THE DALLES WEEKLY CHEOHTCLE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28. 1897.
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LOCAL BBEYIT1KS.
Saturday's Daily.
We understand that .W. C. Langille,
who is at present running Cload Cap
Inn and bossing Mt. Hood, will, in com
pany with Joseph A. Wilson of Hood
Eiver, leave for the Clondyke some time
next week, being backed by Portland
parties.
It isn't the Clondyke that is exciting
Hood Eiver people, bat the grain fields
of Sherman county that dozens of them
Brfl B OA lr i nrr frt ocaiot; in f o fc-1 r n a m t
the immense crops. That's the- Clon
dyke they are looking for, and they have
one advantage over sold seekers, thev
can at least live on the golden grains
they secure'. .
CrOldendale has a poet preacher, one
of his poems appearing in the Agrical
tanet. Of coarse it is impossible to
jadge of his preaching by his poetry, bat
the poem printed brings to mind a criti
cism on Doctor Goode, who wrote a farce
which was a decided failure. An ac
quaintance wrote of him : '
"For farces and physle bis equal there
Scarce is.
1 His farces are physio, bis physio -A
farce la."
The Dalles National bank will pay a
dividend of twenty-five per cent aa soon
as the proper schedules and checks can
be prepared and returned from Wash
ington. It will be necessary, for every
person who has a claim against the bank
to prove such claim and receive a re
ceivers certificate therefore, before he is
entitled to a dividend.- It was thought
that no dividend would be declared un
til the time for proving claims - had ex
pired, on Sept 5th, bat the comptroller
of the currency has already declared a
dividend and other large dividends will
be made in the near future, provided
the debtors of the bank are prompt in
paying. If the persons owing the bank
will make a special effort to pay this
season, a very large percentage will be
paid to creditors this year. v-'
Monday's Daily.
Tfaraaet has falrli Kawnn anrl V.
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w ucak jticiu jo eAuecuiug mi estimates.
Christian Endeavorers are still crowd
ing the trains ' from San 'Francisco to
Portland. .
The Oregonian says Col. O. Summers
is certain to be appointed U. S. Marshal.
Its information is like some of that from
the Clondyke, probably ' received over
the grape-vine telegraph. .
The United States crop report, show
ing the relative condition of winter
wheat for Jane and July, gives the Jane
condition in Oregon as 100 and July as
92. This' is certainly a mistake. - The
conditions have not changed except for
the better. The July condition of win
KNOW
- A "good thing" when
Almost every one does.
STIC
and
in Dry Goods Window
The assortment includes all kinds light and dark
Prices for this week only.
PEASE. & MAYS
ter wheat is perfect.
The examination of -E. Simmons,
Brown and Robert Wilson is being held
before Justice Filloon this afternoon.
The examinations are being made separ
ately, but as one goes so will probably
all. Mr. F. W. Wilson is handling the
defense. ,
A man named Dalton has opened a
trail from-JDyea to Fort Selkirk, on the
Yukon. The distance is 350 miles, and
it is said the trail can be kept open and
traveled all winter. If this is true, it
will greatly leeeen the danger of starva
tion in the Clondyke this winter. -
. The bicycle path from Ilwaco to Sea
view has been finished. A neat trian
gular landing has been built at lhe end
ot the track, opposite the Ilwaco rail
road depot, for the accommodation of
riders, and railings are being put up
along the track at all dangerous places.
Captain McNulty brought the little
propeller Pearl up from Portland to Vi
en to Saturday. . She belongs to the Ore'
gon Lumber Co., and will .be used in
towing from the mouth of the Little
White Salmon to Viento. . Some of the
steamboat men thought she could not
stem the rapids below the Locks, but
Captain McNulty says she came through
like a bird.
George Manning, of Moore's valley, in
Tamhill county, while with two other
boys after a squirrel np a tree, drew a
gun toward himself, , muzzle first. :.. The
gun waa accidentally discharged, and the
ballet struck him near the right nipple,
and came oat back of the armpit. Be
yond a very ugly flesh wound, the in
jury was not serions, but it was a harrow
escape from a fatality.
The citizens of Marshfield,' Myrtle
Point and other towns in Coos county
have complained somewhat of a 'sugar
famine, bat Coqmlle has been worse off.
There there has been a shortage of flour,
sugar, batter, eggs and fruit . jars,' and
steamers and trains would jcome and go
without replenishing the stocks of flour
and sugar. , . - ., ... ' .
The Odd Fellows hall in Pendleton . is
being moved and the contents of the
copper box deposited in the corner-stone
of the building'May 8, 1879, have been
removed. The articles contained in the
box consist principally of a number of
coins, two business cards, several news
papers, a copy of the old constitution
and by-laws and the family record of
Lot Livermore. '
The grand lodge of the Degree of
Honor honored itself, as well as The
Dalles, in selecting Mrs. Briggs of this
city as its chief ofBcer. No better selec
tion could possibly have been made, for
besides being a woman of great energy
and business capacity, Mrs.' Briggs is
also deep reaeoner and an eloquent
speaker. If the order does not prosper
under her leadership, it will be indeed
strange. ..' ."
Heater's examination on a charge of
horse stealing occupied two days, and re
sulted in his discbarge. It seems there
was a dispute as to the ownesship of the
horse, which had belonged to a man
named Sterling, but which Parodi claim
ed had been turned over to him in pay
ment of a debt. The evidence for the
defense showed that Sterling had given
Heater permission to take the horse,and
hence he was discharged. - A complaint
was lodged against him of being drank,
and on this he was fined $25, which he
U settling by remaining la jail. -
Frank Stayers was found lying on the
see it.
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" 1.75 " 1.35
" 2.50 , " 1.80
" .2.50 " 1.90
" 3.00 K. . : " .2.40
" 3.00 " ' 2.60
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floor of Richardson's blacksmith shop
at Rainier, last Sunday morning, ' in an
nncoosciOB condition. He had been
worH&ifaB a blacksmith in Mr. Richard
son's shop for several weeks, and was
Bleeping in a loft overhead. To reach
his bedroom it was necessary , to ascend
a ladder about 12 feet, and then go on
the narrow walk over the joists to his
room. It is thought that daring Satur
day night he had attempted to go to bed,
and fell off the walkway to the floor.
He died of his injuries Tuesday. -
Arthur Perry, well known in Seattle,
has written friends in that place .irom
Dawson, under date of June 18th, saying :
The first discovery of gold on the Clon
dyke was made in August 1896, by
George Cormack. Then farther along
in bis letter he tells how 300 men went
in mid-winter from Circle City, and
adds a sentence that those going will do
well to ponder. He says, "the creek
was soon staked from one end to the
other, and all the email gulches were al
so staked and recorded." That part . of
th8 Clondyke story can be taken as be
ing absolutely true.
A little girl of F. Fielders was
drowned recently in Rogue river, neaf
the month of Jump-Off-Joe creek. It
seems the mother and two smaller chil
dren were sitting in the back of the
boat while she held the little ones in by
holding one on either side of her, when
the current whirled the boat around and
tipped the mother and both children
oat-into the water. Charles VanDorn,
who was rowing them across, and an
elder daughter of Mrs. Fielder's were
occupying the front of the, boat, and
they succeeded in getting Mrs. Fielder
and the eldest child out, but the baby
they were unable to eave. The child
was about a year and a half old,
- . Tuesday's Daily. ,
'. The grand council of the Redmen is
in session here, holding its first meeting
this morning.
The big green-coated' watermelon Is
Abundant, filling for The Dalles' small
boy a long felt want.
. The 6. K. & N. is having the depot
painted, a piece of work that has been
needed for several years.
The examination of the men charged
with robbing the Indians is still going
on before Justice Filloon. , It will prob
ably be completed today. ' - '
The salmon run is far from good, but
still much better than it was a week or
two ago. Seufert's wheel No. 5, caught
six tons a day or so since, and makes a
catch of a few tons every night.
Last night a ladles' gold ' watch : was
raffled off at the Umatilla house. There
were two hundred tickets in two series,
the watch being valued at $100. Harry
Liebe had a ticket that cost him 5 cents
and it 1b unnecessary to add he won the
watch. . -
- The Woman's Relief CorpB will give a
social next Saturday evening at Schan
no's Hall.' A good program is being
arranged. : Refreshments will be served.
Admission fifteen cents. ' As this is
purely a charitable organ Ization ' let
there be a good attendance. .
A feat in upper river navigation hith
erto nnacccomplished, waa the trip of
the Gypsy,? from Corvallis np to the
Wilbelm warehouse, Monroe,- says the
Corvallis Times.. ' This is eaid to be the
latest in the season that ' a boat ever
passed np the river so far. It was made
possible by the late work of the Math
loma in building wingdams where the
river channel has hitherto been too
shallow. The Gypsy brought down 60
bags of wool and 125 barrels of floor. .
. Judd - Fish telephoned down from
Cloud Cap today at noon, that the party
arrived there last night at -11 o'clock,
and moat o! ite members made the as
cent of the mountain today.' Judd has
no Clondyke fever and didn't care .to
sample mountain climbing by tackling
Mt. Hood. ;.
Mr. Fen Batty will not go to the Clon
dyke, at least until -next spring. Not
that he has changed bis mind, but
simply because he could not get passage
on the Elder, and be very eeneibly de
clines to start a week or two ' later.
There are quite a number of our people
who will go In the spring unless reports
at that time are discouraging. V
We know nothing about the merits
of the Pendleton Tribune squabble, but
we do know that McManus through ' the
columns of the Pendleton Republican is
yelping like a whole drove of Coyotes of
a winter night. With ' all the concen
trated and accumulated load of woes,
which he sings of, one would think . he
would go gunniug with a cannon for his
enemies. .
: The-Bonanza mine in the' Greenhorn
district, 50 miles west of Baker City, was
sold Saturday for $750,000. r Two years
ago it could have been bought for $100,
000, and five yeais ago its owners offered
it to the storekeepers of Baker City for
their indebtedness, about $30,000. The
mine has $3,000,000 worth of ore in sight.
and why its owners parted with it, is a
mystery. '' ... :
The reports from Skamania county's
mines aie not flattering. There seems
to be irom all accounts considerable
bodies of ore, hut it does not appear to
carry much precious, metal.' Every re
port that we have heard expresses the
opinion that ores are to get richer as the
depth is reached, but this is an open
question.. .Ore is just as likely to turn
poorer as to get richer, and if there is no
pay in the top the chances are against
the mines being a success.. The Caecade
range is a hard lot anyhow, difficult to
prospect, spotted and disappointing.
The contractors for the government
lighthouse at Westport have the founda
tion for the keeper's bouse about com
pleted. , The stonecutters will finish
their work cutting the stone for the light
house by the middle of the week. The
framework for the large water . tank . is
np. The foundation for the foghorn sta
tion is about completed. A large force
is at work clearing the ground and erect
ing the necessary buildings. On the
lighthouse itself excavation work has
been commenced, and the stone is al
most ready for the builders. The work
is being done in a thorough manner. -
Shot Br tbe Nlgbt Watchman. .
Last night about 10 o'clock Night-
watchman Wiley was telephoned to, to
arrest a man who bad been forcing bis
attentions on a woman going home from
the Salvation Army meeting. Wiley
responding found his man on Third
street in front of Gibons & Marden's of
fice. When he undertook to arrest him,
the man, who proved to be H. A. Mil
ler, engineer on the steam shovel for the
O. R. & N., resisted and commenced to
fight the officer, whom he struck over
tbe eye, making an ugly gash. Wiley
finding he was . being overpowered,
pulled his pistol and fired
It is presumed that Miller seeing tbe
gun turned to ran as tne bullet struct
him in the npper part of the calf of tbe
leg, coming out somewhat lower down.
This ended the fight, and Dr. Doane be
ing called soon discovered that both
bones were badly shattered. Miller was
taken care of and this morning sent to
the hospital at Portland. - The wound is
a very bad one and may result in ampu
tation It is said that Miller was intoxi
cated. He is a married man.
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relief in case of pain in the stomach,
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2. Because it is the only remedy that
never fails in tbe most severe cases of
dysentery and diarrhoea.
3. Because it is the only remedy that
will care epidemical dysentery. ,
4. Because it is tbe only remedy that
will prevent bilious colic.
5. Because it is the only remedy that
will cure chroic diarrhoea. -
6. Because it is tbe only .remedy that
can always be depended upon in cases of
cholera infantum.
. 7. Because it is the most prompt and
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I 8. . Because it produces no bad results.
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The 25 and 50c sizes for sale by
Blakelev & Houuhton.
Wanted.
Upright and faithful gentlemen or
ladies to travel for responsible, estab
lished house in Oregon. Monthly $65
and expenses. Position steady. Refer
ence, iDnc.oee self-addressed stamped
envelope. The Dominion Company,
Dept. H., Chicago. jy20-3td ,
Cash in Soar checks. .
All county warrants registered prior
to Feb. 1, 1893, will be paid at my
office.- Interest ceases after July 14
1897. ' C. L. Phillips, -
,. County Treasurer.
THESE BE WORDS OF WISDOM.
A Correspondent Slses Vp
' - - Situation. ':
tlte Pmsat
The Dalles, July 24, 1897.
Editor Chkomclb : "
"Two years will tell whether The
Dalles will become a city with a popula
tion of ten or fifteen thousand people, or
take a slip backward and be but an. in
terior trading point, doing less buainees
than it is today." This was the remark
made by a prominent businessman a
day or two since, and as be went on to
explain what be meant by bis words, it
struck the writer that it would be well
if they could be heard by all who look to
the welfare and progress of our city. It
cannot be denied that this is a crucial
point in the history of The Dalles. We
have come to the parting of tbe roads,
and achoice must be made which way we
will turn ; ' to stand still is impossible.
Tbe excellent editorial which appeared
in Thb Chronicle a few days ago de-
( scribes the situation exactly as it is, and
tbe same sentiments were well put forth
in a letter to tbe Times-Mountaineer,
appearing about the same time. ; "
To any .but a superficial observer the
building of the railroad from Biggs to
Wasco has a direct bearing upon the
volume of business now done at this
point. Farmers cannot be expected to
haul their produce and freight up and
down the wearisome grades leading to
the Descbutes river, when with the ad
vent of the railroad a few miles hauling
will do tbe work. And, in tbe matter
of supplies, The Dalles has growing com
petitors in territory she has heretofore
claimed exclusively aa her own. But
the worst menace co.nea from the pro
jected extension of the Wasco railroad to
the Antelope country. This will follow,
as a matter of course, and when it does,
with the erection of wool warehouses at
the end of the line, The Dalles may see
a considerable diminution in the volume
of its wool receipts, and a consequent de
crease in tbe amount of merchandise
and supplies sold. It is not wise to shut
one's eyes to a situation however un
pleasant it may be, and it seems but the
part of wisdom that efforts should be
made and plans considered for the pre
vention, if possible, of. tbe conditions
likely to result from previous inaction.
The writer does not mean to say that
The Dalles cannot continue in the road
of prosperity that it has heretofore trav
eled. Far from him is any such intention ;
but he does wish to call attention to
what has been a serions defect in our
commercial history. Tbe Dalles has
had a one-sided development. We have
paid exclusive attention to selling goods
to people from the interior, and have
entirely overlooked the fact that there
are other opportunities at oar feet which
could be improved ' without damage in
any other regard, and which would as
sure continued prosperity and increase
the city's growth till but a few years
would pass before we would be twice as
man v as that which now we number.
The city with the pay-rolls is the
place prosperity come to first and lingers
longest. - The Dalles is better situated
than is any city in the state tor the es
tablishment of industries which will
give employment to large numbers of
men and bring money from abroad to
the hands of energetic citizens. Oregon
City is looked upon as the manufactur
ing city, but The Dalles has every ad
vantage which . Oregon - City possesses
and many' more. Oregon City has a
woolen mill ; The Dalles has none. Yet
Tbe Dalles is, as is often reiterated, the
largest wool-shipping - point in the
United States. Salem has a woolen
mill; nearly a hundred men at work.
The Dalles sends wool to Salem and buys
its blankets. The little town of Dallas
has a woolen mill, a tannery and a box
factory. The Dalles has a flour mill and
a couple of box factories.- Pendleton
has a woolen mill and a sconring mill,
both of which were offered us and re
fused. . v
I will' not draw the painful contrast
futtber, only to add that this city has a
destiny which, if we will only make tbe
effort, will be a grand one. Let it be
known that we.want iudustries to come
here and will help liberally to establish
them. Then we can etand to lose a por
tion of our -trading country and still
progress and prosper. Let us not 'stand
around and say that "what this town
needs is a half a dozen first-class funer
als," bat let the Commercial Club per
form one of the chief objects for which
it waa lormed and see that another year
does not pass without there being estab
lished some industry with a pay-roll.
The future proimes us grand things
if we will only do our part. - C. D.
ROBBED AND BEATEN.
Three Indiana Attached on the Highway
by White Toughs. '
Tbe sheriff's office was filled this morn
ing with Indians, the causo being tbe
robbing and beating ef three of their
number by three white men'. The affair
occurred about 9 o'clock last night, and
as near as we can gather tbe particulars
from tbe Indians was as follows :.'
' An old Indian named Shorty was com
ing into town, and when near the old
slaughter bouse east of town he met
three men. One of them caught bis
horse's bridle while the others proceeded
to pall him off his horse. He resisted
when one of them struck him in tbe face
with a club, the' same being a dead
branch of a pine tree about two inches
through and about four feet long. Be-
ing knocked to tbe ground the party
went through his' pockets, and finding
nothing let him go. Soon after two oth
er Indians, George Peo, who owns
farm near Celllo, and Warm Springs
Loni, came by, when the men attacked
them. Peo was struck in the face with,
the club and knocked senseless, while
Loni waa also knocked from his horse.
The men then proceeded to go through
their pockets, getting from Peo $5, and
from Loni $2.50. Peo has a bad cut just
above the eyes three inches in length
and down to the bone, and another at
tbe corner of the right eye. The eye.
is bloodshot and badly injured. Loci
put up his arm to protect his face and
received a badly bruised arm and band,
besides several email cots in tbe face.
They reported the matter to Sheriff
Driver this morning, describing the men,
and it was not long before the sheriff
had the offenders in jail. They are E.
Simmons, Brown and Robert Wilson,
all of whom are identified by tbe Indians
as being the persons who robbed them.
The Indians here are peaceable, in
dustrious and law abiding, and that they
should be attacked upon the public high
way ana roDuea dv a gang ot toughs is
the very worst kind of an outrage.- It is
really a pity the affair did not happea
in Nevada or Arizona, where the Indians
do not appeal in such cases to the Jaw.
Piutes would make to the authorities
would be to let them know when tbey
were turned loose. As it is, if the of
fense is proven against them, they
should be given the full benefit of the
law. : - - ' - - .
. Alas, Poor Violet.
Recently at tbe Cliff House, San Fran--Cisco,
Violet Clewes, a young English
girl, drowned herself in the ead ealt sea.
She took off her skirt and tied one cor
ner of it full of sand ; the other corner
she fastened to her neck. Then with
trembling but nervy finger she wrote up
on the sand, "Violet loves kindness, and
she does not always get it in this coun
try." Then she waded out into deep
water in search of the kindness of the
other world. ' -':
One, at least, of our exchanges think
this story "pathetic." We must confess
it does not strike as that way, for we
can see no good and sufficient reason for
ber rash action. We all love kindness
just as ardently as poor Violet, and sad
to relate we can go Violet one better and
say we don't often get it. Is that any
reason we should go drown oar sorrows
beneath the restless waters of the oeean
and so pickle our misfortunes in brine?
Suppose Violet, before tackling that car
go of Band, had written "Violet loves pie
and she does not always get it in this
country." Would that not have been
equally sad, and much' more sentimen
tally pathetic? ' Pie is tangible and fill
ing. It is something whose presence can
be felt; its absence missed. It is a real
ity. Kindness is another matter, that
cannot be compared to pie as a filler of
long-felt wants. Looking at it from this
standpoint, we cannof but think that
Violet's action was rash and uncalled
for. She might at her age safely have
hoped to have struck a pay streak, a reg
ular Clondyke of happiness. Her taking
off was decidedly premature. - '.
Plenty of Indians.
The town baa been full of Indians all
day. . They began arriving . yesterday,
and this morning tbe number was large
ly increased by arrivals from the Warm
Springs. They came at the request of
one Harry Ueikes, who had . invited
them to take part in a Wild West show,,
which was to have taken place at the
fair ground today, bat which, owing to
the premature . departure of Heikes,
failed to materalize.' Heikes claimed to
have been with Buffalo Bill in his travels
through Europe, which statement has
some semblance of truth, for he can
drink in fifteen foreign languages, tome
of them dead. It seems that Heikes gut
np tbe scheme for the purpose of getting
credit at the eaJoons, a credit which he .
apparently did not allow to get lone
some. .
Among other things advertised in
the show, waa the holding np of the
stage, and Heikes fearing there might
be some bitch in the proceedings bad
prepared for it. He could have stopped
it with his breath. : He left two or three
days ago to avoid tbe rush today, and is
now no one knows where. The Indians
are a fine looking looking lot, all of them
being togged np in their : best blankets
and trappings,, while the sqnaws are
simply giddily gaudily dressed. Tbey
eeem to be having a good time, anyway,
despite their disappointment. ' '
Laylug- the Curaer-Stone. -
Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock tbe
corner stone of the Catholic church will
be laid with the usual ceremonies.
Right Rev. Archbishop Gross will be
present, and will be assisted by several
prieets from other points and Rev.
Bronsgeest.. The church will be a . very
handsome one, a credit to the city aa
well as to the denomination. Many in
vitations have been sent out and most
of our citizens will be present to do
honor to the occasion, and rejoice with
tbe Catholic brethren in tbe church's
prosperity. The ceremonies are very
beautiful and those who have never seen
anything of tbe kind will be greatly
pleased with them.
Yellow washing powder will make
your clothes the same color. Avoid
this by using Soap Foam. It's pure
white. a2-3m