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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-09-10

A saltwater item says: Mrs
Nellie Prayer, a life convict at the
prison has been taken to Brainerd
by the sheriff of Crow Wing county,
where she is expected to testify In
the case OF the state against David
Max we'll, who was indicted for the
murder of his eight-years-old SOD.
Mrs. Prayer who. was living at Max
wells home when the the crime was
committed, claims that Maxwell
killed the boy with q Ratchet and
that she took the body to the barn
and set the building on fire. She
confessed and received a life sentence.
The cause of the crime 1t is claimed.
was trouble existing between Max
wells son and Mrs. Prayers chill
dren."
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-09-10

It will be recalled that Mrs. Prayer
was once Miss Nellie Glass, Of this
city. The Crow Wing county term
of court II now in session, and the
aut horities will endeavOr to convict
Maxwell OF the crime of killing his
own son.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-09
i'm WINTERS GRASP
Yukon Closed TO Navigation
for the Season.
JOHN BULL. SAYS NO
England Will Not Take Part in the
Sealing Conference If Japan
and Russia Do.
sagasta's Cabinet Is a disappointment to
the Spaniards--lt is Severely Criti-
cized BY the Opposition for
Its Weak Policy.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6.-Advice'
from St. Michaels under date of Sep
tember 16 say:
The general impression is that the
boats that leave here from this time or
will not be able to get over 1000 miles
up the river before they will be frozen
in. All Independent steamers will be
compelled to carry coal, as the natives
have cut up all the driftwood along the
river bank for over 100 miles, aud have
sold it TO the steamers owned by the
two big companies.
The new finds on Minook and Hun
ter creeks continue to cause excite
meDt and there are about 600 miners
on the ground.
In St. Michaels sugar is 25c pound:
bacon, 25c q pound; blanket trousers,
sS; chocolate drops, three for 25c:
calico. 35c yard; cotton bandanas, 81
cash; flour. So hundred: candles, 35c
a pound; small box sardiues, SOC.
Six men have probably lost their
lives near here as the result of fool
hardy attempt to sail up the 1850 miles
of tie river. which in some places runs
at rate of eight miles an hour. The
men, two of whom are named Aber-
crombie and Tate, were last seen drift
ing out OF the mouth of the Yukon to
sea.
Three men in sailboat started up
the river last week, but have not been
seen since. Their names are Mathews,
and Schultz.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-09
Il NEEDED CHANGE.

Wasco. with nearly every other
county in Eastern Oregon, has under
taken to exterminate destructive wild
animals, such as coyotes, lvnx and
wild cats, by The payment of bounties
on scalpS, but apparently the effort has
been wasted, for today there are
nearly as many of these animals as
there were before the system was
adopted. Vast sums of money are
paid out each year for bounties with
apparently no good results, as farmers
and stockraisers complain that their
premises are invaded and their animals
killed by th- (pesky coyotes the same
as they we're years ago. This is
not the fault of the different county
courts, or the unwillingness of the tax
payers to stand the expense of bounties:
| but the manner in which the bounty
| system is worked.
Anything that is worth doing at all
is worth doing well. and if the different
| counties in Eastern Oregon are to un-
dertake the determination of destruc-
tive animals it should be undertaken
on a systematic scale that would be eff
fectual. The system now adopted by
this county and number of others of
paying one dollar the year round
for the scalp5 of wild animals does
not encourage their destruction. but
eli m nj bn tn
such animals as would be killed if there
were no bounty. The reward is not
sufficiently great to encourage hunters
to engage in their destruction. but if
there were general understan nding
among ali the counties east of the Cas-
cades that during the months of De-
cember, January. February and March
they would pay bounty of 81 so per
scalp. and no bounty the remainder of
the year, hunters would make busi-
ness of following these pests into their
haunts and killing them, and it would
be only few years until coyotes and
wildcats would become extinct.
Such system would probably prove |
quite expensive for few years, but in
the long run would cost no more than |
the one in vogue at present, for so long |
as The pests are allowed to live they |
will multiply, and if the present system
of paying bounties is pursued, the orig |
inal stock as we'll as the increase will |
have to be paid for in the course of |
time. Il would be we'll if the courts of |
the different counties of Eastern Or /
egon would join in uniform system for
encouraging the extermination of de-
structiye animals, for so long as stock
raising is one of the leading industries
of the country, there will be demand
for bounties, and the sooner the ami
mails are destroyed the cheaper it will
be for all concerned.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-09
COST OF CUBAN VARS.

Estrada Palma, representative of the
Cuban junta at New York, say the
Cubans are more determined than
ever before to push the fight until ab-
solute independence is gained, though
to end the war and stop the devastation
of the country, he believes Cubans
would be willing to pay reasonable
indemnity to Spain to get rid of the
Spaniards. This would be a happy
termination of the bloody war, and if
proud and poverty-stricken Spain
would stop to count the cost of prose-
cutting war in Cuba during the past and
of what it will still cost to subdue those
patriotic though desperate people. she
will readily conclude the safest and
surest way out of present entangle-
ment is by permitting the people of
the island to buy their independence
for really nominal sum.
Cuba though rich in resources, and
having contributed immense amounts
of money to the revenues of Spain. has
cost vast number of lives. and hun
dreds of millions of dollars to hold in
subjugation. Since 1868, or during the
last twenty-nine years, Cuba has been
in open revolt nearly thirteen years.
The ten years. war was very costly in
blood and treasure, both to the mother
country and to the island, and there
had not been great recovery from its
ravages when the present insurrection
broke out in February, 1885,
Since the last uprising the spanish
government has sent to Havana more
than 100000 men, the flower and
youth and chivalry of the nation. OF
these it is admitted more than 1900
have been killed in battle or disease.
and it is probable that the number is
nearly double that. Nearly half as
many more have been sent back to
Syain crippled by wounds or broken
by disease, to be burdens upon the
communities in which they live. The
money cost to the Spanish treasury has
been. more than 5000, 100000, and this
amount is being increased at the rate
of 81 .OOO, 900 a month. Cfthe Cubans,
IT. is estimated that 10, COO soldiers have
died and more than LOCO non-comb bat:
ants have perished of star walton or
disease or have been killed outright !
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-09
drought Causes HAVOC.

MASCOUTAH, Iii Oct. I'm tho eX-
perience of the Oldest settlers in st.
Clair and adjoining counties the pre-
sent drought is without parallel. For
two months there has been practically
no rainfall in this section, and the
temperature has ranged above 80 deg.
almost daily all that time.
The damage done by the drought in
Southern Illinois cannot be estimated,
but it has been great. The heaviest
loss to the farmers is on the corn crop,
which has been cut down so to Go per
cent. It. has also done great damage
to all late vegetation ant to the fruit
crop generally. Hundreds of wells,
cisterns and creeks have entirely
failed, and n water famine is threat
ened over large area of country.
Many farmers residing east of Mascou-
tab are hauling water distance of six
miles. The water in the Kaskaskia
river has reached the lowest stage in
years.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-09
SECURITY AND CHANCE.

The instinct to lay by stores for a
:: :''i'rainy day" is the instinct of self pres
eryation and of civilization. 1t bas led
to the development of life insurance
companies and banks and savings in
stitutions of all sorts. 1t leads the
well-to-do to forego high rates of in
terest in order that the income from
their wealth may be as certain and
secure as possible. 1t is the same in
stinct that leads careful persons OF
limited means to turn to the govern
ment as The only absolutely safe Gus
todian for their small savings.
In establishing postal savings banks
nation carries its people forward a
step in civilization, inasmuch as it is
giving to them an additional security
against misfortune. A person who
puts his savings into the postoffice
bank will know that when hardship
and want overtake him, whether be-
cause of misfortune or declining years,
his money will be forthcoming. The
fact that there is such safe place of
deposit provided will induce many to
make provision against future want
who otherwise would permit them
selves to become charges upon society
when misfortune overtakes them or
when old age finds them unprepared
to earn support by their labor.
To the persons for whom the postal
savings bank is intended the rate of
interest paid on deposits is of minor
Importance. What such persons want
above everything else is absolute
security against loss. They want to
eliminate from life the danger that in
their declining years they may find
themselves without the means of sus-
tanning existence,
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-09
NOT THOSE DESIRED
Sagasta Disappointed in the
Makeup Of His Cabinet,
HAWAII WILL BE OURS.
The Annexation of the Islands Is
Virtually Settled So Thinks
Senator Lodge.
Extreme Heat in IninOis-?ast October
Records Broken General Blanco
Will Likely Succeed weyIer-
Other News.
HAWAII WILL BE OURS

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-A World dis
patch from Madrid says:
Sagasta has been disappointed in his
| efforts to induce prominent statesmen
of the liberal party to join his cabinet
| in the present critical circumstances.
Therefore he has had to content him
self with ministry compoS ID of re.
spectacle, but less influential personal
friends.
An old feud between the right wing
| and the democrats in the liberal party
! prevented Senior GamaZo from accept
ing seat, and his brother-inlaw, Sc
nor Maura, the author OF the first Cub
an home rule bill, also is excluded,
chiefly through the iufl lence of the
constitutional senators and deputies
from Cuba, who belong to the liberal
party in Spain.
The only strong men in the cabinet
are Senor Puigosever. the minister of
finance: Senior Gapdebon, the minister
of the Interior, and Senior Morel, the
minister for the colonies. The last
named accepted the colonial Office with
view of playing the chief part in re-
versing the policy of the conservative
govern ment III regard to Cuba and the
Philippine islands. With his knowl-
edge of English, Senior Morel natural
ly will be in a position to assist the
minister of foreign affairs, Senior Gull
lon. who is not so we'll acquainted with
Spain 5 foreign relations rs is Merel.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-09
MUST BE FREE.
Negotiations on Any Other Basis VIII Ee
Useless

Negotiations on Any Other Basis VIII Et
Useless.
NEW YORK, Oct. General Carlo
Rolotf, secretary of war of the repub.
lie of Tuba, has sent tho following g
letter to Gonzale de Quesada, Cuban
charge d'affairs at Washington:
We are now better prepared for au
active campaign than at any time dur
ing either the present or the late war.
I'VE are informed here that Spain
will probably try to please the Amer
lean government by offering us auton
omy more or less ample. l need not
tell you, my friend, that we laugh at
such offers, for already we are at the
hour of our liberation. Should Spain
seriously offer us autonomy, it would
prove the full extent OF her weakness,
and we will fight with renewed ardor
until she shall recognize oar indepen-
dence. Imagine our delight should
Spain thus confirm us in our belief
that the end is fast approaching.
Tell the American government that
to enter into diplomatic discussions
with spain in the hope that we will
accept autonomyis useless. We should
simply thank it for its trouble, but
Danfully decline to end the war on
such terms. We know that both
Palma and you baye often made this
plain to the American government
and public, but we wish you to re-
affirm it.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-09
CERTAINLY, MIR. HANNA.

"Stand by the administration ol
William Mckinley. That is the only
salvation of our country. By endors-
ing and standing by the administra'
tion you will spare this nation further
attacks from those who preached an
archy and arrayed class against class a
year ago" Senator Hanna at Burton,
Ohio.
How natural it is Mr.. Hanna should
undertake to impress upon the minds
of Ohio voters the necessity of stand
ing by the administration at this par
ticular time. for following his advice
means the returning of Mr.. Hanna to
the senate from that state. He is try
ing case before the people at present
in which he has direct and personal
interest. Should the voters of Ohio
fail to ''stand by" the administration.
Mr.. Hanna would not be returned
to the senate by the next Ohio legis-
lature. Indorsing the administration
is indorsing Mr.. Hanna, and he knows
full well which side of his bread is
buttered.
But taking all personal interest out
of the case, Mr.. Hanna's advice is not
bad. Every loyal citizen should
"stand by" the chief executive just SC
long as government affairs are well ad-
ministered under him. An administra-
tion that works the greatest good for
the greatest number is worthy of sup
part. But there is something more
than the pleadings of Mr.. Hanna re-
quired. Mr.. Mckinley and the re-
publican party must give a clean and
economical government. They must
SO administer affairs that there shall
be special privileges to none. under
their administration the welfare of the
poor as we'll as the rich must be
guarded: the interests of the taxeaters
must not predominant over those OF
the taxpayers; the masses must not be
ground down for the benefit ut the
classes; in short, the pledges made by
party prior to the last
election must be redeemed.
If Mr.. Mckinley gives us such an ad-
as he promised, or rather
his party promised for him, Mr.. Hanna
need have no fears about the people
standing by" him: but if he fails as
as did his predecessor; 1T he
conducts an administration soley in
the interest of the class of individuals
to which Mr.. Hanna belongs-the
plutocrats, the monopolists and the
will find the people DESERT
ing him like ruts getting away from a
sinking ship.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-09
NOW is THE TIME.

When every wooden mill in the state
is running on full tina, and some of
them running day and night is a favor
able time for considering the starting
of other mills throughout the state
Evidently the business of manufacture
ing wooden goods in Oregon is profit
able else the nine factories now in
operation would not be pushed to their
fullest capacity to fill orders. This
being true another factory is de-
manded, and that factory should by
rights be established in The Dalles,
The greatest wool center in America.
time for starting such an industry
than the present. In addition to the
ordinary demands for woolens on
The coast, the Alaska mining ex-
citement will cause a demand for
number of years, consequently
factory established now could depend
upon full orders to supply that demand
until it would be in position to enter
other fields in competition with the
other factories.
The Dalles Commercial Club was or
ganized for the purpose of encouraging
and fostering business il The Dalles,
a I'd the question ofencouraging of manu-
fictuaing industries should be one of
its prime objects. Why. therefore,
should not the club take hold of the
matter of starting woolen factories
here? Financial aid from the club is
not expected: it's moral support is all
that is required. If the club would |
hold meeting and instruct its COM
mittee on manufacturing to take hold |
of and ascertain what outside capital |
could be interested in woolen factory |
here, it would be beginning that
would eventually result in The Dalles
becoming manufacturing city. Now
is indeed the time to act. Let the |
club show some activity in this line. |
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-09
rocommand,nCuha

New YORK, Oct. 5.-A dispalch to
the Herald from Madrid says:
The advent of the libt raj party to
power has been remarkably we'll re-
ceived throughout the whole penin-
sula, and it was popularity credited
that more salutary regime in Cuba
would be at once initiated after the re-
moval of Weyler. 1t is now under
stood that his successor will proba bly,
be General Blanco, former governor
general of the Philippines. General
Blanco is considered the softest-
hearted soldier in Spain. He will be
fully authorized to approach the rebels
with q view to making a mutual agree.
ment for a cessation of hostilities.
Should he not go, a general will in
any case be sent whose modus operandi
will be one of mercy and oonciliation,
not determination and deliberate in
humanity
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-09
JOHN BULL WONT PLAY.
Proposed Sealing Conference Does Not
Suit Him.

Proposed Sealing Conference Does No
Suit Him
LONDON, Oct. 6-The officials of the
British foreign Office have commun
icated to the United States ambassa
dor, Colonel Hay, the final decision oi
that government that Great Britain
must refuse to take part in any sealing
conference with representatives OF
Russia and Japan.
The British government, however,
asserts it's unwillingness to confer with
the United States alone, but insists
that Russia and Japan are not inter
ested in the Behring sea seals to de-
gree entitling them to representation
at the conference. The British gov
ernment does not suggest any date for
Il conference with the United States,
and it is thought probable in London
that Great Britain's withdrawal will
result in two meetings, one between
the United States, Russia and Japan,
and the other between the United
States, Great Britain and Canada. 1t
cannot be too strongly reiterated that
the withdrawal of Great Britain from
the Washington conference is due to
Canada's insistence, and that until the
Canadian officials informed the for
eig1 office here of Canada's objections
to the meeting with Russia and Japan,
out of fear of being outyoted, Great
Britain intended to enter the confer
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-09
HOT WAVE IN ILLINOIS.
October Records of Many Years Past Go
to Smash

CHICAGO, Oct. 5.-Extremely hot
weather for October is prevailing in
this section. During the past "A hours
the thermometer went up to st degrees
and according TO the signal service
records this is the highest point that
has been registered for the. month of
October in q years. Dense smoke ag-
gravated the conditions. On account
of the drouth the last two months ev-
erything is as dry as tinder and forest
and prairie fires are numerous.
Lake Michigan has been made al
most unnavigable on account of the
smoke and fog. Captains of ves' els
have reported a most alarming state of
affairs. Many had not slept for 4S
hours on account of the watchfulness
that was necessary. Boats picking
their way through the Straits of Mack
inaw are practically hampered. Land
marks were utterly obliterated, and
the light indistinct at distance of
length of the vessel.
The smoke is attributed to forest
fires. Hunting parties, careless in
their camping, are thought to have
started the broad contlagrations.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-09

spectlvely for U. ). district attorney
and marshal, but President Mckinley
seems in no hurry to forward their
commissions. The turning down of
MIR. Geer don't set we'll with the presi-
dent, or at least with those who are
closest to him, so Hall and Houser will
have to wait awhile until Mr. Geer's
grievance is settled, and probably Ha il
will have to wait until another re-
publican administration is inaugurat-
ed before he gets an office.
1t is often asserted that there are
millions of silver dollars piled in the
treasury at Washington that cannot be
forced upon the people, yet the dis
patches announce that the mint at
San Francisco has been instructed
from Washington To resume the coin
age of silver collars in order to meet
the demands for silver change. Now
If silver coin is really corded up in
Washington where it can't be forced
out in circnl ition, why isit not shipped
to San Francisco where the people
want it? Certainly express charges
would not be so great as the cost of
coinage, and besides every silver
dollar coir ed increases the burden on
the sacred gold reserve. Why then
will this gilt edged administration per.
sist in coming these dispised 4O-cent
dollars?
Criminal proceedings for perjury are
to be instituted, it is said, against sew
eral wealthy citizens of New York
city, for swearing off taxes. This is
the result of investigations made by a
special committee of the Central Labur
Union, and it is asserted that they
have convieting evidence is not few
cases. This is only just. The wealthy
citizen who makes false returns of
his property to the sheriff is just as
guilty of perjury as is the contemplate
william who goes upon the witness
stand in 4 trial before court and
swears to lie. And if a few million
aires can be sent to the penitentiary for
perjury in giving in their assessments,
it will to great extent solve the ques-
tion of assessment and taxation, and
cause more equitab BILE valuation to be
placed upon the property of the rich
in the future.
1t is useless for Dalles people to
console themselves with the belief that
the trade of the interior will always
come here simply because it has in the
past. Conditions are changing and
transportation facilities are being pro-
vided that will attract trade elsewhere.
Should the Columbia Southern be
built as far South as Grass Valley. the
wool raisers of Southern Wasco and
all OF Crook county can get their wool
to market without hauling it across
Deschutes canyon, hence the bulk Of
it will go to Grass Valley instead of
coming to The Ddlles. unless some ex-
ira inducements are offered her9.
Those inducements can be created by
the building of securing mills, which
would attract the wool here; even if it
were delivered to the railroad at Grass
Wiley it would be shipped here for
securing, but without such an induce
ment The Dalles may expect to lose
the greater part of the wool trade
within few years.