THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRH) AY, MARCH 25,1892.
The Weekly Ghroniele.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF WASCO COUNTY.
Entered at the Postoffice at The" Dalles, Orogon:
as aecona-cioss matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
BY HAIL (POSTAGE PREPAID) IN ADVANCE.
Weekly, 1 year 1 50
" 6 months , 0 75
8 " 0 50
Daily, 1 year......... 6 00
"6 months S 00
" oer " 0 50
Address all communication to " THE CHRON
ICLE," The Dalles, Oregon.
Said a thrifty young farmer of : AVasco
county to the writer today, as he re
counted his earlier struggles to procure
a home for himself and family.
tried to grow up with the country not
to daBh ahead on borrowed capital in
advance of it : and now, while I have
not much to boast of, what I have is all
' my own." Here is sound economy and
it applies equally to cities and individ
uals. Kansas, a great state, but one
that has been boomed to death, is said
to havy twenty will build towns without
a single inhabitant to wake the echoes of
their deserted streets. Saratoga has
$30,000 opera house, a large brick hotel,
a $20,000 school house and a number of
fine business houses, yet there is nobody
even to claim a place to sleep. Her
banks remain, but thcv are silent.
Some of her dwellings stand there, mon
uments of the credultv of man. At
Fargo a $25,000 school house stands on
the side of the hill, a monument of the
bond-voting craze. Most of the build
ings have been removed or are torn
town. The hotel keeps gloomy watch
over the remaining houses aided by the
'bank.' A herder and his family con
stitute the sole population of what was
once an incorporated citv." These
towns did not grow up with the country,
they were built in advance of it. Hence
they are dead. And so it roust be al
ways. Sow booms and all but the sharks
will reap bankruptcy.
A contemporary deplores the fact that
so many ships come to our harbors in
ballast to take away our exports to for
eign countries. It is too bad of course.
Still the evil has its compensations. If
the vessels came loaded every time they
would frequently bring us commodities
that we can just as well produce our
selves. The ballast costs us nothing and
no money goes out of the country to pay
for it. Then this country is big enough
and great enough to be able to produce
nearly all it needs. The ballast may be
the means of increasing freights some
what but a country that sells a great
deal and buys little can stand a little ex
tra freight. On the whole let the ballast
come.
The Bar Association of New York
city is after David B'. Hill's scalp and
the theft of the state legislature is to be
investigated by a thoroughly non-partisan
tribunal, a majority of which is
composed of democrats. The associa
tion has been stimulated to this action
by the fact that Isaac H. Maynard, one
of Hill's gang who stole the election re
turns that they might be altered, was,
shortly after the theft, promoted to the
high office of judge of the court of ap
peals. The action of Maynard had the
effect of changing the character of the
New York legislature and the crime, if
brought home to him, will prove that
Maynard is fitter for the penitentiary
than for a seat on the bench of the
highest court of the state.
Some one has discovered that certain
kinds of lamp wicks have been taxed
40 per cent, by the horrid McKinley bill.
Now lamp wicks are sometimes used for
lighting churches and churches are
sometimes used for the worship of the
Almighty. And hence certain pious
members of the church of Cobdar are
breathing out their whiskey soaked im
precations on the ambient air against
the horrible sacrilege of taxing the wor
ship of the Almighty, by taxing lamp
wickB. The student of political history should
not forget that Tammany has never yet
succeeded in nominating one of its men
for president of the United Slates, much
. less elect one. Every national conven
tion has resented its dictation, repudi
ated its methods and spat upon the odor
which attaches to it and there is no
doubt it will do so again. Several of the
many defeats which democracy has suf
fered during the past quarter of a century
majr be directly attributed to the . in
famies of Tammany.
An error in our dispatch from Tacoma
yesterday, placed the number of men at
work upon the Sault Ste Marie canal,
too high. The contractor, Mr.' T. W.
Hubbell, of Detroit, when in the The
Dalles last week, was called upon by
gome of our citizens, amongst whom was
Mr. Shanno, to whom he stated all the
facts, substantially as reported yester
day, but the number of men employed
for eighteen months averaged $1,400.
Mr. Hubbell believes that the Cascade
canal should have been completed, and
could have been completed, just as
readily, in a year and a half.
Ia it not both significant and char
acteristic that fifty dollars saved on the
soap supply for AVest Point should be
the sum total of the retrenchment and
reform record of the present congress up
to date?. ' .. .
HOW IT WORKS.
., Over at Tacoma there is a firm of broad
minded, enterprising merchants, known
far and wide as Gross Bros. " At a recent
public meeting Mr. Morris Gross spoke
upon political matters. The Ledger re
ports him as telling how the McKinley
law works. Amonz other things Mr,
Gross said : "When I was in Europe
was in St. Gaul, a town in Switzerland
where all the embroideries which are
sold in this country come from. I went
into a manufacturing place and I saw
that all the people were Americans.
asked the proprietor why he didn't come
to America and manufacture there, and
he said. 'We can't work there.' I asked
why, and he replied, 'Labor is too high
This was before the McKinley bill was
passed.. I inquired what he would do
should the McKinlev bill pass, but he
was sure it would not pass, because said
he, 'Europe has a great deal: of influence
in America, and it will never let the Mc
Kinley bill pass.' I replied, 'My dear
fellow, Europe does not rule America
vou are mistaken. . I am watching the
papers every day to see whether the Mc
bill passes.' At last he said that if that
bill did pass he would move his machin
ery to America and manufacture there.
That is just what we want. Applause.
Now, my friends, last month I was in
New York.'and I tell you nothing in my
life has tickled me so much as seeing
that same man and hearing him say that
he now manufactures here and pays out
$50,000 every month to American labor,
Applause. That is the McKinley bill.
There is a small city in Germany (Che
ranitz,) of 5000 people, all of whom live
by the manufacture of hosiery men's
socks. Every pair of socks used to come
to this country, and the whole 5,000 peo
ple lived on money from the sale of the
goods in this country. But McKinley
put a big duty on hosiery, and now all
that hosiery is made here. That is the
McKinley bill. When I was in Venice,
after the McKinley bill had passed, I
saw three manufactories closed up. and
when I inquired the reason they said,
'The McKinley bill has passed."
The Oregonion of today says : "Wasco
county is said to be so deeply in debt,
an increase in' the assessment rate is
contemplated." Where the Oregonion
got its information we know not, but the
statement is wholly without foundation.
We have just learned the following facts
from Judge Thornbury and County Clerk
Crossen, each one of whom confirms the
others statement. Four years ago the
indebtedness of Wasco county . was in
the neighborhood of $80,000. The pres
ent indebtedness, making allowance for
available assets, is in the neighborhood
of $55,000. A statement of the financial
condition of the county will be furnished
by the county clerk for publication on
the first of April next, and the clerk" and
udge both believe that it will show an
indebtedness somewhere between fifty
and sixty thousand dollars. This is a
a showing that no county officer need be
ashamed of. A reduction of $25,000 is
no small testimony to the efficiency of
the present county court.
The gallant and persistent struggle of
Mr. Hermann before the river and har
bor committee of the house, that has
just ended by his having the sum of
$435,000 placed in the bill ordered re
ported to the house for the 'Cascade
Locks, and better still the work being
finished by contract merits the deep
gratitude of every friend of an open river.
Now let the bill pass the house in this
fashion and it will certainly pass the
senate and then there is hope that the
present generation will realize a hope so
long deferred that it has made the heart
sick for many a year to think of it. The
state can build the dalles portage and,
better Btill for Wasco and Sherman
counties, build it on the Oregon side of
the river.
An enterprising paper in New York
city lately engaged, at its own expense,
in the work of cleaning the streets in or
der to demonstrate the cost at which the
work could be done and make compari
son between "that and the actual cost
paid by the city. A street cleaning force
was sent out each day, for a number of
days, and their work as to quantity and
cost was carefully noted. On this basis
it was found that the city could be com
pletely swept . every forty-eight hours,
for an entire year, at a saving below the
present cost of no less than $1,618,379.40.
Great is Tammany.
The quarantine officials in British
Columbia have received orders from the
acting minister of customs at Ottowa to
enforce in future the regulations against
American cattle imported into Canada.
This action will make it necessary for
such cattle to undergo ninety days
quarantine and will thereby practically
prohibit the business, as it is doubtless
intended to do. The cities of Victoria
and Vancouver draw their beef supply
wholly from the United States and the
enforcement of the orders is in spite of
vigorous- protests- from the people of
iJritisn uolumbia. -.
A free trade ' exchange says: -"The
duty on wool increases' the cost of
woolen goods to the manufacturer and
hence to the people. The price
of wool has dropped with every upward
bound of the tariff." - In that case a pro
tective tariff has a sort of double action.
It raises and lowers the price of com
modities at one and the same time.' -
' " - Death In a Big City:
' The shadows of metropolitan life could
scarcely have a more ghastly illustra
tion than in the case of the corpse of the
old man at a Greenwich street window
staring into the windows of the elevated
cars for two days; the butt of the train
men's Christmas time humor. A little
while before was the killing and man
gling of another man on the elevated al
most immediately opposite a window
where sat his wife and child looking in
nocently out and wondering who it was
being carried away under the protecting
blanket. "- - - -,
We are wont to look upon the extraor
dinary situations created by the novelist
and playwright with satirical severity,
but the pen of Sue, Dumas, Dickens and
of a host of imitators never conjured up
from imaginations vivid with research
and practical observation a more pa
thetically impressive picture than is pre
sented in the dead man at the Greenwich
street window. Yet such things are so
common in New York that they are
swallowed up in the great maelstrom of
metropolitan events forgotten in a day.
New York Herald.
Dividend in Philadelphia.
The January payments of interest
and dividends in this city are the
heaviest of the year. Upon Jan. 1 in
terest matures on a large portion of the
national debt, and the government pays
the quarterly interest on the 4 per
cents., about $5,596,000, and also $1,938,
705 semiannual interest on the Pacific
railroad bonds known as the "currency
sixes." The semiannual interest on the
debt of the city, due Jan. 1, is now
being paid. The city interest due is
$1,516,075, of which $589,773 goes into
the city sinking fund. The principal of
the city debt upon which interest is dis
bursed is $52,417,300. It is estimated
that all the money paid in Philadelphia
for January interest and dividends ex
ceeds $10,000,000. Philadelphia Ledger.
Knew About Servants.
Little ?irl to her nurse, who has told
her the story of Adam and Eve's dis
missal from the garden of Eden I sup
pose they ware both sent away without
a character. London Truth.
Experiments in Frannn on th vlrH-itv
nf nrrtTmfvfl.fi cm rtt livfin tromu (n'va a
mean velocity which is almost exactly
tnat or ugnc. -
Where to buy Clocks.
If vou will call upon Mr. Stacy Shown,
with Bvrne. Flovd & Co., corner Second
and Union streets, The Dalles, -who has
just opened the largest assortment and
the finest lines of goods in this branch
of trade, ever displayed in this city, and
at prices which defy competition you
will at once know, Where to buy clocks.
He has them from $2.00 up. 2-26wtf
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
WM. J. ROBERTS Civil Enqinkeb Gen
eral euKineerine nractice. Surveyi nr and
mapping; estimates and plans for irrigation,
sewerage, water-works, railroads, bridges, etc.
Address: P. O. Box 107, The Dalles, Or.
WM. SAUNDERS Architect. Plans and
sneciflcations furnished for dwellings.
charches, business blocks, schools and factories.
Charges moderate, satisfaction guaranteed. Of-
ace over r rencn's Danit, i ne uaues, Oregon.
DR. J. SUTHERLAND FELLOW OF Trinity
Medical College, and member of the Col
ipcp nf Physicians and Rnreenns. Ontario. Pfav-
ilcian and Surgeon. Office; rooms 3 and 4 Chap
man block. Residence; Judge Thornbnry's Sec
ond street. Office hours; 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4
nd 7 to 8 p. m.
DR. O. D. D O A N E PHYSICIAN AND SUR
GEON. Office; rooms S and 6 Chapman
Block. Residence No. 28, Fourth street, one
.kck south of Court House. Office hours 9 to 12
A. M., 2 to 5 and 7 to i P. M.
DSIDDALL Dentist. Gas given for the
nainless extraction of teeth. Also teeth
et on Sowed aluminum plate. Rooms: Sign of
he Golden Tooth, Second Street.
1) A IWIjU WUI
Successors to C. K. Dunham.
Druggists and Chemists.
Pure Drugs and Mefliciiies.
Dispensing Physicians' Prescriptions a Specially.
Night Druggists always in Attendance.
THE DALLES, OREGON.
STAGY SHOIIIH,
Has opened an office for Cleaning and
Repairing Watches, Jewelry, etc.
All work guaranteed and
. promptly attended.
AT C. E. DUWimaS OLD STAND,
Gor. Second Md Union Streets.
Young & Kuss,
BiacksmiliU wagon Slop
General Blacksmithing and Work done
promptly, and all work
Guaranteed.
porse Shoeeing a Speiality.
TIM Street opposite the oil Lieoe Stand.
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RANCH AND STOCK FOR SALE.
ONE HTTNDKED AND SIXTY ACRES of land
w II fenced, situated .on west branch of
Bridge Creek', Crook county, Oregon,on the main
road from Prlneville to Mitchell, and known as
the J. M. Taylor Ranch, only 8 miles from Mitch
ell and only one-half mile from Liberty Postoffice
three mails per week each way. School house
stands Just off of the northeast corner of the land
Good house and barn ; plenty of water to irrigate:
about 70 or more acres under cultivation, partly
seeded to alfalfa: creek runs through the place;
some fruit, and plenty of gardening ground near
the house. Twenty-three head of cows, well
broke, some having young calves by the"r sides,
the balnnce are Springers : also 13 head of year
lings, 1 bull, 5 head of work horses, 7 head of
other horses, including mare and colt One wag
on, one mower, one rake, household furniture,
and other articles loo numerous to mention. All
to be sold at once. Terms: Part cash, balance on
time with good security: or if security is abund
ant, a very small amount of money will be re
quired. Good reasons for selling, and any ques
tions as to termB of security, or length of time,
will be promptly answered. If there is anything
enumerated above that you wish to purchase on
tnese terms, let me near trom vou at once.
Apply to or address: A. J. BEN HAM,
2-19w6t L. B. 216, The Dalles, Oregon.
FEflCH & CO.,
BANKERS.
TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS
Letters of Credit issued available in the
Eastern States.'
Sight ' Exchange and Telegraphic
Louis, San Francisco, Portland Oregon,
Cl .11. II I 1 " . 1
oeaiue vraau., ana various poinis in Or
egon and Washington.
Collections made at all points on fav
orable terms. '
FARMERS' BOARDING HOUSE
ZRZESTjTTiRiLsrT.
MRS, A.J. OB ARK
. Proprietor
Steals 23 cents. Lodtrinar 25 cents.
Table well supplied with everthing in market.
uomioriaDie Deas as any in tne city. -Second
St., near Mudison. Dalles City.
PRED. FISHER,
Dealer in
Staple arid Fancy
roceries
And PROVISIONS.
Special Prices to Cash Buyers.
Highest Prices paid for Produce.
Opposite Skibbe's Hotel. ... 3-lSwtf
(Jattle to pale.
ABOUT THIRTV-FIVE HEAD OF
High Grade Short-horn Cattle, from
yearling up.
An Extra Good Lot of Cattle !
KEELEY DuBOIS,
THE DALLES, OR.
Kanche in Pry Hollow, ten miles south of The
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ALL KINDS OF
Seed Wheat,
OATS BRtLiEY,
Tot Sale by
C. L. Schmidt,
At the Wasco Warehouse.
TRICTTJT
First Ci
Lais
AND4f0K
Immt, Fastest ad rtaest la tk Waria.
PaMenger accomodations unexcelled.
IEW VORKnONDONOERRV AND 61A3S0W.
Brery Saturday,
NEW YORK, GIBBALTER and NAPLES,
At regular Intervals.
SALOON, SECOND-CLASS AND STEERABE -
rates on lowest terms to and from the principle
SCOTCH, XXSIiISH, QiaS a tU. OOKTXXIHTAL PHOTS
Kxoarsion tickets available to return by either the pic
tureeatie Glvde A North of Inland or WanlM A Oihraftai
SrtfU sat Hear Orltri for lay AaMst tt Imtt It tat.
Apply to any or onr local Agents or to
HEKDKRSOlf BROTHERS, Chiemfo, 111.
T. A. HUDSON, Agent,
The Dalles, Or.
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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 hearing, plenty of
good water for house use and stock ; 175
acres in cultivation, good outlet north,
east, south or west via county roads.
I also offer for sale 160 acres in section
26, township 1 south, range 14 east;
also five head horse, one double set of
harness and a few farm implements, etc.
Prices reasonable, terms easy and tftle
good. For particulars come and see me
at The Dalles or J. H. Trout at the farm.
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? ' CARRIES A
Groceries, Family Supplies, Boots and Shoes,
-ALSO A FULL LINE OF-
fapus, Carts, Reapers ani Mowers,. anl all Ms of Agricultural
. Implements.
Corner Federal and Third Streets,
THE DALLES,.
Grandall & Budget,
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.
SETABtlSHED 188.
LESLIE
-DEALER IN-
Groeenes and GroGkery.
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. -
113 ttlASfilllGTON STREET,
SEWIIIG
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Ladies' and Childrens' French
Trimmed Hats,
AND
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Ladies and Childrens' Furnishing Goods, "WAY DOWN'
Mrs. Phillips, -
THE DALLES
INCORPORATED 1888.
No. 67 Washington Street. . . The Dalles.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers and Manufacturers of
Building Material and Dimension Timber, Doors, Windows, Moldings, Honse Furnishings, Etc
Special Attention given to the
Boxes and
Factory and Inunber
DRY Pine, Fir, Oak and
any part
wasco waicipe Co.,
Receives Goods on Stor
age, and Forwards same to
their destination.
Receives Consignments
For Sale on Commission.
fates Reasonable.
MARK GOODS
-7r. -SJSJ-. oo.
THE DALLES, OREGON.
- Operative Store .
FULL LINE OF .
OREGON.
BUTLER,
THE DALLES, OREGON
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Felt Hats,
25c.
50c.
UPWARDS.
81 Third Street.
LUMBERING CO.,
Manufacture of Fruit and Fish
Packing Cases.
Tard at Old Xt. Dalloa.
Slab WOOD Delivered to
of the city, .
Chrisman Bros.,
(Sneoeuor to F. Taylor.)
: pbojrktobb o the: i
GITY PMET
UNION STREET.
Dealers in allkinds of Meats.
HAMS, BACON and SUSAGE
ALWAYS ON HAND.
HIES