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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1892.
The Weekly Ghronicle.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF WASCO COUNTY.
Entered at the Postoffice at The Dalles, Oregon,
aa secona-ciass matter.
SUBSCRIPTION KATES.
BY KAIL (M8TAOK PRXPA1D) IS ADVANCE.
Weekly, 1 year I 1 50
6 months. .
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Daily, 1 year.
" 6 months
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Address all communication to " THE CHRON
ICLE," The Dalles, Oregon.
THE FARMERS' OPPORTUNITY.
of
Campaign orators are now going
about the counter, telling the farmers
how they should vote. Many, an agri
cultural fair resounds with earnest dis
quisitions on the tariff, on the financial
questions, reciprocity or the force bill.
These questions of national concern are
kept uppermost in the campaign. Most
of the thinking of the nation is done in
the country districts, and campaign
managers send thither their sol ides t
literature. The floating vote in the
centers of population comes under differ
ent methods of campaign managemen
While the tribute to the intelligence
voters from the farms is natural, the
farmers should not forget that there are
other questions in the campaign which
concern them still more directly," but
' which campaign managers affect to ig'
nore. A new congress is to be elected
this fall, besides national officers. Each
nominee for congress in the country dis
tricts might profitably be asked to de
fine his position regarding these mat
ters:
Free postal delivery in the villages
ana thickiy-settiea tarming districts.
An increase in the permissable weight
of certain classes of mail matter that
circulate chiefly in farming communi
ties.
The building of good roads, either on
der the supervision of federal author
ity, or with the encouragement of that
authority.
The introduction oi postal savings
banks.
There is not one of the benefits men
tioned that the country districts cannot
obtain in the near future, with a proper
presentation of these matters. Not one
of them does violence to the traditions
oi either party. Some may object that
these homely topics should give way be
fore the great national issues of the
hour. Not necessarily. It is a good
year for the farmers to find out where
their would-be representatives etand,
on other issues besides those that seem
to claim the exclusive attention of the
parties.
Since 1878 a system of taxation has
been proposed in the District of Colum
bia bv which the people of the United
States are robbed for the benefit of rich
real estate syndicates in Washington
city. Real estate and rents there are
very high, while taxes are very low.
The explanation of the disproportion
ately low rate of taxation is that since
the year 1878 the United States govern
ment pays one-half of all the taxes in
the district and improvements in the
capital city on the flimsy plea that the
government owns so large an amount of
property in the district that it would be
unjust to the property owners to expect
them to pay a higher rate. The real
estate ring of Washington contrive con
stantly to project statues, parks, build
ings and other improvements to be
largely or wholly paid for out of the
public purse. Is it any wonder, there'
fore, that real estate in Washington has
been looming beyond all precedent?
Does the etate of New York pay half
the taxes of the city of Albany because
the ten-inillion-dollar state capitol is
located there? Does the German gov
ernment pay half the taxes of the city of
Berlin? Does the French government
pay half the taxes of the city of Paris?
Does Great Britain pay half the taxes
assessed against the property owners of
iondon because Westminster Hall and
Other public buildings are located there?
A startling story comes from Salt
Lake city as the reason for the postpone
ment of the case of the board of trade
against transcontinental lines for main
taining higher rates to Salt Lake than to
San Francisco. It appears that the
preparation of the case was in the
hands of Secretary Sears of the board of
trade. Matters seemed to be progress
ing favorably until last Saturday, when
sixty-six of the most prominent business
houses in Salt Lake united in a petition
to the interstate commerce commission
for a continuance on the ground that
they had no confidence in the prosecu
tion. Before this the Union Pacific, it
being mainly interested, was in receipt
of letters from a writer calling himself
E. E. Edwards and offering to sell to
the road the argument of the prosecu
tion, copies of all the affidavits and lists
of names of all witnesses. The corres
pondence was kept up until the Union
Pacific became satisfied from the re
norts of detectives and from slips in the
correspondence that Edwards was the
pseudonym of the son of Secretary
Sears. The investigation did not cou
nect Secretary Sears with the attempt
to sell the testimony in advance, but
the Union Pacific claims there is no
doubt of the guilt of his son. The cor
respondence with the elusive Edwards
was closed by the affirmative reply of
the commission to the petition of the
Salt Lake merchants.
The artesian well at McMinnvillc only
yields up wind. It has a pressure equal
to thirty-eight pounds to the square
inch. A test of the temperature showed
fifty-three. It is a very remarkable
phenomenon, and gives rise to a great
deal of speculation. The question natu
rally arises, how extended is the cham
ber in which compressed air is retained,
and is the supply practically inexbausti'
ble. If so, there is a hitherto unknown
source of mechanical power stored be
neath the earth's surface. Such a jet
as that properly converted - would
amount to several horse power. If the
source is inexhaustible, of course it
could be duplicated indefinitely. The
doctors of learning will find employ
ment tor their talents in formulating a
theory as to how this air came to be
pent up in the bowels of the earth. If
the flow bad been water instead of wind
they would have said it was forced up
by gravitation from a reservoir having a
source higher than the surface vent ; but
we suspect they really know as little
about the facts in one case as in the
other. The same compressing force,
acting upon a body of water, without
reference to its source, would cause an
artesian flow.
This is a curious political year, with
plenty ot tickets in the field. With so
much confidence of success we are apt to
be careless. Republicans must work, and
work hard and peristently, this year.
This is not because their cause is weak
or that there is any lack of arms and am
munition. Indeed, the fight before
them is probably harder than it would
be if there were weak spots in the cause,
detective arms and insufficient ammu
nition. It is just because everything is
in their favor so much so that it may
fairly be said that "even the stars in
their courses fight for them" that there
danger. That feeling of confidence
which makes a man careless about going
to the polls is not the right sort. And
there are evidences that we have too
much of it.
"Walla Walla is alive today with horse
men.' The Dalles is represented largely.
Seventeen races have" been arranged for,
and there will be many special features
to attract the attention of the public.
Prominent among those will be the in
troduction of the celebrated bike sulky,
popularly known as the pneumatic tire.
It was in one of these vehicles that
Nancy Hanks recently lowered the
world's record. Bicycle races between
uuaio hjii w .uvvmi icabuic til mivs j
meeting. Purses amounting in all to j
$5,500 will be paid the winners in the
running, trotting and pacing races.
Some well known western horses are on
the track, the owners of stables from
The Dalles to California are . there.
There will be no long and tedious delays
between races find one heat will follow
another at intervals of not more than
ten minutes. To do this the trotting
and pacing heats of the same day will be
"sandwitched." Mr. J. O. Mack is
there "pulling" for the fair at The
Dalles next month.
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DRUGS
Snipes & Kinersly.
-THE LEADING
Wholesale i Mail lit
TJ3F8L3S3m.TJC3rS
Handled by Three Registered Druggists.
ALSO ALL THE LEADING '
The latest evil for which the tariff is
held responsible is th? cholera. The
Chicago Herald proves it to its complete
satisfaction by a chain of reasoning
something like this: "Protection in
creases the prosperity ' of American
wage earners, and thus makes our coun
try a very attractive one for the poverty
stricken masses of Europe. Some of the
latter, coming from the pestilential cen
ters of the Old World bring with them
the germs of the disease. Hence the
tariff brings the cholera!" vThe remedy
is easy. JMecl Cleveland, pulverize the
tariff system, pauperize American work
men, and no foreigners will come here.
They will prefer to starve at home.
Hurrah for free trade and poverty .' j
Brought back
to health sufferers from the worst
forms of Skin and Scalp Diseases,
ocrornioiis bores and Swellings, and
all manner of blood taints. 1 It's j
done by Dr. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery, which purifies and
enriches the blood, and through it ,
cleanses and renews the whole sys-
iem. r.ven juung-scroiuia I known If i rr A ' 4 .
sflrsKS wiit medicines and Draggists Sundries,
fair trial. It s guaranteed to bene-
rsrfT3L3srxn house paints, oils and glass.
medicine that docs what is claimed
for it, could be sold on such terms.
No other medicine, besides the
"Discovery" has undertaken it.
So positively certain is it in its
curative effects as to warrant its
makers in. selling it, as they are do
incr. through druggists, on trial
it's cspuciaiiy potrnt in taring Finest Line of Imported Key West and Domestic Cicars,
elas, isous, Uarbnncles, boro Jiyes,
Goitre, or Thick Neck, and Enlarged
(ilands, Xumors and swellings.
Great Eating Ulcers rapidly heal
under its benign influence.
Agents for Murphy's Fine Varnishes and the only agents in
tne oity lor 'ihe bherwm, Williams Uo.'s Paints.
-WE AKE-
The : Largest Dealers in Wall Paper.
Agent for Tansill's Punch.
129 Second Street, The Dalles, Oregon
The authorities have at last decided
which of the portraits of Christopher
Columbus is to be reproduced upon the
Columbus souvenir coins. If Columbus
did not look like the man whose likeness
is stamped upon these coins, nobody of
this generation will be to blame.
A. A. Brown, CHRISMAN & CORSON,
Kce a full assortment of
-DEALERS IX-
The enthusiasm with which the de
feated John L. Sullivan is received is
apparently more pronounced than that
which used to greet John L.Sullivan,
the champion. Public sentiment knows
a good thing when it sees it.
Bared Hli Child's rife.
A. N. Dilferbough, York, Neb., shvs:
'The other day I came home and found
my little boy down with cholera morbus,
my wife scared, not knowing what to do.
1 went straiehtwar and eot a L'o cent
bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy, and gave it ac
cording to directions, ion never saw
such a change in a child.- Hislimbsand
body were cold. I rubbed his limbs and
body with my hands, and after I had
given him the second dose he went to
sleep, and, as my wife says, "from a
death-bed he was up playing in three
hours." It saved me a doctor bill of
about three dollars, and what is better.
it saved my child. I can recommend it
with a clear conscience." For sale by
iiiaiteiy & nougnton, druggists.
Staple and Faocy Groceries, G ROC ERI E S,
and Provisions.
which he oSiert at Low Figures.
Flour, Grain, Fruit and Mill Feed.
SPEGIAL :-: PitfGES
to Cash Buyers.
HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR PRODUCE.
COR. WASHINGTON AND SECOND ST.,
THE DALLES, OREGON
The Rock Island Sun reports that
some of Hunt Bros.' men, grading south
of town, recently found a peculiar stone
which puzzles the geologists in that sec
tion. It is a crystal, having the appear
ances -of a petrifaction, with cubiform
projections, some of which were quite
brilliant. Some one has suggested that
it may be petrified lime, while another,
who is entirely familiar with the chem
ical experiments and pranks of the ele
ments for ages past, ventures the belief
that it is petrified water. A smaller
specimen of the same kind of rock was
found further east on the line of the
Great Northern, and it is worn as a pin
by H. D. Culver, of Rock Island.
; Stevenson and Reid still continue to
occupy the center of the stage, while
Cleveland and Harrison hold prompt
books in the wings. Stevenson's speeches
show that he knows about as much re
garding the tariff as he does about how
it feels to wear a blue nniform. It is
safe to predict that he won't exhibit
himself as the man who put down the
rebellion.
Why should the door, which has been
closed to keep out pestilence, be opened
again to permit the free entry of that
which will produce social disorder and
fill this country with an element that it
can not absorb and assimilate? It is
time gay 8 the Telegraph, to draw a line
somewhere which' will lessen and limit
excessive immigration.
ihe late Daniel Doughertv was once
surrprised by a visit from an aged
gentlemen who called himself the Em
peror of the French. He was insane
but Mr. Dougherty listened patiently to
a recital of imaginary grievances. He
investigated the case, ascertained that
he had gone crazy over some financial
complications, looked into it and suc
ceeded finally in obtaining a decree for
$3,000 a year for his demented visitor.
That was a happy thought of Supt.
R. W. Mitchell ; but almost invariably
his thoughts are happy ones. From ex
pressions of opinions heard on all sides
from' the Odd Fellows who, visited our
great Portland Exposition last night,
the conclusion can be reached that they
were surprised at the splendid showing,
and will carry away flattering impres
sions of the resources and industries of
Oregon.
Persons whose zeal outruns their dis
cretion and whose tempers discount
their judgment do not take disagreeable
consequences into consideration when
joining a mob or urging men to violence.
It is the old lesson, older than the
proverb which declares that "the pru
dent man foreseeth evil and hideth him
self, but the simple pass on . and are
punished."
Dissolution of Co-partnership.
- Notice is hereby given that the firm
of Abrams & Stewart has been dissolved
bv mutual consent.
W. R. Abrams is authorized to collect
all amounts due the firm of Abrams &
Stewart, and will pay all demands
against said firm.
W. R. Abkams.
AVm. Stewart.
The Dalles, Or., Aug." 15tb, 1892.
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Notice is hereby given to all persons
indebted to the late firm of Abrams &
Stewart, of The Dalles, or W. R. Abrams,
either by note or account, to make pay
ment of the same immediately at the
bank of French & Co. All notes and ac
counts remaining unpaid November
15th, 1892, will be placed in attorneys'
hands with instructions to collect. Any
claims against the late firm must be
presented at the same place, with
proper vouchers, on or before above
date. The business of the firm must be
closed up without further delay. Res
pectfully, . K. Abbams.
Highest Casl Prices for Eis ani
oilier Prate.
AMERICAN SCHOOL
170 SECOND STREET.
A NEW
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Stoneman & Fiege, dealers in
Boots and Shoes. All goods
we sell, we warrant.
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BEST IN AMERICA.
JOLES BROS
: DEALERS IN :-
PRINZ & NITSCHKE.
DEALERS IN
Staple
anil Fancy
Groceries,
Furniture and Carpets.
Hay, Grain and Feed.
We have added to our business a
7asweare1To wa- Th Masonic Block. Corner Third and Court Streets. The Dalles.Oregon.
tiie Undertakers Trust our prices will
be low accordingly.
Kemem oer our place on becond street,
next to Moodv s hank. -
Ktttray Mure And Colt.
A light gray mare, weighing about
1,100, branded on the left shoulder with
an inverted Twith a quarter circle over
it, came to the premises of the under
signed with a sorrel colt, about June
15th, near Nansene P. O. Owner is re
quested to call and prove property, pay
charges, and take her away.
J. T. Robertson',
Nansene, Aug. 8, 1892. 6.tw
A gold and silver statute worth $300,-
000 will be on exhibition at the Colum
bus fair. The most artistic sculptors
living will despair of doing anything of
equal value.
If an unsophisticated civilian and
clergyman can find gambling houses in
active operation it certainly ought not
to be impossible for Chief Spencer.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE,
In the County Court of the State ol Oregon for
asco uonniy.
In the matter of the estate of Abner B. Smith.
deceased, notice is hereby given that the under
signed has been annotated administrator of the
estate of Abner B. Smith, deceased: all perxons
having claims against said deceased are notified
to present them to me, witn proper voucners
therefor, at the office of Mays, Huntington &
Wilson, The Dulles, Or., within six months from
the date oi this notice.
Dated August 20th, 1892.
J. 11. SMITH, Administrator.
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HORSES
FRENCH & CO.,
BANKERS.
TRANSACT A CiENERAL BANKING BUSINESS
J. S. COOPER,
Corner Barn, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois.'
The Largest and Only Strictly Commission Dealer
in Horses in the United States.
Letters of Credit issued available in he
Eastern States.
Sight 'Exchange and Telegraphic
Transfers sold on .New York:, Chicago, St.
Louis, San Francisco, Portland Oregon,
Seattle Wash., and various points in Or
egon and Washington.
Collections made at all points on fav
orable terma.
FARM FOR SALE.
I offer for Bale 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
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 title
good. For particulars come and see me
A prophet of Java has been- paid f 400
a year for the last fifteen years "for not
predicting a tidal wave which will sweep j at The Dalles or J. H. Trout at the farm,
clear over the island." ; "1 jan29-tf E. W. Tbout.
Ul. H. Young,
General Blacksmithing and Work done
promptly, and all work
Guaranteed.
Commencing the 3rd of August and every month throughout the year will hold
Special Extensively Advertised Sales of
iA EST9RN RHNCE HORSES,
rjf '. (National Live 8tock Bank, Chicago, 111.
Keierence . Chicftgo National Bank, Chicago, 111.
Write for Particulars.
Washington
fforth Dalles,
Washingto
SITUATED AT THE HEAD OF NAVIGATION.
Destined to be the Best
Manufacturing Center in
the Inland Empire: .
Best Selling Property of '."f
the Season In the North- '
west. '
Horse Shoeeing a Speiality
TM Street, opposite tlie old Liek Stan!
For Further Information Call at the Office of
Interstate investment Go.,
0. D. TAYLOR, Be Dais, Or. 72 1 asMgoi, St, Portland,' Or.