The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-11

tional man, and the Mexicans are for
tunate in having him at the head Of
leir government.
The Americans are carrying off all
the honors in the Gree an contests: but
it should be remembered that the Gre.
clans of today are not the Grecians of
the Olympian period.
Brave Astorians. After giving
Hammond hundreds of thousands of
dollars to get the road there they are
now raising another $1,000 in cash to
get the right depot site.
Brick" Pomeroy, the noted printer,
editor and mining manipulation, is said
to be dying of dropsy. Brick" made
himself famous during the war, and
made himself infamous in his Colorado
mining schemes after the war.
If half the stories of torturers and
butcheries of Cubans by the Spanish
are true this country should not stop
at passing resolutions but should send
a fleet of warships big enough to liber-
ate Cuba, and put a stop to such out
rages upon civilization under our very
noses.
| The bell companv's annual dividend
of over S3,000000 is considerably
| higher than the reported figure of its
| gross operating expenses. 1t can
| we'll afford to reduce its rates. but it
| finds it more economical to water its
capital stock to the extent of two
| millions, or so.
Secretary Carlisle very properly de-
clines to become an active candidate
for heepresidential nomination before
the Chicago convention. He believes
the welfare of the party is to be con-
sidered above the interest of any can
didate, and if the nomination comes to
him it will not be at his solicitation.
Carlisle is one of the few public men
of today who believe in the principle
of the Office hunting the man.
The infamy of a young man whose
ISLANDERS drove a pure girl to suicide at
Victor, Montana. is difficult to believe,
but the citizens of the place are not to
be blamed for taking him out and Civ
ing him a hundred lashes. The law
furnishes no adequate punishment for
a man who maligns respectable
woman's reputation. and in this case
he would 1ave probably received no
more than few months imprison-
ment. Had the Victor people added a
good coat of tar and feathers to the
whipping they would have done well.
The president of one of the large ex-
press companies has lately had his
salary raised from 100000 to $4,000
year. He is celebrating his good for
tune by ordering that hereafter en-
ployes must not be paid, as heretofore |
during their weeks vacation in the |
summer. Extreme rules have also |
been made In regard to docking for |
trifing losses of time. But as was
said long ago, unto him that hath shall !
be given, and from him that hath not /
shall be taken away even that which |
he has.
Figures gathered by the agricultural I
department show that the number of
clined within two years from 16.2O6.-
802 to l5. .124O57 while their value per
head has fallen from S6l to S52. Since
1898 the loss on the value of horses in !
tb;o oouptpu QIQ0 0Qu 0Qn /
AS the most of this has been bourn by
farmers, perhaps they can get even by |
applying electricity to agricultural
work.
Ex-Governor Pennoyer heads the
ticket of the Portland taxpayers league
as the nominee for mayor, and since
Portland needs just such a mayor as
Pennoyer will be, there is strong prob
ability that he will be elected. With
him as chief executive of the city /
there would be no possibility of such
corruption and jobbery as have dis
graced Mayor Franks administration.
Ring rule and bossism will be doomed
the day the ex-governor takes his
seat as mayor.
Scientific investigation and expert
ment continues to bring out new and |
wonderful things. Some of the most
recent of these, as the cathode ray ex-
hibits, has been in the line of photo
graphy. Another one, in small way.
is given publicity lately to the eff
feet that French photographer has
secured beautiful views of the bottom
of the Mediterranean sea by the use of
an alcohol lamp so constructed that
magnesium could be thrown into the
flame while the lamp is submerged at
the bottom of the sea. oxygen being
carried down in the apparatus to pro-
mote combustion.
Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, de-
sires the democratic party to "com-
promise" on the silver question in
order to carry the presidential election.
He proposes that this country give
notice that after three years it will re-
open it's mints to the free and un-
limited coinage of silver and he de- T
clares that if this notice was given !
the European nations would tumble
,ver each other in their efforts to en- Y
er into an international agreement. 4
He advises the democracy to make y
his original proposition their doctrine d
n the coming campaign by making f
platform out of it at the Chicago con-
vention.
The battleship Oregon has been
and is now ready for her tt
rial trip. 1t is claimed that she is e
he best fighting ship afoat. She is
he first vessel to be built and COM &
leted since the Japan-China var, fl
therefore all the defects of the older W
hips, as developed by that struggle, p,
ave been remedied in the Oregon. b,
n that war it is said more lives were cl
,st due to slivers set flying by shot bl
nd shell from the inside woodwork, ca
ian by the wicked projectiles them th
lives. In the Oregon the use of to
ood for the inside finishing has been pl
,placed by metal. All the partitions ba
e of sheet stell covered with cork. in
Mich dispels the chilly appearance of ta
le metal The date of tn e trial trim