THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1892.
The Weekly Ghroniele.
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ANOTHER NEW MINE:
Address all communication to " THE C1IEON
ICLE, " The Dulles, Oregon.
THE AMERICAN NAVAL OFFICER,
Any landsman M ho has cherished the
proud conviction that the organization
of our naval service is a close approach
to perfection can have hi3 eyes opened
bv reading the vigorous criticisms of
Park Benjamin published recently in
Harper's Weekly. It seems that while
the naval equipment has been improving
in its mechanical features the system by
which it must be utilized in time of
battle is decidedly primitive. As at
present organized, the advancement of
officers of the line depends entirely up
on the retirement, resignation or death
of the superiors. Individual merit and
conspicuous ability don't count. If an
officer lives long enough or the men
above him are sifted out rapidly enough
by circumstances he may reach a high
place. If not he will linger along as an
underling until his 2d birthday, though
he be a man of genius and all the super
iors be dunderheads.
Mr. Benjamin presents a suppositious
case in which members of three genera
tions of the same family are in service
on the same man-of-war. They are a
son, a father and a grandfather, and all
are lieutenants. The grandfather was a
lieutenant thirty years before, and hie
grandson will likely be a lieutenant
thirty years hence. The inevitable re
sult of this system, as Mr. Benjamin
points out, is to discourage ambition
and cast a lethargy over the entire ser- j
vice. Worse than that, it puts the com
manding oflices into the hands of old
and enfeebled men. In the present
state of the warship a naval battle is
contest of brains. Its result rests with
the man in the conning-tower, who
must be cool, nerve-controlling, activ
ana resolute. Hut instead ot vigorous
men in their prime, who have won place
by their talents, our conning-towers are
filled with patriarchal officials, placed
there not for ability but because they
have outlived everybody who Was above
them.
-ine talk ot ten uays ago lias been re
vived about an Indian uprising at Pine
Kidge agency predicted by Dr. Magilli-
cuddy as one of the earl 3' possibilities of
1893. It is not unlikely. Peace to an
idle Sioux Indian, with his pony Bath
tied with grass, is almost as unendurable
as soap. The red man who prefers loaf
ing to farming must uprise with the reg'
ularity of a ninepin and dance the ghost
dance. Then when the government has
issued him a little more beef he proceeds
to jump over the pale of civilization and
thin out the 7th cavalry. While bad
management by the government is a cry
ing evil at the reservations, there is still
too much sentiment in the Indian ques
tion. Too much beef, also. When an
old-time farmer's unruly team ran away
and silted itself through a worm fence,
eleven rails high, the owner sat down by
the roadside and philosophized. There
must be a reason for the accident. He
pondered it and he reached a conclusion
is was 100 mucn oats. Civilization is
not responsible in itself for that great
law of the survival of the fittest. An
iuie, weu-iea sioux Indian is always a
menace. Give him less beef and more
responsibility. Teach him honeetly and
sensibly to work for a living. A clean
skin, too, is conducive to a good temper.
It is said there is much talk in Eng
land of the propriety of abolishing the
office of poet laureate. That there ia
none great enough to fill the chair held
by Tennyson is signally and painfully
apparent, and no doubt a large portion
of the English-speaking public would be
more than content to see the office re-
main vacant. Nothing has been ad
vanced, however, to show that Mr. Glad
stone may not keep the post unoccupied
ivUhout permanently abolishing it.
, Why not leave it in harmless desuetude
till a man fit for the task appears?
Then, if it is a really worthy poet that
springs into view, there will be no
shallow-pated incumbent standing in
the way and drawing ridicule down
upon his laureled head. Certainly, the
plan would be infinitely better than to
accept any one of the candidates now
mutely coaxing for the place. The two
men who are most threatning possibili
ties are Lewis Morris and Alfred Austin.
Morris is a pleasant gentleman of good
breeding, who would look well in a red
jacket and duck breeches riding after
hounds. Austin is a literarv dude.
' There is an excelled probability that
the wild excitement of 1862 will be par
tially repeated next spring in the vicin
ity of Mitchell, Crook "county. Mr,
Wb, Bethune has recently made dis
coveries on his farm, the McGraw
Datent. purchased bv him of I. N. Sar
gent, which show the conutry to be rich
in ledges that resemble the famous
Comstock lode in Virginia city. We
will not attempt to describe the rich
specimens which Mr. Bethune has with
him, lest the public might become
credulous. Mr. ' Bethune has owned
this place for several years, and becom
ing tired of hauling water to his house
every dry season, last summer com
menced digging in a moist place on the
side hill in the hope of striking a vein of
water, but instead of this he struck a
rich vein of rotten granite quartz loaded
with gold. At the distance of thirty
feet a well defined ledge, about six
inches thick was opened.
It is hardly possible to predict the
outcome of this discovery. Mr. Bethune
has taken the precaution to secure him
self acainst trespassers, but has not yet
fullv decided what course of action will
be taken respecting the development of
the mine. It inav lead to a revival of
the sunny days of gold in The Dalles in
1862. -Mr. Bethune hus three ranches
in the vicinity, where he followed the
occupation of a stock man, raising horses
and cattle principally. He is well
known all over the Inland Empire, and
while modest in his-estimate of the
value of his discovery, thinks the place,
as it is today, ougnt to produce a mil
lion or so of gold bullion next year to
help along the world's commerce,
With the silver district of Mount
Adams north of us, and the gold regions
of Apercopolis, as Mr. Bethune calls his
mine, soivii ; with the second finest
water power in America, The Dalles
ought in time to be able to assert her
self, and invest the scenes of 1862. All
the conditions are now very much more
favorable than they were then for unex
ampled prosperity. In the mines now
the delvers could feast on the fat of the
land ; in '02 everything we eat, or wore,
or used, cost lots of money. In some of
the camps flour was worth a dollar a
pound and such a thing as coffee cost us
manv an ounce of dust during the
month. Sugar was never dreamed of,
and a suit of store clothes would be
treasured sacredly as an evidence that
the owner, once in his life, saw the light
of civilization in some town many hun
dreds of miles distant. Yes, indeed,
everything has changed Eince then.
Says a pioneer minor of The Dalles :
"Then everybody had money. Many is
the time I have taken out ninety ounces
of gold from my claim in a few hours,
the prettiest and brightest stuff on the
face of the earth. There were then.
about 4,000 men in our camp, and a
poor unlucky dog was he who could not
show $10,000 to $20,000 hid away in tins
under his cabin floor or safely buried in
some convenient locality untiRhe owner
got ready to leave the country."
Those were stood old happy days, and
The Chronicle believes that they
not departed forever.
lOivCtt r,!CriUV U;;sQ 'AH M GOLD.
Wealth in thn Old Chtcmcys TVhera the
Bonanza Ores Wera Refined.
For nearly a quarter of a century two
tall towers have stood at the foot of
Hyde 6treet, near Leavenworth, almost
on the edge of the beach. . One rises to a
height of 110 feet and the other reaches
more than fifty feet in the air. They
are both very broad and thick, and they
have brick enough in them to construct
several buildings.
They are relics of the flush old days
of the Comstock mining era, when
Flood, O'Brien, Fair and others banded
together and erected the famous Selby
Smelting and Refining "works. There,
from the bonanza days of I860 to as late
as 1885,' tho great chimneys belched
forth fire and smoke. They never stop
ped. Wreaths of flame and volumes of
soot circled in the air over the domes at
night time, while hundreds of men
toiled in and about the works, cutting
and shoveling ore .and slag, molding
bars of bullion and refining it to pure
silver, gold, lead and copper.
In 1S83 the Selby company concluded
to move its works. It was known that
the old underground Sue that connected
the furnaces with the chimneys, as well
as considerable of the ground all about,
was permeated with gold and silver set
tlings and solid metal. On the advice
of a skilled European expert the com
pany dug np the ruins as well as a large
amount of eoil to the depth of five or sf"
feet and transferred it by tons to il
new work3 at Port Costa. There It
stuff wa3 run through the works, anl -is
said realized not less than $500,000.
Selby & Co. did not dream that ia th.
towers which were left standing au;l fc
the million tons of s!;ig and .;.,.
permeated soil -STtjcKh i-emainod.
The ground was sold v:d v.czTi wa;
thought ifcect it tor a louir
Seme time c--o "r . li. C'infT, Uic T?eD
kno" U merchant uu lolirioian of this
city, acquired the ground on which the
old works an.! ths prasut Blag pile and
chimneys reiiiuin. It consists of five
fifty-vara lots, or 2'4 acres. Meantime
he had Bever:,.l expi-rfej make examine
tioa of the brick towers and tho sur
roundings. They reported that thf
metal and black dust of the towers win
a veritable mine of wealth, and that tin
grimy matter that filled the interstices
and in one form or another permeated
the brick reeked with valuable minerals.
Also that the gray slag which had been
carted away from the blazing furnaces
in primitivq days contained large quan
tities of gold ;vnd silver and should bo
worked over;. Promptly thereupon Mr.
Clnff secured the silver and gold lined
towers and tha debris. Ho w sai-1 to
havo paid $10,000 for the chinmoys alone.
His object i3 to work them up and got
the money out of them.
"I do not think I will have any trouble
in getting the gold, silver and other
mineral out," he said yesterday. "It
was on the advice of an English exrxjrt
that Selby & Co. took a lot of ths dabris
to Port Costa, and I am informed they
got over ?jOU,000 out of that Seven
skilled mining men havo come to me
A. A. Brown,
Keeps a full assortment of
Staple and Fancy Groceries,
and Provisions." ..
which he ofl'ere at ijovr Figures. -
SPEGIflli PftfGES
to Cash Buyers.
Highest Casi Prices for Eis anj
ote Prote.
170 SECOND STREET.
A NEW
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D R U G S
Snipes & Kin ERSLY.
-THE LEADING
alt ii Retail Driiisis.
F'U HEj 3D ESL TJ Gr &
Handled by Three Registered Druggists.
ALSO ALL THE LEADING
Patent ffledieines and Druggists Sundries,
V HOUSE PAINTS, OILS AND GLASS.
Agents for Murphy's Fine Varnishes and the only agents in
me Kny 101 me bherwm, Williams Uo.'s Paints.
-WE ARE-
The Largest Dealers in Wall
PRINZ & NITSCHKE.
DEALERS IX
Furniture and Carpets.
we have added to our business a
complete Undertaking Establishment,
ana as we are in no way connected with
the Undertakers' Trust our prices will
be low accordingly.
Remember our place on Second sti-eet,
next to Aloodv's bank.
III. H. Young,"
iBG&smiuU wagoi) Slop
General Blacksmithing and Work done
promptly, and all work
Guaranteed.
Finest Line of Imported Key West and Domestic
' Agent for Tansill's Punch. '
129 Second Street,
Paper.
Cigars.
The Dalles, Oregon
JOL.ES BROS..
: DEALERS IN:
Hay, Grain and Feed.
tonic Block, Comer Third and Court Streets. The Daiies.Oregon.
CHRISMAN & CORSON,
lately and offered to buy me out or wori
have
Mrs. Harrison, it ia believed, is slowly
but surely drawing to the close of life,
and the scenes about the White House
are very sad. The president has become
so depressed that it is only through the
greatest effort that he can give any at
tention whatever to public business, and
he now' denies himself to all callers, ex
cept his most intimate friends and the
cabinet officers. He is much broken bv
the constant vigil he has kept at the
bedside of his dying wife, and his mel
ancholy and hopeless countenance tell
too plainly that he is only awaiting what
he now realizes to be the inevitable
sequel to his lengthy solicitude. '
me emmneys, siag ana son on a per
centage. I have not closed with any
body and do not think I shall. There is
an immense amount of slag there. In
some places it is 200 feet deep. It all
contains gold, silver and lead, with some
copper. I have had. the ground assayed
around there; too, and it all shows no
well. In some places it is very rich,
Mr. ClufiTs intention is to tear down
the great towers, which have so Ion,
been landmarks in the history of the
city, and which can be seen for miles out
at sea and in other directions, and wrest
from them their gold and silver lining.
San Francisco Examiner
A dispatch from Coffeyville, Kan
says that immet Dalton will recover
from his wounds. If there's justice in
Kansas, nature, in that event, will go to
good deal of trouble for nothing.
ICE I ICE! ICE1
Having on hand a large supply of ice
we are prepared to iurnish our custom
ers with ice in anv quantity at a reason'
able rate. We guarantee we will supply
the demand without advancing prices
throughout the Beason. Leave orders at
C. F. Lauer a store, Second street.
5-2tf
Gates & Allison.
FARM FOR SALE.
1 oner tor sale an or a nart of mv
farm of 480 acreB 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.
also oner for sale 160 acres in section
26, township 1 south, range 14 east:
also five head horse, one doable set of
harness 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 E. W. Tbout.
"One thing is sure," said Joggles,
"Our party was weak to begin on ; now
some of 'etn are insisting on changing the
name from peoples to populist. I've
heard it said, that to change the name
of a teething child means death! Ido
believe it."
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
In the County Court of the State of Oregon for
In the matter of the estate of Abner B. Smith,
deceased, notice is hereby given that the under
signed has been appointed administrator of the
estate of Abner B. Hmith, deceased; all persons
having claims against said deceased are notified
to present them to me, with proper vouchers
therefor, nt the office of Mays, Huntington fc
Wilson, The Dalles, Or., within six months from
the date of this notice. , ,
Dated August 20th, 1892.
J. H. SMITH, Administrator.
8.2SWU0.7
A. Judge's .Jocose Retort.
"I think the late Judge Devens," said
Mr. Arthur Macy to me the other day,
"was the greatest after dinner speaker I
ever heard. I remember a striking in
stance of his readiness in jocose retort.
He made a live minute speech at a club
dinner, and in the course of bis remarks
he established his claim to his place at
the dinner by instancing his authorship
of a large volume that was made up of
tragedy and comedy and of many start
ling phases some dramatic, some ludi
crous, some pathetic of human life and
nature.
"The book was tho 142d volume of
Massachusetts laws. Immediately a
member was on liis feet and thanking
the jndge. ' He had been on a jury once,
and tho justice who was trying the case
said that a verdict should be rendered
unhesitatingly in accordance with a de
cision that was contained in that verj
volume of which the judge had just
spoken. The verdict was rendered im
mediately and the juryman secured a
good night's rest, for which he was
thankful to Judge Devens and his book.
"Without a moment's hesitation,
Judge Devens replied, 'If the gentle
man will imitate the example of the jus
tice of whom he speak3, and peruse) the
entire volume that 1 have spoken of, I
assure him that he will secure many &
good night's rest.' " Boston Globe.
Horse Shoeing a Speciality
Third Street, opposite the old Lieoe Stand,
"The Regulator Line"
Be Dalles, Portland and Gloria
Navigation Co.
THROUGH
Freiani ena PassengerLinB
I imtmh rial o aar'ita I Siiinf ava nr.
cepted) between The Dalles and Port
land. Steamer Regulator leaves The
Dalles at 6 a. m. connecting at Cascade
LockB with steamer Dalles City,
Steamer Dalles City leaves Portland
(Yamhill street dock) at 6 a. in. con
necting with steamer Regulator for The
Dalles.
rABSEXGEK KATES.
Oneway. $2.00
Round trip 3.00
A liich but Cuapproacbable Country.
There are said to be five counties in
Missouri and eleven in Arkansas, com
prising a strip of country 133 miles
square, that have no, railroad communis
cation with the outside world, and are
yet wonderfully rich in'zino ore. This
section of the country lies south and
west of the Memphis railroad, north and
west of the Iron Mountain, south and
east of the St. Louis and San Francisco
and north of the Arkansas river. The
zinc carbonates of this region yield 83
per cent, and the "jack" CO per cent, o'
pure zinc ore.
A traveler, Mr. W. E. Wi-iner, of
Kansas City, says, that ho found in tho
mountain a c&re even larger than tho
Mammoth cave. The manner of life of
the people is ostremely primitive. They
livo in log houses without windows.
Bacon ia their main staple of diet and
tobacco their only solace. They seldom
work sa long as they have food and to
bacco in the house. But they are virtu
ous, peaceable and kindly disposed to
the stranger. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Freight Rates Greatly Reduced.
Shipments received at wharf any time,
day or night, and delivered at Portland
in arrival. Live stock shipments
solicited. Call on or address.
B. F.
W. C. ALLAWAY,
General Agent.
LAUGH LIN,
General Manager.
THE DALLES.
OREGON
The St Charles Hotel,
PORTLAND, OREGON.
This old, popular and reliable house
has been entirely refurnished, and every
room has been repapered and repainted
and newly carpeted throughout. The
house contains 170 rooms and is supplied
with every modern convenience. Rates
reasonable. A eood restaurant attached
to the house. Frer bus to and from all
trains. -
C. W. KNOWLES, Prop.
-DEALERS IX-
GROCERIES.
Flour, Grain, Fruit and Mill Feed.
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HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR PRODUCE.
COR. WASHINGTON AND SECOND ST.,
THE DALLES, OREGON
HORSES
J. S. COOPER,
Corner Barn, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois.
The Largest and Only Strictly Commission Dealer
in Horses in the United States.
Commencing the 3rd of August and every month throughout the year will hold
Special Extensively Advertised Sales of
WEST0RN RHNGE HORSES.
Reference
(National Live Stock Bank, Chicago, 111.
'(Chicago National Bank, Chicago, 111.
Write for Particulars.
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Stoneman & Fiege, dealers in
Boots and Shoes. All
we sell, we warrant.
goods
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BEST IK AMERICA.
Mngton Jjortl) Dclll6S, Washingto
SITUATED AT THE HEAD OF NAVIGATION.
Destined to be the Best
Manufacturing Center In
the Inland Empire.
Best Selling Property of
the Season in the Northwest.
For Further Information Call at the Office of
Interstate Investment Co.,
0. D. TAYLOR, Tie Dalles, Or. 72 WasMnHn St, Mai 3 .Or