THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. MAY 5, 1897.
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
Saturdays Dally.
A carload of smoking tobacco from
through the city today, consigned to a
Portland firm. '
Rev. Mr. Wycoff, who was announced
to preach in the Congregational church
tomorrow, will not be here until the
16th, two weeks from tomorrow.
The Dalles City towed the big barge,
' Wasco, across to the Washington shore,
where it will be loaded with rock, which
will be used in weighting the D. P. & A,
N. incline. ;
The piledriver, which has been used
here for patting in some extra piles
alnnir thn r.uiiwav wan nnloaded Tester-
day on the flat between the incline and
the Umatilla house. -.
. A. J. Brigham was in town today, but
in reply to a question concerning Dnfar,
only had time to reply: "Big picnic
next week. That's all we know or care
about out at Dufur until it is over,"
.The coroner's jury, examining into
the cause of the death of the persons
killed in the electric car accident at
Portland, brought in a verdict to the ef
fect that the accident was caused by the
car being ran at a great speed. '
The sheriff undertook to sell some real
property east of town today to satisfy a
judgment in favor of Mays & Crowe
against John and William Wood, but
there being no bidders, the sale was
postponed until 1 :30 o'clock next Satur
day afternoon.
' . Edison's animatoscope tonight. Mr.
Wilbur will exhibit his entire collection
of moving life-like pictures tonight,
commencing at 8 o'clock. Don't fail to
see Edison's most wonderful invention.
It is marvelous. At the old Vogt store,
opposite Chronicle office. - Admission
25 cents.
Pease & Mays tables, which are given
away with purchases of certain amounts,
are very handsome, showing some beau
tifully grained oak. iney are giving
these away now, and wben our reporter
asked what they were going to do next,
the reply was, "See the announcement
next week." - J
The river dropped five points last
night, standing at 2S.4 this morning. : It
bas been above the . 20-foot stage tor
nearly two weeks," and for ten days of
that time bas bad an average height of
28 feet. It will be seen from this that a
vast quantity if water has been carried
away, and the chances for extreme high
water have been greatly lessened.
The members of the graduating class
of this year, or most of them, took a
trip down' the river this morning on the
Dalles City, some of them going to
Hood Biver, and some to the Cascades.
Weather
Quite a number of young friends, by
special invitation, accompanied tbem.
The day was a little breezy on the river,
but when once ashore, the weather was
delightful. -'".
The Southern Pacific baa changed Us
time card, the change going into. effect
today. The overland - express leaves at
6 p.m. instead of 2:50, and arrived at
9 :30 a. m. The Salem train is with
drawn, and there are other alight
changes, which can be found in their
regular ad. Persons desiring to visit
Willamette valley points will do well to
consult the new time card.
-. : Monday's Daily.
The Artisans organized . a lodge at
Hood Biver Saturday night. The new
lodge starts in with twenty-four charter
members. ' ...
Riverside Lodge of the Degree of
Honor of Hood Biver initiated four can
didates into the mysteries of that order,
at their regular meeting Saturday night.
Merrill, son of 'Mr. and Mrs. H. F.
Davidson, of Hood Biver, aged .three
months and four days, died Saturday
night, and was buried In Idlewilde ceme
tery yesterday. ' ,
Will Yates, wbd was appointed post
master at Hood Biver, took possession
of the office vesterday. Miss Teressa
Morse, daughter of the former post
master, will remain in the office as as'
sistant.
Col. Beebe, Hi Mitchell and four
others were at Hood Biver Friday, ar
riving on the .evening train. Eph
dinger, Hood River's celebrated Jehu,
took them out through the ' valley
They were looking for a place to bold a
etate encampment.
This morning a telegram was received
that Mrs. W. H. Creighton, only siBter
of M., D. M., J. W. and S. French, was
dangerously ill at Denver. A later dis
patch brings news of her death this
morning. The remains will be shipped
here for interment.'
Wiley Parker, a former resident of
Oregon, who has been miningon McKin
ney creek, near Buckeye bar, Klamath
river, was killed recently while working
alone on his claim, a large boulder roll
ing down from a bank into wbicb be was
digging, killing him instantly. He' waB
69 years of age. ,
Mr. Louis. Comini bas just finished
setting up a monument at, the grave of
Owen Williams that ia one of the most
beautiful in the cemetery. It is of
handsome blue ' marble, stands on a
doable column and contains the emblems
of the Odd Fellows, Elks and Knights
of Pythias. ' The monument is ten feet
six inches in height, and the finish is
perfect. Mr. Stabling, who had the
monument erected, is highly pleased
with the work, and has ordered a stone
curbing boilt around the grounds. It is
a piece of work that wonld be a credit to
any place, and which commends Mr.
Comini's skill in a manner that words
could not do. ''''..-'-..' . .'
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The river is stationary this morning at
27.4, with indications of a slight rise.
Since the middle- of April tbe stage of
the water this year and in 1894, have
been practically about tbe Bame. . That
is, about the same amount of water bas
been carried down in that time.- The
weather conditions have also been very
similar. Whether there will be high
water depends entirely on tbe weather
conditions. ' If It remains steadily warm
the result will be seen in a big flood,
bat we do not anticipate it.
As a. special attraction on Taesday
Special In Clothing.
''-." We have. some swell up-to-date suits, correct in style, fit and workman
ship. We might sell you one of these suits and the effect be spoiled by a pair
of shoes purchased elsewhere.. . We wish to avoid this. -We have some shoes
that are also strictly up-to-date. With one of our suits and a pair of these shoes
any man.wo.uld be well dressed, j We realize that the cost would be more per
haps than you would want to stand. - We ate going to make it easy for you,
and for the balance of this week we will give you a ' .
FIFTEEN DOLLAR SUIT OF CLOTHES and a
$3.50 FAIR of SHOES FOR. .v...
All we ask of you is that you bring Fifteen
Dollars with you, either in gold, currency, silver
or bank check, we are not particular. The cor
rect amount is all that we care for.
evening (ladies' night) The Dalles Com
mercial Club has secured' Edison's ani
matoscope. Mr. John Wilbur will ex
hibit bis entire collection of animated
pictures, with a brief descriptive lecture
on the method of photographing and re
producing on canvas the natural moving
life-like figures as produced by Edison's
masterpiece the animatoscope. ' This
is scientific, entertaining and amusing,
and is worthy of a full attendance of the
members of the club and their ladies.
Wonderful, marvelous, startling, is the
verdict of all who have seen the machine
and its results. Don't miss it.
Tuesday's. Dally
Mr. Wm. Smiley has put new ma
chinery in the steam laundry, and will
assume charge of it.
County court is in session attending
to probate matters,, and the commis
sioners court will meet tomorrow.
Bev. Jenkins was called by telephone
to Hood Biver, to preach a funeral ser
mon, but we were unable to learn the
name of the dead;
Those desiring to go to Dufur Friday,
can ride in Ward & ; Kerns wagonette
the round trip for $1. Reserve your
seats at Ward & Kerns stable. -. m4-2t
White, the sick man from up the
country, is getting better, and hopes in
the course of a couple of . weeks to be
able to proceed to his home in Califor
nia. ' ' . '
Mrs. Mary French is making arrange
ments to build a cosy little cottage on
her, lot adjoining the cottage now occu
pied by her eon. Work will be begun
at once. ; '
"The Emperor William II.," "Falla
cies Concerning Prayer," "Was Poe a
Plagiarist?" and other articles, make
the - May Forum an interesting and
timely number. . .' . .
The city council has ordered the
street lamps taken down, the contract
having expired May-1st. We mention
this fact for fear our good people would
not know that the lights are so longer
burning.
At the Umatilla ' Hoase tbe weather
bulletins are posted daily each evening,
showing the weather forecast for tbe
twenty-four boars following. " These
bulletins are sent Jrom Portland each
afternoon.
A man named Meeks was arrested at
Hood River yesterday, charged with
stealing a horse. He had bis prelimi
nary, examination today, Hon. John
Michell representing the stale, and G.
W. Phelps appearing for tbe defense.. '
i The new bowling alley was opened
last night, and the rooms were crowded
with enthusiastic bowlers, anxious to
try the new alleys. One game was
bowled with fourteen on a side, and tbe
alley was kept open until nearly mid
night. ' "' ' .
The first strawberries of the season
wero ohipped from here yesterday by
Mr. Aud Winans. The shipment con
sisted of one box, or one pound, and
went to Portland. They were grown on
the Winans' Bros.' place two miles east
of town, and were fine, luscious fellows..
They will be abundant in another week.
Mr. Winans tells us he would have had
quite a number ere this, bnt his patch
being by the side of the railroad, tbe
great American tramp had feasted on
them, getting , what money could not
buy, berries in April. The shipment ia
a remarkably early one.
The river at noon today was at the
27 2 mark, a tall of about ' three inches
since yesterday morning. Tbe weather
bas, turned quite warui again, and it ia
probable that the next rise will continue
its upward course until the high mark
is reached. .
Dufur is to have a grand picnic Fri
day, and it is unnecessary to add those
who attend will have a delightful time
in that pleasant little town. Among the
other features of the day will be a base
ball game between tbe Champions of
this city and the Dufur club.
." Owing -to the animatoscope being at
the Commercial Club tonight, Mr. Wil
bur, by special request, has concluded to
r-remain another night, and those desir
ing can see tbe beautiful animated pic
tures Wednesday night at the rooms op
posite The Chbokicle office.
A very fine line of ladies' and chil
dren's BUnbonneta and shaker bats just
received at M. E. Briggs' milliner store.
Prices from 35 cents to $1.25. Also a
new and complete line of a tamped
linens. Prices from 50 cents per dozen
to 75 cents per piece. Call and see new
goods. , . - ' m4-3t
A Salem paper mentions the fact that
a one-legged robin ia hopping around
the lawns of. that city, and that it re
mained in tbe city all ot last winter,
We suggest that that fact probably ac
counts for its condition. It isn't the
only bird that had a leg pulled in. that
city last winter, as Corbett could testify
- The land office here has received in
structions from the secretary of the in
terior, to the effect that tbe petition of
tbe Eastern Oregon Land Company, ask
ing that all action on lands within the
limits of their road be suspended until
the supreme court passes upon the cases
of Messinger and others, has been al
lowed. .. In consequence, no more filings
will be received on odd eections within
the primary limit of the company's
grant, nor on indemnity lands selected
by them, nor will final proofs be taken
on any such lands until after tbe de
decision of the supreme court ia ren
dered. '""'
The Salem Statesman says: "The
Seattle Post-Iatelligencer ef Thursday
gives an account of the meeting of
.the board of regents of the Washington
state university, held on Wednesday
night, at which time the committee on
instruction submitted a report severing
tbe connection ot several from the fac
ulty of the university after August' 1st,
among them two instructors well known
in this city. . They are Thomas M.
Gatch, professor of political and social
science, and Mies Ellen J. Chamberlain,
professor of English language and liter
ature, and two others. Under the new
regime the board of regents is composed
of , Populists, and tbev are naturally
weeding out people employed in public
institutions who are not in accord with
the powers that be on free silver, fiat
money, treasury potato mortgages and a
thousand other issues advocated by the
reform' party." . - ":
The fore9t reserve matter, in which
Senator Wilson has interested himself,
is being held up awaiting the action of
congress relative to an., amendment
which the public lands committee will
offer to tbe sundry civil bill, which al
lows the president to modify an order in
regard to, forest reservations, so as to
permit mining and prospecting, as well
as the use . or umber tor mining pur
poses upon the reservations. ..This
amendment by being general in its char
acter will allow the president to reduce
the areas which have been set apart and
make them conform to what is thought
to be reasonable dimensions by tbe rep
resentatives of Western states. .-
PBASB & MAYS.
MAY DAY'S CELEBRATION
And
Some Idle Thonchta It in,n,t,
For One to Think.
May day is not kept in this country as
in many others, and yet it is of sufficient
importance to cause every American
youngster at least, a desire to have a hol
iday and to spend it in the woods or by
the stream. It ought to be a national
holiday, for it comes at the time of year
when everybody feels the necessity of an
-out-doonng.'' One reason that the
day attracts little attention is that it is
strictly a country dar, for a May-day
celebration in the city is an undreamed
of thing. It needs tbe shade of the' big
trees, the fresh green grass that delights
the eye and stains the dainty white
frocks of tbe May Queen and all her sub
jects. It requires the pole garlanded
with wild posies, the butterflies and
birds, ants and bugs, and all those de
lightful things that go to make spring.
tor another reason it should be made
national holiday, and that is that it is
the children's day, and the pleasant
days of childhood, about which we all
grow reminiscent, were , few and far
enough between in reality.. We think
they were all right, because we remem
ber the high spots in them and we for
get the woodshed and the bucksaw that
always overwhelmed us, just when our
best; chum wanted us to go fishing.
- There are other reasons, but why name
them. Childhood's days are fleeting al
most as those of old age, and if they
were our happiest, what benefit if we
did 1 not V;now it? Let us make our
children understand it by ' making tbe
high spots that they will always remem
ber just a little more plentiful, and what
will hang longer in one's memory than
the remembrance of a spring day spent
in the woods in childhood? We know
of nothing. And what flower-be-laden,
; sun-freckled,' garment-boiled lit
tle tot will not come borne from such an
expedition into the woods, too tired to
more than tell half of all the delights of
the day before the eyes close uncon
sciously, and mamma must unlace the
shoes that little fingers are too- a-weary
to touch.
The pleasure of life, after all, is in
making (others happy, and it is double
happiness if those are children, whose
innocebt hearts permit them still the fall
measure of joy. May day is all right,
and the children should enjoy it while
they can, for "they will be grown folks
by and by, and then May day will be no
more for tbem forever. It is moving
day then. ' '-.: -;'
A young woman once remarked that
she disliked boys from the time one quit
kissing them as babies, until it was time
to begin kissing tbem: as men. The
same might be said of girls, only the line
of demarcation is so indistinctly drawn
that one never knows just when to drop
off in tbe one character and commence in
the other. - Perhaps the best plan under
these circumstances, is to just continue
the osculatory pastime heedleed of the
capacity in which the kissee stands, and
let the question just sort of settle itself.
That's the way we feel about it. .Now,
for instance, this morning at the wharf
when the -boat palled oat, there were
three' remarkably pretty (or would be so
considered outside of .The Dalles) young
ladies, who were watching the xcur
sionists depart. ' They were, we judge,
between the ages of 18 late falls, and 21
early springs, and they looked to us as
$15.00
aMi'L"iMaiisWl muialmmai in - , r ,-- - .-- .. . asst iiiS)' ' '
though they were just at that age when
a fellow might have kissed tliero.aa
children or grown folds, and he wouldn't .
(that is if we were the he; have cared
two cents which period' it was charged
up to. It would hare been a very pleas
ant May-day tecollection, bat such was
not to be.
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When one sees a lot of dainty girls so
demure, yet saocy, so innocent looking,
yet so bright-eyed. 8o all together
I lovely, and too good for anything this
side of Paradise, one easily tmaglnee
with what fever and trepidation a young
man approaches one of tne dear crea
tures with ideas of annexation, or of es
tablishing a protectorate over ber. One
can easily understand that when he thinks
of broaching the subject his " heart
would be right in his mcutb, at the idea
of asking for so great a bundle of femi-
nine loveliness. But if she accepts him.
which tbe chances are, she will, he will
recover from, his earlier-conceieved no-
tions. Now we know an old fellow who
had been married for twenty-five years.
Before we made up our mind, (being
somewhat diffident) to ask the fateful
question, we consulted him. - "Huh !"
said he witb a shrug of the shoulders,
"Don't be' afraid. Why, I felt that way
myself, but wben I asked Mary for ber
hand, she pat both of tbem in mine bo
qaick : it staggered me, and, though I
did not know it then, I learned after
wards that she included a corn-crib
full of lip that I hadn't counted on."
SOMETHING OF AN EXPLANATION
Concerning; the (Saturday Plento,
Hood Slver Going Dry.
and
We received yesterday it communica
tion from Hood River roasting some of
the young people who went from here
on a picnic to that pretty little town, .
Saturday. ..
The cause of the article was the break- '
ing down of tbe flume leading from the
spring to the reservoir that supplies the
town with water, about 150 feet of flume
being knocked down and the boxes
broken. The result was that the town
was left without a drop of water from
about 3 o'clock in tbe afternoon until ,
after 9. Our correspondent lays tbe
blame of this on the young people who
took their luncheon and spent the day
in the beautiful grove at the spring, and
supposes this was done maliciously.
If this were true, we could find no
fault with the harshness of bis com
ments. We have examined into thev
matter and find that the breaking of the
flame (according to tbe statements of
the young folks who were there, and
whom we believe implicitly) was an ac
cident pure and simple.,
Tbe young people, or some of tbem.
were climbing over the flume when it
fell. They did not know tbe spring sup
plied water to tbe town, but supposed it
led to some of the berry patches and was
U9ed for irrigating purposes. Had they .
known it supplied the town they would
have at once informed the reople thereof
of tbe accident, but as ' they did not '
know where the water went, they could -not
inform the parties whom it belonged .
to. In . conversation with : the writer
hereof they expressed deep regret that .
they bad inconvenienced the Hood River
people, and the hope that' their expla
nation will prove a sufficient excuse.
- They had a delightful day, and wonld
not have the recollections of it marred
with the thought that tbey had incurred
the ill will of Hood River'B good people.