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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY.; JUNE 2. 1897.
The Weekly Ghroniele
THE DALLES,
OKEOON
FSKSOXAL MENTION.
. ' Saturday"! Dally- ,:
E. Jacobea is borne again, arriving
last night. ,
- Mrs. A. .L. Newman ia in the . city
from Portland.
Miss Lena Robieon of Walla Walla Is
: visiting Miss Bee Sterling.
Mrs. A. M. - Williams came np from
Portland last night, and is visiting nere,
Hon- L. X. Blowers, mayor of the
town of Hood River, was in the city last
night. ,
..' Tuesday' Dally.
Deputy Clerk Bolton returned from
Goldeudale this morning.
Mrs. Chas. Johnson and family went
to Corval :is yesterday on a visit. .
Mr. J. F. Nowlun, school superintend
en i of Umatilla county, is in the city.
Mr. H. Krause, who is m the city
from Wasco, called at The Chboxiclk
office today.
Attorney Joe Teal. Jr.. of Portland is
in the city looking after business in the
circuit court.
Mr. H. H. Riddell retnrned last nigbt
from East Portland, whither be went on
a fishing trip.
Mr. E'J. G. Patterson left yesterday
morning for Ranier. where he will be in
the employ of Mr. ti. Glenn. -
Conductor Char'es Hansen, who has
been on bis ranch at Hood River for
nearly two months, returned yesterday
and has resumed bis position.
Mr. A. Flovd. formerly a resident of
this city, and employed in the O. R. &
N. shops, came down from La Grande
Saturday and returned Sunday night.
Mrs. J. E. Barnett, Miss Ethel Rid
dell and Miss Edith Ranaell went to
Portland yesterday as delegates to the
grand lodge of Good Templars which
meets at that place. The two former
from the local lodge and the latter from
the Juvenile Temple, of which she is
superintendent.
Endersby School Report.
The following is the report of En
dersby school district. No. 57, for the
month ending May 28 :
Number of days taught, 19; No. days
attendance, 325 ; No. days absence, 38;
No. times tardy, 0; total number pupils
enrolled, 20; average number belonging,
19; average daily attendance, 17; No.
of pnpils neither absent nor tardy, 6.
The following is the list: Lena Longren,
Alice and Mable Endersby, Wilbur
: Dickson, Georgia Read and Orville
Smith. Visitors Miss Constance Har
riman, Maud Brown, Berme Read, Mrs.
Endersby and Mrs. Dickson.
Bkssie N. Hastings,
Teacher.
INDIANS OF YUCATAN.
tiuie CuAoms with Infants and with
Brides In Early Days.
' In an old book called "The Buc
caneers of America," recently re.
irinted, is given a curious account of
Jie customs in vogTie amonjr the Yuca
an Indians two hundred years ago.
-t runs substantially as follows:
As soon as a child is born "it is car
ied to the tx-inple where a circle a
lole is made and filled with ashes. On
' ihis heap of asln. j the nuke! child is
placed and left there a whole nijjht
alone, not without great danger, no
one daring to come near it. The
temple is open on all sides. m that all
sorts of beasts may frevly iu and
aut. The next day the father and rela
tives return to see if the trachs or step
of any animal appears printed in the
ashes. If no track is found the poor
baby is left there until some beaist has
left behind it the marks of its feet.
To this animal the new born babe is
consecrated, as unto its Hod: End this
beast he is bound to worship anr serve
all his life it boinjr hi:; patron and
protector. When frown to intelli
gence the parents instruct him in . re
gard to his patron beast, and teach
him to serve and honor it ca his own
proper God. He goes to the temple
and makes offering's to the beast. In
the course of his life, when injured or
harmed in any way. he makes his
complaints to this beast, "whence,"
adds the narrator, innocently, "many
times it comes that those who have
. 3one the injury of which he complains
are found to be bitten, killed or other
" wise hurt by such animals. After this
superstitious and idolatrous manner,"
ne contin nes, "do live those miserable
and ignora nt Indians that inhabit all
the islands of the gulf of Honduras, as
also many of them that dwell upon the
continent of Yucatan."
A man desiring to marry applies
first to the damsel's father or nearest
relative. lie is carefully examined
concerning the manner of cultivating j
their plantations, and other matters,
lie is then given a bow and arrow, j
With these tokens he repairs to the
young maid, and presents her with a
garland of green leaves intirwined
with fragrant flowers. The wreath she
is obliged to put on her head, and lay
aside her virgin's garland which she
has hitherto worn. , All tho relatives
and friends now assemble to consult
as to the propriety of the marriage of
this couple. Having agreed as to
their approval, they meet at the house
- of the damiiers father, wher "they
drink of a certain liquor made of maize,
or Indian wheat,?' aal li-rz. i: tho
proscro of this euiu-jiij, the father
gives his daughter in marriage. The
nest day the newly-married bride
. comes to her mother, "palls off the
garland and tears it in pieces, with
cries and bitter lamentations, accord
ing to the custom of the country.". ,,
Yellow washing' powder will make
your clothes the earue color. Avoid
this by using ' Soap Foam. It's pure
white. , ... a2-3m :
NEWSPAPER PICKINGS.
The average height of tie elephant
is nine feet.
The will-o'-the-wisp is caused by the
decay of vegetable matter.
A Russlajt immigrant arrived in New
York the other day clad in a long coat
made from the skins of more than 1,000
Russian mice. . -'
Massachusetts still ; reveres ' the
memory of the codfish, once the chief
industry of her people, and keeps
wooden model of one hanging in her
house of representatives. v .', :.r-
Comfort for the fat and the lean can
be derived from some recent medical
statistics which show that at the age
of thirty-six lean' men generally be
come fatter and fat men leaner.
The tombstone marking the grave of
Rev. Wareham Williams, a leading
preacher of colonial days, was ' un
earthed at Walthara, Mass., recently.
Antiquarians had long searched for
the grave.
. Nearlt all the gold coin that is sent
abroad from New York city is packed
in kegs made by James Shay. He has
been a cooper for thirty-six years.
Each keg holds 50,000, in ten bags
holding $5,000 each.
It is said that the new city directory
of Baltimore indicates ' an increase of
36,000 in the population of the city
during the past year, due largely to
the growth of manufacturing interests
in the city and suburbs.
GOOD TKINGS TO EAT.
Rhubarb Shortcake. Split the
shortcake an ordinary cream biscuit
is nice for this use butter it liberally
and spread with baked sauce. Serve
with sweetened cream. Rural New
Yorker.
Fruit Salad. One pineapple
chopped fine, one pint strawberries,
six sliced bananas, kix oranges cut in
small pieces and juice of one lemon.
Sweeten this to suit taste. Orange
Judd Farmer. :.'.
French Steaks. Cut steaks a finger
thick from the fillet. Season, dip in
melted butter and broil. Serve with
melted butter, a squeeze of lemon
juice auu chopped parsley. Uood
Housekeeping.
Hasty Puddixg. Put on.' a quart of
milk to boiL As soon as boiling stir
in two tableepoons of Cosr moistened
with a little cold mill: cr water. Cook
till thick. Serve . with sweetened
cream. Detroit 1'rec Frees.
Hvriexic C'orrxE. Two quarts of
wheat bran, one cupful of molasses,
white of one cjrg: to be well mixed
and browned in the oven until of a
dark brown color, stirring often to
prevent scorching. Housekeeper. .
TEMPLES OF WORSHIP.
Greek temples Greeted in honor of
the superior deities were always un
covered or open to the sky.
Thk temple of tho snn at Palmyra
covered a square of twenty-two yards
on each side. It wan approached by a
magnificent avenue over half a mile
long, inclosed by rows of columns and
statues.
Tun cathedral tower in Berlin was
blown up (or rather down) with dyna
mite a few clava ago while the kaiser
looked on from a neighboring castle.
A new and mcro magnificent structure
is to take ifci. place. ' .
The temple of Diana at Ephesus
was four hundred and twenty-five
feet long, tv.-o hundred and twenty-five
feet broad, and with statues and col
umns innumerable Of this magnifi
cent structure not a trace remains
even of the foundations.
THE - CAHEKOONSL
Country That ; Is Giving Qer-
, many iZuoli Trouble.
An African Territory About Which the
.. English Government Is Vitally Con
.: cerned The Dispute About. , . ;
n - Its Boundaries,
PASTOR c AND FEOPLE.
There arc 200.000 Norwegian Luther
ans m the L nited T.taten.
The largest Ootids ehurch in the
world is Cologne cathedral. Its
foundation rtoics were laid in 1248,
and the edifice was completed in 1880.
Tnr: emperor of ter:;iany asserts that
the court preachers are taking too
much of his time, and ordered that no
sermon .shall last more than six min
utes. N. Y. World. .
The lord bishop of Chichester is the
oicert os;iiop in Ln?iacu. ne is over
ninety yenrs of age. and yet he attends
to U the duties c.f his diocese without
the ai.i cf s. coadjutor.
Mr.:-. Saf..u: E. Ccoper. of San Fran
cisco, has . a '"unciay-school class of
more than three hundred intelligent
men and women. She has taught a
Cible claus for more Vaan forty years.
-
Disgraced Ram lan Officers. . .
Eleven officers of the Bielogrod
dragoons have been reduced to the ranks,
anu one lieutenant dismissed from
the army for their share in a disgrace
ful riot at Mejibujie, in Podolia. Lieut.
Bakounine, while drunk, grossly ln
cl.d, and struck some Jewish civilians
who were sitting quietly in a wine shop.
After protesting for awhile they gave
him a sound thrashing, whereupon he
went to the barracks, got together some
other officers and 150 dragoons, and set
out to avenge the honor of the regi
ment. ' The wine shop and 'the adjacent
bouses were sacked and. set on fire, a
number of Jewish houses and shops
were pillaged, and five Jews killed and.
thirty seriously injured. As the colonel
of the regiment did not think the inci
dent worth reporting the czar has- or
dered him to be placed on the retired
list. ... - . : r --: .;' . . , '-.
An Odd English Tillage. ! ' "".
3uekland-on-the-Moor, a . secluded
village of Devonshire, England, has no
public house, parson, policemen or pau
pers. The squire owns all. the land.
The farms ere small, but profitable.
The farm, laborers live in the squire's
cottages. When they fall sick the
squire pays their wages as usual, and
when they are too oM to work any more
they are continued on the pay list, and
potter about, doing what they please. .'
This is an "Age of Soap." - Why use
any but the very best. ' Best soap means
Hoe Cake. Sold by Pease & Mays. . a2-3m I
' "Battle in the Cameroons," says a re
cent cables What and where are the
Cameroons'.' This from the New York
Herald will elucidate a little: ' ,
The Cameroons- is a territory on the
Bight of 'Diafra, -West Africa, one
hundred ind .; fifty thousand square
miles in extent, and with an estimated
population of two millions.' It has 2
coast line of one hundred and twenty
miles between the Cam'po river and the
Ilio del Hey, is bounded on the north
east by a trecty line, running north
east to the east of .Vola, on the upper
Eenue, and on the soath by a lino run
ning inland, Hue ctx-i irom tue moutn
of the Campo river, to about the me
ridian of longitude fifteen degrees east,
which mny be regarded as the eastern
or inland limit of the so-called "pro
tectorate. '
In V.i'JZ there were one hundred and
sixtj'-six whites, of whom one hundred
and nine were Gerrian and thirty-one
English. It leeave a German pro
tectorate m y:m. :.:;d is placed under
an imperial governor, assisted by a
chancellor, two secretaries and a local
council of throe , representative mer
chants. The country is fertile, and
numerous valuable African vegetable
productions grow ia profusion. . Plan
tations of cacao and tobacco have been
farmed by a company, and numerous
factories carry on an active trade in
ivory and palm oil. Un January 1,
ISSS, an import duty was imposed on
European goods, and from this the
revenue is mainly derived. The chief
town is Cameroons, and in the South
Batanja, liimbia and Bakundu Town
ire other important trading stations,
and'Aqua Town and Bell Town are the
principal native settlements. , The im
ports and export? are quite large.
In April last, Mr. Henry Stanley
wrote to the peace association a letter
m which he attributed the increase of
trade in l'.ri at African ports under
German administration to the growing
practice among German raorchants of
importing into Africa small arms and
ammunition. These materials of war,
he said, wore .'eld to the slave traders
and do Inestimable damage. Mr. Stan
ley inculpated altio the Portuguese in
his charger- lie appealed to the Kuro-
pean nations to suppress the tra'tic in
arms carried on by the Germans and
Portuguese. Unless this step be taken,
he added, all efforts to stop the slave
trade would bo v.s?3ess.
In February a German expedition.
which was. under the command of
Freiherr von Kt?tten.. proceeded from
the Cameroons coant up the river San-
nagr. to Halirrra. r'ierree it traveled to
the thic'.:!-,- populated district of Tikar
and reached Xgaadcre and Yola.
Treaties wore concluded with the na
tive tribes in the districts passed
thror.gh; This reappearance on the
coart. the Krcuz Koitmig -pointed out,
was peculiar in view of the statement
inado by members of the expedition
that Lake Tchad was th -ir goal. It is
a fact, though at present an inexplica
ble one. that German expeditions fail
to roach the mora easterly portions of
the liintorlacd of the Cameroons. The
expedition returned in September.
England and Germany hid a long
dispute about the boundaries of the
Cameroon:;, which was settled in May
lat. The third f eetioa of the agree
ment read.-,: "The German colonial
administration cntrager. not to allow
any trade ..settlements to exist or be
erected on the ri.';!it ban': of the Rio
del Hey Cret'k vr waterway. . In like
manner the administration of the Oil
rivers protectorate engager; not to al
low any trade settlements to exist or
to be erected on the western bank of
the 1'akassy pe.r.insnla frpm the first
creek below -An.ibon's village to the
sea and eastward from this bank to
the Iiio del Key waterway."
According to the German view the
new agreement is a purely fiscal one,
intended to enable the Pritisli and
German administrations to cope with
the. widespread .smuggling, which was
especially, detrimental to. the Camer
oons. There had been no question of
altering the frontier laid down by the
provisional agreement of 1300, which, 1
in consequence of disagreement be
tween the two governments, left the
Rio del Key out of count and settled
the frontier as a straight line running
from the upper end of the waterway
to the rapids of the Cross river. But
this indefinite "upper end" has now
been fixed as above set forth. Much
satisfaction was expressed in Berlin at
the pledge given by the English gov
ernment not to allow trade settlements
on the Bakassy peninsula, which other
wise would have afforded an excellent
base for contraband operations.
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" - A. S. Mac Allistee, ;
' Eeal Estate and Insurance Agent. .
Chbonicle office, The Dalles, Or.
Yor ggPjCaXorilfc
; 1 The New Time Card. "
Under the new time card, which goes
into effect tomorrow, trains will move as
follows: v.
No. 4, to Spokane and Great Northern
arrives at 6 p. m., leaves at 6:05 p.m.
No. 2, to Pendleton, Baker City and
Union Pacific, arrives 1 :15 a. m., de
parts 1 :20 a. m.
No. 3, from Spokane and Great NortL
ern, arrives 8:30, departs 8:35 a. ra.
No. 1, from Baker City and Union Pa
cific, arrives 1 :20, departs 1 :25 a. in. : ,
Nob. 23 and 24, moving east of The
Dalles, will carry passengers: No. 23
arrives at 0:30 p. m., . departs 12:4o
p. m. 1
Passengers for Heppner will take train
leaving here 6:05 p. m. . :
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The Dalles. Oregon
Administrator's Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
has been appointed administrator of the estate
of Silas W. Davis, late of Wasco County, and
now deceased. All persons having claims
against said estate or against the estate of
Coram and Davis of Wapinitia, Oregon, of
which said firm said deceased was a partner.
will present tl.e same, duly verified, to me at
-i ne iMtues, urcgon or to my attorneys, untur
Menefee, of Dalles City, Wasco County, Oregon,
within six months from the date hereof.
Dated at Dalles City, Oregon, this 2M day of
May, 1897.
Administrator of the estate of tiilas W. Davis,
deceased. m'JU-ot-i
Executor's Sale.
Pursuant to an order of the Oountv Court of
the State of Oregon for the Wasco County, made
and entered on the 3d day of May, 1S97, in the
matter of the estate of James McGanan, deceased,
directing me to sell the real property belonging
to the estate of said deceased, I will, on Satur
day, the 6th day of June, 1897. at the hour of 2
o'clock p. m., at the courthouse door in Dalles
Citv. Oregon, sell at public sale.' to the highest
bidder, all of the following described real prop
erty belonging to said estate, to-wit: The
Southwest quarter of Section Eight, Township
One South, Range Fourteen East W. M., con
taining itu acres more or less.
dministrator's Sale of Real Estate.
ELY'S CREAM BALM Is a positive cure.
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ELY BROTHERS. 68 Warrca St., Hew York City.
Notice is hereby given that under and bv vir
tue of an order of the County Court of the State
of Oregon for Waco County, made on the 21st
day of Slay, 18!)7, in the matter ot tne estate oi
Frank Irclunil. deneai-ed. I will, on Thursday, the
21th day of June, J8U7, at the hour of 2 o'clock
p. m, at the courthouse door in Dalles City, in
Wasco, Oregon, sell to th highest bidder the
following described real estate belonging to said
estate, to-wit: The Southwest quarter of the
Northeast quarter of Section 12, Township 2
Norths Range 11 East, W. M., in Wasco County
Oregon.
Said premises will be sold in one parcel ard
for one-third cash at the time of the sale and
two-thirds in four months after the confirma
tion thereof, the deferred payment to be secured
by note and mortgage upon the premises sold.
Dalles City, Oregon, May 22, 1897.
GEORGE IRELAND,
Administrator of the estate of Frank Ireland,
decetsed. . " . . .. m2u-ftt-l
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