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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-12
Japan HAS WEAKENED
Her Effort to Bluff Hawaii a
Total Failure.
HIS FATE UNCERTAIN
Durrant the Murderer is Still in the
Shadow of the Gallows at
San Quinten.
Party of Prominent OficiaIs Visit Portland
The California Editors at Port
Townsend-A Sensation In
Texas.

SAN FRANCISCO. June 9.-Advices
have just been received from Honolulu,
per steamship Australia, to the effect
that the Japanese minister, Shima-
mura, has changed his attitude to
some extent since the last advices
from the Hawaiian capitol. After the
departure of the steamship Peru
several conferences were held between
Ministers Cooper and Shimamura,
with the result that the Japanese rep
resentative made proposals of much
more reasonable nature than those
which were first offered.
Originally Japan demanded an in
demnity for the total number of i'm
migrants turned away from the islands.
Now, however, 1t is understood that
she is willing to accept damages only
in such cases where the immigrant
was illegally rejected. This propo-
sition the Hawaiian government will
accept. The original demand was
for 32O.6O yen for each man refused
landing.
The Hawaiian government admits
that among a thousand or more i'm
migrants few errors may have been
made, and if any of those appear upon
a thorough investigation, expresses
readiness to pay for such mistakes
upon the part of its officials.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-12

senators say they will not stand the
high duties on the raw materials de-
manded by the Westeners. Senator
Lodge declares that Massachusetts will
refuse to re-elect him if duty is put
on hides, and others are equally fearful
of being defeated If the West is given
due consideration in forming the new
tariff law.
The dispatches state that President
Mckinley has expressed his sympathy
for Spain; but not word of sympathy
hrs he spoken for the thousands of
Cubans whom Spain is starving. Is it
possible that this typical American,
the chief executive of the great Ameri-
can republic, whom we all respect be-
cause he is our president, can find
cause for sympathizing with Spain
while she is butchering and starving
her subjects in defenseless Cuba?
The librals of Spain have defined the
policy they would pursue toward Cuba
which would be to grant home rule TO
West Indies, remove Weyler, and stop
prosecuting insurgents. But there is
little probability of their getting con-
troll Of the reins of governmeet at
Madrid, and were they to succeed,
their kindness toward the insurgents
would come too late to be of benefit to-
Spain. The Cubans have battled for
absolute independence and will accept
nothing else unless forced to.
The public pulse of Germany does
not beat for the present emperor as it
did for William 1. Only few days
ago he and the empress were attend
ing the spring parade on the Tempel-
hof grounds at Berlin, when they were
hooted at by the populace who were
being severely treated by the police.
showing that even If the populace have
no means of rigkting supposed wrongs
by force, they may display their dis
pleasure with the ruler whom they bold
responsible for all indignities thrust
upon them by under off GERS.
A statistican estimates that out OF
930, 100000 people who rode on the
railways of England last year only 1856
were killed, while out OF 4,0OO, 900 |
living in London 5S8 were killed by
falling out OF windows and from roofs.
From this he draws reasonable con-
clusion that it is safer to ride on a
railway than it is to live in home or
under roof. Accident insurance
have long recognized this,
and write policies granting double
benefits for damages sustaines by
the injured while riding on railroads
and steamboats,.
Old Ben .Tillmon, the South Caro-
ina senator of pitchfork fame, is
his favorite agriculture inn
'lsment quite admirably, giving some
If the senator's who speculate on prob
Ible acts of congress, most unmerciful
'rods, but he is doing good work
nevertheless, and it is hoped that he
will WELD his pitchfork long enough to
hrow out some OF the reeKing cor
upton that pervades the halls of con-
'ress. Old Ben has only one eye, but
nth that single optic he is able to dis
over what many men with two eyes
ave never seen.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-12
Father Mazelie is among the Roman
Catholics killad

Father Mazelie is among the Roman
Catholics killed.
The wildly yelling mob attacked the
front and rear of the priests residence.
With the help of friendly natives be
barricaded the back and faced the mob
in front with o rifle; but the barricades
were broken down; the priest was shot
and his body hacked to pieces.
Placards are being posted thorough
many of the districts stating that
foreigners must be driven out of the
country or China will be divided
amongst them and their homes de-
stroyed and their children stolen from
them. 1t is feared that more murders
will occur, as leagues are being formed,
in some districts thousands strong,
with the avowing intention of EXTERN
mating the Roman Catholic mission
aries. The missionaries refuse to
leave, saying they will resist to the
last, trusting to Province.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-12

party.
Thurston object ed to calling it a
conference, as that was not binding.
He put motion to the effect that the
caucus should be binding upon all
republican senators, and it was carried
by large majority.
The caucus instructed the finance
committee to report new sugar sched-
ule to be all specific, and on oil sugar
which has gone through the process of
refining. l 95-l00 of cent per pound
duty instead of l S75- 1000 of cent per
pound as provided by the house.
Coarse, raw sugars from the Phil
pine islands and Java are to be ad-
mitted at one-tenth of cent less than
other raw. The abrogation of the
Hawaiian treaty was discussed, but no
conclusion was reached when the
caucus adjourned.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-12

placed upon them through the rules
governing national banks.
This act brought the system into
general disfavor among the people,
who believed the bankers were specu-
lating off the credit of the nation and
realizing more than legitimate profits
on their investments, still there was q
supposed additional security to de-
positors in national banks, through
the supervision of u strict system of
examining, but this has too often
proven delusion to longer give nation
al banks G prestigesamong depositors.
In fact, the regulations governing
national banks often proves the reverse
of protection to depositors.
The regulation requiring a bank to
keep on hand u per cent of its de-
posits presumably is protection to
the creditors of the bank, but it may
work directly the opposite. For
instance, the securities held by bank
may all be good, worth dollar for
dollar. and demand may suddenly be
made upon it that reduces its reserve
below the legal requirement, an ex-
aminer becomes cognizant of this fact,
and the laws having been violated,
the controller Of currency closes the
establishment and forces it into llqui-
dation. This may be done when all
the depositors are perfectly safe, and
would, if requested, grant time to the
bank on their deposits. But in this
matter the creditors have no choice,
the lawful reserve having run below
the limit, the bank must suspend, and
when once closed the earning power of
the deposits ceases or is consumed in
expenses of winding up the affairs of
the bank, and in many instances the
depositorsn suffers loss, whereas if the
bank had been permitted to continue,
they would have been paid in full, for
the bank itself, if conducted honestly.
would in all instances collect it's credits
to better advantage than receiver
who is unacquainted with the business.
Thus safeguards that are supposed to
extended to the depositor may be used
to jeosardize his interests and result
in his pecuniary loss. There are other
and rules exacted of
national banks that are equally
burdensome to the banks, such as pub
fishing financial statements. paying !
expenses of exonimers, restrictions as
to amount of credits extended and
class of securities accepted, while they |
are no protection to the creditors, but |
to the banks, which |
eventually will cause the system to be-
come as much in disfavor with bankers
as it is with the people.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-12
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Washington is faring well in The
way of receiving recognition from
McKinley's administration. Henry
L. Wilson, of Spokane, has been ap
pointed envoy extraordinary and mia
lister plenipotintiary to Chilli, and John
F. Convey, of Olympia, has received
the appointment of consul at Kama
gawa, Japan. Wilson is brother OF
Senator Wilson, and Convey is a prom
inent banker of Olympia.
The national democrats : better
known as Cleveland democrats, gold
standard democrats, or assistant re-
publicans-are organizing in all states
that hold elections this year, not with
the hope of electing their ticket or of
fostering any defined principle, but
with the view of helping the republic
can party into power. Why not the
silver forces combine in those states to
Offset the combined forces of republic
cans and their allies? When there is
fusion on one side there should be fu-
sion on the other.
Those persons who find their enjoy
ment in minding other peoples bnsi-
ness may obtain a useful hint from the
action of the Presbyterian General
Assembly in laying 9a-the table reso.
lutions denounei1g Princetown Uni
versity for providing wine at the an
niversary banquet last fall. What
man or corporation provides for guests
to eat and drink is not matter for
But strong temperance"
views and ordinary courtesy sometimes
seem to be incompatible.
The middle-of-th e-road populiits of
Oregon, under the lead of State Chair
man Young, oppose to fusion with s1y
other silver party, except ther be
allowed to dictate to the policy II the
fusion. But there are thop'snds of
other populists in the stat who hold
principle above party, "ho left the
party because of the leader
ship of Cleveland. and are ready to
lgain unite with the old democracy.
such will refuse to let Mr.. Young lead
hem by the nose, and whenever the
democrats come out with platform
for free coinage and honest
they will forsake false
-ods, and rally around the old standard,
The East and the West cannot agree
n tariff schedules any nearer than the
forth and South could on'the slavery
uestion forty years ago. Eastern
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-12

The East Oregonian says the
"plant of the Pendleton wooden mills
and securing mills is the most ex-
pensive on the coast, and they are now
employed in turning the raw wool
from the sleeps back into marketable
commodities, and employ one hundred
operatives, including all in the securing
and wealing departments" This would
be the result in The Dalles, if we had
wooden mills here. In fact we could
support larger mills than Pendleton
can because we are blessed with so
many more natural advantages, but
somehow we are unable to get the
mills.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-12
TOO LIBERAL.

At Ellensburg the other day a white
woman married a we'll to do Chinaman
and it is the talk of all that section of
the country, and her act is violently
condemned. If she had married some
worthless white man, whom she would
have had to support, it is probable her
critics would not have had word to
say. The woman, mature and of age,
had the right to pick the person she
wanted for husband, and being le-
gally married to him it should concern
no one but her and him.-East Ore
gonian.
This is indeed liberal construction
and were the woman alone to be con-
sidered there certainly could be no
reasonable objections raised to her
choosing whomever she pleased for q
husband. But the evils that may arise
from such union do not end with the
principals to the contract. The issue
of marriage, though yet nborn, are
entitled to consideration and their
rights should be guarded. It is suf-
ficiently repulsive to shock the finer
senses that any white person should
marry person OF an inferior race,
but it is crime against morality to
bring forth issue from such u union.
Either man or woman who is RESPONSE
BILE for bringing into the world child
of mixed blood, commits a wrong to
that child that is irreparable. The
child can never be anything but an in
ferior, and to prevent its coming into
the world authorities should enforce
regulations preventing the marriage
of any white person with any one of
different color. If the misguided FL
leDsburg woman had no more regard
for future generations than to marry
o Chinaman, the state should have
stepped in and prevented the union.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-12
THE OGDEN GATEWAY.
Party OF Prominent Railroad Onicisl
Visit Portland.

Party of Prominent Railroad OmcisIs
Visit Portland.
PORTLAND, Or, June 9.-This morn
ing's through train from the East, over
the o. r. & N, brought two important
delegations of railroad men to Port
land, whose presence marks the be-
ginning of new epoch in the railroad
situation in Oregon and the Northwest.
The two parties are the officials of
the Oregon Short Line and the Rio
Grande Western roads, and the object
of their visit is the establishment of
agencies in Portland for the lines
which have been so long shut out of
the Pacific Northwest by the Union
Pacific.
S. w. Eccles, traffic manager of the
Short Line, in an interview with the
Telegram, said:
"We will have fully equipped
office for business here in Portland.
You may depend on Us. We will have
general agent to look after freight
and passenger business and he will be
supplied with all the necessary assist
ance. Portland is the great objective
point on our maps, and now that the
gateway has been opened and free ac-
cess is to be had to 27,000 miles of rail-
road, we intend to do all we can for
Orogon's metropolis.
Everywhere we have met with
cordial welcome, and the press of the
Northwest has been exceedingly kind
TO our company. for all seem to readily
realize the benefits to be derived from
an open, fair competition for North
west traffic. The Short Line is in good
shape and business has been forging
right ahead since the first of June.
"As for the jobbers in Portland's
territory 1 would say to them that we
expect to do everything that is fair and
right by them. and in turn we conf
IDENTIFY look to them to give us their /
business. We shall do the very best
consistent with good business
to make fair, equitable
rates with all other jobbing sections"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-12
SHIFTING RESPONSIBILITY.

The action CT the navy department
in not ordering the battle-ship Oregon
to Portland is indeed disappointment
to the entire state, and seems to be
the result of disposition on the part
OF the department to shift all RESPONSE
billty upon the commander of the
vessel, instead of the department
assuming the entire responsibility, as
it should. This however is but an ex-
ample of human nature to thrust re-
sponsibilities upon those who are SUBJ
ordinates.
The war department is fully advised
OF the depth of water all the way from
the mouth of the river to Portland, =,
and Secretary Long krows whether or
not it would be safe to pass the battle
ship over the bar and on to Portland; :;
but he would not order the vessel in
unless the captain would assume all
responsibility and take all blame in
case an accident should occur. This
is au evidence OF lack OF decision on
the part of the secretary that is any
thing but commendable. He should
have shown decision on his part and
done one of two things: Either have
refused to allow the battle-ship to have
entered the Columbia on account of
the perils of the undertaking, or have
ordered the vessel taken to Portland,
and relieved the commander of any
responsibility whatever.
The captain of the'ship, being only
subordinate, acted wisely in not
taking the responsibility upon himself
OF bringing the Oregon to Portland to
receive the silver service to be pre-
sented by the state, but lack of de-
cision on the part of the secretary of
the. navy is by no means admirable.
If he thus attempts to shift RESPONSE
bility upon under officials, the govern
ment will he in a serious plight in case
of war.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-12
WHAT CALHOUN SAYS
Weyler's Boosted Paeifleation
Not Diseernable.
JAPAN WANTS TO FIGHT
And the St. James Gazette at Lon
don Thinks America May
Oblige Her.
Republican Senators Want to Raise the
Duty on Sugar Women may Prac-
tIce Law in Indiana-Food for
the Starving.

CHICAGO, June S.-The Chicago Tri-
bune correspondent, Charles NJ. Pep
per, telegraphs the followin from New
York:
Special Commissioner j. Cal
houn, who returned here yesterday
from Cuba says that he had formed an
impression before leaving the states
that negroes and possibly bandits were
the chief agents in the insurrection.
He had not been there three days be-
fore he was convinced that the whole
strength of the Cuban people is back
ing the insurrection. He became
satisfied it was in reality the struggle
of Cuba for the Cubans. and that they
would fight desperately for independ-
ence. Everything he subsequently
saw and heard strengthened this be-
lief.
Calhoun had heard the reports of
pacification by General Weyler aud had
credited them in some degree. His
stay in Cuba destroyed this notion. He
could not find the pacification which
was reported. Instead he found signs
of war everywhere, even at the gates
of Havana. The Spanish troops held
certain parts of the island as an army
of occupation, while the insurgents
were making constant and often sue
cessful raids. Mr.. Calhoun was so i'm
pressed with these evidences of actual
warfare that he gave ont blunt state
ment he could see no end of the war
and that the devastation was growing.
Mr.. Calhoun could not discover that
any approach to civilized methods of
warfare was being made on either side.
He was overwhelmed with evidence to
show the atrocities committed by the
soldiers under Weyler, particularly
the guerrillas who form a part of the |
regular army.
Mr.. Calhoun's personal inquiries
and Investigations have satisfied him |
that the starvation and suffering caused !
by Weyler's Recommendation order
were not exaggerated. He witnessed |
scenes of misery at Matanzas, which
determined him to look no further into !
that phase of the war, because he had |
seen enough.
While Mr. Calhoun did attach so
much Importance to bslligerency as to
other phases of the question, what he
saw did not cause him any fears for
the United States in case the policy of
belligere1cy should be adopted by the
and by congress.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-12
THE UNION PARTY.

The outcome of the convention held
at Albany on the I'd is the formation
of plans for the organization OF 4 new
POLITICAL party, composed of the advo-
Gates of the free and unlimited cornage
of silver and those who favor an econ
omical government administered in
the interest of the masses. It is the
purpose to gather all the reform ele-
ments under one banner, and TO
present formidable opposition to boss
rule and professional politicians. Fol-
loging is the appeal to the people by
the prime movers in the union party:
To those who believe in the declara-
tion of independence that all men are
created equal.
To those who believe in equal rights
to all and special privileges to none.
To those who pray with Lincoln
s'that the government of the people, by
the people and for the people shall not
perish from the earth" We invite you
to form closer union.
To the six and half million voters
who stood the combined assaults of the
money power, we appeal to you as pa
triots to remain united. We appeal to
you in the interests of your homes and
your children to keep your ranks un-
broken, and kindly receive others that
are coming to our aid.
We call upon candid people to wit
ness that all along the century now
closing tho people have toiled west
ward, building and leaving numberless
homes and industries to the tax
gatherers, the surer and the financial
adventurer, while all between the
oceans, legions of their kindred lie in
unmarked graves.
They have conquered the wilderness
as they have been relentlessly pursued
and despoiled of their substance. They
have gathered two thousand millions
in gold from the mines of the west,
which has gone into the Golfers Of Wall
street to maintain an idle aristocracy.
Our chosen servants have made
themselves our masters and haye
bound US and our homes in bonds to
endure generations to come.
Our demand for an equitable finan-
cial system are denounced as repudia-
tion. All appeals to our oppressors
are in vain, and though we are of the
same blood and fibre that established
and maintained the glory and honor
of our republic from the beginning
until now. orr prayers and peaceful de-
mands are branded threats of contsca-
tion and anarchy and are met by the |
combined hosts of greed and apprehen.
sion, who break party ties and rise |
united against US.
If the patriotic and humane states |
men of the past were right our cause is
right.
Ifthe great father of mankind is
righteous our success is sure.
We ask your invocations in behalf of
human rights and trust your sober
judgement to give friendly and help,
ing hand in the cause of brighter
and better civilization.
With firm reliance in the God of
nations whom we ask to witness the
of our appeal, the honesty
of our purpose and the justice of our
cause, we declare ourselves ready for q
renewal of the conflict for the preserva-
tion of that sturdy, independent Amer
lean yeomanry, the crowning glory of
the ages, upon whose prosperity de-
pends the diversified business interests
of the nation.
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A Sensation in Texas.

AUSTIN, Tex, June "a sensation
was created in the legislature today by
the introduction of resolution in the
house providing for the appointment
of committee to investigate the man
agement of the state university in this
city. The resolution charges that the
professors are teaching heresy and in
flating the minds of the pupils with
republican political faith and that the
entire management of the institution,
as well as the students is suffering by
the presence of these Northern Ismael-
ties. The resolution went over till to-
morrow
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-12
JAPAN WANTS A FIGHT.
And st. James Gazette Thinss Amerit
May Oblige Her.

And st. James Gazette THINKS America
May Oblige Her.
LONDON, June S.-St. James Gazette
this afternoon commenting upon the
dispute between japan and Hawaii.
which it describes as corrupt little
republic, run by a handful OF American
filibusters, says:
Gas Hawaii has no resisting power
the question arises will the United
States government see its protege
through its trouble? The Japanese
may land an armed party at any
moment. Then what will the Phila-
delphia do? Japan since she smashed
the Chinese is believed to be spelling
for fight with a white power, and
she may find America ready to oblige
her sooner than she expects"