THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1896.
The Weekly Chroniele.
TtlE DA.LLBS, -
- OREGON
OFFICIAL PAPEB OF WASCO COUNTY.
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
Wednesday's Daily.
Cranberries at Maier & Benton's.
Tiro ca of bucks were sent to Weiser,
Idaho, today by Cbas. Dorbin.
Premium books for the Wasco county
fair may be procured by applying at T.
A: Hudson's office. -
Mr. B. L. Murchie of Wasco is erect
ing a large barn adjoining Rowe & Co.'s
bnilding on Second street.
The East End presents a very busy
appearance again. Wheat is now being
hauled to the city in immense quantities.
The scow Interstate is at The Dalles
with a load of wood. She has the honor
of being the first scow that passed
through the locks.
Supt. A. J. Borie and wife will leave
for Southern California soon to perma
nently reside, Mr. Borie having severed
his connection with the O. E. & N.'
The Days have begun the concrete
work on the south side of the canal,
where a 12-foot retaining wall is to be
built, to keep the soil from waehinginto
the canal.
The Winans Bros., having won the
suit against them for contempt, will now
have the Indians prosecuted for tres
pass, the case coming up in a few days
before Justice Eorick.
The McMinVille Transcript mast be
edited by the "devil." Here is the way
an article was headed the other day :
4,A Hot Blaze The beautiful Presby
terian church in ashes splendid work
of the fire department."
A J . .1 . 1 i 1 1
a correnponaent oi tne vroiaeaaaie
Agriculturist, writing from The Dalles,
Bays : "I and my best girl took in the
band concert Sunday afternoon; and ti
eay that it was immense, would be put
ting it quite mild. It is one of the finest
bands I ever listened to."
Mr. Wbealdon Is showing a postal
card received recently from a citizen of
a neighboring town, with a very suggest
ive cartoon pasted on it. It represents
a silver dollar with the familiar title "In
God We Trust" supplemented by the
words "for the other 47 cents."
Apples are apples this year. They are
scarce and very dear already. Portland
. buyers have been in the neighborhood
this week and have bought up most of
the orchards op Mill creek. A good
first-class apple commands $1.50 a box
second grade $1.25. The partial and
often complete failure through the Will
amette valley this season is responsible
for the high price of the fruit. Even
partial failure in the apple crop has
never before been known in Oregon.
Wasco county leads the state this year
in her fruit yield.
Thursday's Daily
A good home demand for salmon ex
ists at the present time.
A party of pioneers from The Dallies
left this morning for White Salmon to
spend the day.
Herrick's cannery received three tons
of fish this morning, as compared with
five of the day preceding.
Ex-Governor Pennoyer has accepted
the invitation of The Dalles Bryan Club
to address an audience in this city, and
will be here on the evening of October
8th.
Today is Yom Kipper, the greatest of
Jewish holidays. . There are few to ob
serve it in The Dalles. In Portland the
business houses were to have closed,
and all orthodox members of the faith
abstain from food and drink.
roe reorganized MCKiuiey uiub is
going to be a tremendous engine of Re
publicanism in The Dalles and Wasco
county. A paper circulated since this
morning contains a vast number of
names of citizens anxious to vote for
Wm McKinley, and the list will grow to
marvelous proportions before tomorrow
night.
. lhe family of the late J. H. Graham,
deceased, desire to return their heart
felt thanke'to Friendship Lodge, No. 9,
K. of r. and members of Red CrosB
Lodge, No. 27, K. of P. ; also to friends
in this city for the many acts of kind
ness extended to them duriug the sad
rites of the funeral of their son and
brother. ,
Klickitat farmers haul wheat to Co!-
.nmbus instead of The Dalles for the fol
lowing reason: The rate from The
Dalles to Portland is only a cent less per
bushel than from Columbus. It takes
the teamsters one day longer to make
the trip to The Dalles, and as they can
haul only about seventy buBhels, it does
not pay. The condition has heretofore
existed, that after hauling wheat to The
Dalles the Regulator would haul it to
Portland for several cents less per bushel
than the company's charge from above.
But the portage" road being destroyed,
the Regulator is eliminated from com
petition. C. B. Don and eight others have been
hauled up before Judge Bellinger in
the United States court at Portland to
show cause why they should not be per
manently enjoined from herding stock
on the Cascade timber reserve. Just
when and Where this contemptible busi
ness is to end nobody appears to know,
at present. It looks as though knock
ing out "whisky to Indians" cases in
the United States courts at Portland,
stranded the marshal and his deputies,
and tbey have adopted this as a ruse to
keep up their salaries. Moro Observer.
Friday's Daily.
A large amount of wheat came in from
Sherman coucty this morning.
Rev. L. Grey will organize his second
German class at 4 p. m. tomorrow.
Ripe tomatoeB for catsup c entsper
pound at Dalles Commission Co. sl4-2w.
The young ladies of the M. E. church
will serve meals on Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday of the fair week. Place
will be stated later.
A meeting will be held this evening at
the home of Mrs. D. M. French, for the
purpose of reorganizing the Chautauqua
Circle.
The Columbia Packing Co. have pur
chased 100 head of fine beef cattle from
Camas Prairie, and wert driven to Salt
marshe's Btock yards this morning.
John F. Caples, Republican candidate
for presidential elector, left Portland
last night for Eastern' Oregon. Tonight
he opens the campaign at Heppner,
Morrow county.
Don't be afraid of lack of room to
night at the McKinley Club meeting.
The evenings are not cold yet, and the
street is big enough to overflow into.
Come ODe, come all. ' Everybody come,
A prayer meeting at one of our iead
ing churches last evening might well be
compared to a menagerie. The congre
gation was favored by two leaders, one
a Hawk and the other a Parrott. One
of the animals.
A use has been found for sheep bells.
sad reminders of a once prosperous past.
The city expressmen have entered into a
combine and use them to indicate where
they are during the dense sand storm of
today.
The Arlington Record some time since,
gave over its columns to its subscribers
to fill, thus placing itself on the fence.
A very desultory interest was mani
fested, the communications being short
and few. In its last issue the Record
comes out for the Republican ticket.
The Sadie B. comes up through the
swift water of the lower river with great
ease. The little boat is a screw propel
ler and though only carrying 100 pounds
of steam she ascended the river with as
much speed as the The Dalles City
(Japt. waua believes tne propeller is
the thing for swift water.
A number of old friends snrprised Mr,
E. S. Joslyn yesterday at the home of
Mr. J. R. Warner, the occasion being
Mr. Joslyn's 71st birthday. The occa
sion was very pleasant, except that it
marked the farewell perhaps forever of
many of bis old friends who had as
sembled at the White Salmon farm.
When the McKinley club meets at the
council chambers tonight, a list of about
300 names for the re-organized club will
be presented by the president, Mr. F.
W. Wilson, which will be a grand and
enthusiastic starter for the campaign.
The list ought to be doubled before No
vember, and if it is and the balance of
the state does as well, Orgon can easily
be counted in the McKinley column.
A dispatch from Arlington says: "A
young man named Jtsoyer met with a
serious, if not fatal, accident at Condon,
in this county, last evening. He was
working for a threshing crew. In step
ping over a tumbling rod, his foot
caught and he was wound around the
rod 8. Before the machinery could be
Btopped the bones of his leg were
crushed in a terrible manner. Amputa
tion win be necessary.
There will be a meeting of the Lincoln
Republican club of Endersby at the
white school bouse in 8-Mile precinct on
Monday evening, Sept. 21it at 7 o'clock,
for the purpose of organizing a club un
der the rules of the Republican league
of Oregon. For William McKinley and
protection, all those who favor a home
market for his products, steady employ
ment for the laborer, to be paid in
money as good as gold, are invited to be
present.
The A. O. U. W. convened a little
earlier than usual last evening and were
soon after greeted . with a delegation of
ladies from the Degree of Honor inviting
them to a grand banquet at Herbring's
old store across trie street from his pres
ent location. The occasion was in honor
of the visiting grand lodge officers.
There were covers placed for 159 guests.
The mirth of the evening lasted until
nearly 12 o'clock. The excellence of the
banquet was never excelled in the city.
The grand officers made very interesting
addresses and the evening passed all too
quickly. .
A CRYING SHAME.
The Farmers Lose Thousands of Dollars
Again on Freights.
To a man up a tree it looka as though
the wheat farmers bad again been sold
out, and that there is a very black tiigger
in the woodpile.
The most severe effect of tearing up
the portage road is to place the wheat
raisers completely at the mercy of the
railway transportation company ' again
it is impossible, by tne expensive pro
cess of transporting across the portage in
wagons, for the D. P. & A. N. Co. to
handle this year's wheat crop at any'
thing like the rates of last year.
We are informed that the state por
tage road could have been fixed np for
the trifle of $150. Instead of repairing
it, however, Mr. C. C. Hobart, who was
employed by the state and paid by tbe
patrons of tbe D. P. & A. N. Co. to
superintend the portage, saw fit to de
stroy it. We do not charge that he has
been induced by the railway corporation
to destroy the portage, while paid by
the state to keep it in repair and operate
it, but we should feel better about it if
tbe following questions were satisfac
torily answered :
Why was it expedient to remove the
portage road?
Was it in the way of the Day Bros?
If so, how?
Did anyone petition or request that it
be removed?
If it had - been in operation would it
not have saved the producers of wheat
alone thousands of dollars in transpor
tation charges?
For months tbe D. P. & A. N. Co.
have toiled along as best they could
without the use of the portage road.
What measures have Mr. Hobart ever
taken to enable tbe Regulator line to
continue, its use? Where is there a
record of his protest against its discon
tinuance, or of any effort made by him
to reopen it?
x If he is paid a good salary for superin
tending and operating the portage, why
has he not superintended and operated
it, and does his salary continue for not
doing so?
When these questions are answered,
we will then be better enabled to judge
whether it is necessary for the Klickitat
farmers, who have heretofore hauled
their wheat to The Dalles, to haul it to
Columbus as they are now doing. The
effect is so far-reaching that the Dia
mond Flour Mills of this eity do not re
ceive enough for their own consump
tion, and are compelled to pay above,
the market price for wheat. Their fig
ures yesterday were 50 cents a bushel.
This figure does not indicate prosperity
for the farmer, for the market for home
use is limited. It is also & figure of
fered at the sacrifice of tbe flour milling
company by force of pressure of the
larger transportation company, who re
ceive the bulk of the crop for shipment
at Columbus, and out of which they ex
tract a generous toll for shipment to
Portland.
The. coming fair.
Arrangements Entered Upon with Great
. Spirit by J. O. Hack and Others,
I
Mr. J. O. Mack, the genial, secretary
of the Second Eastern Oregon District
Fair Association, has taken a desk in
the office of T. A. Hudson, on Washing'
ton street, where be can be consulted in
any matters pertaining to the fair and
races, which will open on the 20th of
October and continue five days. From
tbe amount of papers and books be has
received it would seem that he intends
to do a land office business, and if tbe
fair is not a success, it will not be his
fault, as he always takes great interest
in this matter, and the management all
acknowledge that, tbe successes of the
past years are almost entirely due to his
energy and perseverance. With the
able assistance of Miss Anne Lang as
chief marshal of the pavilion, we may
look forward to the fair of 1896- as being
the banner fair of tbe state.
The race track is being put in condi
tion under the superintendence of Mr.
Alden Brown, an able and experienced'
track man, and you can look out for
record-breakere this fall. But do not
forget that these people cannot make a
successful fair themselves, bat only
with your assistance ; and do not say
that you did not know. Ask and ye shall
receive,' knock and it shall be opened
unto you all the information necessay
to make the fair a grand success.'
A. O. IT. W. Entertainment.
The entertainment of the A. O. U. W
Thehfghest claim for other
toDaccos is "just as
good as Durham."
Every old smoker
Knows tnere is cone mst
as good as
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mm
Yon will find one coupon' inside
each two onnce bag, and two cou
pons rnsiae cacn lour ounce
bajr of Black well 'a Durham.
Buy a bag of this cele
brated tobacco and read the
coupon' which givea a list
of valuable presents and iow
j . 10 get tuem.
Ferry Watklns Will.
Lost.
This morning, between 8- Mile and
The-Dallfg, a check on Moody's bank in
favor of Fred. Drake. '. Finder will leave
same at Moody's bank. - , 'sl8-2t
Fresh oysters at A.' Keller's. s7-dlw
At the last session of the county court
the will of Perry Watkins was probated
The will specifies the administrators
preferred, but owing to various Condi
tions tney ail resigned, and there were
appointed by the court, C. E. Bayard
and Frank Watkins, who will act as ad
ministrators jointly. Tbe following is
the text of the will.
In the name of God, amen, I, Perry
Watkins, of the age of 69 years part, re
siding in Wasco county, Oregon, mind
ful of tbe uncertainties of mortal life,
and being of sound and disposing mortal
life and memory, and not under the mis
representation or undur influence of
anyone, hereby make, publish and de
clare this my last will and testament,
that is to sa y :
1'. I desire that all my just debts,
funeral expenses, expenses of my last
illness, and expenses of administering
my estate under this will, be first paid
out of any money or property of which
I shall die, seized or possessed.
2. All of my residue and remainder
of my property, of whatsovever kind or
nature, wherever situated and of which
I shall die seized or possessed ,1 give, de
vise and bequeath as follows :
To my son, Geo. Watkins, one-fourth ;
to my son Frank Watkins, one-fourth ;
to my daughter Rebecca Bayard, one
fourth ; and one fourth to my grand
children, Genevieve and Bessie Watkins,
infant daughters of my deceased son,
Perry Watkins, jr; it being my inten
tion and desire to treat all my children
alike in tbe disposition of my property.
my said grand children to have and to
receive the one-fourth part, which I
should give to their father had he been
living, and I farther desire and direct
that in the' event of the death of either
of rny said grandchildren before arriving
ui full ni9, and while single, then tbe
survivor is to receive- the one-founh
part, hereby devised and bequeathed to
them equally.
The third clause names George and
Frank Watkins, Rebecca Bayard and
Frank Menefee joint executors of the
will ; and that Frank Menefee specially
represent the grandchildren Genevieve
and Bessie Watkins.
The will is dated September 24, 1895.
Accompying the will was a petition
from Mrs. Rebecca Bayard to nppoint
O. E. Bayard and Frank Watkins as ad
ministrators of the estate, as those men
tioned by Perry Watkins deceased, had
declined to serve. 1
drew a room full of people at the Bald
win opera bouse last night, and they
were well repaid for going. There were
present npon tbe stage Mrs. Bolman
grand chief of honor; Mrs. Young, past
granc" chief; Mrs. Maggie Huston, grand
recorder; E. Worlin, grand master
workman, and D. C. Herrin, grand lec
turer. After a very fine chorus by a
number of voices composing the Degree
of Honor choir, Mrs. M. E. Briggs ap
peared upon tbe Btage and delivered an
address of welcome. We are at a loss to
find sufficient words of praise to prop
erly describe this address. With great
elocutionary power, Mrs: Briggs de
livered a welcome so replete with beau
tiful sentiment, the whole pervaded
with an overpowering . spirit of frater
nity, that tbe moments required in de
livering it sped by unmarked. The
response was by Grand Master Worlin,
who in an interesting address of con
siderable length appealed to all to join
the Workmen, closing with the scrip
tural quotation that he who did not pro
vide for his own family was worse than
an infidel. A pretty vocal duet followed
by Mrs. O. Stephens and Mrs. . Young,
assisted by Messrs. Jesse Crandall and
Dr. Doane. Grand Lecturer D. C. Her
rin tnen surprised nis mends by a
forceful address upon tbe benefits of
Workmanship, answering every charge
of its enemies by facts and figures which
were invincible. Mr. Herrin shows
qualities valuable for a statistician. His
head contains more figures than an old
lasnioned Kays arithmetic. tie was
listened to carefully to the close. A
vocal solo by Dr. Doane followed. The
gentleman was in good voice and the
selection was much appreciated. Mies
Jennie Russell next recited a very dra
matic recitation which claimed the
closest attention. After a chorus, a
tableau was given entitled "Charity,
Hope and Protection." It was very
beautiful and most effective, embodying
at a glance the lesson to be learned by
the program which bad preceded it.
Owing to the great crowd of people pres
ent, no effort was made to secure names,
but the entertainment cannot fail of
largely increasing the membership of
the order. The A. O. U. W. has fairly
opened the amusement season.
For Sale.
A lot of Merino sheep, (bucks) also
stock hogs and milk cows, belonging to
tbe estate of S. Hanser. For informa
tion inquire of Mrs. S.' Hauser, at Tygh
Valley, or the undersigned. ,
Gboegb A. Liebb,
sl6-dwlm Administrator.
For Sale or Trade.
For good sheep, a well-improved 30
acre farm in Southern California. For
particulars apply at this office. s7-w2
At his residence in the pines at 2
o'clock this morning, John Fares, of
consumption. .
Tbe funeral will take place from the
house at 2 o'clock tomorrow. He leaves
a wife and three' children in straitened
1 circumstances.
Awarded
Highest Honors World's Fair,
Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair.
The Eighth
Annual
pair
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That is, the price on some wagons has fallen below our price on "OLD
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