THE DAIiLES WEKKTjY CHRONICLE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 36, 1895.
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
Wednesday's Daily.
Senator George C. Perkins of Call for
aia has been elected to succeed himself
Delinquent taxes are coming in brisk
lv. bat there are still a large number
wing for '92 and '93.
A telegram from Salem this morning
announced the death of Alexander Mc
Heil at the insane asylnm there last
night.
The assessment for school district No,
12 is com Dieted. The total value of
property assessed is $1,280,370, which is
i!33.000 less than the assessment of
last year.
The telephone and telegraph wires
have been used freely lately, the extra
business beine questionings, remon-
- strances and pleadings, all directed tow
ards some of our legislators..
When Senator Gorman was asked
what he thought of the new and spring'
ing friendship between Cleveland and
Hill he only shook his head in an evil
way smiled, and said nothing.
There was a battle royal in the East
End yesterday between two irate indi
viduals, who were old enough to know
better. The fight was Marquis of Get
there rules, but neither of them was
much hurt.
In giving the vote for senator yester-
' day we stated that Speaker Moores re
ceived the twenty-two votes cast by the
anti-Dolph republicans. It should have
been F. A. Moore, one of the members
of the supreme court.
The committee appointed by the city
council to recommend any needed
changes in the city charter has not yet
reported, and unless a special meeting is
called, cannot report until the regular
meeting, February 3d. '
The supreme court has decided that
the purchase of the refineries of other
. sugar companies by the American Sugar
company was not a contract in restraint
of trade, and that such action did not
create a trust. ' Sugar is king.
A. letter was received from Mr. John
Woods, a former resident of this city,
t . i
ana wno is now in me evangelistic
work, stating that be expects to arrive
here tomorrow and commence a series
of meetings with the Methodist people
tomorrow night.
Wm. Fay, a resident of this city, and
Wm. Rogers of Hood River were sent to
the aBylum yesterday. . Fay was born in
Kansas, and has an idea that he has in
vented a flying machine, while Rogers
is Bimply morose and of suicidal inclina
tions. There will be' a meeting of the legal
voters of school district No. 12, at the
Court street brick schoolhouse, Saturday
afternoon, next, at 2 o'clock, for the pur
pose of voting a tax. The financial
statement is being prepared by the clerk
and will be published tomorrow.
"I have made up my mind to keep
out of politics until I have a sack," re
marked a Pendleton young man after
reading the dispatches relative to the
senatorial elections in Washington and
Oregon, "and then I'll get in and buy a
seat in the United States senate."
Brother Jackson, of the Pendleton
East Oregonlan, is a versatile chap.
Monday as receiver of the Pendleton
National bank he declared a dividend of
25 cents on the dollar, and then went
out in the street and had a fight. It is
to be hoped that in the latter he settled
in full.
In explanation of the position of the
senatorial election at Salem it maybe
said that Dolph was not elected yester
day, because he did not receive a major
ity of the votes in both houses. Under
the provisions of the constitution, the
senate and house will meet in joint ses
sion at noon today and if Senator Dolph
then has a majority, which his present
vote will give him, he will be elected.
The death of Alex. McNeal, which we
note elsewhere as occurring at the insane
asylum, happened near Brooks station.
It seems that he escaped from the asylum
Monday night. . His death was caused
by exposure, his body being found yes
terday evening. He was about 50 years
of age and was Bent from this place in
December 1889. The unfortunate man
leaves a wife and several children, and
one brother, all at present residing here.
The Tittell sisters will be here Mon
day and Tuesday, putting "Frou Frou"
and. "My Uncle's Will" on the boards
the first night and "M'liss" Tuesday.
These charming young actresses are
quite well known to many of our people,
having played the leading parts at Cor
dray's, in Portland, for several years,
though never before appearing before a
Dalles audience. The Orchestra Union
deserves to be liberally patronized and
encouraged in their efforts to present to
The Dalles a series of first-class plays
Be on hand, and get your reserved seats
at Blakeley & Houghton's.
Tnursday's Daily
J. C. Ward was yesterday appointed
postmaster at Kingsley.
Gold is going out of the treasury at
the rate of over a million dollars a day,
and the reserve is now down to about
sixty-five million.
There has been a tremendous land
slide on the California and Oregon, and
it will be several days before trains are
again running on that line.
A long box looking exactly like it con
tained a deceased man has reposed on a
truck in front of the express office all
day. What gives the thing a gruesome
kind of ghastliness is the card tacked
thereon containing the address, which is
"The Portland Meat Co."
Mrs. Hopkins, formerly Mrs Dunn, at
one time a resident of this city, but now
of Hood River, was to have been brought
here this afternoon to be examined as to
her sanity, but a telegram from Com
missioner Blowers stated that she was
too sick to be moved, and that she
would probably live but a few days.
State Commissioner Butts' made all
the the residents on the hill happy yes
terday by having the steps on Court
street and those on Laughlin cleared of
snow. The latter is where we exempli
fied the truth of Virgil's assertion about
the easy descent to Avernus. The re
markable thing in our case was that we
found that classical region before we
struck the bottom.
Maier & Benton's delivery team, get
ting tired of standing in' front of the
store yesterday, suddenly lit out
for home. There was a wild jingling of
bells that made the wary pedestrian get
off the crosswalks. The run was devoid
of accident, and arriving at home, the
horses jumped the fence taking the
sleigh with them, and stopped at the
stable door without a particle of damage
having been done.
The Chinese New Year begins tomor
row and the red coated firecracker and
bamboo-bound bomb will wake - the
echoes and delight the small boy. The
Chinese year,' this year, will have 383
days which are grouped into 13 months,
as follows: January, 30 days; February
29; March, 30; April, 29; first May, 30;
second May, 29; June, 29; July, 30;
August, 29; September, 30; October,
29; November, 30: December, 29. Last
year the new year began ebraary 17
and contained but 12 months. Every
thi rd year contains 13 months.
Friday's Daily.
The thermometer last night sneaked
down to 14 above zero.
Evangelist Woods arrived in the city
yesterday, and is conducting revival
meetings in the M. E. church.
Jim Westfall, Chinaman, was worth
$10,000 or $15,000 two or years ago, but
now he says he is "busted." The Ore
gon Pacific railroad did it.
The weather bureau hit the change
tor today all right. The indications yes
terday as promulgated by that office,
were for colder weather, and we have it,
No cases of insanity were reported
from Hood River today, from which we
udge our neighbors are not trying to
keep track of the senatorial fight at
Salem.
Tne trial of V. h. Morgan, wno was
arrested, charged with embezzling $633
from Boyd & Arnold at Portland, has
been set for February 27th. He entered
a plea of not guilty.
The weather indications for tomorrow
as given by Mr. Brooks, who by the way
gave us yesterday's report instead of its
coming from Portland, is ' about station
ary temperature, with perhaps some
snow.
It is expected that it will take two
weeks to get in all the testimony before
the referee in the big water right suit in
Malheur county, and the estimated cost
of the litigation will amount to $15,000
or more.
The telegraph wire between Crescent
City and its terminus, east foot of Slate
creek hill, is in a bad shape. There
isn't probably ten miles of it in position,
and stages hare to tangle up in it every
few miles.
At a recent school election in Grant's
Pass 89 votes were cast. The assessed
valuation of the dibtrict is 450,000; the
debt for running expenses amounts .to
$2,500, and a 10-roill tax will reduce it
to $1,500 this year.
On account 61 the meetings being held
in tne basement of the M. K. church,
the literary society will again be held
up stairs.' Members will observe that
the. night of meeting has been changed
from Monday to Friday.
The recorder's court this morning was
not ornamented by any new faces.
When we peeped in we saw no more
hardened criminals than Engineer
Brown, Commissioner Butts, Council
man Lauer and the recorder Fearing to
remain long lest that combination
should put up a job on us, we skipped.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Hiss, she clung to Castorla.
When she had Children, she gave them Castorla,
TWO VOTES SHORT.
Dolph Lacks That Many of Marlng; B
MajorityMoor a -Gets Seventeen.
Wednesday.
In the joint session today the anti
Dolph movement gained strength and
cut the senator's vote down three votes
from yesterday. The ballot resulted as
follows: Dolph 44, Moore 17, Hare 10,
Lord 5, Bennett 8, Williams 1, Hermann
4; absent 1.
The joint session was to be re-con
vened at 3 o'clock.
Boyd Items.
Saturday eve the MacCulloch Literary
Society, which meets at Liberty school
house every Saturday evening, had a
very interesting time. One of the chief
features was a speech by J. D. Bell on
the question of Woman's Suffrage, which
was recently the subject for debate in
the society. A lecture on Astronomy,
by an old teacher, was appreciated by
all. The subject for debate next Satur
day evening is "Resolved, That Water
is More Destructive Than Fire."
Sleighriding and coasting are receiv
ing a fair share of attention from old
and young.
Poplar Grove school, under the man
agement of P. P. Underwood, is in flour
ishing condition. Sixteen young folks,
between the ages of 11 and 23 years, are
making things lively about there, especi
ally when they can't agree whether the
plow or the printing press is the more
useful invention; or whether Decatur
commanded the American fleet in the
war with Algiers or in the war with
Tripoli, or whether he ever commanded
any fleet at all, or not. '
We will not chronicle any weddings
until the lilies bloom, and hope to re
port no deaths on account of the sweep
ing broom.
J. B. Havely killed a half dozen nice
hogs Monday.
Mr. Mahn's orchard is getting a long
and much-needed pruning, and the old
pioneer is as spry as usual.
Nobody is much sick and no one been
drunk for quite awhile. May we have
some more sleigh-rides? Avy
The Common Schools.
The Recorder is opposed to any and
every form of taxation where the few are
benefited at the expense of the many.
It is therefore opposed to state aid being
given to any institution of learning ex
cept our common schools, as in the
latter institutions is where at least 90
per cent of our children receive all the
schooling they ever get, and as our
public school system is now such that it
affords all the youth of the- state the
means of securing an education that will
fit them for the ordinary vocations of
life, we consider that every dollar ex
pended by the state for educational pur
poses should go to them, and that every
dollar of the people's money that is ap
propriated for the higher institutions of
learning is robbing 90 children out of
every 100 for the benefit of the other 10
If all the money that the state expends
for school pnrposea was given directly to
the common schools, it would greatly
increase their usefulness as educators of
the masses, and if any child desired to
pursue his studies beyond where the
common schools reach, he or his parents
should pay for it and not deprive nine
other children of part of their rights for
the benefit of this one. Elgin Recorder,
Mo Cards of Thanks.
There has a custom grown up in Ore
gon, that came from nobody knows
where, of the relatives of deceased per
sons publishing a card of thanks to
neighbors, friend and the public for the
sympathy and aid extended during the
illness of the deceased. With all due
deference to those who follow the cus
torn, we would suggest that it is not
good taste. The thanks are uncalled
for, and . unnecessary. In a Christian
community, the care of the sick and the
burial of the dead with proper and be'
coming respect and decency, are not
things to return thanks for, for they are
the simple duties of the friends and
neighbors, acts performed for others
that others will repay by performing
similar services for them. Let the card
of thanks cease to appear.
A Merry Party.
Miss Heppner entertained about thirty
of her young friends at her home, last
evening. Asa result of a very lively
game of progressive domino whist, Mr.
Charles Clark succeeded in securing first
prize; and after much vexation, Mr.
Fred Wilson won the booby, a bright
looking little owl. Refreshments were
then served, after which came music
and dancing. When the hour arrived
for departure, all expressed themselves
as having passed one of the most delight
ful evenings of the winter.
The Tittell Sisters.
A slight change has been made.in the
program for the plays . Monday and
Tuesday evenings next. Monday night
"Drifted Apart" will be on the boards,
and Tuesday night a double bill, "My
Uncle's Will" and ."Frou Frou," instead
of "M'liss." It does noi matter what
play is put on, those who attend will
spend an enjoyable evening, for the rep
ertoire of the Tittell sisters contains
nothing that is not interesting. They
deserve a packed house, and we hope
they will have it on both evenings.
A Timid Chinook.
Yesterday about noon- a timorous
Chinook fluttered its downy pinions over 1
Is
Wouldn't you rather have one now?
Today Our
$10.00 Overcoats will be marked $6.30.
$14.00 Overcoats will be marked $9.40.
$18 to $20 Overcoats will be marked $13.10.
These Prices are
ALL GOODS MARKED IN
PLAIN FIGURES.
the waste of snow, as if afraid to tackle
so large a contract, but by night the
breeze that followed the Japan gulf
stream, starting perhaps from the rose
garlanded grottoes of Cathay, was
sweeping merrily up the gorge of the
Columbia and whistling a rollicking tune
to the big firs as they nodded and whis
pered to the .warm caresses. But this
was not for long, for by midnight, altho'
a light breeze still came out of the west,
it was so cooled ere it reached here that
the snow ceased to thaw. This morning
the sun rose'clear and beautiful and the
day has been a foretaste of spring.
THE SITUATION IS UNCHANGED
Dolph Gets His 44 Totes and the Bal
ance Go Beat terms;.
me situation at baiem remains un
changed. The legislature met in joint
session today at noon and cast one ballot,
which was practically the same as that
of yesterday. It was as follows : Dolph
44, Moore 19, Bennett 8, Moody 4, Lord
2, Williams 1, Kincaid 2. Governor
Moody it will be seen received a neat
complimentary vote, so did Kincaid.
The situation shows that as far as the
republican anti-caucus republicans are
concerned they are not concentrating on
anyone candidate, and that the move
ment now is simply against Dolph. The
democratic and populistic vote will never
go to Dolph, but would, with one possible
exception, go to almost anyone to beat
Dolph. We believe that a combination
would have been formed today, if it were
not for that one democrat. In voting
for Judge Bennett, Senator Cogswell
stated that he did not indoree the opin
ions which Senator Huston attributed to
Judge Bennett, though he would vote for
him. Cogswell has always had the rep
utation of being quite close to Senator
Simon, and it is predicted that if a com
bination should be formed against
Dolph, Cogswell would vote for him,
thus making a tie. Dolph 's danger lies
in the defection of one vote, for as we
understand the situation, a combination
can and will be formed as soon as the
bolting republicans gain one more vote.
Every influence possible is being brought
to bear by both sides, and the end may
be quite remote.
We Are Not Alone.
It seems that The Dalles is not alone
in its peculiar taste lor theatricals, or,
perhaps we should say its tasTe for pe
culiar theatricals. The following from
the La Grande Chronicle shows that the
citizens of that lovely little city are also
in the swim :
"It is strange to what extent tradition
and sentiment will hold its influence
upon the people.- Only a short time
since an alleged production of 'Uncle
Tom's Cabin' by a company of 'rank
performers drew a crowded house, while
McKee Rankin, with a reputation as a
character impersonator that is almost
unexcelled in the United States, had an
attendance barely sufficient to pay ex
penses." '
The preliminary survey for the ex
tension of the R. R. V. railroad has been
completed to a point in Same valley, a
distance of 12 miles from the starting
point, which was miles out from
Jacksonville on the present line. This
completes that part of the project and
when the officials arrive in a few days
something else definite may be looked
for.
Three persons were burned to death
in a morocco factory ; in .Brooklyn last
night.
not the Time to
yERCOHTS
Well,
PEASE
Financial Keport of School District No.
12, The Dalles, Oregon.
On hand at beginning of school
year, March 5, 1894 $ 24 94
Delinquent taxes collected 30 99
Taxes for 1893 collected 5076 05
Received county school fund. . 1107 00
State school fund 2651 50
Tuition 410 25
Fines 2 00
Insurance rebate 3 00
Total $9305 73
DISBURSEMENTS.
Wasco Independent Academy. $2800 00
Lots in Tackman Addition 400 00
Moving East Hill school house 370 00
Teachers' salary 3450 00
Janitor's salary 530 00
Interest 260 83
Clerk's services.. 225 00
Water rent , 63
Insurance, 3-year policy 90
Apparatus, charts, etc 202 45
foundation and labor .bast
Hill school house. . . 269 03
Printing 79 25
Recording deeda 2 75
Repairing clocks 9 25
Freight 20 10
Repairing Academy piano 10 00
Tuition refunded 4 00
Taxes refunded 14 24
All other incidentals 138 26
Balance on hand 362 32
$9305 73
LIABILITIES.
Mrs Isabella Gray's note. ..... $3000 00
Interest on same 160 00
Due for school district 459 35
Fuel and lumber 244 90
Repairs on school houses 125 00
Insurance, 3-year policy 11 uu
Salaries teachers and janitor. . 3595 00
Labor East Hill primary 182 05
$7910 30
RESOURCES.
Cash on hand t 362 32
School tax due 560 00
Tuition due 100 00
$1022 32
E Jacobsen, Clerk.
Under the head ' of liabilities the
clerk has made an itemized account of
outstanding warrants, not paid for lack
bf funds. The only items not being in
the shape of outstanding warrants are
Mrs. Gray's notes and a bill due for
school desks, which will be paid in cash
at the first board meeting. Ed
Sewers Needed.
The city council some time ago ap
pointed a committee and employed civil
engineers to draw plans and estimates
for a sewer system for The Dalles. That
committee made its report some time
ago, filing plans and . estimates. Since
then nothing has been done with the
matter. The cost of the proposed sys
tems was bo large that the council prob
ably realized that it was out of our reach
at present. However this may be, one
fact remains, and that is that something
must be done towards putting in anew
system of sewers, or repairing the old
ones. The high water last summer
caused the ground to settle around the
old sewers, and in many places thsy are
broken. When the gentle spring shall
come again, unless something is done,
there will be an odor pervading' the
city's atmosphere that will not be mis
taken for the perfume of the unassuming
violets. It has betn proposed to bond
the city to raise the necessary money,
but the tax payer at the mere suggestion
grabs bis pocket with as tenacious a grip
as he will have to his nose next summer,
and utterly refuses to consider any bond
ing system, and yet, "What are you
going to do about it?" ..
Karl's Clover Root, the great blood
purifier gives freshness and clearness to
the com plexionjandj cures constipation,
2cts., 50cts.. $1.00'
Buy
Less than Cost.
& MAYS.
FOUR VOTES SHORT.
Dolph Loses One by Change and On jr
Sickness, Now Has 48.
The returns from Salem today are cot
at all favorable to Dolph. He lost one
vote by change and one of his supporters
was unable to help him, being confined
to his bed by sickness. The vote was as
follows: Dolph 42, Moore 11, Hermann
10, Bennett 8, Hare 10, Williams 2,
Lord 3, Lowell 1, Barkeley 1. This waa
the result on the first ballot taken this
afternoon.
Dolph losing, puts his case in ' bad
shape and will only serve to encourage
those who are fighting him. The defec
tion is the wrong way to give any hope
that Dolph can win.. Whom the gods
would destroy they first make mad, and
when Dolph is defeated the financial
question will be no nearer settlement
than before, while Oregon's chance of se
curing further favors from the river and
harbor committee will be gone. ' There
T a mst nnn rf fifing VtlonV AflnfTnoa nfr . A
bolting legislators. Petitions and plead
ings have failed to move one of them,
and all that can be done is to let the
disease run its course. The free silver
republicans have the bits in their teeth
and are running away at a speed that
will only result in their own undoing;
and the wreck of the outfit.
Some Fossils.
Justice Davis has a very fine lot of
fossils, gathered in tbe John Day fossil .
beds, which are, in some respects, tbe
finest in the world, and contain the fos
silized remains of animals no other beds
have disclosed. Besides tbe remains of
prehistoric animals, these beds contain
some very fine specimens of the flora of
that ancient time. Perfect impressions
of a leaf resembling those of our alder
and oak, and besides these many show
ing that tbe climate at that time
was tropical. Cocoa leaves are very
plentiful, and in the bluffs where
they are broken perpendicularly, ran
petrified rushes that were from 8 to 13
feet high. Tbe stock of these rushes re
sembles that of the papyris, but we
have not seen enough of the petrifaction
to convince us that that is what they
are. Mr. Davis is just getting his col
lection assorted and labeled.
Real .Estate Transaction.
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today :
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