct tax in
the meaning of the federal constitution,
matter upon which, as the original
question, the government has really
never been heard. Its position at the
time of the argument was that the
question had been settled by an expo
sition of the constitution practically
contemporary with it's adoption, by q
subsequent unbroken line of judicial
precedents. by concurring and repeated
action of all departments of the gov
ernment, and by consensus of all
text-writert and authorities by whom
the subject has heretofore been consid-
cred.
Second-The Importance to govern
ment of the new views of its taxing
powers, announced in the opinion of
the chief justice, can hardly be exag-
gerated. First, pushed to their logical
conclusion, they practically exclude
from direct operation of it's power all
real estate of the country and all of it's
invested personal property. They ex-
clude it because if realty and person
ality are taxed only by rules of appor-
tionment, the inevitable inequalities
resulting from such plan of taxation
are so gross and fragrant as absolutely
to debar any resort to it. That such in
equalities must result is practically
admitted, the only suggestion in the
reply being that the power to directly
tax realty and personality is not meant
for use as an ordinary everyday power;
that the United States was expected to
reply for its customary revenues upon
duties, imports and excises, and that it
was meant that it should impose direct
taxes only in extraordinary emergen-
cieS
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EASTER.

Yesterday was observed throughout
Christendom in commemoration of the
resurrection of Jesus Christ, which
occurred, according to the Apostolic
account, on the third day after his cru
cifixion. The festival was not OBJ
served by Christians in the first CEN
tury; but soon afterwards the prose-
lytes from Judaism observed it at the
same time as the Hebrew Passover,
contending that Christ was the paschal
lamb who was slain for the salvation
of the world. Among the early Sax
ons a festival was observed in COM
memoration of spring, or the new birth
of the seasons, and was celebrated in
honor of the goddess who presided
over that portion of the year. The
Nicene council fixed the date, so that
the conflict which had ragged between
Jewish Christians and the converts
from paganism should cease, and the
same day should be universally OBJ
served.
To the Christian it is day of re-
joicing, as it commentaries the res
surrection of the Savior, and gives
them promise of life beyond the grave.
This has been ardently desired by all
peoples,and is dogma of all religions.
1t satisfies the egotism of humanity
that beyond the few feeting years of
life on this earth there is an eternity,
in which the higher and better ele-
ments of our beings shall have con-
scious and intelligent existence. The
Christian, in his Bible, has assurance
of this, and in Christ rising from the
dead has Immortality fully carried out.
At the return of the festival he sees in
the blossoming flowers, and the re-
newal of vegetable life illustrations of
those precious promises upon which
are based all his hopes and desires.
To him it is symbolic of the dawn of
the resurrection, when the sea shall
give up its dead, and those who have
been laid away in the narrow chambers
of clay for long years, perhaps for ages,
shall bud and blossom into being for
eternity. This is gratifying to his am
bition, and gives him consolation and
courage amidst all the trials and tribu-
lations of his probationary. existence.
Such faith appeals to every selfish
element in our higher natures, and it
would be cruel to attempt to reason it
down by cold, scientific facts.
Whether it be celebrated as SYM
bolic of the Christians resurrection to
eternal life, or simply as new birth
of the vegetable world around us, the
Easter season cannot fail to be one of
joy and gladness to all. With the |
blooming flowers around us, the hill
sides clothed in the bright verdure of |
spring, and all nature bursting into |
life, it cannot help being an occasion
of universal rejoicing. The date may
have been borrowed from heather
Saxons, and, together with other festi
walls and the Nicene creed, be signifi-
can't of the subsection of the world to
the Imperialism of spiritual Rome,
Easter should always be observed as
IN occasion in which the people should
express their joy, their hopes and their
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It Caused Much Surprise.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 18.-There is
quite sensation in financial circles
over note for $780, 900, involving the
Stamford and Fair estates. 1t was in
the nature of surprise to the attor-
neys and executors on both sides. The
note was forwarded by w. G. Howells,
of New York, of whom nobody appears
to have ever heard before, to the First
National bank for collection. J. S.
Angus, one of the executors of the
Fair estate, said there was such a note
for $500, 900, but whether genuine or
not he was not prepared to say.
'All we know about it," said he, sis
that last Monday S. G. Murphy, presi-
dent of the First National bank, came
to us with note purporting to be
drawn by Mr.. Fair, to the order of Le-
land Stanford, for S3O0,0 dated five
years ago, and it was then, within a
short time, by its face, of being DUE"
The signatures of both Stanford and
Fair appeared fairly good, and no one
seemed desirous of saying they were
forgeries.
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The Break in Oil.

PITTsBURG, April 17.-Oil broke
from $3.50 to 81. 10 at 2:30 this afternoon
and closed at 2:17. Great excitement
prevails on change.
The break came at 2:90 P. NJ. like a
thunder storm. The market had been
lowering about 1872 all afternoon with
light trading, and from the fact that
price of refined oil received another
lift today, no big break was expected.
But at 2:30 the slump began, and in
side 10 minutes it had gone from S2.62
to S2.37. The brokers stood about
dazed by the suddenness of the blow.
and each quotation from the Oil City
exchange brought lower figure, until
S2.10 was reached, within few minutes
of closing time. 1t then rallied seven
points. The excitement was more in
tense than at any time since the pres
ent bull movement began. Operators
scarcely know of the situation, though
many predict the market will recover
tomorrow.
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Only Killed His Wife.

SPOKANE, Wash, April 1S.-At Pa
taha City last evening David Crum-
pacfier, a butcher, shot his wife and
Teban Johnston. Mrs. Crumpacker
and Johnston were standing near the
door, and Crumpacker intended to kill
Johnston, who had been the despoiler
of his home. Crumpacker had warned
Johnston to keep away from his house,
and last evening he saw him there and
procured shotgun. AS he took aim
the woman moved, and received one
shot in the right breast, which passed
through and came out at the back.
Johnston received one shot through
the hand, and Crumpacker fired the
other barrel, but in the darkness
Johnston escaped. Mrs. Crumpacker
died today. No attempt has been made
to arrest Crumpacker, who has the
sympathy of the community.
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CLETELAND AND SILVER:

Since the letter of Mr.. Cleveland te
the Chicago committee has been pub
lished some free-silver Democrats have
criticised his opinions as being op.
posed to the best interests of the
party. The position of the president
on the monetary question has been
well known for years, and the Demo
Gratis who nominated him in the ma
tional convention and those who
voted for him at the polls
knew that he was unequivocally
in favor of the single standard,
for he never missed an opportunity
during his first term of office to en-
phasize his views on the subject. In
his messages to congress and public
speeches he has taken unequivocal
ground in support of what he consid-
ers sound and safe financial policy.
Almost his first official act after taking
the oath of Office in 1893 was to call a
special session of congress to repeal
the silver purchase clause of the Sher-
man act, and in his message to that
body he used no equivocal language in
stating that the drain on the treasury
was caused by the issuance of certif-
cates-the holders of which usually
demanded gold in payment-to Sc
cure the amount of bullion required
There was no possibility for his parti-
sans and the people of the country to
have been mistaken, for Mr.. Cleveland
has been consistent and outspoken at
all times on this question, if his party
has not. 1t may be true that Demo-
Gratis advocated free silver during the
campaign of 1892 as subterfuge to at
tract votes; but very few of the lead
ing men of the organization have
favored unlimited coinage, and during
the last session, when Democrats were
in full possession of branches of con-
gress, they failed to pass any free sill
yer bill. Neither of the two leading
parties are in favor of free coinage,
eSho ohO OpullOUo blOuc DIS UIlt
friends of the white metal
If the party had been in favor of un
limited coinage Mr.. Cleveland could
not be expected to stultify himself to
the Chicago committee. These were
business men, who were thoroughly
conversant with the presidents views,
and which they unquestionably en-
dorsed. Free silver men cannot ex-
pect to make converts by holding
club over the heads of public men, and
Mr.. Cleveland is the last man on whom
the attempt should be made. 1t is
question that must stand or fall on it's
merits, and no Democrat or Republican
can expect to win popularity for the
white metal by coercing leading men
into their way of thinking. The forum
is the place for argument, and the bal
lot-box will give the verdict of the
Jury.
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Russia Talks of Force.

LONDON, April 16.-A dispatch from
St. Petersburg to Vienna paper says:
"Russia is firmly resolved not to al
low the cession by China to Japan OF
any territory on the East Asian conti-
nent, and will not shrink from enter
ing into serious conflict with Japan
if her wishes cannot otherwise be at
tanned. France is resolved to support
Russia in this position. Areport from
England shows that country is lending
support to Japan"
The Standards Vienna correspondent
says that the writer of the foregoi ng
dispatch never writes without inspira-
tion from the Russian foreign office,
although he is. frequently used as a
medium for feelers.
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PRACTICE Us. PRECEPT.

The letters on the needs of Oregon
have emphasized the Importance of
supporting home industries, and now
the people should make practical
application of the doctrine. Theory
can do no possible good without it is
reduced to practice, and all the opin-
ions which have been published re-
garding what is necessary to impel
growth and advancement without they
have the effect to make Oregonians
practical will have no beneficial results.
AS a state, perhaps, we have suffered
less than other parts of the country
during the past two years; but the les
sons taught by adversely have been
sufficiently severe to give every OBJ
servant person to understand that a
radical change in our methods of do
ing business is imperatively necessary.
We must take the lessons as of per-
sonal application, and lose no time
in making demonstration of them.
The dealer should buy at home when
ever he can, and save every cent possi-
BILE to the circulating medium of the
state. In manufactures it cannot be
expected that we can place articles on
the market as cheaply as eastern fac
tors. Labor is better paid here, and
we have not learned the economy prac-
ticed there, because we have not had
the experience. But, in every in
stance, home industries should be fos-
tered, and even at little self-sacrifce
on the part of business men. The
people have sufficient interest in the
development of our resources to pay
little more for Oregon-made goods
than for those made in New England.
This should be followed in every
branch of trade, and the benefits
will soon be realized. The labor
market would not be so dull,
and the consumer being better
paid would have more money to spend
for commodities. Oregon wooden
ware, fruits and other articles should
supply the demand, and nothing that
is grown or that could be manufac-
tured here should be exported from
states thousands of miles distant.
Apropos of this subject, and directly
in line, county judges and officials |
should patronize local papers that |
labor freely and earnestly for the ad- |
of home interests, and not |
send orders to Chicago and ST. Louis |
for letter heads, blanks and other sta
tionery that could be printed in their
own towns. Taxpayers understand
by the published proceedings of courts
,hat there are expenditures nearly
every month in this regard that could
be saved to the community. Reform
s spreading, and let it branch out in
Ill lines and departments of business.
We owe no tribute to Omaha, Kansas
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President Cleveland's letter to the
Chicago committee, inviting him to be
present at banquet, has called forth
one from Senator Stewart. OF course
Mr.. Cleveland's epistle was in favor of
the single standard and Mr.. Stewards
advocates unlimited coinage. But we
presume these letters will have no par
ticular effect in changing the views of
the people on this question. Those
who represent the business interests of
the country will favor the gold stand
ard, and the theorists will demand free
silver, fiat money or any other means
of increasing the circulating medium.
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Died at the Hospital.

HEPPNER, Or, April lev. j.
Cantwell died at the ST. Vincent hos
pital in Portland yesterday, where he
had gone to have an operation per-
formed for appendicitis. He has been
in the employ of o. N. & N. Co. here
for several months as assistant to the
agent here, and had been a resident of
Heppner for the past five years. He
was highly respected by all who knew
him. His remains will be brought
here for burial.
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Cholera in SimonOaski.

PORT TOWNSEND, April 16.-A pri-
vate letter was received here tonight
from A. w. Bash, of this city, who is
at Simonusaki, Japan, confirming the
report that cholera has broken out.
He says % cases have been reported,
of which 16 died. The city is very
filthy, but the authorities have taken
from spreading.
He was within earshot when Lii
Hung Chan's life was attempted, and
saws the feeling of the lower class of
Japan is very hostile toward all classes
of foreigners. With the educated
Japanese. it is just the reverse.
Gold is at an immense premium.