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THE DATiT.ES WEKKT.Y CHRONICLE ; S ATTJRBAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1896. The Weekly Ghroniele. THE DALLES, OREGON OFFICIAL PAPER OF WASCO COUNTY. Published in two parts, on Wednesdays ana Saturdays. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. BY KAIL, POSTAGE PREPAID, IN ADVANCE. One year . $1 to Six months 75 Three months SO Advertising rates reasonable, and made known on application. Address all communications to "THE.CHEON ICLE," The Dulles, Oregon. Telephone No. 1. LOCAL BJtKVITlES. Wednesday's Daily. . Probate court is in session today, Mr. Mark Long was elected director of the baud at a meeting last nigbt. .The Dalles Commission Co. will ebip one car of plums and prunes tonight. Miller was released yesterday by Jus tice Filloon and the coats assessed to Mr, Skibbe. . ' 7 Mr. J. S. Scbenck is removing the big poplar trees from in front of his resi dence on Fourth street. Ten loads of sheep belonging to Far gher Bros, and three loads of cattle be longing to Messrs. Clarno, Burgess and Hinckle, were shipped to the Union Meat Co. yesterday. Johnson Bros, of Dufur are already doing business, having refitted a vacant some brick structure next summer. The season is now too late to commence it. A team belonging to Win. Drammond, attached to a wagon with a hayrack, ran away at noon today. " knocking down some porch supports at Geo. Keller butcher shop and the Gates building, No other damage was done. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Portland public school last even ing Miss Nellie Butler was honored by being transferred from the Hclliday to the Harrison school, the latter the larg est in the city. Eeport8 come from Dufur and Hood Biver that the tree silver craze has about run its course in those towns, and that thoBe Republicans who were tern porarily drawn after the phantom have about all returned to the part; of pro tec t ion, sound money and prosperity. The fall season for talmon fishing opened today. Better catches are re ported already. Oar. sheepgrowers are asked to go to Portland and. show cause why they should be allowed to exist. . Mr. Geo. Patterson-is delivering his wheat in the city. It is first grade and will command the top price. . Mr. Chas. Durbin is in the city with , 200 fine Merino bucks. One carload of these he will ship to Idaho tonight. Mr. A. N. Varney is running Mr. C, F. Lauer's old stand on Second Street, - and had the first salmon of the season this morning. Three inches of snow fell at Helena yesterday, which .accounts for the cool nights and mornings we are now experiencing. Eev. J. R. Warner is the new presid ing elder of the M. E. church, vice Bev. K. C. Motor. Mr. Warner will reside in The Dalles. It is learned that the going out of the electric . lights in Pendleton Monday night was caused by hundreds of millers having been drawn by suction under the large belt connecting the engine with the dynamos. The millers had flown in through an open window. Twenty tons of silica were shipped from che Mosier mines to Boston ttiis week. No one knows what is being re ceived for it. The cost of mining it and delivering f. o. b. at the Mosier depot is about $12 per ton. The silica mines now give employment to eight or nine The county judge and commissioners went this morning to Upper Mill Creek to view a road upon which the residents of that vicinity desired an expenditure of county funds. The gentlemen re turned not much inclined to favor the improvement, as it would necessitate the expenditure of $1,500. The delivery clerk at the "O" window of the poatoffice bad a "hot one" handed to him recently, says the Oregonian. Shortly before 1 o'clock a Swede cam to the window and asked: "You gat yanny latter fur me?" What's the name?" questioned the clerk. The ap plicant for mail looked surprised at the clerk's ignorance. "Why, you find der name yon dur latter, of course.". ' rrt i . . , h xuesaay morning Amine! superin tendent I. F. Tobey, ot the Oregon Children's Home Society of Portland, took to the city two boys, sons of John F. Boot. They are for adoption in care fully selected homes where they will receive Christian love" and care. Fam ilies desiring childrenT of any age, for adoption, please address Oregon Chil dren's Home Society, 500, Marquam Building, Portland, Oregon. Prof. Ben Dillon's lectures at the Baldwin opera house are drawing large audiences and are a treat to all who at tend. Subject tonight, "Superior Ani mallty of man," Friday evening, "Di vinity ' of Man," (Saturday evening. "Love, Courtship and Marriage." All should hear these lectures. Admission free. The professor is located during t.he day. at room 3, Umatilla house, where he gives private examinations and charts. Mr. B. K. Hollister, a brother of Dr. O. C. Hollister of this city, now : a chemist of Chicago, has recently in vented a process of generating formic aldehyd by the incomplete combustion of wood alcohol, to be used in disin fecting sick rooms, hospitals etc.- The medical journals speak very highly of Mr. Hollister's invention, 'and his many friends here, who will remember him as druggist for C. E. Dunham, will be pleased to learn of his success. The Pendleton Woolen Mills started up in earnest Monday, says the ill' bnne: Several looms are now running off brightly colored goods, which will be made into Indian robes. The carding machines are now turning off a drab colored wool which is to be nsed in mak ing blankets. A large stock of the soft est kind of wood has been run through the machines, and now only awaits the covering to be recognized as warm look ing comforters. Several hands accus tomed to the work have been brought into the city to enable the management to make a satisfactory beginning. It is very probable that what additional hands may be needed will be found at home. An Indian is making more money than anyone in town at the present time. Indian Jake's pile of sturgeon, as it lays on the sidewalk every day in front of the express office, ranges anywhere from 500 to 1,500 pounds, for which he re ceives 42 cents a pound. It is rather curious that Jake's line is always the lucky one. Our white citizens, and even colored brethren never bring so much sturgeon meat to the surface as does Indian Jake. If the Indian is possessed of an art whereby he can hook more fish he keeps the eecret inviolate. No one has yet found it out, though tbey look at him . curiously enough. Jake comes from a fisherman's family. His father and grandfather before him fished for living in the Columbia river, and he may easily possess valuable trade se crets which the white mau does not know. . Friday's Dally, Threshing is about completed in the country, and the yield is much better than was anticipated. : Mr. D. P. Ketch am brought up 450 sheep this morning from Lyle which are destined for Portland. The first of the hearings of he sheep men is set for the 16th at Portland, the defendants being the Tygh Valley Land and Live Stock Co, Maine will have an election next Mon day. Congressman Dingley predicts that the Republicans will carry the state bv 20,000 plurality. This morning Osborn and Welsh sent up four boxes of salmon from their seining ground at Snipes' bottom, as a result of their first day's work. ' What's in a name? The Seven Devils Mining & Real Estate Company has opened an office in Baker City. Only three names appear as incorporators. - Jagsby So you've been down to Col orado Springs, eh? I bear they sell no wbjsky there. Is that so? Sourmash Oh, my, no; it's a drug in the market. The building across from Jiaant's livery stable is being fitted up for the Dispatch office, and workmen are now engaged fitting up the old Acme press of the former Sun office. J. K. Long of Iowa bought 250 steers of Click, Baldwin and Harrison of Hay and Trout creek, which were brought to town this morning and shipped today from Saltmarsbe's stock yards. Porter Bios. Bold for The Dalles Com mission Co. yesterday in Chicago Jew- ett's Hungarian prunes for $1 per crate, Bennett's egg plums $1.25; Italian prunes $1.15. . The prunes are emi nently satisfactory. Messrs. J. B. Crossen, J. L. Story and Al Reese have signed a call for a Bryan meeting baturday night at the court house. . A Bryan club has been organ ized in the city, composed principally of Populists and " Popocrats." The Wasco County Christian Endeavor Union holds its third annual convention at Dufur, October 1st and 2d, to which Christian Endeavorers and their friends are invited. A fine program has been prepared and a good tiny is expected. - Mrs. Mary: Scott Myers was notified today of her appointment as a member of the National Executive Board of the Woman's Relief Corps. Mrs. Myers has always been a prominent worker of the W. R. C, and the. high honor is not misplaced. . . The special train carrying the state railway commission raq into a team and wagon near Baker City this - week, kill ing one of the horses. J. E. Richie, the driver, escaped with bis life by jumping from the wagon an instant before the en gine did its work. About two tons of fish were received yesterday at Herrick'a cannery, and to day Chinamen are busy canning them. This is the first of the fall catch, and though not so large as expected, is a very fair beginning. The cannery shipped a carload of the spring pack to New York City yesterday. Verily The Dalles is making itself known in the NOT WORTH WHILE. Portage 'Will Not Be Repaired Because the Locks Will Be Open Soon. More or lejs complaint has been made that the state portage railway at the Cascade lucks has not been operated for some time. The facts as they exist are reported in a Salem dispatch to the Ore gonian as follows : During high water this year, the lower incline was washed out, which stopped operation of the road. Since that time efforts have been repeatedly made by the board of portage com mis eioners to make connections over toe government roads, under control of the contractors, as well as over the private roads of Messrs. Day. At one time the board had assurance from one of the Days that their private road leading along the canal might be used by the state, but within a day or two there after the superintendent of the portage road was notified that the permission was withdrawn. This withdrawal of permission, as it is stated by Messrs. Day, grew oat of the failure of the D. P. & A. N. Co. to furnish a bond indemni fying the contractors against any causes of action for damages that had been sustained or might be sustained by rea son of blasting or other operations near the lower boat landing. The board has been very anxious to have the portage road opened, but the superintendent re ports that there is every reason to be lieve the canal will be ready for use by November 15th, and that therefore it would be unwise to incur the heavy ex penditure necessary to repair the port age road, as the canal will be open in so short a time. In answer to inquiries made by Secre tary Kincaid,. C.- C. Hobart, supenn tendent of the portage railway at the locks, has written : "I see no reason why the government locks should not be so far completed by November 15th, or even before that date, as to allow them to be opened for traffic, Mr. Day, Sr., said, September 5th, 'We have made a . contract with Captain Fisk and obligated ourselves to have them ready for business by that date and, if the weather is favorable, we will have them done before that time. If they are not finished by that time, it will be our fault.' Mr. Wiley, govern ment superintendent, as well as the en gineer in charge, are of the opinion that the work is to be completed as soon as possible." At the meeting of the portage com' mission this afternoon, Superintendent Hobart was instructed to take up the tracks, frogs, etc., from the state's road, and put them away and care for the same. AMOUNTS' TO PERSECUTION- WILL ROB NO MORE GRAVES. The King of Ghouls Falls a Victim to Indian Vengeance, The IT. 8. Government BtUI Parislng the Luckless Sheep Kaisers. metropolis of the nation. U. S. Marshal Humphrey came up yesterday to notify ten prominent sheep growers of this section to present them selves at Portland nine days after re ceiving notice and show cause why they should not be perpetually enjoined from using the Cascade forest reserve . for their stock. It is difficult to locate exactly the pri mary spirit which is behind and urging on to destruction the greatest industry of this country, but the facts are that the entire machinery of the government is being . turned against the sbeemen, with a singleness of purpose seldom ob servable in any cause for adjudication A haste is being shown in settling this matter wherein its expediency is incon ceivable. The flimsy excuse of forest fires caused by herders does not apply, for the season for fires is about closed. They never harmed the range by feed ing on it, consequently that cannot be urged - as an urgent reason for their speedy removal. Perhaps, when the facts are fully known, it will be found that a class of people like that of which the Mazamas are com posed are urging the abandonment of the reserve as a feeding ground in order to preserve the game and the wilderness in which they feed. The government at Washington has instructed Mr. Murphy to prosecute the cases .with" all vigor. The reports of trespass are supplied by special agents, who are likewise urged, to forward speedily all information possible to obtain. ' . Large Fruit Shipments. Another car of plums left The Dalles last nigbt for Chicago, shipped by the Oregon :. Fruit Union. The shippers were as follows: Win. Taylor, 253; Wm. Floyd, 186; A. J. Linton, 50; Dr. Sanders, 99; M. D. Farrington, 73; Marshall Hill, 44; John Wagonblast, 22, Jas. Hilton, 58. V - The Mosier country is fast developing as a fruit-raising locality also, the first full carload of fruit ever shipped ' exclu sively Irom there being -last night, whn The Dalles Commission Company cousigned a car of prunes for New York City. The shippers were Amos Root, 129 crates, Bellinger, .200; W. H. Hus bands, 100; R. McNeil, 100; J. M. Eliott, 126; Wm. Johnson, 150. A third car of prunes shipped by The Dalles Commission Company left Tues day for Chicago as follows : A. S. Ben nett, 632; . O. W. Cook, 24; D. Parish, 34 ; W. H. Taylor, 110. The Oregon Fruit Union expect to ship another carload tomorrow . night and one Saturday, which will make four this week for them. ' Prices are much better than last year. j. wo miners who nave been prospect' ing in the region of Mount Hood arrived in Portland recently and reported to the Oregonian that the body of James Hartley, a collector of Indian relics and curios, was found Thursday, Sept. 3d by Henry Peterson, a timber cruiser. on a small island in Deadman's lake, in the -dense forest which stretches from Mount St. Helens : to the Columbia river. Hartley will be remembered by many in The Dalles as a very pleasant-man nered man, full of lore concerning geol ogy and archaeology, and ever ready to engage in such a conversation. He was also possessed of a rapacity for Indian relics, and pursued many plans to get them in his possession, when he would send them East. He doubtless knew just1 where was the best market and must have made tremendous profits by his unusual occupation. Under one pretext or another he secured many stone implements and curios from dif ferent citizens of The Dalles. Rev. W. C. Cnrtis, Dr. Sutherland, Mr. S. L. Brooks, Mr. Carey, Miss Anne Lang and others lost a part of their valuable col-" lections through his smooth workings. Generally he would "borrow" them for Eastern exhibits, with a promise to re turn. If this would not do, he would promise to exchange other kinds of curi osities for the Indian relics. Miss Lang and Dr. Sutherland received some worthless "curiosities" in return from him in this way. He succeeded in in- dacing Mr. Carey to part with his for a time by telling him he wanted to pho tograph them, and that gentleman found them- later in the express office billed for the East by the enterprising Hartley. But he paid dearly in the end for his dishonest practices, lor at last he fell into the hands of his Indian ene mies. , v The condition of the body, which was found in an old canoe, the hands and feet bound by withes of hazel and fast ened to the stem and stern of the canoe, with a stake of hazel driven through it just below the breast bone, showed con clusiveiy that Hartley had been put to death with cruel tortures such as were inflicted upon white men taken priso ners by Indians in the early history of this country. Some such dreadful ending had often been predicted for him, as be had been for years engaged in collecting Indian relics and curios, and has probably robbed more Indian graves and scat tered broadcast the remains of more In' dians than any other one man ever did There is scarcely an Indian burying ground on the Columbia river, or the islands therein, or along the coast of Oregon, where such places are numer one, which Hartley had not ransacked in search of stone knives and hammers, beads, flint arrowheads, and other art! cles which Indians nsed to bury with their dead. Hartley had been so long and so aC' tively engaged in the business, and bis operations had extended over such a scope of territory, that be was known by reputation at least to many Indians, and whenever it was known that he was in any part of the country Indians from that section sent ont guards to protect their old burying places. Some two years since, while he was operating in an extensive Indian burying ground at the mouth of the Aleea river, be was shot at and narrowly escaped be ing captured by guards sent down from the Siletz reservation to keep watch for him, the Indians having learned that he was on his way to that place. Another time, when collecting Indian skulls at a burial place on Little Memaloose island, he narrowly escaped being captured through the canoe of his pursuers having been upset by their overeagerness to catch him. It seems probable that he had learned of the burying ground on the island in Deadman's lake, some twenty miles fur ther in the forest, where tradition says the chiefs and medicine men of several tribes along the Columbia used to be buried, and, lured by the prospect of a rich find of curios, he had ventured to visit the place, imagining that he would be safe from molestation in the depths of that great forest. The Indian guards evidently caught him and put him to a cruel death, and his fate might never have been known had not the timber cruiser, Peterson, been led by curiosity to visit (his island. SJ llllllll iiiiili-. '. - This is the very best - - Tobacco made. , Blackwell's Genuine TOO Will find OMflOama lnRlitaMuti h.-.a j-1 ." . . r bwTscxjupunj mnaeeacD ounce I tu ujuiuo wa see now to get joar soate of 1250,000 la i THE STATE EXPOSITION. Kxuiblts Keqneoted From the Banner County of Oregon. Mr. VV. M. Evans, agent of the com mittee of the Oregon Industrial Exposi tion, arrived today from Portland, look ing out ior exniDite for tbe exposition which opens on Seot.l9th and continues till Oct. 17lh. He was much disap pointed not to find Messrs. Schanno and Whealdon, but saw Mr. Schenck, presi dent of the Commercial Club, who promised to call a meeting of the club, as soon as the gentlemen returned. Mr. Evans says he mast depend on Wasco county for exhibits, as the fruit . i i . i . . . . eisewuero inrougnout me state this season is almost a failure, caused by the continuous cold spring rains. Mr. Evans while at Hood River actually found orders from McMinville for app'es, which seems a good deal like carrying coals to Newcastle, fur McMinnville is tbe center of one of the most phenome nal fruit raising districts of the state. We are glad to be enabled to say that Wasco connty has almost its normal yield of fruit this Tear, and our fruit raisers will doubtless sustain Oregon's reputation at the state fair .by liberal contributions for exhibition purposes. It should be sent by the 12th in order to reach the opening of the exposition. . Mr. Evans left this afternoon for Grants. He will then go to the Walla Walla country and perhaps revisit The Dalles.' . . . Lost HI Ray Hd Barn. Frank Watson had the misfortune to lose all his hay, about fifty tons, by fire at his place near FossiU oi Thursday of last week. Tbe fire was started by his 4-year-old boy, who, when his parents were getting up, jumped out of bed and ran out into the knehen, where he found a match on the table. He then went ont into the yard and made a cigarette out of corn silk and paper, which was) about to burn his finders when he threw it down and tlnm ntarted the fire, which, besides 'three stacks of hay burned a stable and corral and all Mr. Watson's harness. The house was saved by a stiff breeze which blew the flames in an op posite direction. - The little fellow gave his parents a dreadful fright by hiding before they got out of the house, and for a time they thought he had perished in the. conflagration r but when the fire wis at its height he dispelled their a ujr tinniuij uui ui t uuct? near me fire and running towards the bonse. The loss of his hay falls ' very heavily on Mr. Watson,, who is a- poor, hard-working man. Fossil Journal. Ileal Beta Transfers. J. E. Hanna and wife to A. S. Dis- brow, quit claim to w hf ne qr, sec 2, tp 2n, rlOe; $1. Mrs. A. E. Stranahan to Gertrnde Woodward, part of Wm. Jenkins' dona tion claim ; $1. J. E. Feak and wife to Lewis W. Watts,, n hf s hf, se qr neqr, sec 13, tp 2 rlOe; $1. John Wood to Rachel C. Wood, lot G, block 40, Ft. Dalles Mil Res; $50. Mary Weiser to Albert I. Mason, n hf ne qr, see 13, tp 2 n. r 10 e ; $700. The Wasco Warehouse Co. begs leave to inform Farmers that they have STOR AGE ROOM for 200,000 SACKS of WHEAT and any one wishing to store their wheat and hold for later' market can do so on usual terms. Also, they will pay the HIGHEST CASH PRICE for Wheat, Oats, Barley and Rye. s2r Leave orders at Tti Dalles Commis sion Co.'s store for. dressed chickens. Telephones 128- and 255. Ring 'em up. sll-dlm Fresh oysters at A. Keller's. 67-dlw Tie (ton lis Eiiou Opens Sept. 19th. Closes Oct. 17th. The Great Resources of the Pacific Northwest. Agri- culture, 'Horticulture, Fisheries, Mines, Manufactures, Ma chinery, Transportation, Trade and Commerce will be repre sented more completely than ever before. Grand Band Concert Every Afternoon and Eveniof. SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS EVERY NIGHT. Itooiest Rates Ever Jftade on all Transportation Lines. ADMISSION, 25c. CHILDREN, 10c. For exhibit space, apply to G FORGE L. BAKER, Superintendent, at tbe Exposition Building. E. C. MASTEN, Secretary. tub PriGG on Farm wagons pas Dropi; Awarded Highest HonorsWorld's Fair, Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair. , ' .'""''"DR;.:' ft mm 'Vi ' Most Perfect Made. 40 Years the Standard. That is, the price on some wagons has fallen below our price on "OLD HICKORY" Wagonf. Why? Because no other wagon on the market will sell alongside of the "OLD HICKuRY" at the same prices. It is tbe best ironed, best painted and lightest running, and we guarantee every bit of material in it to be strictly flrst-clrss. If you want the CHEAPEST Wagon op the market, we haven't got it; but we have got the BEST, aid solicit comparison. MAYS & CROWE, The Dalles, Or. J ob Printing at this Office.