THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 18. 1897.
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Traveling Bags Giis &.
A Complete Line of Leather
end "Wicker Grips.
Traveling- Bags and Telescopes
Leather Grips at from $1.50 to 7.50
Wicker Grips at from 50 to 1.25
Wicker Telescopes at from 30 to 75
These goods are displayed
in our furnishing goods
window.! ...
ALL GOODS MARKED IN
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We have decided to close out our entire line of
Ladies' Ox-Blood and Tan Laee and Button Shoes, p
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ICLE," The Dalles, Oregon.
then prosperity is advancing with giant
strides upon Skamania county.' Before
the Board of Equalization, 'Wednesday,
agents of the Oregon Lumber Company
insisted' that the east side flame at
Chenowith was practically of no value,
and induced the Board to cut down the
assessment from $1500 to $700 but the
very next day the price of that same
j flame jumped to $4000, as evidenced by a
letter from them to a would be purchas
1 er. Surely prosperity is coming. Ska
! mania Pioneer.
Telephone No. 1.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Saturday's Daily.
"Oh, hear my pleal" the lover cried,
"And, II you do not yield,
I'll pull my freight direct and straight
For Klondike's frozen field.
Mayhap in that bleak atmosphere,
I'll perish with the cold,
Or yet 1 may come back some day,
With barrels full of gold!"
"Go get the gold," she said, "and when
You's got it, tackle me again."
. Denver Post.
The telephone to Goldendale was com
plete this week.
Wheat took a jump in Chicago Thurs-
. day from 81 to 84.
It Is rumored that President Chap
man, of the state university, has re
signed.
Senator McBride is not in Portland,
as has been reported, but is tinder his
' physician's care in New .York City. '
Umatilla county will send an exhibit
to the Spokane fruit fair. Wasco county
would be benefited by following this ex
ample. The city recorder's office, that can
usually be depended on for a small local
or two, has gone back on the newspaper
fraternity, and, like every other source
of news, has run dry.
' The Populists of Ohio, by an over
whelming vote at their recent state con
vention, refused to fuse with the De
mocracy, and nominated a full state
ticket with "Keepoff-the-Grass" Coxey
for governor. ' The Ohio Populists are
getting particular about their associates.
'Chauncey Depew has written a
"poem." As one peruses its baiting
lines, doubt is forced into ones mind
' concerning his ability as an after din
ner speaker, but perhaps Chauncey
- wasn't full of champagne when be wrote
the poem. He. certainly wasn't fall of
ideas. ..
It would be interesting as an experi
ment to hold one of the D. P. & A. IT.
" steamets here ail day, just to see at what
hour the last passenger would go trot
ting down the incline with a grip in one
. band and a wildly waving handkerchief
in the other. We have nickles that say
the last straggler would hot be at the
dock before dark.
Three families arrived at Eugene Mon
day evening, having come all the way
from Nebraska by the wagon route.
They left their old borne May 5tb, and
hence made the drive across the plains
in three months: ' '. Their horses and
wagons showed the effect of their long
journey across the plains. These people
have come to cast their lot in Oregon,
and expect to locate west of Eugene.
If advance in the price of property is
an indication of approaching good times
Mr. Ezra ' Campbell, of Columbia
county, has invented a device to fasten
on the thresher by means of which all
weeds and wild oats are completely re
moved from grain. The arrangement is
said to work to perfection, and saves a
great deal of labor as well as money.
It is a very simple contrivance, and he
has had a large cumber of them manu
factured and sold during the past two
weeks. . 1
Jotin Thomas, the prospector who en
gaged in a pitched battle in a crowded
street at Spokane with the police Toes
day afternoon, died at 9 o'clock Thurs-
day night from bullet wounds received
in the fight. O'.e Oleson, one of his vic
tims, lies in a precarious condition with
a fighting show for life. C. A. Day is,
who received one of Thomas' ballets in
the shoulder, Is doing well, and will be
out in a week.
A Mrs. Davis of Virginia, whose first
child was puny and died, vowed she
would spend her life in devotions if an
other child should be spared to her,
Upon its birth she began to pray for it
to grow, and her prayers were so power
ful that .in two months it weighed fifty
pounds, in two years 103 pounds, and at
13 years 584 pounds. A sister aged 9
weighs S80, and another daintv little
sister, aged 7, weighs 286 pounds.
- And now comes a man named Webb,
who has been up to Dyea - and insists
that the name of the. new landing near
that town is Shkagway and not Skaguay.
We have patiently followed the vagaries
of the Klondike spell, but we do not
propose to stand this spelling by ear of
every man anxious to see his name in
print. Skaguay it was and Skaguay it
shall remain for us. We knew a girl
back in Illinois whose ; name was
Swigart, bat her parents spelled it
Schweigckhardt and she. stuck to it,
until she married a - banker . named
Fansnansen. Plain Skaguay is worth
staying with. - , . "
The first consignment of winter wheat
from Latah, Idaho, was made Monday
by J. G. White & Co. A portion of the
consignment, 1935 bushels, was grown
on the A. A. Bell farm, one mile east of
Latah. The wheat was grown on thirty-
five acres, and yielded over filty-five
bushels to the acre. This - wheat is
known as the , Jones Winter Fife, and
averaged 143 pounds to the sack. - Local
grain merchants say it is the finest qual
ity they ever saw. . . '
John Crow, a prominent farmer on
the Umatilla reservation, met with a
bad accident Wedneeday morning at the
Charley Warner ranch, five miles from
Pendleton. . He was driving a young
horse, which was wild and restless, and
finally ran away 'with its mate. . The
wagon went into a ditch and upset,
throwing Mr. Crow benecth the wheels.
They ran over bis shoulders and face,
breaking his collar-bone in two places.
His face was badly scratched and peeled.
' ; ; Monday's Daily. ' .;
The. thermometer yesterday stood at
just 100 and today it went up to 102. At
3 :30 it was standing at 100.
W. C. Allaway has found a pair of
gold-rimmed spectacles, which the owner
can get by calling on him. -
The ewja of section 34, township 2
north of. range 14 east, was sold by the
sheriff today to satisfy a judgment ob
tained by Ann E. . Vanatta against Al
bert and Mary Kuykendall and Grace P,
and George W. Buchanan, loe prop
erty was purchased by the plaintiff.
Mr. Wm. Chambers came up from
Portland yesterday and will have charge
of the work of putting the Bteam heater
in Pease & Mays store. We beg oar
readers' pardon for mentioning steam
heaters with the thermometer trying to
lift Its top off, but items are scarce and
this has to go. - '
"I suppose," remarked the sarcastic
housewife, "that in the coarse of time
ice will be worth as much as diamonds."
"Well," replied the iceman, reflectively,
"diamonds are pretty good in their way,
but you can't rely on their melting down
so as to keep np the steady demand."
Washington Star.
C. W. Stone, manager of the M. C.
Stone Jewelry Co., leaves tonight for
Wasco, taking with him the finest stock
of jewelry ever shown in - Sherman
county. Mr. Stone is an expert, thor
oughly reliable, and our neighbors in
Sherman may rest assured that they
will find his goods just as he represents
them. .' ' -
Wheat has stiffened here considerably
and today 75. cents was freely offered.
The price seems to be going up steadily
and it would be no surprising thing to
see it yet go to a dollar a bushel. .The
price is assured to be not less than 75
cents, and the result of the harvest in
this country and Europe will determine
the price.
The highest bowling scores last week
at the Commercial Club alley were:
Monday, F. P. Mays 61 ; Tuesday, M.
A. Robin eon 53; Wednesday, Vic
Schimdt 49; Thursday, P. DeHnff48;
Friday, V? Schmidt 40; Saturday, M. A.
Robinson. 47; Sunday, G. Mays 53. .
The O. R. & N. Co.'s boats will from
and after August 11th make six trips
weekly to Lewiston. The steamer Al
mota will alternate with the Lewiston
in the transportation of - the increasing
freight. The river traffic has greatly
increased, and the year's business will
be double any other year in the history
of the country.
The funeral of Mrs. Christina Gosser
took place" yesterday afternoon at 3
o'clock from the family residence, and,
though the heat was almost unbearable,
a large concourse of friends gathered to
pay their-last tribute to one who had
the reputation of being "not only the
best of mothers, but a neighbor and
friend who was every ready to do some
act of kindness.
.Saturday evening the 10-year-old eon
of Oscar Angell, who lives on 8-Mile,
while shooting blackbirds with an old
shotgun, met with an accident that came
near being fatal, and which will leave
him badly- disfigured for life. Either
from weakness of the gun barrel or from
overloading, the gun burst, and a piece
of the metal struck the boy in the face,
tearing away the upper teeth or nearly
all of them, all the front ; lower teeth,
the end of the tongue and both lips.
He was brought into town early Sunday
morning and Dr. Hollister put him in
ae good shape as possible.; .Barring un-
forseen complications, the boy will re
cover. '' :"',
Word waB brought to town this room
ing that F W. L. Skibbe's father, who
lives with Mr. Brune on the other side
of the Colombia,? went bunting yester
day morning and has not been seen
since-. .Search was begun for him yes
terday evening, and this morning at
daylight it was renewed, the whole
neighborhood engaging in it. It is feared
that be has met with an accident caus
ing his death.' . , v
- A carious accident occurred nesr Pome
roy one night last week, daring a light
ning and thunder storm. 'A-horse
frightened by the noise and v flash of
light, was so scared a mile from that
place, on Rabe Bender's farm, that he
struck a pole in his flight and it ran en
tirely through him from -the shoulder
to the hip,' and broke off in the wound.
No one eaw the accident, but ' death
must have been instantaneous. .'.'
Walla Walla is taking a deep interest
in the Spokane fruit fair, and Saturday
those in charge selected a. "Goddess of
Plenty" for- the occasion Miss Rose Bla-
lock, daughter of Dr. Blalock; being
chosen unanimously. That might be
done in Walla Walla, but in The Dalles
there is such a plenty of fair divinities
that a selection could not be made un
less as an evidence of good faith we
Bhould send at least a hundred.
' Tuesday's Daily.
t Baker county produced more gold last
year than the Klondike, and there was
no rush either. "Far fetched and dear
bought pleases the ladies," also the
miners. ' - :
Ine fruit shipments are increasing
steadily, prunes being the staple just
now. Prices have kept up pretty well,
bat as the shipments reach their best, it
is probable lower prices will prevail.
The duel between Prince Henry and
the Italian count had some amusing
features. The dispatches state that the
swords used had been rubbed with an
anti-septic solution, so that if either
got scratched there would be no danger.
St. Mary's Academy for young ladies
and St. Joseph's school for boys, opens
August 30,h for ths fall term. This is
one of the best private schools in the
state, and Its liberal patronage shews
that the public are familiar with this
fact.
The wool-buvers inform us that less
than half a million pounds of the wool
received here now remains in first bands,
and that most of this is below the aver
age in quality, the best lots having
been sold. There are some choice lots
yet the growers are "holding for better
prices.
For four weeks the name of Joe Er
hart ornamented the board at the Uma
tilla house bowling alleys, as being the
holder of the highest score, 61. Satur
day bis name came down and that of H.
Maetz took its place, he-having raised
Earhart's score one point, and the rec
ord is now 62. '
A dispatch from Tacoma says the
Klondike rush is abating, and that in
quires for tickets is falling off. And yet,
in spite oi toe reports that - not 20 per
cent of those now at Dyea and Skaguay
will get across the mountains this win
ter, hundreds are still going, and others
will continue to go as long as the steam
ers run.
The Paget Sound University Clef
Club will give a music and literary en
tertainment, nnder the auspices of the
Ep worth League, in Jbe M. E. church
on Wednesday evening, September 1st,
Miss Harriet E. Caugbran, instructor in
elocution and oratory of the university,
will give humorous, dramatic and pa
thetic readings. ..
wasmngton politicians are stirred up
over the recent sale of the Seattle Post
Intelligencer, each wondering who the
purchaser is and what course the paper
will pursue. The Ledger says it can
set all doubts at rest-rand that Levi An-
keny of Walla Walla has bought the
paper, and intends to use it to further
his desire to get into the senate.
The weather was unreasonably hot
yesterday, but it was -what the hop
growers the other side of the mountains
wanted, as it killed the pests that infest
their vines. As it very accommodating
ly beta on until the wheat was all ma
tured, there is no kick coming. We
have the crops and we have the prices,
and by jingo -we will have the money
too.
Today the fcore at the Umatilla House
bowling alley was again broken. H.
Maetz held the record until this morn
ing, with 62. but Mr. C Porter put it 3
points higher and now holds the cham
pionship with 65. , The ecore for last
week was: Monday, Everding, 49;
Tuesday, Blew, 53; Wednesday, Maetz,
56; Thursday. Throup, 49; Friday,
Maetz, 62, and Saturday, Champlin, 46.
Around the paper mill in Lebanon is
the busieet place in all of Linn county
just at this time.. There are sixty men
at work on the big straw stack, and
over 100 wagon loads of straw, that will
average ovar 4000 pounds per load, are
unloaded every day. The paper mill is
certainly a great thing for Lebanon, and
pays out many thousands of dollars
each year to the laboring men of that
place. '. v
Sheriff Jackson of Tillamook county
did ' not hand in his resignation upon
leaving for the Klondike, but left the
matter for the county court to adjust.
The law provides that when an officer
ehall remove from the state, county or
district in which his office" is'eitnated,
the same shall be deemed vacant, and
the county:, couft is given power to fill
the vacancy in ihie sheriff's office when
one occurs. -" -'
The Klondike -craze caused . J. H.
Jackson, sheriff of Tillamook county.to
reeigrr his office. Surely there mast be
something "powerful fetching" In that
disease. - - , . " :-
A story reached Chehalis from Cen
tralia last week to the effect that Editor
Gavitt, of the Centralia News, had
found a fabulously rich gold mine near
Lthat town. Commissioner Degeller told
the Nagget last week that Gavitt bad
shown him. a sample of free milling ore
containing gold in flakes and layers, and
asserting that he found the mineral a
few miles from Centralia. It was re
ported that George Rhodes make an
assay of the stuff, which showed that it
would yield $60,000 to the ton. .
. A It Is At Dyea. , .
.- Mr. George L Fish, a prominent gro
cer of Oakland, California, who returned
on the steamer Elder from Dyea, gives a
very plain and concise statement of con
ditions there. Among other things, he
says? ' -. .
"You can form a faint idea of the ex
tent of the present freight blockade up
there when I tell you that when we teft
there were strewn along the beach, on
the rocks, and in the two camps of Skag
uay and Dyea, not lees than between
4000 and 5000 tons of outfits and mer
chandise, all waiting transportation to
the Yukon. As 4 result of this, there is
no doubt that fully 80 per cent of the
people now at the pass will be compelled
to remain there until spring. From now
on the weather will be rainy and until
the river and ground freeze the roads,
by reason of mud, will be almost impas
sable. AH this has discouraged a great
many woold-be-gold-hantere, in conse
quence of which outfits in abundance at
Dyea can be purchased today from 30 to
40 cents on the dollar. When I was
there flour was being offered at 50 to 75
cents a sack, beans as low as 75 cents a
sack, and bacon went begging at from 8
to 10 cents a pound. These are offered
by people eager to get rid of the surplus
goods, in order to avoid the heavy tax of
transportation, which is beyond their
limited means. This slaughter of ex
pensive outfits is the result of some of
the following exorbitant charges: First,
it costs $5 a ton to land the goods at
either Dyea or Skaguay from the rocks
where left by the steamers ; . from the
shore to the mainland another $5 a ton
is taxed ; from the. settlement of either
Dyea or Skaguay to the head of naviga
tion on the Dyea or Skaguay creeks an-'
other levy tf from $6 to $10 a ton, and
over the Dyea pass, the grand hold-up
when I was there, was $400 a ton, with
the White paes not "yet ready for busi-
FROM SKAGUAY TOWN.
iohn Parrot Writes HI Opinion of tks
- Existing- Conditions.
ness.'
An Oft-Told Tale.
When Johq Allen of Willow creek re
turned to his home from a trip to the
timber last Wednesday, he found a note
in his wife's handwriting saying that
although she had nothing particular
against him; she bad made op her mind
to have a change and had left him for
good, adding that she had taken the boy
along (the youngest in a family of three)
and'wonld raise him for his father and
send him back when he grew up to be
of any help. Mr. Allen discovered later
that the fellow with whom Mrs.' Allen
eloped is a freighter named Chamberlin,
but from whence he came ie not .known
at this writing.' It is known, however,
that the elopers started northward tow
ard The Dalles, and at last accounts the
injured husband was following their
trail with blood in bis eye and a big
Smith & Wesson in convenient reach of
the hand he shoots with;
. Parties knowing Mrs. Allen are great
ly surprised at her elopement. She was
generally known as a kind, good-hearted
woman, if somewhat rough in manner,
and it was the common opinion that she
and her huBband got along together as
agreeably as the average married cou-
ple.-s-Crook County Journal.'"
Fatal Fire at Wasco.
from Wasco to the Ore
date of Sunday, August
A dispatch
gonian, under
15th, 6ays:
Last night, about midnight, fire broke
out in a sleeping-tent in which the small
children of Mr. C. Hacks' family were
Bleeping. One little one, about 6 years
old, was burned until only the charred
trunk remained. . The fire originated
from a lighted candle which was allowed
to barn too low. In trying to save the
child, Mr. Hack was overcome -by
smoke, and came near "losing bis life.
His bande, feet and legs were frightfully
burned.
. For the Tournament.
Members of the executive committee
for the firemen's tournament are hereby
requested to be present at the council
chambers this evening at 8 o'clock, for
the purpose of arranging a program. AH
members of the' committee are requested
to be present; also the --committees on
music and advertising".
, ' G. G. Giboss, (Jbiet V. t . U.
Cash In Your Checks.
All countv warrants registered prior
to March 11, 1893, will be paid at my
office. Interest ceases after Aug 5,
1897. C. L. Phillips,
- '.--'- .. County Treasurer.
Yellow washing powder will make
your clothes the same color. Avoid
this by using Soap Foam. It's pare
white. - a2-3m
. " ' Lyba, Aug. 7, 1897.
Eoitok Chbomclk :
. No pen or language can describe the
excitement-of the two mining camps,
Skaguay Bay and Dyea., .There, are
thousands of wild excited men rushing
of the other. We had to organize and
pat out guards before we could get onr
phip crew to work unloading. Every
man wanted his goods first, and no one
could get anything. It is simply im
possible for -over fifty per. cent to get
over the- pass before winter. Dr. Sid
dall and toysell expect to 'reach Lake
Bennett in about three weeks. It will
take us until winter, if we have good
luck,o reach Dawson City.
Men are , making $20 per day here
with a wheelbarrow. ,' Only one man has
a team at Skaguay Bay: : He makes
from $100 to $150 per day. . : '
, The George W. lllder cast anchor at
Skaguay Bay at 8 :30 o'clock yesterday
evening. There was a queetion as to
which would suit better, the Skaguay
Bay and White Pass or Dyea and Chil
coot Pass. Cbilcoot is about 3500 feet
above sea level and White's is about
2400 feet. The latter has a good pack
trail for horses, while the farmer has
only a foot trail, and is very ' steep and
difficult to cross. The majority of this
crew will go the Skaguay. The distance
is about thirty-three miles from water
to water. One horBe can pack . 150
pounds and make the round trip in fonr
days. '. ' v .
The shores here are shoal and our ship
is anchored about half a mile from land
and is unloaded by lighters. The horses
are pushed overboard and have to swim
ashore. The Cascade mountains are as
potato hills compared wKh the scenery
between Jueneau and Dyea.- The num
erous glaciers can only be described by
seeing them. There are several tourists
on board that have been in Switzerland
and the Yosemite and all other noted
places in the world and they say this far
surpasses anything they ever saw.
I do not think we are going to have
any difficulties in getting across, only
we will be delayed some. This is Sun
day morning and we are still on the
ship, bat expect to get off today. Some
outfits are not going to try to cross the
pass until winter and then go over in
sleighs. , There has been two men
drowned since we landed here, on ac
count of carelessness on their part.
I will close byadvising my friends who
wish to come to the Klondike to wait
and start about the 1st of March and
come by the ' way of 'Skaguay bay and.
White's pass. John Paebott. '
CLEANED UP MEMALOOSE.
Eastern Men Gather 88 Skulls, Wnlel
They Are Forced to Betnrn. '
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Saturday a coupie oi umcago men,
,.) r,. n... -c.ia.j mt
Allen, visited Memaloose island and pro
ceeded to gather the skulls so plentiful .
there. In the evening the Regulator
ran ho fha Island hnf. navino nrnmiaAfl
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to pick them up, went back three or four'
miles after them. They brought on
board nine sacks of skulls and bones,
and were delighted with their find.
' Western people perhaps have ideas
about Borne things that are not shared
by the denizens of the East.- One of
these is respect for the dead, and the
average westerner would no more think
of robbing . an Indian burying ground
than he wonld of robbing that of the
white man.
These men. however, loaded their
sacks full of . bones. ' procured "boxes
and straw,' and were proceeding to pack
to eighty-two Indians. Someone, in
the mean while, had lodged a complaint'
against them, and about 9 o'clock Night
Watchman Wiley arrested them and
took them before Justice ill loon, who
fixed bail for their appearance Monday
at $100 each. When arrested the men
were disposed to think : there was' a
scheme to twist a fine of $10 or $20 out of
them, but when the statute was read to
them and they learned that the least
penalty was conbnement lor montns in
the county jail, and might amount to -two
years in the penitentiary, the petu
lant annoyance which they had exhibit
ed gave place to genuine alarm. Of '
course they did not know it was against
the' law, for they went openly at, work,
and this, while in . their favor, did not ;
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excuse tneir onense. nowerer, iue
affair was settled in some way, the
Bkolla were returned to the island Ibis-
morning, the costs were paid by the de
fendants, and they were discharged.
It was a lucky thing for.them that the
Indians did not catch, them at their
ghoulish work, or there might have
been a couple of other skulls, found at .
no remote date bleaching in the drifting
sands of Memaloose.
A few days ago Charles H. Bryant of
Copalis, Chehalis county, picked op. a
remarkable-looking fish at the mouth of
the CopHlis river. It was about the eiae
of a porgy, had enormous pectoral fins,
out in place of the back fins were well
developed hind legs. The mouth was
beak-like, and there was a flexible horn,
toothed at the end, and fitting down
into a socket in the head; and at the
commencement of the first dorsal fin
was a horn. Acting upon advice the
gentleman boxed the specimen and sent
it to the curator of the Washington university.-
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