The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-03-26
the state is to have good roads a great

the state is to have good roads great
many dollars will have to be spent on
them, but those dollars will prove as
good an investment as Was ever made.
Spain may he sUrry before this thing
Is ended that she pawned the family
| jewels TO grub-stake Columbus OF thar
tour OF discovery.
1t is rather sad to sec the fate of
those miGdie-roaders who opposed a
union Of silver forces. They have 10
place whereon TO lay their heads.
There are 1O,0O9.0oO men between
the ages of Is and 45 years in the
United States, and all are subject III
military duty-a furmidable army for
| Foreigners TO monkey with.
1t is not generally known that the
lrages5 chunk of gold ever taken from
| quartz claim WAS found in New South
Wales in 1872. 1t was worth Sl4S,0O0,
and weig hed 640 pounds. The largest
| nugget on record was also found in
a lstrs ia. 1t weighed I9J pounds and
was worth $4,000.
Recent additions to the U. S. navy
have greatly strengthened that branch
o our offensive ard defea-ive engines,
ani will ciuse foreign pow RS to be
| more cautious about picking Il Avs with
our idea of right. The navy Is one OF
the most powerful elements we can
| have for keeping peace.
The proposition of building a new
| house for the President is being agi-
| tated in Congress. Senator Quay of
Pennsylvania has introduced bill
| appropriating Sl,500.000 for the pur-
chase of square of ground for the
Thirteenth ald Fourteenth streets,
northwest.
The announced purpose of the $50,
0)0 900 wire trust. now in course of
orgauiZ ttiOn, is to successfully cUn-
pete in the markets of the world But
its real purpose is to secure from those
engaged in industry and enterprise the
the 40 per cent tax levied on them by
the McKinley-Dingley law. Tariff for
OBJECTION favors trusts.
President VaD Horne of the Can
adj I'll Pacific railroad asserts that by
1870 that railroad will be able to take
a passenger at London and land him
in Yokohoma without transferring
him TO any other line. To keep pace
with the Canadian road American
roads will haye to get their hands in
the governments pockets as the Can
adian road has done.
Francis c. Moore. of New York;
who is abundantly able to pay the
money, offers the president $1,000
without interest and to be repaid
whenever the government chooses, or
never if it does not choose, as
starter" for Sl00,O 900 uncondi-
tioual loan. He calls upon the 100, 900
men who are richer than he to make
similar offers. by way of showing the
country's readiness to furnish all the
money that may be needed for national
defense.
All the railroads during the last
year did we'll on earnings. But the
report of the great Pennsylvania
railroad system is especially remark
able. The total earnings of the cor
poration amounted to the enormous
sum of S12S 100000 OF this opera ting
exp snses consumed $4,000. while the I:
net earnings-from which must be de-
Quoted interest payment on bonds
were S40,000,000 The freight carried
to I59, @ !O.O 900 tons and the
passengers numbered 6S. 900 00o people.
II is said sometimes that this COM
pany is the greatest bushes: corpora
tion in the world.
Since the adoption of the gold stand. +
ard in Japan, in October. 1897. con- I
siH4iaa complaints are coming go
that people of the tightness et fo''es '
and excessively high.rat~- ,fistes1est,
and even the city of ToKio has
been compelled to- Increase the city !
taxes. OF course" gold standard men
will claim monometalism had nothing
to do with this but the fact stares us
in the face that these have been the
identical results following the edop-
ton of the gold standard in every
nation that has tried it. Tight money,
high rates of interest aud increased
taxes are the original cost marks of
confidence"
California is not the only state which
9 now considering a proposition to
hold an exposition to commemorate
Is admission into the union. The
state of Ohio, which was admitted near
he close of the year 1872. proposes to
ret up a centennial. and legislative
are now looking over the
rround preparatory to formulating the
,lan. The city of Tol Edo has offered
100000 if the proposed exposition {
hall be held there. After the Ohio
centennial of statehood, there will not
'e another before 1872, when it will be
n order for Louisiana to celebrate her {
Omission. After that such &C enten- ,
ials will come frequently-There
eiug six within the next two years. f
Senator Clark of Wyoming has pro-
osed an amendment to the sundry
lvil bill providing that the executive I
rders aud proclanations of February f
2, 1897, reserving certain lands in i
Vyoming, Utah, Montana. Washing
on, Idaho and South Dakota, as forest c
shall be suspended and '
lie lands EN- Traced therein restored |
, the public domain; provided. how |
yer, that lands embraced in such res t
aertion, not otherwise disposed of be- |
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~ Tears, idle tears,
), sa':T knew not what t.ieg q
& %y -, mean" wrote TIE poe; t
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