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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, SATURDAY. APRIL 10. 1897. X The Weekly Gbf oniele. STATE OFFICIALS. ajvernot Secretary of State Treasurer . . . -. Bnpt. of Public Instruction, Attorney-General . B TO tors Congressmen. BUte Printer ................ . ..W. P. Lord HE Kincaid ...Phillip Metschan G. M. Irwin CM. Idlcman (G. W. Mc Bride J. H. Mitchell ( B nermann ...w. h. Leeds COUNTY OFFICIALS County Judge. ..Boot. Mays Sheriff........ '. ...T. J. Driver Clerk ; -. A M. Kelsay Treasurer C. L. rnillips , , i a . 9. d lowers Commissioners... in. 8. Kimsey Awuvir W. II. Whipple 2XrPiK.i &.Vc:t ohbert -rtTr - r-r nr it xi.. THE DALLES 'AS A MANUFACT URING POINT; Portland is taking active steps to; secure the location of a woolen mill. The business men of The Dalles have never manifested any disposi tion to secure such a manufacturing enterprise, or we wouia nave nau one ti , i long ago. The city owns a water power which, during all of the year except, possiDiy, auring omy ana August, would rurnisn sufficient power for a plant as large as that in operation at Salem. We have a wool marse. unsurpu im Mra i . a il. i . coast; we nave an aounaance or goou water ana good fuel ; our transporta tion facilities are equal to any on' the coast, and much better than many places where enterprise and capital have established extensive factories. power, me lans or me iuickiku, situ- ateu uiue uiura iruu iuc iaiira, 3 : ri rrst t-11 I "'eDMUD 8' 8 Buurge "l power, ay means or electricity this power can De, ana unaouoteaiy win be, in the near future, conveyed 1o our city. Already capitalists have examined this water powei with a view of bringing it hither. At present we have four or five enterprises which are using steam power; but the only drawback to bringing the Klickitat falls power to the city is the small demand for it. If it could be utilized, it could be furnished at very small expense, If a demand were created sufficient to warrant the transportation of the power more than one benefit would result. Our mills, already estab lished, could be run at less expense, and their products placed on the markets at a less price ; pur city could be furnished with lights at so low a cost that all, lucluding the city it- self, could use electric lights. Our population would be increased, our home . markets enlarged and the people of the surrounding country, as well as mc businessmen or tne - city, would be greatly benefited. If some party thoroughly familiar with the woolen manufacturing .busi ness, will come here, we will show him one of the best openings in the country. Whatever else Mr. U'Ken may be, he is most charmingly frank. At Oregon City recently he met his : constituents for the purpose of giv ing them an account of his steward ship. The question was asked him, . ''Who paid the expenses of the hold up." "Mr.. Mitchell's enemies," was . the reply. He then went on to state that he got $80, and others from that amount up to $120, and that only one of those who held out paid bis own expenses. Was ever a bolder admission? These men, according to U'Ren's statement, deliberately violated their pledges to the people, held up the legislature, and sold themselves out for, in round numbers, two dollars per day. The . painted Cyprian, who stands in her door to .,,..,.,.,.. i -i i l t . .u. excuse of earning her living; but IT Ren and his had no excuse at all. The miserable pittance was accepted by them as a sufficient con sideration for their services, full price for their honor, their characters and their souls. It was all of that, ana more. Seir-conressed . receiver of money for an unlawful object, what more despicable object breathes the pure air of Oregon ? Mr. U'Ren and his have taken the initiative, and should they, or any of them, again come before the public seeking office, mey win nave a pracusai example or tne working of the referendum. We hope congress will do some thing towards the annexation of Ha waii at the present session. " If the stands could be let alone, we be- lieve the policy of this government would be not to interfere, but this cannot be. Sooner or Iatei they must fall under the control of some other nation, if thev are not taken in by. us, "The question is, shall we take them in now, while we can get them peaceably, or later, when re, to protect ourselves, must lake them by force. The Japanese are floodin, the country, and in ten years from now will control it.' The Chinese are going there in large numbers. and the degraded and undesirable populatioa is augmenting every day, - . I . . ThP nniker we et a move on ana make the state of jHawaii, the better. NOT DETERIORATED. Senator Hoar plunges into print i the columns of the April Forum to show that the senate has not degener ated. Of course Senator Hoar bein, one of them, ought to know. Who better? He knoW8 whether Webster I d Clay and Benton and that class lf men were gUperjor to Brice) Fora plaU) Quay ftnd &n the politieai ,. . . no oceuDV seats ia enale Qf coue h doeg It 6eem a bit egotistical on Sena Hoa, fc tQ tok the position . fl h t as it doe in .... de fense it is perhaps excusable. The country will be pleased indeed to know that the senate is today as L. M and trou body as when Webster's powerful voice, and more Dowerful arguments, led the debates, Wn 44,im f slMhes. i .j 4i. 9 k;- I UJv V nitU HtC UlUlb Jl UI9 V1VV his colleagues to laushter or to tears wil,t and filled enraptured ears ,th & , . f Nature.s oratorT Thofi. T.at flnd WG ar lad to . that their Deers now sit within the sacred seats of the cap itol. We know it is true, for Sena. tor Hoar says so, and yet. Well, there are doubts. When Clay flung his glove to Destiny, with the bold assertion "I would rather be right than president," it was as gallant an act as ever Eglamore or Launcelot performed, and yet again yet how many of the present senators would duplicate that act? Mr. Corbett's attorney is at Wash ington telling . bow that wicked mi nority in the Oregon legislature pre vented the election of a United States senator, and now, on account Gf this outrage, our sovereign slate j8 threatened to be deprived of its hust and proper representation vouch safed to it bv the federal constitu- tion! ! ! The only way to prevent the consummation of this terrible in justice, threatened as the result of the awful work of that minority, is to seat this great and good man, who has kindly come to the front and cast himself into the breach to save the state he loves so well from the threatened interregnum, offering him self, pure and uncontamined as a vestal virgin, and bis services to keep the sacred fires of liberty burning on the altars of his commonwealth. This unselfish patriotism, this devotion to the cause of the people, of this great and good man, is enough to recall to earth the shades of the heroes of old. It is, in fact,, enough to turn the heart of a grindstone, or to start tears, large as hens' eggstrickling down the cheeks of a wooden Indian cigar sign. Let us weep, and, if we cannot pray, at least take up a col lection. Statesman. Cuba's affairs are steadily improv ing, from the - insurgents' point of view. Spain has about reached the end of ber string, or rather the end of her finances, which is the same thing. Every day brings a rumor of some effort on the part of Spain to bring the war to a close, either by selling the . island "or granting concessions. On p of this comes news highly gratifying to all sympathizers with the v patriots.' The insurgent forces wander at will over the island, and Weyler is no longer able to restrain them. The time was when conees sions, even- moderate ones, would have 6aved Cuba to Spain, but that day has gone by, and now it is either freedom or nothing, and freedom is going to win the day, The Oregoniau, T. Thorburn Ross and Wallace McCamant are still clamorous for the seating of Corbett When McCamant filed his brief, the others applauded ; when he tele- graphed his opinion on the constitu tional features of Ihe situation tbey knocked a hole in the welkin with their hats. - But still Corbett is not seated, and still Eoss aud Scott are on the anxious seat. Should Corbett have to remain standing, whir-h now seems probable, the two chief mourn ers will be those named, and Ross will -rush into print with a modernl rendition of the grand old poem, in which -he will depict again the woes of "Scolt who , has with Wallace bled." ,' ' ' - FOOL LEGISLATION. A negio h:is brought suit against a barber at Oakland, California, for refusing to shave him. The suit is brought to test the recent civil rights bill passed by ihe California legisla ture. It is such pieces of what Arte- mus wara ca.us "aampnoousnness that makes the average citizen tired. Against the African there exists a feeling that could hardly be classed as prejudice, but which draws the line between Caucasian and Africar as distinctly as nature has done. The races wi1! not mix, nor should they, The self-respecting, self-reliant Negro does not seek to do those, things which he feels .are distasteful others. He may have an hone?; pride in his race; he may feel that he is as intelligent, as honest, and as much entitled to respect as any other man on earth; but he knows that the way to maintain that self-respect is to not force himself into the com pany of those who do not desire him He knows his place, whether it be higher or lower than that of others, and he keeps it. And we want to say right here that the Negro who brought the suit to compel someone' else to serve him is not half the ignoramus the fell was who introduced the bill, or the members of the legislature who passed it. Men cannot be legislated into equality, and race prejudices cannot be removed by law. ' J-verj'thing points to a prosperous year in The Dalles. The season has been backward about coming for ward, and the result has been bene- ficial to the fruit industry. It is ex pected the crop of strawberries at Hood River, Mosier and here will be an extraordinarily large one, and the apple crop should also be large. The area in wheat is at least not less than the average, and as the ground is thoroughly soaked, the crop will be a large one. Prices also bid fair to Kemain wnere tney are; u, indeed, tbey do not go nisner, and tnis is as important as haying a good crop. The wool clip will be up to the average, and while prices will not go up with a bound on account of the tariff, they will.advance steadily, and far better than last year. Since the roads have gotten into passable condition, freight teams are begin ning to arrive from Prineville and other interior points, and business is steadily improving. The outlook is very cheerful, and we believe thai our business men s books this fall will show a larger and more profita ble trade than they have for several years. . - ' . Some fears are expressed that there is to be an unusually high water the idea being based, on be heavy fenows arcuni the head of the Columbia and Snake. While it is true the snow - fall has been heavy, that alone is not sufficient to predict high water upon, that depending en tirely on the manner in which the snow melts. With a late spring, fol lowed by continuous warm weather, there is snow enough almost any year to cause a flood; but as the Snake usually is falling before the Columbia reaches its flood, the lower river is large enough to carry away the waters without damage. A few cold nights r or days will kill any chance of very high water, and these are pretty certain to happen. , There is only one good thing that we can think of resulting from the failure of the legislature to meet, and that is thit the salmon fishing was let alone. Every year, or rather every session of the legislature, an attempt is made by those fishing on the lower river to get up. some scheme to pre vent salmon being caught by any persons but themselves, the particu lar object being .to do away with fish wheels. As this is about the only means by which they can be caught on the uppe river, their abolition would turn the whole business over. Id- the fishermen of the lower river, No such bill can ever pass, but the legislature failing to meet saved the trouble of fighting it. . "Where is Miss Stapleton?" is question being asked by many of our exchanges. Mrs. Annetta Green of Alabama is in Portland, Oregon looking for her niece, Helen Ida Stapleton, who formerly lived Seattle, for the avowed purpose of making her her Leir, and bequeathin her the sum of 200,000, - We have always been reticent about our past but we feel now that in order to re lieve Mrs. Green's mind and prevent the good o!d lady from being im posed on, the veil should be lifted We are Miss Helen Ida Stapleton. Those who look after the weather on scientific lines are giving increased attention to sun spots, which denote great activity on the sun's surface, Careful observers say that the cy clones on the Indian ocean are large ly influenced by solar disturbances; and many observers believe that the earth's weather, as well as its magnet ism, is affected by sun spots. The sun is comparitlvcly such a -close neighbor of the earth that its study in connection with meteorology is bound to increase. Portland needs woolen mills and other mills, but if there is anything Portland needs more than a drydock. what is it? Oregonian A daily newspaper that will tell the truth. Ask us something hard, All FlourighUnc; mt The Dalles, General Agent William Harder, of the ireiKbt department of tne Great North ern in this city, returned yesterday from a business trip to The Dalles and vicin ity. Ho reports nnueual activity in that dietrict, with everybody bney and ex pecting a great cattle and wool trade this spring. They think the cup will be a very laree one, much larger than last s print: or the year previous, farmers also re port their grain of all kinds looking in first-class condition. The weather has been very .tine there for several davs, and the mountains and valleys are won derfully heautiol, being carpeted with immense fields of wild flowers of all va rieties, shades and colors. At The Dalles itself the dust is some two or lour inches in depth, and it was no uncom mon signt to see a horse and wagon lost be driver lost in a cloud of dast. when . left they were preparing to pat the sprinklers to work. Uregonian. This is all right except the dust, and just how Mr. Harder got the idea that there was anything of the kind here is past .finding out. We suppoee, though, it . is the first place he has found that was not muddy, and as he saw the streets dry, bis imagination supplied the rest. There is not a particle of dnst here, but our streets are dry, smooth and beautiful, and when this statement is added . to the . others Mr. Harder made, the article ia all right. Mr. Iofur Aigued Them. Editob Chronicle : I noticed in read' ing yesterday's issue of your interesting paper that you tendered to me a very nice compliment with reference to some cases which had been recently decided by our supreme court. I duly appreci ate such compliments, but the fact is my clients and myself received the ben efit of the Hon. . B. Dufur's eloquence and logic in those cases. Upon my re questi Mr. Dufur argued my motions for me in those cases. Sincerely, ... J. F. Moore. For Bale or Trade. - A desirable ranch of 160 acres, within tour miles of Dalles City, with one span mares, harness, wagons, plows and other property. Fine fruit land and abun dance of water.. Will trade for Dalles City property. Inquire of "A. 8. Mac Allistkb, . Real Estate and Insurance Agent.' 'Chronicle office, The Dalles, Or. .The barbers in Albany are compelled to draw the color line. A Chinese went into an Albany barber shop last Tues day, bnt the barber told the Chinaman that he did not shave Chinamen. The Chinaman went ont mad and Danged the door so hard that a pane of glass was shattered. Under threats of arrest be paid the costs of a new pane. Celestials have their own barbers and this was an innovati on. A darkey who tried to get shaved was more philosophical and de parted without A sign of anger. . " :'' T-JITon Opportunity. On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps, cenerons samDle will be mailed of the moat rtorjalar Catarrh and Hay Fever Cure rMv's Cream Balm, soffioient to demon strate the great merits of the remedy. . ELY BKOTHEKS, 66 Warren St,, New York City. TLev. JohnEeid. Jr.. of Great Falls, Mont, recommended Fly's Cream Balrja to me. I can emphasize his statement, "it is a posi tive core for catarrh if used as directed." Eev. Fran cis W. Poole, Pastor Central Pres. Church, Helena, Mont. FJv's Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for catarrh and contains no mercury no: any injurious drug. Price, 50 cents. HOW KEROSENE IS. REFINED. Something About a Remarkable American Industry. How many housekeepers, as tney fil their lamps -with kerosene oil or their summer stoves with gasoline, have any idea how these oils are made ? And yet a few miles from Chicago, at Whiting.. Ind.; is the largest oil refinery in the world. - " Naphtha, benzine, gasoline or kero sene, the last often called coal or il luminating oil, belong to the same. family. The three first- named being lighter oils, do not require, nearly so much handling to bring them to per fection as the kerosene. This, of course, is easy: to believe, but when it- in said that from the same crude oil, after all the lighter oils have been distilled out, wax is made so closely resembling1 the product of the bee as to deceive even an expert, and that it is used in chew ing gnm' factories,' candle factories, laundries and even in candy facfories. one is often met with a polite look of doubt or an incredulous shrug of the shoulders. Yet it is so, It is possible to go yet further, cr.d eay that hundreds of homes in Whiting and Chicago will be made comfortable this winter by the refuse that adheres to the bottom and sides of the "stills" after even" the wax has been pressed out. This ref use flakes a good coke, is easily lighted, ' and is. warmer, cleaner ajid cheaper than coal. Hundreds of tons aire re moved from the stills .daily before they are "charged!' again, and hundreds of those who use this fuel do not know that it was once crude oil, dug in the Ohio fields and piped on to Whiting, The carbon used in electric lights is also made from this coke. Nothing is wasted. As the most common the kerosene oil is perhaps the most mterestinsr of the products. After leaving the crude stilJ ffappears again in "sweetening stills," or in the "compound cylinders," which perform the same work as the sweet ening stills, but in a newer invention, and is potented by an outsider, who al lows, only 40 in each refinery. The "sweeteners" form an important fac tor in the refining of Ohio oil. Owing to the "compound" before mentioned and the continuous friction of the im mense wire brushes, which keep the oil in a mad whirl, it loses much of its bad odor. It is again vapored off, cooled in the condenser boxes and passed off into the "steam stills" for the. next process. In the steam stills it is treated just the same as in the two previous process- es, .with the addition of a washing by steam from perforated pipes passing through it. It is "vapored" oft as be fore, and now one would suppose that it waa ready for use. Not quite. The kerosene o;l now passes into the agi tator for the final process. The agitator is a funnel-shaped tank in which the oil is treated with acid and beaten, and blown about by -a machine called a blower and washed by torrents, of wa ter until it roars like the lake in & storm. Every particle of foreign mat ter is thus expelled. It is then pumped off into the storage tanks for shipping;. umcago xnbtme. A QUESTION OF VISIONt Incidents 'Which Go to Show That Mind and Not Eye Sees. . It is an admitted factf that the eye is the "organ of vision," yet there is birt little doubt, even in the minds of opti cians and physiologists, that the phe nomenon of "seeing" is chiefly mental in other words, that it is the mind and not the eye that "sees." How often have you seen a friend who, seemingly, was engaged in look ing intently on some object on the ta ble, at the opposite side- of the room, or at some picture, who, on being aroused from his day dream, would confess that he was "looking at noth ing in particular." The explanation of the fact that he saw "nothing in par ticular" is plain enough if properly jet forth. - It was because his mind was busy with other times and scenes. Faces, bits of wayside scenery, and the like, were being presented to view in the panorama of the mind, and the mind a eye or mental vision was engaged in eagerly scanning ' . of impressions made thereon - years or scores of years before. Again, if you want to know whether your com panion looked at his watch, with his brain or his eyes, ask him the time of day after he puts the timepiece in bis pocket. : PREPARED FOR EMERGENCIES. Young- Man Who Got a Clerkship In An ticipation of His Prodigality. - Here is a story that one of the south ern members vouches for, according to the Washington Post A young man, one of his constituents, applied to him for a $1,000 clerkship. The member secured the appointment, but the day before the constituent was to be sworn in he came, tin "his representative in a troubled state of mind and said: Colonel, I have bad $125,000 left me by an aunt, and, my God! just think what I have to go through again." Let me congratulate you, said the representative. Nok don't do that, said the con stituent; "you don't know what you're congratulating me on." "Yes, I do," said the member, "for now you can live without working." "Colonel," said the distressed young man. I may as well tell you. Several years ago I had $100,000 left me by an other aunt and it took me nearly a year to spend it. After ' I got through I had to go to the hospital for six months to get over the. effects of nay- dissipa tion. The reason I came to see you to-day -was "to ask you to keep that place for me until I can Bpend ; this money." . ,.' - . ' - Chansre of Time. -' . Commencing .April 8th, the steamers of the Regulator line will leave The Dalles at 7 a. m. inBtead of 1 :30. W. C. Allaway, Agent. Subscribe for The Chronicle. '. J itllORTHERN j PACIFIC RY. n H Pullman Elegent Tourist Sleeping Cars Dining Cars Sleeping Car bT. PAUL " MINNEAPOLIS DCLUTB K A It GO GRAND FORK CKOOK9TON WINNIPEG HELENA an' BUTTE to Through Tickets CHICAGO T WASHINGTON PHILADELPHIA '. . KKW YORK BOSTON AND ALL POINTS EAST and SOUTH For informstlon, time cards, maps and tickets, cal on or write to W. C. ALLAWAY. Agent, The Dalles, Oregon A. D. CHARLTON. Asst. G. P. A., 235, Morrison Cor. Third. Portland Oregon : EAST and SOUTH via ... v The Shasta Route V OF THE Southern Pacific Comp'y. Trains leave and arc due to arrive at Portland. OVERLAND EX-) press, salem, Kose-' burg, Ashland, Sac-1 8:50 P.M. rttiuvuuj, vgueu,Diui , Francisco, Moiave, ( jjos A.ngeies,.i rasa. Paso, I and I 3:10 A. M. New uneans East 8:30 A. M Roseburg and way feta tion a fVia Woodburn fori MtAneel, Silverton, i. West Scio, Browns- I viUe.Sprmgfleld and I I Natron I 4:40 P.M Dally except Sundays. except Sundays. 4:00 P.M. 7:30 A. M. Salem and way stations 10;15A.M t 6:20 P.M. ) (Jorvauis and way ( (stations ( 1 McMlnn ville a n d j ) way stations j .4:45 P. M. t 8:25 P.M Daily. t Daily, except Sunday. DINING CABS ON OGDEN EO0TE. . PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS AND SECOND-GLASS BLEEPING CAES ' Attached to all Through Trains. Direct connection at San Francisco with Occi dental and Oriental and Pacific mail steamship lines tor J &rAn ana cuuna. balling dates on application. Kates ana tiCKets to eastern points ana fiu- -pe. Also JAPAN, CHINA, HONOLULU and USTEALIA, can be obtained from - J. B. KIRKLAND, Ticket Agent. Throueh Ticket Office. 184 Third street, where through tickets to 'all points In the Eastern States, Canada and Europe can be obtained at lowest rates from -. 3. B. KIRKLAND, Ticket Agent. All above trains arrive at and depart from Grand Central Station, Fifth and Irving streets. YAMHILL DIVISION. Patsenger Depot, foot of Jederson street. Leave for OSWEGO, dally, except Sunday, at 7:l a. m.; 12:15, 1:45, 5:26, 6:45, 8:05 p. m (and 11:30 p. m. on Saturday only). Arrive at Portland at 7:10 and 8:30 a.m.; and 1:30, 4:15, 6:35 and 7:55 p. m. Leave for Sheridan, week days, at 4:30 d. m. Arrive at Portland, 9:30 a. m. Leave for AIRLIE on Monday, Wednesday and 1 Friiay at 9:40 a. m. Arrive at Portland, Tues day, Thursday and Saturday at 3 :05 p. m. Snndav trains for OSWEGO leave at 8:40 a.m. and 12:15, 1:45, 8:30, 6:25 6:45 and 8 05 p. m. Ar rive at Portland at 8:30, 10:00 a. m.; 1:80,4:15 5:10, 6:35, 7:55 p. m. E. KOEHLER, E. P. ROGERS, Manager. .... ' Asst. G. T. & Pass. Agt THE NEW YORK WORLD TflBJCE-fl-WEEK EDITI0J4. 18 Pages a Week. 156 Papers a Tear It stands first among '"weekly" papers in size, frequency of publication ana freshness, variety and reliability of 'con tents. It ia practically a daily at the low price o a weekly ; and its vast list of subscribers, extending to every state and territory of the Union and foreign coun tries, will vouch for' the accuracy and fairness of its news columns. It is splendidly illustrated, and among Its special features are a fine humor page, exhaustive market reports, all the latest fashiona for women and a long series of stories by the greatest living American and English authors, Conan Doyle, Jerome K. Jerome, Stanley Weyman, - Mary K. Wllklna Anthony Hope, Bret Harte, . Brander Matthews, Etc. We offer this unequaled newspaper and The Dalles Twice-a- Week- Chronicle to gether one year for $2.00. The regular price of the two pa per 8 is $3.00. Notice of Dissolution. Notice is hereby given that the part nership heretofore existing between Frank Gabel and W. G. Bupert has been dissolved, to date from Saturday, April 3, 1897. Frank Gabel will pay all bills, and is authorized to collect and ' receipt for alt bills due the firm. Dated at The Dalles, Or., this 5th day of April, 1897.. ' J? BANK (JABEL, a5-lm W. C. Rcpkrt. Early Hose and 'Early Everet seed potatoes at Jaier & Benton's.