THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. 1896.
The Weekly Ghroniele.
THE DALLES, - -' -
OREGON
OFFICIAL PAPER OP WASCO COUNTY.
Published in two parts, on.Wednesdays
and Saturdays.
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LOCAL, BREVITIES.
Wednesday's Daily.
8. T. Jeffreys will deliver a Demo
cratic address at the Baldwin Friday
night. (
A carload of lambs were shipped today
to the Union Meat Co. by Mr. D. P.
' Ketchum.
Mr. L. O. Hawn and Miss Susan M.
Lemon were married last evening by
Justice Filloon.
The first issne of The Dispatch is ex
pected to appear in the morning. Mr.
J. G. Miller is editor and Mr. R. G. Gor
. man "ye local."
Roseburg has a curlew ordinance for
boys, and a petitition has been filed with
' the council to have the ordinance changed
so as to apply also to the girls.
Saturday is Elks day at the Portland
exposition. Reduced rates will prob
ably be extended and a generous repre
sentation from The Dalles will attend
The street sprinkler was not out this
morning on account of a wheel breaking
down. The wind has, however, re
moved most of the loose dust about a
mile further up the valley.
A yery high wind blew last night and
today, reaching its height about mid
night. No accidents are reported. The
river is troubled in consequence, the
white caps Getting off the deep blue very
prettily.
A blaze in Moro Sunday night de
stroyed Armsworthy's blacksmith shop
and contents, Hunting's wagon and
paint shop with tools, three buggies, two
wagons, and Jones photograph gallery
and apparatus.
.. The First National bank of Heppner
sold 27,000 pounds of wool last Saturday
for six cents a pound. One hundredand
sixty thousand pounds is .all of the wool
' that has been sold in Heppner since the
wool blockade began last Jane.
" Hon. A. S. Bennett of The Dalles
speaks in Eugene cert Friday evening.
The manner in which Multnomah
county Democrats slaughtered Mr. Ben
nett last June doesn't seem to have dis
couraged him a bit. He is booked for
an active canvass.
The mammoth warehouses and The
Dalles flour mills are taking in consid
erable wheat daily, probably an average
of about 2,500 sacks. Yesterday was a
big day for the Wasco warehouse, about
1,200 sacks having come in, principally
from Sherman county. The grade is
from pojr No. 1 to No. .2, and brim a
from i'2 to 45 cents.
The irrigating canal on the west side
of Hood river valley is neariug comple
tion, and will furnish water for irrigat
ing that entire section. The canal will
carry 2000 inches of water, and was con
structed at an expense of $20,000.
The city council . has undertaken a
worthy work in opening the part of
Kelly avenue on the bluff. At the pres
ent time the farmers living on 3-Mile,
Dry Hollow and Dutch Flat have no
wav of getting into town. The opening
of this street will be a great improve
ment. Henry L. Wilson of Spokane and H.
W. Craven of Seattle, two very able and
entertaining Republican, orators, will
address our citizens tomorrow night.
Let them be greeted with a rousing re
ception. If each McKinley advocate
will bring a friend, the courthouse will
fail to contain the crowd.
Mr. T. M. Hunter of Wapinitia called
on The Cheonicle this morning. Mr.
Hunter, who is a careful and unpreju
diced observer, states that the Mc
Kinley votes will be fully equal to those
for Bryan in November, notwithstanding
the claims made by some parties that
the silver sentiment there is In the ma
jority. Thursday's Sally
Daniel Farrington was buried in Sun
set cemetery this afternoon.
Mr. J. P. Mclnerny is having his
brick store building painted a handsome
red.
Rowe & Co. have received about 100
000 shingles from the mill, which were
brought up by the Regulator.
Miss Dora Alexander is now employed
in Seufert & Condon's telephone office,
Mrs. Boynton having resigned.
Mr. J. R. McAvoy has accepted the
position on the Regulator made vacant
by the resignation of John McNeil.
Co. F of Baker City is to disband.
Small attendance at drills is the prin
cipal reason which has fallen off below
the regulation requirements.
Mr. F. S. Fox, who has been working
at Johns' mill, suffered a serious acci
dent yesterday. While tracking lum
ber, the load fell over upon him, result-
I .
ing in the breaking of his leg in two
Dlaces below the knee. Dr. Hollister
set the injured member, and Mr. Fox
was removed to The Dalles today to re
cuperate.
A good time may. be expected at the
"sociable" social Friday night, with
pumpkin pie, doughnuts, cake and
coffee included, for 15 cents. In the M.
E. church basement.
Robt. Mays, jr., came in from Ante
lope last night, having in charge 200
head of cattle, the labt of Mr. Mays'
herds, which he disposed of to Mr. Mel
lik of Montana. This closes out Mr.
Mays' cattle business, about 1400 bead
having already been shipped.,
A farmer's fonr horse team ran away
in the East end last evening. The lead
ers ran under Moody's warehouse, one
of the horses striking a post and laying
bare its frontispiece, so that the internal
workings of the brain could be ' seen.
The horse was still alive this morn
ing, and ate hay with its accustomed re
lish. It is rather a mean joke for Oregon to
play on Colorado; but Joe Bonn recent
ly sent to his brother, Gas, who' is in
Canyon City, some fine yellow egg
plums, and Gus thought they were nice
enough to put on exhibition at the state
fair there, without giving away their'
nativity. Of course the plums didn't do
a thing but draw first prize, the blue
ribbon, and it is now in order for the
Coloradoani to get tip a big immigra
tion boom- on the strength of its egg
plums.
Saturday night is fixed, as the limit on
bids for supplying a poetoffice building
in The Dalles, including the furnishing
of fixtures of modern pattern, light and
fuel for the term of five years. No pro
vision has been made for advertising for
these bids and it was quite by accident a
Chronicle reporter heard of it. There
yet remains two days for owners of . va
cant business blocks in The Dalles to
inquire into the specifications and make
an estimate upon what is required. The
bids are to be sent to Washington City.
Friday's Daily.
District court is in session at Condon.
The residence of John Brookhouse was
destroyed by fire Wednesday.
John C. Christie filed declaration of
his intention to become an American
citizen today.
Maie.- & Benton have on'exhibition a
handsome grape vine with its fruit at
their store building.
Do you want an up-to-date Piano? If
so, buy a Ludwig, Jewett, Standard or
Hardman at Jacobsen's.
' Messrs. F. Clarno and S. T. Jeffreys
of Portland will speak at the Baldwin
opera house this evening.
"Sociable" social at the M. E. church
tonight. Fifteen cents admission, in
cluding pumpkin pie, doughnuts, etc.
Deputy Robt. Kelley states that here
after an officer will be stationed at all
political meetings, who will preserve
order.
Grand opening and display of milli
nery on Saturday, Sept. 26th, at Mrs.
Phillips', on Washiugton street. Every
body invited. . It.
Mr. A. W. Mohr is circulating a peti-
tton for the improvement of a wagon
road between Rockland and S. M. Gil
more's place.
The Republican club will meet at En-
dersby school bouse on Saturday even
ing, Sept. 26th, instead of 8-Mile, as for
merly announced.
A bowling contest between the mar
ried and single ladies took place yester
day afternoon at the club. The former
won by a score of 145 to 142.
All that was mortal of Daniel Farring
ton was laid to rest in Sunset cemetery
yesterday. The services were held
at his home on 10-Mile creek, Rev. W.
C. Curtis officiating. .
The Wasco News has the wrong idea
of how it will work. It has reduced its
subscription price to$l per year, instead
of raising to $4, professing to believe that
Bryan will be elected.
Spokane is up-to-1ate and don't want
Wing & Son's Pianos. Why should you
buy cheap goods when you can get a
first-class Piano like the Ludwig, Jewett
and Hardman for the game price at Ja
cobsen's.
Dr. F. W. Parker, pastor of the Con
gregational church at Pendleton, will
lecture at the Congregational church in
this city, Monday, Sept. 28th at 8 p. m.,
on the subject, "lne Work of the
Teacher and the Relation of the Parent
to That Work." Prof. Gavin, who has
heard this lecture, pronounces it as yery
entertaining, witty and instructive. .
Mr. L. Coinini returned last night
from Mt. Adams, where he has erected
a handsome stone to the memory of
Frederick Troh. He reports the burn
ing of a residence and contents by care
less children, but cannot recall th
name.
An attempted suicide occnred last
night by the inmate of a house of ill
fame. There are some who profess to
to believe the attempt was pretended.
The medium was a capsule containing
carbonic acid.
The wreck of freight train No. 23 .came
in today. The engine was badly
A RICH SPECIMEN.
ChuneJc of Free Gold Ore
Worth Thousands s Ton.
An incipient mining excitement was
created this moruing by the discovery
by Mr. Freeman, one of the cement, side
walk builders, of a valuable piece of
quartz which was contained in a load of
dirt hauled up from Mill creek, near the
big iron bridge on Fourth street, for use
in building the walk. Mr. Freeman-was
tamping thedfrt when he discovered the
quartz, and washing it with water, there
was $2 or $3 of free gold in plain eight,
as pretty a piece as ever came out of the
ground. The find caused quite a tem
porary excitement, but it soon became
apparent that the specimen was far from
its original location, and Mill creek gold
stock will not go up in consequence. It
is variously assigned by old miners, of
which there are several in The Dalles,
to come anywhere from a ledge in . the
Cascades to the north pole. If one can
find the ledge he will find rock that will
yield two or three thousand dollars to
the ton. It is a decomposed quartz, and
different then any rock ever 'discovered
in this immediate vicinity.
Two other finds of rich rock have been
made in the past in this accidental
fashion. About four years ago .Mr,
Ralph Gibons' bov found a piece of
quartz, resembling the Virtue ore,
which is even richer than the specimen
found tbis morning. It Is a white, crys
tal-like ore, with gold sparkling in
abundance over one end ot it. This
piece was found in Mill creek, near Mrs,
Thornbury's residence.
Some years ago, in some dirt that was
hauled to Ninth and Pentland Btreets to
build the old military road which runs
past that point, there-was found a large
slug of rock rich in silver. It was
broken np and scattered before its worth
was discovered, and now no one knows
where it came from. -
I cinct in every connty throughout the
state with the result that people are
meeting us half-way, as is manifested by
the tremendous interest taken in all our
McKinley meetings, which early in the
campaign were' marked with decided
frosts in many localities.
"The result of the election will depend
more on King county than on any other
county or part of the state. If King
connty will do its duty, McKinley will
carry Washington, notwithstanding the
many prominent Republicans who went
back on their principles."
- Death of .Daniel Farrint;ton.
Railroad Notes.
The engine was badly de
moralized, the smoke stack and cab bay
ing been torn completely off, and the
machinery . badly twisted and bent.
There were also nine cars filled with
wreckage. "
M. J. Buckley will probably be the
nominal successor of A. J. Borie, who
has resigned as assistant superintendent
of the O. R. & N. It is unofficially an
nouLced that no one will be appointed
as assistant superintendent, but that
Supt. O'Brien will cover the entire line
unaided. But M. J. Buckley, who was
chief dispatcher at La Grande, it is un
derstood, wil' be train master, with
headquarters at Starbuck, and such of
Mr. Borie's duties as will be given to
anyone upon this section, will be per
formed by Mr. Buckley. It Is also as
serted that Tom Walsh will ' be made
chief dispatcher at La Grand?. East
Oregonian. - .
Bob Burns, a popular and- efficient
traveling agent, has been made travel
ing passenger agent in addition to his
traveling freight agency for the O. R. &
N. He has Walla Walla as his bead-
quarters starting point.
Nearly everyone hereabouts, says the
Pendleton East Oregonian, knows R. B
Wilson, "Bob," who was formerly with
the Northern Pacific as a traveler, and
lately was with the Great Northern.at
Spokane. Bob has a reputation among
railroad men for ' (Securing stock ship
ments for the road he may be working
for. He knows as much about -handling
cattle or sheep as the average stockman,
because he himself has had years of ex
perience on the range.- He generally
gets the Bhipment after which he goes,
because he never makes promises he
cannot fulfill and patrons therefore
know they can rely on him. Recently
there was a train load of liveetock to go
from The Dalles, and as shipments were
slack on all the roads, orders were issued
from all the railroad offices to the travel
ing agents to get that shipment. The
O. R. & N., of course, would haul It out,
but the question was which road would
haul it at the eastern end and land it in
Chicago. Exactly fourteen representa
tives of almost as many roads hurried to
The Dalles, and there was a lively scrap
for the shiDment. It was a memorable
straggle inasmuch as all the railroad
men in the country were watching the
transaction. Bob Wilson was talking
Burlington this time. Well, the Bur
lington got the shipment. Not a sur
prising statement, because Bob Wilson
usually gets what he goes after and he
got that shipment. '
McKinley Will Carry Washington. ,
Mr. Henry. L. Wilson of Spokane,
who will address oui citizens tomorrow
night, bad the following to say to an
Oregonian reporter Monday.
"There are 1,100 voting .precincts in
the state (Washington). Now, after a
careful canvass of the field, I have made
up my mind that there are, on an
average, at least ten voters in each pre
cinct who have not yet made np their
mind which way they ar going to yote.
These make up a total of 11,000 uncer
tain voters, to be brought into line.
'Of coarse, it is a well-accepted fact
that the' Bryan forces are not making
any gams in their ranks. They started
out with a - big' boom and hurrahed
everybody into line. The boom is burst
and they are losing adherents with the
setting of every sun. On the other hand,
McKinley is gaining dally and converts
are being made to an extent that leave
no room to 'doubt the result for next No
vember. It is this reaction that we are
all working on, and which will finally
bring to our standard the 11,000. now
uncertain voters. - Good work is being
done on all sides. Speakers and sound
money literatnre permeate every pre-
News was received in town last even
ing of the death of Mr. Daniel Farring
ton, which occurred at his farm, about
ten miles from town, yesterday at 6 p.
m. Mr. Farrington had not been in
good health for some time, bat bis death
was not considered imminent by mem
oers ol the tamily. Yesterday morning
he did not arise and complained of not
feeling as well as usual. Dr. Eshelman
was sent for and did what he could to
alleviate his sufferings. Towards even
ing be did not appear to be worse, and
a few minutes before his death he sat
up in bed and partook of medicine.
Mr. Farrington was a well-known citi
zen of Wasco county, and was respected
for his true worth and upright life. He
possessed the characteristic honesty and
rugged character which mark the sons
of New England.
Mr. Farrington was born in Halden,
Maine, in 1828, and lived in that state
until 1851, when he came to California
by. way of Cape Horn., He remained
there till 1870, when he returned to
Bangor, Maine, where he stayed till
1882. In that year he moved to Oregon
and settled on the land which was his
home during the remaining years.
He waa a consistent Christian, being
a member of the Congregational church
of this city. He leaves a wife and four
grown sons E. S. Farrington, an attor
ney of Elko, Nevada, 'Lincoln E., now
a student at the University of Oregon,'
Herbert and Myron D., residents of tbis
county.
Mr. Farrington "s death wil! be re
gretted by all who knew and respected
his manly worth.
The Class of '97.
The high school class who will gradu
ate in 1897 is composed of twelve pupils
and effected an organization last night
at the residence of Victor Schmidt. The
class is composed of the following
named persons : Dayton Taylor, Arthur
Stabling, VictorJSchmidt, Earl Sanders,
Ralph Fisher, Misses Mary Elton, Hattie
Marden, Emma Bonney, Georgia Bon-
ney, Retta Taylor, Beulah Sterling and
Ethel Deming.
The officers chosen were as follows :
President R. S.- Fisher.
Vice-President Miss Sterling.
Secretary Miss Emma Bonney.
Treasurer Miss Deming.
A committee on constitution, and by
laws was chosen, and are Dayton Taylor,
Victor Schmidt, Emma Bonney and R.
8. Fisher.
Committee on class motto and class
flower Hattie Marden, Mary Elton,
Arthur Stubling and Earl Sanders.
The senior class of '97 will graduate
next May. Weekly meetings will be
held until that time each Friday even
ing at 7:dU o clock in the east room of
the brick schoolhoase. The exercises
will consist of essays, debates and the
like for the mutual benefit and improve
ment of the class.
The first organization of the kind was
the class of '96, that graduated last
May. .
The Morning; Dispatch.
The Morning Dispatch made its ap
pearance this morning, and makes a
modest bid for public patronage in a
well-written salutatory, claiming that
inasmuch as there are two evening
dailies, it will fill a long-felt want. The
paper is well filled with local and gen
eral news, and being free politically to
endorse or condemn platforms and poli
ticians of whatever stripe, will adjust
itself readily to the good graces of its
patrons. Though three dailies for The
Dalles seems a bit like "crowding the
mourners," we welcome our new co tem
porary and wish it success.
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HICKORY". Wagons. Whv? Because no other wacon on the market will sell
alongside of the "OLD HICKORY" at the same prices. It is the beBt ironed.
best painted and lightest running, arid we guarantee every bit of material in it to
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MAYS & CROWE, The Dalles, Or.
Homestead Entries.
Estella Johnson, e hf ne qr, e hf se qr,
sec 29, tp 3 s, r 20 e.
Abraham Maver, e hf sw qr and lots 3
and 4, pec 7, tp 4 s, r 22 e.
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Commencing Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1896,
and ending Saturday, Oct. 24, 1896.
For Premium Lists, Entry Blanks and all information, write to the Secre
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J. O. MACK, Secretary. President.
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