THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1893. The Weekly Chronicle. OFFICIAL PAPKR OF WASCO COUNTY. COCJiTT OFFICIALS. Geo. ('. BU)tlT T. A. War! J. B. Crown Wm. Mic hU lJa. lmrmelle i Kratik Kinoatd Ator Joel W. Knoiiu Burvevor K. V- sharp Superintendent ol Public SebouU .Trov hhellev Ooruuer K. M. fiaatwuul County Judg.. Sheriff. Clerk Tmuurer Commlulonen.. SAXE OLD SWIXDLE. In a late interview es-Presulent Har rison briefly outlined his plans. Imme diately upon his arrival at Indianapoli in company with Assistant General Pas senger Agent Boyd, of the Pennsylvania Railroad .Company, Mr. Harrison will go duck hunting on the Kankakee river, After this recreation the ex-president will remain quietly at his home in In dianapolis, securing a much-needed rest Mr. Harrison's engagement with the Leland Stanford university in Califor nia, he says, will require only about one month of his time out of each year. During this term he will deliver lectures on international law and jurisprudence Paring next winter the ex-president will devote his time to writing a book This book, Mr. Harrison says, will re late specially to a number of important matters connected with his administra tion that the public have not fully un derstood. They are he says, of such I nature that notwithstanding their im portance, they will not become a matter of history, and it is his intention, by this means, to make clear certain things of which the public is now in ignorance on account of a misapprehension of what these subjects were. Mr. Harrison did not at this time, care t ) indicate what they were. At 6 o'clock the party re tamed to their train, where they re mained, and at 10 o'clock that night the journey to Indianapolis was resumed. The following message was forwarded by cable yesterday to President Cleve land by the Chilian executive from San tiago : The government of Chili and the Chilian people, recognizing your political attitude in the past, consider that your re-election as chief magistrate of the United States is a pledge that your gov ' ernment will preserve the tranquility and well being of all nations upon the American continent. On this day, upon which yon assume the high functions of your office, I, as president of the repub lic of Chili, and in the name of the Chilian nation, as well as in my own personal capacity, assure you of our sin cere regard for you and your people. Permit me to express the hope that your aims and motives will produce the best result for the people of the United States. The "green goods" industry has not been attended with any fatality, as far as any records go, since HollauJ, the little Texan, shot and killed Tom Davis, the big crook, and alleged counterfeit money deuler, some years ago in New York, until the incident of Pouglikeepsie, in which George Appo, the half-breed Chinese cook, who attempted to swin dle two South Carolina rustics, was shot I by one of them. The man who did the shooting, and who gave his name as Ira Hogshead, is now in the Poujjhkeepsie jail. A curious feature of these swindles is that the would-be purchaser of alleged counterfeit money, "which it is impos sible to tell from genuine," come from South and Southwest. The game is old, very old, and the papers have teemed with instaneeo' It for years past; yet victims are still gathered in. The men who come here with the idea of getting something for nothing general Iv get in to some disgraceful scrape, which ex poses their names and identity to the public, and verv frequently loses their money and other personal property, in their little ventures. Yet still they come. Perhaps they come from regions where the newspaper does not circulate, and so are ignorant ot what a hopeless quest they are on. The funny thing about it is that they imagine they are unknown, while the fact is the frequency with which they appear has made their type a familiar one to the police, who can, and usually do, "spot" them very soon after their appearance in public. Since these poor fools never read the papers, cannot some means be taken to important business and in the meantime strengthen their fences as much as pos sible for it is evident that the adminis tration is to be business throughout. sjasjsMBIIIIIHHHMSSBSjsjssssjssssia IT WAS ILLEGAL. At the recent meeting of the school taxpayers held in The Dalles a 3-mill tax was levied, which conflicts with a law just enacted by the Oregon legisla ture, and as it stands at present there is no money in sight with which to pay the old liabilities or any deficiency in the current expenses. We shall have to wait until an assessment roll is compiled by the county assessor, and until the aggregate of the assessable property of this district, as shown by that roll, is certified to us by the county clerk. This will be sometime in the coming fall or winter. This same question has oc curred at Salem, Kugene and Portland, and the law has been interpreted as above. DAI.LBH MAKKKT. Many people wonder why a'man like Mr. Thurber should accept a position as private secretary of the president. He was one of the ablest and most promt nent lawyers of Detroit, and his income was fully five to six times greater than will be his salary. Recently Mr. Thur ber was asked to explain his acceptance. Without a moment's hesitancy he re plied that he would rather leave a record for his children that he was called upon to accept this office by President Cleveland, and that ho had discharged his duties faithfully, than to leave them a great fortune. This is in deed a lofty sentiment trom one who warn them of the folly, as well as the I occupies a position which is too often criminality, of their attempts to get rich by taking unfair advantage of their neighbors? Why can't clergymen in these benighted regions take up the sub ject, and give a general, impersonal warning? Of course, it is impossible that the moral side of the question would appeal to their natures, and perhaps is most likely, they consider themselves smart enough to outwit the New York thieves, not knowing how manv have failed. Astorian. The young lady who was heir appar ent to tne Hawaiian throne does not seem to take a broad view of things. She thinks she ought to be seated on the Hawaiian throne because she has been educated to expect it. She has so little political sense that she has placed her self in charge of a British merchant con nected with the Hawaiian islands trade, who is said to be a strong supporter of British interests on the islands. The little school girl does not seem to under stand that the principal object of annex ing the islands is to prevent the govern ment from falling under British influ ences. Ex. Colonel Johnstone, former editor of the Phienix, Arizona, Gazette, and Wil liam Condon, an experienced prospector, report the discovery of the ruins of an old Aztec city different from any before discovered. Among the manv heiroglyph- ics are drawing of men, and on a novel shaped stone is a serpent, cross and an chor. Around these ruins is a stone wall or fortification in a good state of preservation. The place indicates that it once contained at least 60,000 inhabi tants. It is singular that these ruins were not discovered long ago, but the country in the vicinity is mountainous and has been but little pros pected. A cable message says that Gladstone was subjected to a hostile demonstration on the aristocracy of Brighton yesterday. On leaving St. Paul's church in the morning with Lord Acton, he found a large crowd outside, including a number of young tory "bloods" who saluted him with vigorous shouting, hissing snd cries of "traitor." The liberals present re spond with cheers and the tumnlt was heightened. Gladstone's passage was blocked until a cab was fetched and he drove quickly away. The search for the treasures of Atahn- alpa, the great Iuca, said to be hidden in the Llangante mountains, now being prosecuted with great energy, is more than likely to be speedily brought to a successful issue. Some of the more im portant of the long lost traces of the routs Indicated by Valverde, the cele brated Jesuit historian and antiquarian, have been discovered. While at intervals a religions question arises in one or another of the Protestant churches which threatens to disrupt tiie church, the Catholics are at times agi tated as violently. A question has just come up in New York which affects one of the oldest customs of the church, and which will be a great present trouble or if not remedied, a continued annoyance. It is in relation to celibacy of the priest hood. In some quarters of the globe the priests are permitted to marrv, and with their emigration to America thev come in conflict at once with the senti ment of the church. With the arrival of the first married priest in America came trouble, and shortly afterward the bishops within that diocese urged the propaganda to do something that would prevent the complication which would inevitably arise, but without sufficient success to induce them to take any ac tion in the matter. The bishops will now turn to Monf ignore Satolli and try to induce him to sustain the custom of the church, even to the extent of dis missing the married priests. As their numbers are not few in the Oriental part of the world, who if dismissed, could and would do a great deal of dam age to the church, it follows that trouble is in store for the Catholics. not regarded of much importance. But what is the real responsibility of a pri vate secretary? In short, there is no man nearer to the president than he. There is no cabinet member that will be so often called upon to lend advice, and no friend that will know so much about the motives of the president in taking this and that step which may concern the whole nation. By) compari son it might be stated that the private secretary of Chancellor Bismarck is commonly credited with having drawn J up the imperial German constitution. The president has not half the time to personally consider most important phases of different grave issues, and to a large degree this is left to his private secretary. Mr. Thurber, though the name of his position may not be high sounding, occupies a place equal to any other in personal responsibility to his chief under the new administration. Telegram. Fustian! This girl has no throne. "Pretty Kaiaulanl" has no more right to talk about "my" throne and "my" nation and "my" flag than pretty Sally Walker or pretty Polly-wants-a-cracker. The day has gone by on this hemisphere when thrones and nations were the per sonal property of any human being. Louisville Courior-Journa!, dem. The advantages of possession of the Hawaiian islands by the United States, in the event of a war with any foreign power, is set forth at length by Captain A. T. Mahan in his article in the March Forum. Summing up, he says: "Upon one particular, however, too much stress cannot be laid, one to which naval officers cannot bat be more sensitive than the general public, and that is the immense disadvantage to us of any mar itime enemy having a coaling station well within 2,500 miles, as this is, of every point of our coast line from Puget sound to Mexico. Were there many others available, we might fiud it diffi cult to exclude from all. There is, how ever, but the one. Shut out from the Sandwich islands as a coal base, an enemy is thrown back for supplies of fuel to distances of 3,500 or 4,000 mile or between 7,000 and 8,000, going and coming an Impediment to sustained maritime operations well-nigh prohi bitive." Seattle marine men say that there are not now in commission near the number of steamers .and towing crafts that there were two and three years ago. bince the advent of the railroads. winch have cut into the business, down Sound steamboating has Inot paid as it uia at one time. There was a time when probably seventy-five or eighty steamers and tow boats and sailing ves sels radiated from Seattle to variu points. Gresham'eappointmenthas precedent. History is always repeating itself. When Lincoln formed his cabinet he took into it Stanton as secretary of war, who had been in Buchanan's cabinet. Furthermore, he also had as members of his council two democrats, Montgomery Blair and Gideon Wells. And, what is more, Greshsm voted for Cleveland, but none of these men are known to hare voted for Lincoln. Secretory of the Treasury Carlisle has taken possession of his office after court esies between him and ex-Secretary Fos ter. S hen he assumed charge the treasury had on hand $1,250,000 free gold, and a net balance of $23,500,000, of which $11,5000,000 is iu national bank depositories, and $11, 000,000 in subsid iary coin, and $500,IXX in minor coins. Apportionment by CuantUl. lhe total amount of revenue to be raised being $1,006,897 99, the resulting rate of taxation on each dollar of the taxable property is 6 23.35 mills, and is apportioned among the several counties as follows : Mr. Cleveland does not propose to be Hurried in the matter of making appoint ments, and whatever significance may be gathered from other utterances, it is shown that he is at least decided on this proposition. The office-seekers now at Washington ar in fear and trembling, and the majority dare not approach his democratic highness. The creat armv of them, with their importunities, can not, help but be a great bore, hit Jt ...... l.i t ,i . numu new wen ior. '"e leser ones to wail a little while, and irive Mr. f:ip. land a chance to dispose of other more Baker Benton. . . . Clackamas. Clatsop . . . Columbia . Coos Crook . Curry . lAHiglas. . . Gilliam .. . Grant Harney . . . Jackson .. . Josephine . Klamath . . Lake Lane $10,427 28,038 36,554 37.W7 0,344 20,737 9,483 3,391 30,940 6,408 7,842 10,268 28,318 9,438 8,531 9,865 43,722 Linn Malheur . Marion.. . Morrow . 58,042 6.762 62,324 9,001 Multnomah 395,493 Polk 29,861 Sherman-. . 7,312 Tillamook. 7,475 Umatilla . . 46,9 4 Union 27,253 Wallowa . . 5,659 Wasco 21,718 Washington 35,887 Yamhill... 35,359 Total. ..$1,066,897 The T Low. The state has made a levy of 7 mills for public buildings and public works, the university of Oregon and the Oregon National guards. Secretary McBride says this levy is just 1 mill largor than the tax levy of January 6, 1890, although it carries about one-half the appropria tions for the jute mill, the Eastern Ore gon insane asylnm and all the other new buildings and improvements authorized by the recent legislature. This also car ries the $l2o,000 appropriations for the purchase of the Northwestern foundry plant and the exhibit at the world's fair. and the further sum of about $130,000 for the debts and deficiencies of 1801 and 1892. He says that considering these unusual Items the levy for current expenses shows that the appropriation bill for the maintainance of our public insuiuuons was quite economical. Nolle to T payors. All taxes not paid by the first Monday in April, which are now due, will be Tiu'KrtiMY, March 9th. The clearing weather h is been the means of stimulat ing business in all lines of traffic. Our dealers are iu better spirits with the opening spring. Their stocks are re plenished and trade is more active than a week ago. Prices have undergone some change. All grades of cotton have advanced iu price from 15 to 20 percent. Woolens have a downward tendency, and consequently are weak on the market. In hardware, there is a decided weaker tone. Nails, iron, etc., have but one base to quote from. All kinds of canned goods are firmer, especially as to corn and tomatoes, which are held at an ad vance. Stock salt is hold at old rales, but ad vices from below report a decline iu all grades. Coffee is up to 25 cunts, and firm at that. Sugars remain steady on last week's quotations. Svrups have turned dearer, and are quoted 2 to 3 cents above last week's report. Dried fruits are steady, with a stiffening in prices. The meat market continues steady with a good snpply on hand. Hogs, both alive and dressed are in better demand, Although prices have not changed since our last week's quotations there seems to be a slight scarcity and offerings have fallen off. There is no change in the markets for cereals. Country produce Eggs are coming in freely and prices have dropped to 14 cents per dozen; a further decline is looked for in a few davs. Fresh roll butter is in fair supply at old rates, 40 to 50 cents per roll Potatoes are reported at former quota tions. Shipments are coming in from down the river daily, and indications point to a weakening market at reduced prices. Other products are in good supply and former quotations are maintained with a steady market. Wheat 62 to 56c per bu. Babley The market is nearly lifeless in barley, prices are down to 80 and 85 cents per 1U0 lbs. Oats The oat market is stiff and of ferings are light at $1 25 cents per 100 ids. Kye io cents per bushel. T 1 ... miLLUTurm isran anu shorts are quoted at $18 00 per ton. mid dlings $22 60 to $23 00 per ton. Rolled barley, $23 00 to $24 00 per ton. Shell ed corn $1 Zj per 100 n,s. Flour Salem mills flour is quoted at $4 25 per barrel. Diamond brand at i.i io per bbl. per ton and $4 00 per bbl II... n .i t hay xiniouiy nay ranges in price irom i-' uo to i io uu per ton, according iu fiinuiv anu cunuuion. y neat nay is in inn siocc on a limited demand at $10 00 to $12 00 per ton. There is no inquiry for oat hay, and prices are off. Alfalfa hay is not much called for, and is quoted at $10 00 to $12 00 per ton. ihese quotations are for bailed hay ex ciusiveiy. Ei-tteh Fresh roll butter at 40 to 60 cents per roll, in brine or dry salt we quote 30 to 40 cents per roll. LisGs The egg market is In good supply and good lresh eggs soli at 18c. Poi-LTBY There is a fair demand for fowls for a home market and for ship ment to Portland. Chickens are quoted at $2 00 to $3 60 per dozen ; turkeys 8 to iu cents per B ; geese $7 to $8 per doz, anu micas to io i4 per dozen. Bssr a Mi-rroy Beef cattle is in moderate demand at $3 00 per 100 weight gross to $3 oO for extra good. Mutton is quoted at $3 50 and $4 60 per head. Pork offerings are light anu prices are nominal weight and 7 cents dressed. Blakeley & 'Houghto DRUGGISTS, 175 becond Street, - The Dalles, Ore full lino A Modi of all the Standard Patent Drugs, Chemicals, Ktc. ARTISTS MATERIALS.-, Country and Mail Orders will receive prompt attention. 1C11U MlSS ANNAPETERS CO., 1 Kine Millineryl 112 Second St. THE DALLES, THE DALLES LUMBERING C INCORPORATED IBS. rso. bt Washington Street. . . The Dall Wholesale and Retail Doalcrs and Manufacturers of Building Maltrul and Dimtosion Timber, Doors, Windows, Shillings, Doom Fornix Special Attention given to the Manufacture of Fruit snrii Boxes and Packing Cases S"otory and Immber Vrct nt Old Xt. t- DRY Pine, Fir, Oak and Slab WOOD Deliver? any part of the city, JOIIUKItH AND KETAILEKS OP Hardware, Tinware, Etc., CORNER SECOND AND FEDERAL STREETS. CELEBRATED Aeorn and Charter Oak ST0VI8 AND BINGES. Cuds, Ammunition and Sporting Goods, IRON, COAL, BLACKSMITH SUPPLIES, WAGON MAKERS' MATERIAL, bewer nrE, PUMPS AND nrE, PLUMBING SUPPLIES. STUDEBflKEf wagons and Carria( osnomvTE Reapers and Mow AGENTS FOR Mitchell, lewis I Stayer t Danp: gross (Successors to L. D. Frank, deceMtd.) OF AT,T, iciirrs aw A General Line of Horse Furnishing Goods. BEPATHIM'O PEOMPTLY nd OSriEl.A.TI.-y DC: WMesalc and Retail Dealers in Harness, Bridles, Wnips, none EMs&i Fnll Assortment of Mexican Saddlery Rain or Stamped. STAPLE OBOCBKIES. LorrsE Costa Rica, is quoted at 24c per lb., by the sack, Salvador, 22c. Ar buckles, l'.)lac. Kl'nm ".rMn C In nl.la - BnnL fJ 00; Extra C, fo 10 ; Dry granulated f 6 00; In boxes, I). G., in 30 lb boxes. Ait tJ T .fl A a ar mi- a. h 4 uu. r.x j, i do. iii; l Io. Svbci $2 002 75 pr keg. Rice Japan rios, GGlo; Island, rice, cis. Beahs Small whites.SiaC'e; Pink, 7BS',c per iuu ius. Salt Liverpool, 501b sk, 6.'; 1001b sic, II IU; ZUOIb sk, li 00. Stock salt. io uu per ion. Dribd Fbuits Italian prunes, 12c per lb, by box. Evaporated apples, It per iu. iTieu grapes, U'g;iuc jer poUDU. yKOKTABLKS ANI ERCITS. ' Potatoes Peerless. Bufluln wlui Snowflake and Barbank seedlings qnoted fcsi to per iuu lbs. i.xtra gooU fl.Hd, Unions The market nnotatlons for A l onions is $1 30 1 40 per 100 lbs. Ukxen FhL'ITS Good annlea Mil l,.r si zxafl 7o per box. Fall and early wmicr iwareare quoteu at ouoc per UVJI. SECOND STREET, THE IULLR New - Umatilla- Hous THE DALLES, OREOON. SINNOTT &. FISH, PROP'S. ncket and Baggage Office ol the U. P. 11. R. Company, and office of tk Union Telegraph Office are iu the Hotel. I Fire-Proof Safe for lhe Safety of all Valuaft LARGEST : AND : FINEST : HOTEL : IN Hew .uruj over io me county court. , T. A. Ward, Sheriff of Wasco County. Early Rose potatoes at J. II. Cross'. HIDES AMD rUBH. Ihbss Are Quoted as follow Tin. m u. . . .. " .T!i 'u, Itrcwu, a,i, ; CUIIS SC 10. hiiEEP F-E1.TS 75100 ea. IWr.kin. Oft IU i 1 -. , n.i . ' iu im wiuiw hiiu owe ior summer. Dressed. lisht tl lb. Iiaavv 7.V 11, lu.. skins, 0a12 ea; beaver. 13 fid ih- yvw.;,,T.., iinimr, fuf no: silver gray fox, 10rrf$L'5; red fox. tl 25: orv Z" uinrun, !(! zo ; mink, 6Uc5oc; coon, 35c; coyote, 60c(rf 75c: badger, 25c; polecat, 25c(t45c; com' I iiiou noue cat, iuc(az.c ea. Wool The market is reported 13 to 15 ! The Otdt Iihi, Wm. Gardner, of Portland, died yes terday in Portland. D. Solis Cohen, uianier oi me A. jr. and A. M. there. r. ceived word in the morning that an aged mason was dying in the southern por tion of the city, and desired to muV himself known to his brethren before his death, bat before he arrived, Gardner had died. He proved to be the oldest Mason in the United States, having been made a Mason in Scotland in 181fi. hn just 21 years of age, beina 97 at the tim. of his death. He was also a Roval Arch Mason of over 70 years' standing. Qolumbia joi THE DALLES, OREGON. Best Dollar a Day House on the Co( First-Class Meals, 25 Cents. First Class Hotel in Every Kespect. XNone but the Uest of white Help Emm T. T. Nicholas. Prop The Dalles Mercantile Co., JOIIBERS AND HEALERS General Merchandis Dry Goods, Clothinc, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Y Shoes, Hats, Caps, Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Hay, Grain, Feed, Etc. pes 1-rti !as r Iran 390 to 394 Second St., The Dalles, t 11 r me JUS ur ten Irli, it et teal ltd rti l A I" ... I'M oc llll'l Wa nor da brt bin lar Cllh Mil lit,