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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-08-28
HERMANNAND THE RESERVES

1t was indeed fortunate for the stock
raisers of Eastern Oregon that Hon.
Binger Hermann was made commits
siOner of the general land office.
While it is true that certain conces-
sions have been granted stockmen
allowing then to range stock on the
different forest, reserves at present,
with one less acquainted with the
nature of things on the Pacific coast
than is Mr.. Hermann at the head of
the land department, that order was
In danger of being revoked at any
time and an order made closing the
reserves to the pasturage of stock.
But with Mr.. Hermann as commits
sioner no fears be entertained of such
action.
With his practical knowledge OF the
requirements of the people of the
Pacific coast states and of the growth
of forests, which is not retarded by the
ranging of domestic animals on the
timber belts, Mr.. Hermann will never
favor ruling that will exclude sheep,
norses or cattle from the reserves. He
is at present making q personal in
vestigatiou of the effect OF pasturage
on the different timber belts, and it is
highly probable that when he returns
to Washington be will favor more
liberal rulings with regard to the
timber reserves, so thatstockmen need
have no fears of being placed at any
Inconvenience with reference therto.
Mr.. Hermann is thoroughly conversant
with. every 6etail connected with land
matters in the West, and his appoint
ment Was the putting of the right man
in the right place.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-08-28
TOOK ANOTHER JUMP
Wheat Passed the Dollar Mark
in Chicago.
BORDA ASSASSINATED
The President OF the Uruguay Re-
public Murdered as He Left a
Cathedral in Montevideo.
Business Circles In Portland Startled by
the Suicide of ID. s. Tuthill. Cashier
For Allen 8 LewIs-Cause of
the Deed Mystery.

CHICAGO, Aug. 26.-Wheat shot up
ward today as ii volcano had burst
under the market. September, which
closed last night at 969, started today
on the regular board with sales all the
way from este to 81 Within five min
utes it was selling at 81 Oh, amid tre-
mendous excitement. Before the up
ward rush closed the quotation was
81 OBJ for September. To-Day was the
first time the bulls had carried the
price past the dollar marx in Chicago,
dollar wheat having only just touched
for moment some days ago.
Besides the action of the French
government in upholding the duty on
cereals. opening Liverpool quotations
showed an advance equal to from p to
3 cents bushel. The shortage in the
potato crop abroad was estimated at
the enormous amount of 100000
bushels, increaing the demand for
American wheat.
Later advices from Liverpool timed
l:30 P. NJ. show a further recession
in prices there, and Chicago followed
suit, September declining almost as
rapidly as it had advanced. The price
20 minutes after the opening was 9Sic.
At 10 A. Nj. another rally carried
up to 81. l.021.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-08-28

attention. 1t will Ee the largest city
election known in the world, and
when one cohtemplates the magnitude
OF the patronage involved it is beyond
ordinary conception. Greater New
York comprises five of the most popu.
lous counties in the state, and the
salaries Of the municipal officers 60 be
appointed by the successful mayor and
board of aldermen aggregate SIS, ,000,-
030 to say norhing of the expenditures
for supplies and improvements that
will be under their supervision. The
election in this city affects more people
and involves more money than did the
first national election held in the
United States.
The Salem Statesman, which is al
ways out for the stuff" evidently has
not been '.seen" lately by the officials
around the state house, judging by the
following little rub it gives the gov
ernor and state treasurer. In the
old days when Pennoyer was governor
and Uncle George Webb was state
treasurer, good news item capitol re-
porters received semi-annually lin July
and january was the report of the
state treasurer. But in these days of
good government honestly adminis-
tered, in these days of retrenchment,
reform and legislative hold-ups, in the
days of economy, the state treasurer's
semi-annual report is withheld from
public inspectation. It is understood
there were S6,O00,00 in the state treas.
ury on July l, last. OF course these
figures are not official. The States
man stands ready 10 correct them at
any time upon official information"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-08-28
An Hnnesr DnIlar.

I am on sound and scientific ground,
therefore, when say that q dollar ap-
proaches honesty as its purchasing
power approaches stability. II bor-
row thousand dollars today and next
year pay the debt with thousand dol
lars which will secure exactly as much
of all things desirable as the one
thousand which 1 borrowed, have
paid In honest dollars. II the money
has increased or decreased in purchas-
ing power, I have satisfied my debt
with dishonest dollars. While the
government can say that a given
weight ofgold or silver shall constitute
dollar, and invest that dollar with
legal tender qualities, it cannot fix the
purchasing power of the dollar. That
must depend upon the law of supply
and demand, and it may be we'll to sug-
gest that this government never tried
to fix the exchangeable value of dol
lar until it began to limit the=numbe r
of dollars coined William jennings
Bryan, in Arena.
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THE SCRAMBLE FOR GOLD.

AS silver goes dewn in price, many
cf the nations that have heretofore
been on a silver basis have shaped
themselves to adopt the gold standard,
and ere another year rolls round it is
doubtful If there will be silver stand
ard country in the world. Japan REG
entity adopted the gold standard and
the Salvador congress has just passed
a bill putting that country on the gold
basis. Russia, Mexico and the South
American republics will soon be forced
to the same standard. When all these
nations shall have gold as their stand
are of money. there will be such a
scramble for the yellow metal as was
never before known. And what the
| final outcome will be, time alone can
tell.
When all the nations shall haye gone
to the gold standard the demand for
the yellow metal will be so great that
with the present supply the only pos
sible result will be sharp advance in
/ it's price, unless there shall be an in
crease in the supply commensurate
with the demand. Whether this will
be accomplished remains to be seen.
However nature, in her efforts to es-
tablish an equilibriuT, to overcome the
mistakes of financial legislation by IN
locking the long sealed doors of her
storehouses of gold, that civilization
may not perish through the averice of
man, may solve the problem Alright.
Should the recently discovered gold
fields of Alaska prove capable of sup
plying $l00.0O0,000 of gold annually
there would be no immediate serious
results from the world going to gold
basis. But without such an increase
in the supply. gold cannot but become
SO scarce as to make it an unsafe basis
for money. The scramble for the only
recognized money metal will be so
great that it cannot be satisfied except
to the detrinent of the majority of
people. When Russia, Mexico and all |
South American republics shall enter |
the field as consumers of gold, with |
out great increase in the supply, |
there cannot but be marked increase |
in the price to such an extent that |
those requiring money to meet obliea-
tions made payable in coin will find it
most difficult to secure.
Natures libel ality may be sufficient
to meet the demand through opening
mp new store-houses from the bowels
of the earth, but unless it is bad results
must come from this rush for the yell
low metal. Unless it is, it will force
upon human intelligence the neces-
sity of using as twin factors the two
great money metals of the world. This
scramble for gold may yeo result in
forcing the resurrection of silver after
the world has found that its stock of
gold Is insufficient to meet the demands
for basic money metal.
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the system Is flying along the track of dis
ease at such frightful pace that no ordinary
methods will prevent disaster. There are
plenty of medicines which act merely as
brakes to slow up" the disease and put
off disaster for little while; but that isn't
enough. What is needed is medicine that
will instantly reverse the entire wasting,
degeuerating process.
When people are losing flesh and strength
and vitality, with the life oozing out of them
day after day, they need Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, which acts directly upon
the vital forces, completely transforms the
entire nutritive organism and totally re-
verses the wasting, debilitating process
which is at the root of all diseases.
1t enables the digestive and blood making
organs to supply the circulation with an
abundance of pure, healthy, red blood It
stops therwasting of tissue, builds up solid
muscular flesh and healthy nerve-force.
Miss Mary whitman of East Dickinson,
Franklin Co., N. Y, writes " For nearly ten
months I have had bad cough. and instead OF
getting better II grew worse. until was sadvised
BY friend to try Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. / hesitated at first. for it seemed TO
me nothing would give. relief only death MY
parents. were anxious about me. and was SAID
to have consumption. tried your medicines.
and before had taken many doses there was
great change. When the second bottle was empty
] had no cough and was great deal stronger.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-08-28
STRIKE WILL Go ON
Nothing Accomplished at the
Pittsburg Conference.
AFTER A NEW ROUTE
Canadian Authorities Send a Squad
Of Police Across the Rocky
Mountains Into Klondike.
Nebraska Threshed Al, 900, 900 Bushels oi
Wheat and viii Harvest $50 OOG.H0O
Bushels of Corn-sOuth Dakota's
win be 10000 900 Bushe =.

PI1TsBURG, Pa, Aug. 24.-The final
effort to arrange plan for ending the
big coal strike has proved IL ftilur4,
and the strike goes on. At noon the
conference between the coal miners.
national district officials and the opera
tors closed, and the conference ad-
journed without day.
The miners representatives did not
recede from their original proposition
to settle the strike by arbitration and
start the mines at the 69-ceut rate.
The operators offered TO divide the diff
ference between the 81 and 69-cent
rates, making tue price at which the
miners should start 6i4 cents per ton,
but this was rejected. Then audition-
al propositions were made. One was
to start the mines without fixing any
price for 30 days, and then to pay the
rate agreed upon by the board of arbi-
tration. This was also refused by the
miners, as they said they had been
fooled too often to trust the operators.
They declined to work for month,
giving the operators the output for
that length of time without knowing
what wages should be paid.
A proposition was then made to
operate the mines for ten days without
fixing tine price, a board of arbitration
to fix the price for that time. Presi-
dent Rathford insisted that nothing
but the 69-cent rate could possibly be
accepted. The operators were firm
but the miners were equally de-
termined.
Every argument OF the operators was
met by the miners leaders. 1t was,
therefore, decided to end the confer
anca
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assured fact in this market .this fall,
but it should not cause farmers or
business men to lose their heads.
While one dollar q bushel may be
realized this year, it may not be next
year, and it behovas all to be conserva-
tive in this temporary prosperity. The
boom for farmers that is Just now stir
ring every branch of trade cannot, il
the course of natural events, last for
an indefinite period; in fact, at best it
cannot be expected to last more than
another year at the farthersst.
The real causobf the rise in wheat is
the shortage in the crop of other wheat
producing countries at a time when
We are blessed with abundant crops.
There is no assurance that these con-
ditiOns will exist another year, how
ever it win require all OF this seasons
crop to meet immediate demands.
leaving no surplus to draw from. there
fore fair prices may be expected next
year, though should there be q good
crop harvested throughout the world.
wheat will not go to anywhear near a
dollar.
When Russia, Australia and Argen-
tina have surplus. of wheat they can
undersell the American farmer, be-
cause their fields are either nearer the
base of demand or they have better
transportation facilities, consequently
they become formidable competitors
in the markets of the world. These
facts should not be overlooked by
American farmers. This boom in
wheat should not cause them to loose
their heads and imagine that pros
perity will last forever. 1t is well
that they make hay while the sun
shines, for this is indeed sunny times
for them, but they must not conclude
that it will continue for ever. On the
other hand, they should profit by past
experience, when wheat was worth but
25 cents bushel, and practice the
same conservativeness that they have
during their adversely. First of all pay
off such obligations as they now owe,
and incur no new debts on the suppo-
sition that there will be an abundant
crop to be sold at dollar bushel
next year.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-08-28
FUN WITH THE TAXEATERS.

=. Governor Lord is amusing himself
these hot days indulging in slight
pleasantly with the members of the
boards and commissions that are
systematically consuming the funds in
the state treasury. He has appointed
Col. A. 1. Wagner for the Office OF rail-
road commissioner, to succeed Gen. 81.
B. Compson, and Hon. w. w. Baker
is named as state dairy and food COM
missioner to take the place of Hon. II.
B. Luce.
The governor has refused to recog-
nize the bonds of the hold-over COM
missioners on the grounds that when
the legislature failed to organize, these
offices became extinct and that the
present incumbents are not legally
Constituted officers. Nevertheless the
commissioners have gone right ahead
pretending to perform their duties and
presenting their claims for salaries
every three months.
BY appointing Wagner and Baker.
the governor hopes to get the matter
before the courts, and to get an opinion
from the highest tribunal in the state
as to who shall have authority to in
spect our railroads, butter and meats.
OF course Compson and Luce will con
test the action of the governor. They
will not be thus summarily dismissed
from fat jobs without making a vigor-
Gus protest. In the mean time, Gov
srnor Lord, having stirred up . hor.
nets nest among The taxeaters, San
sit back in his Office and have all the
enjoyment possible out of their sorrow.
Now if he is sustained by the courts, if
he will just proceed to remove all the
boards and commissions that are feed
ing at the public trough, he will merit
the praise OF all who help pay their
salaries.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-08-28
1HE gouRNAMENr IS orF.
There Will Be No Meeting of the State
Firemen's Association This Fall.

Firemen's Association This Fall.
Notwithstanding the fact that The
Dalles has offered every possible in
ducsment TO bring contesting hose
teams to take part in the tournament
that was to have been held here on
Sept. 6, 7 and s, only one team, that
from the barracks at Vancouver, noti-
fed the executive committee that it
would attend. On this account the
local committee, at meeting last
night authorized ]. S. Fish, secretary
of the association, to request the ex-
ecutive committee to declare the
tournament off.
The local committee regretted being
compelled TO take this action. but no
other course was left open. 1t would
be useless to attempt to hold tourna-
menv with only one visiting team at
tending to contest for the four prizes,
including the championship cup.
The people of The Dalles cannot bat
feel that they have been treated shah
billy by the departments belonging to
the association. Dalles firemen have
attended every tournament that has
been held by the State Association,
and has had a racing team. at every
one except that held at Oregon City,to
which they sent delegation of 60
members. On this account, if nothing
else, they fslt that the different de-
partments should have participated in
the tournament here.
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A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.
ID. S. TuthiII Cashier for Allen S Lewis,
Suicides In Portland.

ID. S. TuthiiI. Cashier for Allen s Lewis,
Suicides In Portland.
PORTLAND, Or. Aug. 26.-At some
time b tween l0:30 o'clock last night
and I o'clock this morning David S.
Tuthill, cashier for Allen & Lewis,
ended his existence by sending bullet
from 3S-calibre revolver through his
brain.
Few incidents OF this kind happen
ing in Portland have caused such q
sensation and such expressions of pro-
found regret, as has the suicide of
"Dave" Tuthill. For 10 years he has
been in the employ of the great whole
sale house of Allen & Lewis on Front
street. For the larger portion of that
period he has acted in the capacity of
cashier. for the firm, position in which
he was entrusted with the handling of
hundreds of thousands of dollars of the
firms money, and year after year, has
gone by without so much as one cent
difference appearing in Tuthill's ball
ances.
Yesterday morning he came to the
Office as CHEEKY as usual. Shortly after
his arrival he was called into the inner
Office of the firm. a consultation of
some length ensued from which Tuthill
emerged plainly affected. Throug hout
the day he was nervous and distrait,
his former happy air of bonhommie
having given place to morose gloom,
he preserving an. distracted silence
throughout almost the entire day.
Tuthill left the store at 5:l5 last
evening, but what happened between
that time and this morning can only
be surmised. Certain it is that he
reached home at $3.50 o'clock. He
spoke few words to his sister, an un-
married lady who has long been one of
the Tuthill household, and retired.
His family was at Flavel for the sum-
mer.
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Tutbill
transferred by deed all his property in
this city to the Security Savings &
Trust Company. This fact has a ten
dency to confirm the rumors of short
age in his accounts, current upon the
streets. The deed was dated August
25, and was filed In the Office of the
county recorder this morning at 9:20
o'clock.
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THE REAL CAUSE.

"The cause of the present boom in
the West," says President Mckinley,
sis undoubtedly due in a great meas
ure to the large crops and high prices
caused by the failure of crops in other
countries. But the fact that prosper
ity has set in in the East cannot be ac-
counted for in any other way than by
the wise policy of the republican party
in restoring protective tariff"
There is one otLer way in which the
return of prosperity to the East can be
accounted for, say the Telegram. and
it beats the Mckinley theory all hol-
low.
1t Is an incontrovertible fact that
any upward movement in the value of
farm products is accompanied by sim
liar tendencies in other branches of
enterprise. The present wheat boom
is responsible for the general improve
ment of business throughout the coun.
try, and the wheat boom was not cre-
ated by the republican party or by any
act OF congress, but by big crops in
this country and small crops abroad.
The wilson German tariff law had as
much-or as little--to do with causing
our wheat surplus and the foreign
wheat shortage as had the Dingley
law.
The manufacturing and wholesaling
interests of the East owe their return
ing prosperity to the improved condi-
tions In the West and South, caused
by the boom in breadstuffs and cotton.
The movement of agricultural pro-
ducts from the West and South to the
Atlantic seaboard will be followed by
correspondiugly large transfer of mer-
chandise from the East to those Sec
tions. 1t is in anticipation of this de-
mand for their goods that the manu-
facturers and the wholesalers are feel
ing the symptoms and exhibiting the
signs OF renewed prosperity. For four
years they have been in depression.
Their stocks have been reduced to the
lowest point. Business has been
forced down to bedrock, book accounts
have been curtailed, expenses have
been minimized and everything done
to conform mercantile interests to the
depressed conditions of agriculture.
This conservative policy of retrench-
ment and economy has brought the
manufacturers and wholesalers through
the hard times in solvent and desir-
able condition. and with the return of
agricultural prosperity they are pre-.
pared TO enter the markets on solid
footing. When the crops are har-
vested their golden harvest will come.
The country retail stores are bare of
goods. There never was 80 many
ents to supply as there are today, and
lnately the farmers will soon have
money to meet their myraid
n they have had in a long
ruth of it. Politics. and !
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politicians are entitled to no credit for
the work that nature has done to helD
the American farmer and through him
the American manufacturer and mer-
chant and artisan and laborer-in
brief, all the American people. The
increased prices Of grain mean raised
scale Of values and an increase of pro-
ftaSle activity in all other industries.
With the business of the country rest
ing upon a basis of agricultural pros
perity there is abundant reason to
hope for long period of good times
for the whole nation-despite the
Dinplev tariff
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OVERLAND TO THE KLoNDIKE.
Squad of Canadian Police to Attempt tn
,yuurneY.

Squad of Canadian Police to Attempt the
journey.
OTTAWA, Aug. 24.-The minister OF
the interior has left for brief holiday
on the Atlantic coast. but before his
departure he left most important
decision. It was to the effect that a
small detachment of mounted police
should at once proceed from Edmon-
ton, Alberta, aad endeavor to reach
the Klondike country from the eastern
slope of the Rocky mountains.
Edmonton is the most northerly
railroad point in the Canadian North
west territory, being 100 miles north
of Calgary. The route to be followed
is by way of the Nelson and Laird
rivers to the Dease, and up this river
to the Pelly. They will follow the
Pelly river to its junction with the
Lees and the Lees with the Klondike,
a total of 1870 miles. This is not the
Mackenzie river route.
AS the police are to take horses with
them, it is obvious that the authori-
ties consider this route practicable, or.
at any rate, is worth examining.
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To this largo sum must be added an
estimate of fully slOO, 100000 for the
increased profits that will be realized
on other products of the farm-fruit,
oats, barley, rye, hops. ETC., so that the
increased wealth from the farms this
year will be in excess of $500 600, 900.
This means not onlya a bananas for
the farmers, but for those engaged in
every other line of industry. The rail-
roads will realize increased profits
for handling the immense crops. mer-
chants will fiud sales more brisk than
in the past, and manufacturers will
meet with increased demand for their
products. In fact everybody will be
made prosperous through the bauanza
struck by the farmers.
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Plan of the Labor Leaders .

KANSAS CITY, Aug 25.-According
to the plans of the leaders of the great
labor organizations OF the country, re-
vealed by one Of their number, the
labor conference to he held in ST.
Louis on the Both will result in a gem
eral movement for an eight-hour day
and uniform scale of wages for men
engaged in the same occupations the
country over.