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A CYCLONE IN KANSAS.
Three Persons Killed and at Least Fo
Injured.

Three Persons Killed and at Least -Four
Injured.
KANSAS CITY, June IA special to
the Star from Salina, Kan, says:
A terrible cyclone passed 10 miles
north of this city last night. So far as
heard three are dead aud number
dangerously injured. The dead are:
Mrs. Anna Geesey, aged "a.
Nola Geesey, 13.
Ida Geesey, 8.
Four members of this family were
also badly hurt
Mr.. .Geesey was away from home.
The remainder of the family had re-
tired, and when the storm struck they
made for their cave.
Before they had gotten out of the
house the tornado had destroyed it.
The work of destruction was not
known till this morning, when neigh
bors found the dead and injured mem
bers of the family lying about in the
debris. The three dead were found so
feet east of the house, and near them
the body of girl, alive, but buried to
her waist in dirt.
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BACK TO HIS FIRST LOVE.

For number of years Ex-Governor
Pennoyer has been vacilating between
the democrats and populists, and it is
surprising that he was not at the head
of bimetalic union, such a pronounced
bimetalist is he. Notwithstanding
the ex-governor's chameleon-like at
titrde in the past, he has tired of
chasing after false gods, aud is now
ready to return to the sweetheart of
his early days, and is once more
reconciled to become democrat. In
fact he urges that all bimetalfsts rally
under the democratic banner, which is
really the most sensible thing they can
do. He defines his position, and offers
some reasonable suggestions in letter
addressed to the editor of the Oregon
ian, from which the following extract
is taken:
I am above all else, in favor of the
restoration of silver as standard money,
which would be most important
factor in the restoration of national
prosperity. AS all know, have held
devotion to that doctrine above fealty
to party obligations. Now, how can
that be best secured? = > Fusion
OF different separate party organiza-
tions is always dangerous and unsatis-
factory. Is it not, therefore, the right
and effective way for all tree silver
men to unite together as individual
members of that organization which
gives the best promise of success? Is
that the bimetallie organization? That
is local affair, and has no national
organization at its back. Is it the
populist party? That party is freight
ing itself down with multitude of
isms, and is most seriously handicapped
with the revolutionary record of its
members-elect of the legislature in
their reasonable hold-up of the legis-
lative assembly. Is it the democratic
party? That party is now and always
has been in favor of both gold and sill
yer as standard money, and opposed to
bank currency. That party has always
been true to the people, although it
elected a president who was traitor
to it and its principles. It is we'll
and a national party. Is not,
therefore the democratic party the
one to which all true and honest free
silver men should look to for victory?
These are questions freighted with the
greatest Importance. which every free
man of Oregon should consider, and on
the correct determination of which |
may depend our victory next June and |
In the next presidential election
In his final conclusions the ex-gov-
ernor is correct. Since the democratic ]
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-26
IT CREATED A BREEZE
Republican Senators Quarrel
Over Wool Schedule.
KING CARNIVAL REIGNS
The Entire City of London is in
Masquerade Attire.
Ohio Republicans Convene at Toledo to
Settle Disputes Between Bosses
The Father of Charlie Ross
Dead-COal Company Falls

WASHINGTON, Juue 22.-The wool
schedule was taken up in the senate to-
day. The first contest came in a mo-
tion to reduce the rate on first-class
wool from IL to 10 cents a pound. 1t
was carried py a vote of So to l3.
This result was followed by a mild
sensation on the republican side. Car
ter said the vote disclosed purpose to
reduce the wool rates, and served
notice that day of reckoning would
come, when a combination would care
more about the matter. He suggested
postponement of the wool rates. For
aKer vehemently reinforced Carter's
remarks and announced that unless
the agreement that he supposed had
been reached on wool was respected,
every senator must act for himself.
Allison endeavored to smooth mat
tiers and mildly resented the suggestion
of combination. Foraker, Allison
and Quay then proceeded to taunt each
other about combinations that had
been made, and come near disclosing
party(secrets that had better have re-
mained untold. The tilt between the
senators prevented any further action
on the wool schedule, and it went over
until tomorrow.
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ment pays interest, and for which it
provides security, is imbecility or
worse. The other great nations of the
earth are lighting for gold to take up
their paper tokens and strengi hen
their reserves. This nation alone is
fighting to keep all its paper kites in
the air, although its percentage of
reserve is only one-ffth of that of it's
chief competitors. A temporarily IA
vorable trade balance stands between
it and the calamity which it invites.
The proposed paper policy of the ad-
ministration is devilishly DEVISED to
drive gold from our shores, which must
then be brought back by means of
organized panics. 1t is forcing the ma
tion to perform the task of Shisyphus.
The tariff robbery has been credited to
the gold standard, and the people have
blindly sought to recoup their losses
by dildting the currency. The gold
standard is doomed. The masses are
fighting it in their ignorance, the ma
tiOnal banks in their seliishness and
the government in it's Indifference.
No wonder the London Times says:
'The government of the United States
appears to be running grave risks with
wonderfully light heart" This ma
tlOn must soon decide between the
stability of silver standard and the
chaos of fiat paper tokens.
The statesman who comprehends the
crisis, and presents with clearness a
plan for an honest standard of silver,
or silver and gold alternatively, and
who does not seek to use silver simply
as means of further diluting our pres
ent conglomerate currency, will be
elected president of the United States
in 1900. or, what is better, will deserve
to be elected.
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A VOICE FROM WALL STREET

Dimock & Co., the bankers and
brokers of New York City, write to
their correspondents, under date of
June II. as follows:
Natural conditions are favorable
throughout the country. Legislation
alone is male6cent. Great crops and
good prices have brought splendid re-
turns to the nation. Justly distribute
ed, these returns would have given
prosperity to the people, all of them,
beginning with the tiller of the soil.
and radiating outward through trans
portation, manufacturing, and distrib-
uting agencies, until it perYaded the
entire community. The beneficent
operation of natural laws has been in
terferred with by the peoples servants
in Washington, who have tampered
with the returns, have cruelty robbed
the laborer of half of his hard earn
ings, which with prodigal hands they
have poured into the overlooking cof-
fers of the protected trusts, in payment
of campaign debts, or, for reasons even
more directly personal. Masks have
been laid aside, and nearly every item
in the Dingley bill, represents q bar
gain of more than doubtful morality.
Taxation for rlunder has been so en-
grated upon our tariff, as to make
that system hopeless as a means of
providing revenue for the government.
The greed of our legislators has blind
ed them to obvious moral and eco
nomic principles, and the experience of
nations is wasted upon them.
Cheap clothes make cheap men, said
Benjamin Harrison as he signed the
Mckinley bill which forced all but the
wealthy to wear shoddy. There was
another Benjamin, one Franklin, who
as "Poor Richard" taught those les
sons of thrift and industry upon which
all prosperity, national and individual,
is founded. His maxims were less
magnificent than his namesake's, but
if acted upon in congress they would |
soon convert a deficiency into sur
plus.
The McKinley-Gage administration |
has a project, it is announced. for the
gradual retirement of the greenbacks,
and the substitution therefor of Ma
tioual bank notes. This is presuming
upon the ignorance of the people, who
will. however, never permit any such |
idiotic performance. The very exist
ence of national bank notes is an i'm
pertinence. The governmental issue |
of these notes on which the govern
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WHY OPPOSE THEA2

The Oregonian and Telegram are
greatly exercised over the proposed
immigration to Washington of Eugene
V. Debs and his coworkers into Wash
ington, and are denouncing it as a
revolutionary invasion of socialists.
While it is not desirable to turn the
reigns of government over to socialists
or to permit them to get control of any
state government. we fail to see the
danger to washington or Sny other
state that has undeveloped resources,
through the Introduction of this colony
into its territory.
For years the Pacific coast states
have been inviting immigrants from
all countries. They have expended
vast sums of money in advertising
their resources, in order to attract the
attention of homeseekers. Now that q
colony that may possibly reach 100000
is heading this way. why should the
Portland dailies raise such an OBJ.
lection.
Debs is not q deamnn that he should
be feared, nor are those who will COM
pose his colony cloven-footed or forked-
tailed monsters. They are laboring
men of different trades, men skilled in
almost every industrial pursuit, men
who have been educated to earn their
living by tie ''sweat of the brow" anu
such men are the kind who develop
tbe resources of any country. AS to
their socialistic tendencies. they are
not altogether commendable, but even
these shortcomings may be overbal-
anced by the good effects the state of
may experience in
having its population increased by
1OO, 900 able bodied, Industrious men,
who will become producers and con-
sumers. If the Portland papers have
been really in earnest in inviting i'm
migration to the coast, they have no
reason for opposing the Debs colonists.
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ton most remarkable for health and longev-
ity. The plain, undecorated facts about DR..
Pierce's Golden Sedical Discovery are ali
that Is necessary to convince fair-minded
people of its transcendent merit. They
are as follows:
All diseases come from germs. The germs
get into the blood, propagate and increase
in the blood, which carries them all over the
body. When they find a weak spot, they
stick to the weak spot. 1t becomes q dis
eased spot, and the disease Is called by the
name corresponding to its location in the
body. The cause is the same for nearly all
diseases. All impurities are germs, or breed
germs. Impure blood means germ filed
blood. Kill the germs, eliminate the im-
purities, enrich the blood, and il will force
itself into the diseased spot and strengthen
it, and give 1t power to throw off the germs
that exist there. DR.. Pierce's Golden Med.
ical Discovery is designed to do this-that
is the theory. The facts are these-tens of
thousands of people have used the "Dis-
covery." It used to be sold with the under
standing that if it didn't cure, il should be
returned, and the money refunded. No
body ever asked for the money and so that
clause was dropped. Thousands of people
have written voluntary letters Of thanks to
its discoverer. A few of these letters have
been included in DR.. Pierce's great thou.
sand page book, Common Sense Medical
Adviser. 1t will be sent c6soiEfeiy free on
receipt of II one-cent stamps to pay for
mailing only. Address, with stamps, Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association, No. 661
Main Street, Buffalo. N. Y.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-26
KING oARNIVAL REIaNs.
Entire City of London Is In Masquerade
Disguise.

Entire City of London Is In Masquerade
Disguise.
New YORK, June PA Tribune
dispatch from London says:
King Carnival reigns in the queens
capital. Old London is in masquerade
disguise and is unacceptable except
at points where stately architecture
like that of the houses of parliament
and West Minister Abbey defies with
it's noble sobriety the decorators work.
The narrow streets, barricaded and
stalled for today's bewildering pageant,
are filled day and night with a rushing
torrent of sightseers.
Business has been at a standstill for
several days, and traffic in all the
leading tboroughfares is blocked for
hours at time. Regulars and volun-
teers have been marching into their
camping grounds all day, and with re-
Inducements received during the
night and early this morning there will
be a temporary garrison of $4,000
soldiers parading and lining the
streets. Sideshows are inumerable,
and the blare of trumpets and the rum
BILE of drums can be heard at every
turn.
These jubilee scenes are heartily en-
joyed by the vastest holiday assemb.
lage ever known. 1t is the even OF
splendid fete of imperialism, and can
hardly fail to light up the English i'm
with a new glow of patri-
otIc pride.
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The important report comes from
Washington that President Mckinley
will no longer interpose his influence
against the passage by the house of
the Cuban belligerency resolution
which has already passed the senate.
1t is said that the President defines
his position in regard to the resolution
by remarking: "Let the people have
their way" 1t may be taken for
granted that the recent course of
Spain in giving renewed approval to
the Canovas ministry, and its purpose
to permit Gen. Weyler to continue his
policy of exterminating non-combats,
leaves our government without hope
that real concessions will be offered to
Cuba, or the warfare against its people
conducted on civilized lines.
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LTNCHING AND THE Law.

There is never any excuse for lynch
ing, says the New York World. Lynch
ing is a crime, and there is never any
excuse for crime.
But there may be an explanation,
and it is always worth while to con-
slider the explanation.
The horrible affair in Ohio was
only conspicuous illustration of ten
| denotes that are manifested in other
occurrences which the World groups
| with it in startling exposition of
truth today.
Fortunately this most horrible of
recent lynchings did not occur in the
South. where certain forms of crimes
by negroes are supposed to be re-
garded with special adherence be-
cause of race prejudice. Fortunately
it did not occur in the half civilized
parts of the West, where Incorporate
public opinion is accustomed thus to
assert itself. 1t occurred in President
McKinley's own state, where civili-
zation has wrought its will for about
a century.
An occurrence of this kind means
something, as do all the other occur
rences which the World in it's news
columns has grouped with it.
1t means that the people are discon-
tent with law which does not make
capital offense of the most infamous
crime that any man can commit.
1t means that the people are inn
patient of the lawyers devices for de-
feating justice.
1t means that the criminal laws,
framed by criminal lawyers in the in
terest of criminals, so far defeat justice
that the peOple-the ultimate source of
all law-are disposed upon occasion to
rise in their wrath and set aside the
law in behalf of justice.
The remedy for all this-is plain. The
laws OF criminal procedure should be
made. not by lawyers accustomed to
defend criminals for hire, but by honest
men accustomed to regard crime with
adherence. The 'law's delay" should
be abridged. 1t should be the object
of the law to punish crime, not to ex-
cuse it on technicalities, and until this
principel is embodied in law and in
court practice we shall haye horrible
lynchings as incidents in our admins
tration of justice.
So long as the most infamous crime
conceivable to the human mind is not
made capital. SO long as man guilty
of that crime is offered freedom if he
can give paltry bail of $1,000, as in
the case of the Ohio criminal, so long
will the ultimate lawmakng power
the people-wrathfully assert its
authority to punish such crime by the
high hand.
We are not asserting or defending
the right of lynch law. We are not
apologizing for its exercise. On the
contrary, we deplore and denounce it.
We are explaining 1t as phenomenon.
When law prescribes adequate
punishment for infamous crime, and
when experience shall have taught the
people the courts may be depended
upon in spite of the wiles of the
lawyers to enforce laws, lynchiugs
will cease. Until that time shall come
we must expect such lawless outbreaks
as those recorded in the Worlds col
umns today
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HER RIGHTS IN DANGER.
That Is the Reason JaPln Opposes Hi
waiian Annexation.

That Is the Reason JAPAN Opposes Ha'
waiian Annexation.
WASHINGTON, June 24.-The gist OF
the protest OF Japan against the annex.
alton of Hawaii to the United States,
rs read to the senate committee on
foreign relations yesterday, was as
follows:
1.-The acquisition of Hawaii by an
nexation to the United States would
deprive the resident Japanese in the
islands of the rights to which they are
entitled under the present treaty with
Hawaii. There are $1,000 Japanese in
the islands with large property rights,
and under present conditions they are
entitled to become citizens of Hawaii.
"In case of annexation these Japan
ese could not become citizens OF the
United States, as decisions of the
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A Coal Company Fails.

NEW YORK. June 22.-Henry S.
White and Elmer Stockton have been
appointed receivers for the Randolph
Coal & Coke Company, that operates
mines near Sparta. Ill. The applica-
tion was made by Francis Gillette,
president of the company. 1t was
shown that the assets were only $780,
900, owing to depreciation of the COM
pany's lands. while the liabilities are
S7I7. 600.
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still on the Wool Question.

WASHINGTON, June Ex-senator
Quay today moved to restore the house
rate of 80 per cent ad valorem on third
class wool, valued at 13 cents or less.
The Western senators combated it.
Quay also moved to lay on the table
the amendments of the finance COM
mittee to paragraph 337 wool, the
effect being to restore the house rates,
and the motion was lost by vote of
10 to II.
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ployers and employees: demands pro.

ployers and employees; demands pro-
lection to wool growers, and endorses
M. A. Hanna for U. S. senator.
Hanna was called for. He said the
republicans had been warned that this
was dangerous year. He joined in
accepting the challenge. The opposi-
tion will revive free silver in Ohio,
but never again free wool. The sena-
tor paid high tribute to the presl-
dents efforts to bring about prosperity.
The following nominations were
made: Governor, Asa Bushnell; lieu
tenant-governor, A. w. Jones; su-
preme Judge, j. F. Burkett; attorney
general, Frank Monnett; treasurer,
Samuel Campbell.
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UNITING THE FORCES
Iowa Silver Men Preparing
for the Coming Struggle.
HANNA IN THE SADDLE
He Rode Over Everything in the Ohio
Republican Convention and Sc
cured it's Endorsement.
Bushnell Re-Nominated for Governor and
Whole Hanna Ticket Put up The
Republican Boss Confident
of Victory.
HANNA IN THE SADDLl

DES MONIES, Ia, June 23.-Abont
1000 delegates were present when S;aLe
Chairman Healey called the demo-
cratic state convention to order. The
announcement that ex-Congressman
White, the leading candidate for gov
ernor, would preside as chairman WAS
greeted with cheers. A large picture
of W. j. Bryan was unveiled at the
rear of the stage.
White, in his address, said in part:
''None but veritable demagogues dis
sent from the statement that condi-
tions throughout the country are not
only unsatisfactory, but deplorable and
actually alarming. The canse of true
reform suffers because d great many
people rest secure in the belief that
their freedom remains unimpaired so
long as they are not actually sold upon
the block.
"We concede the natural superiority
of some men over others, but we never
concede that Rockefeller's brain is 20,-
600 times bigger or 1000 times more
active than other peoples brains. Not
content with controlling the coal
fields, ore deDosits. oil fields, timber
supplies, provision market, labor mar
ket, transportation lines, telegraphs
and telephones; not satisfied with own
ing the executive, judiciary, congress,
most of the state legislatures, and the
entire metropolitan press, these multi
millionaires have determined to possess
themselves of the vast additional power
of controlling the peoples finances.
"The program is to utterly destroy
the use of silver for primary money.
To make it artiically scarce SO as to
mark the price of labor aud its products
down, and to legislate the value of the
gold dollar up, but the old democrat
ship is still afioat. This historic craft,
under temporary command of treach-
erous captain, was recently anchored
in the mud holes ofrepublican landing
places. But the patriotic crew uncere-
moniously threw the captain over
board, thoroughly renovated the old
ship, and installed new captain. He
weighed anchor, quit the
foul waters of republican ports, and to
day William j. Bryan is navigating
the proud craft upon the blue waters of
the high sea, with the aid of an old
Jeffersonian compass.
The state central committee created
a conference committee to meet com
mittees OF the populists and free-silver
republican conventions on the ticket |
and other things.
DES MONIES, June 23.-The free sill |
YER republican state convention opened |
with lao delegates present. A confer
ence committee was appointed to meet
/ like committee of democrats and
Dopulists.
DES MONIES, June 23.-Four hum
lred delegates were present at the
,opulist state convention. c. v. Hol-
ey was named for temporary chair
nan. His address was for the free
,oinaue of silver at 16 to-
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UNDER HANNA,s CoNrRuL.
Convention Under His Thumb

TOLEDO, o., June 23.-With the
contest for Craftsmanship settled in
favor of Major Dickss>and the entire
Hanna slate, the republican state con-
vention proceeded today with the us
ual business. The report of the cred
entails committee was adopted without
opposition. Temporary organization.
with Grosvenor in the chair, was made
permanent.
The committee on platform was in
session all night, trying to frame a
platform so as to prevent contest
over the civil service, Cuban and other
resolutions. The platform rejoices
over the republican victory last fall
and the election of Mckinley; endorses
every declaration of the ST.. Louis
platform; commends the presidents
course in dealing with the Cuban ques-
ton; endorses the annexation OF Ha-
waii; favors arbitration between en-