THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1897.
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THE DALLES.
OREGON
OFFICIAL PAPEE OP WASCO COUNTY.
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
Saturday' Daily.
Valley papers keep calling for bop
pickers.
Tbe Dalles public schools will re-open
on Monday, September 13th.
Tbe Harrisburg Review baa suspenped,
and the editor announces that the plant
is for sale.
Wheat took a decided tumble in tbe
big markets yesterday, dropping from
five to six cents from the previona day's
quotations. - -
xne grain fleet now in or on toe way
- to Portland, consists of fifty-eight with
a carrying capacity of 106,410 tons, or in
roond nnmbers, 35.000,000 bushels.
.harl P. btanley, a well-known young
mining expert committed suicide in
Whatcom last Wednesday by taking ten
grains of morphine in a glass of water,
The East End absolutely refused to
furnish an item of any kind today,
. Even Justice Fllloon's law mill was not
mnwArn n n i ttiA ofrlr t a rt a Bra..
empty. k
J. E. Lathrop writes a very vivid de
scription . of the Chilkoot pass to the
East Oregonian. He thinks bnt few of
those encamped at Dyea and Skaguay
will get in this summer.
Tbe 'longshoremen at the dock in
Whatcom were getting $3.50 a day, bnt
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iucy eiirui;. lur uixuer wages recently.
One of the men said they didn't know
why they struck or what for, but tbey
just struck.
- The cannery at Marshfield received a
few hundred salmon, Monday, but was
not quite prepared for packing.. Charles
Johnson sent op sixty-eight chinooks
from the lower bay, bnt the largest nam,
ber was received from one boat.
The first consignment of Corvallis
fruit and vegetables, direct for Alaska,
will be shipped to Skagnay. It will
consist of apples, pears, plums, pota-
toes, prnnes, etc., and will be shipped
to Portland tomorrow. . . ,
Enough threshing has been done in
Sherman county thus far to enable a
calculation as to acreage. Fall-sown
runs from twenty to forty bnshels per
acre ; spring twenty to thirty, volunteer
ten to sixteen, says tbe Moro Observer,
The beach is covered with wood and
still it comes as fast as the fleet of scows
can bring it. This morning a big scow
has been trying to sail op against tbe
current, and tbe wind and water are so
evenly balanced that she has made less
than a mile in five boars.
Burglars have been busy, lately in
Harysville, Snohomish county. Th Ar
cade hotel was broken into Sunday
night, and a quantity of provisions
Btolen, and Monday night Swinnerton's
store was broken into, and the cash
register, in which there was no cash,
was taken'
A single tree in the dooryard of Mrs.
Dalaba, on Third street, Corvallis, this
season yielded 900 pounds of Bartlett
pears. The fruit was picked Monday,
and is to be shipped East. If 1 cent per
pound is realized the net profit from the
tree will be a very good showing for the
fruit business in Oregon.
Tbe Haller Shingle mill, recently
burned at Arlington, in Snohomish
county, is being replaced by a new one.
New machinery, with the exception of
tbe boiler, will be purchased and the
new plant will be an improvement on
the old one. It will be a double blocker,
with a capacity of about 120,000 per
day.
In another week those Dallesites who
are now at the beach or in the mount
ains will begin to wander home again,
and those of as who didn't go away will
be really glad to see them. We are not
moved by malice or jealousy, and are
glad other people enjoyed the seaside,
even though we had to stay home and
assist in keeping the thermometer on
the earth.
Fruit shipments just now are large,
plums and prunes being the staples,
with melons running a good second.
The sidewalk in front of the commission
house and express office is jammed every
night with great piles of boxed frait.
We note that shippers are packing their
fruit in good shape and this is the most
sensible thing they can do. It is the eye
that selects, the appearance that sells,
The Dalles City will leave Portland to
morrow morning at 4 o clock, and will
bring up tbe visiting congressmen and
party, fifteen in all. Thev will examine
the locks and then come on np to The
Dalles to examine the obstructions at
tbe dalles, and there take the train for
the East. Credit is due Sheriff Driver
for bil efforts in securing the Dalles
City for the party.
Lena Collingsworth, a Tennessee
woman, quareled with her husband a
couple of months ago and vowtd she
would not eat until he acknowledged his
error, tie proved stubborn, eo she
stock to her word and fasted for fifty
eight days. . When she died the husband
bad not yet concluded to acknowledge
he was wrong, but he certainly mast
have appreciated bis wife's firmness of
character.
The Dalles National bank is paying
out its first dividend of twenty-five per
cent. There are many claims not yet
proved, and those who hold them should
make their proof at once. All that is
necessary is to fill out blanks furnished
by the receiver and swear to the ac
counts. This can be done in the bank
and costs nothing. Claims unproved
cannot be paid.
Another load of huckleberries amount
ing to forty gallons arrived in town from
the "patch" this morning. The berries
were brought in on a couple of cay uses
and a Siwash. This luscious fruit is ex
ceedingly plentiful this year, and the
bushes are loaded as they were never
known to be loaded before. As a conse
quence the price is way down, in spite
of the return of prosperity, and all can
afford to eat them as well as to pat up
a supply for winter. Skamania Pioneer.
Word was received here yesterday that
John Parker of Hood Elver died at his
home yesterday afternoon. Mr. Parker
had suffered for a long time from cancer
qf the stomach, which was the cause of
his death. 'He was an exceptionally
good man, one the community can illy
afford to lose. He leaves a wife and two
children, and a long list of friends to
mourn his Iobs. He was a member of
Riyerside Lodge, A. O. U. W., and sev
eral members of the order went down
this morning to attend the funeral,
which took place today.
Congressman Hooker, chairman of
the committee on rivers and harbors,
and Sherman, of the committee of Indi
an affairs, will be here tomorrow, com
ing np on tbe Dalles City and arriving
about 2:30 o'clock. Senators McBride
'and Congressmen Ellis and.Tongue will
accompany them. Tbe Commercial
Club has made arrangement for show
ing the visitors around, the committee
being composed of the following: Hon.
A. S. Bennett, J. W. French, B. S.
Huntington, Chas. Hilton, T. A. Hud
6on, W. Lord. An engine and car will
be placed at the disposal of the visitors,
and they will examine the obstructions
to navigation above here.
News has been received at the police
station to the effect that William De
vine, who left Portland on the steamer
Eugene as foreman, fell overboard on
the way up to Puget sound and was
drowned. Particulars of the affair have
not as yet been received, although there
is no doubt that it was an accident,
Devine was for a long time on tbe police
force of this city. His beat was in the
North End, and being a powerful man
and full of courage, was a factor in keep
ing peace in that part of, the city. He
was known as "Handsome Billy," and
was well liked by his associates and ac
quaintances. He was mado to realize
the uncertainties of the official life of a
policeman several months ago, and
when the Klondike fever broke out in
this city he was affected. He secured a
berth as fireman on the Eugene, and
started away for the gold fields in high
spirits. Telegram.
Monday'! Daily.
Prabl, who shot Dan Maloney, came
in from Camas Prairie Saturday after
noon, and surrendered to the sheriff.
He is now in the county jail.
At Lyle last night abont dark, there
was quite a shower, and at the Locks
there was a heavy sprinkle. Here there
was a sprinkle, but that 'was all.
C. D. Nickelsen, of Hood River, was
admitted to tbe Methodist conference at
Pendleton, Friday, having passed a fine
examination, and was ordained Sunday.
A dispatch received last night at 5 :15,
from Weather Observer Pague by Local
Observer S. L. Brooks, says : Heavy
rains expected in Columbia river valley,
Monday and Tuesday.
At tbe residence of Mrs. Scbenck there
will be a neeting of St. Paul's guild, on
Wednesday afternoon at 2 :30 o'c'ock.
It is hoped every member on the roll
will be present, as important business is
to be transacted.
. Mays & Crowe received a telegram
from Tacoma this morning, saying that
the Pickaninnies missed the train at
Seattle yesterday and consequently can
not reach The Dalies until 1 o'clock to
night. The proceedings are thus post
poned for one day.
Much complaint is being made of that
piece of road between the top of the
brewery bill and the winehouse. The
road is sidling, the bed rock coming to
the surface. With a little work done on
that part of the road, tbe farmers say the
balance of the road would cause no trou
ble. A quarter of a block of wooden build
ings in Seattle, on Jackson street, burn
ed last Friday. In the block was a barn
used by the Mason & Pullen Transfer
Company. Fire. horses were burned to
death. 1
Tbe hobo nuisance bas become so great
in Palouse and Garfield that thoss cities
have employed additional police force.
The harvest fields in that locality
are- badly in need of men at
good wages.
P. O. Pulsifier, who lives on the mid
dle fork of tbe Newoukum, in Lewis
county, lost bis house and all its con
tents Tuesday morning by fire. There
was no insurance, and all is total loss to
him. It is supposed the fire originated
from sparks from the stove.
Frank Heater, in a fit of deepondency,
attempted to commit suicide yesterday
In the Sa'vation Army barracks by
tabbing himself in the breast. The
knife struck a rib and glanced down
ward. We understand the reason given
by Heater is that Dan Maloney was his
best friend, and now that he is dead he
does not care to live.
Jack Prahl was taken before Justice
Filloon this morning for his preliminary
examination for the kil'ing of Dan
Maloney. Judge Bennett appeared for
him. The examination was waived and
Donas were nxea at ?3,uuu. lhese were
furnished, it being understood that his
brother deposited the money to secure
his bondsmen, who are H. M. Beall,
Geo. A. Liebe, Louis Rorden and H. C,
Nielsen.
Mr. G. W. Phelps will leave tonight
for Heppner, where he will engage in the
practice of the law. We understand
that there is now only one attorney
there, and that consequently the open
ing is a remarkably good one. Mr,
Phelps will occnpy Congressman Ellis'
office and will have the use of his library,
His brother Elks here have arranged for
a farewell party in their hall tonight,
and be will take with him to his new
home the best wishes of everyone in The
Dalies.
At Aew i ork Saturday, wheat took a
tumble to about 10 cents below the top
price of a few days ago, and the market
was dull with prices ranging from 94 to
95. It is said that favorable crop re
ports from the Northwest bad something
to do with the drop. If so, .the price
will soon go up again. With the best
of weather conditions tbe yield will
hardly be up to the estimates, and the
best of these leave the world with more
than 300,000,000 bushels shortage.
The University Clef Club, which
gives one of its concerts Wednesday
evening in the M. E. church, comeB
very highly recommended. Miss Caugh-
ran has few equals as a reader. Mr.
Claypool says: "The music rendered
by the Clet Club is without flaw in
harmony ; is artistic in expression, and
the voices blend perfectly." The
concert is given under tbe auspices of
the Epworth League, and will, no
donbt, attract and delight a large audi
ence. ,
Tuesday's Daily.
Prosperity struck tbe street sprinkler
today, and it is taking a rest.
The steamship Portland is to be armed
with a rapid-fire Maxion gun, to protect
her against Chinese pirates.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, has a board
of trade composed entirely of wpmen,
and it is said to be remarkably success
ful.
The .Good Templars will serve ice
cream and cake in the Bunnell building,
next to the land office, tonight. It will
cost only 15 cents a dish.
Don't fail to hear the University Clef
Club tomorrow evening at the M. E
church. ' Tickets will be on sale at tbe
door. Admission 25 and 15 cents
The celebrated Pickaninny band will
entertain the public free at Mavs &
Crowe's store this evening, at 8 o'clock.
Tbey are little, but they are dandies
The Duchess d'Uzes has some 14,000
bottles ot Champagne in her cellar in
Paris, and as many more in her wine
rooms at Rhines. This indicates that
the Duchess d'Uzes ber wine sparingly,
It is only a matter of a few days until
Wasco has railroad communication with
the balance of the world. The Colum
bia Southern is rapidly nearing comple
tion and will move Sherman s wheat
crop this year.
The private school conducted by the
Misses Taylor, will open Monday the
13th, in tbe lecture room of the Baptist
church. Children from 4 to 10 years of
age will be taught. Pupils will also be
received in special studies.
Those Pickaninnies are well worth
hearing, and also seeing. Each of the
little fellows resembles the Nile in that
they have deltas instead of mouthe, and
one look at them reminds one irresista
bly of tha dreamy summer in Peach-
blow Paradise.
Umatilla county's wheat crop will be
worth more than $3,000,000 and its other
crops more than si.uuu.wu. in is is a
better showing in proportion to the
number of people interested than the
Klondike, or any other gold fields have
ever made.
D. C. Christie, of North Yakima, has
sold the horse Ben L. to C. W. Wilmot,
for a consideration of $300. He has no
record, but has traveled a mile in 2 :17,
mile heat in 0 :31o, which is a 2 :05 gait.
His sire is White Prince, by Tamolian,
and bis dam is Julia, by Rifleman.
It is probable that the annual fire
men's tournaments will be discontinued
for some time. The Dalles boys feel that
they have been treated shabbily by the
neighboring towns, and will take no fur
ther part in tbe meetings, and as most
of the other towns seem to feel tbe same
way, the outlook for future meetings is
far from encouraging.
Another load of buckleberr ies, amount
ing to 40 gallons, arrived in Skamania
from the "patch" the other morning,
The berries were brought In on a couple
of caynses and a Eiwash. This luscious
fruit is exceedingly plentiful this year,
ana me ungues are loaaea as thev ' were
never known to be loaded hefore, says
the Skamania Pioneer.
Dr. Hershberger's experiment in fig
growing in Adams county, bas proved
very satisfactory to himself. One tree,
scarcely twenty-eight inches in height,
bas borne an even three dozen figs,
most of which were cat off before they
ripened. A few, bowever, were allowed
to ripen, and they were of a very large
variety and excellent flavor.
Tbe court house is as quiet as a coun
try churchyard, no marriage licenses no
nothing. Taxes are coming in slowly, and
none of the guests at the hotel Driver
have expressed any intention of leaving
before October. At the recorder's office
there isn't even a d. d., and in the East
End, while there is considerable busi-
ness, there is nothing to make news
items.
The improvement of tbe Alsea river,
in Benton county, begun in June, is
about half completed. Tbe work con
sists chiefly in blasting ont and remov
ing rocks in the stream so that scows
laden with freight from the Alsea valley
can be navigated to the Alsea bay,
About six men are employed in the
operations, and a great amount of blast
ing has been done. Charles Church, of
Portland, is tbe contractor.
The profitable result of hard work is
shown- in tbe instance of Johnny Hogan
who left North Yakima last year with
little money, bat plenty of determina
tion, and took op a sagebrush ranch near
Toppenish, says tbe Yakima Herald.
This year he has 2000 bushels of wheat
for sale, and will be able to pay for his
ranch, meet all expenses and have
money left over.
The average- mean temperature for
tbe past ten days has averaged about as
mean as it was possible. A week ago
today a person felt that a barrel or tnb
was about the- only garment a fellow
was safe from getting lost from himself
in, as he perspired from every pore; and
now tbe wind whistles around a fellow's
thinly-clad system as though it were
bent on a mission of warning from tbe
glaciers of Cbilcoot pass.
Three four-horse teams laden with
plunder such as is generally found in
emigrant outfits, came across from
Klickitat' county this morning. The
owners were probably bound from some
place they did not like, to some other
place which they will "like worse" in
the course of a year, and then tbey will
move again. Once the moving habit is
acquired, the desire to gather moss or
spend time in incubating ceases.
Sandy" Thompson, Wallowa county
cattleman, delivered 700 head of 2-, 3
and 4-year-old steers in Elgin last Tues
day to C. N. Thompson, of Chicago
The steers were weighed at Enterprise,
and tbe purchase price is not made
public, although it is known to be better
than 2. cents on ' foot. The sale
amounts to about $20,000, and about
winds up Mr. Thompson's stock interest
in Wallowa county. He expects to go
to Prineville before long.
The Oregon delegation seems' very
Blow abont making recommendations
for federal appointments. It looks now
as though nothing would be done in the
matter until congress meets, unless it is
to select successors to the district attor
ney and marshal. These offices become
vacant next month. The fight made
for Jodge Fee for the former office has
served to unite forces against Mr.
Driver, who wants the marshalship,
simply because Fee's friends think both
offices will not be ' filled from Eastern
Oregon.
from Sunshine ' into Bodie, Bix miles,
many a mule has been drowned on the
mountain side where they would get off
the beaten enow into the slash on the
upper side of the grade.
The Oregon cay use is the animal for
tbe Alaska trails, and will go where the
dainty footed mule can neither be driven,
coaxed nor dragged. As an article of
diet tbis winter honors are probably
abont easy between them, and this will
be the principal nee for thera until next
spring,
.. - -Farewell to G. W. Phelps. ,
THE DAINTY MULE.
He Will Drown If Be Gets Water
Bis Ears.
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and has made the last quarter in a four-
Mr. S. G. Hart of Colorado is on his
way to Skagnay witb twenty-nine mules
which be will use in packing across the
White pass. We fear Mr. Harts venture
will prove unprofitable. .
A'mule resembles a woman in a great
many respects besides its ability to kick
without cause, and that one trait com
mon to both critters, that "When they
will they will, depend , on't, and when
they won't they won't, and that's the
end on't," is what will cause Mr. Hart
trouble. A mule ia great on the pack as
long as he is on good solid ground. He
can hump bis back and climb a hillside
like a cat,, but when the ground is soft
be, is a different bird. His feet are
small and be knows it. Once get him
on soft ground and down he goes on his
belly and there be remains until his
pack comes off. Tbis is especially true
ot him in the snow or in the water.
Once get a mule down in tbe water, if it
is no deeper than his knees, if he gets
water in his ears be will drown. Going
Monday night about forty couples, in
cluding the Elks and a number of invited
guests, met at Elks' hall to spend a'
social hour, bid good-bye and ex
tend their best wishes to one of their
number, G. W. Phelps, who. left on tbe
1 o'clock train for Heppner, where he
enters into law partnership with Hon.
W.R.Ellis.
A short, but excellent program had
been hastily arranged, consisting of a
solo by Miss Myrtle Michell, recitation
by R. H. Lonsdale, solos by the little
Misses Kelsay, dialect recitation by J.
H. Hampshire, and clarinet solo by
Mark Long. Dancing was interspersed
with the program, and was thoroughly .
enjoyed as the evening was cool and the
dancers just in the mood to enter heart
ily into the first dancing of the season.
At 11 o'clock, tbe usual hour for re
membering absent brothers, after form-.
ing the circle of Elks,.F. W. Wilson, in
a few remarks spoke feelingly of their
regret at parting with Mr. Phelps and
bade him God speed in the name of the
order, when all drank to the departing .
brother.
As the clock strnck 12 Mi. Phelps, '.in
a very appropriate manner, thanked the.
members and bis friends for their good
will, and said that words could not ex
press the regret he felt at leaving his
Dalles friends, after which all shook
hands with and bade him good-bye.
Congressional Visitors.
The Dallea City arrived from Portland
Sunday afternoon, making a special
trip for the congressional party, consist
ing of Congressmen Hooker of New
York and Ellis and Tongue of Oregon.
Congressman Sherman, also of New
York, was to have been of tbe party,
but sickness prevented. The Commer
cial Club had arranged for the recogni
tion of the visitors here, among other
things an engine and car being provided
for carrying tbe party as far as Celilo,
that all might see the character of the .
obstructions to navigation, but in some
manner tbis part of tbe program mis
carried, though Mr. Hooker was taken
up on an engine. He being the chair
man of the committee on rivers and
harbors, was very anxious to have a per
sonal knowledge of the conditions here.
Quite a number o friends accompanied
the delegation on their 'trip up, and sev
eral went down as far as the Cascades to
meet it. :
Tbe Dalles City left about 2:30 for
Portland, taking Ellis4 and Tongue and
several Dallesites, and tbe balance of .
the party left on the Spokane flyer for
the East.
DIED.
In tbis city, Monday, Aug. 30, 1897,
Lewis D. Aiusworth, aged 28 years.
The funeral will take place this
afternoon at 4 o'clock, unless other ar
rangements are made upon bearing from
relatives.
Lewis D. Ainsworth was born in Iowa
in lsoa, and nrst came to ine Danes
March 1, 1890, accepting a position in
French & Co.'s bank, which be held
until compelled to give it bp on account
of sickness. In 1893 he was married to
Maggie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.
W. Rowland. He was taken sick soon
after the firemen's tournament in tbe
fall of 1893, tbe disease soon developing
into consumption. In 1894, crom
panied by his wife, be went to Arizona
and after a year or more there without
receiving permanent benefit, went to
Hawaii, returning to The Dalles last
spring.
He leaves, besides bis wife, a little
daughter aged about 3 years, a father
and mother, a eister and two brothers,
and a large circle of friends.
Money Enough.
General Buffield discussing the gold
discoveries in Alaska, says :
"If I were a young man," he said, "I
should get about a seventy-five ton
schooner at Seattle, take supplies and
engage tbe sei vices of a first-class pros
pector. Then I should cruise along the
sontbeastern part of Alaska, in what is
called Alexander archipelago. There
are a number of islands there and more
gold lodes than at any place with which
I am acquainted. The mining would
not be 'placers,' but the ore can be got
ten ont very cheaply and being directly
on the sea, the transportation amounts
almost to nothing, except the time
spent."
The general overlooks the fact that a
young man with money enough to ' buy
a seventy-five ton schooner, hire first
class prospectors and carry out his sug
gestions, has money enough and does not
need to go to Klondike.
There is nothing so thoroughly appre
cuted by the ladies during the hot wea
ther as a delicious dish of genuine ice
cream. The Elite candy factory serves
just that kind. Also soda, ice cream,
soda and milk ehake. - a5-tf