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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-23
JUSTICE FIELD.

On December ], Stephen J. Field,
associate justice of the supreme court,
will retire from public life. after more
than forty years spent tupon the bench,
thirty-four years of which have been
spent as a justice of the highest and
most henored tribunal in the world.
No man has ever held the position so
many years, and certain it is none has
ever more highly honored that exalted
position. Possessed nf clear mind
and strong physical constitution. he
was ably fitted for the arduous duties
of jurist, and the many important
decisions he has'written evidence care
full application and deep thought.
He began his official life in Calf
ornia forty-seven years ago as a mem
ber of the first legislature of California,
and in 1857 was elected to the supreme
bench of the state, where his clear
judicial decisions attracted the atten-
tion of the entire nation, and in 1868.
although he was democrat, President
Lincoln appointed him justice of the
United States supreme court. Justice
Field has indeed been honored by the
nation, but in return he has honored
the position he has so long held, for
none can say utthat he has been an
honest. upright judge, nor will any
question the soundness of his judg-
ment or his integrity of purpose.
Stephen ]. Field is one of the great
men of the present age. and the nation
loses faithful servant in his retire.
ment from the supreme bench.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-23
THE DALLES WAKING UP.

In past years The Dalles has been
accused of being sleepy, inactive, un-
enterprising city, accepting what busi-
ness that came to it without solicita-
tion, and putting forth no effort to at
tract more:- Possibly The Dalles has
been somewhat dormant in the past,
but it will not be in the future. 1t is
waking up, and from this on it will be
lively place that will get anything
away from The Dalles that it needs.
This season the wheat raised in Klicki-
tat county began moving toward CO.
lumbus and Lyle, and the trade of the
farmers that formerly came here was
attracted elsewhere, but The Dalles
was equal to the emergency, and made
a bid for the trade that cannot but win.
Good roads, free ferriage and comDet-
ing freight rates on the river will re-
gain to The Dalles what it was about
to lose. .l
The trade from smother section is
being theatened by the building of the
Columbia Southern railroad, that in
another year will take the wool from
the interior to other points than this,
but since progressive spirit has been
aroused here it is altogether probable
that either additional transportation
facilities or manufacturing industries
will be fnaugurated to attract the
wool trade hither. The Dalles possesses
sufficient capital and energy to" out
rival all competitors, and now that it
is beginning to move forward nothing
can check its onward march. The
possible enterprises to be started with
in the next year are a narrow gauge
railroad leading from here up the
Deschutes, Ioolen mills, securing
mills, soap factory and a canning estab-
lishment. We are getting awake now
and nothing can stop us. /
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-23


Alamitos. Next year there will be
eight factories in California and one
in Oregon (the one to be built at La
Grande) with total capacisy of about
100000 tons, or something more than
100000 tons in excess of the require
ments of the coast. In consequence a
market east of the Rocky mountains
will be found for the surplus at prices
that prevail east less freight charges,
and unless all the beet sugar factories
shall enter into trust sugar, on this
coast should be reduced in price to cor
respond with that prevailing in east
ern markets. so the coast should de-
rive some benefit from the. sugar beet
industry besides that of manufacturing
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-23
Jury Could Not Agree.

CHICAGO, Oct. 21.-As Adolph L.
Luetgert, who has been on trial on q
charge of having murdered his wife
and boiling her body in vat, heard
this morning from the foreman of the
IL men who have been considering his
case for the past 66 hours, the words,
"We are unable to agree upon a ver-
Dict" he was as imperturbable as ever,
evincing no joy.
The II men were divided as follows:
For conviction and the death penalty,
Heickhold, Boyd, Bibby, Mahoney,
Behmiller, Hosmer, Shaw. Franzen
and Fowler. For acquittal, Harley,
Hola bird and Barber.
After being convinced that an agree
ment could not be reached Judge Tut
hill discharged the jury and remanded
Luetgert to Jail.
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fore he would hand over the Office he
must have written statement from
his successor to the effect that the four
western provinces were pacified. Cas-
tellaros had been in the field and knew
the truth and refused to sign any such
document.
This happened Tuesday evening.
General Weyler is still captain-gen.
eral, and in effect defies any one to di-
vest him of his authority. General
Weyler's friends ASSERT that he will
not relinquish his command until few
hours before the time he has fixed to
sail for Spain. The date of his depart
ure is now fixed for October 30. But
it was once before fixed for the Goth.
There is time for much to happen be-
fore General Blanco can arrive.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-23
WHY ENGLAND OBJECTS.

| The possibility that the British cabi.
net might DO something for silver and
| would favor the reopening OF the India
mints has called dforth numerous critic.
isms from the London press. The
papers are almost unanimously opposed
to anything that tends toward bimetal-
ism, and are bitter in their denuncia-
tions of an attempt to break the power
of gold mOnemetalism. The Daily
News rakes Mr.. Balfour, the first lord
of the treasury, for the part he has
taken in the effort to establish bimetal-
ism as follows:
There are those, including our
selves, who regard it as public scan
dal that the first lord of the treasury
should be a bimetalist. They argue
that critics may justly doubt the sin
cerity of our monometalism when they
see man at the treasury who would,
if he could, destroy the whole of our
monetary system"
But the Graphic is the most out
spoken of them all, and clearly sets
forth why England opposes anything
but the gold standard when it says:
''All circumstances lead US to be-
lieve that the government will give no
undertaking to reopen the Indian
rnints. Gold may yet again be current
in India, if the policy 1895 is boldly
pursued. Then the single gold stand
ard would rule throughout the empire.
, That is our interest both as producers
and lenders of gold. We are not going
to throw it away in order to put money
into the pockets of Colorado mine
owners, or to help Mr.. Mckinley out
of electioneering dif1iculties.''
Indeed the Graphic speaks truthfully
when it says it is to the interest of En-
gland as a lender of gold to maintain a
gold standard. This is not only true
of the English money loaners, but of
the money loaners throughout the
world. The gold standard maintains
not only real but fictitious value
for their wealth, whereas bimetalism
would reduce its valve. England being
great loaning nation is interested in
keeping money scarce throughout the
world In order that its interests may
remain high. Besides it produces no
silver, and has no interest in advanc-
ing the price of that metal.
But why should America, that is a
nation and q producer of
silver, insist upon a gold standard
simply to enhance the value of prop
erty held by it's creditors? Why should
it not be Independent as England and
dictate a financial policy of its own
that would give it's people greater
volume of money, and thus raise the
price of its procucts and make the
debts of its people easier to pay?
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-23
AMERICANS IN CONTROL.
Government by Syndicate is Being tried
in Honduras

tOnduraS.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-News has
reached Wall street that Honduras
syndicate, composed OF the Wander
bilts, Astors aud other Now York mil
lionaires, has resumed control of the
custom-houses and banking institu-
tions, of the republic, and has COM
menced the task of liquidatirg the in
debtedness of that country. The con-
gress of Honduras has authorized the
issue of S7,0OO,OOO in bonds to the
syndicate. They are to run for %
years, and are to be applied to settle
ment OF the foreign debt of the nation.
This experiment of government by
syndicate is the latest and most fin
de steele outgrowth of the tendency 20
trust control that has developed in the
United States, or anywhere else on
earth. Back in the latter sos, the
financial troubles of Honduras had
their beginning. Revolutions and in
ternal dissensions have utterly de-
moralized the country. the richest in
natural resources of all the Central
American countries.
In it's effort to liquidate the indebted
ness, the government issued bonds,
but spectators gained control of them,
and the nation realized only about ST.
100000. This involved her hopelessly
in debt but she has heen Strnuulintr
under the burden.
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The eyes of the world are upon the
municipal campaign in New York,
wondering if the people of that great
metropolis are really, going to turn
the government over to Tammany or
Boss Platt. No greater calamity could
befall the people, hut Indications are
that Tammany will succeed. The cleo
ton of ether George or Low would be
preferable to this. George represents
the interests of the great toiling masses
of the city and Low the interests
the aristocrats, but either would give
New York cleaner administration
than would the tool of Tammany or
P1att
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-23
Fires In Three States.

PITTsBURG, Oct. 20.-From all parts
of Western and Central Pennsylvania
Eastern Ohio and West Virginia come
reports of forest fires. All the upper
Youghiogheny region is in a blaze.
Across the Youghiogheny river Lime
stone hill is lurid slope of fire, and
south of Connellsville the fire is eat
ing the shrubbery, endangering homes
and destroying hundreds of barns.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-23
LIVE STOCK INDUSTRIES.

The American sheep is an important
factor in the industries of the country
as well as having become quite an i'm
portant factor 10 politics, for the sheep
may be said to have turned elections
in several of the states; but when COM
pared with the two other stock indus
tries-cattle and hogs-loses some of
it's importance. The report of the de-
partment of agriculture shows that in
1896 there were in the United States
4S, 222 .995 cattle. valued at sS72, ,sS3, ,96l:
38. 8.298, 783 sheep, valued at S65, 1877, 1876;
and 42,S42, ,759 hogs, valued at S186, $780,
745. We have no statistics at hand of
the amount of sales of beef or mutton
either for domestic use or export,
hence cannot make a comparison of
the relative importance of the, meat.
products from these two classes of
animals, bnt we have the statistics of
the amount of wool produced and the
amount of hog products exported,
which will serve to show the relative
cording to the bureau of statistics of
the treasury department the wool pro.
duced In the United States in 1856 was
BIC, ,006, 900 pounds. Allowing it was
worth Is cents a pound, which would
be a liberal valuation even for this
year, the income from the wool would
have been $4,000, 900. A table pre-
pared by the Cincinnati Price Current
of the value of hog products exported
in 1896 shows the total amount to have
been sS9, ,696, 1853; segregated as follows:
Bacon. $37, ,776. .293; hams, 1850, ,567;
pork, 81. 13S, 400: lard, $50, 1921 ,5OS. The
entire hog products exported, to say
nothing of that retained for domestic
use. was worth S35 100000 more than
all the wool produced in the country.
The lard exported, which is about 10 |
per cent of the entire value of hogs, |
lacked only 100000 of the value of |
the wool.
So it will be seen that the sheep in. |
dustry, though of considerable i'm
portance in this state. IS of far less i'm |
portance throughout the country than
either the cattle or hog industry.
This, too, in face of the fact that. with
the exception of three years, from '94
to '97, the sheep has been fostered by
a protective duty for more than 25
years, while the hog has been forced
to root for himself and the alleged
protection thrown around the cow was
Of no consequence.
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practiced by a republican Oregon

practiced by a republican Oregon
legislature.
Enough water goes 20 waste annually
through the Deschutes river, in East
ern Oregon, to irrigate AS, 900 acres
OF arid land. An irrigation system
that would check this waste and dis
tribute the water according to the
needs of the section drained would add
producing area of the Inland Empire,
says the O:egoniaa: We might add
too that enough water power is going
to waste in that great river, if har-
messed, to turn the wheels of all the
factories on the Pacific coast. Within
a distance of from 20 to 80 miles of The
Dalles power could be had and trans
mitted here by electric wires that
| would make this the manufacturing
city of the Northwest.
Ex-senator Corbett has been asked
by the Indianapolis monetary COM
| mission for an opinion upon a number
| of questions pertaining to finance, and
like majority of those connected with
banking business. he sees no means of
reforming the currency except by the
| issuance of sufficient interest-bearing
bonds to take up all outstanding gov
| ernment obligations. This is but
natural. Mfr. Corbett is money
lender, and it is to his interest that the
government be made borrower to the
f1ll extent of its credit. When the
government enters the field as a bOr-
rover it increases the demand for
money, by becoming competitor with
private borrowers, and enhances the
profits of the lenders.
Since the failure of the Wolcott com,
mission to gain any concessions from
Europe for holding an International
monetary convention, the two great
political parties of America will
question the issue without auy equivo-
cations in 1900. The republican party
can no longer juggle with the inter-
national bimetalisin fad, but must
come out squarely for the single gold
standard, for gold monOmetalism.
On the other hand, the democrotic
party must declare for ar independent
monetary system regardless of other
nations. And possibly we need not
wait until 1900 for the issues to be thus
drawn. A new congress and one
third the senate is to be elected next
year, and in all probability that will
be the issue in state elections in 1898.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-23

SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Oct. 20.-All
but three of the students attending the
Baptist college here are on a strike,
and demand the removal of the presi.
dent.
On Sunday, the students say, one of
the invalid girl pupils, who had been
brought down to the parlor, was as
sisted back to her room by couple of
students who carried her in her chair.
This was done during the absence of
the president, who, upon his return,
suspended the two beys. This an ngered
all the pupils, and they left the institu-
tion. and will demand the removal of
the president before they will return.
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sovereigns From Australia,

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19.-The
steamship Alameda, which is due here
October q, has 100000 English SOW
ereigns, equal to 100000 in her
strong box, consigned to the Anglo
Californian and the London, Paris &
American bank of this city. Tbis is
the third shipment of gold from the
same source on as many consecutive
steamships, aggregating nearly sS, S,000,-
600 within the last three months.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-23
'SLXTEEN-TOONE FALLACY."

Gold monomeJalists refer to the con-
tention of those demanding the free
coinage of silver as the .'l6-to.1
fallacy," and hoot at the idea of main
tanning a parity between the two
metals at that ratio while the CONNER
cial ratio is 31.94 to /. They do not
take into account the relative supply
of each of the metals, or the lack of
demand for one and the increasing Ge-
mand for the OTHER, and some of them
go go far as to state that the reason
that an ounce of gold is today com.
mercially worth 81 "a ounces of silver
is because there are thirty one times as
much silver in the world as gold. In
the face of this statement, however,
the director of the mint, who is reliable
authority, in his annual report to the
secretary of the treasury, shows the
relative amounts of gold and silver in
the world to be, gold, S4.359. 500, eco;
silver (coining vaiue) S4,267 800, 600.
The ratio of coinage the world over is
little less than 154 of silver to one of
gold, therefore at this ratio there is to-
day s91 100000 more gold than silver.
In view of this fact, the demand for
free coinage at the ration Is to-1 is not
failacy, but a logical demand, very
nearly the ratio that would be fixed by
supply and demand if the two metals
,yit Mo
The reason why one ounce OF gold is
commercially worth 81 ounces of silver
is not because of an increase in the
supply of silver but because of lack of
demand for it as a money metal.
Silver today is in the same condition
as would be any other comodity for
which there was limited demand.
Compare it with wheat in this country
now and two years ago. Then there
was an abundance of wheat throughout
the world, the demand for American
wheat was small, and consequently the
price was low. Now there is scarcity
of wheat everywhere except in
America, and as result wheat here is
high. An artificial demand has been
created, and the inevitable has hap
pened-high prices prevail.
Silver is in the same condition wheat
was two years ago, except that there
has been no over production, but there
has beer a continuous falling off in the
demand. While the supply has re-
mained very nearly in proportion to
16 ounces of silver to one of gold, the
demand has diminished through the
effects of adverse legislation to less
than 81 to /. Were an artificial de-
mand created for it by its universal
use as a money metal it's value,
in gold, would at once rise
to the ratio dictated by the relative
supply of each metal. Hence there is
no faIIacy about the demand of bimet-
alists that silver should be coined at
the present legal ratio and be given
an equal place with gold as primary
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-23
SOMETHING ABOUT SUGAR.

For the fiscal year ending June 80,
1897, the imports of sugar into the
United States amounted in round num-
bers to $500, 900 tons, costing approx.
imately 100000, 900. OF this amount
probably 100000 tons were imported
prior to July 1st. in anticipation of an
advance in duties, leaving as the nor
NAL requirement 100000 tons. The
Hawaiian Islands contributed 100000,
tons, or one tenth, foreign beet sugar
LOCO, 600 tons, or one-half. and foreign
c,ne-other than Hawaiian-the bal.
a nee. or 500, 900 tons.
1t is estimated by competent author
ieies that the Pacific coast consumes
5000 tons of sugar annually, which
has been supplied by the Hawaiian
Islands and the local beet sugar facto-
ries. At the present time there are
four beet sugar factories in California,
Alyarado, Watsonyille, ChicatO and
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ALL GATES NOW OPEN
agreement Reached Among
the Railroads.
AMERICANS CONTROL
New York MiIiionairas Have Re-
sumed Control of the Custom
Houses of Honduras.
Geo. NJ. Pullman President of the Pullman
Car Co, Dead-GoId From Australia
Portugal May Support
Spain.
AMERICANS CONTROL

SALT LAKE, Oct. 19.-At a meeting
yesterday of the officials of the Union
Pacific, Oregon Short Line aEu y. r.
& n. Co., mutually satisfactory agree
ment was entered into between the
three companies. d.
The agreement provides for the re-
sumption OF all traffic relations be.
tween the roads which were in ex.
istence prior to September % last,
when the cancellation of the Oregon
Railroad & Navigation tariffs by the
Union Pacific, took place.
The agreement also provides for the
restoration of local traffic, rates be.
tween the Union Pacific and the Ore
gon Short Line il Utah, Idaho, Wyom-
ing and Colorado, the E. Ellery Ander-
son agreement of last week orly cover
ing Missouri river business. The Ore
gon Short Lines several gateways will
remain open to all roads.
The Chicago aud Portland train SER
vice via the Chicago & Northwestern
and Union Pacific will be resumed at
once. The service to Portland via the
Rio Grande lines will be continued.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-23
SECRET OF SPANS TROUBLE

The New York Herald publishes the
following which is claimed to be the
real cause which led to the downfall of
the old cabinet and the installation of
Sagasta into power:
Nearly all of the Spanish bonds had
been fioated in France, and the recent
leans were placed there, but the lates.
application for further loans had not
been favorably responded to. The
only means, therefore, of raising
money was through the bank of Spain,
through which application was made
at. the rate of 5O,OOO.O 600 pesetas,
or s12, 900, 900 month, in order to carry
on the war in Cuba and the Phillip
pine Islands. The bank of Spain de-
clined to make further advances to
the government several weeks ago,
and the cabinet thereupon removed the
governor of the bank. The recently
appointed governor of the bank there
upon tried to forceup the bank com
mite, or board of directors, the ap-
plication of the government for ad-
ditional loans, but his efforts failed.
This was followed by the determine
tien of the cabinet to take steps to re-
duce interest rates on the government
bonds of to 6 per cent to 81 and per
cent respectively. Immediately the
cobinet was deluged with protests.
Some of the objections came from
persons high in authority and in a
position to dictate terms to Spain.
The combined weight of conserva-
tives in Spain, which embraced, as in
dicated, the bulk of the holders of
Spanish bonds, whose interest would
be cut in two, Immediately answered
this proposition with the suggestion
that it would be far better to stop all
war expenses than to adopt such a
radical course. In fact, many of the
conservatives said it would be better
to gain anything in the way of indem-
nifty which Spain could obtain by the
sacrifice of sovereignty and accepting
an offer to grant liberty to Cuba, if it
could be brought about in way that
would not be dishonorable to Spain.
The queen yielded to this, and the re-
suit was the resignation of the old
cabinet and the calling upoI Sagasta
to form q new one.
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Died of Heart Failure.

CHICAGO, Oct. 19.-George VI. Pull.
man, president of the Pullman Car Co.,
died suddenly of heart disease this
morning in his magnificent brown
stone home at the corner of Prairie
avenue and Eighteenth street. He re-
tired last evening at the usual hour,
which was somewhat early. He wac
apparently in ordinary health and
there was no indication of his demise
or indeed any premonition even of ILL
ness. He called a physician at 4:30
this morning, but was delerious when
the doctor arrived and never recovered.
HearG trouble caused his death.
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A .ouart- shop Dynamrted.

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 20.-A 'quart"
shop at Greenwood, operated by Pat
rick Murphy, of this city, gave the viii
layers much offense, and a charge of
dynamite was placed under the build
ing and the structure and contents
were scattered broadcast. Charles
Stevens, a bartender, John Devoe's
partner, sleeping in rear room, was
thrown into the street and severely
hurt. The force of the explosion broke
every pane in adjoining residences and
aroused every villager.