THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1897.
The Weekly Ghroniele.
TBI DALLES.
OREGON
OFFICIAL PAPER OF WASCO COUNTY.
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
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And now the days begin to grow
shorter.
' Jnbilee poetry is all the rage jast now.
It is all of the spring clip and unwashed.
Seventy-five men and a number ot
tearis are at work on tbe Columbia
Southern Railway.
. Mrs. M. E. Briggs has been invited to,
and will deliver tbe addrees at the old
soldiers re-nnion at Elgin Jnly 2d.
Reports from all parts of Wasco, Sher
man and Klickitat counties are to the
effect that the rainfall Monday was
abundant, and that the grain crop will
be fine.
A large importation of mid-summer
sailors and walking bats, especially
adapted for the beach and outing, ar
rived at the Elite, direct from the East
yesterday.
Miss Botorff will only remain in The
Dalles the balance of this week, and
those desiring the benefit of her skill
and taste will have to call at the Elite
parlors before Saturday night.
Quite a number of our citizens are pre
paring for a visit to the seashore, and in
a couple of weeks the printers and bther
bloated bond holders who have so much
money and business they can't get
away, will be all that are left in town.
At Latah, Wash., a few days ago, the
wife of J. W. Know presented her hus
band a job lot of "pledges of affection"
In the shape of four bouncing babies, all
of whom are aliye and doing well. Our
brother editors are requested to refrain
from idle jesting. There are some
things too solemn for anything but
tears.
Tbe Herrick cannery put up a small
lot of fish today, none yesterday. A
getleman from down the river tells ns
tbe catch is quite good there; but at
present it looks as though this would be
the poorest fishing season here we have
ever had. According to the . fishermen,
1898 should be the big year, they claim
ing the heavy run comes every four
years.
The Nehalem Times vouches for the
fact that there is a spruce tree in God's
valley, a few miles from Nehalem, which
measures over eighty-one feet in circum
ference at the ground and sixty feet in
circumference thirty feet trom the
ground. Tbe first limb is forty feet from
the ground and measures thirteen feet
in circumference. The tree was killed
by worms about four years ago.
Mr. Corlies Merritt has some very fine
crayon work on exhibition in the win
dows at Pease & Mays. Among the pic
tures is a portrait of the late Captain
Coffin, which is pronounced by those
who knew him to be a perfect likeness.
Not having known tbe captain, we can
not speak from personal knowledge, but
the work ia certainly first-class, and well
worth a walk np that way to see.
At the recent reunion of Linn county
pioneers in Brownsville, quite a number
of interesting papers were read. One of
them said : "Mrs. Eliza Warren and
Mr. C. H. Walker, who are entitled to
the distinction of being the first white
children born in Oregon, are members
of the Linn County Pioneers' Associa
tion. Mrs. Warren is a daughter of
Rev. H. H. Spaulding, a missionary of
1836. She was born at Lapwai mission,
in 1837. Mr. Walker was born at Whit
man in 1838."
Miss Ada Southwick, aged 22, whose
parents reside near Milton, lost her life
in a peculiar manner, a few days ago,
says the Walla Walla Statesman. She
was talking to a friend near where some
horses were tied, when one of the ani
mals suddenly kicked, striking the girl
full in the stomach. She was carried
into he house close by and medical as
sistance called, bat, after lingering for
three hoars in terrible goffering she
passed away. The case seems doubly
ad when it is learned that the young
lady was soon to be married to an esti
mable young farmer in that commnity.
Thursday's Daily
The principal occupation of the Popu
lists just now seems to be tbe denounc
ing of fusion.
The regular term of the county court
begins the first Monday in Jnly, and
commissioners' court Wednesday the
7th.
Three carloads of cattle and one of
hogs to Troutdale comprised the total
stock shipments from this point last
night and today.
The warehouses are all jammed fall of
wool, and still it comes. While tbe re
porter was Interviewing tbe East End
this morning, not less than a dozen big
teams were unloading. A few lota
change hands daily at from 8 to eta
and an occasional lot brings 9 cents.
A. M. Williams & Co. have a magnifi
cent display of ladies shoes, bat the
nrettiest thines ia ehoewear that we
have seen this year, are Tbe Dalles girls
The Herrick cannery put np about
two tons of fish today. In conversation
with a leading fisherman yesterday, he
expressed the opinion that tbe July rnn
would be good.
Marshal Carlisle of Arlington came
down ou the 8:30 train this morning to
take a prisoner named Melrose, arrested
by Marshal Liuer, back to that city.
Melrose is charged with stealing a lot of
goods from Captain Nelson of the ferry
boat at Arlington, and will be taken
back for trial tonight.
State Veterinary Whiticombe exam
ined a lot of horses in Floyd's pasture
and found five of them afflicted with
mange, lie went to rornana mis
morning and will recommend 10 ine
board that the horses be quarantined
and treated by their owners, and If this
is not done, that they be destroyed.
The Dalles will not celebrate the 4th,
bat Dufur will, and celebrate it in grand
style too. To ease the minds of our
Dalles friends who desire to attend the
Dufur doings, we state that the editor of
this paper will not deliver the address
on that occasion, although it is so ad
vertised. This statement should help
materially to swell tbe crowd.
Why is it," asked Slug Four, "that
your clothes are about three years be
hind tbe times? You make good
money." "Early training home' in
fluence." explained Slug Seven. . "I
was the third in a familv of six boys
I didn't eet my clothes nntu the two
ahead of me had had their turn at
them." Typographical Journal. .
A fruit gathering device is on exhibi
tion at Mr. Butler's place on Third
street, that is adapted especially to the
gathering of plums and prunes. It is
made of cloth, and is shaped like an
umbrella, but used inverted. It has a
slide in one aide that permits it to be
Duahed nnder and around the tree,
When in place tbe tree, is shaken, tbe
fruit falls on tbe cloth, and is rolled
into the box at the center.
A dispatch from Oregon City to the
Oregonian says : "Miss Minnie Acker-
man of this city and James W. Shaw of
The DalleB, who were married in Port
land last Saturday, left last night-for
San Francisco. Miss Ackerman's par
ents, who are Jews, were slightly op
posed to their daughter's marriage, but
there was no elopement or sensation, as
was imagined by some. The bride has
spent most of her time since her mar
riage at her mother's home in this city."
The report of the state geologist of In
diana for the past year has just been
published, and it forebodes the failure of
the natural gas fields at no distant day.
The territory that now produces natural
gas includes a region of about 2500
square miles, and no new discoveries
have been made or are likely to be made.
A decrease in tbe pressure was first no
ticeable in 1895, and it is still diminish
ing. It would not be surprising, there
fore, that if within a- year or two tbe
supply would be so much diminished
that the general use of gas would have
to be abandoned. Such was the case
with the gas fields of Western Pennsyl
vania, and such will probably be the
fate of the Indiana field.
Rev. C. P. Smith is delivering a lec
ture entitled, "Tbe American Woman,
and What Shall We Do With Her?"
Mr. Smith arrives at the conclusion that
every woman should be beautiful, and
should be married to a rich, loving and
faithful husband, in all of which conclu
sions we agree with him. Unfortunately
all women cannot be beautiful, and it is
equally unfortunate that we cannot
marry all of them, hence it will be, as It
always has been impossible for every
woman to get tbe kind of husband she
ought to have. This is not a fault of the
woman, bat because the measly men
don't all make "rich, loving and faith
ful husbands." It is only a few of us
that can boast all these good points.
Last Saturday S. B. Adair rode from
tbe wreck ot the old Cairn es more to the
Colombia river jetty, says an Astoria
paper. From the Fort Stevens end he
drove his horse under the jetty on dry
sand 3)4 miles we6t. The ride took him
to within one mile of tbe end of the jet
ty. In some places he was compelled
to lower his bead to avoid being struck
by the timbers that hold the track. Thie
track was 20 feet above water when it
was laid. Tbe sand over which Mr.
Adair passed is now high and dry at all
stages of the tide, and constitutes quite
an accession of territory to the govern
ment reserve. Mr. Adair says that this
sand accretion has all appeared in the
past year, and be believes that tbe jet
ty will in a short time be completely
buried by a bank of sand that will ex
tend its entire length into the Pacific
ocean.
Friday'sDaily.
Extras for Standard mowers and rakes
at J. H. Filloon's. m28-tf
For the old reliable McCormick reap
ers and mowers go to J. H. Filloon.
m28-tf
Tbe values offered by Pease & Mays in
their special clothing sale have never
been equaled in The Dalles.
Spokane had a rose show Wednesday.
Tbe procession was half a mile long and
the floats were numerous. Miss Jessie
Galusha was the rose queen.
Another carload of ecrapers went up
the road to Biggs this morning to be
used on the Columbia Southern.
One carload of cattle belonging to Mr.
Huff represented tbe stock transactions
today. The cattle went to Portland.
The Waeco baseball team played the
Ooldendale boys on the latter's grounds
yesterday, and defeated them by a score
ot 13 to-5.
Walla Walla, Umatilla, Palouse, all
tbe great grain-growing sections of the
Inland Empire, report generous rains
and assured crops.
The engineer corps of the Oregon mi
litia arrived at Hood River yesterday
and is engaged in preparing the grounds
for the encampment.
Mr. Biggs, who has jast returned from
Sherman county, tells us grain is look
ing fine, and the prospects for an abund
ant crop were never better.
Yon will coneult your own interest by
getting your new suit either today or to
morrow, as the special on clothing at
Pease & Mays will be withdrawn after
Saturday.
George Ireland, administrator of the
estate of Frank Ireland, deceased, sold
a 40-acre tract belonging to tbe estate
yesterday. It brought $367.50, a good
price for unimproved land.
There was a little delay in completing
some of the trestle on tbe Hood River
flume, and water will not reach the town
until tomorrow or Monday. There will
be an abundance of it tor all purposes.
Tbe cannery put np 2400 pounds of
salmon today. Reports from the Cas
cades are that the run is improving, and
in another week the cannery manager
hopes to have it running to its full ca
pacity, y
The city recorder interviewed a couple
of our citizens this morning. They had
been having a hilarious time, and are
repenting at their leisure, having been
fined $5 each, and not having tbe col
lateral. The pay roll on tbe Comstock lode at
Virginia City, Nevada, still amounts to
the handsome sum of $70,000 monthly.
It is not like the old times, though,
when many of the mines paid double
that sum to its laborers.
About one o'clock this afternoon a
heavy black cloud passed over Klickitat
county, evidently giving that section a
generous shower. The rain fell within
a mile or two of this point ; but kept on
the Washington side of the Columbia,
Mr. and Mrs. L. Barzee, the young
couple that recently eloped from Sher
man county, were registered at the
Umatilla House last night, and are pre
sumably on the way home to be for
given, which they undoubtedly will be.
Maloney, tbe janitor of the postoffice
building at Portland, who went looking
for a leaking gas pipe with a lighted
candle, and found it, is at St. Vin
cent's hospital waiting patiently for Na
ture and the doctors to repair damages.
Sam Jones says : "If all the wealth
of the United States was divided oat to
day, each man would get $1600, and in
less than six months some fellows would
be riding in palace cars and others
would be walking cross-ties, howling for
another divy."
We acknowledge tbe receipt of tbe in
itial number of tbe Mountain Miner
published at Keswick, Shasta county,
California. It id a bright paper, and
contains a mass of -information about
that mining camp. Among other things
it says the pay roll is $40,000 per month.
Some very fine chinooks are being
caught this season. The cannery had
one yesterdav weighing sixty-three
pounds and another 57, while the
Winans Bros, caught one Wednesday
weighing 58. Thirty and forty pound
fish are the rule rather than tbe excep
tion.
A special meeting of the Ladies Aid
Society of the First Christian church
will be held in the vestry of the church
Saturday, June 26 tb, at 3 p. m. All
members are urged to be present, as
there will be election of officers and
other important business to come before
the meeting. Lunch will be served.
A number of people in Pendleton,
who are interested in the price of wheat,
and whose judgment ie entitled to some
weight, have registered guesses as to
what the opening price will be for this
season's crop, says the . Tribune. Eigft
persons have written down figures in a
book belonging to Mies Sophia Byers,
and the average price predicted ia 50
cents.
The Hood River postoffice was moved
Wednesday evening into the Middleton
building on Third street. New combi-'
nation lock boxes have been put in.
Tbe change was celebrated by the build
ing catching fire from a defective terra
coita flue, bat fortunately ,the fire was
discovered before it had gained headway
and was soon extinguished. The dam
age was slight.
L. U. Preston, of Weston, and F. P.
Egan, of Palouse City, have been talk
ing np the subject of artesian weils with
Pendleton business men, as Mr. Egan
thinks artesian water can be found near
Pendleton. Mr. Egan says that in tbe
Palouse country there are from thirty to
fifty artesian wells. The first one was
found at Pullman, purely by chance,
while some workmen were boring for a
commonwell. Palouse City baa two ar
tesian wells, Morrow three, Bellemont
one, and there are many others. One of
the wells flows 600 gallons per minute,
or 30,000 gallons each hour, and tbe flow
continues regularly and without dimin
ution. J '
Warrants for the arrest of Dr. Scruggs,
of Flounce Rock precinct. Jackson
county, who killed L. C. Quisling, and
Newhank, who is charged with being an
accessory, have been issued by Justice
Jacobs of Central Point. B. W Dean
and J. Clements have gone from Jack
sonville to apprehend the parties. Many
people are of the belief that a crime has
been committed, hence this action. The
coroner's jury found that Dr. Scruggs
acted in self-defense.
Under the Washington judiciary sys
tem criminals are not kept long in doubt
as to ther trials, four days ago tbe
house of Isaac Campton, in Goldendale,
was burglarized. The burglar, a man
named Cal Blanchard, was caught.
Superior Judge Miller went up from
Vancouver yesterday, opened court and
gave Blanchard his trial. He was found
guilty, sentenced to a year in the peni
tentiary, and will be inside of that in
Simmon at waua walla be tore noon
tomorrow. Judge Miller returned to
Vancouver todav.
STATE ENCAMPMENT, G. A. R.
Mrs. lirlg-gs of Tbta City Adopted as a
Daughter jof tbe Army.
E. F. Chapman, late of the 10th Iowa,
writing to the Eugene Guard under date
of June 21st says:
Our State Encampment, G. A. R.,
convened at Independence on the 15th
of tbe present mouth, and concluded its
work on the 19th. Many of our com
rades having been unable to attend, I
thought it wonld not be unbecoming to
give a few items on the subject. Eu
gene, by hard work, captured the cov
eted prize, the department commander,
and his name is Frank Reisner, which I
assnre you is quite an honor to our
city.
The Boldiers home qoeHion has been
adjusted to the entire satisfaction of all
tbe old soldiers, and friends of the old
soldiers. We had a mammoth gather
ing, consisting of Grand Army men, sons
and daughters of veterans, tbe ladies of
the Grand Army and last, but not least,
the band of noble workers, tbe Relief
Corps. It was a proud day with us to
think we were the guests of honor, and
so cordially received by the mavor,
(Goodman) and the noble citizens of the
beautiful and live city of Independence,
Oregon.
The ladies were all bo good looking
that the encampment could not refrain
from adopting one of their number as a
daughter of the Grand Army, and pre
sented her with a delegate's badge. She
is a great worker in our cause, and aa
eloquent speaker. Her father was an
old soldier, and was shot in the grand
charge at Missionary Ridge, Tenn. We
voted her a badge suitable to the high
honots sbe won for us. It will be pre
sented to her at our next encampment,
that will convene in The Dallea next
May. Her name is Mrs. Mamie Brlggs,
of The Dalles, Oregon.
Having elected our several officers, we
held a joint installation in tbe Odd Fel
lows hall. The Sons installed first, the
Ladies 'Relief Corps next and the G. A.
R. last. We were very badly squeezed
in the hall, but strange to say, no one
objected to the squeeze. We then had
a love feast for half an hour, extending
congratulations. The encampment con
cluded its work at 10 o'clock next morn
ing, and ended up in another love feast
at the auditorium, and all went their
way rejoicing.
Hood Blver Iitch Completed.
From Mr. Davenport, who had the
contract for constructing the big west
side flume and ditch at Hood River, we
learn that the work has been completed
and the water was turned through the
flame yesterday. A small piece of flume
near the lower end of the ditch remained
to be completed, but this should have
been done yesterday afternoon.
The flame carries 2,000 inches of
water, enough to irrigate easily 10,000
acres of land. The water will reach the
town of Hood River today, and in a
short time that pretty little town will
have running water down each street.
The completion of .this ditch marks
jthe beginning of a new era in Hood
River an era of prosperity. It makes
it possible to grow almost anything, and
especially hay, which heretofore haa al
ways been in supply far short of the de
mand. The results next year will as
tonish Hood Riverites, and will cause
the speedy construction of another big
ditch on tbe East Side. -
Mr. Davenport deserves unstinted
praise for bis energy ana persistency,
which has alone made the ditch possi
ble. It cost $28,000, and is worth many
times the amount to tbe valley.
fendleton Blankets.
It is a pretty strong commentary on
Dallea push and enterprise to see blank
ets manufactured in Pendleton sold here,
yet this is what is being done. Two
hundred Indian blankets, fancy colored,
made by the Pendleton mills, were sold
here this week, and they were good
blankets, too. They should have been
made here. With six or seven million
pounds of wool to ship annually, and
unlimited water power, there is no ex-
case for tbis condition, renaieton is
awake to her possibilities and realizes
that for any town to grow it mast have
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Blackwell's
LL 'DURHAM.
You will nod one coupon Insldo each 3 ounce bag and two.eoupons inside each 4 ounce tag.
Buy a bag. read the coupon and see how to get your share of250,000 in presents.
ita "tin bucket brigade." Wages for
merly much higher here than in the
East have about reached a level, and
there is no longer any excuse for sending
our products East to have them manu
factured. We can do it 'ourselves and
we ought to see that we do. " We ought
to employ labor here instead of letting
our raw materials employ labor in the
East. When we do this The Daller will
take her proper place as the leading city
of Eartesn Oregon ; but until we wake
up and get a move on, we must be coo
tent to see our naigh boring towns grow
while we drift along in the same old rut.
WATERSPOUT AT DAYTON.
Water Bereral Feet HI eta and Narrow
Escapes From Death.
Much damage was done to gardens
and property in Dayton and coantrv
south of the city Monday afternoon of
this week, at which time an electric
storm, accompanied by a very heavy
rain in the city and cloudburst above
town was experienced, says the Dayton
Courier.
The electric current was seen playing
around the wires on Main street, and
the residence belonging to Nightwatch
Geo. Wick was struck, the current going
down the chimney and changing tbe
stovepipe from black to red in an in
stant. A daughter of Mr. Wick's was
quite badly stunned by the shock and
her flesh somewhat scorched, but she
was not seriously affected. Three other
children were in the house at tbe time,
bat were not disturbed.
In tbe apper part of Dayton much
damage was done to gardens through tbe
water from a supposed cloudburst com
ing down Van Patten's gulch and carry
ing everything in its course. Tbe water
was several feet deep along the gulch.
On what is known as the rocky grade,
about three miles above this city on the
main Toucbet, large rocks were rolled
down the hillside to the road below for a
distance of 300 yards or more along tbe
grade, completely stopping traffic- for a
while, and much of tbe grade, which
had just been widened, was washed
away.
Some grain is reported to be battered
down and destroyed, but it is thought
not to any great extent. Pioneers of
this section say Monday's rain was by
far the heaviest ever experienced in this
locality. Walla Walla Statesman.
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Oregon S. 8. Association.
We wish to call special attention to all
the friends of Sunday schools, that The
Dallea is to have one of the grandest
Sunday school meetings ever held in
thia city. Distinguished men and wo
men from Portland and other parts of
the state are to be with as and give ns
counsel on Sunday school work along
the lines of their own especial fitness.
One hundred delegates are expected and
The Dalles mast pat on her best attire and
receive these guests as becomes as, and
then be on baud at the meetings, to
which every man, young and old, will
be welcome. The evening sessions will
be especially enjoyable, and those who
are unable to attend the day sessions
will be welcome and will, we believe,
enjoy the erening services. Remember
the dates Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday of next week. E. H. M.
WE GUARANTEE OUR
Anti-Rust Tinware
Not to Rust, and we will Replace
Free of Charge
Any piece that does. This is the cheapest
and best Tinware to buy. Sold only by
MAYS & CROWE.
t''tV'4a'4sV''m'
This
is the
very best
Smoking
Tobacco
made.
Genuine
Found a Skeleton.
. While excavating for tbe new school
house yesterday the contractors, Miller
& Brown, unearthed a human skeleton,
evidently that of a white man. The.
bones were found at a depth of eighteen
inches, and the burial had been uncere
monious, there being no indications of '
a coffin. The skeleton was lying face
downwards, and was In a good state of
preservation. The skull is irregular
one side being abnormally developed,
and tbe teeth are all in place, being re
markably regular and Bound. Doctor
Hollister has the skeleton, and will keep
the skull.
No one knows anything of the body
having been buried at tbe spot where
tbis was found, and the condition of the
bones indicate that they had not been
buried more than seven or eight years.
It seems quite probable that the person
who living owned that skeleton, was
murdered and hustled out of sight.
Doctor Hoilister pronounces the skele
ton that of a man, and estimates the
age of the person at death at from 30 to
35 years.
Grand Lecturer I). C. Herrin.
A correspondent of tbe Baker City
Democrat, writing from Sumpter, speaks
very highly of the grand lecturer and
organizer of the A. O. U. W.,our towns
man, D. C. Herrin, and concludes bis
letter aa follows :
In such a telling way does Mr. Herrin
impress great trutba upon the minds of
his auditors. He does not descend to
bickerings over the merits or demerits of
rival societies, but his work is as broad
as humanity; and if perchance there
has been one influenced to join an insure
ance order by Mr. Herrin's potent words
who in some dark hour shall be called to
mourn tbe loss of their life companion,
I confidently assume he or she will not
call to mind anything Mr. Herrin said
about the superlative worth of the An
cient Order of United Workmen, but
that the lecturer so represented the un
certainty of life and its living, breathing
duties toward the loved ones in their
sacred charge, that he was induced to
take out insurance, and having done so
bless bim for being tbe instrument to
that end.
Notice to Taxpayers.
On and after July 1, 1897, costs will be
added for the collection of all taxes due
Wasco county on all delinquent roils
now In the hands of the sheriff. This ia
an imperative order from the county
court, and the sheriff has no option but .
to collect such taxes by levy on property
if not paid voluntarily by property own
ers. All parties concerned are hereby
notified that no leniency will be shown
in the collection of taxes' after July 1,
and that levy will be made on all prop
erty delinquent after that date.
T. J. Driver,
jl4-td SherifT of Wasco County.
DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned, J. E. Barnett and Dinsmore
Parish, heretofore doing, business aa
Barnett & Parish, have this day, by
mutual consent, dissolved.
All accounts against said firm shoald
be presented to J. E. Barnett, and eaid
J. E. Barnott is to collect all accounts,
notes and evidences of indebtedness ow
ing to eaid firm.
Dated at Dalles Jitv, wasco uonnty,
Oregon, this 17th day of Jane. 1897.
UI.SSMORK rAEUH,
jun25-4t J. E. Barnett.