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About The Dalles weekly chronicle. (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1947 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1894)
THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1894. TheWeekly Chronicle. . . OKIIIIIN Clubbing List. The CliKoKii i.it, which gives the newi twice week, has made arrangements to club with the following publication!, and offers two pHiri one year (or little more than the price of one : inun mo i Kmnlur Our price prire Ckr-iirkui 1 I. Tnk.i. $2.50 1.75 ftll,ll 111 irrlilj Otrg-liu 3.00 2.0() LOOAI. HKCVITIRH. Wednewlay'l Dally. Forty thousand old loldien are at tending the meeting of the O. A. It. in Pittsburg. One drunk and disorderly wan up be fore the city recorder thil morning. He got the usual fine of $. Mr. Whealdon had a aertoui runaway Tuesday, hia buggy being luiaHhed, and be escaping without injury more by good luck than otherwise. The weather took a sudden turn yes terday ushering in the winter vuriety This morning overcoat! were In demand tail the parlor stove smiled at being once mure allowed to get on to its job. The Dalles Canning Co. held a meet ins; this afternoon and appointed a com mittee of four to solicit subscriptions to the stock as follows: II. J. Maiur, Hugh Chrisman, Dr. Saunders and I. J. Norniun. Japan aud Corea have mudo a treaty which leuves China out in the cold. The Oregonlon sixes it up by saying that "Japan will do the fighting and Corea will furnish the garden-truck at the market price." The regular subscription pric if the Wkkci.y Ciiiioniclb is $1.50 and the regular price of the Wkkki.y Orkuonian is $1.00. Any one subscribing for Tin Chkunici.k and paying for one year in advance can get both Tn Ciiuonici.i and the Wkkkly Ouimjonian fur $2.00. Ail old subscribers paying their aub- rriptions a year in advance will be en titled to the same offer. Mrs. W. II. Groat invited a number of young people to spend last evening at her home and meet Miss Margaret Cruudall of Portland, who is her guest. The evening was spent most happily, during the early part of which they were entertained by a musical program, and after refreshments were served, dancing was indulged in. The rooms were prettily decorated, and everything was conducive to an enjoyable evening. tl .. .. : . v ir t l.. itpwnrd of the Regulator and George M. Homo, charged with oixtning a letter belonging to another, was up for trial yesterday liefore V. S. Commissioner Lainson. There being no evidence whutever aguiiiHt either of them the case was dismissed and dufuudunts dis charged. This is the third time F.oan has been arrested on a trumped up cliurgu, and we hope lie will now lie given a rust. Judge A. I.. Millur, and District At torney Stapleton of Vancouver came up as fur as Htevensnu, Skamania county, last evening to open court. The iheritTcanie up at the same tiuie, bring ing a prisoner named Rruzoll, charged with the larceny of a lot of goods, valued tt $1,000, from the D. I 4 A. N. Co., while in transit during the high water list June. We are informed that he has confessed and will plead guilty when arraigned. TnaraSnjr' Dally Anita captured the trotting race 2:20 class at Portland yesterday. C. P. Ileald lias been appointed dep uty district attorney at Hood Itiver, and K. M. Shutt at Antelope. Members of the official board of the M. E. church are requested to nieet in lecture room this evening. Important business will come tefore the board. Threshers are all busy, and the com plaint is made that there are not enough of them. It will take those in Sherman county two months steady work we are told to finish their work. The weather today has been beauti ful, notwithstanding the peculiar wea ther signals this morning, which, prop erly interpreted, indicated heavy pre cipitation and high winds. We sent Torn Hudson to San Francisco the other day, and then be backed out nd refused to go. He is still here and o we wash our hands of him, and, lie can go or stay just as he pleases. The sheriff today sold 160 acres of land situated in Hood River valley to satisfy judgment a gainst O. D. Taylor. The property was bid in bv Oscar Freden burg for $125, winch is about ten per cent of its value. The sand bar east of town is out of ight today, the gentle west wind whoop ing it up until the air is filled with it. ive minutes after the rain ceases and the wind commences to blow, the sand 's dry aud ready for business. Hon. E. O. McCov is bulldimr a ware house at the mouth of the Deschutes, nd will have good road graded to it. This will direct considerable of the heat shipments from Biggs, and will ntual!y become the shipping point 'or the western part of Sherman county. The parties who put up their weather signals last night carried their joke too lar in cutting the halyards. Besides au examination of the articles tied to the pole shows that in hanging the lower one the parties committed the crime of fratricide. A telephone line from The Dalles to Dufur would undoubtedly cause the people of H amic aud the county south of us to tuke steps toward connecting wlln It. It would prove of great con venience, would cost but little, and should be built. Captain II. C. Coe and I.. E. Morse of Hood River, who have been in Sherman county for several days, arrived here last night and left for home this morn ing. The captain puuehased a spendid pair of horses ai a very low price, and says that when wheat hauling is through that horses can be bought in Sherman county at almost any price. Wheat is beginning to arrive at liiggs at the rate of from l,f.00 to 2,000 sacks a day. The sand has about captured the place, and two teami are busy trying to keep the road at the mouth of the canvon and around the station passable. Krtilay'i Daily. Mr. Bandrock is building a wagonshop east of Gunning's blacksmith shop. Chrisman t Corson are having some trimmings put on the sidewalk at their corner. Fruit growers who have good grapes to sell by the ton, would do well t'j cull at this office. The city council has caused a water ing trough to be placed in the street rt the Joles-Collins coruor, which is a great convenience to the farmers. M. M. Cushing, taking a box of grapes into Blakeley A Uoughtin drug store this morning, explained to ye reporter that he had to do it because they were a drug in the market. It now transpires that Til Glaze did not kill Bud Howard. According to the latest reports, Howard killed Glaze in stantly and Jake Parker, jockey for Glaze, at once shot Howard. , Mr. Hugh Gourlay came over froir Goldendale last night and will send the balance of the material purchased here, to its new home tomorrow. The first number of the new paper will be issued prubably week after next. A great lot of ISrownie pictures by Palmer Cox aud others, and some merrv Brownie jingles, togather with an ac count of the Brownie play that is soon to be produced, will constitute one of the features in McClure's Magazine for October. The committee in charge of the work of organizing the kindergarten are meet ing with splendid success and the matter seems now assured. From the present condition of affairs it seems probable the school will be ojiened the latter part of the month. A large steam threshing outfit, in use in Wulla Walla valley, will be shipped to Moro on the 22d to help out the har vest in this county, and in a measure re lieve the anxiety of producers who have a bigger job on thoir hands than was ex pected last summer. Moro Observer. Some of our farmers are beginning to get anxious about threshing. With all the machines in this county, and shorter duys upprouching, there appear to be reasons for apprehension that some of this immense crop will be late in get ting to the river. Moro Observer. Professor J. W. Spencer has been do ing some figuring in an effort to calcu late the age of Niagara fulls, and satisfied himself at least that they are 31,01)0 years old, and the river itself 1000 years older. A much simpler way of discover ing the age of the river would have been to open its mouth and look at its teeth. Sheriff Houser of Umatilla county ar rived from Prineville last night, having in charge Charley Mesplie, who is charged with stealing a horse. Charley was engaged in herding sheep in the Ochoco mountain! when the sheriff found him. They went up on the train last night. 'The Capture of Niagara," one of the greatest of man's industrial achieve ments, and the enforcement of it to the manufacture of immense quantities of electrical power to be used hundreds of miles away, will be the subject of an illustrated descriptive article by K. Jay F.d wards, in McClure's Magazine for October. Judge J. W. Shelton, an attorney for merly of Union, died in Portland yes terday. Judge Shelton is the gentle man who about a year ago divorced his wife, it is alleged by fraud, and married hii ward, a daughter of Willis Skiff, who was murdered several years ago. His second wife was a girl of 15 years, and at the tine of bis death a suit wa pending on the part of his first wife to set aside the divorce and second mar riage. , rortlaait'a Maw Hotel. The Imperial hotel in Portland is one of the very best in that city of hotels. It ii kept by Thoinai Guinean recently of the Esmond and formerly of the Golden Eagle at Baoramento. Mr. Guinean like the Inlands ii a born hotel keeper, one of the most genial and pleasantest of hosts, who know! every body and whom everybody knows, and therefore likei. The Imperial ii a new building opened last ipring and is in the business center of the city being located on Washington near Sixth. County Court rrotiertllng. At the regulur session of the county court held lust week the following busi ness was transacted ; In the matter of the appointment of a stock inspector, K. C. Fitzpatrick, the present incumbent was re-appointed. The bonds of Win, Mid, ell, county treasurer, were approved. The petition of J. W. Elton for a re- duction of assessment was denied. The resignation of John A. Zumwalt, constable of Wamic precinct, accepted. Bills were passed over until next term, being for justice, constable and witness fees : G. W. Fligg, Henry Ryan, G. W. McKelvey, Bertha Mott, Harry Mott, John Grubb, A. B. Mott, Geo. Martin, Geo. Covert, J. E. McCormick, J. Daily, Geo. W. Harris, G. H. Dunn, Sarah Root, Joseph Means, LewiB Anderson, M. M. McCormick, H. Daily; also the bills of D. A. Turner, Geo. Sellinger and F. M. Jackson, appraisers. Petition of T. II. Williams for license to sell liquors at Cascade Locks denied because the petition did not contain a majority of the legal voters of the pre cinct. Petition of T. W. Lewis and D. Nel son for license to sell liquors at Locks granted and license issued. Petitions to sell liquors of X. A. An derton, Badder and McKenzie, and Ed Bergeron granted. Petitions of Thos. Sully and P. Mc Ellaney denied, not having a majority of names in the precinct. M. 1-evinky was granted a peddler's license for three months. Petition of P. A. Snyder and others for county road denied on account of its irregularity. Petition of L. L. McCartney and others for county road, report ot surveyor and viewers filed and read first time. Re monstrance filed Sept. 6th, G. D. Hyres files claimB for damages. Prayer of peti tion granted and W. H. VanBibber, J. II. Phirman and William Floyd ap pointed appraisers. Company G was allowed $18. 06 per month for armory rent. PMward Martin was appointed to in spect the sheriff's books from July 1, 1890. II. C. Coe was allowed a rebate of $42 on his taxes. The petition of L. Davis and others for county road, notice of posting and bond Bled. In the matter of paying fees by county officers, the following entry is made in the journal : "The attention of count officers is called to section 6 of an act re lating to paying over of taxes to county treasurer once a week, and also to sec tion 9 of an act in relation to payment of fees by clerks and sheriffs to county treasurer. The penalties provided by law will be strictly enforced for the non payment of fees and taxes collected by them. Court adjourned. laatern Dragon Weather aud Crops. The temperature was nearly normal, and the precipitation was slightly ex cessive. There were three days of cool weather, during which frosts occurred east and south of the Blue mountains. The sunshine was an average. All the reports received from this sec tion are cheerful and flattering as to the yield of wheat and the quality aud quan tity of fruit raised. This section has proved its adaptability to fruit culture. Our correspondent from Milton, Uma tilla county, states that the fruit crop is actually too large, that the trees are breaking down with their heavy bur dens. The yield of grain, while not ex ceeding expectation, is very large. Threshing and heading made progress last week and tbe showers which oc curred on the 1st and 2d did no damage; threshing was retarded one or two days. There is a weed in the wheat fields called by some "china lettuce," which is in ducing much comment. It grows six feet high, and it is feared will choke ort the grain and cause much trouble 'n future years. There is an abundance of hay and itraw in the country. In the interior and eastern counties the weather was cool several days ard heavy frost occurred on the 7th. Rapid progress being made by the threshers, and grain is yielding well up to expecta tions. Vegetables and fruit are matur ing rapidly. Some are cutting a third crop of alfalfa. Since the rain meadows have become green, so that all kinds of stock are faring better and are in good condition. . . . A Centenarian. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Durbin at the "Red Barn" corners, east of the penitentiary, the celebration of the 100th birthday anniversary o' John Durbin will take place next Thursday. A grand family reunion will be the order of things, in which over seventy rela tives will be present and participate, and between the hours of 3 and 6 p. m. on that day a public reception will be tendered to the centenarian. Mr. Dur bin will pass the one hundredth mile post in life next Thursday, having first seen the light of day on Sptember 13, 1704. He is enjoying the best of health at present. The old gentleman settled in Marion county in 1845, and a consid erable portion of the time since then has been a resident of Salem. Statei- "That Dreadful Woman." The September number of "Talei from Town Topics" leadi off with a decidedly itrong, if somewhat racy, novelette, en titled "That Dreadful Woman." Tbe adjective ii evidently used in a satirical sense, as the "woman," so far from be ing a "dreadfnl" character, proves her self something little short of a' saint be fore the siory is done. The character is one that would, perhaps, be bard to find in real life, bnt the story that is told of a good woman's endeavor and failure to overcome the resultant effects of a doubt ful past, and of tbe svibiimity of tbe sac rifice she makes for her lover, is as fas cinating as it is true. The umi.i1 collec tion of bright stories, sketches, poems and witticisms serves to render the September number of "Tales" a partic ularly tempting one. Town Topics Pub lishing Co., 203 Fitth avenue. New York City. WiaK'i Telephone Line. Wamic, Or., Sept. 10, '94. Wamic and Victor are connected by telephone. Tbe distance is five miles. The wire is stretched from bluff to bluff of White river canyon, a distance of 3800 feet. This is the best advance this part of the country has made for a long time. The great canyon of White river, which separates Wamic from the productive plains of Victor and Oak Grove ii anni hilated, so far as speaking is concerned. Mr. Gordon, the proprietor and builder of this line, is the happiest man in Wamic today. His store at Victor is as easy to manage in point of details, as if it were at Wamic. Sales are telephoned as fast as made. Now, if Dufur will build a line from The Dalles to Dufur, Kingsley and the Wamic country can surely afford to connect with them. The convenience and general profit of such connections can not well be esti mated. XXX. Make an Kzhibit. Tuesday, October the 9th, tbe sixth annual exhibition of the Second Eastern Oregon Agricnltnral Society will com mence bere. Fifteen hundred dollars will be given away in premiums for agri cultural products, which ought to induce a good exhibit. Local fairs are of great importance in advertising the resources of the country, and the farmers and stock growers should vie with each other in making a first class exhibit. The fruit display this year ought to be well worth seeing, and will be it our orchard ists make any concerted effort. Our ex perience has been that people will not bring in their products, but when tbey see someone eises, they invariably re mark. "Why, I could have beaten that !" Now the thing to do this year is to bring in your exhibits, and make the pavilion a bower of beauty. Tench on the Insured. The preliminary examination of Judge Gordon E. Hayes of Clackamas county, is going on in Portland. The judge is charged by a Mrs. Melcher of conspiring with Toll Thompson, adjuster for the State Insurance company, to defraud her by forcing her to settle a claim for loss by fire amounting to $2000 fur $700. Mrs. Melcher claims that by threats they scared her into settling her claim for the amount named, $700. Judge Hayes says it is a blackmailing scheme. Mrs. Melcher tells a vey straight story which is good at least until the other side is heard. If t lie matter is true as Mrs. Melcher insists, our friend Peter the Poet of the Klamath Star, wants to go out under tiio peaceful stars once more and return yet more ardent thanks that bis property recently destroyed, was not insured. A Small Blaze. An alarm of fire at 8 :30 last night was caused by a small blaze in Waggerman's shoe shop. In cleaning up in the after noon be had put a lot of waste paper in the stove, and later some other papers were placed on top of the stove to dry. It is supposed that a live coal must have remained from the morning fire, which ignited the papers, and these heated the stove sufficiently to fire tbe papers on top of it. The alarm was given by Mr. and Mn. Gibson, who happened to be passing, and Sam Tburman and J. S. Scbenck ran down and putting their weight against the door, pressed it open. Thurman ran back to the store and got a bucket of water, and before the hose company got around the fire was over. rer Karljr Cloning. A movement has begun in the valley towns and Astoria looking to tbe early closing of the business houses. There is really no reason why business houses should keep open as long as they do. Beginning t 7 o'clock in tbe morning the stores are kept open until 8 or 9 o'clock at night, or from thirteen to fourteen hours. There Is just so much business to be done, and if the stores would adopt a closing time as the banks do, it would all be done within that time. For a few months in tbe sum mer, perhaps, the early closing system would not be practicable, but there is no reason why it should not be adopted during tbe winter, New Stare at Victor. Buy your goods at F. S. Gordon'! new store at Victor. All goods marked in plain figure!. My aim is to sell, not to keep gocds. My prices are made on too close margin for tbe credit system. Cash on delivery of the goods, nieani proiperity for all. Youn lincerely, F. S. Uobdoh. New Goods! At Prices within reach of all. We hesitate not for Congress to decide, but have marked our goods to please the people. Large etock of Gents' Furnishings, Boots and Shoes, Ladies' Hosiery, Ladies' Kid Shoes, Ladies' Underwear, Children's School Shoes, A Thorough Clearance Sale. Watch our Center Window for Bargains. Order Groceries, Telephone No. 20. The Salmon Ran. That "whatever is worth doing is worth doing well" is a familiar proverb, to which should be added that it is also worth doing in time. Last summer ahen the cannery above town was over stocked with fish, when the fisherrrei had to lie idle while one of the largest runs of salmon that ever went up the river passed by, a cannery to be located bere was suggested and the articles of incorporation filed. The idea was to have the buildings and plant ready to handle the fruit this fall. June, July and August have slipped by and Sept ember is half gone, and nothing has been done except the appointment of a committee to solicit subscriptions to the stock which was done about a week ago. Had the good work gone on at tbe time the plant would have been in operation now. Tons of fruit would have been put up and the plant could be now run ning on salmon. The fall run of silver sides and steelheads is a phenomenal one. Seufert Bros, are catching 25 tons a day, the Winans Bros, a large quantity, and again tbe cannery is overstocked and fishermen are lying idle. If a plant was in operation here it could get fifty or a hundred tons of fish a day if it would take them. The trouble with The Dalles seems to be of a piece with that of the famous Arkansas man with his bouse. When the canning season is at hand we have not time to build a can nery, and when it is over we don't need one. Thousands of dollars that ought to be going into the pockets of our people, through lack of energy and enterprise on our part, are going up the river to spawn. That we will get none of the results of the hatching seems to be a dead sure thing. Dufur Doing. The weather after the rain is now somewhat cooler, w hich is favorable for tbe busy toilers in the harvest fields. The merry buzz of the thresher is beard on all sides, and the casual passer by can count four or five machines in and about Dufur and vicinity. Col. Laing and bis friend from Port land is spending their vacatfon with us, hunting, fishing, etc. Mrs. Douglas Dufur and little ones have returned to Tbe Dalles after a brief visit to friends in our berg. Wednesday Grandpa and Grandma Menefee were out driving, when the horse was frightened and overturned the bug;y smashing it all to pieces. Mrs. Menefee was bruised considerably, but not so much as was feared. Little Hugh Mulkins fell from a wagon and broke bis arm. Mr. Henry Pitman's wrist is improv ing slowly but it is feared it will be stiff. Milton Morris, who bad his arm mutilated in a thresher, and who has been here for the lost few weeks under Dr. Deitricb's care, is fast improving. His arm is healing rapidly and be will retain the use of that limb, thanks to our doctor, who is uumistakably a fine surgeon aud can almost make new limbs far anyone who is unfortunate enough to need them. (Ji'iz. (it Work. The man Brizzall of whom we spoke yesterday as being taken to Stevenson to answer to the charge of larceny in steal ing about $1000 worth of goods from the D. P. & A. N. Co. last June, wai arraigned yesterday, pleaded guilty, waived timfl for sentence, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, was brought up on the Regulator by tbe iheriffof Skamania county last night, left for Walla Walla by the 11 o'clock train and this morning is known only by number in tbe penitentiary; which is exceedingly quick work. Buckingham'! Dye for tbe Wbiiken ii a popular preparation in one bottle, and colon evenly a brown or black. Any person can eaiily .pply it at home. New Goods! Calicoes, Men's French Calf Shoes, Amoskeags, Oxford Ties, Outing Flannels, Quincy Cloth. JOLES, COLLINS &iG0. A Sensible Talk. The interests of southern Sherman county are identical with the interests of this sheep and stock country, and nearly all our wool is hauled by Sherman county teamsters, and most of tbe grain ueetl up here is bought from Sherman county farmers. They also find a good market for other .'arm produce up in this section. Notwithstanding all this, many of these same men, who have lived off this sheep and wool country, have flopped over to the populist party, and by bowling for free trade are actually cutting, or trying to cut, their own throats as well aa those of their neighbors. With free wool our sheepmen will gradually be compelled to abandon tbe business and thus destroy the best market Sherman county has for her farm produce, and one of her chief means of obtaining a livelihood wool hauling. Wonder if these free traders will never awaken to a realization of these facts? Antelope Herald. Slaughter Hease Burned. An alarm of fire shortly after 9 o'clock last night was caused by the burning of the Columbia Packing Co.'s slaughter house, situated about a mile west of town, Quite a number of people went out to the fire but when the alarm was given it had gotten such headway that nothing could be done towards saving it. The meats from yesterday'! killing were con sumed, with quite a quantity of hides and tallow. The loss is estimated at $3000; insurance $2000. PERSONAL MENTION. Wednesday Mrs. R. Barter, who has been visiting friends here, returned to Portland this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Evans of Olympia, old time residents of The Dalles, are visiting friends here. Mr. Monroe Grimes and family have moved into the city, where they will re main for tbe winter. Mrs. O. Barrett and Miss Bessie Hol- comb are spending a day or two at Multnomah tails saetcning. Un ti C. P.laklpv returned irom Portland last night, accompanied by Miss Mattie Couch man of San Fran cisco. Xf . T. Rrrw-ilra rAturncrl frnm thA aaaiila loaf niivht TTa tallfl lit that, t.hfl tidal wave predicted by Falb drove hun dreds of people away from the beach. TIia l-aunari ahniilil hrtnt actinia against Falb and the newspapers for : . i : ruining uiuir imioihcoo. Thurtdiy. Mr. I. C. Richards of Goldendale is in the city. f . W, fnrAtn anil U'ifa fAtlirilAil ..11. I 1 1 i VUIIUMll V. ' - Tiiesdnv night from Ilwaco beach, where A, ' , I ' Al Mrs. Uomlon nas ueen epenuing mv summer. Mr. Douthett, of the Prineville News, was in the city today, on his way borne from a trip through Hood River valley. Hon. Geo. II. Stevenson, accompanied by two of his brothers, came up on the Regulator last night and went on to tbe Fast en the 11 o'clock passenger. Mr. James M. Johns, editor and pro prietor of the Arlington Record, is in the city. Mr. Johns has made the Record one of the newsiest of Kastern Oregon papers and is doing excellent work in advertising Gilliam county. We acknowledge a pleasant call. Friday Mrs. F. J. McDonald, niece of Col. Sinnott, ii visiting Mrs. J. 8. Fish. Mrs. W. L. Bradshaw and Miss Clara Davis returned yesterday from Clatsop beach and a visit with friends in the Willamette vallev.. Lucy Miss Aylett is not at all pleased with that notice of her in the Sunday pa per. Jack Why, they ipoke ot her as "handsome brunette." Lucy But they published her picture. Harlem Life. She Never mind Fido ; he'i only play ing. He But he really did bite me. "Never mind ; I dont believe a little nip like that would hurt him, do you?" Chicago Exchange.