THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1&Q2.
The Weekly Ghrooiele.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF WASCO COUNTY.
FASHION NOTES.
Entered at the Fostoffice at The Dalles, Oregon,
as secona-ciass matter.
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. RAIN MAKING IN SO UTH DAKOTA.
The farmers in South Dakota held a
mass meeting lately at which all the
counties in the Black Hills district were
represented. The meeting was called
to make arrangements with rain-maker
Melburne for the supply of a specified
amount of artificial rain.. It is said to
have been the largest gathering ever
held in that part of the state. Great en
thusiasm was manifested, whether
evolved from their" necessities or based
upon actual tests we are not told, but
there was sufficient faith to secure
pledges of foOOO from a single county.
Little interest was manfiested in au
irrigation convention that was held soon
after. The simpler, or at least cheaper
scheme of the rainmakers caught the
farmers' preferences, and they give no
tice to those who laugh at their credulity
that the laugh will be on the other side
before the ides of June. fo mote it be
We have it from a perfectly reliable
source that only a few davs ago an agent
of the Union Pacific visited Goldendale empty
The fashion editor of this family jour
nal would remind its million (more or
less) lady readers that in order. to be on
the very crest of the top wave of fashion
it is not absolutely necessary, when at'
tending a religious or secular entertain
ment, for a lady to wear a hat as big as
the cover of a family shay. No hats are
now worn, in the most fashionable
circles, that are larger than a wash tub.
The line had to be drawn somewhere
and this familiar family necessity has
been fixed upon to define fashion's
limits. We are prompted to give this
information because of an incident that
happened at the late Demorest contest.
A little preacher of this city, whom
everybody loves and admires, attended
the contest. Unfortunately the Fates
seated him behind a family shay head
gear. " ith the physical stature ot a
boy and the capacity for enjoyment of a
giant it was painful to watch his efforts
to look through the "shay" or around its
circumference. .For him and all of sim
ilar size the enjoyment of an entertain
ment only enters the eensorium by one
avenue the ear unless, perchance they
are cross-eyed and able to see around
the corner of the "shay." If these hats
must be worn to an entertainment the
wearers should stack them in the vesti
bule or hold them in their laps during
the performance. One thing more ; the
very latest fashion notes from the Colville
and Warm Springs reservations inform
us that gum chewing during an enter
tainment has been substituted for the
munching of pea-nuts. No ladv who
makes ony pretension to be au fait ever
goes to a theatre or concert without a
sack of pea-nuts, and the number of
shells scattered on the floor
- BOOTLESS - PA TCHWORKS
About half of the county assessors of
the state met in convention . last week
and passed a set of resolutions favoring
the fixing of a uniform' time the noon
hour of the first Monday in March of
each year for making assessments ; the
completion of the listing of all property
within ninety days from that date : no
deduction for indebtedness and no as
sessment of credits ; the enforcement of
a lien on the property assessed for tb
taxes leried and the repeal of the law
that fixes the school and university tax
at five mills and the substitution there
for of a law that shall authorize the state
authorities to make the tax levy, for the
estimated expenses of the government
of the state in the same manner as
to work that town in the interest of his
company by offering inducements to the
merchants to ship their goods to Grants
instead ot to Kockland Dy the new nav
igation company. Three of the mer
chants, whose names we have not been
able to learn, entered into the arrange
ment. Of course this means the cutting
of rates below the regular schedule,
which is a direct violation of the inter
state commerce law. Our informant
says arrangements were made with the
Goldendale papers to say nothing about
the visit of the agent. Of course they
may not have known his business and,
however that may be, nothing is said;
but it is beyond a reasonable doubt that
" the professed friends of the" new boats
will have ample opportunity, during the
coming summer, to prove the reality of
their profession by their works. Every
thing indicates that the Union Pacific
will make a terriffic fight to drive the
-new boats off the river.
determine her position on the social
ladder. Of course it is needless to add
that at all well regulated religious or
social gatherings the hoodlums always
sit near the door and proclaim their
standing in the ranks of hoodluradom
by the amount of disturlance they can
create or the number of times they can
needlessly open and close the entrance
door.
done by the county court for countv
purposes. Another resolution was
passed by which the assessors agreed to
notify each other of indebtedness claimed
by taxpayers in another countv, and
still another, the most important of all,
requiring all property to be assessed at
its true cash value. This last resolution
passed by a vote of. nine to six which
may be fairly accepted as an indication
of the chance it stands for being carried
out. In fact the kev note of the result
of the entire set of resolutions was struck
when Assessor Sears of Multnomah,
after the convention had voted on the
last resolution, said "that leaves the
question just,where it was." The con
vention leaves everything where it was.
Assessors will go on assessing property
at whatever value they choose to put on
it and not half of those who voted to re
port deductions for iudebetedness out
side their counties will ever report.
Similar resolutions were passed two
years ago and nothing came of them.
As an effort to remedy the defects of a
bad assessment law. the convention will
be a failure, as its predecessor of two
years ago was.
' Ftsaefe Cookery Terms. ' J -
With the best of Anglo-Saxon inten
tions it is sometimes a little difficult to
avoid the use of French terms in cookery
or a bill of fare. Here are some that one
encounters constantly: Releve is no dish
in particular so far as the style of pre
paration ia concerned, but answers to
the word "remove," and consists of a
dish replacing another, a doubling, so to
speak, of the same course before going
onto the next. It is therefore not un
usual to find in a large dinner a releve de
potage, releve de rot, de gibier, etc En
tree is a made dish served after the fish
or in its stead, where it is not obtain
able, and preceding the rota or roast
meat. After the latter comes the entre
mets, i. e., sweets or puddings.
ine term now d euvre is the most dif
ficult to particularize. When cold it
comprises all side dishes which are really J
accessories to the meal. As such thv
can be and are eaten indifferentlv either
before or after the soup; they are always
placed on the table when it is beinsr laid.
and are often left there until the entrees
have been served. They consist of rad
ishes, olives, caviar, bontargue, all man
ner of salt and smoked fish, sardines,
anchovies and a variety of dainties.
. Hot hors d euvre are almost unlimited;
they are very acceptable at large din
ners, and are generally served immedi
ately after the soup and before the fish;
they are often fried or baked, and are
then usually such things as can be dished
on a napkin, such as patties, rissoles,
croquettes, vol-auvent, etc.; obviously,
however, the series can be very much
extended. At ordinary family dinners
they are often served as and instead of
an entree. Providence Journal.
"The wool statistics of the year ending
Dec. 31st are full of interest and instruc
tion. The increased rate of duty on new
wool has not diminished importations.
On the contrary, in 1891 we imported
18,798,402 pounds of wool against 15,-
483,926 pounds imported in 1890, an in
increase, under the higher tariff, of 3.
314,476 pounds. What does this in
crease mean? It means that Australia,
from which our largest importations are
made, still finds it profitable to ship wool
to the United States and sell it 'for
twelve cents a pound less than Ameri
can wool growers receive for the same
class of wool and it goes far towards con
firming the the truth of a statement
made, not long since, by a rich wool
grower of Australia, to a prominent citi
of The Dalles, that so long as Australian
wool growers can net from six to eight
cents a pouna lor ineir wool tney can
make plenty of money, But the moral
of all this is plain as noon day. Remov
the duty on foreign wool and wool
growing as an American industry would
be wiped out of existence. Flock-mas
ters of the United States cannot com
plete with 6 to 8 cent wool.
The Astoria and South Coast railway,
sixteen miles of standard gauge road,
with the right of way over all the land
traversed by it, and for fifty feet on each
side, and all the rolling stock, equip
ments, and superstructure, rails, bridges
and the whole business generally, was
sold by the sheriff last Thursday. Hon.
C. W. Fulton bid it in for Messrs. Patton
and Thompson. It was started by J. C.
Trullinger at $45,000 and knocked down
at $55,550, the cheapest piece of property
sold on this coast for a long time. The
road as it stands today, is worth $150,000.
It is understood that the road was pur
chased on behalf of those who recently
put up $50,000. They are I. W. Case,
M. J. Kinney, D. K. Warren, W. W.
Parker, H. B. Parker, C. W. Fulton, J.
Q. A. Bowlby, and J. II. Smith. They
now own the road, and have and can
give clear title, and we predict that
they will make good use of it in the near
future by turning it in to some corpora
tion or individual capitalist wilh brain
and ability to complete the line to a con
nection with the trans-continential sys
tem, and place Astoria in a position to
claim all the commercial prestige due
to her superior location as a point in
Oregon for the shipping of the seas.
The E. ,0.. Co-Operative Store .
CARRIES A FULL .LINE OF
Groceries, Family Supplies, Boots and Shoes,
-ALSO A FULL LINE OF-
Wapns, Carts, Reapers aii Mows, and al Ms of Affricnltnral
Corner "Federal and Third Streets. x
THE DALLES. - OREGON.
Crandall
An exchange says that a man in his
town lately shot off his foot. That's
nothing. We have a man in The Dalles
who lately shot off his mouth.
The Kugene Guard says : "The passage
of the McKinley tariff bill is followed by
the lowest price of cotton ever know, be
ing below the cost of production, and in
consequence, business is in a very '.e-
pressed condition in the cotton states.
The passage of the McKinley tariff bill
is followed by the lowest price of sugar
and the lowest price of nearly every
thing on the McKinley tariff schedule
ever known. In consequence the busi
; iness of the . country was never in so
prosperous, a condition. ' We offer the
Guard excerpt as a sample of what some
free trade papers knows about the
McKinley tariff. It would spoil it to
remind the Guard that cotton is on the
rree list :
, borne time ago, a London paper of
fered a 2-guinea prize for the best defi-
. : : c - i - . .. AA
"'' ' . K-iBB. Among ine v.uuu
answers received were the following
"A report at head-quarters." "Con
traction of the mouth due to enlarge
ment oi the heart." "An article that
is always ac;epted and (im)printed,
uut not aiwaya puonsnea.
notwithstanding Maine's restrictive
prohibitory laws her official liquor seller
has managed, within the short space of
eight month to dispose of $57,164.65
worth of liquors for "purely medicinal
and mechanical purposes." It is sug
gested that "barn raising" was the me
chanical purpose and "feeling bad" the
medicinal. '
The Portland Dispatch eays $40,000 has
been offered in good faith for the Even
ing Telegram, and refused.
The People, a paper published in the
town of Wexford, Ireland, in its issue of
February 3rd inst., prints the following
advertisement: "Wanted a good mason
ana plasterer, wages, one pound per
week and accomodation. Apply to the
steward, Johnstown Castle." One
pound a week $4.84 less than five dol
lars for six days work, working not less
than ten hours a day, and often twelve.
The wages of a brick mason in this city are
$6 for a day of eight hours ; a stone mason
gets $5 for a day of nine hours, and a
plasterer $5 for a day of eight. Accom
odation in the advertisement means a
place to sleep and does not include
board. Even at $5 a day the wages of a
mason in The Dalles is more than 700
per cent, higher than they are in Wex
ford, and yet these same Irishmen come
over to this country in thousands and
vote for free trade.
The Detroit Free Press says the New
York Sun vows that Cleveland and his
party are using a stuffed club to smite
the national democracv. If the Sun
presumes to represent the national dem
ocracy remove the stuffing from the
club at once but keep the club to knock
the stuffing out of the Sun contingent.
Democratic State Convention..
A democratic state convention will be
held in the city of Portland, Or., April
19, 1892, at 10 o'clock a. m., for the pur
pose or placing in nomination two can
didates for congress, one supreme judge,
one candidate in eacn judicial district
for circuit judge and prosecuting attor
ney, to be voted for at the coming June
election, and such other business as
may properly' come before said conven
tion. The various counties are entitled
to repreaentation in said convention as
follows : '
Baker 7
Benton
Clackamas 11
Clatsop 8
Columbia 3
Coos 5
Crook 7
Curry 2
Douglas 11
Gilliam 4
Grant 5
Harney 4
Jackton 11
Josephine r
Klaamath 3
Lake 3
Lane 13
It is recommended, unless otherwise
ordered by the local committees, that
the primaries in the various counties be
held on Saturday, the 9th day of April,
and the county conventions on Thurs
day, April 14, 1892.
By order of the democratic state cen
tral committee.
. B. Goldsmith, Chairman,
A. JNoltneb, secretary.
Linn its
Malheur s
Marion 15
Morrow 5
Multnomah 42
Polk S
Sherman 2
Tillamook 3
Umatilla ...15
Union 15
Wallowa 4
Washington 8
Wasco !)
Yamhill s
Totui .65
Call for a Republican State Convention
A republican convention for the state
of Oregon, is called to meet in the city
of Portland on Wednesday, the 6th day
of April, 1892, at 11 o'clock a. m., for
the purpose of nominating candidates
for the office of Supreme Judge, two
congressmen, presidential electors,
members of the state board of equaliza
tion, and other district officers, and to
transact such other business as may
properly come before the convention.
The convention will consist of 233 dele
gates among the several counties as
follows :
Baker 6
Benton 7
Clackamas .10
Clatsop in
Columbia 5 Mutnomah.
Moro Observer. R. Boo ten, of Grass
Valley, has traded his cattle to Gilman,
French & Co., a firm of stockmen in Gil
liam county, receiving in exchange
horses for which he allowed $50 per
head.
Salem has organized a base ' ball club.
Capital stock of $10,000 in shares of $50
each.
Digging- for Burled Treasure.
A tradition exists about English, lord.'.
that the Wyandottes buried treasures of
gold and silver which they stole from
the early missionaries and other parties
in that neighborhood, and occasionally
the treasure hunters become a plague.
One of these fevers is now "on," and as
the country is underlaid with iron, the
divining rods are leading the owners to
dig, until some of the fields look like
newly planted graveyards. Philadel
phia Ledger.
Lane 11
linn 10
Malheur 3
Marion 14
Mutnomah . 40
Coos 6 Morrow 4
Crook 3 Polk 6
Curry 3 Sherman 3
Douglas 9 Tillamook 4
Gilliam 4 Umatilla 9
Grant 5 Union 10
Harney 4 Wallowa 4
Jackson . . '. 7 Wasco. 0
Josephine i 5 Washington X
Klamath 3 Yamhill 3
uiKe s
The same being one delegate at large
from each county, and one delegate for
every 200 votes, and one for every frac
tion over one-half thereof, cast for Con
gressman at the Juue election in 1890.
The committee recommended that the
Primaries be held on Saturday, March
19, "and the County Convention on Sat
urday, March 26," unless otherwise or
dered by the proper County Committees.
All voters who favor the republican
policy of internal improvements, protec
tion of American productions and labor,
and guarding sacredly the rights of every
American citizen at home and abroad.
are cordially invited to unite with ns.
James Jxtan.
Chairman Republican State Central
Committee.
F. A. Moore, Secretary.
Saved from Death by Onion.
There has no doubt been more lives of
children saver from death in croup or
whooping cough bv 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.
The Boy Who Discovered the "Saw By."
A few years agi a green country bov
applied to the superintendent of a west
ern railway for work, and, somewhat
against the superintendent's wish, on ac
count of the danger to life and limb at
tendant upon such occupation, was given
place as brakeman of a freight train. '
On one Qf his first trips it happened
that his train met another freight train
at a station where the side track was
not long enough to accommodate either
of them. The conductors were debating
which train should back np to a point
where they could pass, when the new
hand ventured to suggest that neither
should back; that they could pass each
other by means of the short side track if
the thing was managed right
The idea excited a good deal of laugh
ter on the part of the old trainmen, but
the boy stood his ground.
"Well, how would you go about it?"
asked one of the conductors, confident
that the lad would soon find himself
against a stump.
The boy took np a stick and traced in
the sand a diagram to illustrate his plan.
"Good gracious!" said the conductor,
"1 believe that will do itr
And it did do it. Todav every train
man in America probably knows how to
"saw by" two long trains on a short side
track, but it is not so generally known
that the thing was never done until an
inexperienced country boy, who is now
the manager of a great railway line,
worked out the problem for himself.
Washington Post.
An Expensive Infirmity,
I happened to be in a Broadway opti
cian s store ana saw a good looting, well
dressed matron with a slip of a girl and
small boy, all of whom wore spec
tacles. The lady gave some directions
about a pair of glasses, and when she
had gone I asked the optician whether
defective vision is hereditary.
'Rarely said he. "That lady has
four children, and all of them must wear
ss. The father's eyes are sound.
The mother and her children are afflict
ed with astigmatism, a defect of the
vision which is almost as rare as any
thing that afflicts the human eyes. It
makes straight lines crooked and parallel
lines fade into one. Special glasses must
be made and ground to suit each person,
and sometimes the respective eyes. They
cost nve dollars apiece too. So yon see
a large family of children with astigma
tism costs a good deal of money in
glasses alone. As the children grow np
the range ot vision changes, they break
or lose their glasses oftener than adults,
which increases the expense." New
York Herald.
& Barget,
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look through my stock and you will get something useful
as well as ornamental.
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Special Attention given to the Manufacture of Fruit and Fish
Boxes and Packing Cases.
Factory and Inuuber "3?-.rel t Old 3Tt. Dalles.
The Shark Is a Slow Swimmer.
One ill service nature has done the
shark, namely, that of placing a trian
gular fin on his back which acts as a
danger signal and gives warning of his
approach. Happily, the shark has not
been gifted with sufficient sagacity to be
aware of this peculiarity, for had he
been so he would unquestionably aban
don his habit of swimming close to the
surface of the water, and would, in that
case, be enabled to approach his victim
unobserved. The shark is a slow swim
mer for his size and strength. ',
Byron observes, "As darts the dolphin
from the shark;" but Byron was a poet,
and does not aDnear to have been a cIiwa
observer of the habita of inhabitants of DRY Pine, Fir, Oak and Slab "WOOD Delivered to
. i , .... . . I
ine water, or ne wouia nave Known that
a shark would have no more chance of
catching a dolphin than a sheep would
oi overhauling a hare. A shark will
keep np with a sailing ship, but it is as I
much as it can do to follow in the wake
of a fast steamer, and a torpedo boat
would be able to give it points. London
otanaara. .
any part of the city,
Beaalne Cleans Furs.
Nothing cleans soiled fur better than
benzine. Actresses immerse their wigs
in bahs of this liquid with most excel
lent results. Buy the fluid at a paint
store, where ten cents will fill a quart
Dottle, rather than at the druggist s,
where the same amount will cost a quar
ter. Wash the fur until the benzine re
mains clear; the first two or three rounds
Will show fairly black. Be careful not
to throw the fluid into any receptacle
where by any chance a lighted match
may follow. New York Times.
The
A Crisis n Spain.
Queen of Spain Moi gracial
baby king has the stomach ache.
Lord Chamberlain (excitedly) Woo-o!
Call the secretary of the interior. Good
News.
Wasco warenoose Co.,
Receives G-oods on Stor
age, and Forwards same to
I their destination.
Receives Consignments
For Sale on Commission.
fates treasonable.
MARK GOODS
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THE DALLES, OREGON.
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: proprietors or the:
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