CSJ THE DALLES W: K7F.K1 CY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1892. The Weekly Ghfoniele. THE DALLEB, OREGON FRIDAY, . JANUARY 22, 1892. T.OCAL AND FBBSONA1. The state levy was made Monday.. Street Commissioner Staniels - lias done a fine piece of work on the new ateps leading up the bluff on Court Btreet. One cent letter postage, 3 cent tele- ' hone messages and 10 cent telegraph messages are near possibilities. So says John Wanamaker. C. W. Adams, the well-known artistic shoemaker, has removed to 116 Court street, tne building occupied by the Haworth printing office. Representative Herman introduced a bill in the house yesterday appropriat ing $414,000 for the construction of a ' portage railway around The Dalles. The three governors of Oregon, Wash ington and Idaho and the Idaho secre ' tary have signed the Dalles board of trade petitions for an appropriation for the Dalles portage. Mr. Sibley has resigned his position as agent at The Dalles of the Dalles, Port land and Astoria Navigation company and W. C. Alloway has been appointed to fill the vacaney. The following perwms registeredat the Umatilla house Friday. C. J. Bright, Wasco ; H. T. Munchie, Wasco, Chas. Butler, Port Townsend ; D. S. Kimsey, Antelope; C. B. Durbin, Antelope; W. H. Herman, Antelope; W. II. Moore, Dufur. P. P. Underwood of Boyd gave this office a pleasant call Friday. He reports about an inch of snow on the lands around his place; stock in fine condi tion ; nearly everyone has plenty of feed and the ground more thoroughly satura ted with water than it has been for nine years. We print in this issue the letter of Covernor Pennoyer addressed to the river and harbor committee containing an earnest plea for an appropriation for a portage railway around The Dalles of the Columbia. Whether the governor's plea may succeed or fail, he deserves the gratitude of the people of eastern Oregon. Jud Fish has entered into partnership with his father-in-law, N. B. Sinnott, in the Umatilla house. Jud is duly in stalled behind tke office desk and if he does not make a popular hotel man the i Chronicle misses its guess by a good 'deal. Jud has hundreds of friends in this city who will be delighted that he and his excellent wife are still going to remain amongst us. An old man named Hanschild, father of the late Mrs. John Michelbach, was found dead in the western part of the -ity about 8 o'clock Friday evening. He had been living alone lately in a build ing on the Michelbach property. He was 76 years old and has been sick for some time and a neighbor going in the evensng to take the old man some food found him dead. , The house was found in a miserable condition, notwithstand ing that $135, was found in a sack in a tin can between the mattresses of his bed. He was buried Sunday. His Honor Judge Thornbury and Sheriff Cates have kindly consented to allow the members of the Mic-mac Glee club to use the court house for their concert, to be given (la grippe permit ting) next Saturday evening. This con cert is for the benefit of the Congregation al, Methodist and Episcopal churchesi It is to be hoped the people of The Dalles will give the club a crowded house. Every effort is being made to make the entertainment worthy of pat ronage. A special feature in the pro groname will be a chorus bvten colored iar fcst can afford to extend the indebtedness of the railroads almost indefinitely, a little time might be given to the farmers, Workmen are finding it difficult to get any appliances sufficiently strong to pull the Baker on land. The county court of Gilliam county offers a standing reward of $100 for the arrest and conviction of any person found stealing stock in the county "We are pleased to learn from the nijii-Ur that Georee Herbert of the Mount Hood hotel of Hood River is re mverina from' a serious attack of la grippe. The instrumentalists for the Mic-Mac concert will be Mrs. Dexter, Mrs, Waters, Miss Hollister, Miss Rowland, Prof. Birestoff.' Mr. Benton. Mr. Ed Williams and Mr. Mason. At the concert to be given next Satur day evening by the Mic-Mac Glee club. Mr. Smest will sing a solo, and will also be heard to advantage in concerted ... 1 SUll they Go Vp. (Communicated.) Even in this, the middle of the winter of our discontent, made miserable by the fire "of September 3, our town grows. Buldings have gone up in every direction and. what is the subject of comman remark, the new buildings are all handsomer and better than the ones they supersede. There is the new M. E, church building, for example, which is just now beginning to show its goodly proportions. It is a magnificent struc ture, and proves to be an ornament to the citv. But it is alone the line of Fourth street east of the Ward & Kerns stable where the greatest number of residences have been built. The first is a nice comfortable lookinz dwelling by Mr. Blakeney. Then almost directly opposite is a neat and ttsteful little cot tage occupied by E. N. Chandler and owned by Mr. Phillip Michell. Again on the south side of the street Mr. Wm. Svlvester is putting up a handsome music-a treat which the people of Tke famil.y residence while Mr. George Rovr Dalles will not be slow to take advant age of. Miss Laraly E. Walker has most kindly promised a vocal solo for the Mic- Mac Glee club concert, next Saturday. Miss Walker's beautiful voice cannot fail to please the most critical audience, and her rendering of pathetic songs is worthy of much praise, in addition to her singing, Miss Walker is also famed for beautiful and artistic costume. Mr. E. M. Stevens, lately in the en ploy of the state at the Cascade portage, is in the city. He is now representing tke firm of Mason, Ehrman & Co. of Portland, wholesale grocers. Mr, Stevens says his specialty is the L. Lillis Cuban Blossom cigar, which is the leader, the original and only genu ine Cuban Blossom cigar. These cigars are manufactured by Poweil, Smith & Co. of New York and Mason, Ehrman & Co. are the distributing agents for the Pacific northwest. The enormous number of 20,000,000 of these cigars were sold last year. W. Butler & Co. 8- n- !ve le it e- V' 1:1s Jns , a rooster, a fcuctl 61 wheat and cockle turxeci ana a glass eyea cayuse on a part interest and as the iaventor has not filed a caveat for a patent the Chron icle thinks it would be cruel to publish the invention to the world. There ought to, be a powtrful demand for the ma chines between this and nest June while the election is pending. J At the request of a number of people in this county, Horace Bice of Boyd has written to the Oregon delegation re questing them to work for an extension . of the time fixed by law for the pay Iment for forfeited lands purchased by settlers. ' This payment becomes due .' . nM T ...... .tm.c.na lw,T.i: f.. feited lands in this county and elsewhere will be unable to pay for them at the to Mr.- Rice promising to introduce a bill to have the time extended. As this is a measure in which a great many peo ple are interested something further ought to be done, by petition or other wise and even then the measure may ; not succeed; still when the government It was natural that the great fire that laid so much of our fair city in ashes last fall should produce a few changes in the business houses of the citv. Some businesses changed hands ; some await reconstruction and reestablishment in the spring; very few passed out of exist ence, while a number of new firms rightly calculating on the increased de mand for certain lines of goods necessary for rebuilding the burnt district have cast their lot amongst us.. One ot the most popular additions of this class is the firm of W. Butler & Co. The senior member of the firm and manager" is gentleman thoroughly familiar with the line of business he conducts having been for years in the employ of the Michigan Lumber company of Vancouver. Wash ington. The firm is located on that part of the city known as the Laughliu Home stead and it has obtained a five years lease of a square of one hundred and fifty feet which corners on Jefferson and Main street. After considerable j-atient negotiation Mr. Butler has succeeded in having a side track laid along the north line of his lots where cars can be loaded and unloaded with great convenience. Nearly the entire square is covered with lumber, lath, shingles and sawed cedar posts, while a large shed, is filled with dry dressed lumber, embracing finishing lumber, red wood and larch wainscoting, double beaded fir wainscoting, yellow fir rustic, fluted red wood casing and dressed pickets besides a full variety of the ordinary lines of pine and fir floor ing and rustic. Mr. Butler ships largely from Lautervelle Falls, Bridal Veil and Portland and a better quality of lumber than that handled by this firm is simply to lie found nowhere. Besides the lines referred to Mr. Butler keeps a small stock of sash and door materials, a stock which he intends to increase just as soon as the winter breaks and be can build a warehouse with sufficient accomodations to handle it. When the proposed ware house is completed the firm will stock it with everything usually classified under the name of building material. Mr. Butler has full faith in the future of The Dalles. As an evidence of this he has built himself a handsome and comforta ble five roomed cottage where he and his small family aredomiciled and where he seems determined to remain as a permanent fixture. His entire good faith, manifested in the character of his improvements, demands that the peo ple of this city should look upon him in the light of a permanent citizen and not as a stranger who simply pitched a tent where he can sell a little lumber during the rebuilding of the city. In point of fact the city already owes a good deal to Mr. Butler as being the leader in a re duction of the price of lumber; mater ially below what it was before the fire. This distinction Mr. Butler proudly claims and the writer is not aware that the claim can be successfully 'disputed. Since Mr. Butler's advent into The Dalles he has received very flattering en couragement in the way of trade and patronage and the Chronicle will be pleased to see this state of affairs con tinue and increase. land is building another on the south east corner of Fourth and Laughlin. On the south east corner Dr. Siddell com menced to build three dwellings on the 12th of November and they are now finished, and are actually the neatest and most convenient houses ever built in this city to rent. Supplied as they are with every modern convenience what particularly took the eye of your correspondent was a device invented by the doctor himself for elevating stove wood from the basement, to the kitchen by means of a windlass. The elevator is enclosed in what appears to be a little cupboard for the reception of pies and cookies. This Berves the double pur pose of wood box and elevator, and is a filing of beauty as well as convenience. It is confidently predicted that the house wife who is fortunate enough to occupy one of the buildings will shower many a blessing on the man who in vented this device. The doctor's houses were all rented before they were finished and Mr. R. R. Hinton moved into one of them the other day. Speaking of city improvements it is only just to mention the handsome home of ye editor of the Chronicle just erected on the bluff south of Dr. Siddell's house. The building is an ideal city home, displays good taste on the part of the architect, is an ornament to that part of the city and shows that the Chronicle editor is wil ling to prove his faith in the future of the city by his works. Further east from Dr. Siddell's buildings an- elegent cottage is in course of erection by Messrs Hostetter and Ainsworth. When finished it will be one of the very hand somest residences in the city. Still far ther east are three fine comfortable looking buildings owned and occupied by Messrs. Stephens John Filoon and G. F. Beer. Again north of these on Third street we find two really magni- I Scant and tasteful residences owned and occupied by Mrs. Laughlin and Mr. G. J. Farley. Both of these present a striking appearance and command the admiration of all who see them. Thev will compare favorably with the best buildings in much larger places, and this will apply to many other new buildings, all of which goes to show that our people are not dead like the ashes of our ruins, but still live, and are confi denet that a more beautiful and more substantial city will soon take the place of the old. Many additional and costly residences will go up just as soon as the winter is over. Of these it is impossible to give a list at this writing, but there is no doubt that before the year 1893 ar rives we will have a much better and handsomer town than ever, and when money and energy go together the wheel must turn to the jovous whistle of the Regulator. there is about three inches ot enow on . the ground and stock is in good condi cioh for this time of the year. - The ground is wet to a greater depth than it has been for four years at this time of the year aud we have good prospects of fine crops next season, but there is poor consolation for one to raise a crop of grain here on acconnty of the bad roads between us and the market. If Wasco county would make a good grade up Tygh hill it would be well compensated in taxes in a few years and befriend the people of this vicinity a great deal. I guess it's no use kicking as we are only considered common hayseeds. We need a railroad to carry our pro duce to the coast markets but there is not much use looking for one if we can't as much as get a wagon road up Tygh hill there is lots of land laying idle that would be farmed if we had a market for the grain. Want of water has been a great draw back to this " part of the country but the people are building reservoirs and cisterns and in the near future they wip be able to h aye plenty of water as the snowfall will refill them in winter. We had a pleasant dance here the 8th inst. : Everything passed off quietly. J. Trippier and B. Alexander furnished us with excellent music. Mr. S. E. Farris took a prominent part. Hayseed. All In Faror of an Open River. Some af The Dalles board of trade cir culars have found their way into the hands of ex-United States Senator J. H. Slater of La Grande and a private letter was received in this city Friday from the ex-senator, by a friend of the enterprise in which these words occur: 'I have placed the blank petitions in the hands of the secretary of our cham ber of commerce with request that they be laid before that body immediately. Steps have already been taken to have others generally circulated among the people. There is but one sentiment here. All are earnestly in favor of an open river." In the course of a long letter, Mr. Slater says : "It has been nineteen years since the first appropria tion was made ior the Cascade locks and five years at the outside ought to have sufficed for its completion aud the first' lock is even now far from being ready for use. The necessity for an open river and untrammeled communication from all this inferior country, most properly named the Inland Empire, which was beginning to be felt 'somewhat keenly, even prior to 1S73 has now become over shadowing and is materially restricting our growth and prosperity, and is a menace that should spur our people to the utmost exertion to remove." John Colver of Crook county, has got tired of waiting for the government to make an appropriation for sinking ar tesian wells in Eastern Oregon, and next summer will sink one on his own hook on his place on Camp creek. He expect to get artesian water at a depth of less than 200 feet, as artesian water has been struck at a depth of a little over 100 feet a short distance above his place. The San Francisco -Chronicle says: "It is very evident that the democratic party is hopelessly at sea oil the-silver question." Then the republican party must be hopelessly iu company with McGinty at the sea's bottom, for it is far worse divided and distracted on the silver question than the democrats are. , Unnecessary Bufferings. There is little doubt but that many persons suffer for years with ailments that could easily be cured by the use of some simple remedy. The following in cident is an illustration of this fact: My wife was troubled with a pain in her siae tne greater part of the time tor three years, until cured by Chamber lain's Pain Balm. It has, I think, per manently cured her. We also have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy whenever needed and believe it to, be the best in the world. P. M. Boston. Pennville, Sullivan Co., Missouri. For sale by Snipes & Kinersly Druggists. S. L. YOUNG, (Successor to K. BECK.) -DEALER IS- WflllE MS Advertised Letters. The following is the list of letters re maining in The Dalles postoffice uncalled for Friday, Jan. 15, 1892. Persons call ing for these letters will please give the date on which they were advertised : Ahart, Job Briggs, Si -Cloutman, J A Clow, J R Dennis, H F France, 8 T Hall, Henry Haynes, Rev E P Bell, Mrs. Mollie Clark, Mrs Mary A Croiton, D Cummins, D E Deye, Charles " Gross, John Haton, Mrs M Hammer, A L BORN. . - In this city, yesterday, January 15, to the wife of Superintendent Troy Shelly, twins, a boy and a girl. The children both died at an early hour this morning. ' T. C. Dallas of Hood River gave the Ciikonici.e office a pleasant call Monday. Helmer, Mrs Rose Hieeins, Patrick Horne, John W Jensen, Waldemar (3 Kollas, William Kollas, Phil Lind, Mrs Mellie Lock wood, Mrs W F Martin, Mrs J D Merry, Robert McGuire, Miss A Ouning, Johann Poolen, E C Popbam, Thomas Randall, Mrs Norah Regan, Eugene Kyan, Miss Mamie bagawe, iMlmund (3 Summerville, Rev D Von Bostel, C Wilson, H M. T. Nolan. P, M. Announcement. The directors of the Dalles, Portland and Astoria Navigation company have determined to add eight additional state rooms to each of their boats and they will take advantage of the present tie up to make these and other needed Im provements. The contract has already been let and the work will be pushed with all speed, but it is . thought that it will take three to four weeks to finish the job. By that time it is hoped the river will be open and the boats can run during the coming spring and summer without stopage for alteration or re pairs. Waplnltla Items. Wapinitia, Or., Jan. 11, 1892. Editor of tlie Chronicle : As I have not seen any correspondence from this vicinity to your paper I take this opportunity to write you a few lines. - We are having a Uno winter. So far, The Welland Canal. The Dalles, Jan. lSj 1892. Editor Chronicle: The Welland canal is twenty-seven miles long. It connects Lake Erie with Lake Ontario. It has a capacity for boats of 1500 ton burthen. It enables moderate-sized sea-going boats to reach all harbors on sea coasts with cargoes loaded at Duluth, the western shore of Lake Superior. The Clyde-built steamers Alberta and Athabaska are running on Lake Superior and the wbalebacks Wetmore and Keenawa, built at West Superior, Wis., are now on the Pacific ocean. If the Cascade Locks were opened, during the greater part of the year moderate-sized sea-go ing vessels could reach The Dalles, and with a portage railroad here as a tem porary expedient the products of the in land empire could be shipped direct to any sea coast market in the world. Wake up, ye people of Oregon, Wash ington and Idaho and strive for the early completion of the Cascade - Locks and place the inland empire where the God of nature designed her to be. L. H. Saved from Death by Onions, There has no doubt been more lives of children saver from death in croup or whooping cough by the use of onions than any other known remedy, our mothers used to make poultices of them, or a syrup, which was always effectual in breaking up a cough or cold. Dr. Gnnn's Onion Syrup is made by combin ing a few simple remedies with' it which, make it more effective as a medicine and destroys the taste and odor of the onion. 50c. Sold by Blakeley & Houghton. A Great Liver Medicine. Dr. Gunn's Improved Liver Pills are a sure cure for sick headache, bilious com plaints, dyspepsia, indigestion, costive nes3. toroid liver, ate. These Dills in sure perfect digestion, correct the liver and stomach, regulate the bowels, purify and enncn )ne mood and make the skin clear. They also produce a eood apDe tite and invigorate and strengthen the entire system by their tonic action. They only require one pill for a dose and never gripe or sicken. Sold at 25 cents a oox by Blakeley ft Houghton. A Sure Cure for Piles. Itching Piles are known by moisture like perspiration, causing intense itch ing when warm. This form as well as Blind, Bleeding or Protruding," vield at once to Dr. Boeanko's Pile Remedy which acts directly on parts anected absorbs tumors, allays itching and ef fects a permanent cure. oO cents. Drag- gists or mail. Circulars free. Dr. Bb- sanko, 329 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa cold by uiaseley s Houghton. As Staple as Coffee. "Chamberlain s Cough Remedy is as staple as coffee in this vicinity. It has done an immense amount of good since its introduction here.'" A. M. Nordell Maple Ridge, Minn. For sale by Blake ley x Houghton, druggists. cl.tw Children Cry' for Pitcher's Castoria. When Baby was sick, we gare her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Hiss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria State Board of Equalization Statement. Salem Statesman. The tabulated statement of the state board of equalization, which shows the aggregate valuation of all ' classes of property as equalized by the state board (and upon which the state officers will make the levy), is full of riddles. For instance, as mdeh tax will be paid on the horses and mules of the state as upon the roadbed of the hundreds of miles of railroad in the state. The fol lowing figures will prove interesting reading,- being the grand totals under the different classes : Agricultural etal. lands Gl,27,9 City and town lots 44,731.6W Moruraeex jy.2.')6.6Hl Money, notes, accounts, etc J9,100,4.1 Moae. ana implements n,rj,777 Improvements 14,9j;i Railroad track S,9ft5,2n6 Horses and mules S.SOT.US'ft Cattle 4,7;!l,u;w Furniture, etc 3.902.XOI Sheep 2,0:S7,577 Wacon road lunds 1,smu2i Kailroid land 1.1.SS.651 Swamp lands . iMM'S Telegraph lines 215,171 Swine 212,71 For the Children. "In buying a cough medicine for children," says H. A. Walker, a promi nent druggist of Ogden, Utah, "never be afraid to buy Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. There is no danger fiom it and relief is always sure to follow. I particularly recommend Chamberlain's because I have found it to be safe and reliable. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale bv Blakeley & Houghton, druggists, dw La Grippe I The tendency of this disease toward Eneunaoma is what makes it dangerous, a Grippe requires precisely the same treatment as a severe cold. Chamber lain's Cough Remedy is famous for its cures of severe colds. This Remedy effectually counteracts the tendency of the disease to result in pneumonia, pro vided that proper care be taken to avoid exposure when recovering from the at tack. Careful inquiry anion e the many thousands who have used this remedy during the epidemics of the past two years has failed to discover a single case that has not recovered or that has re sulted in pneumonia. 25 cent, 50 cent and $1 bottles for sale Houghton, druggists. bv Blakeley & diw Total. . 2lIV,169 A fruit man, speaking of the profits in systematic fruit growing the other day, said he had figured it out that $1000 invested in a prnne orchard will yield a larger income than $40,000 invested in bonds. It cannot be denied, while most of ns would probably choose the bonds first, that the fruit theory has been proven to be correct, and the invesrment in a prune orchard worth at planting $1000, is within the reach of many, while the investment in such a stock of bonds is confined to few. An additional advantage of the prune theory is that a very large percentage of the investment can be represented bv manual labor, while in the bonds business labor has j no consideration whatever. 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Watches, Clocks and Jewelry Repaired and Warranted. 165 Second St.. The DallesJOri-- Act on a new prtnefpls-.. rwalate the lirer, atonseft ana bownls Ihrouglk (At nerrm. Ds. Milks' Fsiui iptdU cur bilioasawsav torpid llrer and coamtipa ttoD. Smallest, mildest. Barest! Bpdosi2S . Samples free at druncfatr Br. Ht& G. Btttait St TMWia Parting Ci PACKERS OF Pork and Beet MANUFACTURERS OF Fine Lard and Sausages. Curers of BRAND HIS HOI Dried Beef, Etc. Masonic Building. The Dalles. Or. C. N. THORNBURY, Late Reo. U. . Laud Office. T. A. HUDSON. Notary Putoi D.S. Land Office Attorney.- Booms 7 and 8, IT. S. .Land ' Office Building, ' THE DALLES, - - - OREGON. Filings, Contests. And Business of all Kinds Before the Local and General Lan Office Promptly Attended to. Over Sixteen Years Experience. -WE ALSO DO A- General Real Estate Business. All Correspondence Promptly Answered. DIAMOND ROLLER - mi A. H. CURTIS, Prop. f - " lour of the Best Qual ity Always on Hand. THE DALLES. 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