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.
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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.". '
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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.
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very best
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Tobacco
made. ,
Blackwell's Genuine
TOO Will find OMflOama lnRlitaMuti h.-.a j-1 ." .
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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
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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
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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. , '
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' 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.