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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 25, 1896.
The Weekly Ghroniele.
THE DALLES.
OREGON
OFFICIAL PAPER OF WASCO COUNTY.
' Published in two parts, on Wednesdays
and Saturdays.
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LOCAL BKETIT1EB.
Saturday's Daily.
The county clerk today issued lincense
to wed to Frank Bolton and Mies Cath
arine Heisler of Dufur.
The" beautiful" commenced falling last
night, there being nearly an inch of
nature's whitewash on the ground this
morning.
Weather reports from the East 6how
heavy storing prevailing generally.
Here the perfumed breezes of Cathay
are not blowing, not by a long shot.
Boreas is at the bat and the snow
sprites are making the home runs.
Hon. W. H. Wilson leaves tonight for
his old borne down in Southern Illinois.
He goes to visit bis parents, now grown
quite old, and expects to be away for
from three weeks to a month. We wish
him a pleasant trip, and the full meas
ure of pleasure the visit promises.
Last niaht the merry-go-round folded
its tents like an Arab, etc., and retired
from business. Mrs. C. S. Van Duyn
was declared the winner in the contest
to decide the momentous question as to
who was the most popular lady, and so
received the gold watch awarded the
winner.
Those who having been well dined and
comforted Thanksgiving day and want
to give a kindly thought ' to their an
cestors are requested to come to the
Congregational church that evening and
hear the songs with which their grnad
fathers serenaded their sweethearts in
days of old.
At the Methodist church tomorrow
morning the subject will be "Temper
ance ;" in the evening a sacred concert
will be given, the program for which is
published elsewhere. The collection,
which will be taken during the evening,
is to be used to purchase Sunday school
singing books. All are invited to attend.
The Hood River Glacier rather sar
castically says : "We have been asked a
good many times how many candidates
there would be for the Hood River post-
office. We don't know. We can only
give the Republican vote in the two pre
cincts ; East Hood River cast 89 votes
for HcKiuiey and West Hood River
185.
Elder J. W. Jenkins arrived from The
Dalles on Wednesday morning to look
after the construction of the church
building for the Christian church of
this city. Work on the building will be
begun Monday and pushed right along
to completion. Elder Jenkins will
preach at the opera house Sunday morn
ing and evening. It is especially desired
that all members of the congregation be
present. Heppner Gazette.
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Hood left for Cal
ifornia on this afternoon's train, going
to St. Helena, Napa county, to spend
the winter. ' He came around to tell us
good-bye, and impress on our minds the
fact that even in that land of fruits and
flowers life wonld be a dreadful round of
solitude, without the breezy locals and
soulful editorial notes of The Chronicle.
He shall have it if it takes the last
button off Gabe's coat to get it there.
. We stated yesterday rather prema
turely that tne case of the Oregon Lum
ber Company against Levi and Boras
Jonos, was argued and submitted. ' We
bad supposed this result would be ac
complished by the time we went to
press, but the reading of the testimony,
which covered seventy-two pages of
closely typewritten matter, was not con
cluded nntil 8 o'clock last night, at
which time the argument was set for 9
o'clock this morning.
Monday's Daily.
Mr. Ketchom made a large shipment
of sheep to Tacoma this morning on the
Regulator.
The concert which was to have been
given at the Congregational church Fri
day evening, has for several reasons been
postponed, and will be given sometime
In December. . . '
The preliminary elimination of
Heater charged with committing an as
sault on Brooks was held before Justice
"Filloon this afternoon, bat had not been
decided at the hour of going to press.
Exhibitors at the . Second Eastern
Oregon District ; Agricultural fair, tor
1896, who have not received -their
premiums, will oblige the secretary by
calling at his office with T. A. Hudson
and getting their checks.
: The bouse . of Mrs. Houlton, on
Quinault lake, was carried away by the
big freshet, and in attempting to get
out, Mrs. Houlton ran into the woods,
and while taking shelter tinder a tree
was struck by another and received
serious injories, besides a broken arm.
she lay . from Friday
last week before she
was found.
The time card on the O. R. &N.
will
be changed, taking effect ' tomorrow
Under the new schedule No. 1 arrives at
4:45 ft. m.. leaves at 4:50 a. m. No. 2
arrives at 10:15 p. m., leaves at 10:20 p.
m. No. 7 leaves for Portland at 1 p. m.
- The stockyards are doing an immense
business, and one that is increasing
steadily. This morning there were
eighty-five bogs there that will be
shipped tonight, and tomorrow there
will be ninety-five hogs, 1200 sheep and
a large lot of cattle received. Friday
300 head of cattle from Prinevile are ex
pected. Mrs. S.-A. Davenport was this morn
ing adjudged insane, and will be taken
to the asylum in the morning. She is
flighty on the subject of Christian Sci
ence and it is hoped a few weeks, or at
most a month's treatment, may restore
her mental balance. The examination
was made by Judge Mays and Dr. Hol-
lister.
The Prineville Review says : "Howard
& Stearns, Je89ee Bros., Perry Read and
others left last Wednesday for The Dalles
with 300 head of beef cattle. Unless
they meet with a buyer at The Dalles,
they will ship to Omaha on their own
responsibly. Columbus Johnson re'
cently shipped a lot to the same place,
and received a fair price and that en
couraged the second shipment.
The sacred concert given at the
Methodist church last night was one of
the most successful of its-kind ever
given in tne city, and the church was
well filled in spite of the inclement wea
tber. The singing was especially good.
every number on the program deserving
special mention. " The collection, which
was libera), will be used to procure sing'
mg books for the Sunday school.
The work of tearing down the boxes in
the postoffioe, preparing to removing
tbem to the Vogt building, began
this morning. Only the stand at
tue corner , containing the de
livery window will be removed at
present, tbiB being taken down for the
purpose of fitting another wall of boxes
to it on the right, similar to those on the
left. The boxes are here and it will
only take a short time to complete the
work.
Special comment is due to little Addie
Favart, whose song and dance "Di, di,
di," called forth a storm of applause
This young lady, who is only ten years
of age, is said to be one of the prettiest
dancers in Melbourne, and there Is no
doubt that the assertion is very near the
truth. Her reputation will be under
stood in a measure when it is mentioned
that she has thirty pnpils under her in
structions. The Ace, Augast 31, 1895.
With the-Spanish Students here Thurs
day night.
Tuesday's. Dally
.At Hood River snow fell to the depth
of 18 inches during the recent storm.
An evening with the spirits Thursday
evening. Chas. . H. and Orilla Read,
with the Redmen. '
A work of supererogation, sinking
that well at the state capitol to procure
drinking water for the legislators.
Pease & Mays are showing their
Christmas novelties in the kid glove line.
They are beauties, all clasp gloves.
The Ladies' Guild of St. Paul's meets
tomorrow to bold the annual election of
officers, , .at . the . residence of Mrs.
Doutbit.
From the appearance of the sky down
towards Hood River the' weather clerk
is proposing to give us. some more sleigh
ing. The death of Hon. Lafayette Lane is
announced in the' dispatches this morn
ing, and a synopsis of his life work in
Oregon is given on our first page.
The Good Templars will give a basket
social Saturday night in their hall. A
short program will be rendered, after
which the baskets will be auctioned to
the highest bidder.
It is prooable that Hood river will be
dammed at a point just above the bridge
during the winter. There is a vast
amount of tie timber and piling np that
stream that must be brought to market.
The young ladies of the Methodist
church will have for sale tonight and to
morrow pies, cakes and doughnuts.
Call at the storeroom recently occupied
by H. Herbring and make your pur
chases. The ladies who enjoy the privileges of
the Commercial and Athletic Club rooms
Thursday afternoons, respectfully invite
the members of the club to share those
privileges with them Thursday after
noon, .Nov. Zbtb.
A sunrise meeting of the young people
of the various churches of this city will
be held Thursday morning, Nov. 26, at
7 o'clock in the auditorium of the Chris
tian church. AH interested are cordially
invited to be present.
Judge E. C. Bronaugh of Portland has
demonstrated to his own satisfaction, at
least, that the end of tie Turkish em
pire will come in 1S97-981 He claims to
find proof for this in the Bible, but we
much doubt his interpretations.
A young-man in Portland has invented
a machine for starting a fire in the morn
ing without getting out of bed. Thus is
another etab made at the divine institu
tion of marriage and another stumbling
block placed in the path of the marriage
able girl.
In this condition
until Sunday of
THE WEATHER IN GREAT VARIETY
A Snow
Storm Succeeds
Rainfall.
the
Heavy
Thirty-miles-an-hourgale? on the Ore
gon coast; heavy rains over In Northern
California; a blizzard in Montana; 30
degrees below zero up in the cold-
weather-batching regions in the northern
British territory, and a driving enow
storm over Oregon, Washington and
Idaho is the weather situation snmmar
ized today at noon. There is lots of
weather np here in the Northwest.
By tomorrow morning it will be rain
ing again, as the temperature is "loosen
ing" up. Yesterday and last night the
temperature was stationary, being about
the freezing point west of the Cascades,
and from 16 to 24 degerees above zero
east of there.
It is 4 degrees below zero at Helena,
and up in the northern region it is cold
enough to suit the oldest inhabitant
Considering the time of the year it is
noteworthy. The snow storm today
comes from up in the' British posses
sions. It doesn't come direct! It has a
curve in its delivery which baffles de
scription, besides which a baseball
pitcher's wouid be easy. The wise man
should have known from the way the
wind howled last night in the cold, clear
atmosphere that this installment of the
storm was coming. -
It is 16 above at Spokane. 18 at Walla
Walla, 28 at Seattle and 2 degrees war
mer at Portland.
It is somen hat chilly for unprotected
whiekers at Havre, Mont. It is 38 de
grees below zero, and a sensible person
will take the weather prophet's word for
it without going there to investigate.
If you would like more figures, it is 30
below at Edmonton, 22 at Qu' Appelle,
14 at Calgary and 12 below at Bismarck,
N. D. It is snowjng in Montana and
parts of Idaho, and it is thought the
beautiful is falling in Washington.
Forecaster Pague says the high baro
metic pressure, which is central to the
north of Montana, is rapidly moving
eastward, and a storm area is appearing
off the coa9t. A secondary low pressure
is over Nevada and Utah, which hat
produced general rain over California,
Nevada, Utan and Southern Idaho. The
area of low pressure off the Washington
coast will most likely develop during to
day, and control the weather over the
Pacific Northwest for the next 48 hours.
At 5 o'clock this morning the weather
bureau issued the
following as to the
future conduct of the river:
"The Willamette river ac Portland
was 20.2 feet above zero yesterday morn
ing, at which height it remained station
ary until about 5 p. m., when it began
to fall ; by 8 :30 p. m., a fall of 0.6 of
foot had occurred. The fall will be more
rapid Saturday and Sunday, amounting
to from 7 to 10 feet by Monday morning.
Saturday morning. the height of the
river at Portland will be about 18 feet
Sunday morning about 14 feet and Mon
day morning 9 to 11 feet above the zero
of the gauge."
At Albany the river has fallen 7.1 feet
during the past 24 hours.
l rain service on all the railways en
tering Portland has been resumed on al
most schedule time.
It is expected that the passengers who
will leave Portland and Tacoma today
on the Northern Pacific for the East will
go through without transfer. Between
here and the Sound, traffic has been re
sumed and trains are on time. Passen
ger Agent Carlton has received advices
showing that all the delayed passengers
at Clark's Fork in the mountain district
in Washington were being transferred
with but little delay and the break is
being rapidly repaired.
Information from Vancouver, B. C
yesterday was to the effect that no trains
bad come over the Canadian Pacific
since last Tbnrsdav. The Dhssenzers
who were started out on Friday's train
were held at Agassiz until Sunday, when
they were brought back to Vancouver,
and are being kept there nntil the line
is open. The report on Tuesday night
was that they expected to get a train
through by yesterday afternoon
On the Southern Pacific the water has
not yet receded sufficiently, in the
Clackamas valley bottoms to ailow the
passage of the Roseburg local. Passen
gers are being transferred and possibly
the water will abate sufficiently by to
morrow to allow the trains to pass.
The through train is making good time
by the West Side,
The O. R. & N. and the Union Pacific
have escaped damages and the trains are
on time. v '"
Or Interest to Sheepmen.
. Among the dispatches this morning is
the one printed below, which we put on
onr local page as being of peculiar in
terest to our sheepmen :
The agricnltural department of the
university of California is raising a new
kind of sheep. The superintendent of
the experiment station at Paso Robles
has succeeded in breeding a variety of
sheep that will mean much to the woo)
and meat markets. It is the result of
the cross-breeding of the Persian
and the merino. Experiments along
the same line, though not so complete,
were conducted by George Washington
with marked advantage.
Two years ago three full-blooded rams
were received from the Persian govern
ment and the experiments 'were com
menced in cross-breeding. The off
spring resulted in a variety admirably
adapted to the California climate, show
ing wuui mil meat aoove me quality 01 j
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unto your stock of TABLE DAMASK and NAPKINS. With a nice a
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Our regular 75c goods
Our regular 85c goods
Our regular $1 goods
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We have a large stock of Napkins, ranging in price from 75c to
$7.00 per'dozen, which will be reduced in proportion
ALL GOODS MARKED IN
PLAIN FIGURES.
any yet obtained. Xhey were colored
white, reddish, brown and black, the
black being held especially valuable for
commercial purposes. I The wool was of
a texture between tne Persian and the
merino, the average length being eight
eight inches. Recently the first sample
of the wool was offered for sale in San
Francisco, and brought an advance of 4
cents on the usual price per pound. The
new species attains a tremendous size,
and are very broad backed.
THIS SHIP FLIES.
An Aerial Craft Invented by a Cali
fornia Man.
The dispatches from San Francisco
Sunday contain among other things the
following description of the flying of a
new high -flyer, invented by a Califor
iiian. It seems plausible enough, but it
seems to us, as we have read something
of that kind somewhere before, that
turned out to be not the whole and un
adulterated truth. On this account we
ill not vouch for the story below:
"The mystery of the airship which
has been puzzling some worthy citizens
of Sacramento for several days past has
made a change of base, and now there
are plenty of reputable people in and
about San Francisco ready to make oath
that they have seen 'he strange thing in
the heavens. More than that, there is a
an Francisco attorney, George D. Col
lins, who asserts that the airship exists;
that the inventor is bis client; that the
strange craft sailed without mishap
troin Oroville to San Francisco; that it
did pass over Sacramento, and that
within a few days this invention, which
is the solution of one of the world's old
est and toughest problems, will be navi
gated in daylight, so that all San Fran
cisco may see it, and that it will circle
and rise and sink over the central part
of the city. Collins said tonight :
" 'It is perfectlv trne that there is at
last a successful airship in existence,
snd that California will have the honor
of bringing it before the world. The in
venter is a wealthy man, who has been
studying the subject of flying-machines
for fifteen years, and who came here
seven years ago from the state of Maine
in order to be able to perfect bis ideas
away from the eyes of other inventors,
During the last five years be has spent
at least $100,000 on bis work. He has
not yet secured bis patent, but is appli
cation is now in Washington. I cannot
say much about the machine he has per
fected, as be is my client. -
"I. saw the machine one night last
week at the inventor's invitation. It is
made of metal, is about 150 feet long,
and is built to carry fifteen persons. It
is built on the aeroplane system, and
has two canvas wings eighteen feet wide,
and a rudder, shaped like a bird's tail.
The inventor climbed into the machine,
and after he bad been moving some of
the mechanism for a moment, I saw the
thing begin to ascend from : the earth
very gently. The wing flapped slowly
as it rose, and then a little faster as it
began to move against the wind. The
machine was nnder perfect control all
the time.
" 'My client's airship started from
Oroville, in Butte county,'. and flew 65
miles in a straight line, directly over
Sacramento. After running up and
down once or twice over the capitol, my
friend came right on, a distance of an
other 70 miles, and landed at a shop on
this side of the bay, where the machine
now lies, guarded by three men. The
inventor found daring this trial trip I
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that his . ship bad a wave-like motion
that made him seasick. It is this de
fect fbat be is now remedying.
" 'In another six days it is his inten
tion to give the people a chance to see
his machine. He will fly right over the
city and cross Market street a dozes
times. The inventor has forsaken the
ideas of Maxim and Langley entirely in
building the machine, and has con
structed it on an absolutely new theory,
Ask and Te Shall Receive.
Recently we made a touching appeal
to the city fathers for light. We did not
ask for much, but just a little, and we
are proud to see the evidences that we
are going to get almost all we asked for,
The holes are being planted in various
and sundry places, and the old-fashioned
lamp-posts will soon be bearing aloft the
good old glass frames and the coal-oil
lamps therein. It is not much, it is
true, but even the "light of other -days"
is preferable to the absence of light of
the winter nights. We can get along
with these through the winter, with the
aid of the swaggering old moon that
gets full occasionally ; but it does not
speak well for us. It seems to be the
best that can be done, and surely none
of ns can profitably kick when we have
the beet there is. The great bard of
Avon paid graceful tribute to one small
candle that sent its beams twinkling
tbrongh rents in the sable curtains of
Night to illuminate a crateful world
Why then should we complain when we
have the more odoriferous coal oil?
It has been demonstrated to the satis
faction of the demonstrator, at least,
that coal is nothing but the beat of the
sun stored up through countless millions
of years for the use of man, and coal oil
surely is the light of our great orb stored
away at the same time. Let us then be
thankful for what we have, realizing, as
we do, that some places not half our size
are really in greater darkness than we
are. -
I. O. R. M.
The entertainment and ball nnder the
auspices of Wasco Tribe No 16, 1. O. R
M., at tne Vogt opera bouse on Thanks
giving night, will be a grand affair in
every detail. Prof. .Birgfeld's fnll or
chestra will discourse the music, all the
old members of the orchestra having
united for this occasion. The fame of
this orchestra is second to none in this
state,' and nnder the skillful direction
of that prince of musicians, Prof. Birg
feld, is enough in itself to bring out a
large audience. After Prof. Read, the
man of mystery, has entertained the
audience for an bour and a half, expos
ing all the tricks of the famous mediums,
etc., the grand ball will commence.
Tickets can be had at all the business
houses in the city, and "irona members
of the order. Doors open at 7:30, cur
tain rises at 8, aliarp. Tickets admit
ting gentleman and ladies, 75 cents.
-A Pleasant Bnrprlse l'arty.
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Lane were made
the victims of a most happy surprise
last evening by a goodly number of their
friends, taking tbem quite unawares,
at their home in the eastern portion of
the city. Their uninvited guests took
full possession of the bouse at about 8
o'clock, and from that time on until
late hour the fun and merriment
reigned supreme. A bountiful luncheon
was served, which was one of the most
enjoyable parts of the evening's entertainment.
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$1.25 goods for $ .90
1.35 goods for 1.10
1.40 goods for .'. 1.15
1.50 goods for 1.25
BENEFITS TO THE DALLES.
Mr.
Wilson Saya He Kxpeets that City
te Be Given Terminal Rates.
W. H. Wilson well known as an attor
ney at The Dalles, was a passenger Sun
day morning, going East through Pen
dleton to St. Louis. . Regarding the
opening of the Cascade Locks, Mr. Wil
son Said :
"Although no particular change bas
taken place in freighting circles on ac
count of the opening of the locks. I
think it is safe to say that The Dalles
will reap a very substantial harvest
from the long years of sowing of hopes
that sometime the river would be open
all the way from that city to the sea.
This is now an accomplished fact and
steamboats run through from our town
to Portland, whence, if desired, they
could goon to Astoria. We have always
bad such disadvantages as resulted from
being a commodity freight tariff, that is,
we were quoted as rail rates which were
the rates from the East to Portland, pins
tht. local rate back from there to The
Dalles. A passenger could buy a ticket
from the East to Portland cheaper than
to The Dalles. I understand we are now
to have terminal rates for passenger and
freight, and next season, when wool and
wheat move out, the freight rate will be
materially lowered. These changes can
not fail to bring substantial benefits,
and The Dalles will not be long in re
alizing that the opening of the locks was
a red letter day for that city." East
Oregonian.
A Favoilte Remedy.
Simmons' Liver Regulator is one of
the most meritorious and popular prep
arations offered to the public. It Is en
tirely free from injurious mineral sub
stances, and as a vegetable preparation
made of southern roots and herbs it is a
sovereign remedy for all liver and bowel
complaints. The merits of this remedy
commend it to the public as a standard '
to be kept constantly in the family. It
bas the most unqualified endorsement
of thousands of our' most prominent
citizens in all parts of the country, who
have used it and testify to its excellent
medical and curative properties. Pur
chasers should be careful to see that they
get the Genuine manufactured only by
H. Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia.
Heater, who had his examination be
fore Justice Filloon yesterday, was this
morning fined $50. This makes $100 in
fines he will have to work out, or in
other words, fifty days in jail. Haw
thorne will remain sequestrated until
the grand jury meets.
Awarded
Highest Honors World's Fair.
Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair.
CREAM
Most Perfect Made.
- 40 Years the Standard