THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, SATURDAY. JULY 17. 1897.
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
Wednesday a Daily.
A carload of cattle was shipped by Mr
Grimes to Troutdale this morning.
A dispatch from Geo. Herbert at La
Grande says folly 5000 people listened to
Bryan at that point this morning, and
that there was great enthusiasm.
This was ladies' day at the Umatilla
House alleys, they having possession
from 9 to 12. They were all delighted
with the alleys, though the largest score
made was 36.
The sheriff Monday sold the eJa ne),
ew ne, and lot 1, sec 10, p 1 s of
t 14 e, to satisfy a jadgmen. The prop
erty was purchased by W. J. Cesar, who
paid $875 therefor.
The Columbia Southern is pushing
work rapidly, and intend having the
road completed in time to move the big
grain crop. Superintendent Lytle goes
oat tomorrow to pay off the laborers.
The first engine is on the road and is ex
pected some time next week. .
. A whole carload of pianos and organs
are on exhibition at the Jacobsen Book
& Music Co.'s store, and will be sold
at
Ded rock prices, on terms to suit pur
chaser. For one week only in - order to
reduce stock, we will make it an object
for yon to purchase now. Call and get
our prices at once.
The great Christian Endeavor meeting
at San Francisco, the greatest of the
kind ever held, is over and the vast army
of visitors is now scattering to the points
from whence it came. Trains are
leaving San Francisco every half hour,
and many of tbein will make the return
trip by the Oregon route.
The Chinamen arrested for allowing
their fish wheels to run on Sunday bad
their trial before Justice Filloon and
jury yesterday afternoon and were ac
quitted. We have heard some criticism
of the verdict to the effect that the proof
was plain and the verdict unaccountable,
but know nothing of the matter person
ally. : .
-. Claude Gordion, while hauling brick
in a wheelbarrow op an inclined plane
at the Catholic church this morning,
lost bis balance and fell, wheelbarrow
brick and all to the ground, a distance
of nearly fifty feet.. He received a cut
on the side of his-head four or five in
inches long, but escaped otherwise on-
injured.
Quite a band of Gypsies crossed the
mountains recently by the Barlow route
and are headed, this way. They are of
no benefit to any community, and the
authorities will keep them moving. Oar
citizens will do well to give them no en
coaragement in any way, and at the
came time look closely after their chick
en coops and clothes lines.
One of the leading wool buyers esti
mates that about 2,500,000 pounds of
wool bave changed hands here to date,
and that this wek the purchases have
becu large. George A. Young today sold
his clip, amounting to over 60,000 lbs.,
at 12 cents. There are 5,000,000 pounds
more to be sold, and when all this is
turned into monev it ought to make a
sum large euough to be felt in business.
Mr. William Sheffield, city editor of
the Seattle Times, came up from Port
land last night to visit bis mother, re
turning this morning.- He is a Dalles
boy, having learned the printing trade
here in the old Wasco Sun office. He
went to the sound about 9 years ago, and
at once began to push his way to the
front in his chosen profession, news
paper writing. Being a Dalles boy be
was bound to succeed, and is recognized
as one of the brightest newspaper men
in oar neighboring state.
Thursday's Daily
The ladies of the Christian church will
give a lawn social on Uriday evening,
July 16th, at the residence of Mrs. James
in the old Gilbousen place. " Ice cream
and cake 10 cents.
' The first tramload of Christian En
deavorera on their way home irom San
Francisco, reached Portland Tuesday.
There were 4-50 of them, and the second
train arriving the same day swelling the
natnber to 1150.
Reports from the lower river are that
the run of salmon' is a good one and the
catch large. Here nothing is being done,
bat it is hoped, now that the water is
falling and getting clear, that next week
the ran will reach this point.
' Mr. Emil Schanno last week made an
extended visit through Sherman county,
and is deeply impressed with the suita
bleness of that section for fruit-raising.
He thinks all that is required is good
judgment in selecting a place for an or
chard and that success will be assured,
He was astonished at some of the or
chards be taw, and came home with
auite a different idea of that section as
an orchard country
there with.
from what he went
The corner-stone of the new Lutheran
church, on Union street, will be' laid
next Sunday at 4 p. m. The Revs. J
DeForest, W. C. Curtis and L. Grey will
officiate. The musical part of the pro
gram will be fine, All are cordially in
vited to attend.
Rev. C. H. Maxson, pastor of the Mich'
igan Avenoe Baptist church, Rev. J. C
Adair, pastor of the Grace Congregation
al church, and Mr. L. A. Burroughs
cashitr of Burroughs bank, all of Sagi
naw. Michigan, will be, the guests of
Rev. O. D. Tavlor Monday.
Monday the Oregon Mazamas leave
Portland for Taconia, where after having
a regular jollification the party will start
for Mt. Kanier. which they will under
take to climb. They will find that Mts
Hood and Adams, compared to it, were,
in the language of the day, "puddings."
A gang of about 30 gypsies are en
camped just outside of the city limits,
and there they will probably stay, or at
least that is as near town as they will
come. The city marshal notified them
that if they came into the town begging
and telling fortunes he would arrest
them, and that settles them. Their
leader stated he only wanted to remain
near town long enough to get a wagon
repaired, when they would move on.
The gang is on the way to Colorado, hav
ing left the main company, which is on
its way to California. .
Roland D. Grant, D. D., accompanied
by a party of 18 Harvard and Concord
people, will arrive here on the 23d and
will be the guests of Rev. O. D. Taylor.
The party comes to study the country,
and will remain several days. The water
power at Celllo will receive their atten
tion, and they will also examine into the
fruit and other industries. Rev. Grant
will deliver a lecture while here, it being
the same which he is advertised to give
before the Chautauqua at Gladstone Park c
Sunday, the 24th. The subject is, "The
Evolution of a Great General ; or, Two
Years With U. S. Grant."
Friday'sDaily. .
Auction sale
In front of Bayard's office
Tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon
At 1 :30 o'clock. Be there on time.
This has been a dandy day for cool,
and two for dust.
B. S. Pague, the weather observer,
last Tuesday said that Friday the wea
ther would change to cloudy . and coo'ler,
and he certainly called the turn.
To the program already published for
the teachers' institute, Composition,
Bookkeeping, General History and Phy
sical Geography have been added.
Remember that Frazier'e orchard,
which will be auctioned off tomorrow, is
one ot the finest sites in or around The
Dalles. Only twenty minutes walk
from the courthouse. -
Six young Lutheran ministers, gradu
ates Irom ; baginaw, have arrived in
Portland and will engage in missionary
work, establishing new parishes in the
Willamette valley.
Leon Rondeau came in from Tygh Val
ley this morning. He states that be has
wheat on his place 6 feet 5 inches high
that is beaded and filled perfectly. He
says that section will thresh the biggest
crop ever raised there,
By existing arrangements with the
publishers of the Weekly Oregonian, we
are enabled to club that excellent paper
ith the Twice a-Week Chronicle at
the low rate of $2.25 per year. Now is
the time to send in your names.
R. A. Millard was arrested yesterday
morning, charged with indecent expos
ure, and tried before City Recorder Sin-
nott yesterday afternoon. The recorder
took the case under advisement, and
this morning held the defendant under
$200 bonds to the grand jury.
The barbers have agreed to close their
shops Sundays and bave provided a pen
alty for anyone of the profession violat
ing the agreement to keep his shop
closed Sundays, the penalty beiDg no
less than a wine cupper for the balance
of the fraternity. As wine suppers come
high and shaving is cheap, it is not at
all likely the agreement will be violated.
Mr. Hugh Glenn arrived from Goble
last night, bringing a railroad surveyor
for the purpose of running out the
lines for the proposed railroad trim here
to the Deschutes. The object is to get
an accurate knowledge of the altitudes
and grades, and a rough estimate of the
cost of building the road.. The survey
will be made both to the mouth of the
Deschutes and up that- stream. By go
ing to the mouth of the river the road
would open the portage and make steam
boating on the upper river possible. '
Bao Francises Markets.
Trading in wheat continues to be slow.
Buyers bid lower, owing to the state of
the Englieh market. Very little new
wheat has been forwarded to tide-water,
holders being willing to bold back sup
plies until the season is further ad
vanced. Exporters seem to prefer oper
ating in new to old stock, and the in
quiry is decidedly in favor of the former.
The new season starts in with a compar
atively small amount of engaged ton
nage, which would indicate that the
earlier months will dtvelop a s'ow
movement, and that the position of the
trade is a halting one. Exporters evince I
a cautious disposition, as if to anticipate
wants' as little as possible, and that
there will be less of a speculative char
acter to dealing and more of a legitimate
business, based on a fair profit and
quick sales. At the Produce Exchange
the feeling was very conservative, and
operations largely guided by the situa
tion abroad,, to the neglect of local con
ditions. Quotations No. 1 shipping,
$1.22 ; milling, $1.251.30 per cental.
Child Study.
During the general discussion yester
day, the teachers considered child-study.
The subject was viewed both from a sci
entific or theoretical, and from a prac
tical standpoint. The United States
leads in child-study. The present de
cade will be acknowledged in history as
the period of psychological research, just
as the two preceding ones nave oeen
known as' evolutionary. The scientific
studv of the child was begun in this
country, in Boston. From there it has
extended to all the educational centers
of this country and Europe.
Some startling facts concerning the
contents of the child's mind on entering
school were discovered. It was found,
too, that just as the different faculties of
the mind have their periods of nascent
growth, so have the various organs of
the body. To exercise an organ or fac
ulty before it begins to develop properly
is to dwarf or stunt its growth. To de
lay its exercise till after the period of ac
tive growth is to waste energy.
When we know the periods of most
active development of each organ of the
body and faculty of the mind, and can
adapt to each of them the study or ex
ercise that is most conducive to its prop
er growth, we shall have a perfect peda
gogy, a complete science oi teaching,
While the average teacher in the schools
of Oregon may not be able to do much
along the line of scientific child study,
he can, at least, acquaint himself with
many characteristics of child nature,
and peculiarities of each child, that may
be of great assistance in properly direct
ing the young mind.
The teacher should know the physical
defects of each child, if there are such.
If any pupil has defective eight, it is
the teacher's duty to know what it is,
and endeavor to have it ' corrected, and
to provide the most favorable conditions
for it while in school. The same is true
concerning the hearing. Proper seating
and correct position should receive the
attention of the teacher.
Ti,e teacher should know :
First, the attitude of each pupil tow
ard school.
' Second, why this pupil cannot under
stand Arithmetic.
. Third, why that one does not like
Grammar.
Fourth, what are each pupil's likes
and dislikes. ;
Fifth, what each pupil thinks right,
what wrong.
Sixth, what the dominant idea of each
pupil is. L.
Kirn's Body Found.
After hours of labor the body of Kirn,
the Albina grocer, who fell over the pre
cipice at Mt. Hood, was recovered Tues
day night. W. A. Langille and five
others wtre six hours in getting the
body to the Inn. It lay in a very dan
gerous place, and had to be' dragged at
the end of a rope for quite a distance,-
before it could be picked up. It was
then carried for quite a. distance on a
litter, and finally was put on a. pack
horse. Had the body slid 40 feet further
U would have gone into a deep crevasse,
from which it could uot have been re
covered. Indeed it was only owing to the big
heartedne89 and intrepidity of Will Lan
gille that the body was eyer found, for
be risked his life in following Kirn's
trail to where be plunged over the pre
cipice, la no other waj could tne body
have ever been found. Coroner Butts
held the inquest, from which it will be
seen that Kirn fell not 400, but between
800 and 900 feet. The jury's verdict is
as follows : '
Cloud Cap Inn, July 13. 1897.
We, the undersigned jurors, duly
sworn by W. H. Butts, coroner of Wasco
county, to examine the body and inquire
into the cause of the death of one Fred
erick Kern, do hereby find that the de-ct-aeed
came to bis death by falling from
a point 400 or 500 feet from the summit
of Mt. Hood, a distance of 800 or 900 feet
to the head of the Newton Clark Glacier,
the same being on the southeast side of
Mt. Hood. The body was found lving
face down on the snow, with both legs
and bis neck broken and several bad
cuts on his head. We also find deceased
to be a resident of Portland, Oregon, oc
cupation unknown.
foreman, W. A. Lakgille,
D. R. Cooper,
S. B. Hess,
George Perkins,
Bert Stranahan,
Bert Sandman. ,
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If you have Loss ot Appetite, Constipa
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SWEPT TO HIS DEATH.
Frederick Kin Caught By
at Ava-
lanch on Mount Hood
Frederick Kirn, an Albina grocery
man, met a fearful death on Newton
Clarke glacier, on the north slope of
Mount Hood, yesterday afternoon. In
the ascent of the mountain he strayed
from the path and was caught by a mass
of sliding rock, which carried him 300
feet down the steep side of the mountain
to the brink of a cliff, over which his
body was plunged to the rocks, 400 feet
below.
Kirn left Portland late last week, and
reached Cloud Cap Inn Sunday after
noon, coming on foot from Hood River
In the afternoon he asked Mr. W. A.
Langille, of the inn, several questions
about the ascent of -the mountain, de
claring his intention to make it the fol
lowing day. He declined t tie services
of a guide. He had examined the road
with his field glasses, he said, and would
have uo difficulty iu following it all the
way. -
- He retired early and arose yesterday
morning at 4 o'clock, drinking a cup of
coffee - before he started on the climb,
which be did at 4 :30, all alone.
When at 5:30 yesterday afternoon
Kirn did not return, Mi. Langille be
came alarmed for his safety, and started
in search of him. He soon found that
he bad good cause for his alarm. Kirn's
trail could be easily followed to within
700 feet of the summit. At this point it
varies from- the regular trail, which it
bad thus far followed, and led away to a
treacherous, rock-covered district near
the head of Newton Clarke glacier,
Here Mr. Langille discovered to bis
horror that the unfortunate man had
been caught in a .mass of sliding rock
which he bad probably loosened with
bis feet, and bad been carried with
swiftly to the brow of a precipice below
over which the furrows made in the
snow by the small avalanche disap
peared. Working his way cautiously
and with the skill of the veteran mount
aineer that be is, to the edge of the cliff,
Mr. Langille saw the body lying among
the loose rock far below at the mouth of
the glacier. Kirn's death had been
swift and terrible.
It was then 8 :30 and growing rapidly
dark. Mr. Langille, being all alone,
could not bring the body back to the
inn. and after nightfall would bave had
to take desperate chances even to reach
it. Had there been any chance of the
man's being alive, he would have taken
the latter course, but no one could have
survived such a fall an instant.
He therefore returned to the inn and
telephoned the news to the police sta
tion. Uaptain Barclay, who was on
watch when the message came in, at
once dispatched Patrolman velguth to
Kirn's residence, 853 Albina avenue, to
acquaint bis family with his feaiful fate
The officer found Kirn's wife and daugh
ter, who at first refused to believe the
news. When they fully realized it, they
were prostrated with grief. C. R, Rie
ger, of the undertaking firm of Finley &
Rieger, who was the son-in-law of the
victim of the accident, was also notified.'
He will leave for Hood River today, and
bring the body back to Portland.
Kirn. bad:, lived in Portland a long
time, and was very well known. ..He
was well advanced in years, but was
vigorous and healthy. He left Portland
expecting to make the ascent of the
mountain Sunday and to return early
in the week. He little knew what
fate was in store for him. Oregonian.
Sam Farilsh Dead.
Samuel B. Parrish, ex-chief of police
of Portland, died at St. Vincent's hos
pital Monday afternoon, aged 59 years.
. Fifty-nine years is not a . long life, as
lives are measured in these days, and at
59 a man is not old. 1 Tet the 59 years of
Sam Parrish's life, measured by their
generous actions, their good deeds, their
love of his fellow man, cover a period
longer, much longer than is vouchsafed
most men to live. Measured bv the acts
of his generous right hand, that only
now upon the other shore the left may
learn ; the sorrow he has stilled, the
hopeless to whom he has given hope, the
poverty from which he has plucked the
sting, the tears of distress that his
princely hand turned to those of joy, he
died old and full of years. He bad bis
faults, for be was human ; but when the
angel of death put fingers on bis lips to
seal tli em forever, a Jbrave, a gentle, a
generous and a manly heart ceased to
beat. .
Coming around tbe Horn to Oregon
when but 2 years old, his earliest recol
lections were of Oregon. Among tbe big
hearted, broad minded, sturdy pioneers,
whose hearts as their doors were ever
open to each other, bis character was
formed, and in that noble forest of grand
characters his, too, reached upwards,
turning towards the sunlight, a ' noble
stem. He had a girl's sentiment,-' a
woman's tenderness, a boy's heart, a
prince's hand. His friends he fastened
to him with hooks of steel, and his ene
mies for such he had today can lift
their bate and -say, "There cracked a
noble heart." These be not idle words
of sentiment, or even fulsome praise of
the dead. . Living we could but think
thus of our old friend, but dead we are
permitted at least to mention a few of
bis many good qualities. Light rest the
turf above you, Sam, and so good bye,
until we meet again. "
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BURNED TO DEATH.
Two Children Lota Their Lives Three
Had a Very Narrow Escape.
A blazing cottage, the charred remains
of her two youngest children showing
through tbe smoke and flame as the roof
fell in, her three other children suffering
from burns, standing in their night
clothing, sobbing and wringing their
hands in dismayed agony over the fate
that bad overtaken their two youngest
brother's, such was the scene presented
to Widow Bessesen, of Linnton, as at
midnight last night she left a neighbor's
bouse and reached her own. '
The widow Bessenen's home is not at
Linnton proper, but some two miles be
low on the river bank, near the Phillip
poatofEce. Mrs. Bessesen bad been in
vited to spend the evening at a neigh
bor's some 300 yards distant from her
own home, where a pleasant festivity in
commemoration of some event in the in
viting family's household was to be cele
brated. Affairs of this sort are rare in
the sparsely settled section of country of
which Phillip postoffice is the. center,
and the widow accepted the invitation
with pleasure,
She is the mother of five children,
aged respectively 12, 9, 6, 4 and 2 years
of age. Carefully tucking the little ones
in their beds, shortly after 8 o'clock, she
started for the neighbor's bouse, antici
pating an evening of enjoyment, and be
lieving that her brood left at home would
as usual drop' off into the dreamless sleep
of childhood and continue to slumber un
til her return. .
The widow was mistaken. To cele
brate tbe Fourth of July the children
had been supplied with firecrackers.
These had not all been exploded on the
Fourth and what were left were etored
on the shelf of the pantry, much to the
chagrin of the children, who wished to
continue the shooting of the firecrackers
as long as one was left. The absence of
the mother gave them tbe opportunity.
Becoming assured that she had reached
tbe neighbor's house, the three elder
children stole out of bed and climbing to
the firecrackers, dragged them from tbe
pantry shelf and began exploding tbe
squibs in tbe kitchen. With the last
fuse lighted and the pop of the cracker
sounding, the children stole back. into
bed and were soon asleep. Shortly be
fore midnight the eldest child, a boy of
12 years, was awakened by the room fill
ing with smoke. Half suffocated, and
gasping for breath, the lad tumbled from
his bed and awakened'the two children
nearest him. By this time the lad was
dizzy and faint, and dragging tbe chil
dren after him, made his way toward the
kitchen door. As he reached the hall
the whole structure burst forth in flame,
and it was but by bis last effort that
young Bessenen managed to get his
brother and sister into the open air.
In the interior of tbe blazing structure
there yet remained tbe two baby boys,
4 and 2 years old. Tbe eldest boy made
desperate struggle to reach them
through tbe front of the cottage. He
was driven back by the flames and
smoke, his hands and face being badly
burned in the effort.
By this time tbe glare of the burning
home bad lightened the windows ot the
"It Don't Seem Like the
Same Old Smile."
r Say husbands, you will not have - occasion
to hum the above song, if you will come to
Mays & Crowe's and buy your wife one of
those elegant
BLUE FLAME OIL STOVES
They will do the work of any Cast Iron
Stove or Steel Range, and just the thing for
warm weather. The universal verdict of
those who have tried them is, "We would
not be without it."
MAYS & CROWE..
claim for other
iij " Just as
, Durham."
old smoker
ne coupon insida
bag, and two cou
end read the
gives a list
presents and iow
neighbor's house wheie sat Widow Bes
sesen enjoyinit herself. In a moment
the place was emptied, the frantic widow
leading tbe race across the 300 yards of
road to her blazing cottage. She arrived
just in time to catch a view of her two
babies, lying on their cots, the angry
flames curling about them, and then the
roof fell in, burying tbem beneath a
mass of blazing rafters and shingles,
from which, when extracted, it is prob
able nothing but a few charred bones
will remain. Telegram.
The Teachers' Institute.
The Dalles. July 14, 1897.
Editor Chronicle :
The cool weather was very favorable
for the institute work yesterday.
After singing, the roll call showed
three new names, Nellie Hudson, Dufur,
W. H. Walker, Wamic, Maggie Merrill,
Aloro. balina rbirman a name was
omitted in tbe fortner list. Grace Smith,
of Kansas is visiting tbe institute.
- The state teachers reading- circle is
now conducted by the state university,
and has adopted Matthew's American
Literature and . White's Elements of
Pedagogy as . tbe text books, which are
also used at the institute. This will
materially benefit those who wish to
pass the examination and receive a di
ploma. Iu tbe general discussion today on
"Preparation of the Teacher" the idea
that anybody can teach was considered
too low a standard, while tbe .ideal
teacher is not always attainable. All
agree, however, that before entering
upon tbe direct work of teaching, the
following preliminaries demand atten
tion : .
First, the teacher needs to have a
thorough knowledge of tbe branches to
be taught as well as a fair knowledge ot
the cognate branches. Efficiency in
Algebra and Geometry aids in teaching'
Arithmetic. . '
Second, one of the most important
lessons that the teacher must learn is
self-control. If he does not possess this
he is like anything else that is un
trained, like a troublesome child.
Third, study of the nature of tbe child .
and the principles of mental develop
ment. Fourth, daily preparation for the
work. Teaching is the art of human de
velopment. The teacher needs to re
view, observe,' read, think, practice.
Fifth, self culture and association of
teachers for mutual exchange of ideas.
Tbe cheerfulness, the vigor, the versa
tility and the endurance essential to
euccese can come only of good health.
No Shaving- Sundays.
We, the undersigned, wish to announce
to the public that we will close our re
spective places of business on Sundays.
H. D. Parkins,
BeabdslbyA McCoy,
Chas. G. Stacby,
F. Drews,
Tom McCoy,
Frazer & Lynch,
E.'M. Warren,
J ABED S. PlNTLER.
A Great Barg-alo.
From now on until all are sold, 50
will get a large-sized Chicago Cottage
organ at Jacobsen Book & Music Co.,
The Dalles, Or. jyl6-tf