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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1892.
DID YOU
WE ARE AGENTS FOR THE
AtgM Stoves and .Ranges, Garland' Stoves and
flanges, JeoaeU's Stoves and flanges, Universal Stoves and flanges.
We are also agents for the Celebrated Boynton Fornaee.
Ammunition and Loaded Shells, Etc'
SANITARY PliUmfilflG A SPECIALTY.
MAIER & BENTON
CHRISMAN
-DEALERS IN-
GROCERIES,
Flour, Grain, Fruit and Mill Feed,
HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR PRODUCE.
COR. WASHINGTON AND SECOND
Itorth
W ashington
SITUATED AT THE HEAD OF NAVIGATION.
Destined to be the Best
Manufacturing Center in
the Inland Empire.
For Further Information Call at the Office of
Interstate Investment Go.,
0. D. TAYLOR, THE DALLES.
JOLES BROS..
: DEALERS IN :
Staple aofl Fancy Groceries
Hay, Grain and Feed.
Masonic Block, Corner. Third and
Pure Dris aiii Meiicines.
Dispensing lliysif ians' lresriptions a Specially.
Night Druggists always in Attendance.
THE DALLES,
OKEOOX.
Young & Kass,
General Blacksmitbing and Work done
promptly, and all
Guaranteed. '
work
florse Shoeing a Speciality.
rM Street, opposite the olfl Lielie Stand.
FRENCH & CO.,
, BANKERS.
TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS
Letters of Credit issued available in the
Eastern States.
Sight ' Exchange and Telegraphic
Transfers sold on New York, Chicago, St.
Louis, San Francisco, Portland Oregon,
Seattle Wash., and various points in Or
egon and Washington.
Collections made at all points on fav
orable terms. ...
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uyiiio, may a uu., ; nwmmw raiment !
Druggists and Chemists. !
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& CORSON,
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THE DALLES, OREGON
Dalles,
Washington
Best Selling Property of
the Season in the North
west. 72 WASHINGTON ST., PORTLAND.
Court Streets, The Daiies.Oregon.
NEW
PRINZ
DEALERS IX
Furniture and Carpets. I
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We have added to onr business a
complete Undertaking Establishment,
and as we are in no way connected with
the Undertakers' Trust our prices- will
be low accordingly.
Remember our "place on Second sti-eet,
next to .Moody's bank.
ARE (TRtmy
TIrst Class
Tie Larrot. Fastest ud Ftaeat In the WarM
raeaenfrer accomodations unexcelleo.
NEW YORK. LONDONDERRY AND BlASGOW.
NEW YORK, GIBRALTKR and NAPLKS,
reromr lniervais.
SALOON, SECOND-CLASS AND STEERAGE
rates On lowest terms to and f mm thA nrlnnin!
flOOTCH, KTtmaH, mm ALL OOOTIKIOTAL KIOTO-
excursion aeketa arailable to return by either the pie
turesque Clyde A North of Ireland or Naples & Ulbraltai
DnJto sal Itasy (Man for Any Aamst it lovttt Ettw,
Apply to any of onr local Agents or to
HENDtCKSON BROTHERS, Chicago, III.
T. A. HUDSON, Agent.
Tit Dalles, Or.
STAGY SHOHlfl,
Has opened an office for Cleaning and
Repairing Watches, Jewelry, etc.
... All work guaranteed and
promptly attended. '
AT C. E. DUflflAlflS OLD STAND,
Cor. Second and Union Street.
& NITSCHKE.
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TTib WatcDiaaKer,
Jolea Brother.
No business house in this city affords
a better example of the success that al
most invariably attends upon ploding
industry and honest methods, than the
one whos name heads this article'
Onlv a little over four years ago the
hree brothers, Isaac, George and
Thomas Joles opened a little two by
four grocery store back of the Gates'
building on Union street. It was an
out of the way place for ' a store and
scarcely afforded space in which to .per
form the proverbial service of whipping
a cat, but it was perhaps equaPto the
capital invested and as the business
grew, which it steadily did from the .be
ginning, it was soon filled from floor to
ceiling. In point of fact what with the
increase of stock and a corresponding
increase in the lateral growth of Baby
Joles himself, who weighs over 300
pounds, avoirdupo's, it became a ques
tion of necescity to move into larger
quarters. These were found in the new
Opera building, corner of Washington
and Third, which they took possession
of in Jujy, 1S90.
Here they remained, doing a con
stantly increasing and prosperous busi
ness till the great fire of September 3,
1S91 left the store and its contents in
ashes. But the ashes were scarcely cold
till they had bargained for the stock in
trade of Roscoe & Gibons and were com
fortably located in the fine brick block
! of the Masonic society on the corner of
j Court and Third where the main store
room measures Z4x7(i teet, besides a
large room used for storing grain and
potatoes and a capacious shed for the
storage of coal oil. In addition to this
space, as the firm deals largely in hay as
well as grain and mill feed, a barn
building back of their residence on Ful
ton street is used for the storage of the
former commodity. The main thing
that impressed itself on the mind of the
writer as he walked through the various
departments of the store was the amount
of business that must be done to justify
the amount of stock on hands. Instead
of a box of soap here and a can of some
thing else yonder so placed as to till up
the space, stacks of boxes and cases and
immense heaps of sacks and bags are
' piled up so as to make space, instead
j of fill it up, Beside a large variety of
! green apples in fin condition and of
! strikingly tine quality the writer was
i pleased to note' an unusually large and
I excellent variety of dried fruits; which,
we learned, were nearly all of home pro
duct. Here was a stack containing
thirty-five fifty-pound boxes of dried
Italian prunes, all produced at home
and better, as we were informed and be
lieve, than any that come from Califor
nia. As a proof of this they bring better
prices than do California prunes in the
Portland market. We were shown dried
prunes that Joles Brothers bought from
A. Y. Marsh, of Chenoweth Creek and
if there are any better on the American
continent we would like to see them.
A lot of dried Tokay and Muscat grapes
produced by Frank Creighton of Three
Mile deserves more lhan mere mention.
They are in every respect equal to the
best California or White London raisins,
while they are sold at half the price
twelve pounds for a dollar. We be-
ieve manv a housewife will thank
us for calling attention to Frank
Oreipton's dried grapes. They give such
' good satisfaction that Tom Joles says he
would bof three or four tons of them if
he could get them. Up till the time of
the fire last year Joles Brothers had
shipped upwards of 5000 boxes of green
fruit, chiefly to Spokane, Helena, Cheney,
Heppner and other towns east, while
they had made numerous shipments of
cherries, in the season, to Tacoma and
Seattle. At present they dispose of
about 150 boxes of apples a month in
the store. The firm deals largely in farm
I products buying everything they can
to
ship
onr own farmers. Besides this they
corn from Nebraska and at present
have a car load on the way. Year before
last when feed was scarce in this section
they shipped aird disposed of fifteen car
loads. The firm reaps a big advantage
by buying such heavy articles as sugar,
salt, and coal oil in car load lots, and
they are both able and willing to give
the benefit to their customers. They
were the first to ship by the Regulator
and the first to reduce prices in confor
mity to reduced rates. They deal largely
in Japan sugar, which they fell about
of a cent a pound cheaper than a similar
grade of American sugar and claim that
it is equal in every respect. Besides the
articles we have mentioned there is a
full line of everything usually found in a
first class grocery store such as canned
goods of every description, teas, coffees,
spices, syrups, lard, bacon, garden seeds,
tobacco, cigars, candies, Quaker and
rolled oats and flour, besides the famous
Rad ham's Microbe Killer of which thev
are the special agents and of which they
have sold since last October over 800
gallon jugs and concerning whose merits
they can boast that the patient who has
ever taken a regular course of tieatment
of the Microbe Killer has never died on
their bands or ever had a relapse, unless
when he gave np taking the medicine or
changed doctors. When asked if the
sale of the Microbe Killer kept increas
ing the significent answer was returned.
"It is not quite bo large as it was because
all the many chronic cases who used to
buy it are cured and don't need it any
more." But we have reached the limit
of this article and we close it with the
remark made by Tom Joles when the
writer spoke of the heavy stock the firm
carried. "It is all paid for and we don't
bwe a dollar in the world."
The Weekly Ctoniele.
OFFICIAL- PAPER OF WASCO COUNTY.
Entered at the Pnt.toffice nt The Dalles, Oregon,
us second-class matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
BY MAIL (POSTAGE FltaTAID) IN AVANCS.
Weekly, 1 year 1 50
" 6 mouths... 0 75
" 8 ' 0 30
Daily, 1 year 6 00
" 6 months 3 00
' per " . . 0 SO
Address all communication to " THE CHRON
ICLE," The Dalles, Oregon. .
It is not often, happily, that one meets
with a newspaper which is conducted
with such general ability as is the Ore
goniau that can descend to so low a
level of narrow bigotry and unfair and
dishonest criticism as that journal man
ifested in an article published in its
issue of January 20th on the amend
ments suggested by the committee on
revision of the Presbyterian confession
of faith. The article is an insalt to a
large and influential body of Christians
and a gross libel on the members of the
revision committee. It is all the more
so because there is nothing in the creed
of that church to give a shadow of foun
dation for the criticism offered. Of the
truth or falsity of the doctrines of the
confession we say nothing, but we pro
test in the name of all that is fair and
honorable against a most respected and
useful denomination of Christians being
held up to ridicule and contempt, as that,
they hold that none but themselves have
any hope of salvation, that the "elect"
is held to mean Presbyterians, "or those
who profess to believe as the Presby
terians do," that "those ordained to
wrath'. mean "those who do not accept
the Presbyterian theological hornbook,"
that by the term "unregenerate" the
confession means "those who do not
think as the PresbyteJians do" and that
the "faith" that "purffies the heart" is
held to.be "the Presbyterian confession
of faith." Such criticism is unworthy
of any paper that makes a pretention to
respectability. It has not the shadow
of a basis either in the confession itself
or in the teaching of the denomination
referred to. It only serves as a confirm
otion of what has long been apparent,
namely, that anything that even pre
tends to be a revelation from the
Almighty is like a red rag to a bull to
the Oregonian. That journal hates the
Christianity of the bible with all the
bitter intensity of its nature, and never
lets an opportunity slip to exhibit this
hatred. The Chronicle does not accept
i the authority of the confession any more
than does the Oregonian, but it is well
assured that either the Oregonian critic
never saw a copy of the confession or he
is a very dishonest and bigoted critic.
The Arlington Record makes the ex
traordinary statement that the ship
ment of grain from Arlington for the
past reason and up till the first of Janu
ary aggregated 21,770,375 pounds. The
costof shipping this grain to Albina and
Portland is said to have been $73,105.23
which the farmers have paid to. the rail
road company and the Record claims
that the crop is not nearly all shipped
yet. No wonder that journal adds :
"How long would it take Gilliam county
to build a portage road around the dalles
with what could be saved to it by cheap
river transportation? Of themselves
the river counlies as municipalities can
do but little in this great matter, but as
a great community of men who have
solved the problem of the productiveness
of our soil, we can show to the honest
voter from one end of this land to the
other that we need relief from the iron
grasp of a greedy corporation. If
the great corporations of the country
had stood in need of having the Cascade
Locks completed, who doubts that it
would have been done vears ago?
The Salem Journal is an earnest ad
vocate of the portage railway arotwid the
dalles obstructions, but in view of the
fact that Ilolman is chairman of the
committee on appropriations and that
his resolution, limiting appropriations
by the present congress to the actual
necessities of the government, has passed
the house by the large democratic major
ity the Journal thinks there is not "the
ghost of a chance" for an appropriation.
It thinks the only relief for Eastern Or
egon lies in an extra session of the legis
lature. It can be assembled by March
1st. In a two week's session it can pro
vide for a portage railway at the dalles
and it can be built for the next fall's
crop. The Journal thinks there is no
doubt such a bill would pass the legisla
ture almost unanimously. Wa have a
profound dred that the Journal is right
as regards what may be expected from
the present congress and should be de
lighted to think that the governor would
take the matter in bis own hands.
IXVOX'TROVERTIBLE.
The National Economist the recog
nized mouthpiece of the farmers' alli
ance under date of. December 26 th, has
this to say about that body's consolidat
ing with any other political party :
The whole question as to the future
course of the national organ, the future
position of the supreme council, and the
duty of' the national officers, depends
upon one thing, and that is, "can the
farmers 's alliance as an organization
consolidate with or organize a . political
party?" Unquestionably it can not.
1. . Because such consolidation . or
coalition would make such party a class
party, or more properly, no party but a
political faction.
2. Because the farmers' alliance as an
organization would ceaso to exist the
moment it yielded sovereignty. As a
fa m ere' organization it would become
something else.
8, Because to merge with any one
party would drive those belonging to all
other parties out of the order, and that
is contrary to the fundamental princi
ples of the organization.
It seems to be generally conceded,
both by alliance men and by" those most
eager for the success of the" independent
party movement, that there can be no
consolidation of the alliance with any
political party. Both can not be su
preme ; neither can be subordinate ; and
therefore to attempt to consolidate them
is death to one. This is a statement
tbaf all must admit, is absolutely incontrovertible.
The Monthly report for January, 1892,
of Justice Bateman A. Co., wool com
mission merchants, of Boston, contains
the following which we publish without
comment:'
The past y?ar of 1891 will be known as
one of the most fruitful for the products
of the soil and the mine in the history
of the nation. Business of nearly every
kind is being conducted on an increased
scale. Competition has decreased the
margin of profits to a minimum and has
in many cases lowered prices ; but the
export of American product has increased
enormously, while the imports of man
ufactured articles have, lieen decreasing.
The balance of trade is in favor of this
nation, bringing gold in return, which is
also easing the monev market and es
tablishing confidence in mercantile and
banking circles. In ordinary times
these favorable conditions would have
fostered a "boom," but an entire
absence of any speculative inclination
has so far been conspicious. The neces
si ties of consumers, with no disposition to
buy in advance of present needs have
apparently been the controlling motive.
The exports for the month of Novem
ber, 1891, reached the unprecedented
sum'of $110,000,000, while the value of
imports was but $05,5SS,000. so that the
actual balance of trade in a single month
was over $45,000,000 with the prospect
that during the current fiscal year more
than one thousand million dollars worth
of this country's products will be sent
abroad. The decline in the rates of for
eign exchange within the last week in
dicates larger- shipments of gold from
abroad in the near future, adding to the
resources of the banks, already richer in
loanable money than ever before at this
season. Witn loanable funds so plenti
ful, the new year must open with an
dasy money market, and with this con
eition so pronounced, it is a slirprise
that such a favorable business situation
has not already to a greater degree re
flected the prosperity which these fig
ures indicate. Ths condition of business
is generally measured by the activity of
the railroads, which at "present furnish
the most indisputable evidence of reviv
ing business, which we think sooner or
later must have a favorable influence on
the wool market.
The value of imports of raw wool for
the year 1891 is estimated in round fig
ures" at $19,000,000 as against about $15,
750,000 for the year 1890 under the old
law, showing an increase of raw wool
imported under the increased duties of
the McKinley bill over the previous
year of about $3,350,000.
This increase iri the imports of wool,
notwithstanding the increased duties,
was made necessary by the demand for
raw wool resulting from the increased
employment of American manufacturers
in supplying the deficiency caused by
the decreasing imports under the
McKinley schedule, which, for twelve
months, shows a falling off in the im
ports of "manufactures of wool" of
about $25,000,000. The value of the
goods imported for the twelve months of
1890 reached about $00,000,000.
In other words the imports of manu
factured goods for 1891, so far as the
figures have been obtained, indicate only
about $35,000,000 worth, showing a de
crease of $25,000,000, of woolen fabrics,
formerly made abroad, but now made in
the United States, giving employment
to American labor and making a better
market for American wool.
The Secretary of the Dalles board of
trade, B. S. Huntington, has received
the following telegram fromHun Binger.
Herman :
"The River and Harbor committee
will hear delegations until February
10th. An upper Columbia river dele
gation, well informed, would help me
here."
In the absence of any financial pro
vision for the expense of sending a loby
to Washington the CnisosiCLE suggests
that here is an opportunity that may
not occur again during the century for
candidates for county state and national
officials to show their unselfish devotion
to the people's interests by hurrying to 1
Washington and doing some good loby I
service in the interest of the dalles I
portage. Secretary Huntington will
furnish the candidates with the neces
sary ficures and the Chronicle will
help elect them after the bill becomes a
law.
The
supreme cuuru u. " ,
court of the United
States has just ruled that a shipper over j
a railroad cannot be. compelled to tes- !
tify before the interstate commission as
to whether ornot he has been allowed
freight rates below the schedule list
fixed for the public. The decision is
undoubtedly right in principle, as a wit
ness cannot be compelled to give testi
mony that may criminate himself; but
if the shipper cannot be made to testify
as to the rates he receives the commis
sion will find it difficult to prove charges
of unfair discrimination against any
body. The Weekly Chronicle contains
forty-eight columns of the news of the
world every week or nearly twenty-five
hundred columns a year for the low
price of $1.50. ! '
General Andrew Jackson said: "True
statesmanship will place side by side the
farm and the workshop.
The Salem grange has resolved that
"Whereas, it is shown by national sta- ,
tistics that capital invested ip agricul
ture does not yield more than 3 percent,
therefore resolved, that farmers should
not carry on their business on borrowed
money at the current rates of interest ;
that we are opposed to the credit system
and the morgaje system." If this is in
tended to discourage the practice of go
ing in debt it is a step in the ritrht direc
tion. It is true beyond a question that
ordinarily a farmer cannot afford to
work on a capital borrowed at the cur
rent rates of interest, but on the other
hand tens of thousands of western farm
ers have done so and succeeded.- What
one has done another may do and no .
resolutions passed by any meeting or as
sociation will stop men from borrowing
money or going in debt when there is a
fair prosject of a successful outcome.
It has been proposed to compel the
government clerks at Washington to
work eight hours each day instead of six
and a half as at present and there is a
terrible tempest among the clerks in
consequence. If an increase of the
working efficiency pf the department
and a reduction of expenditures are
brought about by the proposed change
the sooner it comes the better. The
practice of economy in thie direction by
the present congress will meet with the
approval of everybody but the clerks
themselves. If the clerks don't Hke it
there are thousands in this broad land
who wuld lie glad to step into their
shoes and work ten Hours a day if re
quired for the same pay. There is (to
reason in 'the world why Uncle Sam .
shonid not get as much service for the
money as any other employer.
The January number of the Forum
has turned the light on the business
methods of the Louisiana Lottery com
pany and for the first time has explained
in brief compass the workings of this
huge fraud. It appears that the total
amount of money' taken in per annum
by the lottery, if all its tickets are sold,
is $28,000,000 and the largest possible
amount that can be drawn by the hold "
ers of the tickets is $14,000,000 so that
the lottery puts into its own coffers 47
per cent of all the money it receives and
the sum, in years when there is a good
run in the sale of tickets, amounts to
$13,000,000 or more. Xo wonder the
company is able fo buy up a whole state
legislature and that it now has a tieket
of its own in the field with the hope of
renewing its charter for another twenty
five vears.
The state of Iowa has passed a law
that ought to have a healthy effect on
the tramp nuisance. It declared that
any male person sixteen yirs of age or
over who is physically able to work, who
wanders about begging or idle and, who
cannot show reasonable efforts to secure
employment, shall be deemed a tramp,
sent to jail and put to hard work. While
in jail he shall not be allowed tobacco,
liquor, sporting or illustrated news
papers, cards or any other means of
amusement. The tramps will no doubt -avoid
Iowa like they, would an unmuz
zled bull dog.
The John Day Sentinel is out in a
strong denunciation of the habit of vot
ing by proxy at political county conven
tions. It thinks allowing a delegate to
vote half a dozen proxies, more or less,
has the effect of turning over a conven
tion into the hands of the faction that
can do the most intriguing, bribing,
i bull-dozing, ' and wire-pulling. The
gentiiel believes that each delegate
j 8honii have one vote and no more, and
j tne Sentinel is right.
j
The Salem Journal, speaking of the
great Objector, says: "A watch-dog of
the treasury is a nice thing to brag
about in a platform but a very uncom
fortable, animal to have around when
you wish a special appropriation, as in
the case of Governor Pennoyer asking
$430,000 of Hoi man and the democratic'
congress for a portage railway.
The Eugene Guard says that from in
formation received from nearly every
portion of the first congressional district
it appears almost certain that Senator
Yeatch will receive the nomination for.
congressman on the democratic ticket.
His integrity and probity the Guard
thinks will insure him a hearty support.
The new Australian ballot law requires
, . . . f , , ,
fae filed ,n of Btate,a office
at least forty-five days before election.
The county ticket must be filed thirty
days before election.
The Astorian is responsible for the
statement that John L. Sullivan has
wired to Washington that in case of war
with Chili, he'll go down there and help
lick 'em. That settles it. Turn ber
loose Mr. Harrison. When Chili sees
John L., coming, she'll get down behind
a log.
The biggest audience that ever assem
bled in Spokane greeted John L. Sulli
van in that city last Saturday night.
Vancouver is enforcing the ' Sunday
closing of saloons with fair success.
A new building for a match factory is
being erected in Vaaconver.