THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1892,
The Weekly Ghronicle.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF WASCO COUNTY.
Entered st the Postoffice t The Dalles, Oregon,
as seoona -class matter.
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Address all communication to " THE CHRON
ICLE," The Dalles, Oregon.
A few days ago the Times-Mountaineer,
in a moment of thoughtless candor spoke
in a complimentary manner of our new
water system. When the Chhoniclb
, commended the paragraph the paper
Dracticallv ate its own words by the
followingcompressed tissue of falsehoods :
"It must be understood that the pres
ent system of water works new mains
in the lower town was only adopted by
the water commission after a million
dollars worth of property had been des
troyed by the flames by reason of the
council adopting an inadequate means of
fire protection last year. After what the
Times-Mountaineer had told them several
times might happen, did happen, they
adopted a further extension of the water
system to that part of the city below the
bluff; but it was a case of locking the
stable door after the horse was stolen."
the Chronicle dislikes immensely to
-be compelled to notice the statements of
a paper whose editor is wholly under
the control of another whose bidding he
is forced to do, even to his own financial
and moral ruin. But this much must be
repeated and the man does not live who
can prove il false: The coinpettion of j
' the water works was delayed as much as
a year by the man whose collar the
Times-Mountaineer wears. One veto after
another, of ordinances passed by a unan
imous council delayed the work, while
the man who vetoed every measure for
the furtherance of the work had the use,
for all that time, of more than $100,000
of the people's money without hav
ing to pay . a cent of interest.
When vetoing ordinances could no lon
ger be resorted to, an action at law was
' begun against the city, and hundreds be
lieve that the plaintiff in the suit and the
man who did the vetoing were in full
"sympathy with each other, or rather that
the former was wt the bottom of the
whole business. Be that as it may, the
work was delayed till the fire came and
destroyed a million dollars' worth of city
property, and no man on the footstool of
' the Almighty is responsible, to half the
extent, for this destruction of property as
is the man who did the vetoing, unless it
be the man who is servile enough to be
his apologist.
BATHER A CURT REPLY.
The Portland lhspatch furnishes us
with an incident which goes farther to
show the bitterness of the TJ. P. E. E
"erstem." It appears that when the
pilots of the American Brotherhood
wished to visit The Dalles on official
business, they -divided the delegation,
expecting of course that the courtesy of
a complimentary ticket would be ex
tended to them by both the U. P. E. R
"svstem," and The Dalles, Portiand and
Astoria Navigation company. The latter
line at once issued transportation, in
cluding meals and berths, and seemed
to feel pleased to do so. That part of
the delegation however, ; which applied
to the "system" were flatly refused, and
were rather curtly informed that as
walking was good they had that alterna
tive, or pay their tare, as the Union
Pacific was opposed to any and all other
Unions. The gentlemen decided to join
their comrades on the Dalles City, say
nothing abount the slight, and pay their
fare as other passenger's, but somehow
the matter leaked out, and the purser of
the Dalles City refused to take their
money. What makes the matter all the
more aggravating is the fact that the ap
plicants were all old time masters and
pilots, in the employ of the selfish and
sordid monopoly.
Oregon will be much concerned in the
information which comes from Tacoma
to the effect that the wheat weevil has
appeared in conntless numbers in the
Cascade oatmeal mill there. These des
tructive insects, it is claimed, have been
brought o Tacoma in a consignment of
wheat shipped from San Francisco.
This is the first appearance of the weevil
at that port. It- is claimed that it could
not have been imported from western
Washington, on account of certain cli
matic conditions. These insects were
first discovered about a year ago in the
oatmeal mill, but the fact was kept very
quiet, as grain men claim it would ad
vance insurance on cargoes if its pres
ence were known.
The plan of attack on the McKinley
law is to take it piecemeal one item at
a time. The law contains 2,500 items
and the free trade guns have been lev
eled at three of them without the slight
est appreciable effect for. exactly 102
days, at a cost of $7,000 a day. At this
rate, if congress sat continuously, it
would take more than 700 years to get
through with the job, at a cost some
where in the neighborhood of $1,782,-858,000.
There never was a time in the history
of this state when matters relating to
public expenditures, more especially as
they relate to the salaties of county of
ficers, received so much attention as
they do at present. An assessor who
must, to be worth anything, be a man
of good clericaljibility and sound judge
ment, a man whom experience has made
familiar with the values of all classes of
property, receives, in some counties, the
pittance of $3 a day, in this county $4
and bears all the expenses incident to
traveling over the county on horseback
or in a conveyance, while in these same
counties the clerk and sheriff whose du
ties do not require anything like the
same talent and ability have incomes
often reaching up from five to fifteen
thousand dollars a year. A special law
which ought never to have been on the
statute books, applies to this county,
Through this law the clerk and sheriff
are entitled to add 33 per cent, to the
ordinary fees fixed by statute for the
whole- state: That is to say, if these of
ficers perform a piece of work for the
county the price of which is fixed by the
general law at $100, the special law re
ferred to allows them to charge $33j
dollars more for it. The thing is a sim
ple outrage and must be abolished. The
ordinary fees are more than enough
without the added per centage. The
clerk and sheriff of this county receive
annually, from the already overbur
dened tax-payers, a sum of money, above
what would be a reasonable and fair
compensation, that cannot fall far short
of $10,000 a year. The thing is a mon
strous iniquity and demands that the
next legislators we send to Salem shall
pledge themselves to work for the re
peal of at least the special law or the
placing of these offices, like that of
assessor, on a fixed salary. -
; A Qnswr Pair of Eye..'. .
1 labor under the peculiar inconven
ience of having a right eye of normal
power and a shortsighted left eye. The
numerals on the face of a clock five
eighths of an- inch high are visible
to the right eye twelve feet distant,
but in order to .decern them as clear
ly with my left eye 1 require to bring
that organ of vision as near to the
figures as eight inches. On looking at
my gold chain hanging on my breast
in daylight and with both eyes, the
chain colored yellow and toward the
left is perceived by the right eye. while
a steely blue chain, another, yet the
same, is perceived about one inch to the
right and a little higher np. By artificial
light the same phenomenon presents it
self, but the difference of color is not bo
apparent: the yellow to the right is only
dimmer:
Again, when a page is being read with
the shortsighted eye there appears,
about an inch . to the left, part of the
same column, small, and . the black.
under artificial light, like weak purple.
The right hand side of this ghostlike
column is lost to the right eye, being
commingled with the larger, darker let
ters seen by the shortsighted left, which
cover it like the more recent writing on
a palimpsest. Middle life was reached
before the discovery was made. These
experiences must be gone through with
intent, for objects generally being per
ceived altogether with the right eye, all
that the left seems good for is to supply
a little more light. The perception
the difference of color is as good with
the one eye as the other, and the short
sighted eye can read smaller type.
Nature. . .
RANCH AND STOCK FOR SALE.
rtE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES of land
fenced.
Bridge creek, Crook county. Oresri
road from Prlnerille to Mitchell, and known
situated on
, Crook county, Oi
west branch of
-on.on the main
A Buffalo, N. Y., paper notes the fact
that Gen. Poe of the U. S. Engineering
department, opened on the 4th inst.
bids for contract to supply valves and
valve frames for the hew 800 foot lock in
theSoo canal, which reminds us that this
entire canal was built by contract and
that as far as the magnitude of the work
is concerned the Cascade locks are simply
nowhere. What was done there can be
done here, the "Majah" to the contrary
notwithstanding.
All reports concerning the favorable
situation of affairs at Astoria are con
firmed today by private dispatch from
Hon. I. W. Case. All the financial busi
s ness is now fixed ; all the stock sub
scribed ; and The Dalles joins with the
seaport city of Oregon in grand and
hearty rejoicing. This, time Astoria
wins. - No matter what may .be said to
the contrary.
- Up to date the present house of repre
. sentatives stands pre-eminent as the one
which has cost the country the most
and transacted the least amount of busi
ness in a given time. In both these
particulars it has a record beyond any
legislative body that ever sat in the
United btates.
United States Commissioner of Labor,
Carroll V. Wright, in a late newspaper
article, says that the condition of the
wage-workers of this country, viewed in
all aspects "is better now than at any
previous period in our history. He finds
that while wages have increased there
has .been a general decreased in the
hours of labor. He considers the situa
tion full of hope for the wage-earners
and that only one thing is needed to
promote the interest of labor, namely, a
wise and just regulation of foreign im
migration. The article from which this
language is quoted, appealed in the New
York World.
Should James G. Blaine die of his
present troubles, the Post suggests as an
appropriate epitaph : "Killed by a Wo
man ;" and let posterity sum it np to be
either bis wife or his daughter-in-law,
just as they have a mind to-.
" The Astorian notes the singular com
mentary on our Oregon statutes that lies
in the fact that the only two things that
the law. demands the applicants shall
possess "a good moral character for the
possession of a saloon license and a per
mit, to carry a gun."--..:
Coolness In a Mixed College.
- There is a coolness between the boys
and the girls of the Stanford university.
It all came about from a question of pro
priety. The boys gave a ball in their
dormitory hall on Monday night, to
which they invited all the girl students,
as well as the professors. Elaborate
preparations were made, and the young
men anticipated an evening of enjoy
ment. They hired a band, and had the
dormitory beautifully decorated.
One or two of the more modest and re
tiring of the maidens in the girls' dormi
tory were shocked at the avowed inten
tion of some of the girls to attend the
ball, and called, a meeting of the girls, at
which there was a long discussion of the
affair.
Many of the fair students said they
could see no harm in going to the ball as
long as the professors were willing, but
the more prudish damsels read a strong
lecture on the evils of such doings, and,
on a vote, there was a majority in favor
of not attending the ball.. So none of
them went.
The boys waited long for' the coming
of the fair ones, but thev came not. At
j first the collegians were very angry.
Then they took the. dancing floor them
selves and made a "stag" party of it.
They Ray, however, that for future fes
tivities they will send no invitations to
the girl students. This suits the ultra
modest among the latter, but the sociable
girls feel crushed. San : Francisco
Chronicle. r .
The democrats of ' Umatilla county
nave adopted a platform in which
among otner t nines, they demand an
equitable system of graduated tax on in
comes ; that congress take action to de
vise some plan to obtain all lands now
owned by aliens and foreign syndicates
and that all lands now held by railroads
ana otner corporations in excess of such
as is actually used and needed bv them
be reclaimed by the goverment and held
for actnal settlers only. They declare
their opposition to national banks of
issue and affirm their belief that the
state should control. air railroads and
"other arteries of transportation with
due regard to the rights of the . people,'
whatever this last clause may mean
The tariff plank is about as noncommit
tal as it can possibly be and nothing in
the world is 6aid about silver coinage or
a substitute tor the national bank circu
lation it is sought to destroy. Possibly
tnesegooa Dretnern tnougnt the nation
alization ot railroads, the destruction of
national banks and the establishment of
a graduated income tax would be as
much as they could conveniently man
age during the next two years.
Cash paid for Egirs and Chickens, at
J. H. Cross reed Store. 2-19.4tw
PROFESSIONAL CABDS.
T7M. J. ROBERTS Civil, Engineer Gen-
t eral engineering practice. Burvevinff and
mapping; estimates and plans for irrigation,
sewerage, water-worits, raiiroaas, Driages, etc.
Auare&s: r. u. iiox 107, ioe uaiies, nr.
V17M. SAUNDERS Architect. Plans and
?V specifications furnished for dwellings.
snurcnes, Duwiness diocks, scnoois ana isotopes.
Charges moderate, satisfaction guaranteed. 0f-
dce over t reucn s bank. The Danes, Oregon.
DR. J. SUTHERLAND fJLLOW OF TRINITY
Medical College, and member of the Col
ette of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario, Phy
sician and Surgeon. Office: rooms S and 4 Chan-
miiu block. Residence; Judge Thornbury's tec-
nrj street, omce hours; lu 10 u a. in., 2 to 4
nd 7 to 8 p. m.
R. O. D. DOANE PHYSICIAN AND BUR
GEON. Office: rooms 5 and 6 Chapman
rflocK. Kestaence Mo. as. fourth street, one
r.lock south of Comt House. Office hours 9 to 12
A. Al 2 to 6 and 7 to 1 r. M.
f-v SIDDALL Dentist. Gas given for the
17 painless extraction of teeth. Also teeth
et on flowed aluminum plate. Rooms: Sign of
ne women loom, secona Btreec
STAGY SfiOOIfl,
TUB WatGiXniaRB
Has opened an office for Cleaning and
Kepairing Watches, Jewelry, etc.
All work' guaranteed and
promptly attended.
AT C. E. DUtfJUllHS OLD STflflD,
Cor. Second and Union Streets
Borne
Floyd & Go
Snecessors to C. K. Dunham.
Druggists and Chemists.
Pore Dns ail Melicines. .
Dispensing Physicians' Prescriptions a Specialty.
Night Druggists always in Attendance.
THE DALLES,
OREGON.
the J. M. Taylor Ranch, only 8 miles from Mitch
eU and onlv.one-half rolle from Liberty 1'ostofHce
three mails per week each war. School house
stands just on of the northeast corner of the land
Uoud house and barn ; plenty of water to irritate
about 70 or more acres under cultivation, partly
seeueu w aimim; cimniiu mrougn me place
some irutt, ana plenty 01 gardening ground uear
the house. Twenty-three head of cows, well
broke, some having young calves by the'r tides,
the balance are Springers: also 13 bead of vear
lings, 1 bull, 5 head of work horses, 7 head of
otner norses, inciuaing mare and colt one wag
on, one blower, one rake, household furniture.
ana otner articles too numerous to mention. Al
to be sold at once. Terms: Partcash, balance on
time with good security: or if security Is abund
ant, a very small amount of monev will be re-
S Hired. Good reasons for selling, and any q Mes
ons as to terms of security, or length of time,
will be promptly answered. If there is anything
euumcntKM auuve inai you wisn to pure ause on
uieow leriiis, ifi me near irom you at once.
Apply to or address: A. J. BENHAM. .
2-19w6t LB. 216, The Dalles, Oregon
FRENCH & CO.,
BANKERS.
TRANSACT A GEKERALBAKKINU BUSINESS
Letters of Credit issued available in the
,. . Eastern States. "
Sight Exchange and Telegraphic
lTanslerssoldon JNew 1 ork, Uhicago, Bt.
iiOUis, ban francisco, .Portland Oregon
Seattle Wash., and various points in Or
egon ana wastungton. '
Collections made at all points on fav
orable terms. .. "'
FARMERS' BOARDING HOUSE
MRS. A. J. OBARR ..Proprietor
Meals 2.T cents, IjOdeine 25 cents.
Table well supplied with everthing in market.
comiortubie beds as any 111 the city.
Second St., near Madison. Dalles City
toe foi pale.
A BOUT . THIRT V-FI VE HEAD OF
il High Grade Short-horn Cattle, from
yearling up.
An Extra Good Lot of Cattle !
KEELEY ad- DuBOIS,,
THE DALLES, OR.
Rmiche In Dry Hollow, ten miles south of The
DISK HARROW FOR SALE.
A DISK HARROW,
tachment, as good as new.
PRICK 50, CASH or Approved Note
A - Thoroughbred - Durham - Bull !
For Sale or Trade Cheap.
Apply at this office, or to
2-19wit JOHN THOMAS, The Dalles.
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ALL KINDS OF
Seed Wheat,
OATS AflD BflHEY,
-For Sale by-!
C. L. Schmidt,
At the Wasco Warehouse.
In VV - .It'll V -
A m ask. A
Finn Class
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a,FivvjurB.
Vo an g & lass,
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General Blacksmithing and Work done
promptly, and - all work '
; Guaranteed.
lorse Shoeeing "-a Speiality.
TMri Street opposite ttie old Ugdb Stani i !
Ta Itml, Fastest and Fine la tk Werti.
FasMOffer accomodations mmclledL
REW YORK. lONDOHDERRV AND BU8B0W-
R,Orr Rnt.nrrinv
NEW YORK, GIBRALTEK and NAPLES,
Atretrnlar Intervals.
SALOON. SECOND-GLASS AND STEERAGE
rate, on lowest terms to and from thp nrinolnjA
SOOTCH, ENGLISH, ISISB a ALL COKTDJIOTAL FUNIS-
Excursion tlnfcnta knllthl, tn Mliira h hthnl..
tureaque Clyde A North of Ireland or Naples A OlbralUu
SnSl ud Ilea? (Mm to any Amsnt at lortrt Bitot,
Apply to any of our local Aaents or to
HENDERSON BROTHERS, Chicago. 111.
T. A. HUDSON, Agent,
The Dalles, Or. . .
FARM FOR SALE.
. I offer for sale all or a part of my
farm of 480 acres in Sec. 24, Tp. 1 south,
range 14 east, 15 miles southeast of The
Dalles; good improvements, good young
five-acre orchard now bearing, plenty of
good water for house use and stock ; 175
fccres in cultivation, good outlet north,
east,south or west via county roads.
I also offer for sale JW) acres in section
20, township 1 south, range 14 east;
also live head horse, one double set of
harnes" and a few farm implements, etc.
Prices reasonable, terms easy and "title
good. For particulars come and see me
at The Dalles or J. H. Trout at the farm.
jan29-tf " .TS. W. Tkout.
The E. 0. Co-Operative Store :
CARRIES A FULL LIXE OF
Groceries, Family Supplies, Boots and Shoes,
-ALSO A FULL LINE OF-
taps, Carts, Reapers aid Blowers, and all Ms ef Atfoltiral
Corner Federal and Third ireets, :
THE DALLES, - OREGON.
Crandall & Bupcret,
, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
FURNITURE CARPETS
Undertakers and Embalmers.
NO. 166 SECOND STREET.
New Umatilla - House,
THE DALLFS, OREGON. ' : -
HANDLEY & SINNOTT, PROP'S.
LARGEST : AND : FINEST : HOTEL : IN : OREGON
Ticket and Baggage Office of the O. R. & N. Company, and office of the Wester
; .... Union Telegraph Office are in the Hotel.
Fire-Proof Safe for the Safety of all Valuables.
9ETABLISHED 188.
LESLIE BUTLER,
DEALER IN-
Groeeries and Groekery.
A full line of Lamps, Glassware and Dishes of' all kinds. Silver plated Knives,'
Forks and Spodns. When you are selecting your Christmas presents
look through my stock and you will get something useful
as well as ornamental.
113 HlflSHlNGTON STIJEET,
THE DALLFS, OREGON
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in.:
33 33 T .
Ladies' and Childrens' French Felt Hats,
Trimmed Hats,
25c.
50c.
AND UPWARDS.
Ladies and Childrens' Furnishing Goods, "WAY DOWN"
Mrs. Phillips, - 81 Third Street.
THE DALLES LUMBERING CO..
. INCORPORATED 1888.
. No. 67 "Washington Stkeet. ' . . . 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.
Faotory a.xs.c3. Immber Vefrc a.t Old Xt. 33alle.
DRY Pine, Fir, Oak and Slab WOOD Delivered to
any part of the city,
Wasco warehouse Co..
Receives Goods on Stor
age, and Forwards same to
neir destination.
Receives Consignments
For Sale on Commission.
fates Reasonable.
MARK 300DS
"TO". "V7". Co.
THE DAtlES, OREGON.
Chrisman Bros.,
(Successors to F. Taylor.)
'. PROPRIETORS OF THE :
CITY.' PMET
UNION STREET.
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HAMS, BACON End SliSAGE
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ALWAYS ON HAND.
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