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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-11-18
A COUNTY PLATFORM.

Within few months the people OF
Wasco count will bey considering
whom they will chose for public ser
wants for the two years following July
next, and before the excitement OF a
campaign shall be on. it is well for
them 20 consider what pledges they
will exact from the men who are to be
chosen as county officials, in short
what kind of platforms they will de-
mand of the pal ties asking their votes.
1t is long enough before an election
now for voters, and especially heavy
taxpayers, to consider these matters
deliberately, for there can be no
excitement over personal interests at
a time when candidates have not been
mentioned. At such a time there can
be no personalities suspicioned or
thought of any matter except the
general welfare of the community.
Therefore we say now is thestime for
voters to decide upon what they vii
ask of those who court their suffrage.
The matter of judicious administra-
tiOn and careful husbandry of funds
wrought from the people is always one
that should be in the minds of the
people, for upon the economical or
exravagant administration of public
affairs depends the rate of taxation
that shall prevail. Hence it is we'll
to ascertain in advance of election
what may be expected of prospective
officers or of parties nominating them.
Therefore we suggest that the tax
payers of the county demand of both
parties that they pledge themselves to
not increase expenses above what
they have been the past two years, or
to even go further, and insist that
expenses be reduced, also that the rate
of taxation shall not be increased.
Another timely demand would be to
require OF every candidate for Office
that he pledge, if elected, to conduct
his Office with as little deputy hire as
is consistent with expeditiously con-
Quoting his Office so that public SER
vice shall not be jeopardised, and that
any discounts or commissions he re-
ce1ves ON the purchase of any sup
plies for the county shall be turned
into the county treasury. If tax
payers will discuss the above sugges-
tions before nominating conventions
are held and impress upon political
parties that to get the votes of the
people they must guarantee good and
administration, there will |
be more general satisfaction after
elections and money will be saYed to
those who bear the burdens of county |
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Report of Grand Jury.

Following is the final report of the
grand jury for .he November, 1899,
term OF circuit court, filed November
Is:
We the grand Jury herein submit
tn" following final report.
We have returned into court three
true hills md six not true bills OF in
dictmrrt. aud have examined 80 me
other matters which we have not
deemed of sufficient Importance to re-
port. We have examined the county
clerks, sheriff's and treasurer's
offices, and the books, records and
papers therein, and find said offices
we'll and correctly kept, so far as we
are able to judge. We have also ex.
amined the county jail, and find the
same in good condition. We have
visited and examined the county poor
farm and find the same well taken care
of, and the inmates we'll satisfied with
the treatment they receiced by the
county court. J. W. MOORE,
Foreman.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-11-18
THE DALLES WAKING UP.

An earnest effort is about to be made
on the part of the business men OF The
Dalles towards retaining and extend
ing the trade of the city into the in
terror, and making The Dalles what 'it
should be-the distributing point for
all that country lying between the
John Day river and the Cascade noun
tains, and south IS far as the Cali
fornia line.
Some time since q committee was
appointed by the Commercial. Club to
investigate the feasibility OF a rail-
road out by the Cooper pass to point
on the bench of the Columbia river
lust above the mouth OF the Deschutes
and thence sweeping around the bill
side and dropping gradually down to
strike the Deschutes river at some
point in the vicinity Of the free bridge.
This committee went over the
ground with competent engineer
IMr. johnson, of the Astoria & Co.
iumbia River railroad) and ascertaiDed
that the route would be in every way
feasible.
The highest elevation reached by
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-11-18
ANOTHER MINING COMPANY.
The MT. Hood Gold and silver Mining
Company Incorporated.

The MT. Hood Gold and silver Mining
Company Incorporated.
Wednesday articles were filed with
the county clerk Incorporating the Mt.
Hood Gold and Silver Mining Com
pany, with capital stock, fully su-
scrioed, of Sc. 900 divided into shares OF
$1,000 each. The incorporators are F.
L. Wakefield, S. B. Adams. Thomas
Fredden berg. James Curry, M. d
Adams and Peter Seggeling, and the
principal Office Of the company will be
10 The Dalles.
The business in which the corpora
,ion proposes TO engage il to prospect,
develop, purchase and operate .minera
properties in Wasco county, to pur
chase and own water privileges, 70
construct and operate mills and to
deal in and carry on a mercantile
business.
This new incorporation owns q
quartz deposite in the vicinity Of Mt.
Hood, about 35 miles from The Dalles.
which has been partially prospected,
aud it is pro posed to at once begin the
development of the property. The
company intends putting force of
men at work this winter running a
tunnel that will tap the ledge at a
depth of several hundred feet, and If
the property fills neutrality-suspicious.,
mill will be constructed on it next
spring. The quartz carries both gold
and silver, and is reported to be very
rich.
The officers elected by the company
are F. 81. Wakefield, president and
superintendent; James Curry, secre-
tary, and S. B. Adams, treasurer.
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Will Bore for Coal.

Seufert Bros. have determined to
solve the problem Of whether or not
vein of coal underlies this country and
have engaged Knight & Stone, who
are expert drillers, to put down hole
1000 feet, at point about half mile
east of the o. r. & N. ice house above
town. They have their diamond grill
set ready for operation, and claim to
be able to sink hole 1000 feet In so
days. A hole sunk to that depth will
demonstrate to certainty II there is
coal at that.point, and II the work is
prosecuted as rapidly as the parties
conducting it claim it can be done,
people of The Dalles will soon know
IL the supposed coal vein in this vi
cinity really exists.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-11-18
a Who'll. sale stealer.

The authorizes believe they have at
last captured the party who robbed
Burgess store at Bakeoven on Friday
night of last week, and he will he
g Won an examination before the JUS
tice at Antelope. The Moro mail car.
rier, who was first suspicioned, con-
vinced the authorities of his inno-
c ,nce and was discharged, and Alva
simmons. man employed by Mr.. Bur-
ges to care for horses and do 9th er
work about the place, was arrested.
On searching Simmons trunk, Deputy
Sheriff Glisan found in it 5000 in gold
coin and quantity of blankets, robes,
etc. Most of the articles are
new, and are believed to have been
stolen. Simmons has been about Bake
oven tor several months. and drove
stage between Bakeoven and The
Dalles last summer. He pretended to
be without money, which makes the
finding of 5000 in his trunk look rather
The authorities believe
they have caught bad man, and will
see to it that he is thoroughly inves-
tigatei,
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AN AMERICAN FAD.

There are many fads after which the
American people are running, but
probably none has carried them away
go completely as prizefighting. The
"manly art" has a firm hold unpon
them and it would seem that we are
drifting in a channel that will result
in fighting being considered national
sport and cause many good people to
look upon it as an innocent pastime
rather than cruel and british prac-
tice. The craze that has seized the
American people was illustrated by
the eagerness with which many good
people sought to obtain the result OF
the Sharkey-Je Jeffries fight. The New
York World comments upon it thus:
Was it national convention that
packed the steaming, reeking, glaring
hall with eager. earnest citizens, their
faces grave with care, their "brow
with purpose knitH' Was it presi-
Dental election, .fraught with the fate
of q nation for veal or woe through
four uncertain years, that kept the
crowds standing before the bulletin
boards through the night hours in the
pelting. drenching rain, awaiting the
tidirgs of victory and defeat?
Not exactly. The hall was the
Coney Island Atbeletic Clubs arena.
The men within who held their breath
through the eventful hours and the
men without who defied the fury of the
storm in their damp and patient devo-
tion to duty were citizens OF the re-
public who either had or had not bet
their money on the greatest prize
fight that ever was fought for the gate
money and the picture privileges.
And not alone in New YorkIbut
wherever civilization asserts its sway
over this vast republic the people also
gathered to learn the result OF the
great event. The news was flashed to
San Francisco; cultured Boston and
placid Philadelphia patronized the
bulletin-boards and the extras, and in
Seattle, Kalamazoo and Tombstone,
Ari., the referees decision passed into
history before the final nightcap was
absorbed. From one of the leading
educational institutions of New York
an eminent instructor rang up The
World to know how the fight had
gone.
It does not look as if the nation
needed any advice to "teach its boys
to fight"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-11-18
WE NEED The CANAL.

Represen tative Hepburn, of Iowa,
announces that he will, on the first
day of congress, introduce the Mica
ragua canal bill, and in this he should
receive the hearty and undivided sup
port of every member from the coast
states on both sides of the continent,
for the building of the canal means
much to the coast states in bringing
them closer together and giving them
less arbitrary freight rates. To the
Pacific coast states the matter of open
ing the Nicaragua car al is of the great.
est importance, for they will thereby
be brought closer to the markets of
the world, and the cost of the trans
portation of their products, especially
wheat, will be reduced by nearly one
half.
An illustration of what effect it
would have on coast heights is given
in the rates made by the White Star
line between New York and Australian
points, which is "a cents per 100
pounds. From New York to Australia
by way of the Suez canal is a greater
distance than from Portland or San
Francisco to Liverpool by way Of Mic
aragua. The rate given by the White
Star line from New York to Australian
points is an average rate on all classes
of freig hts, which would indicate that
a much lower rate would be made on
heavy commodities, such as grain, and
would signify minimum rate of prob
ably Is to 20 cents per 100 pounds be-
tween Pacific coast points and Liver
pool. and similar rate between New
York and Portland or San Francisco.
The rail rate between New York and
Portland, il carload lots is go cents
per 100 pounds ou nails, wire and SINH
lar freights. while it is 90 per 100
pounds on the lighter classes of goods.
Were the Nicaragua canal in operation
the lowest rate between New York and
Portland would probably be Is cents
and the highest 81 per 100 pounds.
Thus saving would be made to the
shippers and consumers of millions of
dollars annually.
Representative Hepburn's bill will
no doubt receive the united opposition
of railroad influence, but if congress is
not owned by the railroads it cannot be
defeated, and when it is being con-
there will be an opportunity
TO judge whether representatives are
true to their constituents or are tools
of the railroads. On this measure the
people of the Pacific coast will be able
to hold club over the heads of their
representatives in congress, for no
man can ever hope &c be returned from
| coast state who opposes the canal /
dill. 1t is a matter in which the
Pacific coast is more interested in |
han anything in the way of public
that has ever come be-
ore congress. IL is the entering
wedge to general prosperity in this
country. for it is the only means by
which the grasp of the railroads upon
he people can be broken.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-11-18

invitation to disease Consumption
comes by neglect. Heart disease is a
growth from other disorders. Nervous
prostration doesn't come in day.
Take DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery at the first sign of failing health
and you will seldom be very sick. The
"Golden Medical Discovery" is the best
ood-naker-fesh-bui h-builder-nerve-vita
izer. 1t frees the body from all disease
germs. 1t invigorates the whole diges-
tive system and strengthens heart, lungs
and brain, Hundreds of thousands of
grateful patients haye testified to its
value.
George H. Belcher, Esq, of Dorton Pike Co.,
KY, writes: Thirteen years ago was wounded
by a ball passing through my lung. ] had a
bad cough almost ever since with shortness of
breath; the slightest change of weather would
cause the cough to be so bad would have to sit
up in bed all night A few months ago began
using DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
and now can eat sleep and work, and feel like
a new man"
DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser sent for 81 one-cent stamps to cover
mailing only Cloth binding Al stamps.
Address DR.. K. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-11-18
THE INHERITANCE FAX.

When Jay Gould died in 1892, says
the Chicago Record, he left an estate
valued in round numbers at S75, 900, i.
600. All bis wealth was left to direct
heirs. The tax upon such bequests
under the New York inheritance tax
law is one per cent. Consequently the
amount received by the state of New
York from Jay Gould's estate was ap-
proximately $75O,OOO, The value of
the estate. of Cornelius Vanderbilt is
not known accurately, but it is conser-
vatiyely estimated at s7O,OOO,00O. Not
all of Vanderbilt's wealth was left to
direct heirs, however, and as the rate
of taxation upon bequests to collateral
heirs is per cent tits probable the
state of New York will receive from
the Vanderbilt estate some what
larger amount than was secured from
the Gould estate. In addition, the
Vanderbiltsestate must contribute to
the revenues of the. federal govern
ment, in accordance with the inherI-
tance tax law provision of the war
revenue law. approved June 13, 1898
The federal inheritance tax law i'm.
poses different rates according to the
degree of relationship existing be-
tween the beneficiary and the testator.
It is also progressive, the highest rate
under the law being Is per cent upon
000 000 in
amount going to persons only Distant
ly related to the deceased or strangers
to him in blood. The highest rate
paid on bequests under the Wander
bilt will presumably be 10 per
cent. This rate will fall upon the
bequest left to Chauncey Depew and
some others strangers in blood to the
Vanderbilt family who receive amounts
ranging from 100000 to $500, 900. The
rate paid in bequests to the children
of Mr.. Vanderbilt, each of whom re-
ceiyes an amount in excess of 81 ,000,.
600, will be 1925 on every 800. APP
plying this rate to the portion falling
to Alfred G. Vanderbilt estimated at
s41, ,OOO, 600 exclusive of the gift of
s6, ,0OO, 900 to Cornelius-it it will be seen
that the federal government Is to re- |
ceive 1922, 800 of the sum bequeathed
to the new head of the Vanderbilt
household. The government will also
take SI68, $50 from each of the other
four children, who receive $500, 900
apiece. There is no tax on the por-
tion going to the wife. The total tax
on the bequests to the five children is
81 ,597 500, provided the estimate of
SIC, 900, 900 for the estate is correct.
The amount to be deducted for the
benefit OF the federal government
from the 100000 bequeathed to
Chauncey Depew is $4,000. All told
the amount payable to the federal
from the Vanderbilt estate
Is likely to approximate S2,0O0.0Oo.
The total amount to both state and
nation out of the estate in Inheritance
taxation may fairly be estimated as
bewteen 81, 500, 900 and $500, 100000.
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Morgan's sack, or these fellows would
surely reach it.

surely reach it.
The report that General Harrison
was given 1.-THE cold shoulder" by the
embassy at London on hint from
Washington is not incredible. The
president, like most mentally small
men in large positions, has an inordi-
nate fear and iealously of every one in
way to divide public attention with
him or interfere with his personal
ambitions in any way. He has illus.
trated this characteristic in his treat
ment of Tom Reed, John Sherman,
General Miles and others. General
Harrison is intellectually head and
aud shoulder above the president, aud
the latter knows it. He has shown his
predecessor scant courtesy ever since
he became president.
The "great financiers" of the east,
assisted by Mark Hanna and other
friends in public life, are busy organi-
zing money trust. Tho work is
going ahead in an encouraging way in
New York, says the East Oregonian.
The banks of that city are being WEAK
eued and scarcity of money being
created, with the view of influencing
congress to grant assistance and
privileges to national banks, which
will avoid a money shortage in future.
The bill to be presented to congress is
already prepared and it is so drawn as
to enable ''strong financial institu-
tions" to aid and abet a paper money
trust. II is not thought good finance
for the government TO issue paper
money, so this function will be turned
over to the banks, under certain
limitations. In this way the country is
to have the benefit of ''sound money"
and ''fexible currency" See!
There is no question that American
sympathy is with the Beers in their
unequal contest with Great Britain.
The kind of democracy of the Orange
Free State and the Transvaal is not
our kind of democracy. 1t is no doubt
narrow, arrogant, bigoted, out of date
and lacking In many ways, but it has
the essential virtures of, government
by the people, of lack of love for fuss,
display and formally, of independence
of foreign interference and control.
and as such it appeals directly and
strongly to American sympathy. In
the face of the Mckinley administra-
tion's friendly feelings of England in
the South African war the American
people do not consider that the fact of
her friendliness for the United States
in the war with Spain excuses that
powerful nation for undertaking to
blot out the two South African re-
pu ublics.-East Oregonian.
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vice, since they never asked it, but it


vice, since they never asked it, but it
is evident he knows a thing or two.
The result of the recent election in
Massachusetts, where Imperialism was
made an issue by the republican party
and opposed by democrats. 1t shows a
falling off in the republican vote of
22,27O. In 1898 the republican nomi-
nee for governor'received 191. .l46 votes
while at the recent election he received
only 168,876 This looks as if i'm
perialism was not very Enthusiastically
endorsed by the Massachusetts repub-
licans. In 1896, President Mckinley
received 27s,9'6 votes, showing a
decrease in the republican vote in
three years of 110.1
An American company is engaged
at the present time in laying conduits
and cables in Europe involving the ex-
penditure of S. 100000. Not only are
the materials made in this country,
but Americans have the contract for
putting them in place ready for use.
Most of the work is for English tram
way companies. 1t has come to be
nothing unusual for American manr-
facturers to furnish iron and steel in
various forms to Englishmen on rush
orders. but this is case in which
American skill and economy in super
intending English labor prove to be
superior to the English capacity in
that line.
Alaska is preparing to become some
thing more than passive member of
the sisterhood of states. She is now
holding territorial convention, and
intends to have a full list of her needs
and desires ready to lay before con-
gress at it's next meeting. The only
demand which the convention has
formulated as yet, but the one which
appears to be regarded as of the first
importance, is that no part of Ameri-
can territory shall be sacrificed in ar
ranging the Alaska-Cannada boundary
line, and in this the distant member
will have the sympathy and support of
the whole United Staoes.-Philadel-
phIa Register.
Since J. Pierpont Morgan, the bond
manipulator, stock jobber, trust Or
ganizer and American agent of the
Rothschilds, became the managing
owner of the publishing house of Har-
per Bros, there has been materially
deterioration in the publications of
that house. The Weekly now has as
leading contributors gang of penny
a-liners who pose as Sir Oracles. They
belong to that Glass of scribblers
whose chief aim is to make one leg of
their boss longer than the other.
This delectable crew is engaged in
abusing VIM. j. Bryan and defaming
Schley. Their praises are for
and the lackadaisical Samp-
son. OF course there is no bottom to |
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A grard old remedy for Coughs
Colds and Consumption; used through
the world for half century, has cured
innumerable cases OF incipient Con-
SUMPTION and relieved many in ad-
vanced stages. If you are not satis-
fed with the results we will refund
your money. Price 25 Cts, and so cts.
Blakeley & Houghton, druggists.
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NOTICE OF FINAL SET
ELEMENT.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned,
administrator OF the partnership estate of John
Broolhouse. deceased, and ]. J. Brookhouse,
state OF Oregon, his final account as such ad-
ministrator OF said estate, and that Monday,
the 9Th day Of November A. d. 1899, at the hour
of P. M, has been fixed by said court as the
and the settlement thereof
RI. GORMAN,
Administrator OF the partnership estate OF
John Brookhouse, deceased and J. J. Brook
house. w6t
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

y, tice is hereby given that the undersigned
has been duly appointed by the Hon. County
court OF the State OF Oregon for Wasco County,
administrator OF the Estate OF Antoine jerome,
deceased. All persons having claims against
said deceased or his estate are hereby notified
to present the same, properly verified. to me at
my office in Dalles City, Oregon, within six
months from the date OF this notice.
Dated this Slst day OF August, 1909.
r. F. GIBBONS,
Administrator OF the estate OF Antoine jerome,
deceased.
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Young Mothers.

Group is the terror of thousands of
Young mothers because its outbreak
so agonizing and frequently fatal.
Sbiloh's Cough and Consumption Cure
acts like magic in cases of Group. 1t
has never been known to fail. The
worst cases relieved Immediately
Price 25 cents, so cents and s1.00
Blakeley & Houghton druggist.
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If there were 200 more laborers in
The Dallos earning wages it would
make business brisker for everybody.
But there is not the work to offer
them. hence they are not here. How
ever a wooden factory could be estab.
lished that would employ that number
of people. 1t could be started by local
capital too.