C3J
THE DALLES WEETCT.Y CHRONICLE SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1897.
The YeeMy Ghronicle;
THI DAILIS, -
0BIOO8
OFFICIAL PAPER OP WASCO COUNTY.
Published in two part, on Wednesday
mnd Saturdays.
: :
- - v BCBBCEIFTCON BATES. ... '
BT X1.I1, r08TAQ PUPAIS, IV ADVANCB.
One year II 60
Six month 75
Three months....... - 60
Advertising rate reasonable, and made known
on application.
Address all communications to "THECHRON-
IGLE, The Dalies, Oregon.
Telephone No. J.
LOCAL BKBVIT1KS.
1. Wednesday Daily.
State senator Mniiceys wne aiea at
Dallas of pneumonia yesterday.
The county commissioners court met
' today, Judge Mays being in the chair
The social, which was to be given by
the Good Templars next Saturday even
ing, will be postponed one week.
The 9-year-old daughter ot a man
named Middleswart, who lives on the
old Husbands place this side of Hosier,
died one day laet week and was buried
Sunday. .
Dick Fisher is up from Mosier today,
and noticing the extra breadth to his
smile, our reporter asked him the cause
thereof. "Oh ! nothing," said he, "only
twelve-pound boy."
Owing to the delayed train, which
prevented Commissioner Blowers from
. .arriving here nntil after 1 o'clock, the
rn. i..:!);... tK. XtnA Hitrar K.i ' era
VtUD 1U. vuliuiufi
were not opened until after 3 o'clock.
. President Cleveland vetoed the immi
gration bill for two columns of reasons.
One of the many being that the immi
grants who cannot read are better for
this country than those who can. This
, is the closing sentiment of an ill spent
official life.
Eugene is giving itself a minstrel show
by local talent, and it just goes one bet
ter than The Dalles by having the
ladies of thai little city' taking the parts.
It is an out-and-out minstrel show, with
ladies in all the roles, even to the clog
and jig dancing. .
We note that strips of bunting have
- been stretched across the Vogt, and that
it improves the acconstics somewhat.
With a little study -and experimenting,
it may be possible to remedy the defect
. in the hall in this line. We hope it
' may, for the stage and scenery are fine
and the hall a ' credit to a city three
times the size of The Dalles..
The sage hen was hatched last night,
' for which we, as well as those who were
present, are no doubt thankful. The
lecture was very interesting for us, hav
ing been o for some time, bat interest
has ceased and our life-size lithographs
will no longer compete with those of
Kick Sinnott, Johnny Hampshire and
the other leading minstrels.
The Wheaidon real estate aeency re
ports the sale of ninety feet square on
the southwest corner of Fifth and Wash
mgton streets, to Hon. E. O. McCoy.
This is a very desirable corner, and we
understand Mr. McCoy will build a fine
two-story residence thereon during the
summer.'
The box sheet will be open friday
morning at 9 o'clock at the Snlpes-Kin-'
ersly drugstore for the sale of tickets for
The Dalles Commercial and Athletic
. Club (or words to that effect) minstrel
show. Two extra policemen have been
nmvirlMl far trtA nnaninn nf this nrinw.
- - ,
one to keep the audience quiet, and the
other to manage the actors.
The new marriage laW in Argentina
provides that every male from the age
of twenty to thirty shall pay a tax ' until
he marries, and shall pay it ' once a
month. There is also a provision to the
effect that yonng unmarried person of
either sex who shall, without sufficient
reason, reject the-addresses of those who
may aspire to their hands and who shall
continne contumaciously unmarried
snail pay ouu piasters lor tne oenens oi
the young person, male or female, who
has been refused.'
Last night Nightwatchman Wiley ar
rested as handsome a joblot of tramp as
one could wish to see. They had se
cured some alcohol, and when arrested
were on the post-meridian side of a
drunk of magnificent proportions.
When arrested they were just beyond
the Wasco warehouse, and bad only a
few minutes before completed a free for
all battle. In consequence, they were
bruised, scratched and bloody; When
pulled.it was found they had razors,
razor strap?, brackets .and dozens of
other thing", tif-ed to trade, but which
they had evidently swiped. It required
the hiring of a dray to get them -to the
city jail. ' '
- Thursday. ,
The weather took a regular spring flop
last night, and this morning it was
quite chilly and the bills across the
river were covered with a light fall of
snow. .
Pease & Mays have a yery attractive
decoration in their big show window, it
being a minature white house about four
feet long, with a big portico on which
Btands Uncle Sam, ready to welcome
President McKinley, who is approaching
the steps.
It was made by Earnest Jensen, as he
savs bv "niehts of labor" and must be
seen to be appreciated. President Mo
Kinley is np to his knees in business be
fore be reaches the steps, but from the
look on hie face he seems determined to
get there.
The city marshal had a nice job-lot of
hoboes at work near- the city jail on
Third street, shoveling up the mud pre
paratory to having the same carted
away, i There were two or three young
fellows, boys who did not have a hard
ened look about them, but it will be . ac
quired in a short time.
, . . Friday.' ' .
- Mayor Pennoyer has settled the nickle-in-the-slot
machines in Portland, the
edict prohibiting them, going into effect
at midnight last night.
The Salem Statesman notes the death
at Portland of A. H. Morgan; Wednes
day. Mr. Morgan was quite well known
to many of our Dalles people. -
The dainty lunch served by the dainty
girls at the Congregational church y Wed
nesday evening, was served as 'adver
tised, daintily, and a delightful evening
was furnished for all who attended.
The Bathbone Sisters last night en
tertained their friends in a charming
manner at the K. of P. ball. There was
a fine program, followed oy a supper.
The hall was handsomely decorated, and
the drill by the team was very pretty
After the supper had been attended to
dancing was the order of the evening
and, was kept up until after midnight.
When the box sheet for the local .min
strel show opened this morning at
o'clock, there was a string of crowding
humanity reaching out into the street,
ecah waiting his turn to purchase a ticket
and have a seat reserved. - Some held
from three to ten tickets, and one is said
to have had a block of over forty. The
house is going to be jammed and stand
mg room will be at a premium.
Steamer Dalles City.
A large number of people assembled
on the D. P. & A. N. Co. dock last even
me to greet tne grand little steamer on
her return to this port after her memo
rable' experience in the gale of last No
vember, which left her so near a wreck
that the conditions were almost bope
less for her ever being restored to ser
vice: but energy, perseverance and
money will overcome great difficulties,
and from the appearance of the noble
craft, the stockholders may feel assured
that every effort has been made to make
her a thing of beauty, of which they
may well feel proud.
Mr. 8. L. Brooks, who has so ably
conducted the repairs, is to be congratu
lated upon bis success. The enjoyment
be had in showing the visitors through
tne cabins and noting tne improve
ments is" well earned.
Capt. Johnston was on deck, his conn
tenance adorned by bis ever-pleasant
smile of welcome. His hearty hand
shake seem to say, "You do me an
honor." Such courtesies are what make
this the popular line, and say in such
emphatic terms "No others need apply
for the patronage of the Inland Empire,
of which The Dalles is the open gate
way.
The Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navi
gation Company is to be congratulated
for its strong hold upon the business
community and the traveling public,
which has been maintained through
such trying circumstances as few corpo
rations are called ' npon to overcome;
but by an honest and steadfast purpose
to succeed, assisted by the live-and-let-live
principle, they have established
themselves upon the firm foundation of
popular lavor.
"Only a Tramp" Tonight. '
"The Lancashire Lass" at the Vogt
last night did not draw so good a honee
as it should, but the play was well put
on, and the audience got the worth of
their money. Senter Pay ton is always
good ; but last night Miss Vina as
"Spotty" did some of the best work the
company has yet given us. Curts never
fails to be a perfect villain, and last
night added to his laurels in that line.
Miss Lucy Payton shows much im
provement in the emotional parts since
last here, and laet night did some very
clever work.
Tonight the play will be "Only a
Tramp." It furnishes abundant oppor
tunity for the display of Senter Payton'e
originality, he taking the part of "Jerry,"
poet, painter and philosopher, yet
only a tramp. '
Tomorrow afternoon the company will
give a grand matinee at 2 o'clock, with
that old, bat always interesting and re
alistic play "Ten Nights in a Bar-Room,"
Admission to the matinee is. only 10 and
20 cent?, affording an ODDortnnitv for
the young folks to see this famous play
and to learn its moral.
. A Mew Sellout luatrlct.
School district No. 58 is lh& number of
the district newly fotined from the west
ern part of district No. 16. It includes
all residents of that district living west
of 15-Mile creek. Mr. Louis Schwa
backer, well and favorably known to the
business men of this coast, has donated
one and one-half acres of land near the
center of the district for a school house
site. The district will at once build a
house 22x30 feet. This will furnish a
good school room, and a place in Co
lumbia precinct for meetings and voting
purposes.
Advertise in Thb Chronicle.
LOOKING FOR ABSENT MEMBERS
The Legislative Troubles Are
ferred to Portland.
Trans-
The "drastic measures" as adopted by
what ie left of the Oregon , legislature
yesterday to bring in the absent mem
bers to do business fell through this
morning.
The legislative operations were trans
ferred to Portland by a resolution which
was adapted in the temporary bouse at
Salem yesterday to send eergeants-at-
arms after the members. ' On last nieht's
train from Salem were Sergeant-at-Arms
Glen Holman with five assistants.. They
prowled about Portland with warrants
in their inBide pockets, looking for repre
sentatives of the house. By midnight
some of the assistants had found four of
the gentlemen sought after. Tbey re
sisted arrest and out of that meeting
grew an assault case before Justice Mc
Devitt. ' ,
Following this, Judge Stephens was
applied to tor a writ of habeas corpus for
the arrested men. This was made re
turnable before Judge Sbattuck this
morning at 10 o'cloek.
Ten o'clock came and found the court
house in a hubbub of excitement. Judge
Shattuck's courtroom was crowded, and
a large and eager audience awaited the
arrival of the four determinedly obstin
ate legislators. They were : Represen
tatives Jennings, of Wallowa ; Hope, of
Malheur county ; Conn, of Lake county,
and Gurdane, of Umatilla county.
But they did not come. Judge Sh at
tack went on with the court's business
expecting the attorneys, but not an at
torney nor a client showed np. The in
formation wae brought" that the write
had not been, served. Of course, if a
man is not arrested, there is no such
thing as habeas corpusing him, and so
the matter dropped. '
Sergeant-at-Arms Holman, when seen
soon after at the Perkins hotel, eaid that
tie was only carrying out his instruc
tions. He had merely informed some of
the men that they were 'under arrest,
and he intimated that was about all that
be would do. .
"I am going back to Salem this after
noon," he said, "and will make my re
report. If the the members don't go,
what am I to do? They sent ue out to
get the absentees, and" Glen held up
his finger significantly "you know that
you can take a horse to water, but you
can't make him drink." Then Holman
said he was not siding with the tactions,
and went on to discuss how and why the
house was not organized.
Until the frost flies in Hadee and the
I River Styx ie good for skating the Ben
son men today say tbey will not go back
to Salem. An expression quite equlya
lent to this is used by them in declaring
their intentions. , Representatives Jen
nings and Conn said they would go back
there when Governor Lord called a spe
cial session.
The situation is such that it is proba
ble the entire legislative farce may be
taken into the courts, now that it has
begun. It was seriously expected that
the writs of habeas corpus would come
up today. Even some of the officers who
are carrying out the orders of the assem
bly laugh with the arrested absentees
and sav the have no more power to ar
rest absentees and take them to Salem
than the president of a Slablown ' liter
ary society has power to jail a recalci
trant member for tardiness.
Today members of the Multnomah
delegation who. have absented them
selves from Salem, were visited by the
assistant eergeant-at-arme' and mildly
informed ot the act of the assembly yes
terday. Deputy Cotton left last night
for Astoria to arrest Representative
Gratke, and on his return home will
stop at Clatskanie and take Representa
tive Norman Merrill in tow. '
Others of the deputy eergeant-at-arms
will today go to Washington county and
Eastern Oregon for the purpose of serv
ing notice on the members who have
gone away. What the result; will be
time will tell.
The manner of making the arrests was
in keeping with the farce that has been
on the boards at Salem far beyond con
stitutional limit, as well as the limit of
human patience.
"How-do-you-do?" eaid a eergeant-at
arms, approaching Mr. Conn.
"I am well, thanks-." N
"Say, step over here; I've a little pri
vate matter to discuss with you."
"Certainly." '
"I have a warrant here, old man,"
carelessly and reluctantiy drawing it
forth. "Would you like to see it?"
"No, not particularly."
"Well, now, I'll tell you. You are
supposed to be under arrest. Now the
others are going back, and want you to
go, too."
It was like a skit from a farce-comedy
where the policeman eays to the culprit:
"Tlease let me arrest you. I liope to
die if I ain't a policeman."
Tne outlook is that the entire matter
of legislation must be held .in abeyance
until the courts determine whether it is
or is not their business to interfere in
the legislative muddle. , The' expecta
tion' ie that, if a test case be brought at
Salem or in Multnomah 'county, it
would be heard immediately- in the cir
cuit court and an appeal taken to the
supreme court. Chief Justice Moore
would cause it to be advanced on the
docket. If all expedition be used by
both sides to the controversy, a final
decision may be reached within two or
three weeks. If either side tight for de
lay, a settlement may be deferred in
definitely. How it will terminate or
what will bet the next step when the
eergeant-at-arms makes his report can
not be prophesied. Telegram.
Bids for Hood lit Ter Bridge.
The bids for building the bridge across
Hood river were opened yesterday after
noon. There were seven of them, foor
for wooden bridges, three for steel
bridges, and ehow a wide divergence in
cost. They were ae follows :
James Langille, Howe truss ' $1928
bow string $1250.
W. C.Eddings, Howe truss 1828;. bow
string $1250.
H. C. Martin and Edward Hawkes
Howe trues $1572.62 and $2.35 per lineal
foot for approaches. ' '
H. B. St. John, Howe truss $1249
stone piers $18 per foot in height extra
Smith truss $1160. -
The bids for. steel ' bridges were the
San Francisco Bridge Co. $3799, and $2
per lineal foot for approaches.
The Pacific Bridge Co., one plan
$3969; another $3885.
The Chicago Bridge- Co. put in a bid
for a steel bridge without any plans or
specifications for $2100, which wae
thrown out on account of its indefinite-
ness.
Those Reserved Beats.
This morning when the box ebeet for
the minetrel show Monday night was
opened, there was a grand : rush for
tickets, and as always happens on such
occasions, there was some ill feeling.
unfortunately the box ebeet was so ar
ranged as to deceive many. Usually the
reserved seats will not number more
than 200, so the front 300 seats only are
marked on the sheet, and these were all
sold. Now the fact is that the ball will
seat easily 1100, and the 300 seats only
take a trifle' over one-fourth of the hall.
The best place to hear is not in front,
but from the middle, back half way to
the door. There are just as good, and
in our opinion better seats yet to be
had than those reserved. The box
sheet has been re-arranged so that there
is now plenty of chance to get good seats
and get them reserved. Professor Love
has a plan in view for improving the
acoustics of the hall, which he thinks
will work, and the improvements will
be made Monday.
A grain on the Boute. 1
Steamer Dalles City left Portland this
morning with a large load of freight,
and will arrive here between 7 and 8
o'clock this evening, returning tomorrow
morning, leaving the D. P. & A. Co
dock at 7:30. Although her repairs are
not entirely completed, one would
hardly recognize this staunch little
steamer as the wreck laying on the eand
epit in the Columbia river on that
memorable night of wind and cold
November last, which will never be for
gotten by the passengers 'and crew
waiting eo anxiously for daylight.
ine genial Uapt. Johnston resumes
command and she will take her place on
the line ae the pride' of the traveling
public, which she has eo long main
tained as the ewiit water boat of the
Columbia river. "May she live long
and prosper."
The Session JBnds.
The situation at Salem had a -decided
change today, it coming this time from
the senate. Only six senators answered
to roll-call, and these being tired of the
farce, concluded to ring down the cur
tain. They were true to their princi
ples to the last, and in quitting still
maintained that the senate could not
adjourn without the ' consent of the
house, and so they just dissolved, faded
out like a lengthening shadow at'sunset.
This settles the matter as far as the reg
ular session ie concerned, and nothing
more can be done unlesB Governor Lord
calls an extra' session, which he is not
apt to do for some time. -
Near Kail road Company.
Articles of incorporation of the Co
lumbia Southern Railway Company
were filed this morning. The duration
of the company ie perpetual. The prin
cipal place of business is The Dalles. Or.
The capital stock is $100,000, divided
into 1000 shares of the par value of $100
.each. The terminii of said road is Biggs,
in Sherman county, and Prineville, in
Crook county, Or. '
Provision is made for branch lines and
for engaging in navigating the waters of
the . Colombia and Snake rivers and
tributarily thereof. The incorporators
are E. E. Lytle, J. M. Murchie and T.
A. Hudson. .
A Steel Bridge. '
The contract for building a bridge
across Hood river wae let today by the
county court to the San Francisco Bridge
Company. The bridge will be all steel
except the floor and railing, and will
cost $3799, and $2 perJineal foot for the'
approaches. The piers of 'the bridge are
to be of steel filled with cement. .It is a
coincidence that the contract is let on
inauguration day, and is to be completed
July 4th. .'' .
Dalles City School Statistics.
Tuition collected by school clerk for
the echool year ending March let :
1893:..... ....".-.$102 50
1884. 258 95
1895.... 546 25
1896... 505 30
1897.... 535 75
Subscribe for Thb Chronicle.
BLACKVEULS
I
Ton will find one coupon
lnsldee&ch two ounce bag.
sad two coupons inside eacla
tour ouaoe bag ot Black- ,
well's Durham. Bay baa
ot thia celebrated tobacco
and read the coupon which
a uai oi valuable pa
cuts and bow to get then.
LEGISLATIVE ENTANGLEMENT.
A. Member States Bis Vlears as to Some
of the Matters- Involved. -'
The Dalles, Or., March 1, 1897.
To the Editor:
oar several recent criticisms of the
representatives who decline to remain at
Salem seem to disregard some consider
ations which jnstify, or at least excuse,
the thirty .members who are now re
ferred to as absentees, Aside from all
legal questions, it should borne in mind
that for ten days every fair and lawful
method was used by the members who
answered to roll-call in the temporary
organization, to v induce the men who
now are declaring themselves anxions
for remedial legislation to do what tbey
were sent to Salem to do attend the
sessions and effect a permanent organi
zation, so that legislation would be pos
sible. This they refused to do, and in
dicated) their purpose to prevent, as far
as possible, the permanent organization.
After ten days of tedious waiting,
thirty-three memberB met in the tem
porary organization and thirty-one of
these members elected permanent offi
cers, first having notified the absentees
of their purpose eo to do. These thirty
one members believed that section 12 of
article IV of the constitution means just
what it says:. "Two-thirds of each
house shall constitute a quorum to
transact business." Section 11 of the
same article provides for the choosing of
officers,, etc., but nothing is said as to
what ehall constitute a quorum prior to
eection . 12. If, therefore, the choosing
of officers ie not transacting business
within the meaning of section 12 the
common law rqle, that a majority ehall
conetitnte a quorum obtains, and there
fore that a majority of members-elect
had a legal right to organize, but hot a
egal right to transact business. It has
always been the custom for . the two
houses, after choosing officers, to notify
the governor that they were organized
and ready to transact business; to tbie
extent, at least, the organizing has not
been heretofore considered "transactsng
business," either by the governor or the
wo branches of the legislature.
After waiting thirty-five days longer
for the now ambitious legislators to do
whst was their lawful and moral duty to
do take the oath of office and manifest
disposition to take part in the work of
the legislature the so-called' "Benson
house" adopted a resolution to adjonrn,
the senate first having adopted a like
resolution. These resolutions were never
rescinded, and it hardly seems probable
that any unprejudiced person would
claim that this was not a .constitutional
adjournment. Abeut ten days before
the adjournment, when it still seemed
possible that Mr. Mitchell might be
elected, the president of the senate ex
pressed to me a wish that both houses
might adjourn, and gave it as his
opinion that should the senate and
Benson house" independents resolve
to adjourn, such action woulof constitute
valid adjournment.
Judging from the past conduct of the
members of the present "Davis house,"
continue to say that should the absent
members now return in a body, the
would-be "remedial legislators" would
vanish even as during the 45 days of the
imk ,i
I Durham r; " -
m mr m Finn wajw Has oiiwi;
That is, the price on some wagone hae fallen below our price on "OLD
HICKORY" Wagone. Why? Because
alongside of the "OLD HICKORY" at
best painted and lightest running, and we
strictly nrst-clrss. If vou want the
haven't got it ; but we have got the BEST,
MAYS Sc
WANT
--'INUlwvintN:
V
'session. But if not, with several legal
questions hanging over the proposed
"seesion," amy legislation would be a,
detriment rather than a benefit to the
people of the eta'te. P.etter a special
eession, free from legal complications,
than any eession based upon the so-called
Davis house.
Whatever may be said as to the desira
bility of electing a senator whose princi
ples are at all points in touch with the
republican party in place of Senator
Mitchell, the methods used by the men
who now appear to be making an effort to
organize the legislature, to defeat Mr.
Mitchell Bhould no( be appoved by any
one, and cannot be upheld' by any
patriotic citizen. The immediate result
may be well for the state, but the ul
timate result will certainly be more, dis
astrous than the election ot Any man to
the senatorsbip, howsoever objectionable)
be may be. In view of these consider
atians I do not feel that it is either my
legal or my moral duty to return to
Salem until the supreme court decides
that the Benson house was not a! legal
body and the adjournment of: the two
houses ineffective, or a special session is
called by the -governor. .
" B. S. Huntington.
The above ie clipped from yesterday's
Oregonian and we reprint it to ehow Mr.
Hnntington'e position in the recent po
litical muddle
FOB SCHOOL CLERK.
I hereby announce myself as a candi
date for school clerk of district No. 12.
Geo. P. Morgan.
ECZEttA, greatest of skin dis.
eases, is the cause of more intense
suffering than all others combined.
Tender babies are
among its numerous
victims. The itching,
burning, ' cracking, .
bleeding, and scaling-:
of the skin-and scalp .
are almost beyond endurance.
- Sleep is out of the question.
Most remedies and: physicians.,
generally fail '"even to, relieve. If
CUTICURA remedies..
did no more than cure'
Eczema, they would
- be entitled to the grati
tude of mankind.
They not only Cure
but ,
A single application is often
sufficient to ' afford instant relief,
permit rest and' sleep, nd, point to a
speedy, permanent cure. '.
Bpxedt Cns.' Treatment. Warm batha
with Cuticura. Sai, gcntlo applications ot
Cctici'ra (ointment), ami mild dusos of Cun
cuba Kesoi.yz.nt (the do b:opd purifier).
' Rotd thtrarhnuft the vor'il. rnrrxn Deco ft Cbkk.
Conr.. JSolp fropVtom. K.Mm. U H. A.
y Uow tu Cure tali?' Nkin like free.
; FinJ. Comfort
and Strength in
Caticiirapi- Piaster
no other wagon on the market will Belt
the earns prices. It is the best ironeu,
guarantee every bit of material in it to
UHiSAJPi!-ST wagon on tne marsei, wo .
and solicit comparison. -
AW
a.
mm
CROWE, The Dalles, Or.