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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1896.
Prom February Bthf 189, to Blarcli th,
-7 -Genuine Bargains the order of the day.
GREHT1 tHlTV PRY SM LE!
Dress Goods.
Our entire lot of 36-inch all-wool Tre
cot, Fancy Mixtures, xfcc, embracing the
most desirable shades and effects. Never
sold for less than 50 and 60c; these are
reduced to 25c.
A fine assortment of all-wool Checks
and Plaids, Wool and Silk Mixed Novel
ties, &c goods that have found ready
sale at 75c, 85c, $1 and $1.25; balance to
close at a reduction of 33J per cent.
... Boucles . : .
60-inch Novelty Cape and Jacket Ma
terial 5 pieces of the latest color combi
nations. Regular value, $2; spec. $1.50.
Eiderdown Flannels.
Plain Pink; reg. 40c, to close at 25c.
Tan and Grey Crepe Effects; never less
The Weekly Ghronlele.
TUB DALLES
OBKGON
Entered at the postofilce at The Dalles, Oregon,
as second-class mail matter.
Published in two parts, on Wednesdays
and Saturdays.
STATE OFFICIALS.
Governor W. P. Lord
Secretary of State HE Kincaid
Treasurer Phillip Metschan
Bupt. of Public Instruction G. M. Irwin
Attorney-General C. M. Idleman
. G. W. McBride
Benators JJ.'H. Mitchell
Congressmen jyy b.'euu''1
State Printer W. H. Leeds
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge. Geo. C. Blateley
Bheriff. T. J. Driver
Clerk : A. M. Kelsay
Treasurer Wm. Micheil
, , (Frank Kincaid
Commissioners U.S. Blowers
Assessor F. H. Wakefield
Surveyor : E. F. Sharp
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy Shelley
Uoroner W. H. Butts
THE REDEMPTION LAW OF 1S95,
A correspondent in the Oregonian of
the 4th inst. calls attention to the fact
that the new redemption law, as con
strued by the supreme court, may prove
a curse, instead of a benefit, to the
debtor class. The law .was enacted in
response to a popular demand for some
meaeure which would alleviate the con
dition of mortgagors. Prior to the ses
sion of 1895 the owner of real property
which was sold on execution, might re
deem the same at any time within four
months after confirmation by the court
-of the sale ; the law of 1895 extended
this time for redemption to one year.
The constitution of the United States
forbids every state from passing any law
which would impair the obligation of
contracts. The question was recently
presented to the Oregon supreme court
in a case in which the plaintiff claimed
Ibat the law in force when his contract
was made, giving four months' time for
-redemption, was a part of his contract,
tion the value of his security was re--duced,
and therefore the law of 1895
impaired the contract. The supreme
-court held otherwise, and declared the
Jaw valid as to all mortgages, whether
executed before or alter the law of 1895
went into effect.
. The OregOLian's correspondent calls
attention to the fact that this being a
federal question, the decisions of the
United States supreme court will govern.
He cites several cases of that conrt which
uphold the plaintiff's contention In the
Oregon case referred to. If it is true j
' that the supreme court of the United
States has held directly opposite to the
supreme court of Oregon, those who rely
npon the Oregon decision and allow
more than four months to elapse before
redeeming, may be left out entirely
when the federal courts decide that his
time for redemption expired at the end
of four months.
The contention of the plaintiff in the
Oregon case recently decided,- is sup
ported by the leading text writers on
constitutional law, and it looks as if the
suggestion of the Oregonian correspond
ent that our supreme court has erred,
and possibly to the great injury of some
one, who may rely upon its decision, is
apt. ' ' . -
General Harrison has the wisdom and
courage to say "No" to bis many friends,
and there will be no more talk about his
nomination. 4 The people of the nation
respect . bim more than ever, and more
than 50c,
than ever feel that be would be a most
desirable president. With General
Harrison out of the race, the West will
no doubt rally about Mr. McKinley.
There is today no more able, honest,
sensible, and in all reBpects American,
than Mr. McKinley, -and his nomina
tion will insure Republican success and
a return to true American principles in
the administration. The other aspi
rants are good, but McKinley is tire
best.
The opening of the Cascade Locks,
which event is supposed to be, very close
at hand, means more to Eastern Oregon
than is generally conceded. The Dalles
will be benefitted more than any other
city on the river, but the benefit to The
Dalles will be great because Sherman,
Gilliam, Morrow, Crook and Grant
counties will also reap the benefit.
Merchants in these various counties can
purchase goods here, when the locks are
completed, at as good, or better advan
tage than in Portland. Merchants here
have less rent to pay, and yet will have
all the advantages of competition in
freight rates enjoyed by Portland, and
rates from the East will be the same as
to Portland. With a good road, free of
toll, into Sherman county ineured,
goods can be landed in the southern
portion of Sherman and Gilliam coun
ties at about the same expense for haul
ing as from Biggs, Grant or Arlington,
and thereby the entire freight charge
from Portland to those railroad points
will be saved. The only advantage
Portland will present will be the advan
tage of a larger stock from which to
select." As regards staple goods, this
amounts to nothing.
We hear it frequently suggested that
The Dalles is the 6nly place to be bene
fited by the opening of the canal. We
insist this is a mistake; Moro, Grass
Valley, Rutledge, Condon, Fossil, Day-
ville, Mitchell, Antelope and Prineville,
in fact all interior trading points at a
distance from the railroad, will be di
rectly and materially benefited, and
consequently all producers in those
localities will feel the effect, both as
to prices of their products and their
supplies. The opening of the canal
means more to a very large section of
Oregon and Washington than any com
mercial event in our history.
It is stated that the United States
treasury has 350,000,000 ounces of Bilver
etored in its vaults and yet it is borrow
ing money to meet running expenses.
What is the matter with selling this
stuff which our senators from Nevada,
Montana, Utah, Idaho, and one-half
our senators from Oregon admire so
much? If any one of our three banks in
this city were compelled to borrow gold
to keep running, and yet had a propor
tionate amount of that Bilver bullion
stored in its vaults, they would be re
garded as poor financiers and unfit to
run a bank. Perhaps Mr. Carlisle has
overlooked this way out of the bole he
The city council has done the tax
payers of the city a most excellent ser
vice during the past- year in reducing
expenses. If a like saving could be
made in the administration of school
district and county affairs, there would
be a perceptible reduction in taxes next
year. We can do very little in the way
of reducing state taxes, but school and
county affairs are in our own bands.
They should be- so run that our aggre
gate "tax next year will.be materially
less.
now 35c. Fancy Tufted Eider-.
down, stripes, in popular light shades:;
regular 80c yd, sale price, 50c."
Underwear. v
Our entire stock of Woolen Under
wear in all grades and sizes, AT COSTj
broken lots at half price.
All-Wool Hosiery.
Child's and Misses' Ribbed ; rest. 20c, reduced to 10c ;
Ladies' Fine French Ribbed Cashmere; regular 600
reduced to 35c.
Ladies' Fine French Plain Cashmere, reg. 60c, red. to 40c
Ladies' Fine French Plain Cashmere, reg. 50c, red. to 35c."
Ladies' Heavy Ribbed, regular 40c, reduced to 25c. ' ';
Ladies Heavy Ribbed, regular 35c, reduced to 20c.
Ladies' Heavy Ribbed, regular 25c, reduced to 15c. "'
. . . Special . . .
1 case Child's and Misses' Black Rib
bed Cotton Hose, seamless, " Hermsdoif ."
dye, guaranteed fast black; only 5c pr. :'
Men's Extra Superfine Merino Half
K.
THE RISE IN WHEAT.
The recent sudden and unlooked-for
rise in the price of wheat may benefit
the speculators, but we believe it will
prove a curse to the men who raise the
wheat. In the first place it occurred
after nearly all of the crop of 1895 had
passed out of the hands of the farmers,
and almost none of them reaped any
benefit from it. It adds another temp
tation to the producer to withhold his
crop from market in anticipation of a
rise. In a large majority of cases the
holding is a direct loss, by reason of a
falling market, and the .loss on account
of interest, insurance and storage is al
ways larger than the farmer counts. As
a rule the producer who has his crop
early in market and sells promptly, re
alizes more out of it for himself and his
creditors, if he has any, than he who
holds in anticipation of a rise.
The recent rise in the price of whea
was due to speculation and not a legiti
mate demand, and already the market
is falling in Chicago.
The convention of Republican clubs
at Portland made a wise eelection in the
officers and delegates which it elected.
Judge Carey, the president elect, 'is
clear headed and clean hearted. Pos
sessed of unlimited energy, sterling in
tegrity and most excellent judgment,
he is the man tor the important posi
tion to which ho was chosen. The
executive committee is a good one. The
delegates to the national league conven
tion are representative men. And so
far as the organization of the party is
concerned, it was never so well equipped,
and its prospects for success in this
state were never so bright.
The governor . of this state has no
longer the power of pardon. Whenever
he attempts to pardon a criminal the
secretary of state vetoes the ( pardon
until the pardoned person or some
friends pay His Royal Kincaid the sum
of $2 for affixing the state seal to the
certificate. The fact is that the state Is
pretty much controled by the aforesaid
secretary of state, and a large part of
the revenues of the state government, as
now administered, find their way into
his capacious pocket.
Senator Mitchell would do well to call
off his friends. The senator is popular
and will, no doubt, be re-elected to suc
ceed himself. But a convention held for
the organization of tfife party and the
election of delegates to a national
league convention is not the place to ad
vance his interests. A little of the at
tempted booming like that which was
disregarded in Portland Tuesday, might
prove serious. '
Dr. Wallace has resigned and is going
to Chicago. "His experience in Oregon
mining speculation has fitted ''him for
Chicago life. He will there have
wider field for service and a larger sal
ary. He will no doubt ayoid in the
future quarrels with the family of bis
broker, and thereby' lessen his useful
ness in his new field. In the meantime
Oregon will have to become degenerate.
Article XHIyof the constitution of the
state provides as follows : Section 1
The governor Bball receive an annual
salary of $1500. The secretary of state
Bball receive an annual salary of $1500.
The state treasurer shall receive an an
nual salary of $800. They shall receive
no fees or perquisities whatever for the
performance of any duties connected
Hose; seamless; extra good at 15c, re
duced to 10c. Men's Dark Grey Mixed
All-Wool Half Hose; special value at 20c,
reduced to 12c. '.
Ladies' Grey All-Wool Knit Skirts;
regular $1.50, to close at $1.00.
Special Attractions
In our Neckwear Department. 24 dez.
Stylish Tecks, good variety of shades and
patterns; the best value ever offered at
25c, during sale only 15c.
Misses' Cloaks.
One and all at half price; sizes 4 to
14. Don't delay buying, as they cannot
possibly drop any lower.
Ladies' Capes and Jackets
At half their regular prices. Every
M. MILLfflMS
with their respective offices. Not even
the supreme court of Oregon could find
an excuse for holding section 2337 of
Hill's code com pat able with article XIII
of the state constitution. It provides in
substance as follows : The fees of secre
tary of state shall be as follows: For
certifying and affixing the eeal of the
state to any document or paper, $2; for
mailing copies of records, etc, 25 cents
per folio ; for filing articles of incorpora
tion, $2.50; for recording, etc, 25 cents
per folio. The - supreme court might
hold that this statute does not app'y to
the judicial department of the govern
ment and therefore decline to pass upon
it, but a man of ordinary common sense
would say that the legislature could not
have intended that the secretary of state
should retain these fees, even if he is al
lowed to collect them. We wonder if
the judges of the supreme court are liv
ing in glass houses.
THE BOND ISSUE.
The appeal to the nation for a popular
loan is now unquestionably a success.
From East and West and North, but not
from the South, come countless bids for
bonds at a rate which will make the rate
of interest not to exceed three per cent,
It demonstrates that there is not such a
shortage in the circulating medium as
our statesmen from the plow fields
would have us believe ; it demonstrates
the fact -that hundreds of millions of
gold are now seeking a safe investment
at a low rate of interest; it indicates
that if investors were assured a fair re
turn and a safe enterprise, there would
be no want of funds in this country for
business purposes; it demonstrates that
the North, the East and the West have
entire confidence In the stability and
integrity of our government, and that
ourjaction is not dependent upon Wall
street syndicates. Last, but not least,
it indicates that the next administration,
which will be Republican, will. Bee to it
that the revenues of the government
will be proportionate to the expendi
tures, and popular, or other, loans will
soon be a thing of the past.
Two hundred millions of bonds will be
the legacy of the Cleveland administra
tion to the McKinley administration;
but that administration will be entirely
competent to take care of them and in
time pay them off; and at the same
time set the wheels of industry all over
the land to humming.
The county court is proposing to do a
very wise act in reducing the number of
justices of the peace. Much expense is
caused the county by justices of the
peace who work for the fees there .may
be in the work. It is safe to say that
more than one-half of the civil cases
tried in justices' courts leave both par
ties poorer at the end of the litigation
than before, and every appealed case
involves the county in greater or less
expense. . A large part of tbg criminal
business of the justice of the peace is of
no benefit to a community. With fewer
justices there will be fewer justice
court cases and a very considerable sav
ing to the county. If the whole justice
court system could be repealed and the
essential portion of it given to the county
court, there would be a saving annually
of more than sufficient to pay the salary
of the county judge. ' Four justices
are quite enough to do the business in
Wasco county.
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garment correct in shape, correct sleeves,
correct in price. We have one or two of
those very stylish 26-inch French-made
Beever, Box-front Reefer Jackets, two
rows buttons, half-satin lined, strapped
seams; Black only; a splendid value at
$15; sale price makes them $7.50. We
have cheaper ones in proportion.
Our last two very nobby Child's Jack
ets, 4 to 6 years; perfection of style; reg
ular $6.00 sale price, $3.00; regular $6.25,
sale price, $3.15.
Lack of space will riot permit us to
give you more than an idea of our Great
Reduction Sale. Every article of Winter
Wear greatly reduced; some lines going
at cost and others at half price. Call and
be convinced.
It is very fortunate for all the aspir
ants for the presidential nomination
that J. C. Burkes of Moro refrained from
expressing to the Oregonian reporter a
positive choice. It would be too bad to
have all the fun and excitement of the
national convention destroyed, and" its
work done so long before hand.
Dr. Brown.the Congregational minister
of San Francisco, is strongly supported
by his family and a small majority of
his church members. Whether guilty
or innocent of the offenses with which
he is charged, both he and his wife have
convicted themselves of being fools,
Whether there is greater sin in being
what the doctor concedes he is, or in be
ing guilty of the alleged offense, we canr
not judge, and we are glad we do not
have to. Being either, unfits a man for
any pulpit, and the doctor will serve the
cause of Christianity best by ceasing to
serve it at all.
Wealth does not always shield the
guilty. Dr. Duestrow, a St. Louis mil
lionair, has just been convicted of mur
der in the first degree for killing his
wife-and child. It requires more than
money to fool an ordinary jury or sway
the ordinary judge.
A Delay Almost Criminal.
The branch asylum question drags its
slow length along. Meanwhile the num
ber of inmates to the single state asylum
at Salem keeps increasing, until the
poor unfortunates are crowded together
almost like sheep. This condition makes
it well nigh Impossible for those who" are
insane primarily from nervous disorders
to ever get well. Two or more are
placed in a single email room, even in
the more violent wards, and there is
constant danger of one patient 'abusing
another. Another difficulty is that in
the present over-crowded condition of
tbe asylum every available cell inust be
utilized. Hence if it happens that a
peaceful ward is more crowded than a
violent one, the peaceful inmate, per
haps a convalescent, is thrust amid the
noise and turbulence of the violent
ward, and it does not take a great length
of time to render the patient as bad as
the rest. It is altogether probable that
no asylum in the United States is as
crowded as the one at Salem, and there
is urgent demand for the construction at
once of the Eastern Oregon branch asy
lum. The latest dispatch from Salem
shows that the same circumlocution
which has been going on for two years
is yet in effect. Following is the dis
patch from Salem :
"Since the iast decision of the supreme
court, reversing the judgment of the
lower court in restraining the state board
of commissioners from locating a branch
asylum in Eastern Oregon, there has
been more or leES talk as t why the
constitutional question has not been
passed upon. - Though many prefer that
the board should proceed with the build
ing, others are determined to have the
court commit itself more definitely on
the power of the legislature to locate
the institution away from the seat of
government. The latter have not yet
evolved a definite plan, but the state
ment is warranted that a rehearing will
be asked or a new suit begun." .
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is known by
its works. The experience of half a
century proves that no other prepara
tion of the kind stops coughing and
allays irritation' of the throat and bron
chial tubes bo promptly and effectually
as this.
S CO
Dr.PIERCE'S
Golden Medical
DISCOVERY
Cares Ninety-eight per cent of all
cases of Consumption, In til Its
Earlier Stages,
Although by many believed to be incura
ble, there is the evidence of hundreds of
living: witnesses to the fact that, in all its
earlier stages, consumption is a curable
disease. Not every case, but a large per
centage of cases, and we believe, fully gS
percent, are cured by Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, even after the disease
has progressed so far as to induce repeated
bleediags' from the lungs, severe lingerins;
cough with copious expectoration (includ
ing tubercular matter), great loss of flesh
and extreme emaciation and weakness.
Do you doubt that hundreds of such cases
reported to us as cured by " Golden Med
ical Discovery " were genuine cases of that
dread and fatal disease ? You need not take
our word for it. They have, in nearly every
instance, been so pronounced by the best
and most experienced home physicians,
who have no interest whatever in mis
representing them, and who were often
strongly prejudiced and advised against
a trial of ' Golden Medical Discovery,"
but who have been forced to confess that
it surpasses, in curative power over this
fatal malady, all other medicines with
which they are acquainted. Nasty cod- '
liver oil and its filthy "emulsions" and
mixtures, had been tried in nearly all these
cases and had either utterly failed to bene
fit, or had only seemed to benefit a little for
a short time. Extract of malt, whiskey,
and various preparations of the h vpophos
phites had also been faithfully tried in vain.
The photographs of a large number of
those cured of consumption, bronchitis,
lingering coughs, asthma, chronic nasal
catarrh and kindred maladies, have been
skillfully reproduced in a book of 160
pages which will be mailed to yon, on re
ceipt of address and six cents in stamps.
Address for Book, World's Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
Durur's Population to Increase.
Dr. A. Deitrich of Dufur left this
morning for Wisconsin and Indiana on a
colonization scheme. This kind of work
is a favorite with the doctor, who practi
cally settled tbe Nebalem valley some
years ago with a thrifty population of
Germans, who have made that section
busy and prosperous. Though Dr.
Deitrich has reaped little benefit person
ally, he has benefited the common
wealth greatly by his work in this line.
For some time past the doctor has been
in correspondence with acquaintances
east, maturing in the present trip east.
Tbe colonists he will bring or who will
follow him will settle around Dufur,
buying in great part improved and
deeded land.
Advertised Letters.
Following is the list of letters remain
ing in the postoffice at The Dalles un
called for Feb, 8, 1896. Persons calling
for, the same will give date on which,
they were advertised : .
Brown, Walter Lowyer, Jas E
Brown, Alden Lockwood, W It
Canfleld, J H McBride, Mr
Cannon, O McDonald John (not
Friedman, J L 107)
Hall, P P Moore, Lewis
Jurech, Syman Moore, M A
Kirtzel, Pacil A Steward, Geo'
Lefrage, Robt Smith, Miss Belle
Todd, A Wood, Uladdis
J. A. Ckossen, P. M.
If hair has been made to grow a natu
ral color on bald heads in thousands of
cases by using Hall's Hair Renewer,
why will it not in your case
For Sale.
Silver-laced Wyandottes chickens ;
good layers, especially in winter. Fine
table fowl. Eggs per thirteen, $1.50.
A few young Cockerels for sale, $1 each.
lebo-lm Mas. A. A. Bonny.