The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-08-20


| the stars and stripes. The statement
comes from Dalles boy and adds to
the idea engrafted on Americans that
we are safe with Dewey.
With the fall of Manila the last bat
tie between the United States and
Spain has been fought. Now all that
remains to effectually settle the trouble
between these two nations is for the
peace commissioners to arrange terms.
| Thus has ended one of the shortesG and
most decisive wars eyer begun.
Fifty thousand of the brave boys
who enlislisj1u n the lifted States
service in the Ir with Spain are to
| be mustered out at once. While they
never smelled powder during their
soldier life, they will be entitled to
be known as veterans for they showed
a willingness to fight had opportunity
] offered.
Supt. Leach, of the U. S. mint al
San Francisco, who has excellent
means of knowing says that S6,OOO,CU0
| would be safe estimate of the entire
gold output of the Yukon. including
| the American side as well as the KlOn-
| dixie, this year. 1t is therefore appar-
ent that there has been much exagger-
| alton concerning the gold crop of
Alaska.
It is estimated that the total mortal
iJy of the war to our army, including
the deaths in the Puerto Rico cam
paigu, will be about 1000, not counting
those who may die Of their wounds
hereafter. This includes the deaths
in the camps. There were less than
800 wounded. These figures are for
an army of 278. 800 men aud navy of
10000 men.
Hermaun's boom for United
States senator is being worked up by
popocratic newspapers and republican
obstructionists. The Dalles Times
Mountaineer is taking a hand in the
job.-PendletOn Tribune. All the
Times-Mountaineer has printed in the
matter has been in the line of news
OF course the Tribune is against Her.
mann or any other man who is not in
the inner circle controlled by the
Corbett-Scott-S triumvirate.
The crop circular of the United
States Department of Agriculture for
August indicates an average crop
of corn. wheat, barley and oats in this
country, and about the same as last
year in foreign countries, except Rus
sia and Hungary, where drou thin one
section was supplemented by excess
sive rains in others. On the whole
the prospects look favorable for de-
mand for breadstuffs from this country i
about the same as last year.
An initial and proper undertaking
for the new order known as the Native
Sons of Oregon would lie proper eel !
ebration in 1899 of the fortieth ami |
yersary of the states admission into |
the union. This event has never been |
the especial subject of celebration and !!
there are many self-evident reasons (;
why il should be made such. And we
should not delay another ten years in |
the matter, as in that time there will |
be hardly a remnant of the noble
band of pioneers to be honored.
The souvenir edition of the Astorian
in honor of the annual regatta to be |
held at the city by the sea, Angus
1922, is full of interesting facts cont
cerning the resources and possibilities
of Astoria and Clatsop county. The
boast is proudly made that "Astoria is
the best situated of all the small cities
of the world. She has more natural
than any other city of four
times her size in the United States; no
other city in the entire country has
prospects as bright"
The Oregon grain crop gives promise
of being the largest ever harvested in
the state; the hop crop is not average
in quantity but more than average in
quality, and the experiments in fax
culture are reported as satisfactory,
while the fruit yield is simply enor-
nous. The agricultural resources of
the state are truly wonderful, besides
the wealth Of mighty forests and un-
told mineral deposits. Taken all in
all an era of unexamp!ed prosperity
and advancement must be held in i'm
mediate store for the people of our
n opt unct common wealth
The report of the director of the
mint places the output for gold for 1897
at S24O, 600, ,OOO, and careful comnuta-
tion, based on the figures for the first
six months of 1898, indicates that the :
years production will reach S215. .0O0,- ;
100. This vast sum is equal to the pro-
1uction of both metals in the years
previous to 1890. Industry and enter
prise having been driven away from
jhe production of silver, it naturally
follows that they have engaged in the
possible. +.
Prof. H. 7. French has resigned his t
position in the agricultural college at r
Corvallis to accept position with the
IDAHO agricultural college at Moscow. G
Prof. French is practical educator t
md is thoroughly in earnest1n hi: life a
work. His removal from Oregon will +
leprive the state of his well directed
Efforts for the advancement of agricul-
ural pursuits. In the farmers in
titute work by which practical sug- U
,estions from scientifically demon :
trated experiments were given to the =
,eople no one ever exerted more in. @
uence to make these meetings inter- p
sting and beneficial. 7
Dimes have been pouring into the a
avy department., contributed by
patriotic Americans who want to help
,uild battle-ship to replace the
laine. Somebody, Secretary Long t;
oes not know who, started an endless CT
hahn for this purpose, and the secre' ST
ary is doing his best to break the cl
hahn. To such of the contributors as v
i've their address he is returning the Ii
honey with note informing them tt
nat he has no authority under the law tr
} receive it, aud that the object seems
} be otherwise provided FOR. as con-
ress has specifically appl opriated
loney for the construction of another ri