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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1897.
The Weekly Ghroniele.
THK DALLES.
ORKGON
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
Wednesday s Daily.
At the Methodist conference at Ten
dleton. iust ended. Rev. J. R. Warner
was re-appcinted presiding elder for
this district. This is a deserved com
pliment, and a recognition of his good
- work heretofore.
The score at the Umatilla House alley
last week was a remarkably good one.
Some one erased it from the board, bnt
one of the pin-setters had copied it. It
was as follows : Monday, Estebenet, 53;
. Tuesday, Porter, 54 ; Wednesday, Por
ter, 77; Thursday, Maetz, 57; Friday,
Pundt, 49; Saturday, Porter, 57; Sun
day, Bennett, 53. Average 57 1-7.
Mrs. Mary Brittain went to Mosier
this morning, having been here to settle
with the insurance company for the loss
of her house. The building was insured
in the Firemen's Fund Co. for $900, and
she promptly received a check for the
full amount. Henrr Bills had biB per
sonal property, which was in the house,
insured for $190, which was also paid.
The score for last week at the Uma
tilla House alley was unfortunately
erased from the blackboard before it was
copied. The average was 57 1-7, the
lowest being 49, and the highest 77, the
latter being the record to date made by
C. E. Porter. The record yeBterday was
made by Victor Sampson, G2, and the
high average for last week ehows that
there is a steady improvement among
the bowlers generally.
Mrs. C. L. Phillips is now receiving
aiTd opening one of the largest and finest
stocks of fall and winter millinery ever
brought to The Dalles. Part of the
' stock comes from San Francisco and
part from New York, and includes the
very latest things in shapes, colors and
textures. As soon as the goods can be
unpacked, a grand opening will be given,
and the ladies of The Dalles and vicinity
can rest assured that they will find an
assortment from which they can find
plenty of things to please them.'
Returns from fruit sent East are com
ing in, and are anything but cheerful.
The first shipments are all right, but
later returns indicate that nothing will
be left for the growers. About thirty
cars have been ehipped to date, and
there is an abundance of fruit if a mar
ket can be found for it. The trouble is
that Idaho, California, Oregon, Wash
ington and Utah are pouring their prod
ucts into the East faster than they can
be consumed, and prices are so low that
freights and commissions leave nothing i
for the grower.
C. Rafferty, well known in Eastern
Oregon, was stricken by paralysis near
Huntington last Thursday. He had
been offered a position in a hotel in
Huntington, but thought he could get a
better one in the new hotel in Baker
City, so be started with a companion to
walk to Baker City. When out eight or
ten miles he was suddenly stricken with
paralysis, and fell helpless to the ground.
As it was growing late his companion
remained with him until the next morn
ing, when he notified the authorities in
Huntington, and Marshal Hannon sent
a conveyance out and had the unfortun
ate man removed to town. He is still
in a helpless condition, and as he is get
ting well along in years, his friends fear
his affliction may prove permanent.
Thursday's Daily
There was a light rain last night, but
Tip to date there has not been sufficient
to do any injury to the crops.
Hop pickers are in demand in the
Willamette valley, 40 cents per box be
ing the price offered by many, though
some are offering only 35 and a few 30
cents. It is not probable the latter will
get help at leas than the higher prices
offered.
Rev. W. C. Curtis arrived on the Reg
ulator last evening, having spent his
vacation the most of it at Astoria and
the neighboring beaches. He will be at
the church meeting as usual thisven
ing, and Sunday morning will adminis
ter the communion.
Mr. Curtis reports that our friend,
Balfe John bo n is recovering finely from
the injury which he sustained July 4th.
which threatened the total loss of bis
right thumb. The indications now are
that be will have a good thumb of it yet,
upon which The Chronicle and many
friends congratulate him.
Adam Kutzman is at the Obarr house
with his right arm broken midway be
tween the elbow and wrist. He was
working on a threshing machine yester
day about ten miles Southeast of The
Dalles, when a brace or something of
that kind broke loose and was whirled
'round, striking him on. the arm with
the result mentioned. Dr. Logan re'
duced the fracture, and tomorrow Mr,
Kutzman will leave on the boat, to re
turn to bis wife and babies at Bull Run
Clackamas county. He bad been on
this side of the mountains about
month working in the harvest fie'ds.
Perrv Pennington, who resides about
six miles north of Eugene, and who
owns a hopyard in that vicinity,., met
with a serious accident Sunday. He
was getting down some hop boxes from
a loft, when be fell and the box came
down also and struck him on the .right
side, breaking a rib and forcing
splinter from it into his right lung. It
is a serious iujury.
The fourth of Jnly was not celebrated
here because it was intended to make i
grand occasion of the firemen's tooma
ment. Now that has fallen through, is
the annual fair to go ecootmg into
where down the same road? It looks
like it, for so far no steps have been
taken towards advertising it. Well,
Thanksgiving is coming, and so is
Christmas, and our citizens can keep
those occasions at home.
Recently a small boy ate buttercups
and as a result died. Since thtn there
has been published a list of poisonous
wild flowers, popularly coneidered harm
less, but certain to be fatal if eaten by
a careless person or ignorant child
These flowers are buttercups, celandine,
wood anemone, daffodils, narcissus, lily,
snowdrop, jonquil, wild hyacinth,
monk's hood, foxglove, nightshade,
briony, mezerone and henbane.
The firm of Mays & Crowe are certain
ly progressive and wide awake. The
Pickaninny band which the firm brought
here, furnished the Dalles people a
really good evening's entertainment and
two matinees, and these were all free.
It was an expensive bit of advertising,
but the firm knows the merits of the
goods advertised and wants the public
to do the same. Their big store was
crowded on each of the occasions, and it
takes a crowd to fill it.
Mr. W. K. Wheelock arrived in the
city this morning. Mr.. Wheelock is a
partner of Dan A. Stuart, and was the
manager of the great Corbett-Fitzsim-mons
fight at Carson City. Mr.
Wheelock is personally superintending
the veriecope production on the coast,
and reports the business phenomenal,
the opera houses being packed with
ladies and gentlemen even during the
extreme hot weather. After this tour
of the coast Mr. Wheelock takes this
same outfit to Paris, France. Admission
50 cents, reserved seats 75, children 25
cents.
The cost of sending wheat from Port
land to England by ship is now nearly
twice what it was at this time last year
The large crop this year and the exag
gerated claims as to its magnitude have
led ship owners to believe that the
competition this year would be among
the shippers to get ships in place of
among the ships to get cargoes and ac
cordingly they advanced their charges,
Possibly they may find that they put np
their rates too high, for already two
steamers, with a carrying capacity of
about 500,000 bushels, have been char
tered to carry wheat from Portland to
Europe. It is quite possible that there
are other tramp steamers that are ready
to take wheat to Europe at present rates
and if there are many such the sailing
vessels will have to come down in their
charges.
Friday'sDaily.
Pear Tryan, a young man engaged in
packing supplies to the sheep camps
back of Dufnr, killed two cub bears last
week.
Port Townsend reports a violent thun
der storm Tuesday, a very rare thing for
this time of the year. A thunderstorm
generally does its own reporting.
The weather continues showery, but
the rainfall is very light, not enough so
far to do any damage, or even to stop
threshing more than an hour or so.
On the wharfboat this morning was
a large lot of lounges and farnitnre,
which made it look like a parlor. It is
the most elegantly furnished wharfboat
in the Northwest.
Hard lnck comes to all of us. The
Hon. M. S. Quay of Pennsylvania has
lost bis railroad pass over the Pennsyl
vania & Fort Wayne railroad, but then
be will perhaps be able to get another.
Cards were received in the city this
morning announcing the marriage of
Mr. Frank Garretson and Miss Annette
Perkins at Winterset, Iowa. Frank is a
former Dalles boy, and his friends here
wish him well in his new relation in
life.
The D. P. & A. N. are having two
lockers put on the wharfboat for the
benefit of the stewards. Supplies can
thus be ordered a trip ahead, and when
the boat arrives all that will have to be
done is to open the locker and put the
supplies on the boat.
By the breaking of a bridge with a
steam threshing outfit In Washington
county Thursday morning, the engine
and wagon were thrown into a ravine
fifteen feet deep. Rufas H. Norman
was killed instantly and a man named
Harkins was badly scalded by escaping
steam. The latter may recover.
Fruit has been shipped from Wenat
chee at the rate of a carload a day for
the last few weeks. The shipments con
sist mostly of tomatoes, pears, peaches,
watermelons and apples. The market
ing of tomatoes has ceased almost en
tirely at present, owing to depreciated
prices, and. as a consequence, hundreds
of bushels will rot on the vines, as the
hot weather has ripened them very fast.
Dan Murphy's United States district
attorney term of office expired Tuesday.
Should he see fit, Associate Justice
Field, of the United States supreme
court, may appoint a successor to Mr.
Murphy, said appointee to hold office
until the permanent officer selected by
the president qualifies.
Messrs. McNair and Giles, of the
Cline prospecting party that went into
tbe Olympics in July, have come ont.
The party made five locations on mineral
claims, and Mr. .Cline, instead of accom
panying the returning pilgrims, has gone
in on another stream to prospect for
mineral. Samples of tbe ore from the
claims located were brought out for as
say.
Dr. B. E. Fernow, chief of the forestry
division at Washington. D. C and A,
J. Johnson of Portland, forestry col
lector, were in Albany Monday, on their
way to Mount Jefferson and the bead
waters of the North Santiam. They
had just returned from a trip to Mt,
Shasta, tbe Josephine couuty caves, and
Crater lake, where they obtained many
valuable specimens. Mr. Fernow is
looking over tbe timber reserves of the
West, and bis trip to Santiam is for
the purpose of acquainting himself with
tbe value of the timber and tbe land
along the river, so as to report intelli
gently 'upon the question of restoring to
settlement a Btrip of tbe reserve alon g
the river and railroad. They will re
turn in a few days and make a trip to
Mount Hood, Blue mountains, and
afterward tbe Rockies.
Conference Ended.
The last day of the Columbia River
conference opened yesterday morniDg
with devotions, which were continued
for thirty minutes.
Tbe adoption of the constitution for
the Columbia River conference was con
sidered, and. after several articles bad
been amended, it was adopted.
At tbe afternoon session a proposition
by the citizens of Sprague, Wash., for ea
tablisbing an academy there, was not
accepted.
The Preachers' Aid society of the Co
Inmbia River conference was organized.
Rev. N. E. Parsons was elected as its
first president.
Some of the appointments were as fol
lows :
Pendleton Rev. John Uren.
La Grande Rev. Perry Chandler.
Union Rev. A. E. Thompson.
Milton Rev. W. C. Mitchell.
Waitsburg Rev. J. S. Anderson.
Asotin Rev. John La Cornu.
Pomeroy Rev. N. E. Parsons.
Dayton Rev. Walter S. Skipworth
Walla Walla Circuit James Greens-
dale.
Dixie Rev; Richardson.
Lewiston Rev. Henry Brown.
Walla Walla Rev. W. C. Renter.
The Dalles Rev. J. H. Wood.
Moscow Rev. G. M. Booth.
Colfax Rev. Todd.
Spokane, First church Rev. P,
R,
Cool.
Enterprise Rev. W. Deweese. Tues
day's Pendleton Tribune.
The Boatmen's Strike.
There has been a general strike of the
deck hands on the river boats on tbe
lower river for some time, but it did not
affect the D. P. & A. N. Co.'e line nntil
this week. It seems there is some kind
of a union to which nearly all the boat
crews belong, and the strike was ordered
by the nnion. The wages paid by the
D. P. & A. N. were 1(35 per month, and
the hands were satisfied with this and
disliked to quit. At tbe Bame time they
did not like to go back on the union, so
reluctantly walked out, the Regulator
crew quitting Monday night, and that
of the Dalles City Tuesday night. Tbe
boats left on time with new crews, and
while the-work is new to most of them,
they will be on to their jobs in a few
days.
Blank Bound Over.
W. M. Blank, the man who in his
sleep beat his companion, Butcheck, so
badly, an account of which we printed
Wednesday, was arrested last night and
this morning bad bis preliminary exam-.
ination before Recorder Sinuott, he be
ing charged with assault with a deadly
weapon. He was bound over to await
the action of the grand jury, with bonds
fixed at $200. Butcheck seems to stand
tbe terrible beating he got without any
complaint, remarking to our reporter
this morning that his head "felt mnch
better." As we looked at tbe pulpy
mass Dr. Sutherland was working on
Wednesday when he was dressing Butch-
eck's scalp, we were forced to the con
clusion that that same scalp was stuffed'
with a cannon ball.
"So that young man wants, to marry
you?" said Ma Die's father.
"Yes," was the reply.
"Do you know how much his ealary
is?"
"No. But it's an awfully strange co
incidence." "What do you mean?"
"Herbert asked tbe very some ques
tion about you." Washington Star.
Cash In Your cheeks.
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 Treasnrer.
A THUMPING SOMNAMBULIST.
Beats a Traveling Companion Nearly to
Death While Asleep.
ur. sntneriana Wednesday bad a
piece of .crazy-quilt patchwork in tbe
surgery line that is seldom equaled
The man who furnished, the job was
Henry Butcheck, who hails from near
Corvallie, tbe work covering the entire
scalp, which was cut in twenty places,
and there would have been more if many
of tbe cuts bad not been of tb9 confluent
kind. When we called at the doctor's
office he was engaged in giving tbe man
a hair cut under serious difficulties, pre
paratory to stitching and dressing tbe
gaping wounds. Where there were no
cuts the scalp was a pulp, and it was
all done by a friend and traveling com
panion of Butcbeck's, with an iron bar
and without malice.
Butcheck says that he and his friend
had been working near Dillon, Montana,
and were beating their way home by the
box-car route. Tbe friend carried ' an
iron bar to dsfend himself against tbe
brakemen in case they were too forcible
in inviting them off the trains. Butch
eck's companion is an acute somnambu
list, a areamer .ot a reams to some pur
pose, for, in the early hours of morning,
about an hour before tbe train arrived
here, this friend, so be told Butcheck,
dreamed a brakeman was choking him
andg trying to put him off the train ;
that to defend himself be grabbed the
iron bar aforesaid and began slathering
away at his antagonist. Unfortunately
for Butcheck the brakeman was only a
vision, but be was a tangible reality.
Tbe blows disturbed Butcheck, and
finally awakened him, and then the
other fellow woke up and the trouble
ceased, tbe man who did the beating
abandoning his companion, probably
fearing that he would get into trouble.
Butcheck, however, believes tbe story
of the dream, and says that his friend is
a good fellow.
From the appearance of tbe man's
head, bis friend is an artist in the fight
ing line, and, judging by tbe work done
while he was asleep, he would be a terror
if awake.
MISSED THE SCOOP.
Our Reporter Catches On. Bnt the. Gig
gling Hello-Girl Switches Him.
As we sat in our den last night about
10 o'clock, we- heard a voice faint and
far away, and applying our best ear to
the telephone, we were delighted to find
that the hello-girl had accidentally, or
otherwise, connected us with the 'phone
in tbe Perkins hotel private parlor.
With an eye single for news, we glued
our auricular appendage to the instru
ment, and, recognizing tbe well-known
voices of Senator McBride and Repre
sentatives Tongue and Ellis, a vision of
glorious scoop danced tantalizingly
through our mind.
"Beauty," said McBride, "may be a
fatal gift, but it isn't in it with the gift
ot having patroaage to give."
"True! Too true!" asseverated the
classical Tongue. "The golden apple
inscribed 'To tbe most beautiful,'
raised h 1 in the mythological heaven
3,000 years ago, and tbe lady who got
the prize lost her reputation thereby,
while Paris, who recommended her for
the prize, got only a grass widow as a
reward and was killed over her,"
"My friends," said Ellis, in a may-it
please-the-court tone of voice, "you are
dealing in reminiscences of an obsolete
mythology, legendary lore, that comes
ghost-like from the mists of superstition,
that fades into the dreamless chaos be
fore time was or eternity began. Who
the dickens cares who got the apple,
any way ; nobody wants apples. This is
the plum season, and the fellows who
do not get plums, and that pretty Boon,
you will find full of prunes. Let's get
down to business and shake the fruit
trees. I, for one, am in favor of recom
mending for district attorney a candi
date from one side of the Cascades, and
for U. S. marshal one from tbe other
side, and I therefore propose the names
of
Here the hello-girl switched us off,
and all the satisfaction we could get in
response to our anguishing demands to
be coupled on again, was tbe mocking
answer from that same girl, who sang to
us: "Hello! Hello! Hell o-Hell "
And then she giggled. It was the Port
land hello girl, of course.
SHEEPMEN'S SUITS DISMISSED.
But They Must Be Careful In Pasturing
Stock on Reserves.
Acting under instructions from Attor
ney-General McKenna United States
Attorney Murphy yesterday dismissed
seven suits against sheepmen who have
been enjoined from driving and pastur
ing their herds upon the Cascade forest
reserve. The defendants were under or
ders to appear, and show cause why the
injunctions should not be made perma
nent; but the cases were held in abey
ance pending contemplated legislation,
which, when it was enacted,. rendered
further proceedings in the cases neces
sary. Consequently, the - suits have
been dismissed. The names of the de
fendants are as follows: Tygh Valley
Land & Livestock Company, John Sherar,
John Karlin, A. S. and C. H. Roberts,
William Wiley, E. A. Griffin and
Thomas Harris. The dismissal of the
suits will be very gratifying to tbe de
fendants ; but the order for the dismissal
is accompanied by the following extract
from the act passed June 4, 1897, to
1
ft lnslU each two ouace bag
. rmMi' ' Mt andtwo coupon, inside each
KlfyTLl Mf - I four ounce bagof BlackweU'a
' ' U I H I W JLy. J ""WP'I ill ' Durham. Buy a bag of this
HIITTUF WW -israfwlW it fk t celebrated tobacco and read
LOU I InL -JSiM the coupon-which gives a
pp., ilalr- &$0t7h) hst of valuable prisents and
GENUINE (CW how to get them.
which the attorney-general calls the at
tention of all sheepmen : 7
'Owners ' of sheep are required to
make application to the commissioner of
the general land office for permission to
pasture, stating the number of sheep
and the location on the reserve where it
is destined to graze. Permission will be
refused or revoked whenever It shall ap
pear that sheep are pastured on parts of
the reserves especially liable to injury,
or upon and in the vicinity of the Bull
Run reserve, Crater lake. Mount Hood,
Mount Rainier, or other well-known
places of public resort, or reservoir sup
ply. Permission will also ceaaer upon
proof of neglect as to the care of fires
made by herders, or of the violation by
them of any of the forest reserve regu
lations." Tuesday's Oregonian.
CONCERNING TITLES. J
In America They Are Only Conreniences,
Handles to Jugs, Balls to Buckets.
Tbe Arlington Record finds fault with
the title of "Colonel" worn by E. W.
Enos. The Record must have been
asleep for lo ! these many years. Has it
not heard of Col. L. L. Hawkins ot Port
land? Has it not seen a member of our
own pencil pushing fraternity suddenly
promoted fiom "Jim" to Col. Eddy?
Does it not know that titles for an
American indicate no more than they
do for an American book? Does it not
know that two-thirds of out lawyers are
".Judges," and two-thirdB of the judges
are not lawyers?
What is a title anyway? In this
country it is often but a nickname,
placed before the surname for conveni
ence and euphony, just as a handle is
placed on a jug or a bail on a pot. Col.
Enos is easier than Mr. E. W. and it
somehow fits ths dignity of the old gen
tleman, just as "Col." sounds better
than "Jim" when epeakingg of an offi
cial gentleman. Outside of this every
day c invenience, titles are no good any
way, but if used in full become a nuis
ance. For instance. Lieutenant 'Smith
gets brevetted captain for meritorious
services, and afterwards in the absence
of the Commissary of Subsistence is de
tailed to the position. Lieutenant Smith
is married, of course, to a - most charm
ing woman. Being charming she likes
to let her friends enjoy her company
and their own, and so gives a social
function. Her title then to be punctil
ious would be "Mrs. Lieutenant and
Brevet Captain, and Acting Assistant
Commissary of Subsistence Smith." It
is obvious that the purpose of -the
title would now be lost, and that the
title itself would be cumbersome. . The
handle would be too large for the jug.
It is wise therefore to consider titles
not for what they mean, but as a sort
of handie to the official umbrella, the
button which we may push, the door
bell which we may ring in approaching
our fellow beings. What would our
handsome young Oregonian, Robert
Miller, be without the arabeeque decora
tion of "Col. Bob?"
The olden times, tbe days of chivalry
and courtesy, was generous of titles
military and judicial, ' and Colonels,
Majors. Captains, Generals and Judges
were as thick in societies upper crust, as
1,000,000 People
IN the United States now enjoying food cooked in the MA-
1 JESTIC affirm that the half has not been said in its
praise. The manufacturers of this Range pledge them
selves that all parts of the MAJESTIC except the firebox
and the new series Nos. 201 to 212, are made of steel and mal
leable iron, and purchasers are assured that it is as good and
as honest as skilled labor and money can produce. If the parts
now in malleable iron were (as in other eo-called steel ranges)
made of cast iron, the price could be greatly reduced ; but the
MAJESTIC is not made with a view to furnishing extra
parts for repairs.
MAYS & CROWE,
flies around a molasses barrel in tb.3
sunny South.
The title fits our old friend Enos like a
sixteenrbutton kid glove does a society
girl's hand, and be sustains it with dig
nity, aplomb and all that sort of thing.
University Clef Clnb.
The entertainments which Dalles tal
ent furnishes are of Buch a high stand
ard of excellence, that our citizens have
become exacting, and often hesitate to .
attend these given by traveling concert
companies for fear of being disappoint
ed. Any one who may have gone to th
entertainment given by tbe University
Clef Clubat the M. E. church Wednesday
night, with such an expectation, was
certainly disappointed, but most pleas
antly. The four young ladies composing
the club have exceptionally fine voices.
and each number rendered was a gem
in itself, so much so that it would be
impossible to select any one as the best,
for the severest critic could find no flaw
in the melody. The solo by Miss Rose
Manning, "Good Bye Sweet Day," was
beautiful, the young lady possessing a
rich contralto voice, and showing tbe
very best of cultivation.
Miss Caughran as an elecutionist has
the art so thoroughly mastered that yon
lose sight of the art and see only the
character represented. She is particu
larly good in dialect selections, and as
she gave a representation of the gossipy
old woman, one began to feel uneasy for
fear they might be the next to come un
der the tongue lash.
These young ladies are traveling in
tbe interest of the university at Tacoma,
having spent their vacation giving con
certs. Funeral of Lewis I. Alnsworth.
The funeral of the late Lewis D. Ains
worth took place Wednesday afternoon at
4 o'clock from the residence of G. W.
Rowland, corner of Fourth and Laughlin
streets. The services were simple, and
the sermon was preached by Rev. J. H.
Wood. The choir. Mrs. Varney, Miss
Georgia Sampson, Dr. Doane and Mr.
C. J. Crandall, sang "Come Unto Me"
and "Herein Is Love." The interment
took place in Sunset cemetery with tbe
usual ceremonies.
Lewis D. Ainsworth was a young man
of fine attainments, of kindly and gener
ous disposition, upright, honest and
honorable, and being what he was, he had
few if any acquaintances who were not
called by-the nearer and dearer term of
friends. Had he been granted health,
his career would have been one that
would have honored him and bis, bnt
at the threshold of active life disease
closed all the gateways, all hope for
achievement, and forced him to give up
all aspirations almost before they budd
ed. Uncomplainingly he passed awav,
but be left the impress of his character
on all who knew him. ,
"What an Earthquake Is.
In the course of a sermon a negro
preacher in Georgia, touching on the
subject of earthquakes, said: "Oh, my
sinful hearers, a yearthquakeis nothin
mo' ner less den dis: Hell done got
tired waitin' fer you, en gone ter sleep,
en wake up yawnin'!" ' '
Sole Agents.