THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1897.
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Wednesday s Daily.
The Regulator was loaded
guards this morning, having
emigrant outfits in her cargo.
A few small sturgeon are being caught,
bat the regular season has not began
yet. In October the big fellows will
come along.
Work on the foundation of Prof.
Gavin's residence, to be built on the
corner of Union and Eleventh streets,
has been commenced.
It is reported that a bridge across a
deep ravine between Sprague landing
and Wind rivet has been burned ont
and that the road is impassable.
Visitors to Portland say it presents
livelier appearance than it has for years,
The Klondike that is, and the big wheat
shipments that are to be, are the cause.
Work on the Catholic church is being
pushed very rapidly, and another month
will see it almost completed. It will be
one of the finest church edifices
. Eastern Oregon.
The wheat market took a small turn
ble this week, bat the authorities seem
to think the prices will not go any lower
than they are, with a strong possibility
of their going higher.
C. E. Porter this morning at theUma
tula bouse allevs broke the bowline re-
cord for The Dalles, with a score of 77
The score by frames was 3 strikes.
spare, six strikes and 3 pins on the last
strike.
The mountains west of Mt. Adams are
fall of prospectors, and it will not be at
all surprising if some good discoveries
. are made. The Rankin ledge, on the
bead of Lewis river, is said to show some
yery fine ore.
Judge Blakeley has opened bids for
the building of his residence, and we
understand work will be begun at once.
The building will be put up on the
northwest corner of Fourth and Wash
ington streets.
Mr. Singleton this morning had the
machinery of bis planer and box factory
which has been operated here for some
time, on board the Regulator. He will
set it np either on the White Salmon or
the Little White Salmon.
Wheat is coming in very slowly, ow
ing to the fact that harvesting is not yet
over and every available man and team
is at work saving the crops. In a few
weeks the East End will be crowded
with teams delivering the biggest and
best grain crop ever raised in Eastern
Oregon.
The Regulator was quite late last
night, on account of the high wind
which caught her at a landing by
sandbar and forced her broadside to on
the bar. It required a kedge anchor
and the use of a capstan to get her
swung off into the stream where she
could use her wheel.
Henry Stewart, who shot and serious
ly wounded Jasper Nesselroad in What
com last May, pleaded guilty last Satur
day of assault with intent to kill, and
was sentenced to five years in the peni
tentiary in Walla Walla. Stewart made
a written statement of the circumstances
leading up to the shooting.
Mr. Schonno, in digging a well on bis
place on Third street, noticed that at
the depth of abont ten feet there was a
fine bed of washed gravel, two or three
feet in thickens, lying on top of a cement
bedrock. With the instincts of an old
miner, he panned out some of it, and
was astonished to find quite a good pros
pect, every pan showing several quite
good colors. Mr. Schanuo does not
think it a Klondike, and is not going to
mining, but the gravel and gold shows
that where the town stands the river at
one time used to flow.
Quite an amusing incident happened
this morning a few minutes before the
Regulator pulled out. Among the other
freight to go was a small two-horse
wagon. The covered top had been low
ered, and the wagon stood on the wharf
until the balance of the freight was
loaded. It was then backed on and into
the forward starboard gangway. The
top struck the npper deck with a crash,
and then there was a commotion under
the canvas and an old gentleman bobbed
out, looking too utterly silly for any
thing, as the crowd gave him the laugh.
He had evidently stowed away and was
going to take the trip as freight.
Dr. Brosius who assisted in making
the autopsy on the body of Dan Maloney,
said that in the average man the wound
would have caused death in from ten
minutes to seven hours. As it was eeven
days and over from the time of the
shooting until death ensued, it would
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indicate that Maloney 's vitality was
times that of the average man.
- Tne unusual occurrence of a train on
fire was seen in Cle-Elum last Monday
obeoon A BDark from the engine dropped among
the hav of a carload of sheep, and was
soon blown into a blaze and the car was
soon in flames. One hundred and
twenty-five sheep were burned to death
A carload of horses belonging to Robert
Alverson of Ellensburg, en route for
Dyea, were next to the sheep car, and
was badly scorched. The sheep were
shipped from Yakima.
Ed Fortner, who lives ont on the Mc
Kay, related a peculiar experience
which happened on his ranch a few
days ago. He was engaged in baaling
in bay, having several working for him
and just about the time for them to go
to work a fire was discovered near the
barn. It was qnickly extinguished and
they began to look around for a cause,
It was not caused by smoking, but Mr,
Fortner is of the opinion that it was
caused by the sun reflecting on the mold
board of a plow, 88 there were two plows
near where the fire started. .
Mr. Henry Ladahoff, who has been
prospecting for several weeks on McCoy
creek, came np on the Regulator last
nieht. He tells ns that more than 800
acres of placer ground have been filed
upon, many of the claims being on the
side of the mountain. There is consid
erable gold in the creek ami through the
soil on the mountain side, but no paying
claims have yet been developed. J. L.
Langille of Hood River, had a shaft
down 33 feet in a body of cement gravel,
when Mr. Ladahoff left, and expected to
reach bedrock in a few feet more. The
gravel was noi prospecting well.
Thursday's Daily
The Long Hollow school will open
Monday, September 13th, with Miss
Nellie Hudson teacher.
Congressman Ellis is in Portland and
will assist in dividing the demands for
patronage from Eastern Oregon.
John A. Moore, an old and esteemed
resident of Sherman county, was fonnd
dead in his bed Friday morning last, at
bis residence near Moro. He was 66
years of age.
Jim Hill, of the Northern Pacific rail
road, advises farmers to hold on to their
wheat. Last year he gave the same ad
vice and-as it was not generally follow
ed, the farmers had something to regret.
The executive committee of the fire
men's tournament met last night and
adjourned nntil this evening. By that
time it is expected that every team in
the district will be beard from, and ar
rangements can then be perfected.
In the face of the fact that the boring
for coal in Chenowith creek has been
abandoned, we assert that there is coal
at The Dalles. We believe that a drill
sent down on either side of Mill creek
will find not only good coal, but plenty
of it.
The East End was decidedly dull to
day, little if any wheat is arriving ow
ing to the farmers being busy, and the
wool season is about closed, but little
remaining for market. The warehouses
are expecting large receipts of wheat
within the next month and have made
arrangements for handling all that may
come.
A new supplemental handle-bar tor
bicycles consists of a small bar in the
rear of the main handle-bar, to which
it is adjustably attached by open
mouthed clips. It can be operated with
one hand : enables the rider to sit up
right at all times, and can be adjusted
for a nigh or low, forward or rearward
hand-grasp.
Mr. A. J. Bone, at one time assistant
superintendent of the O. R. & N., and at
present employed by the Southern Pa
cific, is in the city, and yesterday went
out to examine the Columbia Southern.
Mr. Borie is a thorough railroad man.
and one of the most serious mistakes
made by the O. R. & N. was when in the
change of its management it permitted
him to retire.
Governor Budd, of California, and
party are camped at Harchbargers, on
Klamath lake. The governor has been
afflicted with rheumatism for a week or
more so as to keep him in bed much of
the time. He is much pleased with the
locality as an outing place, and it is re
ported he does not expect it will be his
last visit to Klamath. During Governor
Budd'a absence from California the af
fairs of state are being looked after by
Lieutenant-Governor Jeter.
Last night Pague took advantage of
onr citizens and sent up a remarkably
cold snap. About daylight the princi
pal occupation of Dalles people was
hunting blankets. The weather forecast
for tomorrow is fair and warmer. This,
of coarse, has gotten to be a chestnut.
but in the near future will be all right.
Pague has been ordering this kind of
weather for a month, and if he can keep
it np conscientiously for two or three
months n.ore we would snggest that he
be transferred to the Klondike.
A.Lewiston dispatch to the Spokane
Spokesman-Review says: Lewlston
claims to have the wheat king of the
Northwest. J. P. Vollmer, of this city,
has a wheat crop of 12,000 acres this
year. All of this body of land is in the
best division of the wheat belt, the crop
was well farmed and the yield will be
niformly large, being conservatively
estimate! at thirty bushels to the acre,
or a grand total of 360,000 bushels. Mr.
24 Vollmer is a pioneer merchant, with
i business interests throughout Northern
Idaho. La Grande Chronicle.
It is reported by a visitor from the
"Sound that Seattle is making a great
strike over the rash to Alaska. More
than 6,000 tons of freight are now lying
on the docks in Seattle awaiting trans
portation to Alaska." The gentleman
further reports that a conservative esti
mate of (he amonnt of money expended
in Seattle on account of business des
tmed t the Klondike country and on
account lof preparations being made for
expeditions-to that country this fall and
next spring amount to $100,000 per day
The excitement in the city is simply
tremendous, and business of all kinds is
booming at an unprecedented rate.
Hon. Thomas H. Tongue has succeed
ed in locating the lost muster rolls of
the companies of volunteers that fonght
the Rogue river Indians in 1853. O. F,
Hixson, one of the inmates of the Rose-
burg soldiers' home, was a member of
one of the companies, and says tnat
they had long endeavored to obtain
recognition from the government, but
were informed that there was no record
of their services in the war department,
But through the efforts of General Lane,
when a delegate in congress, they bad
received pay for their services by a
special act, and Mr. Tongue traced this
up and found the muster rolls in the
treasury department.
The wheat harvest in Wasco county is
not what was expected of' it. In the
first place the fall grain, of which great
things were expected, is not yielding
fifty per cent of estimates. This was
caused by the cold weather last winter,
which froze out much of the grain, and
when forty bushels were expected the
machines are showing but twenty. As a
matter of fact the spring grain is show
ing a better yield than the fall grain, it
having been helped by the late rains.
While this is discouraging it will be
equalized by enhanced prices. A short
age of 103,000,000 bushels in the United
States, which is now probable from fisrt
estimates, ought to send the prices
booming.
The Montesano Economist says that
Claude Rutter, a scientist of the United
States fish commission, has started on
an expedition to the headwaters of the
Qninault, Queets and other rivers
emptying into the ocean north of Gray'e
harbor, for the purpose of securing
specimens of the fish in those streams
for the use of the commission. Last
week the party, consisting of Mr. Rut
ter and Elmer R. Bradv, w. P. Parsons
and Ed. Bernier, of Montesano, started
in with a month's provisions on two
pack horses. Messrs. Parsons and Ber
nier will return after the exploration of
the Qninault and Queets rivers, and
Rntter and Brady will cross the Olympic
mountains to the Straits at Port Angeles,
Friday'sDaily.
Lost Between Frank Taylor's and
The Dalles, a lady's black embroidered
wrap. If the finder will return -it to
this office, or to Don nell's drugstore they
will be suitably rewarded.
Carl L. Gross has purchased the Co
lumbia Candy Factory .taking possession
this morning. Mr. Gross is a practical
randy maker, and will undoubtedly
build op a good business.
A mouse was taken prisoner on a
piece of tanglefoot fly paper in the Fossil
postoffice the other day. The little fel
low struggled manfully to get away, but
could not get his feet off of the paper,
The Majestic Picaninny band will give
a free concert at Mays & Crowe's store
Monday and Tueeday evenings next.
The price of admission is nothing, but
the show is worth much more than it
costs.
Mrs. M. J. Chase has opened the Bet
tingen bouse across the street from
Mrs. Brittain's, and can give rooms with
or without board. She would be pleased
to accept part of the patronage of the
public. a26-dlw.
Vitus Bros, inform the Eugene Guard
that at present prices for wheat they
will clear $10,000 this year. This same
family came to Oregon a few years ago
without a cent, and is now worth $50,000
to $60,000.
The Indians on the Siletz are kicking
because when they get drunk, under the
law passed by congress they get at least
thirty days in jail, while a white man
can get drunk without being sent ud
more than five days.
H. S. Wilson, receiver of The Dalles
National Bank, has received the checks
for the first dividend of the bank. AH
holders whose certificates are not num
bered higher than 124 can get their
money by presenting their certificates.
S. Smeed shipped from Eugene Toes-
day thirty-five bales of first-class bops
to Mr. Weaver, of Milwaukee, Wis., his
brother-in-law, who will place them for
him. He was offered 9 cents per pound
for thetu a week ago, but refused the
offer.
All the members of the Christian
church are urgently requested to meet
at 11 o'clock a. m., Sunday August 29.
Plans for future work, including the call
of a pastor will be considered , after a
short devotional service. By order of
the elders.
Baxter Young, of Fall Creek, in Lane
county, has been engaged for the past
two years in slashing a tract of 180 acres
of land. Last Sunday he summoned to
his aid twenty-one of his neighbors end
set fire to the slash, and in about fifteen
hours the entire ISO acres had been
burned. A couple of men have been
watching it for the past tew dayB, to see
that it does not gain headway where it
is still barnina. Mr. Yonng will sow
grass seed on the ground.
Marshal Lee of Eugene says that, the
curfew law will hereafter be strictly en
forced. All girls under 16 and boys un
der 18 will be kept off the streets after 9
o'clock, and some older ones will be ar
rested for disorderly conduct if they do
not behave themselves.
Horace Jones, of Toledo in Jackson
county, aged 12 years, met with a pain
ful accident one day last week. He says
some one shot him, bat the appearances
indicate that he had been playing with a
cartridge, which exploded. Botn bands
were badly torn and some pieces of shot
or shell struck his abdomen.
Tue schooner Moonlight went out
from Seattle last night in tow of the tug
J. M. Coleman, bound for Dyea and Ska
guay. She carried 50 passengers. Lum
ber and shingles were shipped by one of
the passengers, who intends to build a
hotel. The Coleman, having the mail
contract between Junean, Dyea and Ska
gnay, will remain on that route.
A horrible double tragedy was enacted
at Palouse in front of P. V. Morris re
sidence Tuesday night at 9:50 o'clock.
when Frank Maupin, jr., shut down
Miss Flora James as she was returning
from church, and then turned the gun
on himself. In both casts death was al
most instantaneous. The town was
thrown into a furore of excitement.
O. B. Jacobson has established a place
for salting salmon on the Umpqua river,
six miles above Gardiner, wbere he will
smoke, salt and pack salmon daring the
fishing season. This gentleman thor
oughly understands the business, and
tne new ina&stry will no doubt prove a
success and a great convenience, as the
catches are often beyond the capacity of
the cannery.
A barn at Coburg, in Lane county, be
longing to J. C. Goodale, was destroyed
by fire Monday afternoon, together with
about five tons of hay. The Odd Fel
lows' hall was bat a few feet from the
barn. The Bid of the hall was badly
charred, and it was with difficulty that
the building was saved. A becket bri
gade did some effective work in prevent
ing a spread of the fire.
Last night at Hood Riyer, Rand &
Co.'s store was burglarized and $1800 in
notes and $175 in cash taken. The safe
was blown open, and the manner in
which the work was done shows the
work of experts. Ttie humorous side of
the matter is that an expert burglar, at
this time of the year should undertake
to rob a Hood River man. He might as
well tackle' an editor on the 5th of July.
Last night a telephone message was
sent to the sheriff of Klickitat county,
Wash, to arrest Prahl, who shot Dan
Maloney, and hold him subject to
requisition from the governor of this
state. Sheriff Stimson, who, by the
way, is one of the best officers in the
country, answered that he would start
at once, and those who know him un
derstand by this that Prahl was in his
charge by daylight this morning.
A dispatch from Salem to the Orego-
man says : "Three boys ran away from
tne reiorm scnooi laBt mgnt. They are
Claude McHarue and Stanley Robin
son of Albany and Ole Auspland of The
Dalles. McHargue and Robinson were
cooks and Ausplund worked in the en
gine room. Ausplund lacked good be
havior for only a few days, and he would
have been eligible to parole. The two
others had earned their grades and were
ready to send away as soon as suitable
homes could be found. It is thought
they have the Klondike fever."
In 1893 the run of hump-backed sal
mon was remarkably large, and in 1894
the salmon run was the best and biggest
ever known on the Columbia. Fisher
men insist that the salmon run every
four years and that in 1898 we are to
have a big run. The hump-backs seem
to give some color to the theory, as it
has been four years since they were here.
On the Sound the hump-backs are being
canned, that is, the females are, but the
males are white fleshed and cannot be
passed in the market for salmon.
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METHODIST CONFERENCE.
Address by Dr. W. a. Spencrr of Phil
adelphia Tuesday droning-.
The Dalles National.
A dividend of twenty-five per cent has
been declared by the authorities in favor
of the depositors of the Dalles National
bank, and today Receiver Wilson com
menced paying over the money. He
telle us there are many claims against
the bank that have not yet been proved,
and that consequently cannot be paid.
Those who have claims against the bank
should get in and establish them, for
after September 6th they will perhaps
have trouble in doing so. The money is
ready, and inside of a month another
dividend will be paid. This shows that
the bank's loans were to the very best
class of people, for a collection of more
than $80,000 in six weeks con'.d not have
been made in any other county than
Wasco, or from any bat the most pros
perous of people;
NOTICE.
Forty-one ministers had arrived in the
city by 7 o'clock last night, having trav
eled from all points of the compass,
some by team, some by bicycle., bat the
majority by rail, to be present at the
Methodist Columbia River Conference,
which will formally organize in the
Thompson street M. . church this
morning. The past two days haye been
consumed in examining the younger
members of the conference. . Following
are the names of the visiting ministers
who had arrived here up to 9 o'clock
last evening:
Dr W A Spencer, Philadelphia ; Pre
siding Elders T A Towner, Walla Walla,
W W Van Dusen, Spokane, and Robert
Warner, The Dalles ; Revs E C Alvord,
Moro, Or., M S Anderson, Pomeroy,
Wash ; J P Barker, Asotin, Wash ; Henry
Brown, Lewis ton, Idaho; M R Brown,
Peone, Wash ; W B Corithers, Moscow,
Idaho; William Deweese, Waitsburg
Wash; W B Eakin, Latah, Wash; N
Evans, North Yakima, WaBh; T H
Festy, Davenport, Wash ; C E Gibson,
Oakesdale, Wash ; 0 F Hawk, Golden
dale, Wash ; H K Hines, Hood River.
Or; T G Hodgson, Cceur d'AIene, Idaho;
W B Hollingshene, Spokane ; FL Johns,
Fossil, Or ; J C Kirkman, Colton, Wash ;
B E Koontz, Waterville, Wash ; W T
Koontz, Athena, Or; M H Marvin,
Ellensburg, Wash: Ed McEvers, Ta-
coma; Henry Mays, Belmont, Wash;
G G Muller, Palouse City, Wash; O A
Noble, Cheney, Wash; W Skipworth,
Dayton, Wash ; W S Turner, Spokane,
C E Todd, Spokane; E H Todd, Colfax;
F A Thomas, Elberton. Wash : John
Uren, Moscow, Idaho; J E Williams,
Beeman, Idaho; J H Wood, The Dalles;
G W Bom hart, Arlington, Or; C D
Nickelsen, Wasco, Or; B L Hicks, Wen
atchee, Wash ; W H Henderson, Long
Creek, Or; W R Pitt, Asotin, Wash.
The Methodist church was filled last
evening when Dr. W. A. Spencer of
Philadelphia addressed the gathering
His discourse was directed to show the
necessity of bnilding more churches to
shelter the "unsheltered poor." The
subject was ably treated from the stand
point of the Methodist clergy, who con
sider themselves answerable to an Al
mighty for the masses who are not
affiliated with any church.
Today's program will be as follows :
9 a. m. Opening of conference session
by Bishop Cyrus D. Fobs, D. D., LL. D.
Organization. Minute business.
2 p. m. Statistical session.
3 :30 p. m. Evangelistic services, con
ducted by , Rev. Thomas P. Boyd of
Portland.
7 :30 p. m. Anniversary of Conference
Missionary Society. Address by Dr. W.
T. Smith of New York. Pendleton
Tribune.
The End of the Chapter.
The funeral of Dan Maloney took
place Friday morning, and was largely
attended.
To the student of humanity there is
something pathetic in the death of Dan
Maloney. He was a brave, fearless,
generous man; one whom his friends
could draw on and find their drafts hon
ored. There was nothing that Dan
Maloney owned that was too good for
his friends. The unfortunate part of hia
character was that there was nothing
too bad for hie enemies. Of fine phys-.
ique, of fearless soul, of generous dispo
sition, Dan would have gone through
the world surrounded' by friend bad it
uut ueen wr turn, one trait in ma cnar
acter that he considered himself the law
and the statutes; that he took upon
himself the task of regulating humanity.
He was a law, not only unto himself,
but for others. What he considered
wrong he took upon himself to right.
In a community of savages Dan would
have been a king. Not that he was a
savage, but that he would, by the sheer
force of his individuality, have been a
leader. He did not realize that civiliza
tion had provided for itself. He did not
understand that the law, and not force,
governed humanity. He did not wait for
the law to carry out its course, but set
himself up as legislator and executive.
That he died - as he did was only the
natural sequence of the life he led.
We want to go on record as saying
that Dan Maloney had,. in a superlative
degree, many of the elements that make '
the good citizen, the good soldier, the
patriot. His determination, hia bravery,
were simply run on wrong lines, and his
actions were the result of wrong theo
ries. Steered right, he would have been
a hero ; but rudderless he wrecked.
THE TOURNAMENT OFF.
The Execotlre Committee Last Nigb
So Kecldod.
The firemen's tournament is off, shot
to pieces in a dozen places. The Dalles)
asked for the tournament last year and
got it. To carry out its part of the pro
gram it raised nearly $1200, and it was
proposed to. bang up the usual1 prises
and treat its visitors royally. For near-'
ly two weeks the matter has been held
in abeyance, awaiting the returns from
the towns in the district. There has
been a woful neglect in this regard. Of
the towns written to only about one re
ply ont of ten was received.
Thursday the committee telegraphed
to all places that had not replied to the
written requests to state whether they
would send teams, and when the returns
were all in it was found that only the
team from the garrison at Vancouver
would attend. The committee,, realiz
ing that there could be no contests,
nothing to be gained for the fire service
by a contest between The Dalles team
and the team from the garrison, very
wisely concluded to call the tournament
off.
We regret that we are called upon to
make this statement, and only reiterate
the statement that The Dalles raised the
money for the prizes and was prepared
to receive her guests. The feast was
ready, but the guests came not. That
is oar misfortune, and their loss.
For Sale..
Lots A, B, K and L, block SO; A B,
block 72 -r A, B, C, D, E and F, block 82.
and A, B, C, D and E, block 25. Apply
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All persons bavins claims against The
Dalles National Bank, of The Dalles,
Oregon, must present the same to H. S.
Wilson, receiver, with the legal proof
thereof, within three months from the
date hereof, or they may be disallowed.
Washington, U. C, June 6, 187.
, James H. Eckels,
Comptroller.
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now in malleable iron were (as in other so-called steel ranges)
made of cast iron, the price could be greatly reduced ; but the
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