THE 'DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1895.
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That Big Slide.
Mt. Bradley, whence the avalanche
got its start, is a steep bald mountain
nearly two miles from the river. As the
slide started down the mountain it gath
ered strength and balk in its path. It
soon began to take brush along and
tljen trees. Plowing through a deep
and narrow gorge it carried trees, rocks
and everything in reach. Great pine
trees three or four feet in diameter were
twisted off like reeds and carried along
on the breaat of the avalanche, diving
into the snow and then shooting up in
the air until they struck the opposite
bank of the Sacramento river more than
a mile away from the starting point, -
. When the avalanche crossed the river
it was nearly a thousand feet wide and
fifty feet deep. It ran up on the bank
on the east side of the river, and
dammed the water completely for some
time. At Dansinuir, over a mile south
of the slide, the river ran so low at one
time that a person could walk across
without wetting the soles of his feet.
Tuesday, while the men were away to
their noon meal, another wild avalanche
came down bigger than the first one and
spread out on top of it, burying the rail
road track fifty or sixty feet deeper.
Two big pine, trees, between four, and
five feet in diameter, plowed a trench
through the bard snow and shot across
the river, burying one end into the bank
on the other side, and making two
bridges across the Sacramento.
To give one an idea of the amount of
snow that came down, besides what
went into the river and was washed
away, there is a body 1200 feet wide,
2000 teet long and 50 to 100 feet deep, if
the men had been at work when the last
slide came down there would have been
over a hundred of them buried under the
snow, crushed to death or slid into the
liver.
One of the working men went up on
snowshoes to near where the snow broke
loose. He reports that the snow was be'
tween thirty and forty feet deep where
the avalanche broke off, and the piece
that came down is only a speck com
pared to what is left and ready to start
at anv time. Dunsmuir News.
A HOST IN HIMSELF.
He Was an K Plurlbos Cnum Sort of m
Fellow. .-
It would be well if all jokes were as
innocent as one played by a railroad
conductor upon a commercial traveler,
and related by the traveler himself in
the Yankee Blade. He had 'left' the
train at a little station, a junction, on a
western' branch road, where he was to
wait several hours for a train going- in
another direction. There was no one
in sight, and he was looking' about in
a homesick fashion, when the conduc
tor spoke to him.
"Dull place, ain't it?" said the con
ductor. . " - .
"Kather," answered the commercial
traveler, "especially if you've got to
stay here four hours."
"Oh, well, you won't be without com
pany." '
' "But I don't Bee any. , Who arc
they?"
"Well," said the conductor,' speaking
slowly, as if he were reckoning- them up
by a process of recollection, "there's
the telegraph operator, the booking
clerk, the cloak-room clerk, the signal
man, the storekeeper, the accident in
surance agent, the postmaster, and one
or two other officials. You'll find 'em
inside the station."
"That isn't so -bad," the traveler
thought, and as the train started he en
tered the door.' The station was dimly
lighted, with no one in sight but a
sandy-haired man' at the telegraph, in
strument. ".Where are the others?" asked the
traveler.'
"What others?", answered the tele
graph operator.
"Why, the cloak-room man, the book
ing clerk, the postmaster and the rest."
The man began to grin.
"Oh, it is that conductor again," he
said.
"Well, where are they?" repeated the
traveler, with some asperity.
The sandy-haired man tapped him
self on the chest.
"Them's me," he said. "Come in and
sit with us."
And the traveler, appreciating the
joke a sort of e pluribus unum re
versed, accepted the invitation, and
found -himself in pretty good company.
Step Toward
Go vera me tit
Railroads.
. Control , of
Teachers' Institute Program.
Recitation, '
The following is the program for the
Teachers' Institute to be held at Dufur
Feb. 7th, 8th and 9th :
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7.
Address of Welcome Aaron Frazier
Response ..R A Gaily
MUSIC.
'Jamie Douglas". . .
Bessie Underbill
Essay Daisy Dufur
Reading Maude Feabody
Essay, "What May Be"
A V Underwood
Music
Declamation WH Cantrell
Reading Alice Powell
Essay, "Should .Foreign Emigra-..
tion Be Restricted" L L Bell
Declamation Ouier Butler
Music
Address, "Pacific Coast Seasons". ..
P P Underwood
Music
FRIDAY 9 O'CLOCK A. M.
Music
Primary Reading Nellie Hudson
Elementary Geography. .Edith Peabody
Methods of Teaching Fundamental
Rules of Arithmetic. ..H M Pitman
Percentage Roy Butler
Discussion, ''Some Neceseary Requi
- sites to the Growth of Wasco
Country Schools" '.
Leaders, P P Underwood,
Emma Ward, H M Pitman
AFTERNOON SESSION 1 :30.
. S. Settlements Omah Smith
S. History. 4th Epoch... H Stirnweis
Psychology in School . . R A Gaily
Penmanship Drill P P Underwood
Discussion, "Relative Value of the -Study
of the English Lan
guage Leaders, E S Hinman
Susanna Ward, Anron Frazier
EVENING SESSION 7 :30.
Music "
Recitation, "Burning of the Stone
wall" I M Underwood
Essay, "Oregon" Ada Bell
Declamation .John McAtee
Essay, "American Independence". .
EO Underwood
Music -
Reading Waldo Brigham
Kecitation, "farmer ana wneel" . . .-.
Ben Wilson
Essay, "Old Boots and Shoes"
.Burnie Sellick
Declamation Park Bolton
Address, "Some Hints About An
. nual School Meetings". Troy Shelley
SATURDAY 9 O'CLOCK, A. M.
Music . . .
Bones and Muscles Annie Frazier
Circulation and Digestion
.... ...Lindsey Thomas, Mrs K Roche
Discussion, "Benefits of the Public
School to the Public".
Leaders, R A Gaily, A Fra-
rier,. P P Underwood, E S Hinman
Closing. ,
Executive committee Aaron Frazier,
Edith Peabody, P P Underwood.
U.
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WHY THEY STRUCK.
Workmen Who Objected to Sitting Around
and Doing XotUInjr
It has been customary tor many peo
ple to consider the southern laborer as
slow, lazy and shiftless, yet a writer in
Engineering- Magazine says that no
stranger could enter one of the mills
or pass a clay in the pine-timber woods
without being surprised by the vigor
with which work is performed.
Work has become an ini.tinct; the
laborer knows but four . conditions,
eating, sleeping, working and, after
pay day, a carousal, or absolute idle
ness. A curious story of a strike is told at
one of the mills. The hours of labor
are' long from dawn to twilight. In
the winter, the hours are fewer, but in
summer the saws are buzzing and the
whole community alive and at work
before the sun has touched the tree tops.
A northern foreman of philanthropic
principles took charge of a certain
mill, and sorrowed within his heart for
the poor fellows wearing out their lives
with the cant-hook and saw. So he de
creed that from seven o'clock in the
morning to six in the afternoon should
constitute the labor of a day.
There was a murmur in the camp,
and in two days there was a general
strike. Called upon for reasons, the
spokesman stated the case of the men:
"We all jus' doan like dis yar gwine
ter wuk at seben o'clock. Wha's de
use ob sittin' aroun' f er two hours in the
mawnin' 'fo' gwine to wuk? We jus'
ain' gwine to stan' it, dat's all."
So the strike was declared off by the
superintendent agreeing to allow all
hands to go to work at dawn and keep
at it as long as they could see.
BLUE-EYED INDIANS.
They Live in Mexico and Are Known as
Grleftng."
In a mountain village, perhaps a
day's ridel from Mexico City, lives a
tribe of exclusive, aristocratic Indians
called "los Griegos," the Greeks, says
the Chicago Tribune. They are light
complexioned and the majority have
blue eyes and light hair. They dress
principally in two shades of blue and
their clothing is good, well made and
generally embroidered with the bead
and silk embroidery of which Indians
are so fond. Their houses are better
built and furnished than is usual
among Indians. Many have pianos
and other musical instruments upon
which they play with considerable
skill. These "Griegos" have no com
mercial or social connections with
other tribes, holding aloof from even
those who live at the base of the
mountain on which their village is sit
uated. They raise their own food, do
their own manufacturing, have their
own schools, churches and social insti
tutions, and seldom or never marry out
side of their own tribe. There is said
to be another tribe of blue-eyed fair
haired Indians, who have the appear
ance of Germans living in the Sierra
Madre mountains in the state of Du-
rango.
Andrew Kellar
cottage to rent
has
four-room
The Japanese Bathing Hour.
In Germany . at one o'clock all the
world is taking an after-dinner smoke
or an after-dinner nap, and business,
even banking, is suspended.- In Japan
the bathing hour is before supper, and
between five and six o'clock every liv
ing being is- nude. The public baths
are crowdecj- At home children, young
people and old people are in the tub,
getting in.or getting, out of the tub,
which is plaped in the garden, in court
yards, shoos or on the piazza, without
the least apology of a screen. If a cus
tomer appears the bather talks busi
ness over the -water, and in private
families callers are neither abashed nor
embarrassing. ' In the humble quarters
the tubs are set en the threshold, and
neighbors on opposite sides of the street
gossip, chatter and exchange the most
amiable greetings.- The national towel
is nankin blue.
Carroll D. Wrigh t, in the February Forum.
The reason why it is that the Chicago
strike is exerting an influence as a sub
ordinate phase of a silent revolution a
revolution probably in the interest of the
public welfare is because it emphasizes
the claim that there must be some legis
lation which shall place railroad em
ployes on a par with the railroad em
ployers in conducting the business of
transportation, so far as the terms and
conditions of employment are concerned
it is because the events of that strike
logically demand that another declara
tion of lay and of the principles of the
Federal Government shall be made ;
declaration that all wages paid, as well as
charges for any service rendered in the
transportation of property, passengers, etc,
shall be reasonable and just. A declara'
tion of this .character, backed by the
machinery of the Government to carry
it into effect, would give to railroad em
ployees the status of quasi-public ser
vants. The machinery accompanying
such a declaration should be modelled
on the Interstate Commerce Act. It
should be provided that some authority
be established for the regulation of wage
contracts on railroads. I would not
have the .machinery of the law for the
regulation of such matters provide for
compulsory adjustment, as now provided
for the adjustment of freight rates, but I
wonld have such machinery that there
would be little inducement under it on
the part of railroads to pay unjust and
unreasonable wages and on the part of
employees to quit work when they were
just and reasonable. '
Cherokee Bill Captured.
Wagoner, I. T., Jan. 31. W. C
Smith, deputy marshal, has distin
guished himself again in effecting the
capture of Cherokee Bill, the notorious
outlaw. Cherokee Bill's headquarters
were known to be near Nowata, I. T,
Smith made arrangements with Ike
Rogers and Clint Scales, colored, living
near Nowata, to lay in wait for Bill
The outlaw stopped at Rogers' house
yesterday and . went to bed without fear
of a trap. This morning after breakfast,
Rogers stepped behind Bill, seized
club and knocked him down. He was
then bound hand and foot. He is only
18 years old, but boasts that he had
killed 15 men
, And In Jersey City.
Trenton, Jan. 31. In the house yes
terday Mr. Duncan introduced a bill
making it unlawful for any person to
appear in any theater, opera bouse, ball,
lecture room, or other public place of
entertainment or music instruction,
where an admission is charged, and
where an unobstructed view is necessary
and is prevented by the wearing apparel
of such individual wearing any article
that will obstruct or interfere, nnder
penalty of summary ejection, and im
posing a fine of $10 upon conviction by a
court. . .
Harvelohs results.
From a letter written by Rev. J. Gun
derman, of Dimondale, Mich., we are
permitted to make this extract : "I have
no hesitation in recommending Dr.
King's New Discovery, as the results
were almost marvelous in the case of my
wife. While I was pastor of the Baptist
Church at Rivers junction she was
brought down with Pneumonia succeed
ing La Grippe. Terrible paroxysms of
coughing would last hours with little in
terruption and it seemed as if she could
not survive them. A friend recom
mended Dr. Kin gig New Discovery ; it
was quick in its work' and highly satis
factory in results." Trial bottles free at
Snipes & Kinersly's Drug Store. Reg
ular size 50c. aud $1.00:
Of the 20 trne bills oi indictment found
by the grand jury at this term of court
in Umatilla county, 7 indictments were
for gambling, 3 for perjury, 3 for larceny
of cattle, 4 for assault with dangerous
weapon, 2 for larceny from building, and
one for larceny by bailee. Ten men
were sent to the penitentiary, 7 were
fined and 3 acquitted.
Last Monday at 3 am. a Japanese was
found leaning against the depot at
Meacham, in a state of unconsciousness.
His feet and face were severely bitten by
the cold and next evening he was unable
to sit up and powerless to control his
limbs. The mercury was down to 15
degrees below zero. He was taken to
Pendleton for treatment.
Mrs. Nexdoor One of my windows is
stuck, and I can't get it up or down.
Little boy Ours gets the same way
sometimes. "Who fixes them?"
Papa." "How does he do it?" "I
don't know. Quick as papa starts to fix
a stuck window, mamma sends me out
of the room." Street & Smith's Good
News.
Mr. Lightweight (airily, to conducter)
I wonder what that shabby old codger
finds so attractive in this direction? He's
been eyfng me for ten minutes. Con
ductor (thoughtfully) I guess he's wond
ering how you happen to be traveling on
a pass. He's the president of the road."
New York Weekly.
A Fictioniet What are you 'writing,
Hawley?" "A story. I'm going in for
fiction." Really? For a magazine?"
No. For my tailor. He, wants bis
money, and i m telling mm I'll send
him a check next week." Harpers Ba
zar. .
All pain banished by Dr. Miles' Fain Fills.
William Dorrily of Lane county went
out on a spree last Saturday night. He
went to Eugene with 'his team, and on
his return home about 9 o'clock his eyes
went into the eclipse and he drove off
bridge on South Willamette street,
Quite a time was had getting the man
and team out of the ditch.
. W. Cottingbam, Henri LTd and
David Shaffer were arrested on Wednes
day by Sheriff Neal, of Wallowa county
charged with obtaining money under
extortion or what is usually called
blackmailing. , They were bound over in
the sum of $500. .-
Knowledge is wealth: Chemist You
might have charged that young man
shillings for .filling that presciption
Why did you put the price at one shil
ling? Assistant He understands Latin
Tid-Bits.
Hartman.Farmer has 40 acres 'of cran
berry marsh, at Sand Lake, Tillamook
county, which he is clearing and plant
ing to the profitable berry.
Faith Don't you love the early poets?
Morton (managing editor of a magazine)
Yes, I do: thev're all dead. Harlem
Life.'
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THK DALLEB, OR
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