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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-07-31
THE CANADIAN HOG.

The discovery OF rich gold mines on
the Clondyke has been the agency of
bringing out the avaricious trait that
lu"ks behind the Canadian govern
meut. 1t has brought forth an order
that will retard development Of mines
throughout the dominion, and will re-
suit in increasing the hardshipps to be
endured by miners and prospectors,
not only at Clondyke but in all parts
of the Canadian territory.
The cabinet at Ottawa has decided
to impost royalty on all placer dig
gings on the Yukon in addition to Sl5
registration fee aad SlON annual as
sessment. The royalty will be 10 per
cent each on claims on which there is
an output of $500 or less monthly, and
20 per cent on every claim producing
above that amount yearly. Besides
this royalty, it has been decided in re-
gard to all future claims staked ont on
other streams or rivers, that every al
ternate claim should be the property
of the government, and should be re-
served for public purposes and sold or
worked by the government for the
benefit of the revenue of the dominion.
Such ruling as this cannot but re-
tard development Of the mineral
wealth of the dominion, for prospectors
will not care to hazard the dangers of
life in the frigid north in order to dis
cover precious metals and then be taxed
VIRTUALLY tip ed for making discoveries.
In making this ruling the Canadian
government has displayed its hogish-
ness, and is in striking contrast with
the liberality shown by the American
I republic Here the alien or the citi-
zen may delve into the bowels of the
earth discover aud operate mines, and
whatever he finds is his own, all that is
changed by the government is min.
mum price for the ground and fee for
registration. But the Canadian hog
not only taxes the miner for the privi-
lege of working. but reserves one-half
oil the mines discovered for the special
benefit of the government.
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BY RIGHT OF DISCOVERY.
United States Has Valid Claim Upon
PALMYRA Island


New YORK, July pa Herald spec
ial from Washington says:
In support of Lbeir-claim to Palmyra
island, which has heen taken posses.
sion of by the British government, the
London authorities refer to the fact
that tie British flag was hoisted oyer
this territory in 1889, Even if the Of
fetal records of the Hawaiian govern.
mont fail to show the title of the Dole
regime to the island, the United States
is in position to raise the claim that
the island belongs to this government
by virtue of discovery by an American
citizen. This fact is recognized by the
British authorities in en- official publi-
cation which contains reference to
its discovery and the action of the
British in placing their flag over it.
disqualification is the official direc-
tions of the photographic office OF
Great Britain issued by the admiralty.
In regard to Palmyra island, the vol
ume states:
palmyra was discovered by Captain
Sa ule. of the American ship Palmyra,
in 1902, and was formally annexed TO
Great Britain by Commander Mich
'olas, of H M S. Cormorant, May Is,
1889. There were no inhabitants on
the island at the time of its annex
alton, although Messrs, Henderson and
McFarlane, OF New Zealand, contem-
plated cultivating it,"
A high official of the state depart
ment said last night that an investi
cation regarding the rights of Hawaii
and Great Britain to Palmyra island
is now being made.
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AN EX-AUDITOR SHORY
Another Washington Official
is a Defaulter.
GREAT BRiTAiN'S WAY
She Would Not Farley Long With
Japan Over Hawaii But Would
Annex the Islands.
More Wealth in dyke-Rich Quartz
Discovered in the Camp-A Tacoma
Police suicides-stiII Miners
Strike.

PORT TOWNSEND. Wash, July 81
Sheriff W. j. Dyke, CT Clallam county,
was passenger on the steamer today
from Port Angeles to Seattle with a
warrant for the arrest Of John W.
Troy, late auditor of Clallam county.
The commissioners have just dis
covered that Troy is short in his ac-
counts with the county. Already
duplicated warrents, amounting to
Sl4G0 have been discovered and the in
vestigation has only begun. 1t is
thought the shortage will reach into
the thousands.
Troy left Port Angeles last Wednes-
day ana it is thought he has gone or is
preparing to go to the Clondyke. He
is known to have purchased miners
outfit in Seattle four days ago.
Troy's predecessor in Office, NJ. J.
Clump, was also several thousand
dollars short in his accounts with the
county aud is now serving an eight
year term in the state penitentiary.
p ClumD was a republican and Troy a
democrat. The latter was raised in
Clallam county and belongs to one OF
the most respectable pioneer families
of the Puget Sound country.
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a BILL-RAIsER AT WORK.
Silver Certificares Changed From Two t
Five DOIIars

Silver Certifcares Changed From Two to
Five Dollars
NEW YORK, July 28.-The subtreas-
ury officers have noticed recently the
presence of number of finely executed
silver certificates of the new issue
which have been clearly raised from
the denomination of 50 to So. Two of
these bills found their way to the SUBJ
treasury from banks yesterday and
they have been preceded by numerous
others. all apparently the work of the
same artist.
In raising the bills the person who
does the work makes no attempt to
change the groups of the vignettes. All
that is done is to erase the figures and
words 1.-TWO" and substitute therefor
the words and figures five" Upon
presentation the bills are redeemed at
81 each. The secret service men are
working to detect the artistic counter.
feitar
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two weeks in the year and become
a dyspeptic invalid before your days
are half numbered?"
There is smaller excuse by reason of
there being less of necessity for con-
tinuous labor than thirty years ago.
and especially is this true of people
who live in this country. Those who
take a regular summer vacation will
acquire just as much in the end and
will have from ten to twenty years
longer time in which to accumulate
than those who work all the time.
The mountain resorts and places for
enjoyable summer outing are the
crowning glory of this country. They
are easily accessible and afford every.
thing that could be desired for restful
pleasure and renewal of physical
strength and health.
Then there is something more than
physical comfort to be found in the
mountain woods and streams. There
is that feeling that the Director OF
natures bounties has provided these
places as playground for weary
mankind that it lis part OF the Divine
economy to accept and utilize these
temples of rest for the purpose for
which they were intended.-Ex.
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TARIFF POINTS.

An order has been received at Pitts
burg for $1,000, COO worth of steel pipe,
for Melbourne. OF course, there is
but one reason why this order was
placed with American manufacturers
rather than with British. The Ameri-
cans offered the better bargain.-Or-
egonian.
Sill, we suppose, the Oregonian
will contend that protective tariff is
needed to protect American steel
manufacturers against foreign compe-
tition.
D. Fl. Bibb, of D. H. Bibb Lumber
Company, returned to the city from
Portland, Oregon, on the 29th ult..
after an absence of two weeks, during
which time he closed a contract with
the imperial government of China for
100000 feet of railway ties and
100000 feet Of bridge stringers to
be used in the construction of rail-
road through the province of Manch-
urfa, China, the grading of which has
been completed. The contract involves
sum In the neighborhood of S25. 1000.
There was battle royal in the bidding
between the mills of British Colum 5ia
and the American mills, but one of the
latter carried off the prize.-Marshfield
News.
Here we are getting lumber con.
tracts in the face of world wide COM
petition in foreign countries, and yet
lumbermen say that they must have
''protectiop," or British Columbia
competition will drive them out of
business.
W. S. Byers has just entered into
contract to deliver $4,000 barrels of.
flour for shipment to Japan. He had
the option of furnishing $4,000 barrels
more. but as it was required earlier
than his mill could turn it out he had
to refuse the further order.-Pendle-
ton Tribune.
Another example of the growth of
our foreig trade under the despised
Wilson tariff law. denounced by our
high protective friends as free trade
ure.-Roseberg Review.
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TO PROTECT THE CARGO.
Steamer Portland to be conveyed Out of
Behrlng Sea.

WASHINGTON, July 29.-The steamer
Portland, which is expected to leave
st. Michaels about September l5, will
it is said, have on board gold from the
Alaskan gold fields valued at S2,G00,'
600.
P.B. Weare, of Chicago, president
of the North American Transportation
g. Trading Company, has advised the
treasury department that he fears an
attempt will be made by pirates to cap
ture this cargo and has asked that the
government detail q revenue cutter to
convey the Port tland out of Dehring
sea. This request has been granted.
The revenue cutter Bear and possibly
one or two Others will convoy the
Portland.
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THE TROOPS WILL WAIT.
Proposed Alaskan Expedition Has Be.
Temporarily Abandoned

Proposed Alaskan Expedition Has Been
Temporarily Abandoned.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 28.-Colonel
Randall, of the Eighth infantry, re-
ceived telegram from Washington
this morning stating that the expedi-
tion to Alaska has been temporarily
abandoned 1t has been discovered
that many supplies necessary for such
an undertaking as the one proposed
are not on hand and much time and
expense would be necessitated to send
the soldiers to country where the
preservation of life depends on perfect
equipment.
The part of Alaska mapped out to be
visited is said to be rapidly freezing up,
and after serious consideration of all
these facts the trip has been pro-
ncunced injudicious at this time and
postponed probably until spring.
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Is face TO face with a situation which
promises magnificent returns for his
investment and industry. With agri-
culture thus leading instead OF follow
ing the great business revival now in
progress, the return of prosperity
must necessarily be swift, general
and permanent. For when agri-
culture flourishes, the whole country
will flourish with it,
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TROUBLE IS EXPECTED
Armed Strikers Surrounding
Pennsylvania Mines.
1T BELONGT ITO AMERICA
The Palmyra Island Which England
Recently Seized is American Ter
ritory by Right of Dis
covery.
A Treasure Ship With 81, 100000 of Aias-
kan Gold Will be Guarded by Rev.
enue Cutters-LocomotiYes
Shipped to Japan.
1T BELONGTTO AMERICA

PITTsBURG, July 29.-At 2 o'cloch
this morning Sheriff Harry Lowrey
was called from his bed and asked tc
send deputies to the mines of the New
York & Cleveland Gas Coal Company
The request came from w. p. De
Armitt.
Oak Hill was invaded at midnight by
a small army of miners from the Rob
bins mines at Wilcox. They marched
into the village, 450 strong, to the tune
of drum and fife. Most of them were
armed with reyolvers or clubs. They
said that at least as many more OF the
Finleyville, Gastonville and other
mines in the Wheeling district were
on their way to Oak Hill and would
arrive soon.
The little town is in great state of
excitement. Only a few deputies,
about eight or ten, were on hand, but
when the miners arrived Superinuend-
ent Thomas De Armitt telephoned at
once to A. P. De Armitt at Allegheny
to send more.
The Robbins men say that the De
Armitt men will be forced to 60 out.
They are determined, but no violence
is looked for yet.
1t is estimated that by daylight there
were several thousand miners en-
camped upon the hills surrounding the
property of the New York s. Cleveland
Gas Company. They came from every
direction, headed by a brass band.
Nearly all of them carried heavy walk
ing-sticks and some we're armed. There
were no scenes of violence, however,
and no indications of drinking. At
about o'clock 100 strikers assembled
at Turtle Creek and headed by three
brass bands, with flags and banners
flying. marched by the houses occupied
by De Armitt's miners. The strikers
hooted and yelled and then marched
to the mines, where they planted them
selves before the pits, thus compelling
De Armitt's men to run the gauntlet
to work.
A short time later Sheriff Lowry,
who had been asked for assistance, ar
rived from Pittsburg with 80 deputies
armed with Winchesters. The strikers
quietly withdrew and the new deputies
were placed on guard.
When the mass meeting was called
to order at 10 o'clock this morning
there were 5000 striking miners in the
vicinity, and before it was well under
way there were 5000 people in the
vicinity of the schoolhouse. At about
9:3O o'clock $50 miners from the Sandy
Creek mines marched to the meeting |
and quite large number came from
Turtle Creek. The meeting is without
doubt the largest held during a strike |
iu Western Pennsylvania, and the
leaders are hopeful of its effects upon
,he men.
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To Prison For Life,

NEW YORK. July 2S.-A dispatch to
the Herald from Key West says: Man
uel Fernandez, the young American
who was tried by court-martial in Ha-
vana, charged with bearing arms
against the Spanish government and
adjudged gully, has been sentenced
by the tribunal to Imprisonment for
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THE WAY POINTED OUT.
America Should Follow Engiand's PlaI
in Dealing With Interiors

America Should Follow Engiand's Plan
in Dealing With Interiors.
NEW YORK, July 27.-The Herald s
European edition Publishes the follow
ing editorial under the heading,
"What's Japan Got to Say About 1t,
Anyhow"
"We publish a special dispatch con-
firming one printed in the Temps rela-
tive to the protest of Japan against the
annexation of Hawaii by the United
States. We do not think that the
United States can even entertain the
protest concerning its policy from any
non-Anglo-Saxon race pure and simple,
and has, for the last 200 years, gov
erned the world by it's common sence,
force and civiliziEg institutions, and
today $4,000, 600 of the Anglo-Saxou
race across the water find themselves
confronted with one OF those Mongo-
lian, Indian and Australian continents.
We know what England would do un-
der the circumstances, and we trust
the Anglo-Saxon United States will do
the same.
''P. S. A few American warships in
Japanese waters wonld do no harm"
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LocumotiYes For Japan

PHILADELPHIA, July 29.-The Bald
win locomotive works yesterday booked
an order for 20 locomotives for japan.
This, with other orders makes a total
of so for that empire. Thirty have
just been shipped. The order just re-
ceiyed is for the Japanese government.
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miners Intimidated7 by Women.

FAIRMoNT, W. Va, July 2S.-Polish
women armed with stones and sticks
kept several men from going to work
at Monongah today. Others have been
warned not to enter. Colonel B. A.
Fickinger said today, if the men at his
mines were not at work by Friday noon
other men would be brought in.
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A Horrible Double Murder. -.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.,, July PA
double murder was committed here to,
day. James Mingle. horse trader, is
accused of the crime. The Victims are
Mary Briscoe and her infant child.
They were killed by chopping their
heads with hatchet The woman did
not die till several hours after the deed
was committed. The baby was dead
when found. 1t is said that the cause
of the trouble was the woman 's refusal
to live with the man any longer. Min
gle has been arrested.
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Preparing for the Sale.

OMAHA, Neb., July 27.-Decrees of
the sale in foreclosure of the mortgage
on the Uuion Pacific railway were re-
ceived here this morning by General
Johu C. Gown, special United States
attorney in the case. The DEGREES are
signed by all the parties to the suit.
Judge Sanborn will be in Omaha this
week to make the final order of the
sale
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PARKERsBURG, W. Va, July 27.-
The miners IN the Mononagh region
the Southwest and the great Kanawha
valley is that the miners have banked
on Governor Atkinson's good will and
struck. There Is great excitement.
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TACOMA, Wash, July 27.-Alexaa-
der W. Plass committed suicide at his
home in this city this morning by
shooting himself in the forehead. He
was night policeman, and had just
come off duty. Last night he seemed
in his usual spirits, aud gave no intima-
tion of contemplating suicide. He has
been subject to epileptic fits, and the
disease was growing upon him. He
was prominent member of the Ma
sonic lodge which body will bury him.
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Another Rich Strike Reported From the
Clondyke

Another Rich Strike Reported From the
Clondyke.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27.-The latest
rumor from Alaska and the Clondyke
is of the discovery of wonderfully rich
quartz in. large quantities on the
Stewart river. Particulars are vague,
and beyond the fact that the ledge is q
large one and that the rock assays $500,
nothing can be learned. The discovery
was made some time ago, but nothing
was said until the ledge had been pros
pected and an assay made.
This, if true, will mean much for the
Clondyke region. The Stewart river
runs into the Yukon notfar from Daw-
son, and it is reasonable to suppose
that the placer gold now being found
in such quantities below may have it's
origin in the mountains at the head of
the Stewart and neighboring rivers
and creeks.
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British Wheat Crop is Short

LONDON, July 27.-The Agricultural
Gazette recently sent out a circular
asking information on the subject of
crop prospects. The circular elected
73S replies. the substance of which
shows that the wheat crop for the
United Kingdom will be much below
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More Mines Closed Down.

COLUMBUS, o., July 28.-Fred Dill
ches, of the national executive COM
mittee. wired the national headquar-
ters of the miners union that the Sugar
Creek, Mcdonald, Turkey, Knob and
Dunlay mines have closed down by a
vote of the miners at mass meeting
in the new river district.
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The Rush from New York

NEW YORK. July 29-Mrs. W. G.
White and Mrs. L. W. Cave are desti.
tute ana rejecting the existence of the
gold craze. They called upon the
poormaster and informed him that
their husbands had left them and their
children penniless and gone to the
gold fields of Alaska. They were en-
ployed in local printing Office.
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THE SOHEME FAILED.

Tom Reeds little manikins in the
house were easily wrapped around his
hnger when called upon to pass bill
for the creation of the monetary CON-
mission the last day OF the special ses-
sion, and rushed the bill through 10
hurry after the receipt of the presi-
dents message recommending a re-
vision of the currency on lines sug-
gested by the assembled bankers at
indianapolis last January. But the
senate was less pliable. and referred
the bill to the senate finance COM
mittee. The action of the senate was
the most sensible, since the commits
sion recommended by President Nc
Kinley, in the following quotation
from his message, would have been
useless and unsatisfactory body:
ssThe sentiment of the country Is
strongly in favor of early action by
congress in this direction to revise our
currency laws and remove them from
, partisan contention. A notable as
sembIy of business men, with delegates
from 2g states and terrlt0rles, was held
at Indianapolis in January of this
year. The financial situation COM
m anded their earnest attention, and
AFTER two days. discussion, the con-
ntion recommended to congress tt
appointment of monetary commits
sion. I commend this report to the
consideration of congress.
"The authors of the report recon-
mend commission to make thorough
investigation of the monetary affairs
and needs of this country, in all rela-
tions and aspects, and to make proper
suggestions for any evils found to
exist, and the remedies therefor. This
subject should have been called to the
attention of congress at the special
session. 1t ought not to be postponed
till the regular session. l therefore
urge and recommend that special
commission be created, non partisan
in its character, to be composed OF we'll
informed citizens of different parties,
VINO Will COmIn6uu Juo COuhuChSo u
congress because of their special fit
ness for the work, whose duty it shall
be to make recommendations of what
ever changes in our present banking
and currency laws may be found neces-
sary and expedient, and to repor. their
conclusions on or before the first day
of November next, in order that the
same may be transmitted by me to
congress for its consideration at its
first regular session.
SIT is to be hoped that the report
will be so comprehensive and sound as
to receive the support of all parties
and the favorable action of congress.
At all events, such report cannot fail
to be of value to the executive branch
of the government, as well as to those
charged with public legislation, and
greatly assist in the establishment OF
an improved system of finance.