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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6. 1897.
The Weekly Ghfoniele.
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City. Eastern advertising mast be con
tracted through him.
STATE OFFICIALS.
Savernoi W. P. Lord
Secretary of State . .H K Klncaid
Treasurer -Phillip Metecuan
Bupt.of Public Instruction..., G. M. Irwin
Attorney-General -. C. M. Idleman
BenaSors
Congressmen.
State Printer.
G. W. McBride
jj. H. MitcheU
(B Hermann
r-v (W: R. Ellis
...:..., ....W. H. Leeds
COOTV OFFICIALS.
Cjunty Judge..,
oens...
...Robt. liars
arierirf... . .-. T. J. Driver
Clerk .....A M. Kelsav
Treasurer C. L. Phillips
l A. S. mowers
Commissioners JD. 8. Kimsey
Assessor W. II. Whipple
Surveyor : J. B. Holt
Superintendent of Public Schools.. .C. L. Gilbert
C oroner W. H. Butte
OPENING THE RESERVE.
The question of opening the Cas
cade forest reserve to the pasturage
of stock is one agitating the people
along the eastern slope of the Cas
cade mountains, just at present side
tracking all other questions. There
are not less than 250,000 sheep pas
tured on the reservation, or that were
pastured there previous to the recent
order prohibiting them. As spring
opens, these immense flocks must
find pasturage, and being shut off
. from their accustomed mountain
ranges, they will be forced to find
feeding grounds on the foot-hills and
in portions of the country now pas
tured solely by cattle. The result
will not only be disastrous to the
sheep industry, but by overcrowding
the pastures left will react on the
cattlemen. In the meanwhile the
factions are quarreling as to what is
best for all.
One proposition is to throw the
whole reservation, excepting small
reserves, open to the pasturage of
stock. Another is to have a superin
tendent who will assign grazing
grounds to the different .flocks; and
yet another to open that part south
of the .Warm Springs reservation
to sheep, and make the portion
north of it only subject to pasturage
of cattle.
The proposition to have a super
intendent who would assign feeding
grounds originated in the mind of
some person not two degrees re
moved from imbecility, and was
probably the means devised for get
ting a job for himself. The other
proposition about making part of the
reservation open ' only for cattle is a
differant affair; but still impractica
ble, for whatever else is done, con
gress nor the depaittnent is not going
to make one law for one part and
another law for another part. It is
going to be a difficult matter to get
the reservation opened at all, and
unless the effort is combined, gen
eral and unanimous, it might as well
be abandoned. ,
We are told Mr. Steele desires to
be sent to Washington as the repre
sentative of the sheepmen, to assist
congress in straightening out the
tangle. This would be a nice little
trip for Mr. Steele, but what he could
accomplish is more than the man of
average mind can figure out. If our
senators and congressmen cannot get
what we want, by what power divine
does W. G. Steele expect to move
to action the powers that be? He
is only an embryo toad, so to speak,
when at home, and in the great po
litical sea at Washington he would
be as hopelessly lost as a tadpole in
the Pacific ocean. If we- are mis
taken ; if Mr. Steele, in his capacity
of a private citizen can accomplish
more than our whole congressional
delegation, then in the name and in
terest of the great commonwealth of
Oregon, let the next legislature in
vest him with the senatorial toga
and he will be all-powerful.
in me meanwiue iacuonai ngnts
must be dropped and the whole peo
ple demand the opening of the re
serve to the pasturage of stock;
other . matters can be attended to
afterwards.
pasturage of stock of all kinds. To
them it is a question of more moment
than either tariff or finance, for under
present conditions inevitable ruin
stares them in. the face. ' -
The section named .: i devoted,
after srettins twenty miles south of
the Columbia, almost exclusively to
stock raising. The distance to mar
ket forbids agricultural pursuits, at
least while prices prevail as low as
they have been. The. country, Low
ever, is pesuliarly adapted to stock
raising. - The fooVhl'ls ".and plains
permit the raising of wheat hav, and
some of ihe creek bottoms, where ir
rigation is possible, give good yields
of alfalfa, thus providing feed for
winter. As the snow melts from the
hills the pattle and sheep follow up,
fattening on the tender grasses until
in midsummer the summits of the
mountains are reached, and as the
fall approaches, the herds and flocks
feed down again, retiring before the
early snows, and reaching winter
quarters in good condition. The
mountains being free- to all stock,
permit this, and not only make the
mountain pastures available, but also
the foot-hills and lands adjacent,
since the latter can De larmea ana
the products used for stock. As a
result many substantial improvements
have been made along theedge of the
slope, large tracts fenced and culti
vated, fine residences built, money
expended in providing ditches and
flumes for irrigating, and all this to
provide winter feed for stock and to
take advantage of the sun'mcr range
furnished by the mountains.
The . closing of this range is a vir
tual confiscation of all this property,
for without the summer range it is
practically worthless. It is conserva
tively estimated that 250,000 sheep
are pastured on the eastern slopes of
the Cascades, besides innumerable
bands of cattle. With the range
closed, the ranches along the base of
the mountain become valueless, for
the flocks must be moved, and the
industry for the locality adandoned.
Products of wool, mutton and beef,
amounting to more than one million
dollars annually, will be utterly de
stroyed, and for what ? It is said to
preserve the timber. If this were
true; if the pasturing of the reserva
tion injured the timber or destroyed
the forests, there might be some ex
cuse for the reservation, notwith
standing the loss entailed on the
stockmen. But it is not true.
MORE ABOUT THE RESERVE.
THE CASCADE RESERVE.
The people living along the east
ern slope of the Cascades and adja
cent thereto, are just at present mak
ing a vigor effort to have the Cascade
forest reservation thrown open to the
Where the forests are dense there
is no vegetation upon which stock
feed, and it is only the sparsely tim
bered or open sections, or in the old
burns that flocks are pastured, and
only in the southern part of the state
does this condition exist at ull on
the western slope of the mountains,
and there only in a limited area.
South of Mt. Jefferson the mountains
are more or less open, and in places
bare of timber even to the summits,
and it is here the greater part of the
flocks are herded. There is no tim
ber to be preserved. The forest
conditions here, too, are entirely dif
ferent from those in the East, and
one who has any knowledge of our
big fir timber with bark from three
to. nine inches thick, so thick that
the average forest fire will not kill or
injure the tree, will smile at the idea
of even an Eastern Oregon sheep in
juring its bark with their bite,
Here, too, the conditions vary, and
on account of the moist climate and
the more active ( and vigorous desire
to survive possessed by the Oregon
fir over the other evergreen?, a sec
ond growth alwsys follows the re
moval or destruction ot the first.
Concerning the setting of fires and
destruction of timber from that and
otner causes, tee lauit or wnicn is
placed on the stockmen, we shall
have something further to say.
Elsewhere we print a notice of the
organization of the Christian. Volun
teers of America, In our humble
opinion the Salvation Army is more
than filling the field, and we suggest
that the new organization commence
its labors by some hard . wrestling
with Noah Webster's onomasticon.
Civilized man is entitled to have the
road to the next world pointed out
by persons intelligent enough to dis
tinguish the capital B from a cow's
track, and to have his "desires," at
least, spelled correctly.
One ot the objections to the. reser
vation being pastured, by sheep,1 and
the one most strenuously - tirgedlsj
that the sheepmen and their herders
sot fire to the underbrush and destroy
vast bodies of timber for the purpose
of extending the area of their pastur
age grounds. Coupled with this ob
jection is one, too, strongly urged,
but of minor importance to the first.
That the sheep browse on the under
brush is true, but that they do harm
thereby is not so certain. The sheep
do not go into the dense timber;
there is nothing for them there; nor
do they penetrate the thick under
brush, where the same serves to pro
tect toe snow. It is only in the
more or less open timber that they
are herded, and they only browse the
underbrush where it is well scattered.
In the open glades wherever they go
they eat out the brush and grass, or
trample it so that fife will not run,
having nothing to teed upon, and so,
instead of being an injury , are in
that respect, at least, a benefit.
There was a case in point near
Johns' mill, back of this city, last
summer. K. li. uuthrie pastured
his sheep around a 1500-acre tract
belonging to Mr. Johns. After he
left, fire broke out and ran through
the timber on the Johns tract, doing
considerable damage and destroying
150,000 feet of logs already cut,
The fire burned over this tract, but
stopped on all sides where Guthrie';
sheep had pastured. The bid settlers
along the range will, to a man, tell
you that owing to the sheep keeping
the brush on the hills eaten down
and so preventing fires, that the tim
ber line is moving steadily down
and in many places fine young tim
ber is growing where there was none
before the heep were pastured on
the lands.
As for the statement that sheep
men set fire to the timber, the proof
is equally fallacious. It is claimed
that as soon as the sheepmen drive
their sheep over the feeding grounds
they set out fires. What we have
just said answers that proposition
Where the sheep have been, fire will
not run. Where, then, can these
men set fires? To suppose that they
set them befote the grass has been
eaten off is to brand tbem as idiots,
bent on destroying that which they
had use for. The big forest fairs do
not occur in that portion of Oregon
where the sheep are pastured, but
they do occur from the burning of
the slashings of the settler, not set
for the purpose, but getting beyond
control. They occui in those sec
tions where lumbering is carried on,
and the dry tops get on fire gener
ally through carelessness.
Along tne trout streams, where a
sheep was never known to be
more disastrous tires occur than in
the whole section pastured by sheep,
and these fires are caused by negli
gence. In that portion of the Cas
cades where the greater number of
the sheep range there are no forest
fires at all, for the reason that there
are no forests there, none that would
burn even if set on fire. The higher
mountains are bare, or practically
so.1.
We believe in protecting the for
ests, but we do not believe in ruin
ing the industries of Eastern Oregon
to satisfy the whim of people in the
East, who know but little about their
own forests, and nothing abent ours.
Congress .will do well to open the
reservation, and by so doing save
from destruction the only interests of
the vast region along the eastern
slope of the Cascades.
ago. We fear when the Democrats
and Populists consider the advice in
the light of its source that they will
not heed. it. ;..With' 'advice and cas
tor oil'the rstatement'that it is better
to give' than ; to receive will be ac
cepted without demur,
- Vhatever else may be done with
the Cascade reserve, township one
south of range ten east on Hood
river, should be taken out of it.
There are now some thirty families
located in the township, and the bal
ance of it being withdrawn from set
tlement, leaves them in bad shape.
The land is nearly all the very best
for orchard purposes, has no timber to
amount to anything upon it, and
there is absolutely no reason for
withholding it from settlement
The article on the subject of the
road to the free bridge, contained in
Saturday's Chronicle, is worthy of
more than passing thought. If The
Dalles 4s to maintain her supremacy.
she must provide good roads, and
the one spoken of is a necessity in
opening up the market for our goods
in Sherman county, and inducing
the sale of its products here. We
hope the Commercial Club will give
the matter its earliest attention.
As a fitting beginning of the new
year we would like to see some ac
tion taken concerning the develop
ment of our coal fields. If anything
is to be none it should be done at
once, and if we are not blooded
enough to di up 1500 for our own
benefit, when we produce that much
in a week to see a play, let us admit
the fact and quit entirely.
. The Dalles is having a little more
crime than it cares to put up with
and it would not be surpi ising if a
vigilance society should take a hand
in the matter if it is not terminated
PROGRESS OF THE DALLES.
Who Will Attend To It? and It Hot,
Why Not?
The Oregonian advises the Demo
crats and Populists in the legisla
tures to stay with their own senato
rial nominee, and let the Republicans
fight out its senatorial battle. This
is, perhaps, good advice, but it is not
the kind given only two short months
The following communication was re
ceived by us several days ago :
Editor Chronicle: We are glad to
note the good work already performed
by and through tbe efforts of The Dalles
Commercial Clnb, and aek that we may
not be considered impertinent by thus
publicly reminding oar citizens of its
duty in minor matter. Rome sixteen
months ago an effort was made by two
or three citizen b of Sherman countv to
break the combination of rates and tolls
that bad always hampered their Interests
even before it became a separtte county,
We had no snch organization as this one
to appeal to for influence to bring this
matter before proper authorities for
uecssary aid. Contra wise we had the
influence of this circle though unor
ganized to contend with and battle
against The story need not be long,
By individual and press, soliciting and
agitation, the business and capital in
terests of The Dalles furnished the key
that. moved the bolt of one of, perhaps,
the least of our many modern monopo'
Jies, and once we hope for all the lit
tle banner wheat comity of Oregon was
permitted to pass beyond its border tow
ards the world's market and trade un
hindered by the hand of greed that
reached out for the monopoly-earned
dollar. The effect is told by the repeat
ed!y-eeen faces, both new and old, of
Sherman conntv's citizens on vour
streets, and the established rates now
given.
Let us be brief. Aid was asked from
Sherman -county to complete the under
taking. The question arose, "What
will be done by the neighboring county
to overcome obstacles and maintain a
good road?" Unauthorized, we could
simply say, with the same will already
manifested, "We'll try." What has
been done? Practically nothing. What
can be done? We are willing to stake
oar little road ability. in answering this
last questien by saying that a grade can
be established up the Deschutes hill
that will be at least one-fourth less than
the present one, and that from thence
on the grade need not exceed six or eight
inches at most, either to or from Tbe
Dalles. Bight here we may be criti
cised, as we already have been, by some,
but upon actual investigation we make
this statement, and farther claim that
total cost would be very nominal when
compared with its worth to the commu
nity. . .v
We wish to conclude by saying we feel
the weight of the necessity of this im
provement besides actual obligation;
bat this also, we feel an inestimable in-
ignificance as a hand-laborer among
yon, compared with the talent, business
and capital in the body whose duty we
feel it is to present this mattter to the
authorities for the necessary aid, makes
it truly embarrassing, to say the least,
for us to attempt it single handed and
alone. .
Time is fast going by; we are already
too late for tbe next session of court, and
only by forced action can the succeding
term handle the matter in time to bene
fit the nest spring wool hauling. Every
one's business is no one's business. Who
will attend to ft. X.
HE DISLIKED TO MAKE TROUBLE.
as she finished sewing a lace frill on the
bottom of a cotton nightgown, destined
at some future time to grace the person
of some benighted brunette of the upper
Congo. . "-.
"I shall nevet forget," she continued,
"our firet visit from the Rev. Aminadab
balsify from JWayback. Harry and I
had been married for Beven years, the
Eev. Aminadab performing the cere
mony in my native village of Wavback
Harry was employed in Portland, and at
tbe time tbe Rev. Aminadab made ns a
visit we were living in' a handsome
modern cottage on Ninth, street. Harry
was glad to see oar old friend, and so
was I, yet, at the same time, his fear
that he was in the way, or that he was
making someone work, made his visit a
regular nuisance. The fall rains had
set in, and the weather was decidedly
chilly. About 7 o'clock in the evening
Harry was called down town, to remain
most of tbe night, and at 9:30 the Rev.
Salsify retired. There was a lavatory
opening off from the bedroom, bat this
seemed to be beyond the power of our
Rev. friend's k?n. . '
"At 10:30 I went to bed. and about
the mystic hour of midnight I heard the
side door close and the spring catch sap
viciously. I could not at first imagine
what had happened, but instead of it
suggesting burglars, the idea struck me
that onr Rev. friend was somehow
mixed up in tbe affair. There was a
hydrant in the yard, used daring tbe
sammer for irrigating, and stepping oat
of bed and peeping oat of the window, I
saw the- Rev. Salsify quenching bis
thirst thereat. Of coarse it never' oc
curred to him that there was water in
tLe house, and there he had gone piront
ing out into the rain, (his long, white
nightdress giving him a ghostly appear
ance in tbe dim light. After he had
taken, I should judge, a quart of Will
amette mixture, be came back to the
door. Of coarse it was locked. I slipped
down quietly, thinking to let him in
and trusting to the darkness to preven
his discovering that I was not dressed
for company. I reached the door.
opened it, bat my friend, who disliked
troubling anyone, had gone around the
corner of the house attempting to dls
cover some means of ingress. I called
him, but there was no answer. I was
thoroughly ont of humor by this time
bat realizing that I must take tbe Rev,
gentleman in. out of the wet, or be re
sponsible for his death, I stepped on the
porch in order to again call him. Un
lucky movement ! I had not left that door
three feet before some spirit of darkness,
or imp of the perverse, entered into it
or that total depravity which pervades
inanimate objects after night, moved it
and moved it to a close. There was a
gentle jar, a ' snap of that confounded
spring lock, and tbe Rev. Aminadab
Salsify and the mistress of the house
were both outside, dressed in their
night-robee, without a key, and no one
inside to come to their aid.
"I am not certain that I did not swear
but if I did I feel that the recording an
gel charged it up to the Rev. Aminadab,
or blotted it out with a tear spared from
his laughter. My night-blooming friend
came back in a moment, ghostly and
silent, and seeing me, asked what I was
'doing there?' I was unarmed, and
there was neither club nor stone handy,
hence the Rev. Aminadab still lives, but
t was due to circumstances, for which
I am not to blame.
Fortunately Harry came home ear
lier than be expected, and if ever the
sound of a man's footstep was music to
that man's wife's ears, his was to mine
that night.
In a few minutes we were both in
side, and I was in my bed, doubled up
like a pocket-comb, and shivering with
cold and rage ; and yet that husband of
mine laughed, laughed and giggled until
be got into bed and I put both my feet
in the middle of his back.
The Rev. Aminadab Salsifv returned
to Wayback next day, having had a suf
ficiency of city life, late hours and Will
amette water."
ODD WEDDINGS
Freaks Who Have Been Joined
Together in Wedlock.
One Couple Married by Proxy While
: Thousands of Miles Apart Som '
of tbe Queer Pranks ot
' - Cupid.. . ,,.!
Mrs. Sarah Maria Everly's Experience
. With Bit. .mlnadab Salsify.
"If there is any person whom I dread
to have my husband bring home for the
evening, it is a bashful man who is
afraid he is afraid he is going to make
someone a little extra trouble." So said
Mrs. Sarah Maria Everly at the regular
weekly meeting of the guild in Portland,
- There Is Nothing So Good.
There is nothing just as good as Dr.
King's New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds, so demand it and do
not permit the dealer to sell you some
substitute. He will not claim there is
anything better, but in order to make
more profit he may claim something else
to be just as good. You want Dr. King's
Mew Discovery because you know it to
be safe and reliable, and guaranteed - to
do good or money refunded. For Coughs,
Colds, Consumption and for all affec
tions of Throat, Chest and Lungs, there
is nothing so good as is Dr. King's New
Discovery. ' Trial bottle free at Blakeley
& Houghton's Drug Store. Regular size
50 cents and $1.00. ;2)
" No Objection On File.
The Christian Volunteers of america
will open bere some time next week if
God is willing so keep Beliving for tbe
grant opening tbe date will be stated
later an now the field is open for men
and woman what have a desier to work
in Gods vinyard all communication will
be receive at the union St loding houee.
- " X
Buofclen's Anne salve.
The best salve in the world for cats,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, ferei
Bores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required
It Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac
tion, or money refunded. ' Price 25 cents
per box For sale by Blakeley and
Houghton, druggists.
The conventional idea of a wedding: -does
not agree with the tastes of some
people, and occasionally very eccentric .
and - sometimes romantic marriage
ceremonies are solemnizrcT. Men and
women entirely opposite in disposition
and character-, frequently unite in the
holy bonds of matrimony sometimes "
much to their mutual regret. This
peculiar fact, it would seem, also ap
plies to oddities of humnn nature. In
many of the traveling shows the freaks
who help to draw money from the pub
lic intermarry, and it is not an unusual
thing- to find the fat man wedded tothe
skeleton woman, and the tattooed man
to the bearded lady.
. Sirs, Hannah Battersby, who at one
time toured the country as a fat woman,
was married to a Pennsylvania man,
and it is stated as a curious fact that no
sooner were they married than she be
gan to lore flesh and he to gain it. His
weight increased so rapidly that he soon
took to exhibiting himself as a fat man.
An exception to this rule of contrast,
however, was Col. Glover, the giant,
who stood six feet seven inches. He was
wedded to Martha Peabody, the Ameri
can giantess. Several years ago, when,
they appeared in public together, they
used to receive as much as $750 a. week. ,
The Italian consular agent at Cin
cinnati performed the most peculiar
marriage ceremony on record. Tho
groom was a well-to-do resident of the
Ohio city and his bride lived in Italy.
The contracting parties were thousands
of miles apart when the wedding was
performed, the marriage being by
proxy. The consul filled in' a blank
certificate, which he forwarded to au
thorities in Italy, who in the presence
of the parish priest exhibited it before
the bride, who affixed her signature,
accepting it as her action. The mar
riage was perfectly binding..
A very similar ceremony was per
formed some time ago. The affair took
place by proxy, and Miss Maple was
married by a clergyman in New York to
a man who at the time of the marriage
lay dying in a Texas town. The bride
groom was represented in . the cere
mony by the bride's cousin, who made
the necessary responses and signature
as his proxy. The two loyers had been
?ngaged for a long time, and Miss Ma pi; .
wished to bear the name of her be
trothed even though she could do so
only ns a widow.
The all-important ring is sometimes
forgotten, and in more than one cusS
the door key of the.church has had to d&.
duty, but it is not often that portions of
the marriage service are omitted. In
a southern town, however,alittle.whilc
ago, after the party had left tho ehaoJi-
it was discovered that the clergyman
had forgotten the words, "with this
ring I thee wed," etc., thus relieving
he bridegroom of the most serious
7arf of his obligations, and the fair. '
bride was minus a wedding ring. -In
stead of sitting down to a breakfast ihf
party hurried back to the ehurch am" .
were thus practically married twice ii.
one day.
Cupid ran amuck some time .agr
among the old folk of a Georgia town .
An old soldier, 78 years of ngr, ied to th -
altar an aged damsel who had seen 7
summers. There were three brides - -
maides, v.hos? ages respectively wer '
GO, GS and70. They were c'l spinster
The best man, who was 75, brough
the combined ages up to 423 years.
An unusual kind of marriage iva
celebrated in 2ew York recently. Thi
was between a couple both deaf an-
dumb. They held prayer books whil
friend pointed out the differen
passages in the service as they yei
spoken by the clergyman, and the.
made the customary responses in th
deaf and dumb alphabet.
An ingenious couple once conceivec
the idea of being married byx phono
graph. In the place where the bride
groom resided he and the minister wen'
over the marriage service, and he recitet
ljic piupci jCBpuiiacqi ill lu iue ilia LI u
ment. The phonograph was sent to th
lady, she willingly supplying the re
quisate "I will" and "I do" in the pres
ence of her pastor, who thenf pro
nounced the pair united in matrimony,"
No explanation is given of how they got
over the difficulty of the ring.
A well-known anthropologist, in de
scribing various marriage customs, re
fers to a strange sort of symbolical mar
riage which is supposed to have orig
mated in India, Jt is a marriage witt
trees, plants, animals and inanimate
i. t i .
uujreis. n uuyunc proposes 10 eniei
upon a union which ia not in accord
ance with traditional ideas, it is be-
ieved that ill luck which is sure to fol
low may be averted by a marriage oi
this kind, the evil consequenoes being
borne by the object chosen. In various
regions a .girl must not marry before
her eldest sister, but the difficulty is ;
overcome by the eldest daughter mar- :
rymg the branch of a tree. Then tho
wedding of the younger daughter mny
safely be celebrated. Buffalo Express.
Only One Sale.
There is a pleasant little story about
party of drummers sitting. in the
smoking-room of a. sleeper - talking
about trade. One after arother had
told about what sort, of tmii-j he'd been
having, and they'd all been doing well;
but the last man of all, when it came his
turn, said he'd made only one saJe in
six weeks. The rest started in to sym- '
pathize With ham a little on this, but
wheli they came to ask him what busi
ness he was in and learned that he trav
eled, for a bridge-building establish
ment, and that his last sale was a steel
bridge something less than a mile long
for about $500,000, they agreed that he
wasn't doing so poorly after all.