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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1892.
The Weekly Ghroniele.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF WASCO COUNTY.
Entered at the Postoffice at The Dalle, Oregon,
u aeoona-ciasa matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
BT MAIL (POSTAGE FUFAID) IK ADVANCE. '
Weekly, 1 year 1 SO
" 6 months.... 0 75
" 8 ' 0 80
Dally, 1 year. 6 00
" 6 months. 3 00
" ner " 0 50
Address all communication to " THE CHRON
ICLE," The Dalles, Oregon.
The Eaut Oreqonian would pat a
etop to the habit of going in debt by the
abolition of all laws for the collection of
debts.
Marion county, like Wasco county,
has added two mills to the county levy
which is intended to be devoted to the
improvement of her county roads.
The new' dome of the Oregon capitol
building will be covered with copper and
of course the next legislature will be
asked for another appropriation for gild
ing it all over. Domes are expensive
but we must have 'em.
Speaking, the other day in the senate,
of the importance of The Dalles us a cen
ter of business a ad population, Senator
Mitchell said the city had three or four
weekly papers and one daily. Is it pos
sible the senator has never heard of the
Daily Timen-Mountaineerf
The AMorian of January L'Gth has the
following:
The British ship Lawton is now 77 days
out with a big caro of tin plate aboard
for Astoria. There has been a good deal
said about tin plate since the passage of ! ,
in o ti r . "
the McKinley bill. Apart Horn any
Dolitical feature of the matter, but
purely as a matter of news, it is inter
esting to know that tin plate is cheaper
here today than it has been. Last year
it sold as "high as $6.75 a box. Today
good tin-plate of the same quality as
was held at $0.75 a year ago, can be had
for from $( to $6;15 a bos. An ounce of
facts is worth a ton of theory of unsup
ported statements.
that its editor has always been in -fall-sympathy
with any effort that ever has
been made to improve the grade on
Tygh hill." When he lived near it and had
to it use he worked at various times as
hard as any ne to that end. Kor has
be ever failed, since he took charge of
this journal, as its readers will bear wit
ness, to urge the claims 'of the people
living south of Tygh to assistance from
without to build the road. But he
thinks it hardly faif that the county
court should get all the blame for the
fact that the road is still in the same
condition it has been in. for the last
twenty years.. If we are rightly in
formed there is a limit beyond which
the county court cannot go, in the mat
ter of rendering assistance to county
roads. The court we believe would at
any time have given some assistance if
the people themselves had exhibited
emergy enough to start the work. The
court was willing enongh to pay for a
survey but if the truth must be told it
had neither authority nor means to
grant an appropriation sufficient to be
of any appreciable benefit. The case is
different now. An addition of two mills
has been added to the county levy for
road purposes exclusively. This will
raise a fund amounting to between five
and six thousand dollars, and this sum
added to the amount anuually appro
priated for roads ought to enable the
court to grant a handsome appropriation
for the Tygh hill grade. It is proposed
to distribute the amount among the
various road districts in proportion to
their necessities as well as to the amount
of taxes contributed. The court assures
the writer that the funds will be ap
propriated to the districts as soon as
possible after the winter breaks. The
work on Tygh Hill will be let by con
tract under the supervision of the court.
e funds available will not be
chancre. .. The Chronicle suggests for
the Cascade Locks a study in "still
life " - ' ' : .'' - : -' y
The crop of candidates for the various
offices in the gift of the dear people of
Wasco county is about as thick as tar
weed in. a field of volunteer wheat.
Alas! that so many of the tender plants
should be nipped by the chilly frosts of
the June election.
The Ileppner Gazette comes to us this
week with a full report of the speech
which "Hon. J. L. Aver" was to have
delivered at the late convention of the
Young -Men's Republican clubs held at
Portland. .
It is rumored that Mr. Cleveland,
within the next few days, will announce
his withdrawal from the presidential
contest, but nobody believes it. Grover
ain't built that wav.
NORTHWKST NKW8.
President Harrison is taking a long
time to make up his mind whom to ap
point to the vacant judgeship of the
ninth district.
A little more sunshine and the spring
poets ought to begin to bud.
Escaped on a Private Vessel. -
Rio Janeiro, Jan. 30. The flight of
Count Leopoldia, president of the Gen
eral Railway Company, of Brazil, is an
nounced. He escaped on board a private
vessel before the authorities could serve
a writ.
All the newspapers in Oregon whose
heads are in the Oregonian't staunchions
are falling into line with the Portland
crowd of tax-dodgers. Great are the
moulders of public opinion. Salem Jour
. nal.
The Journal is away off. The Port
land "crowd of tax dadgers" have the
law on their side ; the niore's the pity,
but they have it all the same. What
some of us object to is the paying of
Multnomah county's state tax as well
as our own. If some counties are so
wedded to their moss integuments that
they propose to let Multnomah get the
best of them that's their own lookout.
We're not built that way in Wasco
count v.
sufficient, to complete the work, after
the largest contribution the court can
give, without the help of the people in
terested. They, should therefore set
about taking up subscriptions in labor
and money so that if possible a passible
road may be opened against the time of
next harvest. There is no time to be
lost. God helps those who help them
selves, and any good sensible county
court is built that way too; but the
people of Tygh, Wamic and Wapinitia
must get a move on themselves now if
they want the road by next fall.
Olves Great Satisfaction.
New York, Jan. 30. A special to
the Evening Post from Valparaiso, says:
The United States acceptance to Chili's
reply to the ultimatum has given great
satisfaction. Exchange has risen one
and one-half pence.
Treaty negotiations Broken Ofl'.
Pakis, Jan. 29. Negotiations between
France and Spain for a commercial treaty
have been broken off, owing to the ex
orbitant demands of Spain. The Span
ish ambassador will take a leave of ab
sence in a few weeks.
If the editor of the Pomeroy (Wash.)
Independent is not a dangerous lunatic
he' writes exactly like one. A man who
is capable of writing the following,
which appeared in the editorial column
of the last issue of his paper is not fit to
be at large let alone edit a newspaper.
"The alliance whose devinely chosen
mouthpiece the crank pretends to be
ought to sit down on him, hard and fire
him nnceremoneously out of its ranks.
Here is what he savs : "The enemies of
this paper who do it an injurv because
: it exposes their corruption are one by
- one being removed by Him who presides
-over the deBtinies of worlds and rewards
every being as is just and proper. - Be
ware when you try to tear down with
your vile tongue this chosen instrument
for the defense of the people. The very
poison that such spit at this paper will
become a festering sore to remove their
corrupt carcasses from this mundane
sphere to one where the fire is not
quenched."
The secretary of the state board of
equalization has addressed a circular
letter to the several county assessors
urging them to adopt, as the basis of
their next year's assessment, the cash
value of all kinds of property, as the
statues direct. The circular advises the
assessors to have an understanding with
one another to that effect, "either by
holding a convention or through some
other means of organization by which
the said understanding may become
universal and be acted upon accord
ingly." The advice is good and right.
No assessment will ever be fair and uni
form till tax payers are assessed at the
cash value of everything they own. But
the board itself has set a very poor ex
ample to the assessors. 'Had they prac
ticed as they preach their advice would
have more weight. A set of men who
would deliberately "equalize" one class
of property by putting it np to its cash
value and leave the rest at fifty cents on
the dollar or all the way from thirty to
seventy-five cents, cannot expect that
their advice will have much moral force.
It would be very different if the assess
ors knew beforehand that the state board
would make the various assessment rolls
comform to the statute where the
assessors had failed in this regard. As
"it is assessments next year will be made
very much on the old plan. Each
assessor who has any patriotic pride in
him will do his best to see that other
countries do not get too far ahead of him
in their effort to evade a just proportion
. of the state tax. '
The Ciihoniclk has no need to say
The Condon Globe speaks slightingly
of the fact that Colonel T. A. Houghton,
whose resignation as colonel of the third
regiment O. N. G., was placed in the
hands of the adjutant-general three to
four months ago, and who "now at a time
when he thinks he has a chance to win
some laurels,and become famous is urging
to recall his resignation and continue as
colonel." Now really some people can
be very small without half trying. On
the face of it and to an utter stranger
the action of Colonel Houghton is com
meu'iable and manly. He would with
draw his resignation at a time when
there was a probability that the third
regiment might have a chance for act
ual service. A coward would have in
sisted oh the acceptance of his resigna
tion to escape the dangers of real war.
It is not often men are held np to ridi
cule for offering their services in defence
of their country but, as we said before
there are some very small people in the
world.
The Interstate Artificial Kain com
pany, of Kansas have entered into a con
tract with parties in Tulare county, Cali
fornia to produce, during a period of
thirty days, an average rain fall of not
less than three inches, within a radius
of twentvfive miles frem the point of
operation the amount of said rain fall to
be determined by true and correct rain
gauges located at different points within
said radius. The consideration is $3500
and in case the party of the first part
fail to bring the rain according to con
tract, then, in that case they shall re
ceive no compensation for any work they
may have done. Tbe proposition is fair
enough on the face of it so far as Tulare
county is concerned and the contract
was only let after one of Tulare county's
leading citizens bad visited the home of
tbe rain makers and had . seen them at
work.
Garsa Begs for I'ardon.
City of Mexico, Jan. 30. It is not
denied that Garza has begged for pardon
trom President Diaz, offering to betray
bis followers. It is stated Garza will be
here soon with the intention of arrang
ing the matter. Several of Garza's lieu
tenants are petitioning for a pardon.
"Jack the Slasher" Goes Free.
New York, Jan. 29. The trial of
Henry G. Dowd, better known as "Jack
the Slasher," was concluded late this
afternoon, the jury acquitting him on
the grounds of insanity. It is probable
that Dowd will be placed under arrest.
The following appears in the Augusta,
Ga-, Chronicle's advertising columns :
Wanted. A vounar lady for clerk of
the county court of Elbert countj. It
will be necessary for her to marrv the
county judge, Address County J"udge,
Elberton,Ga. "
One physician prescribes asafoetida as
a specific for grip, and another recom
mends powdered sulphur worn in the
stockings as a preventive. As between
the remedy, the preventive and the
disease most persons will take grip in
"their'n,"
The very best friends of the Dalles
Portage railroad can scarcely hope, for
an appropriation from congress for that
purpose. Of course Mr. Hermann will
do all he can but he is fighting against
too great odds. The indications are
that tbe bill will sleep in committee the
sleep . that knows no waking. The
Chronicle has not the slightest concep
tion that the bill will ever pass. Our
only hope, therefore, is in the home leg
islative. It will come to this sooner or
later and parties seeking legislative hon
ors at the next election should know
that no man whose record, in connection
with an open river, is suspicious or
doubtful can be sent to Salem from
Wasco county. .
A new paper has been started in Port
land, ostensibly in the interest of Cleve
land and tariff reform. It is called the
Oracle and will be issued semi occasion
ally or oftener till it is laid away under
the dasies in the fall if it does not die
from lack of nourishment after the June
election. .
"The various government works in
Oregon will be photographed for exhi
bition at the World's Fair, says an ex-
"What are you crying about," asked a
kind hearted stranger of a. lad standing
in front of the office door weeping as if
his heart would break.
"Oh, pa's gone to whip the editor."
"Well, has he come out yet?" pursued
the gentle bamantan. "fieces of him
lias," said the boy with. a fresh burst of
tears, "and I'm expecting the rest every
minute.
Thirty-six years ago Tuesday occurred
an Indian battle which, but for fortu
nate circumstances, would have wiped
the village of Seattle out of existence.
Several of the men who fought that day
against the infuriated savages are still
residents of the town they helped to
found, having lived to see a city larger
than their wildest imaginings ever
dreamed of built at the point they
selected.
The veteran traveler, Paul du Chaillu
has explained why he abandoned Afri
can exploration. Upon one of his jour
neys in the dark continent the chief of
the territory through which he was
passing greeted him with distinguished
consideration. He even brought out a
row of 853 comely negro maideas invit
ing Chailla to take his pick for a wife.
"I told him," said the traveler, after
ward, "that tbe 'proof of his good will
overpowered me, but that I was afraid
to choose one leet the others might be
jealous. The chief pondered a moment,
then exclaimed : 'Well, friend, take 'em
all.' Then I fled."
Every, producer of lumber in the
northwest is interested in the effort now
being made by tbe dem:cratic majority
in congress to have lumber put on the
free list. This is not politics, it is busi
ness; it affects the bread -and butter of
thonsands in Oregon and Washington,
and if the attempt be successful it will
paralyze the lumber trade of the north
west. If the bill introduced by Con
gressman Dockery, of Missouri, becomes
a law, it will bankrupt the lumbermen
of the northwest, and depreciate the
value of every acre of timber land in
these states. . It will put a premium on
British Columbia lumber, and boom the
Canadian Pacific at the expense of
American roads and American interests
clear through. The Canadians could
afford to give the Missouri man $1,000,
000 to get this through and recoup
themselves the first year: In the inter
ests of this entire section the Aslorian
emnhaticallv protests against so suicidal
I a measure. Attorian.
A Tacoma paper says Mr. Frank Mur
phy has induced 3,000 men in that city
to sign the pledge.
Natural gas was discovered at Fair
haven in an excavation in the street
sewer tunnel. It flows steadily and
barns with a clear light. The discovery
excites considerable interest.
. The Wasco county court has put an
extra two 'mills on the tax levy for im
proving the county roads. Wasco
county commissioners nave done a very
sensible act. Futsil Journal.
The Salem Journal says its arguments
for a special session as the only way to
get The Dalles portge railway, built in
1892 have not been answered, and are
endorsed even by democratic papers.
Three dozen eggs will buy a nice calico
dress with trimmings. If tbe girls in
these days were like their grandmothers
a good hen would keep a girl looking as
nice as the flowers that bloom in the
spring.
An Indiana sheriff, while recently
crazed by, drink, was locked np in jail
by his own mother. She was a little
out of practice but succeeded in yank-
king him around just as she had done
wnen ne was an obstreperous ana mis-
chevious youngster.
A human brute named Henry Hanes,
aged 43 years, has been arrested and
jailed at Walla Walla, for a fiendish out
rage committed upon the person of Sarah
Ott, a ten-year-old German girl. Hanes
was forced to admit his crime at his trial
in the justice court, and will undoubtedly
be given the punishment that his offense
deserves.
Agent Luckey, of Warm Springs, and
Rev. J. A. Speer, missionary at Sinema
sho, were in town yesterday. Mr. Speer
expects to erect a large church building,
parsonage, out houses, etc., at Sinne
masho this year, and will require about
100,000 feet of lumber. He was here to
negotiate with Wni. McMeekin for the
purchase of his saw mill. Ochoco He
view. The British ship Port Adelaide is dis
charging 12,000 boxes of tin plate at As
toria. The British ship Lawton is on
tbe way there with 11,850 boxes, and
will be followed by the City of Madras
with 5,000 boxes. This gives a total of
about 29,000 boxes. It is expected that
it will require 40,000 boxes of tin for the
salmon season of 1892, calculating 107
boxes to each 1,000 cases of canned sal
mon. In the extreme northern portion of
this county the report comes to us that
a great many horses are sick with a
poisonous disorder. Forty head belong
ing to a Mr. Ashby, of Wasco county,
have died, and many others are affected.
It is claimed they eat a week called rat
tle weed. This is a matter which ought
to be invested by the State Veterinary
surgeon. Prineville Newt.
L. Bilyon, of Eugene is mentioned in
connection with senatorial honors from
the democratic side of the house. Mr.
Bilyeu is an able attorney, fully alive to
the wants and needs of Lane county and
would reflect honor and credit to his
constituency. He is a whole-souled
gentleman aud recognizes his friends
365 days in the year. The democracy
could go further and fare worse. Junc
tion City rtetvg.
H. McArthur returned from a trip to
the Sound the first of the week, and re
ports things over therein rather a col
lapsed condition. The bottom has
dropped completely out, and property
that fonnd a ready sale a year ago at
$1,000 and upwards, couldn't be given
away today. Business houses are half
empty, big hotels are closed up and peo
ple are leaving by the hundreds. Athena
Inland Republican.
A gentleman from Echo savs that
farmers there will make an effort to se
cure the services of Melbourne, the rain
maker, who was unable to make a con
tract with the Umatilla county farmers'
alliance. Melbourne agrees to make two
good rains for $700, and a subscription
will be circulated to raise that amount.
The rain comes high bnt the farmers
feel that they must nave it, and will in
voke Melbourne, who is running opposi
tion to Jubiter.
The Salvation Army has been estab
lished in Butte for one year, and in a
summary of what it has done, the Inter-Mountain
states that it has enlisted
180 men who one year ago' were in the
slums and gutters, but who now lead
honorable and industrious lives. This
is a record of which the army may well
be proud, and the incident goes to show
that the Salvation Army, besides being
the butt of many a joke, is capable of
doing some good.
The work of prospecting for oil in Nook-
sack valley, Whatcom, is proggressing
Bteadily. The drill is now down over
200 feet and the owner, D. J. Wynkoop,
declares himself greatly pleased with the
outlook. He has been in the oil boring
business since be was 21 years of age,
and has never seen more promising in
dications of the existence of oil in any
locality. He reports that he was favor
ably impressed with the country as an
oil producer when he first arrived, and
nas never yet seen any cause to cnange
bis opinion.
Hon. J. B. Huntington, register of tbe
Burnes land office., has the wellfare of
Eastern Oregon at heart, and is using
every effort in his power to further the
project of irrigation of the arid lands of
this section. Mr. Huntington recently
laid tbe matter before Senator Dolph,
the letter afterwards being bubiished in
the Harney Item. This letter will also
have considerable weight in congress, as
it presents tbe arid land question in its
true light. He also says : " "The arid
lands reclaimed in Eastern Oregon can
not be missed from the hundreds of
thonsands of acres which still lie open
awaiting some process of redemption,
which will surely come to them sooner
or later through the inevitable results of
human energy." John Lay Sentinel.
The E. 0. Co-Operative Store
CARRIES A FULL LINE OF ' ..
Groceries, Family Supplies, Boots and Shoes,
-ALSO A FULL LINE OF-
Carts, Reapers and Movers, and all litis of Airicalhml
ts.
Corner Federal and Third Streets, ,
THE DALLES, - OREGON.
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Ticket and Baggage Office of the O. R. & N. Company, and office of the Wester.
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BETABLI8HED 1883.
LBSLIE BUTLER,
-DEALER IN-
Groeeries and Groekery.
A full line of Lamps, Glassware and Dishes of all kinds. Silver plated Knives,
Forks and Spoons. When you are selecting your Christmas presents
look through my stock and you will get something useful
as well as ornamental. '
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Ladies' and Childrens' French Felt Hats,
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Ladies and Childrens Furnishing Goods, "WAY DOWN.'
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THE DALLES LUMBERING CO..
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INCORPORATED 1888.
67 Washington Street.
The Dalles.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers and Manufacturers of
Building Material and Dimension Timber, Doors, Windows, Moldings, House Furnishings, Etc
Special Attention given to the Manufacture of "Fruit and Fish
Boxes and Packing Cases.
Factory and Ijuza'ber "Tard at Old 2Tt. X)allea.
DRY Pine, Fir, Oak and Slab WOOD Delivered to.
any part of the city,
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