THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17. 1896.
The Weekly Chroniele.
-THE DALLES, ... - - OREGON
OFFICIAL PAPER OF WASCO COUNTY.
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LOCAL BKEVIT1K8.
Wednesday's Daily.
The postoffice is shortly to be moved
to the Vogt block.
Mr. N. L. Butler gives a Popnlist talk
at the Baldwin this evening. .
'Free eilver" parses are in market.
They are nearly two feet long, and of
pleasing color and shape.
The Good Templars will give a social
in their bail Saturday evening. A pro
gram has been prepared and lunch will
be served. Admission 10 cents. f
All Maccabees are requested to meet
at 7 :30 this evening in order to give
those who wish a chance to attend the
Artisans entertainment. Important
business.
Dr. Logan was called to Grants today
to attend to an unknown individual who
was injured by a locomotive. A special
locomotive was ordered, which left for
Grants at 12 :30 o'clock. '
Mr. D. L. 'Cates sustained & severe
fall from his bicycle the other day at
the Cascades, bruising and cutting one
side of his face so badly that three
stitches had to be made by a physician.
The announcement that Hon. F. X.
Schoonmaker was to be withdrawn from
, his Oregon dates caused such disap
pointment that it was dicided to allow
him to fulfil them. He will, therefore,
speak in The Dalles October 20th.
Work is being pushed at the Locks
with all possible speed. Hundreds of
men are working and the new dredger is
being fitted np for use at the upper
lock. There is no reason to believe that
the work will not be finished by No
vember 15th.
Mr. Fraeer's new barber shop, across
the street from The Chronicle office,
Mr. O. A. Peterson's old stand, has
been' beautifully fitted up. The ex
terior has been finished in antique cop
per, and the interior changed to fill the
requirements of a first-class shop. The
change of .location will' be much appre-
ciated by Mr. Frazer's patrons.
The Wizard Oil Company furnished an
entire change of program last evening
along the lines of the first night's per
formance, except the turn of the little
acrobat, which does not furnish much
opportunity for diversity. The show
was fully as much appreciated and the
audience was larger than on the first
night. Tha beautiful presents given
away are attracting favor ible comment.
Thursdays Daily
'I'm sweet sixteen," she proudly said
"I've a dozen beaux for fun,
But now my heart has made a choice.
I'm only oweei sixteen to one."
Hon. Benjamin Butterworth speaks
to a Portland audience this evening.
Editor Otis Patterson, of the Heppner
Gazette, was elected grand vice chan
cellor of the K. of P. at the state grand
lodge in Portland.
Mr. O. Kinersly won the handsome
horse, harness and buggy at the 'raffle
last evening, and afterward sold it to
Mr. James Blakeney.
Pitchfork Tillman of South Carolina
is in. the land. The East Oregonian an
Bounces ms arrival on the 14th lor a
campaign of the state, which he opened
in Portland last evening.
Messrs. B. S. Huntington and N. J,
Sinnott spoke at Kingsiey last evening,
Mr. Sinnott reports that Kingsley will
do its partnoblo toward swelling Wasco
county's majority for McKinley.
Fortunately la&t night at the Wizard
Oil concert the newly-married couple
won the case containing knives and
forks, spoons, sugar spoons, etc., which
will proye a nice wedding present.
The D. P. & A. N. steamers, Regulator
and Dalles City, will begin regular trips
- through the Cascade Locks within 10
dayB. With the understanding, of
course, that the secretary of war con
Bents. Moro Observer.
Outside of the drum corps, there were
two persons in the Bryan parade last
evening. One was a tall individual in a
navy blue suit, and oue was a boy bear
ing a small float, lit from within on the
flickering double standard plan.
The Wizard Oil C iinpany continues
to draw, and despite the counter attrac
tions last evening, the . Vogt was again
filled, and as Uoual, an entirely new
program was presented. A diamond
ring is to be. given away this evening
and all holding ticket coupons are care
folly preserving ihem for the event.
The alarm of fire last evening was re
sponded to with remarkable celerity.
A full minute had scarcely elapsed until
the Jackson engine, the cart and . the
book and ladder company were upon the
scene. There was no demand for their
services, for the fire was only the burn
ing out of a chimney in French's bank.
Congressman Binger Herman will
speak at Wasco, Shermaru, county, - on
Thursday afternoon, October 29, and on
thA nvpninir of the same day at Moro.
On Friday, October 30, he will speak at
The Dalles. Mr. Hermann has been
making an energetic canvass for the Be
publican ticket, and the farmers every'
where should make a point ot hearing
him.
E. Kiblinger was arrested in Pendle
ton Tuesdav for. beating his 6-year-old
bov. It is alleged he took a piece of
scantling four feet long and beat the
little boy until his body was a mass of
bruises. Neighbors assert that he neg
lects his children, and they say they
will take steps now to have them re
moved from his home and given into
better care.
Dr. Logan found the individual whom
he was called by special to attend at
Grants to be a party without means try
ing to go to Portland. He was sitting
on the edge of the low platform at Grants
and fell asleep. The locomotive came
along,' the engineer not believing the
man was asleep, from his position, and
lie was struck in the head by the pilot,
The wound, however, did -not prove to
be serious.
A surprise was given the audience last
evening at the stereopticon exhibition
by showing a mammoth cranberry patch
in which there were a number oj pickers
gathering the fruit. Many thought it
represented a strawberry patch, and
there was but one person who, upon in
vitation of the lecturer, guessed what it
was. It is a fact very little is known,
even in Oregon, that the most phe
nomenal yields of cranberries abound
near Long Beach, and it is also true that
a comparatively few persons have made
hnndreds of dollars by gathering and
selling this fruit.
Friday's Daily.
, News was received of the death last
night near Dufur of an old gentleman
named Campbell.
The Denver Times-Sun announces its
bimetallic principles by a streak of gold
en yellow through the center of each
page in its last issue.
The fall rains areAolding off late this
year. It is time to begin fall plowing,
but the ground is yet too dry in most
places to admit of its attempt.
Dr. I. D. Driver will address the citi
zens of Cascade Locks on the political is
sues of the day Saturday evening, Oc
tober 17, at 7:30, at Leavens' hall.
There will be a regular meeting of the
McKinley club this evening at the court
house. A full attendance is requested
by the president, Mr. L. E. Crowe.
Judge Bradshaw and Attorney Jayne
leave in the morning for Prineville to
attend circuit court. The principal
criminal trial is Campbell who killed
Swearingen on the 4th of July last.
Clias. Hilton is in receipt of a letter
from a fellow delegate to the St. Louis
convention, who lives in West Virginia,
stating that bis state will give McKinley
at least 5000 majority, and that his ma
jority may run up to 1500.
The beautiful silver set of 27 pieces
was won last evening by Mr. Louis
Mayer, and the four piece silver table
set by Mr. Henzie. A silver water
pitcher worth $25 is to be given away to
night, and another diamond ring.
Gen. Benjamin Butterworth of Ohio
made a great speech in Portland last
evening. Thousands were unable to
gain admission to the Marquam Grand,
and a monstrous overflow meeting was
addreesed by Hon. Rofus Mallory.
In those sections ot the state where
the fruit crops were unsuccessful (name
ly in weBtern portions, the loss is partly
compensated in the increased growth
and vigor of the trees, which is import
ant, since there are a large number of
young orchards.
A $2800 gold brick was brought into
Grant's Pass the other day, by King and
McComber from their Williams creek
mine, the Oregon Bonanza. The treas
ure was the result of crushing twenty-
seven tons of rock, and they netted over
$100 to the ton.
William Holder, sheriff of Sherman
county, and William Hendricks, clerk of
the same county, were in Portland yes
terday. Both are Republicans, and,
while admitting that the vote of Sher
man county will be close next month,
they look for a email plurality for Mc
Kinley. Encouraging reports continue to come
from the country precincts for the cause
of Republicanism, and the prospect of
McKinley's success in Marion Co. grows
brighter as election day approaches. In
addition to the six dozen uniforms and
torches of the Salem Flambeau Club,
600 more torches have been ordered.
Homer Davenport, the Silverton boy
now reputed to be drawing $1000 a week
on the New York Journal, is dealt this
cruel thrust Jby the Washington Post:
"We are confident that when election
day dawns united labor will go to the
polls and vote a stinging rebuke to Car
toonist Davenport. His pictures of Mr.
Hanna are terrible." Homer Daven
port is a cousin of Mr. R. G. Davenport,
of The Dalles Chronicle. While the
latter admires bis cousin's artistic abil
ity, he does not approve of the course be
is pursuing in the above regard. . The
Chronicle Davenport is an ardent Mc
Kinley man. - -
SALMON GALORE.
Creeks Plentifully Stocked Bow Tills
noftk Bay People Live.
Two gentlemen who tecently took
fishing and hunting trip' by foot with
pack horse, along the line of the railroad
to Portland and to Tillamook bay, tell
many interesting facts.
On the outgoing trip little creeks put
ting into the Columbia on the Oregon
side were found to be chock full" of sal
mon. So great were their numbers that
they almost dammed the creek in places,
The water was clear and they could
plainly be seen. For the most part they
were very large, many being about three
feet in length. Tbev wonld not bite at a
hook, and one of the hunters wasted
several shots from a rifle trying to shoot
one, until it occurred to him all at once
that be must allow for the reflection
caused by the water. Holding about
four inches under he tried again, the
shot piercing the fish about the center of
the body. After thrashing about in the
water for some minutes, discoloring it
with bis blood, he was finally captured.
On the return trip three weeks later,
there seemed to be nearly as many fish,
but they were dead. They had beat
themselves to death trying to ascend the
streams over the rocks, and the air was
impregnated with their decaying stench.
The Tillamook bay country is pre-em
inently a dairy country. The forest
growth and brush is so thick a rabbit
could not penetrate it, but there Is a
strip of prairie land about 5 miles wide
by 20 long, which furnishes annually the
most phenomenal growth of clover and
alfalfa ever seen. Almost every family
owns milk cows and depends upon milk
and its manufactured products for a liv
ing. Whole shiploads of cheese are ex
ported from Tillamook bay, raised in this
small area. It is a lazy man's country, for
outside of milking twice a day and turn
ing the herds into pasture, little- else
furnishes occupation, and hunting and
fishing may be indulged. Neither is
profitable from a commercial standpoint,
though salmon fishing might be made to
reach enormous proportions. Tillamook
bay is usually full of the finest salmon,
but only the very largest are esteemed of
value. The fish nets have meshes six
inches square, and any fish that can
wriggle through that is not merchanta
ble. An average of 15 cents each is paid
fishermen for salmon, but the few can
neries along the bay have much more
offered than they can use, and tons of
fish rot for lack'of a market.
Every family along the bay has a
boat. Indeed it is hard to get along
without one, as lateral distances along
the ocean are more easily covered by
water than land, owing to the tremen
dous growth of timber. The inhabi
tants hav3 acquired a universal fondness
for crabs, with which the bay is well
stocked, and properly cooked are said
to be as delicious as an oyster. These
crabs are as large as a big turtle, and in
the clear water eight or ten feet be
neath the surface may be seen sidling
along the bottom, apparently without
definite object. When these are de
sired for a dinner by the Tillamook
denizen, he pulls out into the bay in a
famall boat, and with bis oar jabs the
crab with the end of it upon bis back
This breaks the fragile shell of the Cms,
tacean, and he immediately turns over.
and helDlessly wriggles bis legs upward.
He is then easily secured with a hook
and drawn into the boat.
The Tillamook bay country will be
very lively next year, as the government
proposes to construct three big jetties in
the bay, and there will be a great de
raand for labor-in the woods near the
ocean beach. -
Mr. Campbell's Sojournlngs.
U. S. Deputy Surveyor Will E. Camp
bell and son, Charles, returned Monday
from the season's work in the field, em
bracing surveys near Cottonwood, Lower
John Day valley, near Murderous creek,
south fork of John Day river, ten miles
west of Baker City, and on Hay Creek,
near 30-Mile. Many spots of historic
interest were passed over, among them
the battle ground where fought the lit
tle scouting party out from Canyon
City to meet the Piutes the memorable
summer of '78, when Oliver Aldridge
was killed; the old and almost forgotten
Auburn ditch, dug by the hardy miners
in the early 60s to bring water to the
rich placers of that lively camp; the
desolate gorge of Goodrich creek, where
the over-cbarged reservoir gave way last
spring and swept away the home and
lives of a family of seven In an instant's
time.
While having little time to discuss
political matters, Mr. Campbell gath
ered the conviction, after passing
through nine counties, that McKinley
will carry Oregon. Grant county is
true to her name, and in Sherman and
Gii'iinni counties he -found sheepmen,
already pushed hard by free trade, who
are ready to forego protection even, were
it necessary to do so, to save the coun
try's credit and maintain a sound money
standard. . This shows their apprecia
tion of the grave issue now before the
people. While there may be a few de
serters, there will be no skulkers from
Republican ranks next election day.
The Petition Denied.
To J. S. Scltmek, F. Menefce, George Ruch, B. S.
Huntington, H. Herbring and others:
Tour petition reached me this morn
ing, and while I, and the ladies associ
ated with me, appreciate most fully
your kind interest in our entertainment,
we find it Impossible (owing to the ina
bility of some of our members to assist
us further) to repeat "The Garroters."
Hoping you "poor, ignorant men" may
eoon have an opportunity to be "ele
vated, instructed and amused," I re
main yours respectfully,
Lccy W1L8ON-PETEBS.
THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Elegant Views of Our Natural Beenerj
and Industries.
The stereopticon exhibition last even
ing at K. of P. hall, though not of snch
high .quality as De Kan net's, will be
fully as interesting to the people of the
East, who are universally curious to
know something about the Pacific slope,
The series of magnificent views of our
scenery and resources, following the nu
merous printed publications, will have
a telling effect wherever they are exhib
ited, for they will present incontestible
proof of the trnth represented on the
printed pages of pamphlets and news
papers circulated in distant parts of the
union.
These views show our scenery to be
equal in grandeur to that of any part of
the earth. The magnificent water falls
of Shoshone, the Bridal Veil falls 800
feet high and Multnomah falls 900 feet
in height, compare with Niagara to the
latter's disadvantage, for Niagara, while
a sublime sight, falls but 200 feet. The
palisades of the Columbia and other
scenery along the river are all taken
from good points of views and are ex
cellent pictures.
Several views of that grandest sight
in the JNorthwest, Crater lake, are also
shown. The efforts to reproduce this I
gem in its handsome setting of en
veloping . cliffs by means of pho
tographs have always proven disap
pointing. It is impossible, on account
of perspective and shadows, to show this
sunken lake in anything like its original
beauty by a counterfeit of nature. The
accessible points from wbiqh a camera
can be placed are not points of vantage
to reproduce the beauties of this lake,
and it will be found that to get a good
photograph of the natural wonder, fit
ting conditions must be observed of just
the proper light, and the camera must
be somewhere on the shore side nearer
the' crater and lower down the side of
the mountain, even if the operator and
bis apparatus must be suspended by
ropes from the brink of the mountain.
A talented landscape painter could more
nearly fill the requirements, and a na
tional reputation awaits the one who
will make the trip and with his brush
depict the beauties of this old crater
rising up out of an imprisoned lake,
whose blue depths rival the violet in
tint.
Sext to the scenery in point of inter
est are he industries, and enough view's
are shown of trim orchards, with their
loads of fruit, the salmon fishing indue
try, our mammoth trees, etc., to inspire
the wish in every easterner's heart that
he could live in a land of such bounte
ous plenty. Mr. Wbitmore will do a
great work in inducing immigration as
he travels through the East, exhibiting
these well-selected pictures. Thtre
should oe others in the eame field.
Mining Sentiment Changing;.
Cable Grove, Baker Co., Or., Oct. 12
lio tne .editor.; two months ago
this mining camp was overwhelmingly
for Bryan and silver, but, thanks to the
judicious distribution of sound-money
literature, in which TbejOregonian cut no
small figure I have just completed a
personal canvass of this camp, and have
talked with every voter in it I find that
McKinley and sound money will receive
a majority just exactly twojto one, with
hopes of more. This, too, in a mining
camp where the gold and eilver are, as
regards value, about equal in our ores.
All fools may be miners, but all mineis
are not fools.
Hurrah for McKinley and sound
money. Reader.
Lteasnre Making: Republican Votes.
Pendleton, Or., Oct. 14. Several
Walla Walla gentlemen present in the
city Tuesday evening, heard John C.
Leasure's addreea, and were so pleaeed
with his telling argument that they pre
vailed upon him to go to Walla Walla j
and repeat tne address. Arrangements
were made by telegrapb today for the
meeting at Walla Walla tomorrow, and
Leasure will leave here in the morning,
accompanied by a large delegation of
Omatilfa county Republicans. Two
stockmen came and shook hands with
Leasnre today, saying their minds had
been mode up to vote for Brvan, bnt he
nad converted them, inev said tnev
had never heard the issues so satisfac
torily presented.
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N. X.. Bauer's Talk.
Mr. N. L. Butler addressed a fair-sized
audience of his Popocratic brethren at
the Baldwin last evening. The orator
possesses a certain genius in dressing np
the visionary schemes of the fnsion
party to Buit the cohorts of Bryanism,
but he failed to answer any of the alle
gations made by the Republicans, who
are everywhere making a fight of ag
gression. His principal argument was
that a lack of currency produced con-'
traction and falling prices. He aban j
doned the position from which Repub
lican argument has driven him, that
silver was not demonetized in 1873, and
takes a new stand neon a rampart in
the rear of his former position, and now
shouts that if silver was not demone
tized, then something worse happened
to it. He aieo had the effrontery to
compare Bryan to Lincoln, and actually
argued that because Lincoln was be
littled by the opposition in the contest
of 1860, and because Bryan is now be
littled, the two men are equally great
and equally glorious. The impecunious
Popocrats are truly in hard straits for
argument. They have produced noth
ing yet but misstatements, and most of
these have been branded,
An Exempt Fireman Committed.
Deputy Sheriff FleiM:hauer of Cascade
Locks came up today with C. L. Mervin,
an intelligent and reputable stone-cutter
of the Cascade Locks, the latter com
mitted by the justice of the peace at the
Locks. Mervin says he has committed
no crime, and on telling his story, the
.sheriff refused to deprive bina of bis
liberty. Mr. Mervin says he had been
called upon by the sapet visor to pay his
road tax, when he stated that hrjwas an
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That is, the price on some wagons
HICKORY" Wagons. Whv? Bern use no other wagon on the market will sell
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haven't got it; but we have got the BEST, and solicit comparison.
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Commencing Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1896,
and ending Saturday, Oct. 24, 1896.
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exempt fireman. He did not show hit
papers and was cited to appear before,
the justice of the peace. He did so, and
without being asked to produce his
papers, was committed for refusal to
pay his tax, on the ground that the
papers should be filed on the public
record. Under the present light the
affair savors of injustice. The expenses
of the county on account of it will
amount to about $25.
. The Dalles Prorldnd For.
Tub Ciikonici.b was led into error, in
' 8latinB that no Republican public speak-.
i era na ,,ad eea arranged for The
! Dalles, through reading the announce
ments in me uregonian, in which The
Dalles was in each instance left out. As
a matter of fact we have our full share,
and through the efforts of the 'ocal cam
paign committee of Wasco county, the
following speakers and dates have been
arranged for already :
Hon. F. X. Schoonmaker, Oct. 20.
7:30 p.m. (Mr. Schoonmaker is one of
New Jereey's greatest Republicans and
will deliver but three speeches in the
state).
Hon. Rufus Mallory and Hon. Binger
Hermann have been engaged upon dates
to be announced later. '
Judge L. R. Webster's itinerary in
Wascj county is as follows: Tygh.Oct.
8 at 2 p. m. ; Wamic 7 :30 p. m. ; Wap
iuitia, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m.; Boyd, Satur
day, 7:30 p. m.
Hon. J. W. Quay at Antelope, Mon
day, Oct. 12th, at 2 p. m.
Rev. I. D. Driver at Cascade Locks
Saturday, Oct. 17th.
Hons. T. T. Geer, J. W. Ivey and E.
L. Smith will also make speeches in the
county, dates and places to be arranged
later.
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