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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE,.- FRIDAY, APRIL 1. 1892.
The Weekly Chronicle.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF WASCO COUNTY.
Entered at the Postofflce at The Dalles, Oregon,
as second-class matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
BY KAIL (POSTAGE PREPAID) IN ADVANCE.
Weekly, 1 year. J 1 50
" 6 months..;.. 0 75
3 " 0 50
Daily, 1 year. - 6 00
" 6 mouths ... 3 00
" per " 0 60
Address all communication to " THE CHRON
ICLE,". The Dalles, Oregon.
The republican convention of Wasco
county has met and done its work and
adjourned and the result, so far as the
slate delegation is concerned, comes too
' dancrerouelv hear beine a menance to
the best interests of Wasco county and
' of the Inland Empire to be a matter
for congratulation. The Chboxicle had
hoped that the republican vo' era of this
county were possessed of sufficient inde
pendence to rebuko the men who have
betrayed their interests in the past, by
leaving them at home. The majority of
the country delegates fought nobly and
to them we owe the fact that a solid
railroad delegation will not go to the
state convention to nominate the state
ticket. As it is the choice of M. A.
Moody and G. W. Johnston for state
delegates is nothing less than an insult
to this county. Moody is an open
enemy of the people, an open enemy of
an open river and an open and avowed
friend of the railroad. Johnston sup
ported bv his vote, as the records of the
last legislature show, the infamous act
by which Benedict Arnold McCoy of
. Sherman county, defeated the appropri
ation for a portage railroad at the Dalles.
These are two of the men the conven
tion has chosen to nominate candidates
' for the Oregon legislature at a time
when the whole Inland Empire is de
manding an open river. How they got
their nomination is no secret. At the
city primaries a large number of per
sons were" influenced to vote the anti
Farley ticket through promises of sup-
. port, for themselves or friends, for nom
ination to county offices. Some of them
have got their reward and the rest got
"left, beautifully and delightfully left, as
is generally the case when one promises
to support two or three persons for the
same office. And yet, notwithstanding
the number of strikers that gathered
like carrion crows in support of Moody
his nomination to the state convention
was only accomplished by his refusal to
allow the city to be districted in a per
ierctly fair and honorable way, the same
as the country had been. Johnston
goes to the state convention by the
treachery of J. E. McCormick, an alli
ance man from Eight-Mile precinct, who
voted for Johnston against the wishes of
his fellow-precinct man, W. E. Camp-
Dell, ine country expected better than
tnis irom McUormiek and will hold him
responsible for his treachery.
We have no comment to make at prea
ent on the statement of county clerk
Crossen. " Dublished elsewhere in this
issue, iurther than this, that we deny:
emphatically that we have been publish
ing statements concerning the emolu
ments of the clerk's office for political
effect. The estimates were made partly
from the published official' records and
partly from statements made by those
who had the best possible opportunities
of knowine all about the matter. The
records for the past four months show
that the clerk received from the county
over $2,600 or' over $650 a month, ex
elusive of fees for record work, licenses
etc. The Chronicle need not repeat
that it never hinted or suspected that
the clerk was receiving a cent that he
was not lawfully entitled to. But even
accepting the statement of the clerk as
an estimate for the current year the in
come is outrageously high. It is idle to
sav that $2,450 have been paid out for
clerk hire. Mrs. Sampson and Mr,
Huntington did the work in Geo. H.
Thompson's time and two clerks at $100
a month each can io the work now.
But whv should the clerk charge the
Chboxicle 'witb. writing for political ef
feet? Does Mr. Crossen own the office
or has he a lease of it, that statements
concerning its emoluments should put
his tenure in danger? We cannot think
so and if it is any relief to him or others
we give him the assurance that the edi
tor of this iournal is seeking no office in
the gift of the people.
Republicans of The Dalles and Wasco
county should learn wisdom from the
past. Two years ago, next January, we
bad four men to represent us at Salem
One only, Senator Watkins, represented
his whole constituency. The other three
represented M. A. Moody and the Union
Pacific. One of them, unwittingly the
tool of smarter men, nearly jeopardized
the cascade portage bill by forcing an
objectionable name upon it, as one of the
commissioners. 'Another killed the
dalles portage bill while the former
helped the murder by his vote. When
The Dalles asked a new charter and a
new water bill, both , bills had to be
slashed and altered to suit M. A.Moody,
and the taxpayers of this city were in
formed, practically, they must accept
the bills as Moody had fixed them or
nothing. Do the people' of The Dalles
and Wasco county forget these things?
Then let M. A. Moody name the etate
delegates and we shall have them re
peated in the next legislate.
When the binding twine used in this
country was manufactured abroad it
cost our farmers seventeen cents
pound. Now that it is made at home,
under the protection afforded by the
McKinley law, the price has been re
duced to seven and a half cents and
thousands of American artisans are
given employment in its manufacture
vine present duty is seven-tenths of a
cent a pound, which, even if the farmer
had to pay it, would amount to less than
cent on every acre of wheat where
twine is used. This petty tax haB been
attacked by the tariff reformers now in
control of the house, when they well
know, or ought to know, that if the
home manufacture of this article were
destroyed by free trade the price would
soon be doubled to the American
consumer.
A smoker in the harbor of Barcelona
threw a match down', after lighting his
pipe, and it set fire to a petroleum cargo
on a barge, which blazed furiously and
drifting in the harbor played sad havoc.
A warship, four steamers, a corvette,
. and a launch were burned to the waters
edge. . The wildest panic prevailed
among the ships in the harbor during
the fire, and many who were at a dis
tance from the lighter when it took fire
saved themselves; only by starting sea
ward immediately. The spectacle of the
six burning ships was a scene of awful
grandeur, and was viewed by thousands
on the wharves.
Goldendale has a ghost that periodi
cally visits -the pale glimpses of the
moon and horribly' shakes the disposi
tion of the citizens with thoughts be
yond the reaches of their soles. It is
not the regular conventional ghost for it
dresses in black and groans as if in pain,
but it has the faculty of nimbly, making
itself scarce when danger approaches,
as Bob McCrow discovered about a week
ficn'when ha triad, thrpn HtnAn in nnfolr
succession, to pepper itstdiaphram with
cold lead.
' The Arlington board of trade has se
cured the promise of steamboat traffic
between Arlington and Pasco, as soon as
a ooat can oe oDtaineu ior tne purpose.
The Arlington Record thinks that by
this means the trade of the upper
country will be transferred from the
Sound cities to Spokane.
The republican convention that meets
in this city tomorrow has 76 delegates.
At a rough guess fifty of these represent
the country and the agricultural classes.
The farmers all over the United States
have been everywhere asking greater
political recognition in the affairs of gov
ernment. Let them demand it here and
it is entirely their own fault if they do
not obtain it. No man need go to the
state convention if the farmers of Wasco"
county say he shall not "go. Let them
dictate the nominees from among them
selves and leave the wire-pullers at
home. If the Chronicle had its own
way not a political boss in Wasco county
would go to the state convention. The
interests of the country people are the
interests of the whole community, and
will be perfectly safe in their own hands
An experimenting physician has dis
covered that hypodermic injections of
the brains of a sheep will bring renewed
vigor . and intellectual energy into
human heads fagged out by overwork
or originally lacking in the quality, or
quantity of grey matter. It's a safe bet
that there is a sheep's head and a hypo
dermic syringe in the private drawer of
the Mountaineer sanctum.
Yamhill County Ledger: How can
we wonder at the young men and boys
indulging in, the brutal amusenient'(if it
can be so called) of prizefighting. Every
paper almost contains some account of a
prizefight in some part of the United
States. Then how long will people re
main quiet readers and quiescent specta
tors of these open violations of the law
and revolting exhibitions of brute force.
How much better for the youths of our
country if the whole army of prize
fighters were at once banished from the
land and warned never tolreturn until
they have learned to make their livings
by honest toil. "
Newburg Graphic' A Portland ordi
nance provides that no saloon shall be
within 4D0 feet of a public school build
ing. Last week Council men Merrick
offered an amendment, placing the in
tervening distance at 300 feet. This
was done to accommodate a saloon
keeper who is located too near a school-
house by a few feet. If the. ordinance
should fail to pass, the school-house
will, no doubt, be moved to accommo
date the soloon man, provided it can be
located in any" other direction where it
will not encroach on some other fellow's
territory. Just what they will do with
the school-houses in Portland in the
near future is liable to become a vexed
question.
F. W. L. Skibbe, proprietor of the
Skibbe brick hotel, has just had a fine
cut made of the building which he in
tends to use in decorating his business
cards, hotel stationery, etc.
LAND FOB BENT.
From five to ten acres of Creek Bottom
land on Mill creek, adapted to gardening
or any Biuiiiur purpose, inquire oi
3-3w4t Theo. Mesplik The Dalles.
efflp -fifon Wanted.
The undersigned will pay
FIVE DOLLARS PER TON FOR ALL
KINDS OF WAGON AND MA
CHINE SCRAP-IRON,'
gt&" Delivered in The Dalles up to April 1st,
at Beers & Williams' Hay Yard. No stove Cast
ings wancea. . ikiuuiisk
FARMERS'-BOARDING HOUSE
. ' - , AND
MRS. A. J. OBARR ..:. Proprietor
Meals 25 cents. Lodging 25 cent6.
Table well supplied with everthlng in market.
Cotnfortuble beds as any in the citv.
There is a chance for some young man
in Wasco county, to go to the Corvallis
college, by appointment from the sena
tor of this joint senatorial district.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
WM. J. ROBERTS Civil Engineer Gen
eral engineering practice. Surveying 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
specifications furnished for dwellings.
churches, business blocks, schools and factories.
Charges moderate, satisfaction guaranteed. Of-
nce over i rencn s bank, The Danes, Oregon.
DR. J. SUTJIERIjAND Fellow of Trinity
Medical College, and member of the Col
ette of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario. Phv-
slcinn and Surtreon. Office: rooms 3 and 4 Chon-
mnn block. Residence; Judge Thornbury's gec
tad street. Office hours; 10 to 12 a. ni., 2 to 4
nd 7 to 8 p. m.
DR. O. D. DO A NE physician and sub
GKON. Office; rooms 5 and S Chapman
Block. Residence No. 23, Fourth street, one
tlock south of Conrt House. Office hours 9 to 12
A. M., 2 to 5 and 7 to S P. M.
Second St., near Madison.
Dalles City.
STAGY SHOttlfl,
TAG Walter,
Has opened an office for Cleaning and
Repairing Watches, Jewelry, etc.
All work guaranteed and
promptly attended.
AT C. E. DUflHflflS OltD STfitfD,
Cor. Second and Union Streets.
ume,
Floyd
The E. 0. Co-operative Store- ;
- - CARRIES A FULL LINE OF
Groceries, Family Supplies, Boots and.Ske.
-ALSO A FULL LINE OF-
Wagons, Carts, Reapers apt Mowers, ani all Ms of Airicultir
ts.
Corner Federal and Third Streets,
THE DALLES, - OREGOf
Grandall & Budget
" MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
FURNITURE CARPETS
Undertakers and Embalmers.
NO. .166 SECOND STREET. -
New - Umatilla- House
THE DALLFS; OREGON.
Successors to C. E. Dunliam.
Druggists and Chemists.
Pare Brup and Medicines.
Dispensing Physicians' Prescriptions a Specialty.
Night Druggists always in Attendance.
THE DALLES,
OBEGON.
Eternal vigilence is the price of
liberty. A powerful corporation with
strong local allies will do every thing in
their power to name the state delegates,
and the next Wasco and Sherman
county representatives. A pro-railroad
delegation means no dalles portage and
no opening of the river so far as railroad
influence can prevent them. Now is the
time to strike for our deliverance for all
time from the grasp of a greedy and
unscrupulous corporation. Will the
delegates to the republican convention
be equal to the occasion I
The most powerful argument we have
yet heard for closing the worlds fair ' on
Sundays, , was presented last Tuesday to
the senate committee on quadro-cen-tennial,
when a representative of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, a
society numbering 23,000 persons, most
ly brakemen, pleaded for the observance
of Sunday in order that railway em-
ployes might have an opportunity for
rest. The appeal may pass unheaded,
but it is only such an one as. a purely
secular government could consistently
entertain. -
Three things . will come before the
next legislature that will demand men
of brains,, intelligence, backbone and
honesty. One is a new assessment law,
another A reduction in the fees of clerk
and sheriff of this county, and the third
the dalles portage railway bill. The
last is of infinite importance to the pros
perity of The Dalles as well as Wasco
county and the whole Inland Empire,
and the railroad company will move
heaven an earth to defeat it. No man
of doubtful reputation can be trusted
with these interests, especially the .last.
The democratic delegates to the Min
nesota state convention, are instructed
for Cleveland. The vntp in 445 to 4 ho
far in seventy-five counties."
At the Clackamas county republican
convention, held on the 23rd inst., reso
lutions were adopted condemning the
mortgage tax law and favoring a deduc
tion for indebtedness, and no taxing of
credits. The delegates were instructed
to support Binger Hermann for congress
man, in the state convention.
London seems to be quite solicitous
concerning the fate of Americans, in
the event the silver bill fails.
DSIDDALL Dentist. Gas given for the
painless extraction of teeth. Also teeth
Rooms: Sign of
t on flowed aluminum plate.
be Golden Tooth, Second Street.
(Me 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.
FRED. FISHER,
Dealer in -.
Staple and Fancy
roceiies!
And PROVISIONS.
fj6& Special Prices to Cash Buyers.
Highest Prices paid for Produce,
Opposite Skibbe' Hotel. 3-18wtl
Young 8t iuss,
General Blacksmithing and Work done
promptly, and all -work
-Guaranteed.
Horse Shoeeing a Speialify.
Third Street opposite the old Lieoe Stand.
FOR SALE
I- T 3FL A 13
On REASONABLE TERMS.
Hambletonian - Stallions,
and one English Coach.
Two
Horses can be seen at the C. L. Rich
mond Stables For further particulars
address: A. O. McCAIN,
3-4w4t . The Dalles, Or.
THOROUGHBRED
HY THOKOUGHBRED KENTUCKY JACK
iVl will stand for the season of 1892 at my ranch
on Juniper
weighs 1160
Flat He is- 13U hands hieh. and
pounds.
T 23 n IS:
Fifteen Dollars for the season, cavable after
harvest, with the privilege of breeding back next
season, if a mare does not prove in foaX
Pasture at reasonable rates.
JAMES BROWN,
3-llw8t , ; T-gh Valley.
Ranche In Dry Hollow, ten miles south of The
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Seed Wheat,
ORTS RHt BAIiEY,
For Sale by
C. L. Schmidt,
At the Wasco Warehouse.
AHIiTRICTQf
First Cla
Tfte Iwm, Fastest mmi Ftaest In tke WatU.
Passenger accomodations unexcelled.
EW.YORCriONDONDERBy AND GLASGOW.
. Ftap Bafnrrla
HEW TORE, OIBRALTEK and KAPIJE8,
as regular wterTBia. -
SALOON, SECOND-CLASS AND STEERAGE
r&t9S OH InwAnt tprmi fcrt and fmro th nrintMnlA
800TCH, INOLISH, 12133 AU PUHTG-
Exonrsion tleknta anllahlA tn Mtnra Kw Hfh th nl,.
toreaqne Clyde North of Ireland or Naples 4 Glbnaftai
Drifts aat Uanj Oiim for Ait Asont tt IVNt Sat,
Apply to any of onr local Agents or to
HEXDERSOX 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 oi
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 ltiU acres in section
26, township 1 sooth, range 14 east;
also five head horse, one double set of
harness and a few farm implements, etc.
Prices reasonable, terms easy and title
good. For particular? come and see me
at The Dalles or J. H. Trout at the farm.
jan29-tfJ E. W. Trout.
HANDLEY & SINNOTT, PROP'S.
LARGEST : AND : FINEST : HOTEL" : IN : OREGON
Ticket and Baggage Office of the O. E. & N. Company, and office of the Westd
Union Telegraph Office are in the Hotel." .
Fire-Proof Safe for the Safety of all Valuables.
ESTABLISHED 1883.
LESLIE' BUTLER,
-DEALER IN-
Groceries and Groeke'ry
A full line of Lamps, Glassware and Dishes of all kinds. Silver plated Knive
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 tUflSHlNGTOfi STREET,
THE DALLES, OftEGO
SEWIjlli
OX THIR
"SIIIGEH PlWDlES
Ladies' and Childrens' French Felt Hats,
Trimmed Hats,
AND UPWARDS.
25c.
50c.
Ladies and Childrens' Furnishing Goods. "WAY DOWN.
Mrs. Phillips, - 81 Third Street.
THE DALLES LUMBERING CO J
INCORPORATED 1888.
No.
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 Fis
Boxes and Packing Cases.
Factory axxcL Inimber T?".xrci. o.t Old Xt. .
DRY Pine, Fir, Oak and Slab WOOD Delivered t
any part of the city,
Wasco Warefpse Co.,
Receives Goods on Stor
age, and Forwards same to
their destination.
Receives Consignments
For Sale on Commission.
lates treasonable.
MARK GOODS ;
"W- W . Go-
THE DALLES. OREGON.
Chrisman - Bros.,
(Successors to F. Tmylor.)
proprietors or thk:
GUY WW
UNION STREET.
HAMS, BACON and SUSAGE
ALWAYS ON HAND.