1 iiey eeKiy GiiiUiiMe:
THK DA1LES
- OBEOON
FRIDAY,
AUGUST 28, 1891
LOCAL ANI PERSONAL.
Something new in the fee line tax
. on cats.
, H. W. Kice of Boyd, was in the city
last Thursday.
' H. L. Howe of Hood River, was regis
tered at the Umatilla house Thursday.
' D. H. Home bought 500 salmon in
Tacoma last Tuesday for a cent a piece.
. . Ashland peaches are selling in Ash
. land at two cents a pound and at ten
cents in Astoria.
Mrs. McCnlly, widow of the late Perry
McCully died at Dufur Thursday at
' 6 a. m., alter a short illness of typhoid
; fever.
- Mr. T. A. Hudson of this city has been
appointed general agent of the Anchor
Steam ship line for Oregon and Wash-
. ington. . .
Frank M. Amen of Aurora, formerly a
resident of AVapinitia and Kingsley, left
on the passenger last Thursday, after a
short trip to his old home.
Somebody who, it is presumed, had
nothing better to do, has figured out that
141,120 common house flies only- weigh
two pounds and twelve ounces. -
. Errick Nelson will build a hotel 20x55
feet, two stories high, at the Cascades.
The contract has been let to J. W. John
ston and J. S. Singleton of this city.
Coffin & McFarland of Arlington and
Heppener have already bought 75,000
bushels of wheat tbfB season. They are
ravins 76. cents free on board the cars
at Arlington. ,
i Mr. Frank Gabel of waplnitia is in
the city. . He has purchased from Mr.
Gibson, what is known as the Natural
Pasture Ranch, ' which will make a fine
addition to bis sheep range.
Homer McFarland of Heppner went
down to Portland yesterday to place him
self under the care of the physicians of
the Good Samaritan hospital. He is
suffering from inflamatory rheumatism,
and is unable to walk.
- Parties who have bills to collect from
the city should remember the new reso
lution of the council, to the effect that
all bills must be handed to the recorder
at least twenty-four hours before the
' meeting of the council at which they are
expect to be paid.
Mrs. Ida Dunn, widow of the late W.
- H. Dunn, desires through the Chronicle
to express her deep gratitude to the
many friends in The Dalles who, in var
ioos ways, extended sympathy and sub-
- atantial kindness to her daring her late
- bereavement.'
: Reports from the Boyd and Dufur
.neighborhoods, where threshing is now
under way, would indicate that crops in
the driest belt in the county are turning
out much better than was expected.
Farmers who 'were not reckoning on
more than half a crop are getting from
fifteen to twenty bushels an acre.
We have been requested to call atten
tloa to the fact that various large rocks
and stones in Bundry places obstruct the
eountv road between the top of the
brewery bill and Three Mile, and that
they ought to be removed and the road
otherwise improved before grain hauling
commences. It pays to have good
roads. .. ' -
. Uncle John Cates, our fellow towns
man, has been annoyed for some time
by a lot of worthless curs that get into
his cow-vard and worry his cows. This
Annoyance has been repeated so often
that he loaded his gun for the intruders
This morning he unloaded the gun and
as a result there are now two dogs less
to worry his cows.
- We were shown today a sample twig,
cut from an Italian prune tree, growing
on a dry hill side,' without irrigation
and without cultivation for several years
on the bid Lair Hill ranch west oi Mill
Creek.. The prunes are laage and well
formed and the trees adjoining are liter
ally loaded down with fruit, all of which
goes to prove, if proof were necessary.
that our dryest hills are adapted to the
successful growing of this kind of fruit,
, Sunday last, in Baker City, a trunk
at one of the hotels .was noticed to give
out ft very offensive smell. The land
lord, not knowing whose it was, had it
moved to the sidewalk to give it air and
ian to fill a vacancy ia the interstate
commerce commission.
It is estimated that the wheat crop of
Morrow county for the season will be
double the value of the wool crop.
General reports from the beef markets
are encouraging for cattle growers. They
well deserve an advance in prices.
All reports that come to this office are
to the effect that crops are turning out
better than was expected before thresh.
ing.
Married, today at Hood River, Mr,
Laurence N. Blowers to Miss Bertha E,
Mifflin. The Chronicle wishes the
young couple many happy days.
A Drivate communication from Stock
Inspector Rice informs us that he ex
pects to be in The Dalles sometime be
tween the first and tenth of September.
The Baker City papers are protesting
against the indecencies of the demi
monde of that city and demand that the
city officers do their duty in suppressin
them.
Frank Wilkinson, of Eugene, a lad of
fifteen, bad the three fingers of his right
hand mashed the other day in the cogs
of a cider mill. They had to be ampu
tatei near the knuckle.
The Chronicle is indebted to Pro
fessors Synder and Gilbert, of Hood
River, for valuable services rendered
during the meeting of the teacher'
institute.
From Mr. Geo rare Rice of Boyd, we
learn that his grain crop just threshed
vielded 50 bushels pei acre of oats, 48
of barley and 20 of wheat. The ground
on which the grain was grown was sum
mer fallow.
We regret to learn that the Hon. E.
O. McCoy of Grant, lost his infant child,
of about seven months old, Saturday,
The cause of its death was cholera in fan'
turn. Dr. Loean was called in but the
child died before his arrival.
A private communication to a gentle
man in this city gives the information
that George Gant, well known around
here and Prineville and also in Corvallis,
as an importer of Clydesdale horses was
instantly killed by lightning at Pratt
Kansas, on Tuesday the 18th inst,
We are very reliably informed that in
about thirty days Eastern Oregon and
Washington will experience about such
another wheat blockade as the Palonse
section had last vear. The Gazette
hopes, however, that this will provo to
be nothing but idle rumor. Heppner
Gazette.
Society notes are scarce this week
The Emmit club met at hotel Linkvtlle
last night to consider the question of
lowering the foreman's wages with
derrick. A JNod-ieiJow's lodge was in
stituted in one of the saloons early ves
terday morning. It held together until
noontide when it fell over a beer keg
When thev picked it up it was dead
anxious to hitch up and get
then informed the authorities of his
' suspicion that there was a dead man in
it. Next morning a constable armed
with proper authority opened it, when
it was discovered that the trunk con-
- taiived druggists samples and that the
graeU arose from the contents of a broken
bottle.
- Mr. and Mrs. Tom Strickland and
Messrs. A. J. and Frank Swift of Wamic
came into town today, all but Frank in-
Mr. Strickland .brought in bis two-year-
old mare, Mamie e. Sir. bwiit Drought
in the well-known runner, frank Hast
ings and his three-year-old get Readily,
whieh is matched for a half mile running
uun against joe inppiers geiaing, ray
Day. The race will come off the first
day of the fair and the stakes are $100 a
side. ''
With this week's issue of the Klickitat
' Leader comes the announcement tbat
.Frank Lee has resigned the editorial
control of that paper. We are sorry to
lose Mr. Lee as a neighbor. During out
abort acquaintance with him we had
learned to respect and admire him for
bir transparent honesty and devotion to
me interests ox juicsiiat county, vur
best wishes go with him to his4 new
' sphere of labor while we bid a hearty
' welcome to his successor, Mr. Fred C.
Bafcer..'
An intelligent lady, now a resident of
Portland, but for many years a resident
of Waseo county, called at this office to-
. .i.ti. e i i i . a t . i t . .
a euiuiuw iruifc ana regeisoie exmoit at
the coming Portland exhibition. She
&ed, "I have lived in a gruti many
places in the United States, but I never
Sived S any place where fruit and veg
tables ceeid be raised equal to those of
M'tfico ccafttf, Tbey may raise them
larger in some other places but the flavor
of the Wasco .cowty products excel la
them all."
The president of The aHes 5rd of
Ytwie received a telegram today jfrqoj
Senator Labor, president of the Den-ver
Chamber of . Commerce asking this
oard to eo-operate with other boards of
broke and
home to Butte creek. Klamath Star,
The Washington independent says
that the protectionists are going to the
bottomless pit. No they won't. Old
Nic'c knows better than that, , The first
thing ti;ey would do when they got
there would be to start a factory for mat
ing home made boiler iron ancj they would
put a new bottom in the pit and gobble
up the old gentleman's whole business,
Those who prate about the deplorable
custom of wheat raising as a means of
bringing a farm out of debt will this
year have to take a back - seat. The
truth of the matter is that, properly
conducted, wheat farming has as many
merits to commend it as a means of
making a " success as many other
branches of agriculture, with additional
advantage of requiring less preparation
and bringing in quicker returns than
any other. Whenever a full crop com
uianda a good price it proves a bonanza,
and while ii is certainly discouraging in
the extreme to have a short crop of
wheat in a year of depressed prices, yet
for solid prosperity there are few sec
tions that can hold over the wheat
growing states of the west. - One year
with another, there are few occupations
that can beat grain growing among the
purely agricultural employments. Dem
ocratic limes.
The Union PaclfivWool Steal.
From a private letter received this
morning from Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Sher.
ar, who are now in Boston, we are per
mitted to make the following extracts
relating to the way the Union Pacific
railroad company have treated Mr.
Sherar in the shipment of bis wool. It
will be remembered that Mr. Sherar
made a contract with the Northern Pa?
cific company to carry his wool, some SI
cars, to Boston. According to a traffic
arrangement with the Union Pacific
company, this latter company was to
haul the wool over their track to Wal-
lula Jf nction where it would be taken in
charge by the Northern Pacific and
shipped to its destination. Instead of
doing this the Union Pacific took it
themselves over the Oregon Short Line
to Boston. The wool had not yet all ar
rived on the 20th inst., and the letter
says: JtWo were telegraphed to come
here oiSfhe 9th and we did so, but our
wool has come in broken shipments all
the time, and we are yet out nine cars,
We are boarding at the Union Pacific ex
pense (at least we think we are;. Our
time is very limited, for we wanted to
get home by the 20th of September, bnt
by the way things are running it looks
as if we would be here all summer. If
the Union Pacific bad not stolen our
wool we would have been through visit
ing in New York. We are well pleased
with our wool and the way it is opening,
and prices are in a fair way. You know
we shipped at $2.45 per hundred.' Now
the Union- Pacific, after first stealing the
wool, make us pay $2.67. What do
you think of that for a steal? It is the
most outrageous thing ever, heard of.
What is the use of having bills of lading
when railroads can charge- as they
please?"
The Difference. "
-
Toe way an exchange puts it between
an evening and a morning paper, neither
taking telegraph reports : The evening
paper starts in early la the uiorjng, gets
all the news from 12 o'clock the night
before, and all the day news up to 4:30
in the evening, including all inportant
dispatches found in the latest exchanges.
The morning papers starts in where the
evening papers leaves oft' and catches
what it can from 4 :30 in the evening unr
til 10 o'clock at night, and gives it out
to" its readers at all" hours the next morn
ing-
Story of a Valuable Gem Picked up by
u lloatoii x,ady. "
Boston Courier. .
There is the. theme for a romance in
the experience of a Boston lady in the
matter of finding a ring about a year
since.
She came across the common, and just
as she was about to leave it by the Boyl
ston street gate her eyes caught the
glitter of a gem on the pavement, and
stooping she took up one of the most su
perb emerald rings ever seen in this part
of the globe. It is not necessary to de
scribe it too accurately here since in an
swer to her advertisements there has
been more than one attempt by pre
tenders to get it fraudulently; but it is
sufficient to say that it is literally such a
ring as might be the gift of a king. It
is the sort of jewel which figures in
romances of the Disraeli sort, where no
expense is spared, and it was naturally
worth a sum of money which to ordinary
mortals is something pretty big in any
light and really tremendous to have
locked up in a single ring.
The lady took the jewel to all the lead
ing dealers in gems in the neighborhood
and they all agreed in saying that they
had never seen it, but it was impossible,
that a ring of so much value should long
want for an owner. The jewel has been
advertised in all the papers and the
finder has kept a careful lookout for ad
vertisements, in turn. The police and
the dealers in gems are fully informed
about it, and yet for more than a year
the ring has been in her possession with
out a sign of its owner appearing to claim
it. It is true that there have beeu a
number of applications for it, but no one
who has come to claim it has been able
to come anywhere near a correct descrip
tion of the ring, and what its history was
before it landed in the dust of Boyleton
street is still a mvsterv.
Since the ring is of so great a value, it
would be supposed that the owner would
endeavor to hnd it ior its pecuniary
worth, eveu if there be no sentimental
value attached to it: but nothing of this
sort seems to have happened, borne day
the mystery may bo solved, Put at pres-
sent there is no clue to prevent the
romancer from weaving about the jewel
anv web of fancy which his brain can
spin.
The mercury at Pendleton last Satur-j Report for the Week Ending Saturday,
day registered 106 in the shade. . Anut so, I89i.
A Pleasant Party.
A farewell party was given last night
at the residence of Mrs. Geo. Filloon
honor of Miss Sadie Whitmer, sister of
Mrs. Filloon , who will leave Monday to re
main during the rest of the year at
Albany, Oregon. The participants were
Misses Sadie AVhitmer, M.Wiggin, Caddie
Booth, Lettie Johnston, Mattie John
ston. Allie Rowland and Maggie Row
land and Messrs. John Booth, Ed Mills,
J. Mason and Clark Fleck and the
hostess. Mrs. Filloon. The game of
drive whist was indulged in till Mr,
Mills and Miss Booth came off champ
ions by a score of 9 to 4. A lady of the
party unfortunately met with a sprained
wrist by having fallen out of a hammock
in which she and Ed Mills were (of
course) gracefully reclining. The many
friends that Miss Whitmer has made
during her residence in The Dalles re
gret her departure and follow her with
the best and kindest wishes. We forgot
to add that John Booth captured the
prize for eating the largest water melon
Hood River Items.
A bear was seen taking a lunch at
noon last Thursday in Mr. Button's corn
field at the mouth of Hood River.
Rev. T. L. Eliot of Portland is erecting
a $1400 house just south of Parkhurst on
what is known as the old Price place.
No new cases of diphtheria have ap
peared in the valley since the death of
Miss Etta McKay.
The wife of J. H. Middleton is improv
ing in her health.
Editor Cradlebaugh and Captain
Harry Coe are off on a prospecting tour.
The eleven-year-old son of C. G. Rob
erts received a severe cut over the left
eye last Wednesday by coming behind
a man who was swinging a double-bitted
ax. Dr. Thomas was called in' and
sewed up the wound.
The Tin Plate Tariff. '
A London dispatch to the San Fran
cisco Chronicle etates that commercial
circles are agitated by the announcement
that the large firm of Ley son & Sons
have abandoned their old-time location
at Tipton and Trividale, and are about
to erect tin works in the United States.
The construction of the American plant
s said to have already been begun under
the personal supervision of Mr. Leyson,
Sr., who has succeeded in obtaining
American rights in valuable patents for
tinning sheets.' This is regarded by
many as the beginning ot a general
movement of tin plate and allied indus
tries from Great Britain to America, a
result of the new American tariff on tin
plate. ' '
Dr. Slddell Returned. j
Dr. Siddell returned last night from a
month's trip to Victoria, San Juan is
land and the Sound cities generally. The
doctor reports having had a most enjoy
able time. He. met many an old friend
and many an old patron for whom he
had done dental work twenty years ago.
and had pressing invitations to remain
and do work for them again, but the
doctor, thinks, take it for all in all, that
there are few towns anywhere to beat
The Dalles, and notwithstanding the de
lightful climate and charming people of
ban Juan and V ictoria he .was glad to
get back here.
A Strange Coincidence. '
Last Monday Mrs. Geo. Benadom re
ceived a letter from her sister, Mrs. Paul
Arthur, of Savannah, Missouri, stating
that their little child bad died. A
etrange part of this sad affair is tbat Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur's child died on the
same day of the week and month, with
the same disease, and was buried on the
same day and at the same hour of Mr.
and Mrs. Benadom's child. Both child
ren were also near the same age. Mrs.
B. was not aware of the death of her
sister's child until last Monday, and . we
presume her sister was also in ignorance
of the sickness or death of her Oregon
ephew. This is, indeed, a strange co
incidence, Wasco News.
Advertised Letters.
The following is the list of letters re
maining in The Dalles postoffice uncalled
for Friday, Aug. 29, 1891. Persons call
ing for these letters will please give the
date on which they were advertised
Keal Estate Transactions.
A. S. Blowers and wife to Mattie A.
Wmn, Jqts 16 to 24, in block 23, Hood
River. Consideration $000.
Burnett, John
Chapman, C H
Davidson, G C
Punlapj Mrs M
Fowler, '1?
Gliepie, James
Higby, A T
Yonnt & Kimball
McKillup, Chas
O'Brier, L
Roberts, T H
Smith, Mrs W J,
Smith, a U
Clandfield, Henry
Circle, Miss Emma
Denzer, Fred E
Evick, AP
Greenraan, W A
Hamilton, G
KJasson; D h
Larsen, Mies Dagena
Herand, Miss Annie
Hanson, Nickolav B
Scott, LH
. Taylor, Dr (Dentist);
M, T. No law, PVil,
Last Monday a fire destroyed the resi
dence of Henrv Carter, of Whiteaker.
The loss is f 3000 wrth $1000 insurance.
R. E. Poiter, the mill man of Prairie
City, Grant county, has ordered full
roller process machinery for his flouring
mill at that place.
The Albany iron works is getting out a
monster wheel ior the Salem . water
works. It will be nine feet in diameter
and will way 7000 pounds.
Al Meyers, of Silver City, who is
charged with the murder of Night
Watchman Nugent has been admitted
to bail in the sum of $10,000. V
The sturgeon season has begun in the
lower Columbia. Some of the fishermen
have already made contracts for their
entire season's catch at a cent and a half
a. pound.
Charles Peer was throw u from a horse
he was riding in the Mohawk vallev near
Eugene Wednesday morning and sus
tained a fracture of one of the bones of
the forearm.
William King got his arm caught in
the belt of a threshing machine at
Whiteaker Monday, and it was so badly
broken and bruised that he will be
crippled for life.
Frank Wilkinson, a 15-year-old
Eugene boy, got his hand caught in the
cogs of a cider mill Monday, and three
of his fingers were so smashed up they
had to be amputated.
Captain Samuel Farnham, ono of
Baker county's pioneers, died at his
home in Baker City Tuesday, aged S3
years, ide held tlia otnee of justice ot
the peace for many years.
A. K. Cutting, the "rat" printer who
came very near involving the United
states and Mexico in a war a lew years
ago, is in Astoria. He has beeu working
at bouth Bend under the name of liyde,
Walter G. Moore, proprietor of a hotel
at Willapa, tried to commit suicide
Monday by taking laudanum. His
friends discovered him and pumped
coffee into him all night until he recov
ered.
The people of Mill City on the North
Santiam, are making an effort to have a
wagon bridge put across the Santiam
river. Marion county commissioners
have taken favorable action upon this
matter.
The sheep industry in Oregon is a
growing one. Oregon is now furnishing
sheep for the Black Hills country. The
.other day 145 carloads left Pendleton for
Mandan, Dak., where they wiil.be put
on the range.
Wednesday afternoon while backing
out of the way of a passenger train at
Salem a freight engine and one car were
derailed. After considerable trouble
they were replaced on the track with but
little damage.
The tax levy of Eugene for the year
1891 is 5 mills, 4 mills of . which will be
used for general purposes and 1 mill for
the payment of interst on sewer bonds
and to provide a sinking fund for pay
ment of same as they become due.
Mrs. James Lackey and family have
been recently living at the farm home of
Mr Lucey, father of Mrs. Lackey, on
Upper Willow creek, Baker county.
Last Saturday the six-year-old daughter
of Mrs. Lackey, while out playing near
the house was run over and killed by a
horse.
The question of boring artesian wells'
is receiving considerable attention
throughout the eastern part of the state.
The success of the Yakima well has led
to the belief that other wells can be
found. Artesian water means an em
pire of the Walla Walla vallev and the
question should be agitated until the ex
periment ol sinking one is tried. watia
Walla Journat,
Wednesday night the Astoria council
levied a 10-mill tax on a $7,000,000 as
sessment. This, if collected, means $70,-
000, a considerable amount of money.
Ot this 6 per cent., or $42,000 is for
streets : one-half of 1 per cent., or s3o00
for bond interest, and ZH per cent., or
$22,o00 for general municipal purposes,
The entire levy last year was S24.000 as
against $70,000 this year.
It is said that the East Oregon Rail
way company will commence a prelimi
nary survey in the near future. The
company was organized some months
azo at Pendleton, for the purpose of
buildinsr a railroad to the Butter creek
coal mines end the Greenhorn mining
district, the main line to lead from
Heppner to the coal mines, thence to
Alba, and thence to the Greenhorn, a
branch to be built from Pendleton to the
coal mines.
Senator Peffer's latest demand for
money is that it "ought to be issued just
like postage stamps to any one who
might call for it." Bless his whiskers,
he can get all the money he wants in
just that way now, but he must pay for
it just as be pays for his postage stamps,
lie can t get postage stamps or money
for nothing. t Money isn't air or water.
It represents something has intrinsic
value. Washington Independent.
A few days ago while three Albany
nimrods were out hunting one of them
shot a deer and crippled it. The animal
disappeared in the bushes but was soon
heard to make a peculiar noise. The
men rushed into the brush and discov
ered the deer in the clutches of a large
black hear who had squeezed it to death.
They fired three or four t-bots at the
bear but he disappeared in the woods
carrying the deer with bim.
The immense auriferous grayel der
posits of Cow creek canyon, alongside of
the Southern Pacific railroad are rapidly
coming into prominence, says the Rose
burg PlaindeaUr, and at no distant dav
will afford employment to hundreds of
miners. In long past ages a very large
river flowed down the present channel of
low creek, leaving an immense deposit
of gravel, in some places hundreds of
feet in depth, containing gold all through
the mass, from surface to bedrock.
WESTERN OHEGON WEATHER.
The temperature has been from 10 to
15 degrees a day above the average, the
maximum ranging from 90 to 100 de
grces on the 26, 27 and 28. Today has
been warm but cooler. The season of
extreme heat is or should be now about
over. No rain fell during the week, the
weather has been cloudless, with fog on
the coast in mornings and smoke in the
interior valleys.
CROPS.
Wheat is all cut and much ot it is
threshed. In every section the yield has
been above the expectations of even the
most sanguine. The wheat is plump,
heavy and of excellent quality. Oats
are heavy and as a rule are large in
yields ; late oats have been injured
slightly by rust in parts of Marion
county. The threshers will be busy for
about two weeks yet. Hop picking be
gins next Monday ; in some sections con
siderable damage has been done bv the
lice, while in other sections a good aver-
ago crop will be picked. In Josephine
county. hop lice are not observable and
no damage has been done. Fruit is
ripening rapidly and is very plentiful.
Toniotoes and canteloupes are now gen
erally ripening. The hot, dry weather
has been 6lightly injurious to root crops,
clover, corn and to young orchards. In
Curry county the" second crop of red
clover is heading and the fourth crop of
alfalfa has been cut, each crop averaged,
in siam, mcnes in lengtn.
EASTERN OREGON WEATHER.
Continued hot weather with maximum
temperature of from 90 to 105 degrees,
have prevailed. No rain fell. The sky
has been cloudless with smoke appear
ing in the atmosphere.
CROPS.
The weather has been slightly injur
ious to the corn crop, but favorable to
fruit, melons and to harvesting. Fruit
and melons are ripening rapidly aud are
very plentiful. The wheat is nearly all
cut west of the Blue mountains and con
siderable has been threshed ; all reports
show that it is turning out much better
than was expected. In Wasco and parts
of Sherman county spring and fall wheat
is somewhat shrunken. In Gilliam,
Morrow and Umatilla counties the wheat
crop as a whole was never better. Har
vesting is in progress east and south of
the Blue mountains ; Union county es
pecially has a fine crop of cereals, but all
counties have crops above the average.
Smut is found in the wheat in sections of
Grant county. Prices are about 20 per
cent, higher than last year with an up
ward tendency. Farmers are happy and
prosperous times prevail throughout
Oregon. B. S. Pague, Observer.
EVIDENTLY A FRAUD.
Some Interesting Gossip Gathered From
Tarlons .Sources.
One Cent Per Bushel,
Wheat is carried from Chicago to
Buffalo, New York, 800 miles by water,
or 600 miles by an air line, for oue cent
per bushel, less than thirty-five cents
per ton. Transporting wheat from the
Palouse country to the Sound, at five
dollars per ton, costs the Washington
former fifteen cents per bushel. Spo
kane Chronicle. .
The Pacific Coast Home Supply Associa
tion. Indian Valley, Aug. 22. To the
Editor. Is there an association of
wholesale merchants in Portland called
"The Pacific Coast Home Supply Asso
ciation? There has been a traveling
agent representing this association in
this part of the country. He guarantees
to the farmers "all kinds of goods
handled by this association" at whole
sale prices in Portland with the freight
added.
In order to obtain these rates it is
necessary to become a member of this
association. And this costs the farmer
seven dollars, and this sum is to be paid
to the agent, when he shall deliver to
the farmer a certificate of membership.
which is to be delivered some time iu
October. Is this a fraud or not? Please
answer through the Oregonian.
Diligent inquiry among wholesale
merchants fails to discover any trace of
such a concern as the "Heme Supply
Association," and the merchants say
they have no time for such business",
and pronounce the "agent," so-called, a
swindler. Such swindling scoundrels
are traveling through the coufltry in all
directions preving principally upon
farmers, but some of them like the one
exposed a day or two since getting ahead
of business men. Hundreds of these
swindling schemes have been exposed,
but new and more enticing ones have
been constantly invented, and the
farmer is selected for a . victim in
most cases. If parties who are ap
proached by such swindling agents
would follow the example of the writer
of the above letter they might often
save themselves from being victimized.
Oregonian.
One of these same scoundrels has been
working the country south of here,
around Dufur, Kingsley and Tygh neigh
borhoods, so the Chronicle is informed
and we are told he has succeeded in de
ceiving quited a number of people. We
learn that he has arranged to come back
in a short time with the certificates and
to collect the seven dollars from each
victim. That his is a swindle- there is
no doubt in the world, and we warn the
people to give him no quarter. The
man who pays him a cent will never
see ft or its equivalent again.
THE DRUNKARD'S BARREL.
A barrel of headaches, of heartaches, ol woe:
A barrel of curses, a barrel of blows ;
A barrel of teurs from a world-weary wife;
A barrel of sorrows, a barrel of strife:
A barrel of all-unavailing regret;
A barrel of cares and a barrel of debt :
A barrel of crime and a barrel of pain;
A barrel of hopes ever blasted and vain ; ,
A barrel of falsehoods, a barrel of cries
That fall from the maniac's hps as he dies,
A barrel of poison of this nearly full:
A barrel of poverty, ruin and blight;
A barrel of terrors that grow with the night;
A barrel of hunger, a barrel of groans ;
A barrel of orphans' most pitiful moans;
A barrel of serpents that hiss as they pass
From the bead on the liquor that glows in the
glass.
At a recent meeting in Chicago Mr,
Powderly said :
"I believe m Sunday rest. So do the
Knights of Labor. I believe the time
will come when enough can be done in
five days to give the laboring man two
days in the week one for God and one
for humanity. Disconnect me from all
organizations ; consider me as an Ameri
can citizen, and I have to say, speaking
for myself, that I have fault to find with
the saloons. Against the mere useless
thing I have nothing to say, but when
the saloon is open on Sunday, some
workingmen's homes are closed. The
dry goods man closes his place, but on
the door ot the saloon which has its
curtain down and the front entrance
shut, you will find a legend directing
you io tne aoor tnat is open, it the drv
goods man is compelled to close on Sun
day, the saloon ought to be closed. I
believe that in five vears the sun will
shine on a country whose saloons are
closed on Sunday. If I had my way the
saloons would be. closed until the next
Sunday."
Mrs. Margaret Bottome, who, in con
nection with Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickin
son, founded the order of King's Daugh
ters, is an imposing-looking woman,
with handsome gray hair, strong features
and beautiful expression. For ' many
years she has given bible readings or
talks in parlors of her friends in New
York and Brooklyn. These are alwavs
crowded by women, though they are
given in the morning. In Brooklyn,
especially, it has been found that no
drawing-room is large enough to hold
the throngs that wish to hear her, and
this season, for the first time, the talks
are given in chapels and lecture-rooms
of the largest churches in different parts
of the city, and even with these increased
accommodations many ladies are not
able to get seats, but stand throughout
the execrcises. The King's Daughters
now number over two hundred thousand.
Z. Y. Sweensy, of Indiana, United
States consul general at Constantinople,
has just returned to his home to spend
his leave of absence. Hj talks very in
terestingly of the Turks, tlieir customs
and religion. He says they are a nation
of teetotalers and truthtellers. Con
stantinople hasfilty newspapers of which
nineteen are dailies, five are Turkish
seven American, eight greek, six French
two French and English, one Italian,
two ueorew, two Bulgarian, one
Arabian, one Persian, one German.
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Berlin, Aug. 31. It Is reported in
Hamburg that all lestrictions on Ameri
can pork will be removed tomorrow.
A Fatal Explosion.
London, Aug. 33. An esplosion took
place this morning in the Malago colliery
near Eedminston, Somersetshire. Seven
uijtiers were killed and two others are
missingj and about a dozen others
seriously injured.
A DonMe 3Inrdec.
JIabtfoep, Conn., Aug 3.1. A double,
murder- vas discovered in Bloomfield
this morning, where the "bodies of h
German farmer and his wife wore found
in a we'll. It is supposed they were
killed by Italian laborers employed in
the vicinity. " ' .
A Dalles Man Unwittingly Treats a Buf
falo Lady to Cigars. .
The Buffalo Courier of the 25th inst.
contains an interesting interview with a
young lady of that city who is ably
managing the business of ber deceased
father, to which she succeeded a short
time ago. As the lady does ber own
correspondence and simply signs the in
itial of her first name, reference is made
in the interview to the fact that she is
frequently addressed as Mr, A. C. or
A. C. , Esq. a'nd it is noted as a climax
that the other day "a man from Oregon"
sent her some samples of Pacific Coast
salt, done up in a cigar box, and in the
middle of the box two fine cigars were
carefully packed, which, it is needless to
say, are still unsmoked. No names are
given and it remains with the Chboxicle
to furnish the omission as far as the Or-.
egon man is concerned. The father of
the young lady was formerly an old and
respected friend and neighbor of Mr.
Linus Hubbard who is employed in the
Office of O. D. Taylor of this city and
having been long engaged extensively in
the salt business Mr. Hubbard pro
cured some samples of Utah and Cali
fornia salt, packed them up in the man
ner described above, and not being
aware ot the death of bis old friend,
thought he would treat him to a couple
of the best cigars he could buy and thus
mailed the package to the old gentle
man's address. The first intimation
that Mr. Hubbard had that he was
treating a Buffalo lady to cigars was
in the interview above referred to. I
can rrancisco . cas 4ouu saloons or
places where liquor is sold at retail
une saioon io every seventy-three per
sons or one to every fourteen voters.
: :
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doctor i our arm is DroKen ana you
will have to carry if in a sling. Old
toper Wouldn't it do just as well if
carried the sling in my stomach?
Temperance Arithmetic.
Tom smokes 3 cigars and his father
smokes 5 each day, for which they pay
60 cents a dozen. His father drinks
glosses of beer a dav at 5 cents a elass
Tom's mother buys three loaves of bread
a day at Scents a loaf, and 2 rolls of but
ter a week at 50 cents a roll : at the end
of the year how much more do the cigars
ana Deer cosi man tne oreaa and butter,
The annual liquor bill for the United
States is $1,484,000,000, and the amount
paid for tobacco is three-fourths as
much ; how , much is expended for
tobacco?
A poor man, 70 years of age, was sent
to an almshouse. Had he saved the
money spent ior toDacco since be was
20 years of age, providing he spent $30
year, how much would he have had?
There are 10,000 saloons in New York
City. If formed into a street witb
saloons on each side, allowing 20 feet to
each saloon, what would be the length of
tne Bireeu
(o) If the 175,000 saloons of the
United States be formed into a street
with saloons on each side, allowing 25
feet for each, how many miles long
would the street be? (b) If the 175,000
saloonkeepers be formed into a proces
sion, marching 4 abreast, allowing each
set 3 feet, what would be the length of
the procession?
(a) In early times, Scoharie county,
N. Y., was bought of an Indian chief for
a barrel ot whisky. If the Indian drank
a pint a day, how long did it take
him to swallow the whole county? (6)
As the county contains 256,000 acres, and
the whisky was valued at fx a gallon,
wnat was tne price paia per acre?
Another Stage Bobbery. '
The stage that runs between John Day
City and Long Creek was held np last
Thursday at the edge of Fox valley on
the head of Beach Creek. The robber,
mounted on a sorrel horse rode up be
hind the stage and leveling his Winches
ter at the driver, ordered him to throw
out the mail ' sack which the driver ac
cordingly did, and having secured the
sack the robber rode off on a dead run,
in an easterly direction. The thief wore
a mask and is described as a man of
middle size, weighing about 150 pounds.
When the driver arrived at the next
station several men armed themselves
and started In hot pursuit but were un
able to overtake him. They however,
found the mail sack about a quarter of a
mile from where the robbery occurred.
It had been cut open aral rifled of the
registered packages while the letters
were unmolested, save a few that bad
the corners torn off. The postmaster at
John Day eays there were two registered
letters in the sack but it is not known
how much money they contained. There
is no clue to the, perpetrator of the rob
bery. - .
Paints, Oils, Glass, Wall Papers, Decora-
tions, Artists' Materials, Oil Mir Clrois anfl Steel Ipraift ,'
Mouldings and Picture Frames, Cornice Poles
Etc.,' Paper Trimmed Free.
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- - The Dalles, Or
(Washington
florth Dalles,
ii ii i. .
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SITUATED AT THE HEAD OF NAVIGATION.
Destined to be the Best
Manufacturing Center in
the Inland Empire.
Best Selling Property of
the Season In the Northwest.
For Further Information Call at the Office of
Interstate 111 vestment Go. ,
0. D. TAYLOR, THE DALLES!
72 WASHINGTON ST., PORTLAND
SUMMER GOODS
Of Every Description will "be Sold at
8
FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS.
Call Early and Get Some of Our Gen
uine Bargains.
Terms Ghsh.
H. Herbring.
WE ARE IN IT!
75 pair of Misses Shoes worth $2.25 for $f.00
100 Corsets worth $1.25 for 50 cents.
Notice.
All persons are hereby warned not to
purchase or negotiate for g, certain
promissory note bearing date about June
o, 1890, given by Max Vogt & Co. to
fat Donlan, for. $1183, payable one year
after tlie date of said note" with interest
thereon at 8 percent, per annum, as said
note is claimed by eaJd Ponlan. to have
I been lost or stolen.
The flkilles, Or., Au. 27, 1891,
S-27-dv-4w Max Vogt & Co.
Teaching commenced in the common
schcuis of thli city this morning. The
academy will commence Its fall term
next Mondar.
The management of the industrial ex
position of Portland have the thanks of
the editor of this journal for it compli
mentary ticket to the exposition.
J. K. Page, Frank Klien and Al. Jor
don left yesterday morning for a hunt
ing and fishing trip to the headwaters
of Mosler creek. -
Pierce Kimsey, of Antelope, acting as
special ' constable, brought in today
from that - town a ' man named John
Mooney who sometimes goes under the
name of . Harry Spanlding. He is
charged with house breaking.
OUE
ENTIRE
LINE OF
DRESS GOODS AT ACTUAL COST.
A. M. WILLIAMS & CO.
JOLES BROS
: DEALERS IN:
SiapiB and F
m isiues,
Hay, Grain and Feed.
No. 122 Cor. Washington and Third Sts.