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Y O THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY. MARCH 3, 1897. The Weekly Ghroniele. TBI DAXLKS. OREGON OFFICIAL PAPER OF WASCO COUNTY. Published in two parte, on Wednetdayt ana Saturday$. t SUBSCRIPTION BATES. XT KAIL, POSTAGE FUPAJD, IK ADVASC. One rear fl M Sizmonthi ......... Three months. ......'. 0 Advertising rate reasonable, nd made known on aDDlicatlon. Address all communications to "THZJCHBON- ICLE," The Dalles, Oregon. Telephone No. 1. LOCAL BBITltfllS. , SatnrdaT'i Dally. The minstrel show will be given Monday, Marcn 8ib. It is going to be a hammer. ' The Payton Comedy Company plays a five nights' engagement at the .Vogt, commencing. March 2d. Their opening bill will be the roaring comedy, "Is Mar riage a Failure." E served seats are now on sale at Snipee-Kinersly drugstore, for the Fay ' ton Comedy Company engagement, which opens March 2d for a five nights' engagement.. Yesterday the city recorder had two men before him, charged with being drunlc and disorderly.' They were fined $10 each, and are doing some mucb needed work for the city. Jos. A. Wilson and W. A. Langille on Wednesday measured the height of water in the Colombia, and foand it to be 50 feet and 4-10th below the high water mark of the flood of '94. And the present stage of water is not very low. Glacier. '-This morning a d. and d. was before ' the city recorder. It seems that a day - or' so ago the same man was up on a similar" charge and let go with a light fine.- Last night when arrested he threatened to whip the officer, bat as he did not do it, the recorder very properly took his action.into consideration in fix ing the fine, and gave him $15. M. A. Moody came down from The Dalles Saturday and was met here by F. W. Leadbetter, of the Oregonian, Thos. Balfour of Lyle and W. A. Langille, and the party started for Cloud Cap Inn. They made the trip on snow shoes from Hood river. The party returned from the mountain on Monday and reported a very enjoyable trip. Glacier. . A lodge of the Bebekah degree, I. O. O. F., was organized at Dafur last night, Dr. O. D. Doane, deputy district grand master, officiating. The lodge takes the name of "Star, No. 24," and has the fol lowing officers: Noble Grand, Mrs. Cynthia Heisler ; - Vice Grand, Mrs. Arabelle H. Slasher; secretary, Mrs. Edith Peabody ; financial secretary, Mrs. Lois Ealch; treasurer Miss Anna Dufur. The lodge meets Wednesday evening of each week. - Monday's Dally. Geo. P. Morgan announces himself as a candidate for school clerk, his card ap pearing in this issue. The Oregonian announces the mar riage at St. Helens, Or., of Captain Sul livan, of ythe steamer T. J. Potter, and . Mrs. Laura Logan. Mr. -Hugh Glenn is up 'from Goble to remain till tomorrow. He tells us the weather has been good for a couple of weeks, and that work on the right of way was progressing rapidly. Mr. S. L. Brooks, who has been super- ' intending the work of repairing the Dalles City, came np from -Portland -'- Saturday, returning today. He tells us the boat will be ready to go on her route . by the last of the week, and . that she will be the . handsomest boat on the middle river. .The big rabbit drive near Prineville ft week ago yesterday was entirely suc cessful, about 700 rabbits being killed. On the drive a small stream had' to be crossed, and up to this point the Review says, there were several thousand rab bits ahead of the drivers. Tbey made a stand at the creek, and finally, a grand dash for liberty, the greater number es caping. '. ' ' Tuesday's. Dally . . . Long Creek has a doctor named Mira cle. His 'cures should be miraculous. Three cars of cattle were shipped to . Seattle from the stock yards here today. The Regulator is making daily trips to the Cascades now, "on account of the ' locks being closed. The lone is making ' the ran on the lower river. The roads south of as were getting in good condition previous to the past iwo days of rain, which made them sloppy, . but from this tbey will soon recover. Merchants generally report a good col lection day, and take it as an indicator that the opening of the spring season will be accompanied by a lively trade. The Hext Concert' Company had a rather- small bouse last night, much emaller than it should have had, for it is certainly deserving of liberal patronage by, all music lovers. . . The, lithographs for the minstrel show have aln'fited a great deal of attention, -"apd.it'fa ic osusaal sight to ise a crowd of a' dozen .or more gazinglnsome store window at some of the specimens of Dawson i handiwork. They are like the show itself all right. ' : , There will be a social given by the senior members of the Sunday school in the Congregational church on Wednes day evening, to which you are most cor dially invited. An interesting program has beenprepared, after which a dainty lunch will be daintily served by dainty girls. .' . v McGraw's administration in Washing ton was decidedly expensive, costing for two years $2,859,767.08 Oregon is ex travagant enough, bat manages to get along on about half the above sum. If private parties will continue to pay legis lative salaries and prevent legislation, we can probably get on with n-uch less. President-elect McKinly left' Canton for Washington last night. ' All Canton turned out to give their illustrious states man a send-off. Crowds were at every station along the route no matter at what hoar the train passed, and this although it was known that the train would not stop. The train left -Pittsburg at midnight and reached Washing ton today. ; . County commissioner's court meets tomorrow. One of the most important matters to come before it, is the select ing of a plan for a bridge across Hood River. The plan selected will depend somewhat on the bids received, wbith will be opened tomorrow at noon, bids having been made on three kinds of wooden bridges and one steel bridge. The Oregon problem having baffled most of the shining local lights indige nous to tt, nas sioppea over into toe East, and there the learned savants, are discussing the proposition, that a legis lature that has never met cannot ad journ, and that the house failing to organize, the senate will have to stay in session until death comes to its relief. If yon want to know" whether . mar riage is a failure or not, go and see the Pay ton's tonight. The only other way to find out is to try it, and the theater tickets are the cheaper. They only cost 50 cents, while we know a fellow- who paid $2 license and $5 fine to the justice for getting married, in all 7 big dollars, and when he found it was, he wasn't satisfied. County Judge Mays arrived home from California laBt night. He is much improved from his trip, in fact told as that his general health was never better, his only trouble being rheumatism, whjch is how confined to his right Band.' He tells ns Mr. L. E. Crowe is in much better health than when he left The Dalles, but that he will not return for some time yet. Judge mays win pre side at the feieeting - of the bolrd of county commissioners tomorrow. ' steamer Dalles City A calm Business. Beady for After several weeks on the ways, the Dalles City is again in the water. The Bteamer has been ' thoroughly over hauled from stem to stern, and goes into service again in much better shape than she was in at the time she was sunk, daring .the freeze-up last winter. It' will require several days yet to com plete her equipment, but she will prob ably be on the route next 'week. As soon as she is ready for service, the Reg ulator will be laid np for a few days to undergo some necessary repairs, on completion of which both boats will be operated on a daily schedule. Captain William Johnstone, a very popular man with the traveling public, as well as a thorough steamboatman, will . resume command of the Dalles City, and the Regulator will continue in command of her present master, Captain Wand, who has the honor of being the first man to bring a steamboat from The Dalles to Portland via the locks. Oregonian. Ho Bad m Pall. This wasn't ground-dog day, but Billy Hoering had one on exhibition at the Umatilla house at noon, just the same. It managed to crawl into a pile of wood on the sidewalk, and quite a crowd soon gathered to superintend the get ting of it out. There was a wire around its neckband one party .was trying to pull it oat by this, while another had managed from the other Bide of the wood pile to grasp the unsuspecting chuck by the tail. Each party thought he could pull him out, but as both pulled at once, they only succeeded in causing the unfortunate animal to pro test at the top of his lungs. When the tail-ender let go, the beast came out in a harry, preferring the ills he knew not of to those he had, and was soon carried away to be kept in captivity. . - The Second Night With Dickens. The ''Evenings With Dickens" enter tainment closed last night, the program being, a very good one, and there being less noise and- confusion than on the preceding night. The quartette was fine, and most of the scenes were well put oni "The, attendance was . not. so large as on the first night, but the scenes were, if anything, better. There has been, so much in the way of entertain ments lately that the public is getting somewhat tired, and yet every night for the next week or more will have some kind of a show. The "Evenings -With Dickens" required an immense amount of work, and certainly the exercise of un limited patience on the part of Mr. Ernst. ' - ' FOB SCHOOL CLEEE. . I hereby announce myself as a candi date for school clerk of district No. 12. Geo. P. Mono an." THE "ADS"" WERE MIXED. Salvation Army Improve on the Posters of the CIrcos. Last year one of the big circuses ex perienced - considerable annoyance throughout central Indiana because of the warfare waged against it . by the Salvation Army. The Salvationists met the circus men on their own ground and declared war by, pasting tiny strips of paper, bearing scriptural texts and re ligious warnings, upon the circus bill board displays. Some ot ' these Salva tionist warnings were startling, and in conjunction with the show's lithographs produced effects never before dreamed of, always incongruous and striking and often apparently blasphemous, v The trouble began at Mancie. A member of the Salvation army at that point, Beeing popular attention directed toward the circus billboards, decided that they furnished a medium by which to introduce his scriptural texts to the public. Within the next half hour these circus, displays were completely metamorphosed. The picture of an aeronaut falling in a parachute from a balloon bore tli inscription, "Sinner, yon are bound for bell. Go the other way." The long neck of the giraffe was labeled, "The straight and narrow way is best." A small negro boy was pictured as gazing, horror stricken, into the open mouth of a hippopotamus, and across its cavernous expanse were tne words, "Prepare to meet, thy God." The snake charmer, wrapped - in the folds of a monster serpent, was admon ished to "Shan the deadly cup; it Stingeth like an adder." An acrobat, turning a somersault in midair, appar ently grasped in his hand the question, "Where will yon spend your eternity?" and the tights of a woman trapeze per former were decorated with the state ment that "God eeea everything." The lion . tamer, in a cage with several beasts, which apparently were about to make a meal of him, was admonished to "watch-and pray," and the "human cannon ball" being fired from' a huge I cannon was confronted by the question, "Where are yon going to heaven or to hell 7 It is safe to say that no circus bills ever attracted more general attention or caused more comment. Death pf Owen Williams. Owen Williams died at Good Samari tan hospital Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock. He had been ailing for some time, but his condition was not con sidered dangerous nntil about a month ago. - He went to Portland about the 1st of February in hopes of finding relief, but the doctors soon discovered that he was " suffering from cancer of the stomach, and that his death was only a question of a short time. His partner, Mr. Charles Stublingras with him for several days previous to his death. Owen Williams was born in Wales in August 1843, came to the United States about the year 1860, and to The Dalles about 1879, though he has not resided here continuously. The only "relative of his in this country is a niece living in New York, and ope sister in Wales, sur vives him. . He was a member of the B. P. O. E. of this city, under whose ceremonies the funeral was conducted. .He also, be longed to the Knights of Pytfiias and Odd Fellows, holding membership in San Francisco lodges. He was a most excellent man, of a quiet ' and retiring disposition, a heart easily moved to sympathy, a sympathy, too, accompanied with a generous hand. The body was brought here Sunday, a deputation from the lodge of Elks at Portland escorting it to the train. Ar riving here, it was token to the Stubling residence, and from it the funeral took place, Rev. L. Grey delivering the ser mon. The Elks, Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows, and many true friends fol lowed the body to its last' resting place, to pay their last tribute of respect to one whose honest worth had in life earned their respect and affection. ' ' Sherman County Sheepmen. Mr. C. A. Buckley, writing from Grass Valley, Sherman county, to the Oregonian concerning the action of the sheepmen of that section says : "The annual meeting of the Sherman County Sbeepraisers' Association was held at this place on the 22d inst., and by an nnanimouB vote it was decided to levy a $3 tax per 1000. sbeep owned by members of the association for the pur pose of a bounty on coyotes. This county is paying a bounty of fland the association is paying 50 cents additional where the coyote is killed on the range ot a. member. - During the past year this county has paid for 598 scalps, and the association has paid the additional 50 cpii's on 265 of that nnmber. Now, supposing the above number bad iiot been killed. Who could estimate the damage that would occur from the loss of ' sheep and lambs,' saying nothing about the' chickens, pigs and" calves that -would toave come to grief? Not less than 1000 sheep have been saved in this county, and probably as many lambs would have been killed this spring through the lambing season, Out association also discussed the tariff on wool, and it was decided to' faVor eight or ten cencs on wool in the grease, double on washed, and triple on scoured ; - fifty. cents duty on shoddy, and all duties (on wool) 2 Our First Dress Goods Depa Our Colored Dress Goods Department is now complete, and ;. we are ready to show some of the choicest weaves ever pro- :. duced by a loom, in both Foreign and Domestic Goods. . We have already put in stock oyer, Two Hundred Pieces of the ' (Choicest Etamines, Cheviots, Silk and Wool Mixtures and Scotch Homespuns, This week we will make Two Special Drives in Cheviots and Etamines. Lot 1. Choice All-Wool nKPTHntg 36 inches wide; equal to any 40c goods ever offered. Our price ...... ...25c per yard. .Lot 2. Choice Collection of All-Wool Etamines and Cheviots. Beautiful Assortment of Patterns. , - Our price.. ..30c per yard. ALL GOODS MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES. O . specific. . " A special meeting pf the association will be held at this place March 13th, at which time we expect every she'epowner in the county to be present and register as member. School District Mo. 18 Financial Report. , RECEIPTS. On hand beginning school year March 1, 1896 154 64 Ami ree'd from taxes collected 6,176 05 Ami, ree'd Irom county school fnnd. . . 2,939 00 Amt. ree'd from state school fund 2,051 20 Ami ree'd from tuition collected 635 75 Amt. ree'd from all other sources 11 25 Total. 1 1 111,867 79 DISBURSEMENTS. Paid for teachers salaries...' $ 8,222 50 Paid foi clerks salaries 200 00 Paid for Janitors services 1,047 00 Paid for insurance i ' 17 50 Paid for interest 438 18 Paid for ater rent 46 50 Paid for school desks 317 50 Paid for apparatus 819 96 Paid for telephone services. - 46 50 Paid for tuition refunded . 5 00 Puid for printing 33 00 Paid for fuel 81 86 Paid for repair on school houses ; 641 64 Paid for all other purposes 114 75 Balance on hand 335 90 Total . .$11,867 79 1 LIABILITIES. - Outstanding warrants. I 8,055 12 Interest on same 300 00 Total RESOURCES. Amount due from 1896 tax roll Amount due from 1895 tax rail . 8,355 12 ....I 7,158 96 .... 93085 Total 8,089 81 Liabilities less resources .$ 265 S4 E. Jacobsex, Clerk. Artistio Advertising;. . The special work done by the Dawson Lithographing Co. of thjis city for The Dalles Mfnstrels, deserves, and is re ceiving, the highest praise. , The man agers are sparing no pains to make the show a success ; in fact some of their pains can be detected in the counte nances of the actors, especially in that of Professor Love in his serpentine dance. His face has a sort of a what-will-I-do- with- these- skirts expression, that betrays the agony of his soul. The picture of Johnny Hampshire is so nat ural that it can be recognized across the street, though few wonld want to recog nize it if there were, strangers aronnd. That of H.B.Morse is also a daisy, while the. others each have a beauty, a sweetness and a suggestiveness all their own. - Laying all facetionsness aside, Mr. Dawson has done some excellent work, and we doubt if ever 'a local minstrel troupe had such an excellent lot of "lithographs." The show is going to be a good one, and it is going to have the biggest house ever attending an affair of the kind in this city. Lov-Dovn Scoundrels. - While Louie Davenport and his family were attending the literary exercises at the Mosier scboolhouse Saturday night last, some rascally scoundrel or scoun drels, cut the wires on his fence for a distance of 450 yards, cutting and break ing down the posts. This morning he discovered that' three of his cows had been poieoneJ, but he baa hopes of sav ing them. " ' ' - The penitentiary is too good for a man who will, to gratify a feeling of spite or revenge, destroy another's property, but this is a light offense when compared to that of poisoning dumb beasts. ' Dante's Inferno provided no place bad enough to furnish an adequate punishment for the offense. - The scoundrels are un kuown, but not unsuspected, and it is hoped that they may be speedily found and sent where for a few years, at least, they cannot give play to their depraved instincts. - - , Grand Offering PEASE - o The BUssing; Cadet Montgomery. Bussell Montgomery, son of Mr. J. B. Montgomery of this city, who has been mourned as dead almost a year, is re ported to have been seen very lately in Cuba, as a lieutenant in the insurgent army. He was a naval cadet at An napolis academy, and falling in his ex amination the presumption was that he committed suicide. When the news of his disappearance reached his home both Mr. and MrB. Montgomery were prostrated. The beet detectives that could be found- were at once put upon the case, and for ten months there has been' no cessation of effort among the searchers. - This information is conveyed in a let ter from Virginia, written by an insur gent officer who went home for treat ment of wounds he received in battle. This letter is of very recent date, and the writer claims to know young Mont gomery very well. He says when he last saw him he was in excellent health and spirits.- There is no reason to doubt the report, as it is remembered that the cadet was ever enthusiastic in the cause of Cuba libre. That he should have made his way to the island and joined the insurgents is regarded as highly probable. Portland Telegram. - School Meeting;. The annual school meeting in district No. 9, of Wasco county, was one of the most harmonious meetings that has ever been held in the district, the house be ing crowded with people. The meeting was called to order and the nominees for directors' were Perry Vancamp and G. B. Halvor. Mr. G. B. Halvor received two votes and Perry . Vancamp received fourteen. Nominees for clerk, Henry Snipes and A. T. Marsh. Henry Snipes received one vote; A. T. Marsh fifteen. The names of the voters are A. Secbler, John Koontz, A. Field, A. J. Anderson, Mrs. Anderson, Nettie Anderson, Peter Ruffner, Perry Vancamp, J..T. Wright, Chris Ohleschleger, Charley Holt, Al bert Ganger, Ohleschleger, Mrs.- Secbler Andrew Ganger and A. Y. Marsh.'' The Dalles Favorites. - The, Payton Comedy Company, con sisting of seventeen members, arrived on the Begulator last 'night, and will open their five days' engagement at the Vogt tonight, in that bright comedy, "Is Marriage a Failure." The Paytons bave been here twice before, and are especial favorites with Dalles people. Their plays are always clean, well put on and enjoyable. . Senter Payton is a fine comedian, and the Misses Lucy and Vina in their specialties are seldom equaled. Mr. Curts, who takes the heavy parts, is a fine actor, and with Mr. Payton's good judgment in selecting his support, it is safe to say the new members will add strength to the com pany. " ' ' . Tilled Fifty lollr's. - Ed.' Marshal, a gentleman, of leisure, was arrested night before last charged! with vagrancy. seiog tanen oerore ine city recorder, he demanded a jury Jrial', which was given him. He- conducted his own case, and did it so successfully that the jury was out only a minute, when it returned with a verdict of guilty. Marshal was then fined $59 and costs, and given the privilege of working out his fine on the streets or leaving town never to return. Last night he con cluded he would accept the latter alter native, and we are perhaps rid of him for some time. m our rtmt & MAYS. 9- TAXES ON WASCO COUNTY. What They Amounted to for All Par poses In 1896. The following data is taken from the warrant of the county clerk attached to the tax roll for 1897 : Total taxable property as equalized by state board $2,893,151 00 Supplemental assessment. 135,488 00 IN INCORPORATED' TOWNS. Dalles City $1,123,505 00 Antelope 28,133 00 Dufur 49,629 00 Hood River 41,005 00 TAXES FUNDS. For state purposes 4 mills. $11,572 60 For state school 2 mills. . . 14,997 40 Indigent eoldiers and sal- 1-10 mills. 229 95 Special road tax 1 mill." 2.999 48 County purposes 11 1-10. . .' 47,754 45 SPECIAL TAXES. Dalles City 5 mills '. $5,567 28 School Dist. No 1 10 mills 976 80 " "23" 152 00 " " 3 15 " 2,090 37 - "45" 148 88 ... "52 . " 56 65 ' A . .. g g 210 86 " "92" 150 42 . " "12 6 " 7,158 97 " " 13 4 " . 86 07 " ".14 2 " 172 90 " "16 2 " 33 92 " " 29 6 " 517 37. " . " 32 2 " 22 85 " ; . " 33 3 " 34 96 " " 34 3 " - l ' 97 88 " " 42 3 " 147 64 " " 43 5 " 17 03 " " 60 10 " 1,125 64 " " 56 7 " 249 82 " 68 5 " 64 52 " " 61 6 " 87 52 Total taxes to be col.. $$35,983 87 Jim Hetdershott Dead. The news of the death of Hon. James Hendersbott, of Cove, Union county, was received in this city yesterday. His . demise occurred at 4iia home after sev eral weeks' illness on Friday evening. Mr. Hendersbott's age was about 68 , years. The deceased has been a promi nent figure in Oregon politics for over twenty-five years, having served as rep resentative and senator from Union county several terms. . He was an un flinching Democrat of the old school and was always at his post of duty fighting for the good of his party. r demise : will be regretted by hundred' if friends throughout the state. Baker Demo crat. Enthusiastic About tbe Mines. Mr. Zimmerman, formerly a resident of Pendleton, has returned from the Baker City country. He has been among tbe mines and has an enthusi astic account to give of the good times there prevailing. He saw numerous A. B. B. gold savinc machines in operation with excellent results. .'Men in tbe quartz mines are receiving from $3 to $4 per day, and many placer mines have been profitably operated iu that section. Mr. Zimmerman- will return to the nines. East Oreeonian. BITS CREAM BALM is a positive cur. Apply into the nostrils. It is quickly absorbed. 60 cents at Drupgists or by mail ; samples 10c by man. ELY BROTHERS, M Warren St. New York City.