THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY, AUGUST 8; 1896.
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Wednesday' slaily.
A number of musical traps have ar
rived for the cse of the Dalles band.
The hose team will commence prac
ticing tonight at 6 o'clock, the wet test.
Severe training will commence about
the 10th. The names of the team were
sent to Astoria today as required by law.
G. L. Harpban has taken ud a water
right of 150 inches of water out of a
creek on the north half of the northeast
quarter and the north half of the north
west quarter of section 1, township 2
north, range 8 east.
Sixteen farms in the vicinity of Pen
dleton, some in Oregon and some in
Washington, have been harvested, and
the returns show the average to have
been 311-..' bushels of wheat and 60 bush
els of barley to the acre, with the qual
ity fair. The heaviest yield eo far re
ported is 60 bushels. This was by
Philip Young.
Just now the farmers of the Grande
Ronde valley are engaged in putting up
hay, but the crop is so heavy that in
some sections much ot it will be left
standing. Huge stacks dot the valley
throughout its length and breadth. It
will be but a few days before the farm
ers turn their attention to the grain har
vest. . ' '
Tampa, a fleet footed animal owned
by Keenev Bros., Long Ureek, Or., was
sold recentlv at Anaconda, Mont., to W,
. F. Matlock of Pendleton. The consider
ation was $700. Tampa has made quite
a reputation in Montana, winning
half mile handicap race against some of
the best animals. She has passed into
the hands of an experienced race horse
man.
Prof. D. M. Bristol, with his wouder
ful performing horses, will open a two
nights' engagement at the Vogt opera
house next Monday evening. The
tronpe consists of thirty horses, who
perform the most wondertul tricks, gen
erally considered impossible for animals
to do. The most intelligent and accom
plished of these animals is Sultan, who
has achieved international reputation as
the horse mathematician. He works
sums in arithmetic, tells the time, and
even gives the proper answer torques'
tions proposed by persons in the audi
ence. The skill and sagacity of these
horses seem to require the exercise of
reasoning faculty. There Till be a mat
inee Tuesdav afternoon. The Baltimore
Telegram of a recent date says : "Prof.
Bristol's Eques-Curriculum, at Ford's
Grand Opera House, has been called
marvels of equine intelligence,' and,
without doubt they are. They can't
talk, but they do nearly everything el6e,
and their series of acts and tricks elicit
the most rapturous applause, and many
a dramatic artist would feel highly hon
ored to secure one-half the plaudits
showered on these dumb animals."
Thursday's Daily
The river stands at 19.9 above low
water mark.
The rainfall yesterday amounted to
four hundredths of an inch.
The school apportionment this year
distributes $136,104.15 in Oregon.
Sherman county is credited with 979
pupils of the 139,623 enumerated in
Oregon.
Workmen were engaged yesterday in
re-laying the state portage at the Cas
cades. Mr. W. S. Neece of Sherman county is
in the city on a contest case before the
register.
The sheriff and deputy collected about
$3,000 delinquent taxes last month, 'and
taxes are still coming in.
Dufur & Menefee have moved their
office into an elegant suite of rooms in
the the new Vogt block, and are the first
occupants upstairs of the completed
building. -. '
A fine basket of peach plums was pre
sented The Chronicle force this after
toon by Rev. 0. D. Taylor, grown on
the famous Columbia River Fruit Co.
ranchee. , Many thanks for the fine
fruit.'
Huckleberries will not stand civiliza
tion. Cultivate them and they die. A
Marion county farmer tried the experi
ment. This year they are in bountiful
supply in Baker county. In the vicinity
of Lehman springs the woods are fall of
them. .
State School Supt. G. M. Irwin writes
'to School Supt. Gilbert of Wasco county
that the supply of school laws is ex
hausted. There cannot be a new edi
tion published until after the next legis
lature : meets. Requests
therefore be useless.
The amusement market is very dull,
with prospects of a continued decline.
During the winter and spring past there
were so many lodge entertainments,
smokers, socials, Bnd society events that
it was difficult to select a night with a
prospect of securing undivided attend
ance. . Now it is different. People like
to sit upon their porches and just think
The run of fish in the lower river is
phenomenal, but the supply continues
very scarce above the Cascades. An
idea has been suggested that this fact is
owing to the hatcheries at the lower
river, claiming that it is nature for the
fish to return where they were hatched.
This is of course a theory and will ever
remain one, for it cannot be proved.
But it may be a fact nevertheless. The
way to take advantage of it, if true, is to
establish hatcheries in the John Day
and Deschutes rivers. It is pretty well
established that the fish return to the
rivers four 3'ears after they are hatched.
The traps for the band are a very com
plete assortment and include the sounds
made by a horse galloping, cuckoo,
B team boat whistle, dogs barking, police
rattle, cow, calf, pop-gun, hog, tree toad,
turkey, bull frog, pond frog.locust, police
whistle, rooster, jay bird, duck, bob
white, railroad train, canary bird, mock
ing bird, sleigh bells, gong, and a ka
zoo. Mr. G. A. Clarke will commence
mastering their intricacies at once, but
the band will not use them next Sunday.
It should be borne in mind that the
noises are not made for their own sake
many of them having no musical beauty
whatever, but serve to describe or inter
pret the music being rendered at the
time.
Friday's Daily.
The first gun of the campaign was
fired at Pendleton' last night by Hon
Harry Watkins, Populist nominee for
presidential elector who addressed the
citizens on "the political issues of the
day."
The Arlington Record has offered its
editorial columns to all of its subscribers
who may wish to contribute articles on
the money question until September 1st
The Record will say nothing editorially
itself until that date.
Judge .Latin bas hied an opinion in
the case of Stuttler et al vs. Baker
county, whereby about $21,000 in scrip
issued by Baker county officials is held
to be void, and the sheriff and treasurer
are enjoined from receiving any of the
scrip in payment of taxes pending an
appeal of the suit to the supreme court
River pirates are "-again at work,
Losses ot oars and rowlocks have been
frequent for over week, but last night
the theft of a small boat, was made from
Mr. Page's houseboat below the trestle
in Mill creek. In addition to the boat
which was a good one, worth about $50
a valuable sturgeon line 100 feet long
was also taken. Mr. W. F. Grunow also
reportB the loss of a pair of oars.
There is a growing demand for house
room in The Dalles. It is thought 'that
when the school season opens, "when
many families come in from the country
to give their childen schooling, that
houses will be very- scarce. Rent, even
at the present time, commands a very
high figure proportionately to other
prices. There is a good opportunity
presented in The Dalles for the renting
of cottages and tenements should more
be built.,
Three serious accidents have occurred
in the country this week. On Monday
Henry Mulkins lost part of a finger by
its being caught in a hay fork. Tuesday
Alex McLeod of Kingsley was thrown
from a, header sustaining injuries of two
broken ribs and possibly serious inter'
nal injuries. On Wednesday John
Green broke a leg by being thrown from
a header bed to a rock breaker. The
two latter-named will be confined to the
house several months.
BOHEMIA IN THE DALLES.
Lapse la Ethics Which Closed
. Doors Several Days.
Its
Wheat In Sherman County.
Mr. . S. B. Adams has just returned
from a trip to Sherman county, where
be has ranch interests. He reports that
there will be a good half crop, but that
had it not been for the warm spell there
would have been the largest crop of
wheat ever known in Sherman connty
He" thinks his own farm will average
about 15 bushels to the acre. Speaking
of the price of wheat he says that Walla
Walla merchants ajlow 40 cents on the
new crop and are anxious to get all they
can at that figure. The first two car
loads of wheat that got to Portland sold
respectively for 46 and 46)a cents.
When Baby was sick, we gav her Castor.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
Then she had Children, she gave them Castoria,
Real Estate.
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A. S. Blowers and wife to William
Haynes lot 1, seo B, Waucoma ; $600.
A. S. Blowers and wife to Eva B.
Blowers 2 acres in sec $4, tp 3 n, r 10 e ;
$100. . ' . : : ;
BORN. .-.
In this city, August 5th, to the wife,of
C. B. Johnston, a daughter. ,
BOB'S.
" In this city, Friday, Aug. 7th, to ths
wife of Prof. Gavin, a daughter.
The Dalles has a Bohemia club. It
would be hard to define just what a Bo
hemia club is, so different in character
is it from all other clubs. Especially is
it different in the primal particular of
membership. The ociv requisite is
brains, and the more of that a member
has the higher is his caste. It is the
only qualification for degrees. His be'
lief may take any shade and appertain
to any realm of thought either in sci
ence, politics or religion, if he has the
brains to successfully defend his chosen
hobby he is entitled to and receives all
due deference and respect. In each an
atmosphere liberty of thought takes the
widest range and some of the discussions
would be permitted in few countries be
sides America, where freedom of speech
is guaranteed.
Another oddity of this club is that its
meeting place is a place of business in
the city. Il meets at no particular hoar
and any hour is regular. The discus
sions which have been carried on in this
place have ut times been very brilliant,
generally interesting, always spirited.
The brightest minds of the city have
been attracted therein, persons high in
public esteem and possessed of acknowl
edged argumentative ability. Here
some of these have been fairly met and
matched by intelligences theretofore
hidden by the mediocrities of life. - But
having once been inducted into this hall
of mingled cults and beliefs, they are
ever afterward possessed by a spirit
which attracts them to the same arena,
to engage again and again in intellectual
battle.
A few days ago a couple cf enthusi
astic disputants violated the unwritten
work of the club by the war of words
changing to another form of battle not
conducive to the maintenance of the
Apollo-like beauty of the -combatants,
The effect was disastrous in the matter
of endangering the life of the club. Its
continued existence was threatened, for
the next morning the sign appeared :
do that, and is dangerous as well
Those forest fires sometimes travel faster
than a band of sheep can run." .-
Mr. Sherar has comprehended the
whole situation pretty well in the above
conversation. It is not probable that
the U. S. courts wiH strike so direct a
blow at a large industry as to compel
the sheepmen off the range, thereby
paralyzing the business of a large frac
tion of the state. There is a slight
grievance at the root of the matter
which we believe will be fully remedied
without involving al). the sheep owners
who have been summoned to appear as
defendants.
WARNED OF DEATH.
Frances Kreft Prophesied Tier Demise-
Death of P. Cross Kncalled.
: "Please don't talk politics in here." :
The genial smile of the shop-keeper
had vanished, and the place was other
wise deserted. No more the -walls re
sounded with oratory, eloquence or
logic. Silent industry was the order of
the day.
We do not know just how long the
sign remained, but only a few days later
the reporter happened in and observed
that the sign was taken down. The
grieved expression on the' face of the
shop-keeper had given place to . the old
smile, and in response' to a question ,he
said be had again opened the doors to
the old life. And now again are heard
the worldly combats of its habitues, as
the members of the Bohemia club as
semble in threes, and fours at the Wash
ington street tailor shop to discuss the
all-absorbing questions of the hour to
give and take, to wrestle and wrangle,
but through it all, to whatever heights
the impassioned voice and thought may
reach, there ever appears before the eye
of the mind that card with the dread
words upon it, "Please don't talk poli
tics in here," a dread warning and a
shameful reminder of the lapse of ethics j
of the Bohemian club.
MR. SHERAR RETURNS.
Be explains the Whole Situation
Very Clear Manner.
In
Mr. Jos. Sherar returned last night
from Portland. He says that he be
lieves a test case will be made of one of
the sheep companies, which will decide
the fortunes of all the rest. The one
selected he thinks will be the Tygh
Valley Live Stock Co., in which the
Messrs. French are heavy stockholders,
and that the trial will occur in a short
time.
Speaking of the effects upon sheep
men that the trial would have if it
should go against them, Mr. Sherar
said : "It we are compelled to remove
our sheep from the reserve it will mean
the ruination of the sheepmen, and with
them the balance of the country, includ
ing The Dalles. The greatest industry,
the one bringing the most money into
the country, is the Bbeep and wool busi
ness, and if that is killed, it kills every
thing else. There is not enough range
elsewhere in the country to graze our
sheep, and if we are compelled to re
move them from it, the sheep will drive
every hoof of horses and cattle from
the established summer ranges for that
stock in Wasco county. I believe the
trouble has been caused by one or two
njudicious sheep owners who drove
their bands to the range where the Bull
Run pipe line gets their water to supply
Portland. The bands of sheep have
polluted the water more or less and it is
but natural the citizens should take
measures of precaution to preserve the
purity of their domestic supply. . 1 be
lieve they are aided by another class of
people whose interests are against the
sheep grazing in the mountains. Those
are the sports who want to preserve the
game. . They have their friends who
come to visit them from the East and
across the water and they naturally
want to give them the pleasures of the
chase. But the sheepmen do not inter
fere with the game. The game is above
them. There is no truth in the allega
tion that the sheepmen have fired the
range It is against their Interests to
It seems that on rare occasions it is
given to mortals to know that their span
of life is about to be completed. In his
funeral sermon over the bodv of Frances
Kreft, Rev. Gray told of the deceased
naving naa several presentiments of ap
proaching death during the month pre
vious. She bad spoken to her parents
several times about it, as well as to the
neighbors. Of course those who listened
to her prophecy made sport of it, but
the girl could not be persuaded out of
the notion, and even left orders concern
ing her funeral which were carried out
by the grief-distracted parents. These
instructions included who was to preach
the funeral sermon and where her bodv
shonld be laid.
Another case of a death followins
an irresistible presentiment is that of
Fred Cross, who died in a railroad acci
dent January 4th, 1S90. He waa fire
man of the ill-fated train which wrecked
at the old ice house below Hood River,
and resulted in his death bv scalding.
He spent the evening of his departure
with Mr. W. E. Sylvester's family, and
they noted he was in great perturbation
He paced the floor at intervals and it
was evident something was preying on
bis mind. In response to questions he
said he felt that he was to be killed on
this trip, and didn't want to go. He
was asked why, then, he allowed him
self to go. He replied there was no ex
tra men on the list that night. He had
tried hard to get a substitute, but
failing, was compelled to go him
self. Before that, also, be had re
lated a dream of the night previous
in which it seemed he was burning
to death, and saw standing around him
the ones to whom he was talking. That
was the last time the Sylvester family
saw, him alive. He left on the trip and
was burned to death.
Where the impression which foretold
death in these two cases originated is i
mystery. It is not reasonable to sup
pose that it came from the individual's
own mind, nor the mind of any other
human being. The facts of its trans
mission and reception belong to a sci'
ence impossible for finite minds to
fathom.
The bare facts are related above.
What they would indicate as to the at
tributes of the mind is beyond the writ
er s Ken. rooaDiv no one living can
weave from them a foundation for
psychological fact. The human mind,
gifted as it is to investigation and re
search of all things outward, turna back
baffled when it attempts an introspec
tive Btudy upon itself. That which ana
lyzes is not capable of its own analysis,
The theologian would gather from these
events a warning imparted from the
Divine; clairvoyancy might seem
to be established by students of
another school of thought; and the
fatalist would find convincing support
of his belief in the fact of poor Cross
failing to find anyone to take his place
Sometime, somewhere, somehow, the
problem may be solved, but humanity
may well despair after so many centu
ries, of ever establishing what the mind
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who baa the right to wear the marshal's
star. We publish today the law appli
cable to the caae, and anyone of a judi
cial turn of mind may ponder over it
and draw his own conclusions. The
amended laws of Oregon for 1895, which
ia the latest authority, has the following
under heading of "Organization and
Powers of the Council :"
Chapter 5, section 27 : A majority of
the council shall constitute a quorum to
do business.
Chapter 5, section S2 : The concur
rence of a 'majority of a quorum is a
sufficient majority to determine any
question or matter other than the final
passage of an ordinance and the appoint
ment or removal of an officer.
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