THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1892.
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The Springfield sawmill will soon shut
down for want of logs.
The recent high waters have damaged
the new Albina bridge to the amount of
$500.
A man was sandbagged and robbed in
the city of La Grande last week for the
small sum of $ l.ou.
About $20,000 of stock for the new
cannery and ice factory at Corvallis has
already been suscribed.
According to the official census re
turns of Lane county, the population
has increased by 65 per cent, in the last
ten years.
The Corvallis Foundry and Manufac
turing company has just closed a con
tract with Slato Brothers for the manu
facture of forty of their hay presses.
The store of. Ha9brouck & Co., of
Sprague, was destroyed by fire yester
day. The building was insured for
$3000, and the stock for $S000. It was
owned by H. Herbring, of The Dalles.
Malheur City, in Malheur couuty,
supports four dry goods storeE, all doing
a gooe business ,and while the town is
the center of an old mining district
there is not a saloon in the place.
Seeking as a home a town where there
are no saloons, the Keeley institute, for
the cure of liquor, opium and tobacco
habits, is to be moved from Portland to
a permanent location in Forest Grove.
Wayinan St. Clair, of Corvallis, and
his entire family are just recovering
from the effects of being poisoned. The
cause is supposed to have been from
eating cabbage sprinkled with paris
green while growing.
A machine has been invented and is
in use in the east that cuts lumber with
out any waste. The new invention is
called the Bradley draw cutting ma
chine. It will cut thin boards and
planks in different thicknesses, from
one-thirty-second of on inch up. All
kinds of wood have been cut by it wilh
perfect success.
Twenty of the heaviest Tacoma prop
erty owners tonight petitioned the
Chamber ef Commerce to take action on
the charge made by them that Pierce
county property has been valued too
high, thereby compelling the payment
of a much "higher proportionate rate
than other counties of the state. The
petition was referred to the general Jan
uary meeting.
A convention of all democratic clubs
or societies throughout the common
wealth of Oregon is announced to be
held in the city of Portland on January
8th and 9th, 1892. The call for the
convention is made by the Tamany so
ciety and young men's democratic
league. The object of the convention is
to organize the democratic party for the
coming campaign.
A certificate is on file with the Port
land health office that perhaps give the
key to many deaths that occur in . that
city. John Sederquist, a Scandinavian
aged 27 years, died. Dr. E, O. Svenson,
who attended Sederquist, gave the cause
of death as gastritis, following typhoid
fever, which was contracted by drinking
city water. Dr. Svenson could attribute
no other cause of death, and stated the
case frankly in his death certificate.
For the privilege of carrying on their
lottery scheme the New Orleans lottery
managers offer to contribute for the
public schools there $250,000, payable
quarterly; to levees, $350,000; to chari
ties, $150,000, payable quarterly in ad
vance ; to pensions for disabled, infirm
or indigent confederate soldiers resident
in Louisiana, $50,000; to the city of New
Orleans, for drainage and other sanitary
purposes, $100,000, payable quarterly in
advance. The total amount of the bribe
offered is $31,250,000, payable in twenty-
live years.
Two nightingales, male and female
made a habitation for themselves on the
banks of the Willamette river, three
miles from Aurora during the summer
months. The . female nested there,
raised her Jyoung, and the birds have
gone south for tbe winter months.
People in the vicinity say that at night
time the songs of the male bird were de
lightful to listen to. Young men would
whistle in answer to the birds and the
little creatures would then respond in
the most charming vocal strains. It is
only a qnestion of a few years when
Oregon's forests will ring at night with
the nightingale's beautilnl music. Eu
gene Guard.
A surprise party was recently given J.
R. Peterson and wife, on the Cowlitz,
by a lot of his neighbors. Mrs. Oscar
Oleson was one of the guests. She
weighs about 230 pounds, and when she
essayed a skirt dance, it truly was a sur
prise party. Tiie floor was weak, Mrs.
Oleson was heavy, and in the midst of a
difficult figure the floor gave way and
the fair dancer disappeared into the cel
lar along with the kitchen stove. She
was quickly extracted from her perilous
position by the men of the partv bv the
aid of levers and ropes, and was found
to be but little injured. The stove,
fortunatelv, contained no fire, and did
not fall upon her.
The most outrageous swindle that has
been perpetrated for some time, was the
platting of a piece of land five miles
from this place, advertising is as one
mile from Hood River, and giving it
away to these who were unfortunate
eneugh to purchase a ticket to the
theater. The land is worth $2.50 per
acre, but these fellows gave it away,
charging only for making the deeds $2.50.
The land would bring at this rate
about $30 per acre. The real estate firm
that put it on the market are doubly
thieves. One in robbing the public of
Portland and the second time in robbing
Hood River of its good name. There is
an abundance of fine properties here,
but Portland people should, know that
NORTHWEST
they can only expect to find it bv com-
ins here, or writing some reputable per
son. Hood River Glacier.
Captain Jack Crawford, the poet
scout, aspires to be put in charge of the
Indian exhibit at the world's fair..
A wedding, took placerecently among
the high-toned Alpowai Indians. We
notice that Rain-in-the-face, Stinking
Breeches, Hole-in-his-Shirt and Old
fckookum Root, were among the invited
guests.
Forty tons of good grain hay sold un
der the hammer in this city last week
for $2 per ton, this being the first and
only bid. It was not the desire of the
purchaser to take it even at that price,
This same hay may command $10 per
ton before spring. Long Vreek Kagle.
The Wallowa canyon, from the bridge
on the Wallowa river to its junction
with the .Grand Ronde river, is the
hunters' paradise. The recent snow in
the mountains has caused the deer to
come down into the small ravines and
breaks that lead into the canyon, and
they are very plentiful.
. The Inland Empire must be heardin
the congressional halls, says the Long
Creek Eagle, and for this reason, both
W. R. Ellis and J. H. Raley should be
nominated on their respective tickets.
Then oar interests would be carefully
looked after, it matters not which one
succeeded in being elected.
There is now a fair, prospect that all
the tin plate which the Columbia river
canneries will consume next season
may be procured from American works.
This country, which has attained such
excellence and ingenuity in' manu
factures of the most varied kind, is fully
equal ts the task of making its own tin
plates. '
A phenomena is observed in a artesian
well near Ellensburgh. The well spoken
of is down about 200 feet, but the water
in it is still 160 feet below the surface.
The peculiarity consists in the fact that
when there is no wind the water is that
distance below the curbing ; when there
is a high wind flowing water pours out
of the pipe.
The machinery of the jute mill at tha
penitentiary, Walla Walla, will arrive in
a few days. Wheat sacks will probably
be cheaper in the Inland Empire next
year on account of the operation of this
mill. And yet there will be no diminu
tion of the crop of demagogues who will
rail against convict labor as taking the
bread out ot the moutn ot the poor man
Oregonian.
A late explorer in the wonderland of
Alaska reports that he found large de
posits of ivory near the Yukon river and
judges from the immense quantity there
that in pre-glacial days ivory-bearing
animals fought a great battle at that
place when thousand were slain, their
tasks and skeletons remaining to this
day. The fact that he hag about induced
a company to send a ship next summer
to bring down a cargo of the ivory grves
a shadow of truth to an otherwise wild
story.
A nautical journal published on the
Pacific coast asserts that the Nicarangua
canal, if completed, will never be used
by sailing vessels, for a reason which
applies alse to the Panama canal. On
either side of Central America, in the
vicinity of the proposed enterances to
the canal, is a region of perpetual calms
and doldrums, and a sailing vessel would
find it exceedingly difficult to get into
the enterance on one side, and after
being towed through would have equal
difficult in getting away from the coast
into the region of trade winds on the
other.
New York, rotten as she is, has yet
among ber vast population an element
possessed of conscience and moral pur
pose which makes itself felt on occasion.
Tweed died in jad, Jake Sharp was
caged in a cell, and some of the alder
men whom he Doodled were tent to the
penitentiary. Young Field embezzled
enormous sums of money intrusted to
him, and his family was able to exert
sufficient influence to have him de
clared insane and be housed comfortably
in an asylum. Yet in response to the
demand of the healthy element that all
thieves shall be equal before the law,
this son of a multi-millionaire and
nephew of a justice of the supreme court
of the United States, has been indicted
for his crimes, dragged out of his not
dishonorable retreat, and will be tried
like any other scoundrel. San Fran
cisco takes off her hat to New York.
We couldn't do each a thing as that
here. The powers which rule us would
not permit a gentleman of young Mr.
Field's financial and social connections
to come la harm, though he were to ron
amuck on the streets wfth a cutlass in
each hand. Boodle is king in San Fran
cisco. S. F. Examiner.
Rather Not Testify.
Boise City, Dec. 29. Tbe trial of
Annie Campbell, the woman recently
indicted for having circulated spurious
money, was to have begun today, but
tbe case was postponed until tomorrow.
It is very hard to secure witnesses against
the woman. She was propritress of a
house of shady reputation in a small
town in Kootenai county, and it is known
that she passed a great many connterfeit
$5 pieces upon the dagos working on the
Great Northern grade. She is prepos
sessing woman of 30 years, and was
looked upon as a superior being by the
poor dagos, who now, much as they de
plore the loss of their money, decline to
appear against her. Hence the delay in
the trial. Officers are confident they
can prove the woraon was the agent of s
gang of Montana coiners.
The
Washington Imlependent says
that Washington City is the most cor
rupt place outside of hell.
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OPENING THE COLUMBIA.
This is one of the greatest issues lie
fore the people of Oregon. ' Next to
opening the Willamette, the people of
this congressional district feel a deep
interest in the work at the upper dalles
of the Columbia. The reports of the
government engineers on that work,
when compared from year to year,
show that mere contemplation of the
obstructions to lie overcome seems to
magnify them.
In ten years the estimate for improv
ing the rapids with a canal and locks
has increased from half a million to
three and a-half millions. - Between
two and three millions lias been spent
there with no visible result. Indeed,
good authorities' say the government
contractors in summer repair the rav
ages of the preceding winter's flood. No
doubt most of the money is stolen.
What are the people to do? Is the
world to stand still until the government
or the war department finishes the
work? That would take halt a century, i
Are the people to wait until
honest
officials or contractors can be found?
That would be to wait for the millenn
ium. Obviously the people must act.
They must send to congress at the next
election two congressmen for open riv
ers. They must act upon the present
congress. They must send down peti
tions to Washington asking for siecilic
relief. Oar proper state officials at
Washington must demand for the
people of Eastern Washington and
Oregon prompt and immediate action
by congress to secure temporary relief.
If the locks or a boat railway cannot be
built within ten or twenty years, a port
age railway must be built at once.
The people of Oregon have built one
portage railway in the past year at The
Dalles and can build another if need be.
The 6tate of Oregon is showing con
gress that a portage railway is the most
practical solution of the problem, and
that with three men at $300 a month it
can handle all the business at present in
sight at The Dalles. A conductor "at
$100, an engineer at $100, and a brake
man at $60, leaving $40 a month for oil
and fuel. The portage is a mile long and
in two trips a day handles the freight.
If an appropriation for a temporary
portage railway at the thirteen-mile
rapids and falls of the Columbia cannot
be procured of the present congress the
people khould know the reason why,
here in Oregon. What will ft cost?
The government reports show that the
sum of $431,500 is the engineer's esti
mate for a single-track portage railway.
Captain Powell's estimate is $250,000,
and the state could undoubtedly build
the portage road and equip it for $300,
000, and operate it for $1000 a month.
Tbe boat railway is undoubtedly the
the thing most to be desired in the end
for the permanent improvement of the
Columbia, but it will always be more
expensive than a portage railway.
The engineer's estimate for the boat
railway is $2,860,000 to build it and $80,
000 a year to operate on half time. To
pass forty boats each way in twenty-four
hours, will cost $275,000 a year to oper
ate it.
If congress will not come to the relief
of the producers of the great inland em
pire, what can be done? To secure
speedy results we phould say make it a
political issue in this state and pass
a bill through the legislature at its next
session for a portage railway. Open the
great waterways to the sea, and in one
year the the enterprise will have more
than justified the expenditure. Salem
Journal.
"STILL HARPING ON MY DAUGH
TER." One of the half dozen copies published
daily from the Times-Mountaineer office
accidentally fell into our hands this
morning and from it we see that the edi
tor is still living in the remote past,
chewing the cud of bitter retrospection
and threshing old straw that has not
j yielded a kernel of grain for the last two
years. In spite of everything The
Dalles today has a water system second
to none on the Pacific coast, judged by
the quality of the water or in any
other way. The mains that the Moun
taineer says have "nearly all to be
replaced by new pipes" consist exactly
of six blocks in length the oldest .and
all the oldest pipes in the city, and they
have been replaced by larger pipes as a
matter of necessity. Only six block's
length, and yet the Times-Mountaineer
says "nearly all the old mains have to
be replaced by new pipes." The Times
Mountaineer could not tell the truth
about our water system if it tried. ,
j Here are some facts brought out by
the November report of Justice Bateman
uo., one ot the larges; wool commis
sion firms in the United States. The
reader can etudv them ai.d draw his own
conclusion. "Very handsome xx Aus
tralian combing wool has been bought
in London at 11 pence, half penny (or 23
' cents American monev.i The value of
washed Ohio fleeces in I.ondon is there-
; fore below 22 cents." Were it not for
our tariff laws, wool of the grade referred
to would sell in Boston, reckoning
freight at ubont 23 Is cents per pound.
Rut the duty on this class of wool is 11
j cents ier pound and. the inm of xx
j Ohio combing wool is quoted by Jutice
j Bateman & Co., at 35 to 36 cents, that is
j the amount of the tariff duty is the dif-
j ference jn ti,e pr;ce on the same clues of
woo, in Kllglad and America.
- The state board of equalization will do
a very foolish, not to say illegal thing
if it taxes mortgages at their face
value while sheep are taxed $1.60 a head
and other property, real and personal, at
a similar rate. When will men learn
that the laws of Oregon demand that all
kinds of property shall be assessed at a
uniform rate? Neither the state board
nor any other authority has a right to
discriminate in rates. Sheep tire to be
taxed $1.60 a head while good mutton
sheep are worth over $4.00, and the com
monest stock sheep worth nearly double
the amount assessed, yet mortgages re
to bo taxed at their face to please the
demagogic cry for the taxation of capital
when every dollar of taxes so levied
and assessed has to be paid by the debtor
classes in the long run.
! The New York Free has, made a poll
j of the entire congress on the silver ques
tion and the result shows that no unlim-
' ,e' coinage bill can pass the fifty-second
WlltSC VICI I'll, IIVCIU(.1I, O IV . -J . A.
the house there are 236 democrats, 8"
republicans and 8 farmers' alliance.
Of the democrats 162 and of the republi
cans 9 are in favor of free coinage.
Eighty-seven democrats are opjiosed to
it and 70 republicans und 54 members of
the house are doubtful. In the senate
36 democrats and 18 republicans 'are in
favor of free coinage and 3 democrats
and 30 republicans are against it. The
total number of senators who will favor
free coinage being 54, there is no danger
of such a law being enacted at this ses
sion, seeing it takes 50 votes in the sen
ate to pass a bill over the president's
veto.
When a newspaper man is liberal
nothing on earth can equal his liberal
ity. Day before Christmas the big-
hearted editor of the Washington Jnd-
j pendent announced to the country that
if there were any sad hearts in the little
breasts because poverty and pinching
want forbid the entrance of the German
"Kris Kringgle" they should report to
him forthwith and they would be made
to rejoice if it took his last cent and ex
hausted all the credit of tbe firm. It is
safe to say that this rememberance of
generosity was never put to the test.
We have received a!, communication
from Wamic signed "Sympathizer"
which we will willingly publish if the
writer will forward his name to this of
fice, not necessarily for publication but '
as a guarrantee that the statements,
contained in the letter are true. We
cannot publish anything that reflects on
another without the assurance that the
reflections are founded on fact and even
then we must be allowed to judge of the
propriety of giving them to the public
The Grant county Neirs insists that
Eastern Oregon is entitled to name the
candidate for congress from this con
gressional district at the coming election.
There can be no doubt of the justice and
fairness of this claim. Western Oregon
has already two senators and a congress
man and will have them for years.
Eastern Oregon is surely entitled to one
representative in four and will undoubt
edly get it, if she makes the demand and '
sticks to it.
It was a singular futo that was re
served for a man named Pugh who died
on the Luckimute in Polk county, last
Monday, coming from Dakota the home
of the blizzard and the land of the cy
clone. Pugh was frightened to death
because a little Chiuook zepbyr moved
bis house from its foundation. He must
have forgotten, for the moment that he
was in Oregon. '
The Keeley drunkeness cure is to be
tested in court on the suit of an inebriate
who paid $150 on a pledge that he
should be cured, which was not done.
He wants $1200 for the damage done to
his constitution by the treatment. An
exchange says that incidentally this
suit may raise the question whether an
incurable drunkard has $1200 worth of
constitution.
The Goldendale Sentinel says a scheme
is on foot to construct an endless chain
railway from tbe summit of the hills
south of Goldendale to the rivers at
Rockland, by which cars loaded with
grain going down the mountain will
draw back the empty ones. The Senti
nel thinks the scheme is practicable but
not probable.
Gambling breaks suicide, says an ex
change, as war breeds famine. The
click of the ivory chips and the crack of
the pistol go together the world over,
and will continue to keep company so
long as men covet the wealth of their
neighbors, which will probably be till
the end of time.