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KRUGER's REPLY.
He Says Americans Are In no Danger In
the Transvaal.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23.-The Exam.
1ner has received the following tele-
gram from President Kruger in reply
to message requesting information
as to the status of the American min.
Ing men now imprisoned at Pretoria
for alleged participation in the upris.
ing OF the Uitlanders:
Everything is quiet at present, the
Americans are in no danger whatever.
They enjoy the full protection of the
law like any other foreigners; therefore
there Is no need ofprotection from the
outside against any illegal or revolu'
tionary movements. Even if such pro-
lection against revolutionists were
necessary, which is not 80, the Ameri
cans are capable of taking care o.
themselves, The government regret.
deeply that, while almost all Of the
Americans took the side of law ant
order, few of them have Joined tn,
revolutionary, so-called reform com
mittee. These together with a major
ity, mostly British, will be tried &C
cording to law, and justice will be dom
to all concerned without respect t,
nationality"
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Two Hundred Tourists Disappointed.


NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-Two hundred
tourists, who had booked to visit Tur-
key and the east on special excur.
sion aboard the French liner La Tour
aine. scheduled to sail from New York,
February 4, were notified today that
the trip was of:
The acute condition of affairs in
Turkey and the uncertainty of afford
ing adequate protection to travellers in
the domain of the sultan, caused the
abandonment of the tour. The pleas
ure trip OF the steamship Friesland,
which was scheduled to sail for the
same territory on January 20, was
given up for the same reasons
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-01-25
EDUCATE THE MASSES.

The stability of any republic rests |
in the intelligence of its citizens,
their ability to intelligently interpret !
its laws and understand the rights and
privileges of citizenship. A classical
education, a knowledge OF all the
sciences and arts, is net necessary to
this, but the ability to read and write
the predominant language Is absolutely
necessary. In short, the first require
ment Of capable citizen is that he
should have common school educa.
cation. Popular education, the educa'
tion of the masses in the rudimentary
branches, is the safeguard upon which
is founded the principles of a govern
ment by the people. On the subject
of popular education DR.. Chaplin pub.
lished an able article in recent mum.
Der OF the North American Review, in
which he said:
1.-THE underlying principle of state
education is state preservation. The
moment we leave the principle Of nec-
essity, we are on uncertain and debat-
able ground. 1t does not require
much discussion to determine the
simple and fundamental branches OF
education that the state should teach
in order to protect itself against gross
ignorance and efficiency. Reading,
writing, figuring and knowledge OF
the country's history should be most
thoroughly taught. To this could be
combined an education of the hand as
we'll as Of the head, the first rudiments
of training have been started in the
kindergarten. All appliances for
teaching these fundamentals OF educa-
ton should be most modern and com.
plete, and carried on under the best
hygienic surroundings. The absence
OF any attempt to cope with the higher
and more ornamental branches would
leave sufficient time and money to lay
a proper groundwork in every child's
case, even the most backward and un.
promising one. The importance OF
primary education Is now universally
recognized, as it Is directly or in.
directly, made compulsory In all civil.
lied countries. When, however, the
state attempts to carry education along
higher lines, the temptation to neglect
the humble primary branches In the
interest of the upper and more snowy
grades becomes apparently impossible
to resist"
The temptation to neglect the prim.
ary, In the interest Of the more snowy
grades is. as Doctor Chaplin says i'm.
possible to resist, especially when in
stitutions in which the higher and un.
necessary branches are taught are
maintained at public expense as they
are in this state. In Oregon we sup
port state university at an expense
to the state of $50, 900 year, besides a
number of so-called normal schools
and state agricultural college, In all
costing over $50, 900 annually; and this
at the expense of our public schools. |
1t is to the interest of every state to
place within the reach of every child
an opportunity to obtain a knowledge
OF the common school branches, but
when it has done this it has performed
its Office. When, however, it UNDER
takes to maintain colleges and uni.
versities at public expense 1t exceedes
its duty, and also works an injustice
upon those from whom it obtains the
money with which to support such in
stitutions.
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THREE DEspERADoEs lYNoHED.
overtaken and Hanged After Committing
Crime In Oklahoma.

overtaken and Hanged After Committing
Crime In Oklahoma.
OKLAHOMA CITY, o. T., Jan. 22.-
Near Jacques store. south of Fort Hc'-
mes, fifty miles southeast of this ci. :,
a vigilance committee composed of
farmers and ranchmen captured and
hanged three desperadoes-Thomas
Foley, man known as Wild Horse,
and a half-breed Choctaw named Mar
ina. The night before gang of six
men, of which these three were mem
bers, robbed Jacques store, assaulted
his wife and stole four horses. The
alarm was given and posse OF farmers
followed the gang all night. coming
upon them at Crisy Crossing, and in
the fight Foley was wounded and one
Of the pursuing party killed. Three
of the gang made their escape, but
Foley and his two companions took re-
fuge in deserted hut, where thepwere
dislodged with dynamite and hanged
without judge or jury. Before dying
Foley stated that two of the men who
escaped were Bob and Bill Christian.
The vigilance committee is still in pur-
suit of the others.
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OF LEGISLATlNG

When the fifty-fourth congress was
convened it was expected that some
thing would be done to improve the
present financial system and put it on
a more business like basis, but from
what has been accomplished SO far it
is safe to predict that little, if anything
will be accomplished, and it now looks
as though the government would be
still forced to continue in the banking
business which has proven so hazard
Gus in past years, that too with some
thing like $500. 100000 of credit cur
rency afioat, and with a reserve that
fuctuates at the will of the holders OF
this currency.
President Cleveland very succinctly
showed in his message to congress the
defects in our financial system and
pointed out the remedy. He asked
congress to provide for the permanent
retirement of the greenbacks that the
national treasury may no longer be
the prey of gold gamblers. But this
is refused for the reason no doubt that
congressman know that this favorite
money of Wall street is still regarded
by many deluded people as the "pcor
mans money! and they fear that it
will not be good politics to abolish the
greenback.
By law passed in 1878, when the
greenback craze was at its height, the
amount of greenbacks in circulation
shall never be less than $346, SOC, 600
and it is provided that when presented
for redemption in gold these green
backs shall be Immediately reissued.
The gold Spectators of Wall street
have reaped millions of profit ont OF
the operation of this law, enacted os-
tensibly in the interest Of the plain,
common people. There was great ex-
ultation among the friends OF the
greenback when this law was passed.
They little dreamed that in the pass
age of this much lauded act they were
playing into the hands OF the much
denounced gold sharks.
Still, in the face of these facts, con-
gress refuses to act. The senators, or
at least a large number of them, pro-
pose the free coinage of silver as
remedy, while in the house the collec-
ton of more taxes through increased
duties, is suggested as the country's
only salvation.
The truth is, the two houses OF con.
gress, though under the control of one
political party, are widely divided on
the financial question, and each, rather
than recede from its idea, would let
the money sharks continue drawing
gold out of the treasury, and forcing
the government to issue bonds without
limit. And surely this will continue
until some of the leaders in both
houses lose some Of their pig-headed-
ness, and consent to some. rational
provision for retiring the credit cur
rency when it is redeemed. This, we
lear, the present congress is incapable
Of doing; in fact it seems to be like the
last Oregon legislature, incapable OF
at all except on appropria-
lion bills.
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The Starving Armenians.

NEW BRITAIN, Conn.,, Jan. 22.-B.
Argos, an Armenian resident of this
city, Is in receipt of letter from q
friend in Armenia, which states that
upwards of 100, 900 Armenians are starv-
ing. The snow is several feet deep.
Some Armenians have taken to eating
grain. OF 300 villages, 54 have been
sacked and burned by the Turks and
Kurds. The remaining are occupied
by butchering soldiers. Twelve Amer
lean missions in the district have been
burned The lives of the Americans
have been spared, but they are in
great want and some are starving.
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Opposed by Secretary Smith.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-The house
committee on public lands has received
from Secretary Smith strong adverse
report against, the free homestead bill.
The bill absolves all persons complet-
ing five years. residence on lands,
taken and occupied under the home
stead laws, from making furthur pay
ment to secure their titles other than
fees incident to fling and obtaining
proof. The measure is a sweeping one
and land officials estimate. that the
passage would involve at least $50, 1000
600 costs to the government and S1e. .000-
600 to Oklahoma alone, this being the
amount paid for the relinqishment of
their lands.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-01-25
CUBAN INDEPENDENCE.

All reports from the war in Cuba
indicate that success must crown the
efforts Of the insurgents who are 40
gallantly battling for freedom. They
have driven General Campos from ono
point to another over the island, and
finally forced him into his stronghold
in Havana, have cut him off from COM
munication with the interior, and his
only means Of obtaining supplies is
by water. With the Spanish army
thus penned up, 1t seems that the
Spanish forces must either hazard 3
decisive battle at disadvantage or
ultimately surrender.
No one who has observed the trend
Of affairs in this conflict between op-
pressive despotism and freedom can
doubt that to Spain tho latest results
in the war are q crushing blow. In
order to recover even foothold on
the Island she must make complete
fresh equipment OF forces, cutting
down her home reserve beyond point
compatible with safety and scraping
the last corners Of her depleted treas
ury for the necessary funds. The ex-
tent OF her encouragement was shown
SONS weeks ago when Spanish minis.
tiers made a tentative offer to grant
Cuba autonomy under the Spanish Hag.
II the Cubans now have completely
mastered the situation Spain may we'll
consider the effort to retain Cuba a. .
hopeless task. :
With Havana at their mercy, also.
the Cuban insurgents will be In .
position to establish provincial gov.
ernment and demand recognition from
the other powers. If at the end Of
years Of oppression, enormous taxes,
misrule and insult Cuba has skaken
off her yoke, every free country in the
world should be quick to recognize
her claims and give her the hand of
welcome. And no people will be moro
glad to do so than those OF the United
States. Already congress is consider
ing ways and means of giving this
sentiment expression, and while the
question should not be made the sub
ject of hasty legislation, no time should
be lost in making full investigation
with view to recognizing the Cubans
as soon as the just principles Of inter-
national law will permit.
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Death Of Judge Upton.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-William w.
Upton, appointed justice of the su.
preme court of Oregon in 1857 aud sub
sequently chief justice, died today. aged
70. In 1865 he moved to Portland,
Oregon, and held several public Offices.
He was appointed second comptroller
of the treasury in 1887 and had lived
here ever since that time. He was q
Scottish Rite Mason. He leaves q
widow and five sons, three Of whom
are prominent in Oregon politics.
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The Free Homestead BIN.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-The house
committee on public lands has decided
to favorably report to free homestead
bill proposed by Congressman Lacey,
which is practically revival of the
old homestead laws. Under this law
all settlers on Indian lands that are
opened to settlers may acquire title to
thesland without paying for it by
residence of FIVE years. If they desire
to secure their titles before the expira-
tion Of five years they will be able to
do so by paying the rates fixed by the
government.
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Three American citizens Arrested.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 21.-Senator
Call in the senate today read the fol-
lowing telegram from Key West: "Mar.
quis Roderidguez was taken from the
steamer Olivette last Wednesday.
Louis Samallien and his son were also
taken at Havana. All are American
citizens. Get them out of the grasp
Of the Spanish authorities.
Call offered resolution reciting the
arrests and directing the executive
authorities to ascertain If any Just
cause for the arrests existed, and If not
to demand immediate release OF the
prisoners.
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To Trail Criminals.

CHICAGO, Jan. 21.-Advices from
Crown Point, Ind, state that blood
hounds are to be used to trail crimi-
nals hiding in the Kankakee swamps.
Sheriff Hayes, of Lake county, has
purchased two full-blood dogs from
the Van Raub kennels. at Van Raub,
Texas. The desperrte characters that
the sheriff so much desires to get rid
Of camp In squads around the town in
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WILLING TO GO HALF WAY.
The Motion to Be Made In the Canadian
Parliament Soon.

~>4Ss@Se~
Parliament Soon.
OTTAWA, Jan. 2l.-Mr. Mcmillan
on Wednesday will move that where
as the United States government offers
to admit free of duty plows, harrows
and certain other agricultural imple-
ments from any country which admits
free of duty like articles imported from
the United States, it will be greatly
in the interest Of both the Canadian
agriculturalist and Canadian manufac-
turers that Canada should accept that
offer by admitting those articles into
Canada free of duty, and at the same
time so relieving the Canadian manu-
facturers of the taxation on the raw
material as to enable them to take ad-
vantage OF the markets Of the United
States.
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the president of the company at Paris
instructing him to cancel all engage
ments tor the Mediterranean trip for
the steamer La Touraine leaving New
York, February 4. The liability Of
the excurslonists to insult or attack by
the Turks determined the company to
abandon the proposed trip.
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Wheat Going mp.

TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 22.-The
price of No. club wheat jumped from
SEC to 5slc today. 1t was SIC few
days ago. Flour advanced 25c per bar
rel, and bran, shorts, oats and barley
show s1.00 a ton increase. The de-
mand for wheat for export is stronger.
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SHOULD ORGANIZE.

1t is evident from the moves that are
being made by the Republicans
throughout the state that that party
will exert every effort TO gain control
Of thS nam legislature. Should this
he acconplished. the shameful work Of
last session may be rs-enaotsd. The
senstorial contest viii again predomi-
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Youthful Footpads.

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 22.-Two boys,
Edward Farnsworth and "Babe" Mar.
tin, neither of whom is Is years old,
have branched out as full-fledged high
waymen. Not only are they charged
with several burglaries in the Mission
district, but today young Ernest Gar
riock swore out warrant charging
them with holding him up few even.
ings ago. The youthful footpads held
Garriock up with revolver, went
his pockets and took q silver
watch and some silver.
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LONDON, Jan. 2l.-A dispatch from
Coomassie, says King Prempeh OF
Ashantee, the queen mother, the two
ENJOYS recently in England. and sew
eral chiefs, have started under escort
for Cape Coast Castle, where they will
be held prisoners pending the settle
ment of the indemnity to be paid
Great Britain by Ashantee.
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In spite of Democratic administra.
tion wheat is fifty cents bushel once
again. 1t does not look possible that
thisncould occur with the Wilson bill
still in force.-East Oregonian.
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the summer and make nightly visits to
hen roosts and dwellings. When pur-
sued they retreat to the Kankakee
sWamps.
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Excur.ion peclared OH.

CHICAGO, Jan. 22.-Maurice Kos
manski, western passenger agent of
the Compagnie Reale Transatlantic
que, has received cablegram from
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-01-25

The Oregonian spoke advisedly
when it said: "Of course, there will
bs no extra session. The governor
and secretary of state are unwilling to
part with any portion of their large
unconstitutional emoluments. Be-
sides, through the near approach Of the
election, the legislature would be un.
der duress. It would be forced to
make the reductipn1 the people te-
mand. or no repuhlicans would be re-
turned TO the legislsture.
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DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair HIGHEST Award.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19

form and amid great applause proceeded
to put Mr.. Mckinley in nomination. He
said:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Con-
vention: 1t would be exceedingly difficult, if
not entirely impossible, to exaggerate the dis
agreeable situation of the last four years The
grand aggregate of the multitudinous bad re-
suits of Democratic National administration
may be summed up as one stupendous disaster.
I'll has been disaster, however not at least with
out at least this one redeeming feature-that il
has been fair; nobody has escaped. Loud
laughterl 1t has fallen equally and alike on
all sections of the country and on all classes of
our people. The just and the un just, the Re-
publican and the Democrat, the rich and the
poor. the high and the low, have suffered in
common.
Poverty and distress have overtaken busi-
ness; shrunken values have dissipated for
tunes; deficiencies of revenue have impover-
ished the Government, while bond issues and
bond syndicates have discredited and scandal
lied the country.
Over against that fearful penalty is, how
ever, to be set down one great, blessed, COM
pensatory result-it has des troyed the Demo
cratic party. [Cheers and laughter.l The
proud columns which swept the country in
1892 are broken and helpless in 1896. Their
boasted principles, when put to the test have
proven to be delusive faliacies and their great
leaders have degenerated into warning chief
tains of petty and irreconcilable factions.
Their approaching National Convention is
but an approaching National nightmare. No
man pretends to be able to predict any good
result to come from it And no man is seeking
the nomination Of that convention except
only the limited few who have advertised
their unftness for any kind of public trust
by proclaiming their Willingness to stand on
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19

critical questions OF the import of our products
into that country were imminent, Levi P.
Morton learned and practiced successfully the
diplomacy which was best for the prosperity
OF his country. None OF the mistakes which
have discredited our relations with foreign
nations during the past four years could occur
under his administration. He is the best type
of the American business man--that type which
is the ideal of the school, the academy and
the college, that type which the mother pre-
sents to her boy in the Western cabin and in
the Eastern tenement as she is marking out
for him a career by which he SHAH rise from
his poor surroundings to grasp the prizes
which come through American liberty and
American opportunity. You see the picture.
The New England Clergyman on his meager
salary, the large family of boys and girls about
him, the SONS going out with their common
school education, the boy becoming
the clerk in store, then granted an interest
in the business, then becoming its controlling
spirit then claiming the attention OF the great
house in the city and called to partnership
then himself the master of great affairs
Overwhel1le by the incalculable conditions
of civil war; bat with undaunted energy and
foresight, he ped again the elements of
escape out of bankruptcy and of success, and
with the return of prosperity he paid to the
creditors who had compromised his indebted
ness every dollar, principal and interest, of
what he owed them. The best type of a.
successful business man, he turns to politics,
to be useful member of Congress; to diplo-
macy, to be a successful Minister abroad; to
the executive and administrative branches of
government, to be the most popular Vice.
President and the presiding officer of that
most august body-the Senate OF the United
States.
Our present deplorable industrial and fnan-
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19
TnURsToN's sEcoNDING SPEECH

Senator Thurston of Nebraska was recog-
nized by Temporary Chairman Hepburn
and seconded the nomination of McKin-
ley. He said:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Con-
vention: This is the year of the people. They
are conscious of their power; they are tena-
cious of their rights; they are supreme in this
convention; they are certain of victory now
and in November.
They have framed the issue of this cam
paign. What is it? Money? Yes, moneyl
Not that which is coined for the mine-owner
at the mint or clipped by the coupon-eutter
from the bond, but that which is created by
American muscle on the farms and in the fac
tories The Western mountains clamor for
silver and the Eastern seashore cries for gold.
but the millions ask for work-an Opportunity
to labor and to live.
The prosperity of q nation is in the en-
ployment of its people, and, thank God, the
electors of the United States know this
great economic truth at last. The Repub-
lican party does not stand for Nevada or
New York alone, but for both; not for one
State, but for all. Its platform is as broad
as the land, as National as the flag. Repubf-
cans are definitely committed to sound cur
rency, but they believe that in government
of the people the welfare of men is paramount
to the interests of money. Their shibboleth
for this campaign is Protection" From the
vantage ground of their own selection they
cannot be stampeded by Wall street panics or
free coinage cyclones. Reports of interna-
tional complications and rumors OF war. pass
them lightly by; they know that the real
enemy of American prosperity is free trade,
and the best coast defense is q protective
tariff. They do not fear the uarlike prepara-
tions Of Europe, but they do fear its cheap
manufactures. Their real danger is not from