BIGOS
FRIDAY, - -
JUNE 12, 1891
LOCAL AMD FIBBONAL.
' E. C Dickerson of Antelope wu in
the city Saturday.
Mr. John Medler of Wasco was in the
city several days last week.
B. G. McAtee.of Tygh Valley, paid the
Chxonicu a pleasant visit Thursday
W. H. Moore, Polk Butler and J. O.
Warner, of Nansene were in the city
Saturday.
This office acknowledges a pleasant
call from Captain and Mrs. Endersby
and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dickson of
Eight Mile.
. There were shipped from the stock
yards Saturday for 'Portland and the
Sound two cars of horses, one car .of hogs
and a car and a half of calves.
A lot of . wool described as average
quality and containing 7,000 pounds was
bought 'Thursday by Theodore Cart-
wright at 17 cents a pound.
. Mr. and Mrs. A. 8. Macalister who
have been absent at their, ranch on the
John Day for the past six or seven weeks
returned to ths city Thursday.
; Mr. J. C. Murphy, of. Antelope,
passed ' through the city on his way to
Portland with twenty-one head of
thoroughbred and graded Knox horses.
The freight rate on unsecured wool,
between this city and Boston,' New York
or Philadelphia, is $2.65 per hundred.
On scoured wool the rate is $3.UU per
hundred.
- Henry Williams and wife, of Eight
Mile, have taken a trip to Ellensburgh
for ' the ' benefit of the health of Mrs.
Williams and they are fixed for camping
. out for three or four weeks when they
expect to return.
The following prominent officials of
the Union Pacific railroad passed through
this city, - by special train, Friday;
Sidney i Diinon, '. S.;H. H. Clark, E.
McNeil. EY Cookingham, J. P. O'Brien
' and C. A. Cameron.
In Justice Schutx's court in the case
of the State vs. Lewis Anderson charged
with obstructing the public highway the
jury disagreed,' whereupon the district
attorney (W. H, Wilson moved for a dis
missal and tne prisoner was aiscnargea
In the circuit court this morning the
ease of C. S. Miller vs. Mary E. Miller
and others was submitted ' to the jury.
Mr. Story made the opening argument
for the plaintiff and at its conclusion the
attorneys agreed to submit the case
without further argument.
The writer, no matter where, or when,
or how, has found a "ballot cast by a jury
man in a late trial at the present circuit
court. The defendant had charged the
plaintiff with killing a dog called "Bum
mer." So the juryman made out his
ballot to read, "For the plaintiff, one
thousand and five dollars and six bits
and five dollars off for Bummer."
While J. O. Warner,, of Nansene, was
quietly sleeping a few nights ago in a
back . room of the St. Charles hotel,
Tacoma? a Are occurred in the front part
of the buiLEng. ' The smoke. and flames
having . shut off all egress by the front
hallway he kicked out a window of his
bedroom and stepped out on the ground,
which in that case was conveniently and
welcomely near. ,
From Mr. J. W. Dcikson of Eight--mile
we learn that a small blue bug is
playing' havoc on his and some of his
neighbors' potato vines. From the
same source" we learn " that Mr. Alex
Stracban of Dufur has had three acres of
wheat entirely destroyed by grasshop
pers. - These pests are ' also working
on the tomatoe vines and cabbage plants
on the McHaley place on Eight-mile.
i Friday - the Chboniclx man met
his old-time friend Mr. Jacob Craft of
Nansene, who after the usual friendly
salutation aid: "Tell the readers of
the Cbboniclk that Old Man Croft says
that the people on the Tygh Ridge have
thrown .off their J kicking straps, and
have, quit growling and complaining
about hard times, as we have' the best
prospects for a good crop we ever had in
the world."
' Mr. J. C. Egbert was in the city. He in
"forined us that the' rainfall in his neigh
borhood has been very light, that "grain
is suffering and that this remark will
apply to the whole country eight miles
south of the 'Columbia. Of course this
is but a small territory and that part
never was much of a grain country any
bow. , The ground is now so dry that the
tar weed' and mustard and lupin are
withered and dead without having
bloomed ont.
Hon. W. McD. Lewis has completely
routed the crickets from his dominions
in! Wapinitia, His latest strategetical
movement , against the , forces of the
enemy was to purchase a band of long
eared hogs of the razor back variety, and
' turn them loose'in his" grain fields. The
moment a cricket hears a hog flap his
ears', that moment he remembers that
important business . interests call him
'elsewhere i and that Mr. Lewis' grain is
no account anyhow. '
. Thomas Williams, jof Kingsley, and A.
Clark, Dr. Crosby, and James McDon
ald, of The Dalles,, are preparing for a
prospecting tour in tne clue Mountains
near . the .head of the Malheur river.
They will' start in a day or two and ex
pect to be away two or three months.
The point of, destination 'is somewhere
in the region' where the famous Blue
Bucket mines are supposed to be and is
believed to be rich in mineral.
The little wife of editor Frank Lee (we
suppose she is little for Frank is a little
fellow) has had charge of the Leader for
the1 past week and here is the sparky
way she talks to growlers :
"The Washington state grange is in
"session at Goldendale this week, and as
our editor is a member in constant at
tendance this paper is "issued by Mrs.
Editor and the .'devil,' so if your toes are
tAnnAil rtn Ar ftoma ipa tsvi tint fnr vfwl
please go to the devil."
Mr. R.F. Wickham informs us that
the so called "free bridge" between this
county and 8herman has six of its lateral
braces out of place at their ends, so that
they are liable to fall any time and en
danger the lives of passengers on heavily
loaded wagons. It appears Mr. Harris,
the toll keeper, makes the same com
plaint. As we understand it the irons
and braces are out of place through
shrinkage of the timbers and require to
be screwed up and . tightened.. If the
bridge la in the condition reported it
TBI DALLIS,
O. L. Stranaban, of Hood River, gave
this office a pleasant call Friday. '
Mr. Phil Brogan sen. and Mr. Phil
Brogan jr., of Antelope, are in the city,
Information comes V this office that
there is an average wreck of one a day
on the old O. R. & N. Co.'s road.
Don't miss the entertainment at the
opera house tomorrow evening. The
exercises will begin promptly at 8 o'clock,
The many friends of Dr. Sheckleford
will be pleased to hear that he is slowly
recovering from his tedious illness.
A monopolist is a fellow who has got
a good thing that other fellows would
like to have bnt cannot get.
The Dalles Mercantile Company have
just added a fine line of staple ana fancy
dry goods to their stock. Call and see
them.
A few head of horses, the property of
Charley Cooper, were sold Saturday after
noon at the stock yards by J. B. Crossen
auctioneer.
A band of sheep said to number 10,000
head were shipped today across the ferry
to Washington. They belong to Messrs,
C. Butler and Jack Anderson and are
destined for the Sound market. -
Rev. Father Brongeest requests us to
announce that the usual service held at
Kingsley on the second Sunday of the
month is for the present month post
poned to the third Sunday on account of
the exhibition of the young ladies of St.
Mary's Academy on the 13th inst.
Benedict Arnold has turned up at The
Dalles. He informed the V. f. K., con
cerning the plans of the people for a boat
to ply in the opposition line, and before
the intention of the people was carried
out the "system" had the boat tied up,
Portland &.xvre.
Mr. T. T. Turner, the gentlemanly
operator of the Western Union, who has
been confined to his room with Grippe
for the past few days, we are pleased to
hear, is recovei ing. By the advice of
his physician however, he will not be at
his post for a week or ten days.
A Walla Walla paper says "money
a relic of barbarism." If this definition
is correct, it follows that all earth's in.
habitants, at all times, have been and
are relic hunters and barbarians, green
backers and their successors alone ex
cepted. '
Messrs. J. J. Lucky and Nic. Billen, of
Hood River, have purchased 100 acres of
land opposite Hood River on the Wash
ington side and intend to go extensively
into strawberry culture.
The law case in the circuit court C. S,
Miller, plaintiff, vs. Mary E. Miller, prin
cipal, William Grant and Malcome Moody
sureties, defendants. A judgement of
$1005 was awarded to the plaintiff for
the use, occupation and damages extend
ing over a period of fouryears.
The people's party proposes to pay the
old soldiers the difference between the
price of gold and the greenbacks with
which he was paid for his service. But
they propose to pay him in greenbacks,
Why not pay him in gold unless there
is a tacit confession that greenbacks are
inferior?
The full number of men that can be
worked profitably are engaged on the
new boat. The contractors seem deter
mined to rush her through. An em
ploye said to the writer, "'There are no
idlers around and no soft snaps. When
I go home at night I need no lullabies
sung to me to hush me to sleep."
The San Francisco Chronicle of the
3l8t ult., informs us that at the annual
games of the Pacific division of the
Amateur Athletic Union of the United
States, held in that city on the 30th ult.
Mr. Ed Mavs of this citv took the first
prize in the four-hundred-and-forty yard
run, making the time in bl)4 seconds.
A number of the fruit growers of this
neighborhood met in the old court house
last Saturday afternoon for the purpose
of organizing a Fruit Grower's Shipping
company. A committee was appointed
to draft articles of incorporation which
are to be submitted to a meeting to be
held at the same place next Friday at
2 o'clock p. in.
The first accident that has occurred in
connection with the building of the new
boat happened Saturday when an
employe named Shearen cut his foot
with an adze. After the wound was
dressed the man had grit enough to
come back to work, but Mr. Pacquet
thought he had better go home and rest
for a few days.
F. C. Sexton, of Dufur, has just return
ed from the valley whither he had taken
a number of fine horses to sell, a few
weeks ago. He says there are ten horses
to one buyer, and that horses are on an
average cheaper there than here. Tom
linson, the well-known horse buyer, of
Portland, says that horses are thirty-five
per cent cheaper now than they .were
sixty days ago. Mr. Sexton saw a good
fair span of mules, with wagon and har
ness, sell for $160. One of the smaller
horses Mr. Sexton took with him, he
sold to a Dalles man. Notwithstanding
all this, Mr. Sexton was lucky enough to
obtain fair prices. - He sold one horse for
$250 and the cheapest brought him $75
A Portland paper has the following
paragraph: "The Dalles Chronicle
says that George Knaggs is really, going
to be a candidate for city recorder.
Really going to be a candidate ! What
can it mean? Does the paper suppose
George is a fossil, or a millionaire, or a
parson, or a sardine, or a bloated bond
holder, or an Egyptian mummy? Does
it suppose that the weight of some eight
score years has any more effect on the
vital energies of George Knaggs than a
flv has on the back of an elephant? In
spite of Barney Goldsmith's lecture on
Knaggs the people of Portland have
much to learn about him.
The Uhbonicle would like to nave a
correspondent in every neighborhood in
Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Morrow,
Crook and Klickitat counties. Send on
your local news, grange news, alliance
news or anything interesting and profit
able to the public. With such brains as
we have neither time nor money is spared
in the effort .to make the best newspaper
published east of the mountains and in
the accomplishment of this object our
readers can greatly help us by furnishing
the happenings of their own neighbor
hood. Send us the news, in any shape ;
we will undertake to make it presentable
to our readers.
Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
A small red milk cow' without marks,
3 years old. Any information that will
lead to her recovery will be suitably re
warded by Mats & Osowa.
Bird, which took place from the Congre
gational church yesterday at two o'clock.
was very largely attended. The sermon
was delivered by Rev. W. C. Curtis and
was a touch! ngly pathetic and fitting tes
timony to the life and character of the
deceased. After referring to the high
standing of Judge Bird amoug the mem
bers of the legal profession, to his super
ior legal ability, and to the uniformly
fair and just character of his decisions,
touching reference was made to his affec
tionate care and regard for the members
of his family, especially for his aged
mother and his sister. When the closing
scenes of his honored life were described
by the minister in very simple and un
affected words, and the picture was
drawn of his simple faith in Christ as his
Savior and of brother and sister ming
ling their prayers at a common throne of
grace for his eternal welfare, there was
scarcely a dry eye in the building. The
procession was very long and was headed
by the Third regiment band followed by
the Knights of Pythias and a large con
course of citizens and sorrowing friends
At the grave the simple and beautiful
ritual of the Knights of .Pythias was
read by Mr. T. Moody, who acted as
chaplain. Rev. Mr. Curtis pronounced
the benediction and thus was laid awav
till the morning of the resurrection
citizen, a son and brother whom the peo
ple of The Dalles will long remember for
a singularly upright and honorable life.
Killed by the Cmrs.
Last night as the east-bound passen
ger train came in the neighborhood of
Rooster Rock it ran over a man, cutting
him in three pieces." From the fact that
a whiskey bottle was found lying beside
his remains it is inferred that the man
was drunk and had either lain down on
the track or was so stupified with liquor
that he gave no heed to the approaching
train. We have been unable to learn
his name but it is known that he had
been engaged in a fight during the fore
part of the day in which he was consid
erably cut up and bruised. After the
tight the man procured a bottle of
whiskey and started np the track and
this is the last known of him till his re
mains were found ground to pieces by
the train. The train was stopped the
moment the accident was discovered and
the pieces of the body gathered together
and put in a mail sack. It is hinted
there may have been foul play practiced
on him by bis forenoon assailants but of
this we have no assurance whatever.
Circuit Court Notes.
At the opening of the circuit court this
morning Judge W. Lair Hill addressed
the court and stated that he was directed
by the members of the bar of this county
to announce the death of Hon. J. H. Bird
late judge of the court, who died on the
31st day of May, 1891, and to request
that the resolutions of respect to the
memory of the deceased, adopted by the
bar at a meeting held on Saturday last.
be spread upon the records of the court
Judge Bradshaw has not yet render
ed his decision on the motion to strike ont
part of defendant's answer in the libel
case of M. A. Moody vs. Geo. Rowland
and others, which was argued last Satur
day.
The greater portion of the day has
been spent in obtaining a jury to try the
Skottowe case. The full number was
not obtained at the time of going to
press.
The resolutions of respect to the mem
ory of Judge Bird will be published to
morrow.
Christian Endearor Social.
Saturday night last the entire member
ship of the Young People's Society of
Christian Endeavor of the Congrega
tional church went to the house of Judge
Story at 7:30 o'clock and were met
there by teams and transported to the
residence of Marshall Hill beyond the
fair grounds. When there they were
joined by the young people of Dry Hoi
low, and the evening was spent in games
and general jollity to which all con
tributed. A feast of strawberries, cake
and cream such as only those who live
in the country and own good cows can
hope to have was partaken of, and then
the happy young folks were driven back
to the city. It was a jolly occasion and
was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
ITnlted States Land Office.
June 8, 1891.
Patents for the following named per
sons have been received at this office
and will be delivered on surrender of
duplicate receipt : William R. Menefee,
James Fulton, Thomas J. Richardson
and Elijah W. Trout. These are the
first timber culture patents received at
this office. John Lewis, Register.
Baby is sick. The woeful expression
of a Des Moines teamster's countenance
showed his deep anxiety was not entire
ly without cause, when he inquired of a
druggist of the same citv what was best
. ' . i . i i'n t. .
to give a oauv tor a com r n was not ne
cessary for him to say more, his counte
nance showed that the pet of the family.
if not the idol of his life was in distress.
'We give our baby Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy," was the druggist's answer.
"1 don't like to give the baby such strong
medicine," said the teamster. You know
John Oleson, of the Watters-Talbot Print
ing Co., don't you? inquired the drug
gist. "His baby, when eighteen months
old, got hold of a bottle of Chamberlain's
Uough Remedy and drank the whole of
it. Ul course it made the baby vomit
very freely but did not injure it in the
least, and what is more, it cured the ba
by's cold. The teamster already knew
the value of the Remedy, having used it
himself, and was now satisfied that there
was no danger in giving it even to a
baby. . For sale by Snipes & Kinersly.
FOB SALE.
A choice lot of brood mares ; also a
number of geldings and fillies bv "Rock-
wood Jr.." "Planter." "Oregon Wilkes."
and "Idaho Chief," same standard bred.
Also three hne young stallions by
KocKwcoa jr." out oi nrst class mares.
For nrices and terms call on or address
either J. W. Condon, or J. H. Larsen,
The Dalles, Oregon.
NOTICE.
R. E. French has for sale a number of
improved ranches and unimproved
lands in the Grass Valley neighborhood
in Sherman county. They will be sold
very cheap and on reasonable terms.
Mr. French can locate settlers on some
good unsettled claims in the same neigh
borhood. His address is brass vailev,
Sherman county, Oregon.
Forfeited Kailroad Lands
We are now ready to prepare papers
for the filing and entry of Railroad
Lands. We also attend to business be
fore the U. 8. Land Office and Secretary
of the Interior. Persons for whom we
have prepared papers and who are re
quired to renew their applications, will
not be charged additional ior sucn papers.
THOBNBCEY OC HUDSON,
Rooms 8 and 9, Land Office building,
The Dalles, Oregon.
Be Muddled, or How Not to Do It.
Portland Oregontan.
Pendleton, May, 30. To the Editob
For many years past people in eastern
Oregon and W ashington have been groan
ing under the burdensome tax imposed
upon them bv' railroad monopolies for
transporting their surplus products to
the seaboard. Their obvious means of
relief from this is by water transporta
tion along the line of the Columbia
river ; but there are natural obstructions
in this river which must e removed
surmounted before this relief can be ob
tained. These are of such a character
that the cost of their removal is far be
yond the capacity of our new and unde
veloped states to pay. The general gov
ernment has been appealed to in this
emergency, and for the removal of the
first serious obstructions, that at the
Cascades of the Columbia, has re
sponded with approprirtions that in the
aggregate amount to the considerable
sum of $1,877,000. These appropriations
have been spread over a period of hlteen
years, and made in such insignificant
amounts, considering the work to be
done and its importance to the com
munities to be relieved as to merit just
ridicule as a business undertaking, and
to materially increase the cost of the
work. On this sum the interest at 4 per
cent, would amount to $75,(XNj per year,
which no one gets any benefit trom
The government officers in charge of this
work have time and again in their re
ports represented these facts to congress
but it has produced no change in the
policy of that body. It is now estimated
that $1,700,000 will be required to com
plete this work, and that if this amount
be rendered available at once boats can
pass this obstruction within three years
The state of Oregon growing weary in
long waiting, provided at the last sea
sion of its legislature for a temporary re
lief in the shape of a portage railroad
around this same obstruction at the Uas
cades. It authorized a commission, to
consist of the governor, secretary of state
and "state treasurer, to construct and op
erate this road. These gentlemen at
once entered upon the duties imposed
upon them bv the law. and in consul
tation with the engineer officer in charge
of the government work at the cascades
came to a satisfactory understanding as
to the conditions under which the road
should be constructed and operated over
the government grounds at that place
The matter went forward to Washington
was approved by the chief of engineers
and forwarded to the office of the secre
tary of war. The acting seeretary raised
a point as to the legality of the recom
mendation of the engineer in charge that
a certain portion of this road be built at
the expense of the United states, in con
sideration of certain benefits in the way
of cheaDer freight rates to be derived
from the portage system, and to attend
to the government work, and to keep
more clearly defined the question of
United States and state authority with
in the government reservation. This
point, on being referred to the attorney-
general, was returned with his opinion
that the state Bhould build this piece of
road also. The portage commissioners
at once notify the engineer officer, who
telegraphs to the chief of engineers that
they accept the opinion of the attorney
general, and the matter is all satisfactory
as it was before, with the excep
tion that the expense of the work to
the state will be increased by about
$8000-. It apparently takes the state
board of portage commissioners and the
officer in charge of the government work
about five minutes to come to an under
standing on all points in connection with
the crosshig of this road over the govern
ment ground at the Cascades, while the
politicians and government legal lumi
naries in Washington are spending
weeks raising points and phowing how
not to do it. To the uninitiated in the
subtle and mysterious ways of Washing
ton red-tape ism it would seem that the
proper persons to manage this little busi
ness are the state board and tne govern
ment engineer in charge of the work
their action being subject to the approval
of the secretary of war. The board is
certainly competent to look after the in
te rests of the state, and from what I have
seen and know of the government
engineer I have no reason to doubt that
he will take care of the interests of the
work in his charge. It is evident that
both he and the board are determined
that the portage railroad shall be built
and do not propose that any difference
between them shall delay its commence
ment. The necessity for so much tele
graphing across the . continent about
simple matter of this kind is not appar
ent to these who look at it as a straight
forward business proposition. Should it
become mixed with politics, then there
will be a muddle. .Last Obegonian.
THE BACCARAT TRIAL.
London, June 8. When the trial of the
baccarat case was resumed todav. Sir
Charles Russell took us and completed
his address for the defense.
Solicitor General Sir Edward Clarke
the leading counsel for the plaintiff in
opening his plea said: "It has been
common talk that the Prince of Wales
continual presence in court during the
trial of this suit has been for the pur
pose of restraining the tongues of law
yers from commenting upon the Prince
of Wales' connection with it." Facing
the Prince of Wales the solicitor general
remarked: "The counsel for the
defendants had said if the jury found
for the plaintiff and disregarded the
document the latter had signed at
Tranby Croft, the military authorities
would take the matter up and that Sir
William- Gordon Cummings' name
would be struck from the army list.
wish to say in unmistakable terms,
exclaimed Sir Edward Clarke "that it
would be impossible for the authorities
to do any 'such thing and leave on that
list the name of Field Marshal Prince of
Wales."
This bold statement seemed to com
pletely take away the breath of the
audience and caused by far the greatest
sensation of the entire trial. The Prince
of Wales sat on the bench to the left of
the lord chief justice, immovable, not
a muscle of his face apparently twiching.
leaning his head' upon his arm and en
deavoring to appear totally unconcerned.
TO DAY'S CABLE NEWS.
Omnibus Strike In LondonOutbreak In
Shanghai.
London, June 8. Hardly a single om
nibus is running today, and it is esti
mated that about 5,000 men and 10,000
horses were idle through the strike,
which commenced yesterday.
Advices from Shanghai report fresh
outrages against foreigners at Wusfeh
near Kinkiany. An English missionary
and custom officers were murdered, and
European residents are appealing for the
protection of a man of war.
A SEPOY LEADEB HUNG.
Calcutta, June 8. Dispatches re
ceived here from Manipur, states that
the Sepoy, one of the leaders in the re
cent revolt against British authority, was
hanged this morning for his complicity
in them assacreof commissioner Quinton
and party.
The Dalles Mercantile Co., are now
prepared to furnish outfits to the team
sters and farmers and all others who
desire to purchase anything in general
merchandise. Their line is new, full
and complete. Call and see them.
Prices guaranteed.
Replenish the Treasury Surplus.
Washington, June 4. The net surplus
in the treasury today is $5,000,000, a
smaller surplus than lias been in the
treasury in the memory of the oldest offi
cials. To increase this surplus, Secre
tary Foster has called in $3,000,000 of de
positories from national banks.. The
call reads : "The secretary of the treas
ury has this day called upon, a number
of national bank depositories to transfer
to the sub-treasury a portion of the
amount of public moneys held by them
and not needed for the transaction of
public business." These banks, which
are mostly what is known as "surplus"
banks, had been notified by the late Sec
retary Windom and had previously trans
ferred the amount of two calls made by
him. The amount to be transferred on
or before June 30, 1861, under this call,
is about $3,000,000. It is probable that
other calls will be made from time to
time on these national bank depositories
until their holdings shall have been re
duced to about the amount needed to be
kept therein for the proper transaction of
current public business.
Modeled on the American Art.
London, June 4. In an interview 'o
day Louis J. Jennings, M. P. for Stock
port (formerly of the New- York Timet)
stated that he had framed a bill for in
troduction in parliament, intended to
exclude destitute foreigners from Great
Britain on the same lines as followed by
the United States. Mr. Jennings, while
in America, studied the legislation on the
subject carefully, and thinks that Eng
land cannot do better than to adopt the
principles of the measures made neces
sary in the United States by the exper
ience ot that country with pauper and
criminal aliens. He anticipates a great
deal of opposition to this measure. The
radicals will not assist him and the
government will not take action in the
premises. The tories will not antagonize
the attitcde of the government. Never
theless, Mr. Jennings believes that pub
lic feeling on the subject has reached
such a pout that he is justified in pro
ceeding independently in the advocacy
of the bill, in the hope that the discus
sion it will arouse may lead to pressure
upon the government, so that they will
eventually lend their countenance,
more or less directly, to the proposed
enactment.
BROKE OUT OF JAIL.
A Burglar. After Making; a Confewslon,
Makes His Escape.
Dayton, Wash., June 4. Louis Maver,
arrested some few weeks ago for hurglary
confessed his guilt yesterday before the
superior court, and" was to be sentenced
today. This morning, when Jailer Mc
Cauley took Mayer's breakfast to him in
the county jail 'he found the prisoner
gone, a bent iron rod showing the place
of Mayer's exit. Mayer had been locked
up since his last escape in one of the
Pauly steel cells, and how he escaped is
a mystery. The most plausibly theory,
and one generally credited now is that
when McCauley went to gather up the
supper dishes, Mayer slipped out of the
cell and went into hiding, then, under
cover of night, filed his way out to
liberty. He called on his wife and told
her a story which is about as above nar
rated in regard to his escape.
May Adopt the American Method.
Berlin, June 4. The Prussian minis
ter of justice, Dr. Schelling is interested
in the new American method of execu
tion by electricity, and has caused in
structions to be sent for full reports as
to its methods of working so far as ob
tainable. Many Russians are inclined
to consider decapitation as too bar
barious a method of execution, and the
consequence of this sentiment is favor
able to the criminal classes. Keindel,
the headsman, has been making personal
inquiries on the subject of electrical
death ; whether for official reasons or to
satisfy his own curiosity is not known.
The conservative feeling in Germany is
very strong, and there is little probabil
ity of such a serious change in the crimi
nal laws as to do away with the existing
form of death penalty.
A Russian Famine.
London, June 4. Telegrams from
St. Petersburg correspondent give a pit
iable account of the destitution prevail
ing in the districts ot Kazan, Himbeirsk,
bamara, JNizhni, Novgorod and i enza
ihe correspondent says hundreds or- per
sons have died from hunger in the past
five weeks. The peasants in Simbeirsk
and Samara districts revolted and at
tacked the corn magazines. A number
of conflicts occurred between the peas
ants and troops, and several persons were
killed and many injured, ihe gloomy
harvest prospects increase the horror of
the situation. The minister of the in
terior has forbidden any reference to the
famine by the newspapers.
General Scho6eld to Marry.
Chicago, June 4. The news of a social
event of the hrst magnitude was private
lv discussed tonicht, anions many omeers.
Although not yet formally made public,
the announcement is said to be authori
tative that Major-General John M. Scho
field, senior officer of the United States
army, who is a widower, and who is now
in the West, will soon be married to
Miss Georgia N. Kil bourne, of Keokuk.
Iowa. The date has been fixed, but is
not given out. The bride is quite youth
ful, being a schoolmate of General Scho-
field's daughter. The Kilbourne family
is a prominent one in Iowa, ' and is also
well-known in the East.
Admiral McCann's Report.
Washington, June 4. Rear-Admiral
McCann, commanding the naval forces
of the South Atlantic and South Pacific
stations, sent a report to the secretary of
the navy in regard to affairs in Chili.
The report is dated Valparaiso, April 29,
and savs a German naval force of five
ships was ordered to Chilian waters, and
is one about Jnne 20. The admiral says
the arrival of the United States steamer
Baltimore at Valparaiso attracted much
attention and had a good effect.
En-route to the Coast.
Chicago, June 4. General Russell A.
Alger left Chicago last night for the west.
He will visit the Pacific coast, spending
most of his time in Washington. The
trip, he says, is one purely for health,
and has nothing to do with the scheme
by which, as rumor had it, he would be
connected with Leigh Hunt and Mr.
Clarkson in planning to establish a
gigantic line of steamers from Washing
ton seapdrts to China.
The following statement from . Mr. W.
. Denny,. a well known dairrman Of
B
New Lexington, Ohio, will be of interest
to persons troubled with Rheumatism.
He says: "I have used Chamberlain's
Pain Balm for nearly two years, four
bottles in all, and there is nothing I have
ever used that gave me as much relief
for rheumatism. W e always keep a bot
tle of it in the house." For sale by
Snipes & Kinersly.
Will Destroy a Lucrative Business.
San Francisco, June 4. Some time
ago Collector Phelps secured a list of the
whalers who secured large quantities ot
whisky at Honolulu and then tailed . for
Alaska. Ihe revenue cutters Kusn and
Bear have been instructed to overhaul all
these whalers. All whisky, except a j
small quantity for medical purposes,
will be seized wherever found in order to I
keep the liquor away from the natives.
He wants it known. Mr, J. H.
Straub. a well known German citizen of
Fort Madison, Iowa, was terribly afflicted
with inflammatory rheumatism when
Mr. J. F. Salmon, a prominent druggist
there, advised him to use Chamberlain's
Pain Balm. One bottle of it cured him.
His case was a very severe one. He suf
fered a great deal and now wants others
similarly afflicted to know what cured
him. 00 cent bottles for sale bv bnipes
Kinersly.
Farley to go East.
Mr. G. J. Farley, superintendent of
portage construction of the Cascades
portage railroad, is in the city. He has
just let a contract to the Columbia
River Lumber and Fuel company for
600,000 feet of lumber to be delivered
within thirty-five days on pain of a for
feit, free on board the cars at the Cas
cades for $9.87 a thousand. This
price is 62 cents lower than the Union
Pacific company has to pay for the same
class of lumber delivered free on the
cars at Portland. The delivery of this
lumber is to commence at once. The
requisite amount of steel rails have been
ordered from the east and are to be
shipped within eight days from last
Monday.
Mr. Farley will go east on the 17th
inst., and visit the principal car and
locomotive works, for the purpose of
selecting and purchasing the rolling
stock.
Fifteen men are now employed grad
ing the road bed. After the material
arrives it will be a short job to finish the
work, and Mr. Farley hopes to have j
everything ready by the time the new
boat is finished. Considerable difficulty :
will be experienced with the western I
incline and no good, permanent job can j
be affected at that place till the water I
falls.
A LWely Fire.
About ten minutes after 4 o'clock
Friday morning the loud screeching of an
engine whistle at the company's shops
gave warning of fire. After a while the
bell responded and the fire boys turned
out to find that the fire was located in
the barn of Mr. John Marden, situated
about a hundred feet from his residence.
By the time the engine arrived the
building and contents were a mass of
flames from which it was impossible to
to save anything. The barn contained
twelve hacks and one buggy, the prop
erty of Messrs. Gibons, Macallister &
Co., and some tools, belonging to Mr.
Marden. Everything was lost, and the
worst of it is there was no insurance on
either building or contents. The whole
property lost is estimated at about
$1,600. The fire is supposed to have
been the work of an incendiary. About
an hour before it started Mr. VanBibber
passed within a few feet of the place on
his way to the city and saw no indica
tion of fire. The door of the barn was
locked and there was no place for the
ingress of tramps except by a back win
dow,' which was kept nailed up.
Whether this window had been tam
pered with or not and the fire started
from the inside, it is impossible to tell
Berries in Chicago.
People in The Dalles who like straw
berries can read with watering mouth b
about the way that delicious fruit goes
into Chicago this time of the year and
how little money it takes at such a time
to buy all one could carry. Saturday's
Inter Ocean says: "One hundred and
thirty-six car loads of strawberries were
received in Chicago on Friday and Sat
urday fifty-seven on Friday and seventy-three
on Saturday. It was the largest
quantity ever received in the same time
in any city in the west. The price had
to go down, Sunday was coming and the
berries would not keep over a day longer.
They ripened in the rain. Then more will
come on Monday and Tuesday. Prob
ably seventy-five cars will come in on
Monday. The estimated consumption
of strawberries in Chicago is twenty cars
or 10,000 crate per day. This last ship
ment made 64,000 crates. There are
twenty-four boxes to the crate." This
makes 1,560,000 boxes, or more than one
box to each inhabitant. The boxes
average 140 berries to the box and, as
figured out, 218,400,000 berries were in
Chicago in the two dayes named.
Strawberries now are eheap enough to
burn. A crate only costs from 25 to 50
cents."
Letters Advertised.
-. The following is the list of letters re
maining in The Dalles postoffice uncalled
for Friday, June 5, 1891. Persons
calling for these letters will please give
the date on which they were advertised :
Allen, Nelson
Buskirk, Jphn ".
Drake, I V
Freeman, J F
Hardison, Gabe
Howard, Miss Dollie
Kizer, G W
Manett, Mrs Ellen
Mendenhall,EJ'.2)
Rewey, Wilbur
Steward, F H
Swame, Lester
Tomlinson, Lewis
Venner, J F
Watt, Alexander
Brown, Anton
Burton, DrW F
Fraser, Walt
Golding, J H (2;
Hooker, Wm
Jones, F
Louis, Eva
Metzdorf , M
McCreary, Ed J -
Koss, Mrs K
Scheurman, Mrs M
Summerville.RevTD
Troop, Elmer
Vocht, Peter
Wilkinson, Samuel
Williams, Thomas
M. T. Nolan, P. M.
Willis, Mr
Spraying for San Jose Scale.
The following was given to the Cali
fornia Fruit Exporter and Farmer by Dr.
W. J. Dobbins, one rf the largest grow
ers of prunes in Vaca valley :
"Do you know that it is no trick to
kill the San Jose scale? No? Well, it
isn't. If growers will spray thoroughly
with lime, salt and sulphur the scale is
easily killed. I will tell you my formula.
1 take twenty pounds oi sulphur, ten
pounds of lime and thirty gallons of
water, cook and constantly stir until it
takes on a dark red color. I then dis
solve or slake fifteen pounds of salt and
forty pounds of lime in thirtv gallons of
cold water. When I get ready to spray
I use twenty-five gallons of the rooked
lime and sulphur, fifty gallons of the
slacked lime and salt and twenty-five
gallons of hot water. When in the
spray-box this mixture should be con
tinually stirred while spraying. It
won't do to allow the ingredients to set
tle. I have a man on the box to do
nothing else but stir and drive. Trees
should not be sprayed with this mixture
in the spring or summer, because serious
results will ioiiow. 11 huuuiu ueappueu
in the winter time when the tree is
dormant. One thorough spraying will
eradicate all traces of the San Jose scale."
Attention !
The Dalles Mercantile company would
respectfully announce to their many
patrons that they now nave a wen
selected stock of general merchandise.
consisting in part of dress goods, trine-
hams, challies, sateens, prints, hosiery,
corsets, gloves, handkerchiefs, hats, caps,
boots, shoes, gents' furnishing goods,
ladies' and mens underware, groceries,
hardware, crockery, glassware, etc., in
fact everything pertaining to general
merchandise. Above being new, full and
complete. Come and see us.
BORN.
In this city June 5th, to the wife of G.
F. Cloutman, a son.
In this city, June 6th, to the wife of j
Fred Bold, a son.
doing well.
Mother and child are j
The stock-holders of the Eastern Ore- i
gon Co-operative Association closed their
labors by re-electing the old board of di
H. Herbring's
DRY GOODS STORE
Has removed to 177 Second street (French's Block) nearly
opposite his former stand, where he will be pleased to see
his former customers and friends. He carries how a much
larger stock than before and every Department is tilled
with the Latest Novelties of the Season.
TiOfTH DflliLiES, Wash.
Situated at the Head of Navigation.
Destined to be
Best Manufacturing Center
In the Inland Empire.
Best Selling Property of the Season
in the Northwest.
For farther information call at the offloe of
Interstate Investment Co.;
Or 72 Washington St., PORTLAND, Or!
O. D. TAYLOR, THE DALLES, Or.
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Manufacturers and Dealers in
Minnesota Chief Separators,
Giant & Stillwater Plain and Traction Engines,
"CHIEF" Farm Wagons.
Stationary Engines and Boilers of all sizes. .
Saw Infills and Fixtures, Wood-Working Machinery j Wood
Split Pulleys, Oils, Lace Belts and Belting.
Minnesota Thresher Mfg, Co.
Get our Prices before Purchasing.
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NO. 166 SECOND STREET.
E). W. EDWARDS,
DEALER IN
Paints, Oils, Glass, Wall Papers, Decora-
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Mouldings and Picture Frames, Cornice Poles
Etc., Paper Trimmed Free.
Picture 3nrk.siaLeat 3VX.c3.e to Ord.or
276 and 278, Seoond Street.
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School Books,
Stationery,
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