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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
CASSALA ATTACKED.
The Italian Carr son Besieged by Der
vishers.

The italian Carr son Besieged by Der
vishers
ROME. April IA dispatch from
Massowah today announces that ad-
vises had b zen received that the der
wishes has fired upon the outer works
of Cassala with two cannons March 25.
The Italians replied without results.
Saturday Major Hidalgo, in COM
mand of Italian forces at Cassala, sent
the following dispatch:
"Since 6 we have been fighting
against masses of the enemy, who Lave
taken up position on Mount Macran.
Up to now we have had one man
killed and four wounded"
Colonel Stevani, who is fastening to
the relief of Cassala with troops, sent
institutions to Major Hidalgo not to
engage the enemy in battle until the
arrival of reinforcements.
Advices received from the west
state that the dervishes have estab-
lished vast camp at Tucruf, where
tn Y are digging wells. King Meme
k is returning southwark. 1t is be-
lieved this movement is owing to the
lack of provisions.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
WHAT Is RECIPROCITY?

1t. does not particularly matter by
whom the reciprocity policy was orig
mated. The fact of principal impor.
tance is that large majority OF
American people are in favor of its
| restoration, and that this is sufficient
of itself to insure the defeat of the
democratic party next fall.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
If the above statement OF this most
persistent advocate of protection is
true, large majority Of the American
people are absolute free traders. for
reciprocity is nothing short OF free
trade on a limited scale, without
extending to the consumer the benefits
of low prices arising from competition.
Whenever reciprocal relations were
established between the United States
and any other government, it was an
agreement that the products OF that
country should be admitted into our
ports free of duty; it was free trade,
pure and simple, with that particular
government, nothing less. And it
was free trade of the most vicious
and unjust nature, for it enabled the
importer from that particular country
all the advantages of importing free of
duty, while it threw around him all
the benefits of protected market.
1t is argued for reciprocity that it
opened the markets of the world to
our products, but if carried to any ex-
tent it would result in tho opening of
our ports to the products of the world,
which is nothing but free trade, taken
in broken doses, hence the ultimate
of reciprocity is absolute free trade
with all nations. 1t is a convenient
hobby for campaign purposes, and the
desire of majority of the American
people for it may, IS the Globe-Demo-
crat says, result in the defeat of the
democratic party next fall, butt if it
does, it will be because the American
people are free traders. Protection
lists who are honest in their convic-
tions, who want protection for any
other means than to fill the pockets of
q favored few that will be able to take
advantage of the workings of recip-
rocity in its incipiency, before it be-
comes a universal thing, will never
fault the democratic party, for the part
it has taken with reference to the recip-
rocal laws.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
BUSINESS IMPROVING.

Despite the efforts Of calamity howl
ers to retard business and prolong the
sspanic" until after the November cleo
tion, business is improving from Maine
to California and from Washington to
Florida, and occasionally paper,
even of the most pronounced calamity
bowling proclivities,is forced to ac-
knowledge this fact. The st. Louis
Globe Democrat, which has hitherto
declared that the country could not
prosper under democratic administra-
ton, and would never thrive until the
republicans were re-in,talled in every
branch of government, in its issue of
J. March "a, said:
ga steady Improvement in treasury
conditions is kept up. Two weeks ago
yesterday the gold reserve was Sl25.-
$4,000, one week ago yesterday it was
S126, ,946, 900, and yesterday it was about
$128, 1000, 600. The small margin, about
$780, 200, of shortage in governmental
income as compared with outgo in
February has led to general opinion
that there will be slight surplus in
March, as well as in every month OF
the fiscal year hereafter except April.
Imports of gold thus far since January
/ have exceeded exports $4,0OO,O0O,
while in the corresponding time in
every other year since 1880 the pre-
ponderence has been on the other side.
About $4,000, 900 of the Sill 600, 900
principal and interest which the re-
cent s1OO, 600, 900 4-per-cent bond sale
yielded is still to be paid, which will
doubtless send the reserve up to Sl32,-
co., 600 or S133, ,OO0, 900, level which
has not been reached since 1891.
ga further decline has been made in
pig iron production, the Iron Ages
figures for March being weekly out
put at that time of 189, ,5S3 tons. No
vember 1, 1895, the high-water mark,
217, ,3O6 tons week, was touched, and
the decline has been under way ever
since. However, the present output is |
greater than that of any time in the
past except for the period beginning |
with last October. Railroad earnings
are still growing. Bradstreet's figures
for 126 roads and three-fourths of the
mileage of the country for February
showing 1871 per cent gain over the
same month in 1895, which, however,
was one day shorter than the month
this year. This is the largest monthly
gain reported in three years except in
July, 1895. Bank clearances are not
quite as favorable relatively, but these,
too, are encouraging. The clearances
Of the eighty or ninety cities of the
country which make their reports pub
lie were "a per cent greater In the
past six days than In the same time in
1895, and touched q level not reached
1T this time Of the year before since
1893, just before the panic began
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
SILVER AND PROTECTION.

The leading manufacturers of Penn
sylvania, New York and the New Eng
land states, representing q combined
capital of $500, ,000, 900, and 2l7 different
manufacturing concerns, recently held
conference at Washington with the
free coinage silver republican senator's.
The manufactures represented are
those which are affected by high pro-
tective duties, and the object of the
conference was to consolidate the in
terests of the manufacturers with those
of the silver miners of the west. At
this conference the manufacturers con-
vinced the silver senators that their in
terests were identical; that high tariffs
and the free coinage of silver went
hand in hand. They we're unanimous
in declaring that no amount of protec-
tion would enable them to compete
with the manufacturers of the Orient
If this country was kept on single
ers pledged themselves to begin an ac-
tive agitation in favor of the unlimited
coinage of silver in all industrial CEN
ters of the eastern states, and to en-
deavor to compel the republican ma
tional convention to declare in favor of
the unlimited coinage of silver. In
fact, a compact was made between the
manufacturers and silverites whereby
their interests were to be pooled, and
q combined fight to be made for free
coinage and increased duties.
This combination, though compare
lively innocent, has meaning that is
significant. It means that the manu-
facturers of the east, in their effort to
retain the grasp they hold upon the
American consumer, from the workings
of discriminating tariff, are willing
to debase our currency by pandering to
the influence which the silver senators
are able to WELD. Further it shows
that high protection and the free coin
age of silver are twin issues; that q !
system which raises the price of manu-
factured articles can be applied in the |
same manner to the output of the sill
yer mines. More than this, it shows
that concentrated wealth is to be used
to influence legislation in two direc-
tions-for an increase of tariff duties
and the free coinage of silver-both of |
which we believe are in opposition to
the interest of the masses.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
Pinar Del Rio Burned

HAVANA, April 2.-The capture of
Pinar del Rio and Santa Clara by the
insurgents, who occupied them several
hours and left them in flames, is a Sc
we're blow to the Spanish armies. Cen
eral Pando and General Juarez Valdez,
the military governors of the destroyed
cities, have been ordered to return to
Spain by General Weyfer. The cap
tain-general is badly worried over the
situation He Thought he had Pinar
del Rio so strongly guarded that il was
absolutely impossible for Maceo's
forces to break in. But in the middle
of the night Of March 25 they came
and literally laid the town in ashes.
OF several hundred residences, not
more than couple of dozen were left
unipiured.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
Nicafagua Canal Engineering.

WASHINGTON, April 2.-Some fea.
lures of the engineering work upon the
Nicaragua canal were discussed before
the house committee on commerce,
from the standpoint of engineers ex-
perienced in large enterprises Mr..
Lincoln w. Bates, of Chicago, des.
cribed machines and operations on the
Chicago drainage canal, and asserted
that by the same machinery and
method work on the Nicaragua canal
would be done for less than the COM
pany's estimates. The construction Of
the canal, he said, would inaugurate
new era for the Pacific coast and
greatly increase the earnings of the
railways in that section.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
A Strange story.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April q
William H. Hale, who disappeared
March 8 at Syracuse, N. Y, has
turned up in this city with a strange
story. He claims he was slugged in
the Central railroad yards at Syracuse,
bound hand and foot, robbed of S240,
and thrown into a box car. For three
days and nights he lay without food or
water. His hands grew thin and he
slipped the ropes off, managed to open
the car door, and, when the train
slowed up, jumped out. He called at u
farmhouse and learned he was near St.
Cloud, MINI. For three weeks he was
cared for by the farmers family, then,
having regained his strength, he
walked 25 miles to point where he
sold his macintosh and obtained
money to pay his passage to this city.
He is still very weak.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
SPANISH B,RBARIrY
Aroused Feeling of Horror at Washing

Aroused Feeling OF Horror ut Washing
ton.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-The mes
sage from Havana giving the details OF
the killing of five prisoners by the
garrote raised cry of horror in WASH
ington. Senor Dupuy de LONE, the
Spanish mini ter, admitted that the
men had been killed, but declared that
the form of punishment was the one
prescribed by Spanish law. He said
the men were negroes, and had been
guilty of a. most atrocious crime in
hanging merchant in Guira Melena
and in killing small boy at the same
place. He said the details of the exc
cution had been exaggerated.
The reports to the Cubans in Wash
ington declare that the horrible execu-
ton OF the five men at Hayana is but
a sample of the atrocious cruelties of
General Weyler in Cuba.
They declare they have information
Indicating that such cruelties are
practiced nearly every day in Cuba, !
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
INC0NSLs7'ENT..

The republican convention of Una.
tilla county made the following strong
and. commendable declarations for
economy:
"We pledge our legislative delega.
tion to work and vote in the interest
of retrenchment in the matter. of pub,
lie expenditures in order that taxes
may be reduced to the lowest possible
limit.
Estate officers should be put on sal
aries, and all fees be paid into the
general fund; all unnecessary Offices
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
Monthly Treasur, Statement.

WASHINGTON. March 3l.-The forth
coming monthly treasury statement
will show the receipts during the
month to have been S26,04l.149. as
follows: Customs. 1884, ,2l5; internal
revenue. 1,546, ,264; miscellaneous,
S1.l60,66S.
For the nine months of the fiscal
year the receipts were substantially as
follows; Customs. 1926. 6.o66, ,299: inter-
nal revenue. SI10.404. 143; miscellan-
eous, $l3,239, 1856; making total of
$3.50. .609.84 The deficit of the pres.
ent month will be about 81 300. 900, and
for the nine months. Sl8,8l9, ,7O8.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
Lahor,s War ON Labor

PRAGUE. March 3l.-Strikers at
tackled the weavers who had resumed
work last evening, and a serious con-
fi:t took place. Finally the police
were compelled to charge with drawn
words and several persons were
wounded.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
BLEW HIS BRAINS OUT.
Suicide of H. c. Topping. an Astoria Fu

Suicide of III. c. Topping. an Astoria Fur
niture-Dealer.
ASTORIA. April III e. Topping,
a furniture-dealer of this city, COM
mitted suicide by blowing his brains
out at 9;3O o'clock this evening.
Topping only returned day or two
ago from California, where he had
taken his wife for the benefit of her
health. 1t could not be ascertaiEed
definitely what was the immediate
cause OF the rash act, but il is believed
that it was chiefly due to financial DIFF
iculties. He was treasurer Of the
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
A New Station Near Pullman.

Moscow, Idaho, April 1.-The O..
r. & N. Co. is to build sliding be-
tween Moscow and Pullman, 2l miles
east of Pullman. A large amount of
wheat will be tributary to the new
station.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04

and { ut they are so horrible as 20 ! e
beyond comprehension.
Senor lues sdd, VAC represents the
Cuban part in Washingt n. said ch
Incidents as the one report today
only gave vague idea of the r,ign of
terror in tae island.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04

LEWISTON, Idaho. April 1.-The
steamer Lorglei, recently built to
carry supplies to mines on the Clear
water river, failed to stem the rapids
of that river. and is therefore un-
available for the purpose for which she
h,,ilt
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
Snow in Colorado.

DENVER, Colo, March 3l.-Over six
inches of snow fell throughout the
greater part of Colorado last night.
The storm continued today with in
creasing severity.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04

NEW YORK March 3l.-A Herald dis
patch from Rome says:
The Negus Menelek has ordered the
massacre of a number of prisoners and
sick persons who have fallen fnto, the
hands of his forces during the present
campaign in Abyssinia.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
Killed by Frost.

GEORGETOWN, Tex, March 31.-It
is now known that one-half of the
peach crop has been killed by frost.
Corn has all been planted in this Sec
tion, but as yet no cotton. although the
ground is prepared for it. Owing to
the late season, caused by cold winter,
the acreage will not be as large as last
uoar
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
The Spanish Press.

NEW YORK, April IA. Herald
special from Madrid says:
A violent attack on Senator Sher.
mans character, printed in the Impair
cial, has been quoted in all the papers,
which still teem with big cartoons.
La Correspondents prints picture
with this caption: "First Victory for
Maceo."
It shows a negro riding in a rig
labeled "Senat. and waving dec
liration of belligerency.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
Romeo Group of Mines Sold.

BAKER CITY, Or, April 1.-The
Romeo group of mines was sold to To-
cal capitalists. The consideration
was S10,OOO.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
Drawn From rhe rreasurv.

WASHINGTON. April 2.-The treas
ury today lost S248, 400 in gold coin and
S2O,9OO in bars, leaving the true
amount of the gold reserve S128, 1O5,-
QOi
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
Fire at Grants Pass.

GRANTS PASS, Or. March 31-The
residence of Benjamin Dimmick, near
the Methodist church, was discovered
on fire shortly after noon today, and
despite stubborn fight by the fire
department. was total loss. The
furniture was nearly all saved. The
origin of the fire is unknown. The
loss is covered by insurance, $500 On
house and contents.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
Grows Darker Every Day.

CAPE Town, March 3l.-It is diff
cult to obtain accurate information re-
garding the progress of rebellion of
the natives in Matabeleland. The au-
thorities are Withholding all informa-
tion possible. as it would be made use
of by The enemies of British rulership
in Africa. 1t is not denied, however.
that the situation becomes darker
every day, and a very strong force will
be necessary to restore order.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
Silver in a Chicago Well.

WEST CHICAGO, Ill. March 81
Among the derbis taken from the
artesian we'll this morning Alderman
Cary found fine specimen of silver
ore. 1t was given an acid test by
Clyde Smiley, who thinks it genuine.
If it had been paraette the acid would
have turned it brown. The find is
causing no little excitement, and the
wells output will be closely watched.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
The Rhode Island Vote.

PROVIDENCE, April 2.-The total
vote for each candidate for governor
is as follows:
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-04
FOR SALE T

BLAKELEY & HoUGHToN
THE pALLEs, OREGON.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-30
AUDUBON VS., COON RAPIDS.

Tuesday, July 28th, 1896, will, among
Audubon's base ball enthusiasts, (and
who does not enthuse -now,) go down
to history surrounded with a beautiful
golden trimming which free and I'M
limited coinage of silver at any ratio
will not tarnlsh. 1t was that day the
muchly postponed Coon Rapids, Audu-
bon ball game was played. The home
team have twice been defeated by the
club Bro. Rickerson is proud to
manage, and they went into the game
with determination to win from the
Coontown boys or quit the country.
That they did win by score of to
was due to the fact that each man put
up good strong game in the field, the
few errors made by the home team
were not costly, two of them the con-
tinuation of the play resulting in put
outs. Audubon was also able to get
their hits punched, which with cou-
pie of errors on the part of Coon Rap
ids gave them their scores.
The game was called at 2:30 with
Coon Rapids at the bat-they failed to
score. The first two men up for Au-
dubon were easy outs, then Franklin
hit for two bases and scored on hits by
succeeding batters. Coon Rapids fail
ed to get a man around in the second,
while Audubon touched up Morrison
for number of hits and when the
mix.up was over had four runs added
to their total. Coon Rapids made one
run in the third, two in the fourth and
one in the seventh, making total of
four, where they remained, not being
able to score in the last two innings.
Audubon made their sixth and last
run in the fourth inning, and although
they got men on bases after that they
could not get the necessary hits to
develop runs. Coon Rapids made u
change in catchers in the sixth inning
when Rathman, of Perry, who had
just got to town "cross-lots", went be
mind the bat, Vanderloo going to right
field and Shrader to the bench.
Here's the way it happened.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-30
WEATHER REPORT.
CENTRAL STATION,

Des Moines, Iowa, July 20, 1895. !
The week ending Monday, the 9th,
was unusually cool from the 22d to
the Goth, and the amount of rainfall
probably exceeded the aggregate re-
ceived during the week of the current
season. The special corn and wheat
stations report the following amounts:
Marshalltown, 5.O7 inches; Hampton,
1872; Clinton, AL; Charles City, 1.59;
Fairfield, 2.53. Maquoketa, 1858; Iowa
City, 2.69; Forest City, 40; Waterloo,
446; Ogden, 4.08; Cedar Rapids, $40;
Osceola; 4.2l; CenterVille, 1856; Des
Moines, 3.G7. Numerous other stations
give similar reports.
This has made very unfavorable
conditions for harvesting and thresh-
ing, and grain in shock has suffered
material injury. Oats received the
greater damage, reducing still lower
the condition of this unfortunate crop.
A short period of dry weather is now
much to be desired to give opportunity
to save the unstacked grain.
Corn is generally reported in good
condition, and there is ample storage
of moisture in the soil to develop and
ripen the early and late planted fields
The weather has been very favorable
for late potatoes and pasturage and all
immature vegetation:
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-30
a RUSS . q
Cheap Goods and Low Prices

two entirely different things Cheap goods though
bought cheap not cheap. Low prices cheap
goods may not be low price Are you able to judge
just how low price should be cheap article? Do
you know when you look at it just where and how
much it is cheapened? Isn't it like trusting a man
you know will steal little9 It's just the same in
buying cheap goods. For all you may know or will
be able to tell all the goodness may be stolen. We
have just little of this class of goods possible
and that little is growing smaller every year. We
don't claim that we haven't any shoddy or trash in
our store and in the next breath quote price on
some of that class of goods When it is trash tell
you it is You will know just what you buying
There are two things would like to impress on
your mind. One is, that selling goods cheaper
than any store in Audubon county The other u.s.
that they goods. Not goods traded for with
poor real estate. We not trying to unload old
stock of goods on the public Nor do attempt to
make you believe selling goods cheap by offer
ing four five articles at less than cost with the in
tention of getting it back on the next thing SELL
We sell all goods at as low price they be
sold for 1t makes but little difference to most people
whether they buy sc hose vests for &c. But it
does make considerable difference to them whether
they charged s1oo for 75c dress goods 5c for
1Oc lace. Some people might be made to believe that
selling goods very cheap, by offering
few items at extremely low price, but most people
ION to" that sort of thing. After all it is only
straightforward honest business that will win in the
end. That's what we believe and believing it. we
practice it. Please don't forget that we have made
great reductions in the price all summer goods and
that they e0orM coming after.