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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-06
OUR JURY SYSTEM.

The Luetgert trial for wife murder,
which has occupied the criminal court
of Chicago for tie last two months
and which resulted in disagreement
of the jury, has been made the occa-
sion Of an attack upon our jury sys.
tenn. It is not the first time that this
we'll established institution of the
country has been attacked and the
fault-fnding is generally traceable to
a class of self-styled reformers who
can see no good in anything that is not
done just their own way. 1t is an easy
thing to find defects but it is another
thing to find and point out the reme-
dies, and it often happens that the
person who antagonizes a system is as
ignorant of its general principles and
their intricate appliances as Com
anche Indian is of civilized society.
Atmospheric influences sometimes
poison the mind and warp the judg-
ment and it may be from this cause
that one of the Chicago daily news
papers has become excited over what
it calls "our barbarous jury system
all because q ''bailiff" is placed in
charge of them to administer to their
wants and keep the vicious element
from interfering with their delibera-
tions and insulting their honor by in
famous proposals.
There are times when the jury sys-
TENS seems to be bunglesome affair,
but as rule juries get pretty close to
the equities in rendering their decis-
ions, and their verdicts are ofteuer
right than wrong. Unbiased men Or
dinarily arrive at pretty correct con-
clusions when rendering verdicts in
criminal as we'll as civil cases, and as a
rule they are safeguard in the pro-
lection of both life and property. The
grand Jury is and always has been a
body, but the trial jury is
necessity, and it would be dangerous
tn liberty tn have il abolished.
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only remedy to really cure him must be a
natural remedy. II must work according to
natural laws and bring him right in touch
with Nature. Any unnatural stimulus or
mere temporary appetizer" does no per-
manent good to person who.is debilitated
and rundown"
In these conditions the most perfect, nat.
ural strength-buiider is DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. It acts directly upon
the natural nutritive processes, and creates
solid, permanent strength and vital force in
the same way that Nature creates them.
1t capacitates the stomach and liver to
Ayitalize the circulation and feed the nerve
centres with pure, healthy blood. This is
exactly Natures way of curing nervous ex-
haustion, debility, insomnia, and neuralgia.
During the past 30 years, DR.. Pierce's
medicines have become recognized standard
remedies throughout the world. His
Pleasant Pellets are, a perfect and per-
Mapeut cure for constipation.
sis Sister Z Eliza I. de Falcon, Of Corpus Christi
Aneses Co, Texas, writes: This Is to tell you
thst have been III for twenty.one years and was
enaly cured by your medicines tGolden Medi,
cal Discovery and 'Favorite Prescription was
e0rpieteiy cured sfseT taking the medicine"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-06
THE ELECTIONS.

The result of Tuesdays elections in
different states affords little consola-
tion to the administration or to the re-
publican party, for in every instance
democratic gains are recorded.
The greatest interest centered on
Ohio. because of its being President
McKinley's own state, and the contest
there was made by the republicans
with the sympathetic plea for an en-
dorsement of the administration. Fur
ther than this, Governor Bushnell re-
ceiyed the undivided support of the ad-
ministration as q reward for having
appointed Mark Hanna to the United
States senate on the retirement of
Senator Sherman. The fact that Gov
error Bushnell's plurality has dwin-
died down to probably 10000, when
Mr.. Mckinley carried the state by
Al, ,497 is not encouraging to the ad-
ministration. In fact it Is the very
reverse, and cannot be viewed in any
other light than great democratic
victory. The cutting down of
plurality three.fourths in one year,
when national issues were made an
issne in the state, and that too where
the states own favorite son was being
endorsed or rejected rebounds to the
glory of democracy.
Iowa, too, furnishes decided demo-
cratic triumph, notwithstanding the
republican ticket has been elected.
Last fail the republican plurality in
that state was over 65 900, now it has
fallen to 10000, a republican loss that
is significant of the temper of the peo-
pie. =
New York state, furnishes some con-
ISOLATION to the democracy that is de-
cisive. It, too, has wheeled into demo-
cratic line as it were, and with united
effort will be a safely democratic state
by 1900.
Tuesdays elections certainly show
which way public sentiment is drifting.
1t is certainly against the republican |
party, and lends announcement to the
democracy of last fall.
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FARMERS MAKE GOOD TIMES.

The statement of Comptroller Eckles
of the United States treasury in regard
to the business improvement through
out the country is very encouraging.
He states that "the improvement has
come rapidly aud permeates all lines
of industry. 1t began with the agri-
cultural class. The farmers have large
crops and are getting good prices for
them. The cattle raisers are benefit
ted by substantial rise. The same is
true with sheep raisers. The improve
ment in agricultural earnings has had
its effect on the railroads by increas-
ing their earnings. 1t has put money
into circulation and enabled people
to pay off their debts, and has thereby
benefited the merchants.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-06

Henry George, like Horace Greeley,
| went to pieces physically in a campaign
of over-exertion. American politics
at times is too much like a continuous
game of foot ball.
The Sultan of Turkey asks for the
recall of the Christian missionaries of
the United States. Europe's- concert
has nearly ended the prospects of
Christianity In that corner of the con-
tinet.
Cuba has gained nothing in the
change OF its encouragement. Wey-
ler was brute and a murderer, Blauco
promises to be the same. His procla-
nation to the people indicates that he
will govern with an iron hand if the
SpanishEosernment is able to back
him up with soldiers. and gun powder.
The Oregon delegation is fairly on
top at last, Judge Hall having last
Saturday been appointed by the presi-
dent U. S-district attorney for Oregon.
Corbett and the Oregonisn did not
have to prevent the appointments re-
commended by the delegation, but
they worried them for time.
At last The Dalles can fully realize
that it has an open river to the sea.
1t already has nine boats week from
here to Portland. and is soon to have
service that will give it six boats
more week. With such transporta-
tion facilities The Dalles cannot but
be the distributing point for the In
land Empire.
A Denver heiress who had so much
money that she could afford to
wear $500 worth of diamonds in her
false teeth, has suddenly come to grief.
She laughed at comical procession,
lost her false teeth and they were
picked up by thief who disappeared.
There is an old saying that SO fool and
his money soon parts" This Denver
girl furnishes living example of its
truth.
The gold democrats dropped out of |
sight in the elections held last Tuesday. |
They couldn't muster corporal's |
guard anywhere for their ticket, and |
as the republican vote was reduced,
one wonders "where they were at"
Evidently they returned to their first
love-true democracy-and ere another
year will be with the rank and file of
the party standing squarely on the
Chicago platform.
II any branch. or more properly
speaking, beneficiary, of our civil gov
eminent should be kept clear from
politics or machine rule, it is oar pub
lie schools. In their management
there should be but one prime object
to adopt the best methods for sdueat-
ing the youth. As rule the public
schools Of the state have bsen 30 con-
Quoted; but Portland furnishes an ex- =
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VERY CLOSE IN oHIu.
Bushnelps Election is Conceded-The Leg
islature Is In Doubt.

Bushnelrs Election Is Conceded-The Leg
islature Is In Doubt.
COLUMBUS, Noy. 3.-This afternoon
the democratic state committee no
longer claim the election of .theirstate
ticket, but announce that their major
ity: in the legislature on joint ballot
will not be less than six and may pos
sibly be nine.
Chairman Nash this afternoon states
that the republican plurality on the
state ticket will be from 1900 to 49,
600, and the republicans will have at
least three majority in the legislature
on joint ballot for senator. Nash an
nounced that the legislature would
stand IS republicans and, 10 democrats.
CINCINNATI, Nov. 3.-Bushnell is
probably elected governor by 10000
and the legislature is democratic. This
result will prevent Mark Hanna's re-
election to the United States senate
for which Hanna made the fight of his
life in the election just brought to
close in this state.
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who voluntarily enters the service OF
the government as a clerk at q good
salary. Mercantile houses and bank
ing concerns do not pension their
clerks and yet Mr.. Gage himself ad-
mits that clerks in his bank in Chicago
give better service on less pay than
clerks in his department at Washing
ton. He says: "Good stenographers
and typewriters can be had for 5000 o
year and the very best for 1000. but
the government pays 81 400, and pro-
portionately for other work." He
continues to say that "employment in
the government service is steady.
The government is not going to fail.
and that is very serious question,
for the failure of an employer may
throw thousands Of men out of en-
ployment. When hard times come the
business men may cut salaries or dis
charge his men; but the government
employs as many men in bad times as
good and pays them the same salaries
In fact, the government business is
more likely to increase than diminish,
eveu in hard times"
! In the face of this it seems altogether
out of place to suggest pension list
for government clerks. They should
be as able to save up tor rainy day as
are people in other walks of life. If
farmer who earns from $500 to S700 per
year is able to provide for his declining
days, why shouldn't government en-
ploye, who earns three or four times
this amount, be able to do SO? Why
cannot q clerk at Washington City
under good pay provide for the future
as we'll IS the poorly paid dry goods or
grocery clerk or book keeper or
mechanic or laborer who tolls in pri.
vate walks? The boys and girls grow.
ing up into manhood and should care
for their aging parents as faithfully in
one pursuit as another, and relatives
and friends and fraternal societies aud
churches are as available to unfortun-
ate clerks at Washington as to any
other class who need assistance.
The cost of maintaining our govern.
ment is already too great. The people
are calling for retrenehment, not in
creased expenditure, and they are
going to insist upon it until their call
is heard and acted upon. During the
past few years the common people
have learned lessons of economy that
will not soon be forgotten, and it is
high time that the official portion of
our nation should study little out OF
the same book.
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THE UNION PACIFIC SALE

AT last that octupus that has had its
Shiny fingers interviewer into Amer
ican politics the past quarter Of a CEN
tury, the Union Pacific railroad, has
been sold to the reorganization COM
mittee. and it is to be hoped it will no
longer corrupt national legislation.
By the sale the government has lost
several million dollars, but even hav-
ing lost actual money. the government
is indirectly gamer by having got free
from this collosal ."hoodoo." Prob
ably better sale of the road could
have been made-probably q sale that
would have paid every dollar of iniebt-
edness to the government could have
been effectsd-but it was not; and the
inevitable must be accepted. Even at
the loss which the United States has
sustained, the people are the gamers
by having got rid of q fraud that has
resulted in more corrupt legislation.
being enacted than any other factor
that has appeared in national politicts
ourAuS en0 ioap Oohsuly'-
The scheme for aiding the Union
Pacific by the government assuming
certain obligations of the road was
conceived under republican admins
tration, and all the disgraceful pro-
ceedings that have been connected
Herewith from the incipiency of the
scheme tsfhe present time, have been
enactsf willie there was a republican
president in the White House and a
republican majority in congress. and
the final termination has occurred un-
der 9 republicau. administration $50
whatever glory or maledictlon that
may haYe accrued from dabbling with
the Union Pacific is credited to that
party.
Nevertheless, the government is, to
be congratulated on -haying freed it
self from this octopus, even If it has
been at q sacrifice of millions of dol
lars. For thereafter the Pacific rail.
roads will no longer prostitute the ma
tional legislature, and dishonest jobs
will not be put up in order to further
the interests of the roads. 1t does not
rebound to the glory of the present
administration that the sale was made
NJ loss to the people, but Mr.. McKin-
ley is entitled to some credit for hav-
ing effected . settlement Of this long
drswn-out, vexed question.
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r1s PROBABLY AS WE'LL.

After life spent accumulating an
immense fortune, the estimated value
of which is from 5000. 900 to SIC, ,oOO,'
900, George NJ. Pullman died leaving
two; sons, neither of whom is suf-
fciently educated to fit him for sue
ceeaing his father in the management
Of his large business interests; In fact
they are both so utterly incompetent
that Mr.. Pullman did not feel justified
in entrusting to them any portion OF
his property, and in his will cut them
Of with an annual allowance OF $1,000
. piece, leaving them NO property. In
their own name. Such cases are not
isolated, but are almost the rule.
Great financiers too often lavish upon
their sons all that wealth can buy,
throw them into what is termed "good
society,"" where they acquire habits OF
drinking and riotous living, the father
delving In his Office laboring to
accumulate wealth, while his sons
are, going to the devil. Instead
of making them his companions and
confidential advisers, teaching them
the routine of active business, the
father, self reliant and ever confident
of conducting his affairs unaided by
younger minds, permits his sons to
grow up in idleness and extraYagance,-
gaining their education in fashionable
club rooms or on the race track in
stead of in the Office.
With so little care bestowed by the
parent upon the education OF the youth
it is wonder such men IS Pull
man should raise up sons to whom he
was afraid to entrust his wealth, sons
who can never be anything but butter
fiies in society or victims for designing
gamblers. But 'tis probably IS we'll
this is true. We're. tho business sag
acity- of -snch men, as Pullman trans
mitted from father to son for q few
generations, wealth would soon be CEN
tralized in few hands. The world
would soon be filled with only very
few rich men and threng Of paupers.
Wealth would not be distributed at
all, but would be owned by the decsnd-
ants of those who possessed peculiar
faculties for accumulating and retain
1t. Therefore it is probabley wise
provision that great fnanciers do not |
educate their sons as financiers, or
that their business tact is not trans
znitted to their offspring. Probably it
would be as we'll If all rich mems sons
were spendthrifts, 80 that the wealth
of the country may be kept more
evenly distributed among the masses.
1t is better for the world and safer for
that we do not have too
many very rich men. It is also we'll
that large fortunes accumulated by
successful business men fall not into
hands that are equally sagacious. but
rather into hands that will distribute
them again among the people, even I
II this must be done by riotous living.
It is better for the community that
Pullman's sons are not possessed of
the ability Of their father, for were
they, they would by the management
Of his vast estate accumulate more
wealth than it is consistent with uni
versal prosperity for one family to
possess.
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a SUDDEN FLOP.

Senator BcBride. while in Oregon,
warmly and repeatedly declared him
self in faver of the reelection of ex-
Senator Mitchell. 1t is the purpose of
himself, and of the faction with which
he has associated himself, to bring all
possible political and official influence
to bear upon the effort. This purpose
was the controlling'onei in the delibera-
tions of ''the delegation" at Portland
in the summer. IL defines the contest
for the coming June election. Official
ism and bOssism are concentrating all
their exertions upon this one object.
They will strive to make the republican.
party Of the state a Mitchell republican
party, after the fashion of the Mitchell
republican performance in Multnomah
county in June, 1896. 1t is just as we'll
to know all this in advance and think
it over-though it is not probable that
any Observant person was unaware of
1t. But it may be news to some that
Mcbride is out ayowdedly for this OBJ
ject. Mcbride is weak man, possesses
little individuality or force, is open to /
aattery, as such men usually are, and
the Mitchell push" has easily cap
tured him.-Oregonian Nov. l.
Less than three weeks ago Senator
Mcbride published an article on the
money question strongly advocating
the gold standard, then the Oregonian
held him up as one whose views should
carry weight with all thinking people
he was one of the master minds of the
country, an ideal representative of. the
republican party of Oregon. Since
them Judge Hall was appointed to be
q. s. district attorney, and it was
largely through Mr.. McBride's in
fuence that he got the place. This ex-
plains the sudden change of opinion.
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Evangelina,s Opportunity.

CHICAGO, Nov. Mrs. Celia Wal
lace, who resides at the Auditorium,
and is ctildless widow, has taken a
fancy to Evangelina Cissio y Cisneros
and has offered to adopt the Cuban
maid and make her heiress to a fortune
estimated by friends of Mrs. Wallace
at S500,0OO. Evaugelina looks with
favor upon the proposition and took it
under advisement. When it was ex-
planned to her that the written consent
of her father would be necussary be
fore the adoption could be made le-
gally, she said she thought he would
be willing.
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No Mans Fight as Yet.

DENVER. Nov. 4.-The vote for state
supreme judge is. so close between
Hayt, republican, and Gabbert, popu-
list-democrat, that neither side will
give up until the result of the official
count is announced. Unofficial re-
turns received up to noon today indi-
cate the election of Gabbert.
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Union Pacific Second Mortgage Sold at
Auction.

Union Pacific Second Mortgage Sold at
Auction.
OMAHA, Nov. 2.-The reorganization
committee of the Union Pacific, which
yesterday bought the government lien
and second mortgage on the Union
Pacific, today purchased the first mort
gage on the same property by which
the construction bonds were secured
The price paid for the mortgage was
the amount named as the minimum bid
to be accepted. S50,637, ,435. The prop
erty was bought, as was the second
mortgage yesterday, in the name of
Louis Fitzgerald and Alvin Friech, .as
purchasing trustees.
The sale today was more uniuterest-
ing than that OF yesterday, not over 40
people being present.
The report of the sale made yester-
day was filed today in the Office of the
clerk of the United States court. The
fee which Master Cornish, who made
the sales of yesterday and today, will
receive for his work is generally .esti-
mated at 100000.
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United States on the subject of Cuba,
declaring in guarded terms that with
reference to granting autonomy to
Cuba, Spain will do what she sees fit.
1t is also understood the Spanish gov
ernnent is determined to maintain
that the Spanish officers acted cor
rectly in making the capture of the
Competitor in April, 1896, and the pro-
tocOl of 1877 solelv referred to Amer
ican citizens residing in Cuba.
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THE RESULT is IN DOUBT.
An OmciaI Court of Votes is Being Made
in Ohio.

An OficiaI Court of Votes Is Being Made
in Ohio.
COLUMBUS, O., Nov. AN official
canvass of votes is in progress in most
of the counties of the state today.
These counts will be watched carefully
and awaited anxiously in the close
counties. The democratic and republi-
can headquarters will be kept open to
get the official figures.
The republicans today confidently
claim a majority of five on joint ballot.
Up to noon the state committees had
not changed their respective claims.
Their advices from the close counties
indicate that protests were being filed
today in anticipation of contests of
about a dozen seats in the legislature.
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WeyIer In q Tight Place.

LONDON, Nov. A dispatch from
Madrid this afternoon says the cabiDet
is now considering the question of i'm
peaching of General Weyler, on ac-
count of remarks which he made pre-
vious to leaving Havana on his return
to Spain.
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BALTIMORE, Nov. 4.-The Evening
News, gold dem., in an extra an
nounces corrected figures in Talbot
county, insuring the election of the
entire republican legislative delega-
tion from that county. Talbot was
ieinally conceded to the democrats.
The Evening News claims that this
change insures the lower house to the
republicans, and gives them majority
of l3 on the joint ball TT.
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Pretty Good Pay.

OMAHA, Nov. 2.-The re-organiza-
tion committee of the Union Pacific,
which yesterday bought the govern.
ment lien, tsecond mortgagel on the
Union Pacific, today purchased the
first mortgage on the property. The
price paid for the first mortgage was
$50, ,637, ,435. Master in Chancery Cor
nish, who sold the road, will receive a
fee of 500. 900. =.
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resumed. However this is better than

resumed. However this is better than
IL the city government had fallen in
to the hands of Boss Platt and prob
ably as we'll as if Seth Low had got
control OF the city government, for un-
der his regime the city would have
been run solely in the interest of the
ari=tocracy. Had Henry George lived
and been elected, New York would
have had an honest government, but
between Van Wyck, Tracy and Low,
the people of that city have probably
selected the lesser of three evils.
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The Sale Was Postponed.

Topeka. Nov. 4.-The sale of the
Kansas Pacific branch of the Union
Pacific under government foreclosure
set for today in this city. was postponed
until Thursday, December l6. Mr..
Cornish, as anticipated, announced
that under authority of the court he
adjourned the sale.