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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST .11, 1897.
Talking About Shoes'
Traveling Bags & Grips.
A Cnmplrt Lino of Leather
and Wicker Grips.
. Traveling; Bags and Telescopes
Leather Grips at from $1.60 to 7.50
Wicker Grips at from 50 to 1.25
Wicker Telescopes at from 30 to 75
These goods are displayed
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LOCAL, BREVITIES.
Saturday's Daily. " "
Wm. Allen, brought ia from Dry Hoi
low, was examined by Recorder Sinnott
and Dr. Hollister this afternoon and ad
judged insane,.
We notice in many of the ehade trees
nests of caterpillars. Borne effort should
be made to destroy them. The trees on
Court street, between First and Second,
are badly infected with them.
One of the most delightful places on
the Colombia is the Jewett farm at
White Salmon. The views are magnifi
cent, the fishing good, while the table
is supplied with every delicacy. Bates
from $5 to $7 per week.
H. H. Bailey, Harry Bailey and John
Beed went to Mt. Hood last week and
retnrned by way of Cascade Locks, fol
lowing the mountains and going west of
Mt. Defiance. Tbey discovered seven
lakes on their way and a four-foot vein
of coal. Glacier.
Tuesday evening, in Eugene, little
Frances White, S years old, while prep
arations for putting her to bed were be
ing made, fell from a window to the
ground, a distance of fifteen feet. She
lit on ber bead and shoulders, but was
not eeriouely injured.
Mayor Nolan celebrated his birthday
aet night with the assistance of a num
ber of friends. ' The ice cream being
frozen couldn't flow, but wit did as it
always does where Nolan is, and the
party broke up at a late hour, wishing
our good mayor enough more birthdays
to .last a lifetime.
Mr. Rockefeller owns property at Tar
rytown, N. Y., which has been assessed
at $2,883,805. He claims this is excess
ive, and consequently has ordered the
property sold. There ia one thing cer
tain about that piece of property, and
that is that no poor man will have to
pay the taxes ou it. V
President Thos. M. Gatch. with Mrs.
Gatch and their daughters, Claire and
Grace, arrived . in town on Tuesday's
train to take up their abode with us.
They will live in the Hadley hoasefor
roerly occupied by President Miller. It
is a lovely place in a beautiful location.
We welcome President Gatch, and ear
nestly hope that bis stay among us may
be as pleasant for him as it will no
doubt be useful as well as pleasant for
B8.--CorvalliB, Or., Union. '
The farmers around Lebanon, in Linn
county, have a double harvest. When
the grain is harvested they haul their
straw to the paper ' mill and receive 10
cents a hundred pounds for it. An or
dinary team can draw 4000 pounds or
more at a load, bo, instead of burning
their straw, they make $4 a day haul
ing it to the paper mill. The putting
away of the straw in sheds and stacking
'V We have decided to close out our entire line of
Ladies' Ox-Blood and Tan Iiaee and Button Shoes,
That sell regularlyfor from $3 to $5, at
Until sold out. They will not last long at this price,
and first comers have . first ' choice. Displayed in
center window. : . . - :
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PEASE
it gives employment to some thirty or
forty men at $1.50 to $1.75 per day. The
work of getting in the straw began this
week. ' s '.
Col. Hartley went to The Dalles Tues
day to help Mr. Andrews load some cat
tle for shipment on the cars. Being
short a few bead, he hired a livery
horse and went out towards Mosier to
purchase enough to make up the carload.
While leading a steer with a rope, the
rope got under his horse's tail and the
horse commenced to buck and fell with
i him on a side bill, rolling over Col.
Hartley. He was picked up insensible
and for two hours was blinded. He
came home on the boat next day and has
since felt pretty well used np, but is
around as usual. blacier. .
July 17th Mrs. Charles M. Riddle, of
Whatcom, gave birth to the smallest
child ever born in Whatcom county;, it
was a boy and he tipped the scales at
exactly pounds about the size of a
pint of cider. ' The boy is now growing
in strength and activity at a delightful
rate, as bright as a canary and attractive
as a cricket, but he has grown very little
in size, although he ia now half a month
old. . He wears a doll dress of very
clever make, and were it not for his
playfulness and activity, might easily
be mistaken for a late creation of the
ingenious toysmith, says the Seattle
limes.
Monday's Daily.
The .slate todav selected 200 acres of
lieu lands in this district.
A train of nineteen cars loaded with
wool, left this morning over the O. B. &
Nr for Boston. .
' Marshal Lauer has done good work on
the Methodist hill, and in a few days
that street will be in first-class condi
tion. Japan twenty-five years ago had only
one newspaper, now it, has " more than
2000. No wonder that nation ia getting
"sassy." - . .
Congressman Tongue baa arrived
home from Washington, bat so far has
refused to be Interviewed by newspaper
reporters upon any subject.
Senator Mitchell Is said to be on his
way back to America, he having been
called to France on account of the seri
ous illness of Mrs. Mitchell. .
The weather forecast for tomorrow is
fair," the officials declining to venture
an opinion concerning the temperature,
so just to keep the thing going, we will
guess that it will also be cooler.
Mr. O. W. Cook and family came in
from the Meadows yesterday, bring
ing the very gratifying news that Mrs.
Bolton is improving rapidly, having so
far recovered ' as to be able to talk a
little, v ' - ; - " '-
Fred Young arrived this morning from
the East, bringing with him a carload ot
thoroughbred Shropshire bucks, which
were purchased at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Tbey are at the Saitmarahe stockyards,
and are a very fine lot. . t "
Following are the daily bowling scores
at the Commercial Club alley last week :
Monday, V. Schmidt 44; Tuesday, H.
Fredden 48; Wednesday, M. G. Robin
son 39; Thursday, Maude Knhne 85;
Friday, M, A. Robinson 42; Saturday,
HoBtetler37. ."' C '.
The executive committee in the mat
ter of the firemen's tournament,' met
yesterday afternoon and ' outlined the
work of the different committees. To
day the committee on providing the
finances ia out collecting and has, no
doubt, met with liberal responses. The
firemen are determined to make the
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tournament a success, a feeling which
all who have a pride in our city will in
dorse, not only in sentiment but with
coin.
Superintendent Gilbert has asked us
to state that applicants for state diplo
mas and state life diplomas must pre
sent themselves at the next quarterly
examination, Thursday morning next,
at 8 o'clock. This is required of them
by the school laws.
The Grant's Pass Observer says Joe
Ervin, who baa been left In charge of
the Oregon Bonanza group of mines on
Williams creek, and has just completed
a email millrun of ten tons ot rock, came
into Grant's Pass the 14th with 63rf
ounces of gold, worth about $1000. .
v The Grande Rondo Lumber Company,
at La Grade, is shipping out lumber at
the rate of 250 cars per month. The total
shipment of railroad ties by this com'
pany up to date is 70,000. The ship
mentof ties and lumber by the company
for the month of July represents a value
of $50,000.
The Spokane train, as well as the reg
ular O. R. & N., was late yesterday
morning. Seyeral Christian Endeavor
ers who expected to go down on the
early train and catch the Northern Pa
cific leaving Portland about 11 o'clock.
were sadly disappointed, being thrown
a day behind their friends.
Gerald Griffin, writing to the San
Francisco Examiner from Dawson City,
June 26th, says there are 4000 people
there, and the output this year will be
$5,000,000. This would make $1250 for
each man for the year, and as it is esti
mated to cost $750 a year for expenses,
would leave $500 a year, clear.
Almost every field of grain in Kittitas
county is now said to be beyond any
possibility of damage. Cutting has be
gun, and next week will be under way
generally. There is a scarcity of har
vest hands over the country. The yield
about Waterville and Bridgeport is
placed at fully 1,000,000 bushels.
Although but little wheat has been
sold here, or few offers made, the price
bids fair to start well up, and to remain
in that position for the season. One
wheat grower, who raises several thous
and bushels, tells us he was offered 75
cents a bushel this morning for his en
tire crop, to be delivered in September.
The Poblen brothers, who live on
Windstone creek, in Lewis county, were
arrested last week for assaulting and al
most killing George, Hill, their nearest
neighbor, and a brother to State Sena
tor Joseph Hill. This ia the second time
they have been before the court for as
saulting Hill. It is said that Hill is in
a very critical condition, and may not
recover.'
The last stragglers of the great Chris
tian Endeavorer meeting in San Fran
cisco have taken their departure for the
effete East, their tickets being limited
to the loth. They have had an expe
rience, and go home with a better idea'
of the United States, its size and possi
bilities than they had before. It has
been a great object lesson, and will do
much towards increasing not only the
number of those visiting the Pacific
coast, but those- coming to. make their
homes here.
Gerald Griffin, writing from Dawson
City, on the Clondyke, under date of
June 26th. says in the Examiner: "I
venture to estimate the season's output
of gold from placers in the immediate
neighborhood of Dawson at five million
dollars. Some here say ten million dol
lars would be a closer estimate, but I
think there Is a local tendency to brag.
Dawson haa grown like a mushroom
since the news of the richness pf the
mines has reached the other diggings.
Nearly four thousand persons are living
here at present, and men are streaming
in as rapiiliy as possible. We have a
notion in Dawson that by the 'close of
the autumn there will be ten . thousand
inhabitants of the town."
Mr. Biggs came home from a visit to
Sherman county' yesterday. He reports
the crops, all except some very late
grain, as beyond any possibility of dam
age from heat or wind. Harvesting is
well under way, and some wheat haa
already been bauled to market. The
crop is turning out even better than was
expected, and the estimate of 3,000,000
bushels will, it anything, be too low.
The Columbia Southern railway is making-rapid
progress, and it is expected
the road will be completed 'by Septem
ber. - Wheat dealers, hare already
bought lots adjoining the survey, on
which' to erect platforms, and by the
time the road is completed the platforms
will be built.'
:' , Tuesday's Daily. '
Quite a party of picnickers went up
Mill creek today in Ward & Robinson's
wagonette.
.Wool is changing fiands slowly, there
still being quite a largu quantity in first
hands. The balers are- busy getting
that purchased in shape for shipment.
The monitor Monterey, which has
been at ; Portland for nearly six eeka,
has received ordera to go to Seattle, and
left this morning in obedience tnereto.
Several big teams were loading mer
cbandise at the Wasco warehouse thin
morning when our reporter visited that
section. The goods were going to Prine
ville, Antelope and Mitchell.
- The galvanized iron tops for the
steeples of the Catholic church came np
on the Dalles City last night. Work on
the church building is progressing rap
idly, and it will not be long until it is
ready tor use. -
A young Philadel phian was arrested
for scorching. His excuse was that it
was getting late, be was going to see his
best girl, and that the constitution guar
antees the right ot liberty and the pur
suit of happiness.
Pat Flannigan, - deck band on the
Dalles City, and William Dunn, pilot of
the lone, had a circus in Portland Sun
day, slugging a lot of bystanders, and
finally getting slagged themselves and
"thrown in" besides. .
William Crawford, who lives on the
other side of the Columbia, while fool
ing with a shotgun Saturdav, managed
to get the muzzle towards him, when it
was discharged. Fortunately the shot
missed him, but the powder got in its
-work on his face.
The close season for salmon begins to
day according to law ; but practically
the salmon have been observing it all
summer. The catch has been about the
poorest ever known, and unless the fall
run proves good, Dalles salmon will not
cut much figure for the year 1896.
the scores at the Umatilla House
bowling alleys for last week are remark'
ably good ones,' and are as follows
Monday, C. E. Porter 59 ; Tuesday, H
Maelz 61; Wednesday, F. Jobson 50;
Thursday, Estabenet 59 ; Friday, Uiu er
52; .Saturday, J. S. Fish 51; Sunday,
Estabenet 46.
From records extending back to 168o
M. Camilla Flammarion finds that the
rainfall of Paris has gradually ' increased
about three inches, being now a little
more than 22 .inches a year. ' ' The
amount of difference seems to indicate
that the increase is real and not due to
greater accuracy of observation.
The took-him-for-a-deer hunter has
been oat gunning near Grant's Pas.
His name ia Kirk, and the man whom
be took for a deer, and who is now
dead, waa named Edward Jones. It is
strange that a man who couldn't hit a
barn usually, can take a ' pop-Bbot into
the brush and get his victim every time.
The killing occurred Monday.
George Brown is the happy owner of
a pistol that he purchased at a second
hand store. It is of the revolver style,
somewhat resembling the old Colt, but
is a eelf-cocker and weigba " something
less than a six-pounder cannon. It
would be a handy weapon if a m in were
traveling on a steamboat, where he
could ehip it as freight, but for land one
would require the services of a pack-
horse. .
The directors of the great Siberian
railway are already figuring on a time-
card from London to Vladivostok, which
will go into effect July 1, 1901, or in less
than four years. The distance from
London to Tcheliabinsk, where the Si
berian railroad actually commences, is
in round number, 3000 - miles. From
that point to Vladivostok is 5800 miles;
or a total of 8,800 miles. The trip will
take twelve and a half days, and the
speed will be thirty miles an hour.
The O. B. A N. Co., under the receiv
ership of Major McNeil," prospered as
never a railroad' prospered nnder like
conditions before, and the good. work
done by him will bear fruit for a long
time. The present manager, Mr. Moh
ler, is following the liberal course pur
sued by his predecessors, and the road
is steadily ' increasing . its business.
When the wheat crop JbeginB to move
there will be such a rush of business as
the road baa never seen, and every loco
motive and car will be pressed into ser
vice. It will take a train an hour for
months to move the immense crops' --
The oldest married couple in trie
world ia Mr. and Mra. Hiller. - The aged
people reaide near La Grange, Indiana,
he .being 107 and she 105 yeare old.
They have been married 87 years, their
oldest child being 82 and the youngest
57. A better idea of what his age means
is conveyed in the statement that he
was 22 years of age when the warot
1812 was declared. '
Thursday morning, about 9 o'clock,
while quite a number of people were
standing on the Nail Works' and Mer
chants' docks in Everett, a monster
whale passed within a few feet from the
docket E. E. Carter and wife,B. W.
Sherwood, Elmer Goldthorpe and others
who 8a w It say it was about sixty feet in
length. . Quite a number of shots were
fired at it, but took no effect. Some of
the mill bands from Bell's mills got into
boats and gave chase, but before they
could get near it it took to flight and
waa lost to view. Othera who saw it de
clare that it was not a whale, but a large
sea serpent. '
The committee appointed to solicit
lands for the firemen's tournament yes
terday, did not meet with as liberal re
sponses as it expected and today felt
somewhat discouraged. Our people
should take a broad view of the matter,
and recollect that they are not giving,
bnt are only paying a small sum for the
protection the fire department gives
them. If the department ia tobe.kept
up, itahduld be encouraged, or it will
go to pieces. The . money contributed
will be left here and much more with it,
and it will be a short-sighted policy in
deed if the tournament is allowed to fall
through for lack of funds. '
A difference of opinion as to whether
the father or mother should have pos
session of a young child, caused consid
erable discussion this morning on the
bill, it taking a range wide enough to
include the kicking in of a screen door
by the child's mother, and her subse
quent arrest." Family troubles are bad
enough, without being vented in the
newspapers, hence we refrais from giv
ing names. The lady in the case, waa
accompanied by another, and it ia eaid
that it waa not entirely a motherly
"spirit" that caused the rumpus. The
other lady was fined $5 by the city re
corder this afternoon, and the tother one
is still in jail.
A driver of a truck in Salem Saturday
night met with a serious mishap, which
enme very near proving ' fatal. The
man, whose name could not be learned,
had unhitched bis team in the barn of
the Salem Improvement Company, and
waa in the act of stripping the harness
off one of the horses, when the animal
kicked him, both of its hind feet strik
ing the man's breaBt just below the
heart. The physician, who was called
to dress the injuries, said that the only
thing that saved the man's life was the
fact that he stood so near the horse as
to make it impossible for the animal to
mnch more than push him, while, if he
had been further away, the probabilities
were that bo would have been killed by
the kick. '
. FIREMEN'S MEETING.
Arrangements for tne Tournament Are
v . All Hade.
"Pursuant to the call of the board of
fire delesates there was a meeting of the
fire department at the council chambers
last night, at which the following pro
proceedings were bad, Chas. F. Lauer,
president of the board, presiding. The
object of the meeting was the discussion
of the coming fire tournament, the per
fecting of arrangements for the same,
and the collecting of the money neces
sary to a successful meeting.
The foremen of the diffierent com
panies, together . with the chief, were
appointed an executive committee to act
in conjunction with the committee ap
pointed by the chief, and to have com
plete supervision of all matters pertain
ing to the tournament. There was
plenty of enthusiasm, and an avowed
determination to 'make the tournament
a grand success. '
Upon the adjournment of the meeting
the ' committee met and elected H. J.
Maier chairman, R. B. Sinnott secre
tary, Grant Mays treasurer.
Committees were appointed as follows :
Invitation Capt J W Lewis, N J Sin
nott and W H Butts.
Transportation L E Crowe, Joe
Worsley and J 8 Fish.
Music F H Van Norden.
Advertising G W Phelps, J Weigie,
A Sandrock,
ReceptionW 8 Fish, T A Ward, M T
Nolan, Max Vogt, Jr, H J Maier.
Entertainment Mayor ISolan, Ex-
Governor Moody, Judge Bradshaw, Sen
ator J Michell, Hon A 8 Bennett. Sena
tor E B Dufur, Hon B S Huntington,
Hon J F Moore, Hon F A Menefee, Hon.
W H Wilson, Judge Mays, Judge Blake-
ley, Hon Wm Biggs. Mr H Herbring,
Mr J T Peters, Mr. J P Mclnerny, Mr
A Bettingen.' . ; 'x
The committee appointed by the chief
was aa follows : ' R B Sinnott; Jackson
No 1 ; Grant Mays, Columbia No 2 ; St
Arnold, East End No 3; J J Wiley, Mt
Hood No 4 ; F H Van Norden , Hook and
Ladder ; J STish, H J Maier, A Sand-
rock, T A Ward, H L Kuck, J W Lewis.
The Pendleton Wool Scouring Co. ad
vertise elsewhere that they wiah to pur
chase tallow. . ju!30-lw .
CLONDYKE FARMING.
How a Farmer Made S35.000 In Eifbt-
e Months Kalslns; Wheat.
Eighteen months ago a certain farmer, .
who trades in Pendleton, lost bis land
by foreclosure of the" mortgage upon it
and found himself with some farming
machinery, horses and wagons, which,"
he hardly knew what to do with. The
idea occured to bim to rent' some reser
vation land and make one more attempt
at raising wheat. He did so and at
once set to work to put about 2000 acres
in uhABt llia nt f.ll T.T , 1 -
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sistance from a friend who had more
confidence in the farmer than the farmer
had in himself. :; The land was thorough- ,
ly worked and the wheat well put in.
The favorable season came, and with it
came a great crop and a great price.
The result is the farmer finds himself.
after paying all expenses, with wheat on
hand worth at least $35,000. "Within
another sixty days he expects to have
Ua nkiuil .aIJ .1 L. ... J . -
iud nuwt sum huu iriiu buui umueu iv
his credit in bank, and if he should get,
7K Ann.B 1 U .. 1 t Z. I 111 -
it wuw uuoiici lur. it, ua win uayo
$,uuu as me prone oi a year ana a nait
of bard work. : , . : ..
. But this iann exceptional year. Clon
dyke farming in Eastern Oregon dates
i . on. m, i a
iruui losi. Aiivre are over one nunureu
farmers in Umatilla county who have
cleared this season from $7000 to $35,000
raising wheat. East Oregonian. '
A Descendant of Rome. -
An Italian, a hand organ and a monkey
formed an attractive combination for the
little folks on the streets today, and for
that matter for many of the grown peo- -pie,
for wherever the combination
stopped quite a crowd gathered. .The
man was short and swarthy, the hand
organ loaded to the guards with Dixie,
and Ta-ra-ra-ra, you know the rest,
which it turned loose in great chunks of
heart-rending discord, and the monkey,
as most monkeys are, waa a dirty little
thing, but bad a pathetic, half-ashamed
look about it, as though it realized the
depths to which it had fallen. It was
intelligent and cunning and was really
the cause of the crowd gathering, aa it
waa full of surprises filling Joeh Bill
ings description that "you - never knew:
what it was going to do next." .
Rome sent her legions, in her hour of worth,
To grind opposing nations to the earth.
Now in the race, though left so far behind,
She sends her legions forth to Bim ply grind.
James M. Smith Dead.
We learn today of the death of James
M. Smith, who died at Seattle Satur
day, July 31st.
, Mr. Smith waa for many years a resi
dent of this city, and one of its most
progressive and energetic citizens. He
was proprietor of the flour mill situated
near the Mill creek bridge, and which
bnrned down, if we remember correctly,,
in 1888. He left The Dalles soon after
that, making his home in Seattle, "where
he invested largely in real estate, and
could have sold out during boom times
for a very large sum. The re-action
left bim with lota of property orf bis
hands, which ia now rising in value.
Mr. Smith i was a large hearted, kindly
man, and many friends here will learn
with genuine sorrow of hia death. '
Wonders of Science. ' .
August C. .Kinney, M: D., writing
to the Oregonian, says:
But now, the latter-day science is un
folding many - revelations. We kuow
that the horse and its kind are cleanly
and aa a choice of food as are the cattle...
We have ascertained it to be a fact that
tbe horse is almost entirely free of that
dread disease, consumption, which ia so
very frequently found in cattle. Our
bodies demand a meat food to a certain:;
extent. Horse meat ia . wholesome and
generally free of disease. So I think tbe
time is coming when there will not be so
much prejudice against ita use aa a food
as at present.
What science -has to do with tbe
startling discovery that "the horse and
its kind are cleanly and choice of ita
food," is for the doctor and science to
explain. - .
v The University of Oregon '
At Eugene opens Sept. 20! h. Gradu
ates from accredited schools who have '
completed work amounting to thirty .
credits are admitted without examina
tion. Incidental fee $10 a year; tuition
free. Complete . courses leading to
Bachelor of Arte, Bachelor of Science,
Bachelor of Letters and excellent
courses in civil and electrical engineer
ing. Also good instruction inrmusic
Board for young men in tbe dormitory
at $2.50 per week with lodging, heat and.
light. ;
Catalogues furnished free on applica
tion to . - J.J.Walton,
Secretary Board of Regents,
a'9-lt 'Eugene, Oregon. .
Largest Tlold.
E. H. Linsner is farming a . half sec
tion ofland for ex-Judge Jaa. A. Fee,
eight miles east of Pendleton . on tho
reservation. The threshing of the wheat
ia now on. The 320 acrea will average
49 bushela to the acre. One 40-acre tract
heada the record so far in thia section,
averaging 63 bushela to the acre. The
land waa formerly owned by . Jacob
Bobbins, receiver of the La Grande land
office. East Oregonian.
Hundreds of thonsanda have been in
duced to try Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy by reading what it haa done for
othera, and having tested ita merits for
themselves are today ita warmest friends.
For sale by Blakeley & Hongbton.