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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-15
CONFUSION OF CAUSES,

The speech of Governor Altgeld be:
fore the state convention of the silver
wing of the Illinois Democracy last
Wednesday was evidently a studied
attempt at diversion, says the Mtel
Ocean.
The basis of his thought was that
the country is suffering from industrial
and productive paralysis, and needs a
change. This is true, but he must
have short and deceptive memory if
he really thinks, as he tried to make
his audience think, that the hard times
on which he descanted date back to
the demonetization act. This is an
error of twenty years, SO far as con-
Germs industrial paralysis. 1t is true
that the farmers have been feeling the
pinch of heard times for quite O long
series of years, but the wage-workers
all know pretty we'll that their pinch
of poverty dates back to 1893, when g
Democratic president and congress
came into power, and not to 1873. when
the free coinage of silver dollars was
stopped.
Never in all its history was this
country more prosperous than at the
very time John P. Altgeld was going
| up and down the state insisting that
| the people wanted a change. The
change demanded was not only a
transition from gold to silver, but from
protection to free trade. The farmers
did not take much stock in that cry.
1t was the wage-working element OF
the voting population which elected
Grover Cleveland and Governor Alt
geld in 1892. Some of the party speak
ers discussed finance little, those in
the east being for gold and those in
the west for silver, but even those ex-
ceptional speakers gave coinage a
small part of their attention.
The Populists did not at any time
lay stress on the tariff. They never
cared flip of a copper what was done
in that line. They were always insist
ing that free coinage was the one
| ASOu1ul. 4hC SOuSiSeCho Iiiih
would be for the Altgeldians to gt
over, bag and baggage, to the Popu'
lists. But instead of that they propose
TO stay in the old Bourbon camp and
fight it out with the goldites.
There are not many state elections
this year, but wherever there is a gov
] ernor to elect, as in Kentucky thi:
summer and Iowa next fall, the Repub
licans should take good care that the
, Democrats are not allowed to transfer
the contest to a new line of battle
The party which insisted upon 6
change, and brought it about, should
be kept to its responsibility, and moi
be permitted to take ambush behind
some irrelevant issue. Next year the
Democrats can, if they choose, take q
change Of position, but national con
ventions clothed with power to dictate
policy for the party in national mat
ters meets only once in four years. II
is the old necessity, so bluntly put in
the familiar proverb about making 6
bed and lying in it.
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A TRAGIC STORY REToLD.
The Murder of Charles W. Renton in
Honduras.

NEW YORK, June PA special
from San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua,
to the Worid says:
The Honduran government has paid
to the United States about $50, 900
in gold in settlement of the claim of
Mrs. Renton for the murder of her
husband. The foregoing dispatch is
the first intimation that the Renton
case had already been made the subject
of formal negotiations:
Charles W. Renton, his wife, Emma,
and their niece went to Brewers La
COON, Honduras, eight years ago.
Renton took up claim in 1893. The
property was valued at $685. 900. Rem
ton had no trouble with the govern
ment or the natives until a planters
concern called the Brewers Wood &
Produce Company began operating in
the territory near the Renton planta-
ton. The officers and employees of
this concern looked upon Renton' g
plantation with envy, and soon squat
ted on part of it. They stole Renton's
cocoons and soon became murderously
aggressive. In March, 1893, eight
men concealed themselves in grove
near the Renton house, and when he
appeared opened fire on him. Mrs.
Renton tried to drag her husband in
and bullet struck her in the right
wrist. In little while the eight men,
all employed by the Wood & Produce
Company, took possession of Renton's
house. They dragged the dying man
and the wounded johnson, who had
been shot while on visit to Renton,
to an Indian hut, and there kept them
under guard. They decided to go away
with Renton. At last six men forced
Mrs. Renton into boat and pulled of
from the beach. In q few minutes
they heard firing. One of her captors
said fippantly: There goes Renton. %
A messenger came to them who told
them that their part in the death OF
Renton was known, and further that
there were Nicaraguan soldiers in the
neighborhood. The party held con.
sultation and told Mrs. Renton they
would give her and her niece three
days to cross the line into Nicaragua.
After almost incredible hardships they
reached Bluefields. They arrived in
New York Mayo, 1894. Mrs. Renton
appealed TO Secretary of State Gresham
for restitution by Honduras, and for
the punishment of her husbands S
murderer. The result is announced
in the above telegrom.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-15
A NOTABLE EVENT.

A great congress of women will be
that which will meet in Memorial Hall,
London, today. This will be the most
notable of the events which in the
past twenty years have distinguished
women, and will be a, crown upon the
wonderfully successful work of the W.
c. T.. q. The organization which has
grown to be one of magnitude as we'll
as of international Importance, is but
twenty-one years old, dating from 1874,
when some twenty ladies, at the head
of whom were Frances E. Willard,
= Louise 8. Rounds, and Mary Clement
Leavitt, effected it for the purpose of
. Of conducting temperance work on
broad Christian but non-sectarian
, basis. Two years later both Canada
and England had similar associations,
since which time the organizations
have grown in influence until they
not only have strong religious value,
but are important factors in political
movements as well.
There is hardly corner of the civil
lied globe that does not feel the inn
press of these great bodies of noble-
spirited, high-minded women, and it is
no small honor to Chicago that this
city was the home of the originators of
the union, says the nter-Ocean. Its
creators were Chicago women, and its |
growth and success in spite of many
and trying antagonisms were due in a
large measure to Miss Willard, the |
woman of all others the best known |
throughout the world as friend of |
and the implacable enemy
Of intemprance. Quite proper is it
then that Chicago should have the
largest representation in London, and
we feel sure that the delegates and
visitors from that city will reflect
honor upon the congress. Though
Lady Henry Somerset is the woman
by right Of position entitled to preside
over the London congress, the British
being in the attitude of
host, 1t would oe courtesy not un.
nerited If Miss Willard were called
% the chair in recognition Of the fact
hat she is the parent Of the Temper
Ince Union. Such an honor to an
American lady would be indicative of
he harmony that has hitherto pre-
7ailed between religious workers in
hese two countries, and would form
IN .inseparable bond Of union for the
l1tlIra
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later than August this year, to talk
about silver. OF course the committee
will do nothing of the sort. No such
convention will be called in this period
or at any other time, says an eastern
exchange. Asked by the New
York World their opinions on the
proposed convention, enough MEM
bers of the committee have declared
themselves against it to kill that
project. This Is just the sort of an
answer that every reasonable being
expected the committee to make. If
the committee ever shows enough re-
gard for Hinrichsen's demand" to
take the matter into formal considera-
ton the convention proposition will
be defeated by vote of four or five
to- one,.'" = =
the Springfield convention and its
spokesmen have no rights that the
Democracy of the country are bound
to respect. The committee knows
that a majority of the party in Illinois
favor free silver, but it also knows
that the leaders of that gathering and
the men who dictated its policy are. in
large part, discredited politicians, ad-
venturers and strikers, who are in no
sense representative of the people for
whom they pretend to speak. Proba-
bly, neither Altgeld nor Hinrichsen
has sufficient influence in his party to
get, from representative Democratic
convention held today, nomination
for constable or alderman in any town
in Illinois. Bryan, of Nebraskt, is
| also isolated, sequestered, cut off from
all living connection with everything
and everybody that counts for any
thing in politics.
Even of pluck, which is the most
common characteristic of such ir-
regular gathering as that at Spring.
field, and which does something to-
ward dignifying the worst of causes,
that affair was totally destitute. To
formally denohnce Cleveland and the
other official Democratic "goldbugs''
who are ''driving the party to RUM
was one of the purposes for which the
conventions was held, yet the denun-
oiation did not take place. In its plat
form the convention did not mention
the presidents name, or refer to his
anti-silver policy directly or indirectly.
All the courage and indignation that
Its members had when they were at
home and in their individual capacity
evaporated when the opportunity came
for them to declare themselves as q
representative body. A gathering ol
that sort can inspire neither fear nor
respect. The national committee will
disregard its demands, and If it at
tempts to get up national convention
on its own hook it will call out the
laughter of the country. The Demo.
cratic silver crusade has collapsed
miserably and ignominiously. AS Of
old, the numbers are on the side of the
silverites, but the intelligence, the
character and the courage are with the
sound money men.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-15
HELD UP NEAR oLALLA.
This Time it Was the Coos Bay Stage
That Was Tempered With.

RosEBURe, Or, June 13.-This
morning about 9 o'clock the stage
bound for Coos bay, George Laingor
driver, was held up on the Hoover hill.
IA miles from Roseburg and four miles
this side of Olalla postoff1ce. A lone
highwayman stepped out of the brush
and commanded a halt at the muzzle
of gun. The driver threw out the
way pouch, telling the robber that
there was nothing else but papers,
thus saving the through letter pouch,
In which were at least six registered
packages. The robber cut open the
pouch, securing two registered pack
ages, which probably contained mer-
chandise only.
There were but two passengers, a
San Francisco drummer, Raymond
Brumbaugh. who was inside, and a
lady, Mrs. Francis, who was on the
seat with the driver. The drummer
was unarmed, and contributed $50 in
currency. when called upon to deliver.
The robber then disappeared in the
brush and the stage drove on. He
was medium-size man, with mask
over the lower part Of his face. He
wore a white slouched hat, dirty
duck coat, striped cotton trousers and
No. shoe, as a measurement OF his
tracks indicated.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-15
A suicide Near Woodyille.

GRANTS PASS, Or. June IA sui.
eide was reported this morning from
Woodville, nine miles south of here.
John Neathammer, living ON Evans
creek, about seven miles from Wood
vile, was found swinging to beam in
his brother n-law's barn, where he
had hanged himself during the night
Neathammer was single man, about
40 years old, and son of the Neat.
hammer who recently reported the los.
of large sum of money by theft from
his granary, where the money was
slowed. No cause is known for the
rash act, though it is known the de-
ceased had serious business trouble
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-15
HOPE FOR KENTUCKY.

Since adversely followed 30 closely
upon Democratic victory in 1892, even
the south is awakening to true reali-
cation of the fact that the party is not
to be trusted, and that hopes Of pros
perity built upon its promises are lia-
BILE to fall into shapeless ruins. West
Virginia will have Republican in the
next, United States senate, the last
election Tennessee gave q majority to
the Republican candidate for gov
ernor, and Kentucky may be counted
In the Republican column when she
casts her vote next fall. All these
make the fact more emphatic that the
people are losing confidence in Demo-
cratic competency. and desire no more
experiments with Democratic free
trade. The New York S,sa is a
staunch Democratic journal, but has
always opposed the administration of
Cleveland, and in speaking of Ken
lucky, says:
"The election of Republican gov
erner of Kentucky this year would be
crowning indignity and humiliation
inflicted upon. the Democratic party.
The burden imposed by the present
administration on the Democratic
party, whose members elected it to
Office in 1892, burden of reproaches,
betrayals, evasions, surrnnders, omis-
sions and humbugs crushes even the
Democrats of those states which have
resisted successfully repea0ed assaults
from the enemies of their party. Ken
lucky in doubt! Talk. of electing a
governor there this yearl
Such declarations are not encouraging
twelve months in advance of the Dem
ocratic national convention of 1885,"
If the mistakes of Mr.. Cleveland has
caused sore distress to the country, in
breaking the solid south" they have
accomplished great political good, and
with the total demolition of the wall
between the south and the north poll
tics will stand on a broader and more
national basis. Kentucky in 1892 |
gave Democratic plurality of 40,O2O:
but at the election last November the
cast 157.997 and the Dem
ocrats 160,350. This is a marked de-
crease, in so short a time, and on this
the Republicans base their hopes of |
success this year. These events are
very omnious of Democratic defeat in
1895, and the Republicans never en-
'ered a presidential campaign with
brighter prospects than they will next
zaaI
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-15
Initiating Jessie Pomeroy.

LAPoRTE, Ind, June u.-Indiana
has youthful murderer in Gilbert
Bowsher. years old, who killed Ber.
nice Collins at Monticello, his victim
being a toddling infant of 2 years.
Bowsher, who was in company with
two other boys, passed Bernice on the
street. The latter spoke to Bowsher's
companions, but refused to notice him.
This angered young Bowsher, and lay
ing in wait for the Collins child, he
attacked her with stones, and before
her piteous cries for help brought re-
lief, she was dead. The authorities
are puzzled as to what steps are to be
taken in dealing with the boy, the
annals of the state failing to record
parallel case: Both families are
prominent.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-15
CowARDLY SHIPS CREW
The Ship Whynot Afire and passengers
Abandoned,

ST. MALo, June 2.-Particulars
have been received here of the de-
sertion of the passengers on the Brit
ish vessel Whynot, by the crew after
fire broke out on the ship on the way
to the island of Jersey. 1t appears
that fire was discovered in the Why-
not's hold Saturday, and while the
sailors were attempting to quench the
flames bucket dropped overheard A
boat was lowered to recover it. The
captain jumped into the boat, followed
by the crew. One passenger jumped
overheard and swan after the boat,
into which he was reluctantly taken.
The passengers were greatly alarmed,
and the excitement among them in
creased when the small boat was seen
pulling for Erquay, where the crew
eventually landed. Taking advantage
of a breeze, the passengers succeeded
in beaching the Whynot near Erquay.
The matter is being thoroughly inves-
tigated by the local authorities. The
captain of the Whynot, although not
under arrest, is closely watched by the
police.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-15
Cuban Jnsnrrection.

HAVANA, June II. "A datachment
of volunteer accommodating Saugado
and Semedious has exchanged shots
with the insurgents commanded by
Perico Diaz. The insurgents lost one
killed and three wounded. The mer
chants of Havana have subscribed
100000 to organize and sustain two
companies of cavalry volunteers.
Five men who tried to leave this port
on the schooner Condora for Cabinas
province Pinar de Rio, without pass
ports and under false names have been
arrested. 1t is claimed that they were
going to Cabinas to try to raise band
of insurgents in that vicinity.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-15
Admiral walker on Meade.

HELENA, Mont, June 13,-The Glas.
gov Gazette, weekly paper, published
in Northern Montana, says that Rear
Admiral Walker, of the United States
navy, passed through Glasgow last
Thursday on his way west to inspect
lighthouses. According to the Gazette,
Walker, speaking of the Admiral
Meade incident, said; "Admiral
Meade was disgusted with the foreign
policy of this administration and be-
lieved he could not conscientiously
larry out its policy. He was. a man
esteemed among his asso-
ciates, and the navy will miss him.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-15
China and Japan.

HONG KONG, June 12.-The Japan
ese have made a peaceful occupation of
Tamsui and Teipepfu, on the island of
Formosa. They are administering the
customs, and trade is resumed. No
further trouble was encountered.
LONDON, June l2.-The Chinese
loan is quoted at II per cent premium
on the Paris bourse. 1t is taken by
lour Russian banks. From political
point of view the loan forms danger.
Gus precedent. as it gives Russia fin
ancial hold over China, which it viii
be difficult to break off.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-15
Corned Beef for Russia.

TACOMA, June 1.-THE Pacific Meat
Company, which is completing here
the largest packing-house in the
Northwest, has received an order from
the Russian government to supply 5000
barrels of corned beef to be delivered
IN October. The packing-house will
open July l, employing 80 men, and
will fill the order as speedily as pos
sible. The meat is supposed to be for
The Russian army and naval forces
stationed on the Pacific coast.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-06-15
GERoN1Mo's BAND.
The Members subdued and the Govern.
ment Gives Them Cattle.

CHICAGO, June 11.-General Merritt,
of the department of the Missouri, has
arranged to purchase $4,000 worth of
cattle at Fort Sill on Saturday next to
be given to the 213 Indian prisoner OF
war at that point, comprising the rem.
nant of Geronirno,s warlike Apache
band. The recent session of congress
appropriated $4,000 to be expended in
putting the band to work on the farm
fand about the reservation. Though
still considered prisoners of war, the
members of the band have as much
freedom as any other reservation In
dians. Since their confinement, now
running over a period of nearly 10
years, the members of the band have
lost much of their old spirit, and Gero
nimo is represented to be quiet, do
cile old man.
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TELEGRAPHIC.
The Durrant Trial.

SANTA Rosa, Cal. June 12.-It is
reported here today that the famous
Durrant murder case may be tried in
the superior court here. 1t is rumored
that change of venue from the San
Francisco superior court will be asked
for on the ground that the publicity
given the case there makes it almost
impossible to secure an impartial jury.
If the case is tried here it will not be
the first time that important cases
have been transferred from San Fran
Cotton railway case, the most volumi
tried here, as was also the famous
Morrow bribery case.
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THE CHINA MASSACRE.
Denial OF Reported Murders of Mission
aries in China.

aries III Cn1ha'
LONDON, June 1l.-According to q
special dispatch from Shanghai, the
loss of property as the result of the
recent rioting at Cheng Tu, Katung
and Ho Ching, amounts to several mil
lion dollars. The Chinese officials, it
is added, headed by the viceroy of the
province of SZechuen, openly encour-
aged the mobs to all sorts of outrages,
and the petitions of foreigners for pro-
lection were refused.
NEW YORK, June 1.-THE following
cablegram of today's date, from Rev.
J. R. Hikes, at Shanghai. has been re.
ceived at the Office of the Methodist
Missionary Society, in this city: Prop
erty at Cheng Tu destroyed. Mission
aries all safe"
"These advices," said DIR. Baldwin,
recording secetary of the society, "are
official and should set at rest the
rumors of the massacre of mission
aries. There was no massacre"
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Still in the Dark.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 1.-THE in.
quest over the death of Miss Nellie
Harrington was concluded today.
Four additional witnesses completed
the alibi of Senator Buck, established
at the inquest yesterday. l. W. Lees,
chief of detectives. was the last wit
ness. He said no stranger committed
the crime. The murderer was thor.
oughly familiar with the premises.
The crime was not for the purpose of
robbery. The murder was most brutal.
The wounds were inflicted by a pistol
used as club. The jury returned a
verdict of murder by an unknown
person.
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strain that species of political emotion
al insanity that ia SO prevalent in this
age of the republic, and which cuts the
mind loose from it's solid moorings and
sends it adrift after vague and vision
airy theories which emanate from des-
perate distress or fiighty fancy.
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Paw the County Debt.

All county warrants registered prior
to Nov. /. 1891, will be paid if pre-
sented at my Office, corner Third and
Washington streets, The Dalles, Ore.
Interest ceases after May 25, 1895.
WIN. MICHEL,
County Treasurer.
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Notice. =

ALI city warrants issued on or after
Feb. l, 1895, will be paid on presenta-
tion at my Office. Interest ceases from
and after this date. 1. I. BURGETT.
City Treasurer.
The Dalles, June 4, 1895.
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THE s1LEER1TE COLLAPSE.

Hinrichsen, the leader OF the Illinois
Democratic silverites, says the Demo-
cratic national committee must call
national convention to be held not
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lately over the sale of some land and
had been acting in peculiar manner
recently. 1t is believed his mind had
become unbalanced.
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Debs is yet free, although his COM
panions are now behind bars. In the
meantime it is very cOnsoling to know
that the great strike leader will not be
a candidate for presidential honors in
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-08-06
Caring for a Pipe.

when you want to buy a briar
pipe" said dealer recently, ''get a
root briar. You.will find it profit
able also to get an imported make.
Any pipe will get rank unless it is
taken care of, and l think briar
root should be cleaned and oiled
once week if it is used by a steady
smoker. By the way, the simplest
and best method Of cleaning a pipe
is to do it with an ordinary piece Of
string. Unravel one end of the
string three quarters of the length,
push the other end through the
bore and draw it through slowly.
Another point smokers shouts
know is that a pipe ought to be car
ried in a loose chamois skin casa
not In box case, so that the al
can reach 1t. A pipe is as helplet
10 . baby, and needs as much carr,