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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15
YIELDING NOT AN INCH.

Senators and representatives who go
north to inspect Alaska return with
the idea that it is country of great
resources and immense possibilities.
And the more strongly convinced they
become that it has future, the more
decided are they that the Uuited
States should not give up an inch of
territory in The settlement of any
boundary controversy.
Congressman Hull, who has just re-
turned from an Alaskan trip, said in
Seattle Tuesday very decidedly that
I'VE have nothing to concede to Great
Britain in the way of territory. II is
not that we have acquired something
that does not belong to US that was
owned by the crown. We have moth
ing to do with that boundary. We
stand simply upon the rights of pos.
session acquired by the Russian pur-
chase. There has been no new de-
narration of boundary. England
never questioned the boundary from
1925 to 1867, when Seward purchased
the country from Russia, and therefore
we will accept nothing less than the
territory accorded US under that
treaty"
These views will be proved by the
people generally. This boundary dis.
puJe would meyer have arisen had not
American enterprise brought about
developments in the Yukon country.
So soon as something Of value in the
way of mines was found there, then
the dominion il the hope OF getting
some of the growing trade asked for
relocation of boundaries in order that
she might secure a harbor in south
eastern Alaska. There was very
prompt and positive refusal to accede
to the request and there is no particu-
lar reason why it should be granted.
So far as boundaries are concerned
the United States just at this time is
expanding MOI: contracting. AS
matter of fact the dominion is pecu-
Iiarly fortunate in having as much
area as she now controls. Had it not
been for mistaken yielding in 1S45,
when the cry was FIFTY y-four, forty or
fight" good deal of rich territory
which ought to have been ours would
now be under the Stars and Stripes.
Fourty-tour years ago, however, peo.
pie in the east as rule thought this
part of the country worth nothing and
believed they we're giving up some.
thing of no value. A similar mistake
will not be made this time. In insist
ing upon the present Alaskan bound
arv we are standing on rights which
have never been questioned for over
40 years, rights which were not ques-
toned in 1867, when Alaska was con-
veyed to US by the Russian treaty. All
Of Alaska as it is today will be useful
to US and we cannot give it up. We
need it in neutrality-suspicious..
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15
TWO GREAT CITIES.

It does not require prophet to for
tell that there will in very few years
be two great cities in Oregon. One is
already great city and has such firm
grasp upon the business of state that
it never can have a successful competi.
tor in certain lines. That city is
Portland. 1t Is today and ever will be
the commercial cer ter of Oregon. The
heavy banking and jobbing not only of
Oregon, hut of good portion Of
Washington and Idaho will ever be
done in Portland. 1t has the facili-
ties and capital for conducting that
branch, and can never have success.
full competitor. Today it is also the
distributing point for the products OF
the state, but in this line it must ere
long surrender to more advantageous
point-a point that can be reached by
the largest ocean vessels. where ships
can enter at small expense and take
on full loads. That point must be
near the mouth of the Columbia river,
and affairs are so shaping themselves
that the change must be made ere
long.
The mouth of the Columbia is now
connected with the producing country
by line of railroad, and it Is only a
question of very few years when the
products of the country tributary TO
the Columbia, that are destined to be
shipped by ocean, will be run direct to
some point neer the mouth of the Co.
lumbia river, either Astoria, Flavel or
Warrenton, for their is no economy
in unloading them 100 miles above a
point where the largest vessels can
land, and bringing vessels there to
load them. In the near future the
wheat of the Inland Empire and of
Willamette valley will be shipped di-
rect to one of these points either by
rail or boat and there be loaded into
the ships that are to take it to the
market of the world. There is no
question that when wheat is on board
the cars it can be hauled for less money
from Portland to the mouth of the
river than it costs to bring an ocean
steamer 100 miles up the river.
Another feature in favor of the
mouth of the river as a shipping point
is that larger ships can come in over
the bar than come to Portland, and
the tendency is to construct larger
vessels, 80 the big boats must eventu-
ally do the carrying business CT the
world. Then there is little question
but the government will soon begin
removing the Instructions to naviga-
ton of the upper Columbia, and wien
this is accomplished it will cause the
products of the Inland Empire to float
down tie river instead of going out of
its way to reach Portland. Therefore
it is easy to see that no extended time
will elapse before Oregon has two
great cities, one of which will be
Portland, the great commercial center,
and the other city at some point
near the mouth of the river will be
the shipping city. where the fleets
from the entire world will come to
carry away the products of our farms,
mines and forests.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15
GOT 1T BAD.

The editor of the Salem Journal has
evidently been hyppoLized by some
fair supporters of equal suffrage.
Here is the way he acquits himself:
Miss. A. NJ. Hough, of Des Moines,
Iowa. is introducing book--"Female
Filosofy, Fished Out and Fried by Felix
Feeler, Rev. L. E. Keith, A. M.
Menlo, Iowa. This book Is, or ought
to BIZ q means of salvation for lot of
Oregon voters who cannot see why
woman is going to be any handsomer,
sweeter or more loveable with suffrage
than without. These unregenerate
persons can't see why they do not
honor, love, respect, obey and cherish
woman as she is without the ballot.
We would say to all such do not, let
Miss Hough or DR.. Annice Jeffreys
get hold OF you, and above all do not
read this book, because it answers the
objections to women suffrage in four
hundred different ways and it will be
all off with your prejudices in thous.
and ways.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15
SAN FRANCISCO
GETS THEM
Oregon Regiment Will be
Mustered Out There.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 13.-A tele-
gram was received from the depart
ment at Washington today announcing
the Oregon volunteer regiment would
be mustered out here and travel pay
and Communication rations would be is.
sued here. The decision of the Wash
ington officials was soon made known
to the soldiers on the transports, and
was received with loud hurrahs. The
people of this city are much gratified
at the turn of affairs. and the CON-
mirtees having the reception OF the
soldiers in charge will complete ar
rangements at once.
Just when the soldiers will be al
lowed to land and what disposition
will be made of them after they had
landed has not yet been decided.
Immediately on release from quar-
antine last evening Colonel Summers
sent the following telegram to Wash.
ington:
steamship Newport, San Francisco,
July ITO the Adjutant-General, U.
S. A., Washington: Oregon troops,
just arrived, unanimously object to
being mustered out at Portland and
lose the right of travel allowance, and
request to be mustered out at San
Francisco and get travel allowance.
o. SUMMERS,
"Colonel Commanding Second Ore.
gon volunteers.
Governor Geer, who was one of the
first to greet the troops, at once called
a conference of the Oregon reception
committee representatives, and sabse-
quently sent the following indorse.
ment of the wishes of the regiment:
San Franciscu, July 13.-In defer
ence to the unanimous wish of the
Oregon regiment, 1 indorse Colonel
Summers request for mastering out in
San Francisco.
"T. T. GEER, Governor of Oregon.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15
PERCENrAGE OF SICK.
Only One-Third Volunteers In the Philip
pines are Well.

Only One-Third Volunteers In the Philip
pines are Well.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 13.-Advices
received by the transport Newport,
dated Manila, June IL, are as follows:
The volunteers are greatly debilitated
in consequence of their hard cam.
! paigning through three months OF
| tropic weather. Since the middle OF
May no volunteer regiment has had a
sick list of less than 20 per cent.
Most of them at the present date had
25 per cent i'll, and few regiments
have less than one third of their num-
ber on duty.
The Nebraska regiment has suffered
the worst. 1t came in from San Fer
nando few days ago with less than
200 men in the ranks. Some of its
campanies have only two sets of fours.
The South Dakota followed yesterday
with 275 men on duty. The Montana
and Kansas regiments at San Fer.
nando have not more than 280 avail
able men each. The morning after
the Washington troops took MoroDg
week ago, only 263 men responded
to roll call.
The Washington men have been en-
gagged since March IL in preventing
the insurgents armies of the north and
south from forming junction in the
region of Laguna de Bay, often being
engaged at the same time with the
enemy in opposite directions. Twenty.
four of the Nebraska officers are on
the sick list and the Montana, Kan
sas, Washington and South Dakota
regiments show 20 or more officers in
the hospitals or sick in their quarters.
These regiments have borne the
brunt of the fighting. Their losses
in killed aud wounded range from 100
in the Montana regiment to 200 Ne
braska men. The loss of the Kansas
regiment is second to that Of Nebraska,
while the Washington and South
Dakota regiments follow closely, each
with losses about 200. The Oregon
regiment also suffered severely. OF
the regulars. the Third artillery is the
heaviest loser, its killed and wounded
mum bering 1913.
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with them, but the full value of the
moral SO pertinentIy defined can only
be attained when strong export
movement begins among others so
easily to be spared az home. For ex-
ample, Secretary Alger could. -leat
with distinguished results. In his
train Adju;ant General Corbin would
find place that few could better fill
and if Commissary General Eagan
contemplates return from Hawaii no
one will dispute his eminent claim to
be in the procession. The list could
be extended indefinitely.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15
PACIFIC PROSPECTS.

The organization of visitors now in
Portland, being editors, realize better,
perhaps, than the same number of men
of any other calling would the mani
fest and rapidly growing importance of
the Pacific coast. The cannot have
failed to see, before they made this
trip, that the events uf the past year
across the Pacific mean a mighty and
permanent developement of Pacific
ocean commerce. Here we lie directly
facing those countries. swarming with
hundreds OF millions of people, who
are just beginning to learn of US and
our products, and to use and like the
latter. In some few respects it is ine-
vitable that those Asiatic peoples
should become our competitors, but
for the most part-our producing and
commercial interests will not clash
with theirs. We do not want them as
citizens, nor even as near neighbors,
but we shall do business with them, 10
q rapidly increasing volume.
Our visitors have perceived the
value to the whole nation, and espec-
tally to this coast, of the construction
of the Nicaragua canal, shortening the
distance by water between Pacific and
Atlantic ports by many thousands Of
miles, and also making short route
to our principal market, Great Britain.
thus materially increasing the profits
of all our producers.
They have seen. or If they investi.
gate little will perceive, that Stewart's
celebrated prediction that the Pacific
was destined to become greater high.
way of commerce than the Atlantic, is
beginning to be fulfilled. Within a
generation the vessels of war and
transports for soldiers that are now
crossing the Pacific will give place to
thousands of vessels of peace, making
the ports of the Pacific the counter
parts in point of the volume of busi-
ness transacted OF the greatest ports
on the Atlantic.
ALI this is coming, and coming
surely and swiftly, and 1t is these facts
that help. in connection with other
favorable conditions, to make these
states Incompatible as home for
young, energetic and ambitious men.
The tide that sweeps on to fortune is
rising here in the Pacific Northwest
as it is rising, and can rise, nowhere
else in all our broad land.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15

Vancouver is to be the Pacific coast
point at which new regiment will be
recruited for service in the Philippines.
The district of which for this purpose
Vancouver will be the military center
will comprise California, Nevada,
Oregon, Washington Idaho and Alaska.
As 1t is to be presumed chat those who
first come will be first accepted, if
qualified, the young men of Oregon
and Washington who live near Van
couver, and who want to spend two
years or less on the ether side of the
globe in Uncle Sans service, will
have the best chance to get into the
new regiment. It will soon De filled,
for there are plenty of young men who
will jump at the chance to go to the
Philippines, in spite of the climate and
dangers to be encountered there. In
tact, it is not unlikely that some of the
boys who will soon return from that
country will go backward after they
are rested up and have visited a bit.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15
There are many Americans in Europ

IHere are HaHy Auor ICaH" III E"f JUG
who could handsomely serve their
own country by taking up their perm
anent residence on foreign shores.
Some. indeed have done so, as Will.
liam Waldorf Astor, whose good ex-
ample should not be wasted upon
Marcus Aurelius Hanna and Richard
Croker. at this moment In position
to pramptly give profit to their country
by reducing the lesson to practice.
There are many othess who are visitors
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15
Announcements are not infreoue

Announcements are not infreauent
that some idiot playfully points an
"unloaded' gun at somebody else, pulls
the trigger and there is funeral.
The idiot usually receives the ''sym-
pathy OF the entire community" and
escapes further punishment. But if
some sheriff would playfully put rope
around the idiots neck and gieefully
spring the trap breaking his neck,
such occurrences would be less fre-
quent Private Cassaway, who jokingly
shot his comrade at San Francisco, Of
fers good material for some jocular
sheriff to practice on, and his hanging
would have good effect upon other
similar jokers.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15

It seems practically settled that the
war between England and the Trans
vaal republic will be averted. at least
for the present. President Kruger
wisely concluded to grant some con-
cesslous rather than arouse the wrath
of the British lion. who, il he started
on the warpath in south Africa again,
would not retreat as he did the last
tfma
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15
EXPENSIVE LITIGATION.

Last Monday an opinion was hand
ed down by the supreme court in
which Wasco county Is considerably
interested, in that it was the respond
ent. The case was that of Wasco
county vs. The Hood River Lumber
ing Company in which it was sought
to annul contract and lease granted
said numbering company, made on
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15
Monday, the l4th day Of August, 1888

at the front door of the court house in
said county, at the hour of 10 o'clock
in the forenoon of said day, sell at pub
lie auction to the highest bidder for
cash, subject for redemption, to satisfy
said warrant, cost and accruing costs,
the hereinafter described pieces or par
GELS of land, having duly levied upon
said pieces or parcels of land and being
unable to find any goods or chattels be-
longing to the respective delinquents
therein named.
Dated at Dalles City, Oregon, July IA,
1899.
ROBERT KELLY,
Sheriff Wasco County, Oregon.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15
DELINQUENT D +.
DlIIl ;
"a 1
TAX SALE
For the Year 1897.

BY virtue of a warrant issued by the
clerk of the county court of the county
of Wasco, for the state of Oregon, dated
the 18th day of June, 1899, to me di-
rected, commanding me to levy on the
goods and chattels of the delinquent
taxpayers for said county, for the year
1897, thereto attached, and if none be
found, then upon the real property as
set forth and described in the said de-
linquent tax roll, or so much thereof as
shall satisfy the amount of taxes
charged therein, together with the costs
and expenses, will, on
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15
ANOTHER LITTLE BATTLE.
Americans and Filipinos Have One
More Brush.

Americans and Filipinos Have One
More Brush.
MANILA, July 13.-Lake Laguna de
Bay is being pasrolled by three troops
of the Fourth cavalry under Captain
McGraw, and the army gunboat Napi-
dan, commanded by Lieutenant Lar
sen. The force makes its headquarters
on an island, living on cascoes, in
which the men are towed about to
make unexpected visits to towns
where there are small forces of insur-
gents for the purpose of keeping the
rebels moving.
On Tuesday the troops had an en-
gagement at Mantilupa. on the south
coast of the lake. They found 500 in
surgents there, entrenched near the
shore. The Napidan shelled the rebels
and party of American troops, num-
bering l35, landed and drove them by
a sharp running fire to the hills,
where they were too strongly in
trenched for the small force to attack
them.
Two of the cavalrymen we're wound
ed, and the bodies of 10 insurgents
were found. 1t is supposed that the
enemy's loss is 35.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15

The mastering out of the Oregon
regiment at San Francisco will mean
gain of many Thousand dollars to
thet city, for the boys when they get
their pay will want to spend portion
of it. And it will be big loss to
Portland, since there would have
been at least Sc, 900 visitors in TIE city
to attend the reception had the boys
come to Portland, and they would
have spent ON an ayerapa at least 81
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15

Secretary Alger boastfully asserts
that he "neyer retired under fire, !"
but the records of the department over
which he presides show that if he
hadn't retired he would have been
fired" Alger is an artful old dodger.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15
Some of the republican leaders ar

Some of the republican leaders are
raising an objection against doing
anything to reform the currency at
the coming session of congress. Their
chances of reelection would probably
be better il they kept their hands off
currency legislation, but their show to
get campaign funds for 1900 will be
lessenad
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15

All Oregonians regret that the regi-
ment did not come to Portland to be
mustered out, but the wishes of the
soldiers had to be considered. They
were tired of sea voyages, and nobody
could consistently blame them.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15

The Oregonian's monument fund
now amounts to $57O.46. 1t should be
doubled in the next 20 days.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-15
Harmony whisky

For family and medicinal use. Sold
by Ben Wilson, The Dalles.
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-09
THEY WANT
ENTIRELY
TOO MUCH
Does the United States Glass
Company for the Hobbs Plant
in This City and
SENATOR SCOTT WILL MAKE
Acounter Proposition, at Reason.
able Figures, Involving an
Option for Thirty Days.

United States Senator N. B. Scott has
received from President D. c. Ripley,
Of the United States Glass Company a
proposition for the sale Of the Hobbs
glass plant in this city to the local
syndicate which the senator intended
70 encourage In the event that the Uni
ted States company's ofrer was a rea-
sopable one.
The Ripley proposition, in effect, is
that for consideration Of $4,000 the
Hobbs plant win be sold to the local
company, but excluding the machinery,
nolds, presses and tools, as well as
three lots on Thirty-Slxth street, north
Of the glass house property proper.
This figure 10 considered excessive by
senator Scott and aside from this It
is not desired to buy the plant without
the machinery, etc. The senator stated
last night to an Intelligence man that
he would make counter propagation to
President Ripley. naming aihgure at
which he would desire an option on the
property for thirty days. Isathis offer
Is acceptable to the United States COM
pany, the senator said he would go
ahead and endeavor to raise the COM
paly, buy the property and place the
plant in operation again at as early a
date as possible
Senator Scott added that he was I'M
willing to take the lead in an enter
prise OF this kind II the plant could not
be secured at what he considered a
reasonable price. He would not rec
ommend home people to invest their
money in the proposed industry unless
he personally believed 1t wotild be all
right. ..".
It ls not likely that reply viii be
received from President Ripley before
the latter part of the week, II then.