The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-09-25

raising permanent and profitable they
must prepare means for canning and
drying fruit whenever the market will
not justify shipping.
Pendleton has street lights that cost
her $500 a year, and the other day the
council had under consideration the
payment of city warrants drawn in
1893. The Dalles is in darkness but
it's warrants are paid up to date. 1t is
to draw comparison.
Horace Greely once said that "the
darkest hour in the history of any
young man is when he sits down to
study how to get money without hon
estly earning it, Judging from the
number OF applicants there are for fat
federal offices at present, there is a
decidedly dark hour with a good many
young men and some old ones.
Yellow fever is killing off good
many people in the South, but it is not
proving as fatal as will the Kiondike
fever in the far North. When full re-
ports from Alaska are received next
summer, it will probably show the
Klondike fever to have been the most
serious mallady that has overtaken the
American people for many years.
England still insists that her sub
jects and sailors shall have the right
to engage in pelagic sealing in Alaskan
waters, aud Lord Chamberlain SO
informs Secretary Sherman. Were it
not that the seals are RAPIDLY becom-
ing extinct, they would some day be
the cause of war between this country
and Great Britain.
Poor old Spain is tottering. Once
the proudest natien on earth, she
seems now destined to fall. Continual
warning with her colonies and queiling
dissepsions at home have bankrupt
her treasury, and now to add to her
embarrassment the government is en-
gagged in trouble with the church
Spain is only coming to the fate which
it richly deserves.
When the final count is made in
Greater New York it will be found
that Tammany is in the saddle. Boss
Platt is running the republican ma
chine in that city. and that is sufficient
to insure Tammany's success. Tam
many is a corrupt political organiza-
tion, but even it is preferable to the
rule of Platt. New Workers will have
none of him.
A Yankee sharper, who supports the
name of J. Cruickshanks, and pretends
to represent an American railroad
syndicrte, has succeeded in fleeing a
number of English lords out of e10,OC0
which he induced them to invest in So
called American railroad securities.
1t takes Yankee to bunco the British
nobility, and in the parlance of the
street Arab, she gets there every
time"
Pendleton has sustained serious
loss in the burning of Byers' mill, and
The Dalles can sympathize with the
neighbor city, for we too have suf-
fered severely from fire, "but Phoenix
like have risen from the ashes" Pen
dleton will do likewise, for no Eastern
Oregon town that is surrounded by a
good agricultural country can not be
kept down.
Organized labor has certainly gained
a great victory in the termination of
the coal miners strike. Hereafter or
ganized capital even though backed by
the courts, will know that it cannot
ride rough shod over labor and grind
it down to condition worse than servi-
tude. Capital must in the future pay
labor what it is worth or industries
will be tied so that nothing can ad-
vance.
Baron Fava, italian ambassador to
America, who has represented his gov
ernment at Washington for sixteen
years past, does not squander his salary
fast enough to meet the demands of
protiigate Rome, and his resignation
has been requested. Fava was saving
up some of his salary of sG, 900 year,
which is an unexcusable fault for u
public officer in these days OF official
extravaganza.
1t has been reported that Congress-
man Ellis will soon visit The Dalles for
the purpose Of hearing the claims of ap-
plicants for local federal appointments
and making recommendations. This
is not very likely. Mr.. Ellis is not al
together devoid of judgment. He had
a little experience in Portland recently
meeting applicants tor office, and
evidently will not court a repetition of
the same dose.
Strikes as rule don't pay. but when
labOrers see nothing but starvation
staring them in the face, as did the
coal miners, they are justified in risk
iIg all in the hope of gaining living
in the future. The strike has probably
cost the miners S2,000.O00 and has re-
suited in much suffering, but the con-
sessions they have been able to force
out of the operators will insure to them
three square meals q day in the future.
The dispatches announce that Cen
eral Woodford, American minister to
Snain has cOmmn n iratad m tha uoy
ernment at Madrid the ultima:um Of
this government, which is that the
war against Cuba must speedily termi
nate. 1t is to be sincerely hoped that
,he correspondent who furnished the
news for the dispatch is correctly in
for the butchery in Cuba has
been continued as long as is consistent
with the patience OF America.
At last Superintendent of Public In
'tructions G. NJ. Irwin has concluded
t is advisable to turn over portion
If the fees collected by him as fees for
diplomas and state certificates to the
tate treasurer. Heretofore these fees
nave been portion of the perquisites
If the superintendent Office, and the |
Rev. G. NJ. was holding them as part |
# his "honest" earnings, but he has |
,een forced to disgorge. 1t will cut |
lis income down several thousand |
Iollars year. but be gets more salary
han he earns anyway.