THE DALLES WEEKLY CHROmCLE. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 28, 1897.
Special Sale of
Summer Clothing.
For the balance of this week we offer a full line of
MEN'S SACK SUITS at $6.85.
J GUJtRHNTEED HLL inOOI-I
These are not last year's goods, but were bought tbis year to sell for
more money. , Trade is slow, and if . ,
We are Selling" these Goods at
LESS THAN COST
it ia onr loss and ronr gain. Tbese Suits are strictly up-to-date;
single-breasted, round-cornered, in Fancy Cheviots, Tweeds,
- Clay Worsteds and Plain Mixtures in all the latest colors.
We Guarantee Fit and Workmanship.
This line will be found on the front table in our Furnishing Goods Depart
ment, and you make a mistake if you neglect to look them over.
See Our Furnishing Goods Window
ALL GOODS MARKED IN
PLAIN FIGURES.
PEASE & MAYS I
The Weekly Chroniele-
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF WASCO COUNTY.
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Six months 78
Three months. . 60
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LOCAL BKBTITIKS.
Bamroay a isaiiy. .
. The electric power plant at Lyle is
- very liable to materialize. . , ..
-'' The salmon ran is extremely light
there not being sufficient canght to sop
ply the local market.
The piledriver is at work today put-
' ting in some additional piles along the
D. P. & A. N. roadway.
Last evening Miss Bio tool lost
1 il- w r . - 43 i 1? L. ......
Ninth and Second streets. . Anyone
finding them leave with C. L. Phillips,
' The weather, while cool, is not inter
'. fering with shearing in Morrow county,
which ia now in fall blast. Wool is
coming in slowly, and is in much better
condition than last season.
This is one of the days yon read about.
warm, calm, fragrant with flowers and
skies as bine as those which leflected
good old Grandmother Eve's eyes in
Paradise, when she was a one-day old
woman.
iwu eix-uuree tettujB lunutni wuu uier-
chandiee for Prineville, left yesterday.
There is lota of freight to be moved, but
- it is held back to give it to the wool
teams for a return load. The merchants
get their freight cheaper, and the team
stera also derive a benefit from tbis
The sale of useful and fancy articles
ty the ladies of the St. Paul's Guild,
which took place at the residence of
Mrs. J. S. Schenck yesterday afternoon,
na uu. wu&jr rt cuMno tu cvorjr UUI
the social features of the affair made it
one of the most delightful of after
noons.
.' The branch of the Wasco Warehouee
. at Arlington has already received 100
sacks of wool of the '97 clip, and Mr.
Lord ; tells as the Baldwin Sheep &
Land Co.' have two six-horse loads on
the way in to the warehouse here. ' It
will probably be the first of the season
received here. V. !
adooo, wt.oauempieaioetewa riae Charley Boss, nmaiu forever undeter-
irom aormporion tne oraKeoeam oi me j mned. One statement was to the effect
following a busy night. One of the de
layed trains passed down shortly before
midnight followed at 1 :20 this morning
by the regular train. The O. R. & N. did
some remarkably good work in getting
their track in order so quickly, work
that is thoroughly appreciated both, by
the traveling public and business men
anxious to get their mail.
The Aurora, of Enterprise, says :
"Should the proposed' Seven - Devils
railroad, be built and extend down
Snake river to Lewis ton, it will mean
a great deal to Wallowa county. A
good wagon road can be opened np to
tap tne railroad on bnake river, near
the Seven Devils, a distance of less
than sixty miles from Enterprise and
twenty miles from the Imnaha, the
famous fruit and stockraising section,
thereby bringing us in touch with a
good market for our products."
Judge Lowell has filed an opinion in
the expense case of the Umatilla sheriff.
He says: "I am of the opinion that
the county court has the power and
authority to consider and audit the ex
pen se accounts of the sheriff of the
county, necessarily Incurred in the per
formance of his official duties, and that
in this case it erred in disallowing
charges which seemed to be reasonable
and necessarily incident to the proper
conduct of the office of such officer.
Said claim is remanded with direction
to allow the same,
The river has fallen about sixteen
inches since yesterday morning, but is
again almost at a standstill, with the
present warm weather indicating an
other rise. Reports from up the coun
try show that there is plenty of snow
to make a very high water, should the
weather remain warm for a few weeks.
At Baker City, although thefloods have
been unprecedented, there is a report
that another warm spell would cause
yet a greater flood. We do not antici
pate extra high water here, though it
may come up to the 50-foot mark.
Kelchner's celebrated model of the
Tabernacle of Israel, which is advertised
to be exhibited at the Methodist Church
Tuesday night, will also be shown Toes
day afternoon at 4 o clock. . This has
been arranged for to accommdoate the
school children, and prices have been
fixed at 15 cents for those under 14
years of age and 25 cents for all over that
age. The same prices will also be made
in the evening, instead 'of those adver
tised in the bills. In the afternoon a
special lecture suitable for children will
be given explaining the exhibit. Do not
forget the prices, both afternoon and
evening being the same 15 and 25 cents.
J aaa fian has a tine specimen ox pur
ple eye-ris, it being his le't optic. , Just
how he got it is a profound mystery.
that will probably, like the fate of
Spokane & Northwestern train Monday
night," bad an unpleasant experience,
says the Spokane Chronicle. Near Addy
the track is covered with water for a
long distance, and the water was so deep
that the tramp could, with difficulty,
keep np his bead out of it. At times he
was ' completely submerged, and he
would probably have drowned bad not
some of the passengers heard " his cries
(or help. The traia was stopped, and
the half-drowned bobo rescued from his
perilous position. ' ; He continued his
journey toward Spokane on foot. -
The IoDg expected mail from the east
arrived last night and in consequence
the postoffice officials have had a busy day
that he was rolling cocked hat in the
new bowling alley and the pins fiVw out
and struck him. Another is that he was
holding a candle while another, man
caught some chickens (the chickens were
Judd's) and thai the candle going out,
in moving around a chicken blew in his
his eye. Still another is to the effect
that the other fellow was carried home
in a coal oil can, which will also serve
him ' for a coffin, and still there are
others. . Judd doesn't say anything
about it, only remarking in reply to our
sympathetic inquiries that he had "fully
expressed, his opinion on the subject
when he got it," .
The Iowa legislature has the blue-law
craze.. A few days ago a bill was passed
making it a criminal offese to exhibit
kinetoscope or other representations .of"
prizefights, bell fights, etc., and to estab
tablish penalties for giving the exhibi
tions, renting halls forN them, or even
attending them, for the latter offense the
penalty to be a fine of 5 to $25; aleo,
providing severe penalties for playing
rbaseball or football on Sunday. Two
sections of the bill were ' dropped, one
providing tines and jail sentences for
cursing and swearing at another person
in public; the other, fixing a penalty
for marriage of cousins. " Cursing and
swearing can therefore be indulged in,
and cousins can marry, if they choose.
Motions for reconsideration of the base
ball and kinetoscope sections were filed,
and a lively contest is expected when
there is a full attendance of the senate.
' Monday's Daily. -
Joe Howard of Prineville shipped 150
head of cattle to the East last night. - .
The diamond drill, is going steadily
down, but, eo.faf, has not penetrated a
coal vein. ,
Dr. Logan is in New York City, and is
taking advantage of the opportunity to
attend the clinics there. He will be
home about the middle of May. '
.Theriyer has fallen about four feet,
and will jjrobably go down that much
more before the warm weather gets its
work in and sends it up again. From
present indications the. extreme high
water this year will come in May.
Hood River, has doubled the acreage
of its straw berrries this "spring. The
new plants will not bear this year, but
next year should have a full crop, and
this next year should furnish 1,500,000
pounds of crimson, lusciousnes,. or 750
tons. v
In digging a well in the government
reserve, Mr. George Krause ' found hu
man bones and teeth at a depth of forty
feet. It simply . shows that people a
good many years ago, were waiting, as
we are now, the fall development of our
industries. , -L
A man named Nicholas White was
taken in charge by the officials this
morning, they thinking be was a leper.
Dr. Eshelman examined him and found
be was suffering lrotn a severe case of
eczema. He was sent out of Walla
Walla, thence to Pendleton, and then
here.
The Antelope Herald thinks The
Dalles Champion baaball team should
on iy claim to be champions of The
Dalles, and insinuates that tbey have
baseball players out in that neck, of the
woods. If such be the fact, the ball
players here are ready to meet them,
and lake all the conceit out of them.
Some of (he Dalles people who were
in Portland yesterday . attended Taylor
street church, where Kelchner's model
of the Tabernacle of Israel, which is to
be exhibited in the Methodist chnrch
here tomorrow, night, was shown and
explained by Dr. Locke. They speak of
it as something wonderful, as well as
instructive. - '
The Champions are still on top. They
played the Dalles Commercial and Ath
letic team a" very spirited game yester
day, resulting in a .victory for the Cham
pions by a score of 17 to 19, and the
Champions did not take their last in
ning, . The Dufur teanx mast put up a
better game than they did at Kingsley
yesterday if thev expect to beat the
Champions.
A telephone from D. L. Cates at the
Cascades states that three men engaged
in fishing were drowned in the' rapids
below that . place today. - They were
Ambrose Johnson, A. Syringes and J.
Siendqnist. How the accident occurred
we did not learn, bat it is supposed that
the boat upset in the rapids. The crew
of the steamer Dalles City recovered one
body,. that of Siendqnist, :.' ".
Mr. C. L. Morse, who has charge of
the store at White Salmon, name up .on
the train last night. He is enthusiastic
in bis praises of that section, and it un
doubtedly is one of the finest fruit sec
tions in the world. Whatever may be
said of Hood Biver apples applies with
equa' force to White Salmon. It is a
great strawberry country, and has done
much to establish the record for Hood
River berries. ' -
AT THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Rev.
Wilbur Harwood's
Might. .
Discourse Last
r Mr. Charles Stublinj- has been re
modeling his place of business and now
has one of the handsomest places in the
state. . His bar-room has been re-arranged
and enlarged, and the work of
decorating and papering haviog been
done by Panl Kreft, noting more can be
said of it. The paneling has been done
in walnut, the side-rooms all re-furnished
and now that it is completed, there is
not a prettier or more convenient place
on the coast. . . - " '.
- ' - Tuesday's. Pally
Farmers from Klickitat unloaded three
tons of bacon here this morning, which
they will ship to Rosaland.
A boy named Benson met with an ac
cident this morning, resulting in a brok
en collar-bone, which Dr. Hollister
patched up for him. "
The river today is standing at 25.7
andbe indications are that there will
be a quick rise, the water in the tribu
taries being now on the rise. - "
The river continues to fall, and in con
sequence the salmon are beginning to
run. There were enough caught last
night to supply the local demand. ,'
The railroad to the' Deschutes after all
has some chances of materializing." We
understand there is money back of the
proposition, and that it is liable to go.
Reports from 5 and 8-Mile are to the
effect that grasshoppers are hatching out
by the thousands, and it is feared they
will do much damage to the growing1
wheal. ,
The rail road, accident at East Portland
was a very bad one. , Thk Uhboniclb
presents the fall details in its telegrams,
which were sent to it by special tele
graph report. .'
- Pease & Mays yesterday sweetened the
town with a carload of syrup, prepared
for cleansing it with a carload of soap,
and are fixed to save it, - having three
carloads of salt.
Five cars were stopped at Castle Rock
this morning, which will be loaded with
wool for this point. The Dalles is the
wool . market of the Northwest, " and
those who want prices," send their wool
here. ' .
' The Wasco warehouse received sixty
bags of wool this morning from the
Baldwin Sheep and Land Co., the first
of the season. The Moody warehouse
also received a consignment from Day
ville. . ' "". . ; .
Governor Lord has gone to Washing
ton. Harvey - Scott' is in New York.
Ex-Senator Corbett is' in Washington
still "unseated." The rest of the story
will be told later. Ex-Senator Corbett
is more than '.'liberal," which .explains
why he holds on so tenaciously. E. O.
When the members of G company
have their jifle practice on May J.st,
they intend having a royal good time.
They invite all the ex-members of the
company to march with them, and will
furnish uniforms. for the occasion. Re
freshments' will be .served, on the
grounds, and it will be, in fact, a picnic, j
This evening at the Methodist' church
Kelchner's model of the tabernacle of
Israel will be,exhibited. ' TbeOregonian
of yesterday gives a long account of it
as shown in Portland. Every Bible stu
dent, as well as those who are interested
in it merely as a beautiful piece of work,
should see it tonight. Admission 50
cents ; children 15 cents. ' ..
Yesterday at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p.-in.
an unusually large congregation assem
bled at the First Christian church to
hear the Rev. Dr. Harwood, whose
masterly and well delivered discourse
was an intellectual treat to his attentive
and no less interested listeners. '
.. In the evening every seat was crowded
to the doors. After a eong by the choir,
the doctor, in a few well-chosen remarks,
introduced himself. The doctor's father
is a West Indian, and his mother an
East Indian, a native of Bengal, India,
both parents afterward moved to Ceylon,
where the doctor caine into existence.
lAfter passing through the primary and
normal schools of Ceylon and Calcutta,
he was transferred to London, England
and completed his . studies "at King'i
cohege, Camondge. He was subse
quently ordained in the Anglican church
and was sent as a missionary to the
Niger river in Africa, where he served
two years, thence to Barbadoes, West
Indies, the Fiji islands, Trinidad, Pan a
ma, thence to the United States, where
he connected himself with the Colored
Methodist church, and was transferred
to the Pueet Sound conference as 'super
lfitendentof missions.
. The doctor is on his way to the East
en route for South Africa. -
His discourse of last evening evening
was a masterly production, his analysis
of the Bible, ethnologically, showed him
no mean scholar in Hermenuties arid
Biblical exegesis, and his knowledge of
physical . and natutal science, coupled
with that of ancient history, speak for
him great achievments. The doctor is
also a musical scholar. His missionary
solo, "Souls in Healben Darkness Dy
ing," on the organ, was most beautifully
rendered. All those who were in at
tendance last night went away well
gratified with the evening's entertain
menc.
cial deputy to collect the taxes, and that
eaid deputy is to be allowed his ex
penses, amounting to (4 or $5 per day
besides. He also intimates that The)
Dalles papers omitted to print this bit
of news at the request of parties in-'
teres ted. Citizen is mistaken in all his
propositions. The ounty court has not
appointed any deputy sheriffs, therefore,
has not allowed them $3 and' expenses,
or any other sam per day. It also fol
lows that the bit of news could not have
been omitted by The Dalles papers at
anyone's request. Nothing was printed
bee iuse there was nothing to print. .
In conclusion we might add that The
Dulles papers print all the news, and soma
things in these dull days that simply
have to do dutv as such. .
MOST REMARKABLE ESCAPE.
Hood Klver Valley.
Of
The-Oregon City Pulp Company has
adopted an original and wise method oi
forest preservation. Much of the pulp
used is manufactured from balm trees,
which grow in profusion in the vicinity
of the plant. The trees are Said to have
a rapid erowth, and the company em
ploys a man to plant a tree whenever
the soil is good. In this way the com
pany hopes to have a perpetual supply
of balm. . - V .' - , : .
A serious accident occurred near North
Yakima last Monday to an Italian work
man employed at E. R. Learning's nur
sery, north of that city. The man had
started to drive to the headgate of the
irrigating ditch, and tbe horse he used
was not trustworthy. - He made some
alterations - in- the bridle, and left.. the
DUrsery for the trip. Not returning
when expected, search was instituted,
and tbe man was found lying by tbe
roadside in an unconscious condition,
bruised and - badly injured,' while tbe
horse was cropping tbe grass some dis
tance away. He will recover.
. Yesterday we had the pleasure
visiting Hood Biver, and it was a pleas
ure indeed. The day was perfect, and a
perfect day in Hood Biver is as near tbe
first day in Paradise as is eyer vouch
safed to man. The big oaks were in
bloom, with the leaves like "squirrels
ears ;" the ground was carpeted with
nowers; tne air iragrant with tbe bloom
of orchards ; and a drive over the beau
tiful roads was simply a delight. -After
being .away from the ' valley
few months, one can hardly realize that
tbe change is not due to some influence
outside of -humanity. ' Where a few
months ago were tbe little black pines.
are pretty homes,, strawberry patches.
tnrnt, plenty, ibe fruit trees are not
damaged, as was. feared last fall, though
some have been killed, and everywhere
is a mass of bloom and fragrance.
Last year about 11,000 crates of straw
berries were shipped, bringing to the
growers about f2 net ' per case. This
year it is expected that 30,000 crates will
be shipped, and that the prices, will not
fall off, oin other words, that nearly
$60,000 will be realized from that crop
alone. The profit from one acre of
strawberries is eqaal to that from 160
acres of wheat, and when one considers
that a good crop of apples is better than
that from the berries, and'tbat the Hood
Biver valley is practically eighteen miles
by twelve, and that its product in money
equals 160 times that area in wheat, one
can begin to get an idea of the future of
our neighboring town. .
We venture the assertion that inside
of five years Hood Biver fruit will yield
more in the shape of money than all the
wheat of the county, and inside of ten
years that part of the county alone will
bring in more money than is now re
ceived by Wasco county for its wool and
wheat.. Just now it is the most- beauti
ful place in Oregon, and therefore in the
world ; and if you don't believe it, go
and see.' s .
Major McNeill Comes West'.
Bicycle Repairing;.
We have secured tbe sei vices of Mr.
Joseph - Kirchoff, who has been doing
bicycle repairing and gun work for the
last five years in The Dalles. All work
entrusted to him will receive prompt at
tention. " - ; ' :
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Major E. McNeill, president of the 0.
R. & N. Co., passed through Pendleton
on tbe last of tbe two west-bound -trains
laBt night on bis way to Portland. - He
rode in bis private car at the rear of the
train and was accompanied by W. H.
Hurlburt, general passenger agent of the
company. He alighted on the platform
for a few minutes and, seeing Conductor
Glendenning, told him that he had been
shook up too much between Baker City
and Pendleton, and that he didn't want
any more of it.
-A Tribune reporter - approached the
major and questioned that official con
cerning the report that tbe Short Line
and. the O. R. & N. Co. were about to
consolidate.
"Many things are possible," said Mr.
McNeill, "and this is one of them. But
there is little faith to be 'attached to
rumors generally. This same thing has
been talked of for thrpe years. . The
Short Line wanted to lease the O. R. & j
N. system and an arrangement of this
kind - is one of the. possibilities of the
future. As matters now stand, how
ever, there is absolutely nothing in the
rumor, and it ought never to have gained
ground, as nothing has transpired re
cently to' justify any such report."
Tribune.
The
Mttle Daughter of J. E. Foley
Rescued From Drowning In n
old Well. :
' Probably the most narrow escape from
drowning which ever happened in this
community was that which occurred this
forenoon, and through which the life of
Etta, the young : daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Foley,' was miraculously
saved. ' .
The child, in company with her two
brothers and Mr. Wni. Osborne, were
out tbis morning in quest of Dr. Honan'a
dog, "Pete," which had been miesing
since yesterday. The dog has long been
a pet of the Foley children, and tbe
children consequently took a deep in
terest in the canine's absence. In tha
search tbey heard the dog floundering ia
water under the St. Louis livery stable
and tbey started for the rescue. Under
tbe stable is an old well, into which the)
dog had fallen, and, just as Mr. Osborne
had given a word of warning the little
girl pitched ' headlong into the well.
The well is but two feet and a half in
diameter and is filled with sixteen feet
of water, which reaches within about
five feet of the surface. Under tbe floor
of tbe stable it was dark as night, and
Mr. Osborne could do nothing but call
for help. ' When tbe child fell in the dog '
naturally scrambled to the top,' forcing
tbe little' one under the water. Mr.
Foley was let down head foremost into
the well, and after one or two attempts
he succeeded in bringing out tbe dog.
and afterward seized the little girl by
the foot and brought her to tbe surface.
It is thought that the child had been.
under water between three and five
minutes. -She was in an unconscious
condition when - brought out of the
water, but shortly afterwards recovered
and seemed ttat little worse for her
startling experience. .
Mr. Foley, father of the little girl.
says that as soon as he descended into
the well he was met by tbe awful truth
that the child was underneath and that
the first thing to do was to get the dog
out of the way, as there was not enough
room to permit both tbe dog and the .
child to stay above water at the same
time. As soon as he could get the dog
out of the way, he plunged for the little
girl, being, himself, held by tbe feet by
his assistants above. He reached his
tall arm's length into the water before
he could sieze tbe child, which was just
returning from a descent to the bot
tom of the well. '
Dr. Honan immediately applied the
usual course of treatment and tbe little
one was brought out all right. The
physician states that it was tbe nearest
escape from death by drowning of which,
he has any personal knowledge. La
Grande Chronicle.
They Frlnt the News. "
"Citizen" in the Dufur Dispatch says
Uhere is a rumor afloat that the county
court has allowed $3 per day for a spe-
Hlgh Water at Sumpter.
A number of Sumpter Valley residents
say that Sumpter yalley is covered ' with
water and all . tbe bridges on Powder
rivor are in a dangerous condition. In
their opinion Powder river has not
reached the ' highest mark and when
warm weather again comes there will be
more water than ever. At the old Brit
ten station the snow is a foot deep on the
level and from that point - to the high
mountains the snow haB not commenced
to melt. Through the' Democrat they
warn the people ot Baker City of im
pending danger.
Senator McBride had quite a long talk
with tbe navigation bureau of the navy
department, the other day, urging that .
orders be issued to the battleship Ore
gon to go to Portland, so that the pre
sentation of the silver service to tbe
ship might be made at the metropolis of
the state. - The officers of tbe depart
ment, however, said that they feared
the veesel might strike something and
b injured in going up the river. Tbe
Oregon will go to the United States buoy
station at Tongue point, and the proba
bilities are that the presentation will be
made at that plae. . '"
The Oregou uthco-Becker must possess
his soul in patience. There are but few
lmves to be given out, and tbeappli-'
cants are legion. A letter received in
Portland n-cently irom" .Washington
states that the Oregon delegation is lit
erally deluded with applications for
office. What is more' to the point, the
letter also states, that it is not likely
that any appointment will soon be
made", probably not before the terms of
the rresent incumbents expire, which,
if they date from time of confirmation
by the senate, will be next September.
in most ceses.
Hop Gold Buck Beer is the best ever
produced on the coast. Try it. On.
draught at all Star brewery saloons.
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