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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 15. 1897.
The Weekly Chronicle.
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF WASCO COUNTY.
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
Saturdays Daily. ''
Work begins Monday remodeling
Commercial Club.
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On Wednesday, Sept. 15th, thej-rteamer
Dalles City will leave The Dalles at 7 a.
m.
We understand a bowling alley is to
be built in the East End. The mere
the merrier. .
Stevenson is to have a saw mill,
, which is an indication of the steady
growth oi that little town. '
The local wheat market is firm today,
at SO cents. There was no change this
morning over last night's quotations.
Work is rapidly progressing on the
new D. P. & A. N. wbarfboat for Lyle
landing, and it will be soon towed to its
destination.
. Harvesting is makiug great headway
in all parts of Eastern Oregon. A con pie
of weeks more of this kind of weather
- and we will be ready for rain.
Quite a number of families are mov
ing into town preparatory to the open
ing of school. Mr. J. C. O'Leary and
family of Sherman county have taken
the Bettingen house on Fourth street.
The Columbia Southern nave an
nounced a rate on grain from Wasco to
Biggs of 75 cents a ton. This makes a
tariff to Portland from Wasco of $3 a ton
and to San Francisco $5.25. The new
road will be very busy dnring the pres
ent wheat eeason.
Following is the bowling record at the
Commercial Clnb for the present week:
Sunday, Jndge Bradshaw, 55 ; Monday,
John Hampshire, 53, 1. J. Norman, 53;
Tuesday. F. W. Wilson, 51; Wednesday,
H. H. Biddell, 48; Thursday, John
Hampshire, 45; Friday, Will Vogt, 62.
- The river front looked lively this
morning, with four large wood scows
discharging cargoes and a score of car
penters at work on the new Lyle wharf-
. boat. The Regulator was taking on a
large load of freight and passengers,
while the ferry boat was making con
stant trips to and fro bringing over
wheat teams from Klickitat county.
The scene at the departure of the
Regulator this morning was a very ani
mated one. The passenger list was
large, over sixty travellers being on
board. The lower deck was crowded
- with freight, there being 400 sacks of
bran and sixty cattle for Portland. In
addition there was a large amount of
way freight. The trip to Portland by
water is becoming more popular as its
-delights are more widely known.
TT-.J Ti 1 . 1 .
xioou civernas gone into tue iroui rais
ing business and hopes to be as success
ful in that line as it is in raising straw
berries. Prof. P. A. Snyder some time
ago made a request of the .United States
commission for 2000 brook trout, with
which to stock the mountain streams,
and last Monday he received a letter
from Commissioner Brice stating that
Arrangements had been made to have
the trout delivered at Hood River within
forty days. It would be well if his ex
ample could be followed and other
streams in the county be restocked
me dorse belonging to John tilloon
created a good deal of excitement last
night by showing how faBt he could go
down the street without a driver. The
animal, which is uaually a very gentle
one, was standing on Court street, when
it suddenly took a notion in his head to
rnn and run be did. The buggy soon
lost its. hind wheels and trailed down
the street like the rear end of a cyclone.
The harness gave way and the horse
struck out on its own hook to take a trip
in the country. The damage was con
siderable, though fortunately no one
' was hart.
Monday's Daily.
County court has adjourned until
Monday, October 4th.
Prineville will have five days of racing
beginning October 28th.
The wharfboat is crowded with wool,
and shipments will be heavy for several
days. -
There is no change in the local wheat
market, the price remaining at eighty
cents.
Sunday was the prettiest day of the
season and everyone who could was out
of doors to enjoy it.
The Dalles City took 130 bales of wool
to Portland today. Thirty head of cattle
were consigned to Troutdale.
Nearly everyone having returned from
their summer outings, all the churches
report good audiences yesterday. ,
Prineville will " haye an advanced
20th, and will possibly continue for
eight months. Prof. Ullery of Canfield,
Ohio, has been secured to take charge of
the school.
The 3-Mile school, Dist. . 24, at Seth
Morgan's, will commence on Monday,
Sent. 20th. with Minnie Etlon teacher.
The enrollment of scholars in the
public school this morning was oil, a
gain of thirty-six over the first day of
last year. t
The handsome residence of Mr. E. O.
McCoy is receiving its dress ot paint
and will be steady for occupancy about
October 1st. f
There seems little fear of a wood fam
ine this winter, as the beach is com
pletely covered now and a scow load ar
rives every day or two.
The Dalles Lumbering Co. intend
moving this week to the Wingate build
ing on Second street. This change was
made necessary by the Commercial Club
having rented all of the Grant building.
Pendleton is agitating the project of
establishing a distillery. Hezekiah
Keys has been in that city since Thurs
dav interviewing business men regard
ing the plan, and is meeting witti good
success.
The new building built for Mr. Wolf
in the East End is a handsome addition
to our business houses. The plans were
drawn and the work' superintended by
Contractor A. Anderson, and be may
well feel proud of his work..
The Regulator received her annual in
spection yesterday in Portland and was
granted papers for the ensuing year.
The Dalles City will be inspected on her
arrival in Portland Wednesday. ' Both
these boats have done honest service and
deserve the best the inspectors can give
them.
The public schools began their session
this morning with an increased attend
ance. The enrollment is not yet com
plete. Bright faced children wera seen
hurrying to school this morning, in
eager anticipation of renewing pleasant
associations and incidentally doing some
studying. ' . ; w '
Now is the time to hustle for the fair.
There can be no excuse for not holding
the beet meeting we haye ever had
There is plenty of money in the country
and everybody is in good humor over
the present prosperity. Little time can
be lost, however, in arranging the neces
sary preliminaries.
Sheepmen report the grass as getting
very dry in the mountains, and the
sheep will be brought in early this fall
The rain of the last few days will start
the grass and this may slightly change
the time for coming home. Antelope
Herald.
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The Bible Institute Colportage Asso
ciation, D. L. Moody president, is m
need of more col porters. Earnest young
people desiring to give the whole or a
portion of their time to Christian work,
with remuneration, should address A.
P. Fitt, Supt., Box X, 250 La Salle Ave,
Chicago, for particulars.
Many complimentary remarks are
heard concerning the sermon of Rev. W
C. Curtis at the Congregational church
yesterday morning. Had we the space,
we should gladly publish it. The ser
vices at the Episcopal church, were en
hanced by the singing of Miss DeForrest,
whose voice caused delight in all who
heard her.
Miss Carrie St. John wishes to an
nounce that she has returned from her
summer outing and is again established
at the dressmaking department of A.
M. Williams & Co., where she will be
pleased to meet her many old, as well as
new, friends and customers. Orders
with goods bought elsewhere will receive
our prompt attention as well. A. M.
Williams Co.. . .
Fletch Faulkner and John Hampshire
have gone into the horse trading business.
They have purchased a thoroughbred
Hambleallamont" for $15 and are so sat
isfied with their prize that they are going
to start a man out in the country to see
if his mate cannot be found. They in
tend sending him on the racing circuit
this season and ship him to Klondike in
the spring.
A great many Dalles people are in
teresting themselves in mining and as a
person walks along the street they hear
frequent references to nuggets, quartz,
dividends, big things, etc., till the need
of a mining bureau becomes apparent.
We sincerely hope our friends willstrike
it rich and then spend their money in
The Dalles. There can be no doubt but
that some large fortunes are going to be
made in Oregon mines and the com
ing year will see some revelations.
- The desire has been expressed by
many people that the Commercial Club
in arranging its new improvements will
make provision for a swimming tank.
The bnilding they haye leased is well
suited for the building of a tank, as the
excavation is already made. Swimming
is a pleasant sport and healthful recrea
tion, but .little of it is done here, be
cause of the Columbia's waters being so
cold. It is a dangerous, as well as an
unpleasant stream in which to swim.
Should the club put in a natatorium it
would be the chief attraction during the
summer months.
Tuesday's Daily.
Wheat market remains stationary at
eighty cents.
Mrs. McNiel is building a new resi
dence ou , the bluff, just north of Mr.
Nielsen's houee.
Eastern Oregon can ring the changes
on the weather as quickly as any coun
try. Sunday was one of the prettiest
days of the year, but today has gone to
the other extreme. . '. , '
The Regulator took down 316 bags of
wool .this morning, one of the largest
loads she has ever taken. Her cabins
had a good passenger list.
Col. N. B. Sinnottls still confined to
i his home by severe illness. His friends
hope to see him speedily restored tu b
wonted health and feelings. - - ;
Th'e Good Templars will give one of
its socials in the small K. of P. Iiall nex
Saturday evening. ' It is needless to say
tbatit will be an enjoyable one.'
' Mr. W. H. Wilson has purchased the
residence of Mr. Story, on Union street,
and will move in as soon as a new fence
is completed and other alterations made,
The Kindergarten of the Misses Tay
lor has reopened with an increased at
tendance. The little children seem
glad to take up their pleasant work
again. ,.-..'"'.
Only four members of the tournament
executive committee showed op last
night, so the meeting called to arrange
for a ball was off. It is not known
whether any further steps will be taken
in the matter or not.
A Keller is moving his household
goods into his new quarters over the
bakery. Mr. Keller has handsomely
finished the upper story of his brick
building, and the family will occupy it
as a residence hereafter.
Following is the bowling record at
the Umatilla Houbb alley for last week
Monday, H. Maetz, 54 ; Tuesday, Carl
Groehler, 49; Wednesday, Joe Bonn,
53 ; Friday, H. Maetz, 57 ; Saturday, Al.
Esping, 54; Sunday, Flemin7, 57. -
An item appeared in yesterday's
Chronicle to the effect that the enroll
ment of the public schools for the new
year was 116. The error was obvious, as
it has been many a long year since The
Dalles had only that many school chil
dren. The figures should have read 611
The defendants testimony in the di
vorce case of Witham vs.' Witham is be
ing taken before Referee F. D. Hill here
this week. Judge Bradshaw ordered a
double reference and George W. Barnes,
the plaintiff's attorney, is in town today,
and will not likely finish before Thurs
day.
Deeds were filed in the office of the
county clerk today from John Irvine to
Anna L. Irvine, lots A, B, C, D and E,
block 98, Fort Dalles Military Reserva
tion addition to Dalles City ; considera
tion $1. Also from S. B. Phillips, ad
ministrator, to S. B. Cox, lots 11, 12 and
13 in Kmgsley ; consideration $200.
It is now or never about the fair.
This is the year of all others in which
we should hold one. It is a season of
jubilee and with prosperity already at
our feet we should do something to show
our enterprise. A large sum of money
was pledged for the firemen's tourna
ment. Why cannot that money be do
nated to the fair? Times are continu
ally improving and the money can be
spared better now, even than when it
was pledged.
The fish that refused to come last
summer are here at last. The wheels
are catching more than the canneries
can use, and a big waeon loaded with
salmon was brought to town this morn
ing and the fish peddled out for any
price they would bring. All the wheels
and traps are making big catches, but
the returns promise to be very small, as
the canneries have shnt off from general
buying. Mr. Seufert bad to increase
his working force, and even then is un
able to handle what fish are offered.
The carpenters began working this
morning remodeling the Uommercial
Club. It will take several weeks before
the new quarters will be ready for the
members. New alleys will be construct
ed on the first floor, while the up stairs
will be changed in arrangement so that
the social features may have more room
for development.- We are glad to see
the club making improvements, as they
are indicative ot prosperity; but we
trust the business men who compose its
membership will not forget that the
club has important functions to perform
besides those of promoting sociability
among its members. The needs of The
Dalles- are great and pressing, and the
Commercial Club was organized to look
after these necessities, as well as to play
a part in the social life of the town. We
are not criticising, but simply suggest
ing. A. M. Williams & Co. are making
strong pretentions for leadership in
dress goods. Their fall importations
are extremely handsome, especially cer
tain lines of their novelty goods, one of
which deserves special mention. It is
three-toned, all-wool check of latest
colorings, thirty-six inches wide, and
sells at 45 cents per yard. It is always
interesting to read about an article of
which you know. . We refer in this case
to a line of-Habit or IadieB cloths clip
per sackings showed by this firm. It
is of excellent weight and finish, strictly
all-wool, and can be had in plain or
mixed color; is fifty inches wide, and
sells at 39 cents per yard. In spite of
the recent advance on all woolen goods,
A. M. Williams & Co., by early and for
tunate purchases, are enabled to offer
this and similar lines at prices decidedly
below those of last season. You are in
vited to call and examine them.
Nebraska corn for sale at the Wasco
warehouse. Best feed on earth. ni9-tf
TALKS ABOUT THE OALLES.
The Pendleton Tribune Gives The Dalles
Some Pretty Straight Talk. How
Does It Strike Yon?
According to The Dalles papers that
city is considerably exercised over the
movement that has recently been inst:
tuted in Pendleton, looking to the estab
lishment of a fair association. Fear is
expressed by the Times-Mountaineer
and the Chronicle lest Pendleton ask
that the next district fair meeting be
held here and for the $1500 appropriated
by the state each year to be offered as
premiums. And why should not Pen
dleton petition the district fair commis
sioners to do this very thing, pray? The
four state appropriations of $1500 each
are for four district fairs two in South
era Oregon and two in Eastern Oregon
No appropriation was ever intended es
pecially for The Dalles. The first East
ern Oregon district .comprises the coun
ties of .Baker, Union, Malbeua, Grant
and Wallowa: and the second Umatilla,
Wasco, Gilliam, Morrow, Sherman and
Crook. A commissioner appointed by
the county court of each of these coun
ties comprise what is called the Eastern
Oregon District Agricultural Societies,
The commissioners thus appointed meet
once a year and designate the place of
meeting in each district. In the first
district fairs have been held at Baker
City, La Grande and Prairie City, rut
The Dalles is the only point in the sec
ond district where a fair has ever been
held and that city has had the benefit
of the state's annual appropriation of
$1500 for the past nine years, or $13,500
in all. Why, then, should not Pe'ndle
ton now ask for the meeting, ai d with
very good reason to believe she would
get it?
In speaking of the matter over which
The Dalles has become so seriously
alarmed, the Chronicle says that with
out the $1500 state appropriation, no
meeting could be held in Wasco county
The proposition in- Pendleton is quite
different. Here a number of represen
tative citizens have concluded to organ
ize a fair association, feeling confident
that such an undertaking would be of
great benefit to the community and
could "be made a financial success. To
that end a stock company will be organ
zed with a- capital of $25,000. This
amount will all be paid in, grounds pur
chased, a tract built, buildings erected
and a fair held, regardless of the state
appropriation of $1500. This item was
not considered or thought of when the
matter was first talked np and is not
now considered of vital importance.
However, since ' attention has been
drawn to the subject by The Dalles
press, and since Umatilla county is a
part of the district, and the richest and
most populous county in Eastern Ore
gon, since Pendleton is the foremost city
and the geographical center of the In
land Empire, since The Dalles has had
the benefit of $13,500 state appropria
tion and Pendleton never a cent, the
district commissioners will, in all prob
ability, be asked to designate Pendleton
as the place of meeting of the Eastern
Oregon District Apricultural Society in
1898. Pendleton Tribune.
GOOD WORDS FOR THE DALLES
What Is Said Abroad About Oar Thriv
ing City Some Good Advertising.
General Agent Harder, of the Great
Northern railroad, always puts in a good
word for The Dalles, and as he is a man
who travels widely and observes closely
wherever be goes, what ' be says has
more weight than any other means of
advertising. All the statements made
in the following interview, published in
yesterday's Oregonian, are true, and are
well worth the perusal of any one with
capital looking for an investment:
I found a general feeling of returning
prosperity pervading all classes. The
recent rains have done no damage of
any amount to , the crops. In some
counties where much grain was yet
standing, it was thought that the rains
would bleach the berry ; but such is not
the case. All is turning out in the best
of condition, and the yield is enormous,
in some places over fifty bushels to the
acre. '
At The Dalles everything is humming,
all the merchants are busy shipping
goods in all directions by team into the
interior. Farmers and ranchers are
pouring into the place with wheat,
which they readily dispose of at eighty
cents a bushel. Wool shipments have
been going East for several weeks, all
the buyers having purchased their quota
and lelt for home. W. E. Jones, part
ner of the firm of Hollowell & Dona'd in
Boston, is the largest shipment, and is
still grading and baling, his output
amocnting to over ",000,000 pounds.
He expects to finish in about ten days.
The Dalles Commission Company has
shipped a large quantity of green "fruit,
which has realized good' prices in the
East. Considerable cattle and sheep
traffic has been going on all summer,
but during the next two months ranch
ers and stockmen expect to make very
heavy fall hi patents to Kansas City and
Chicago. Portland and the Sound "cities
also draw their supplies of cattle and
sheep from this secjtion. Hogs are very
scarce in Oregon and Vasbington.
Prices of all kinds of live stock have
advanced in sympathy with all other
commodities, and stock-raisers feel very
comfortable over the prices tiiey now re
alize as compared with those of a year
ago before McKinley was elected.
Fall salmon-packing has also begun at
The Dalles. Mr. F. A. Seufert started his
fish wheels on the morning of the 10th,
and in less than twenty-four hours he
had secured over thirty tons of silver
side salmon. He reports the Columbia
teeming with fish, and expects to put np
many thousand cases.
The Dalles is a Bmart city, being the
distributing point for a vast territory in
all directions. Its merchants are a live
and progressive lot of men, fully - deter-
1,000,000 -People
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N the United States now enjoying food cooked in the MA
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 so-calted 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. J
MAYS & CROWE.
Sole Agents.
mined to make their city an
important
every in-
commercial centnr, and with
dication of success. .
The Weather and Crops.
With a continuation of the present
fine weather, harvesting will be nearly
done in about three weeks. The farm
ers are making strenuous efforts tu eet
their grain under cover and Sunday
threshers were at work in all sections.
Never before in the history of the North
west was there greater need for a good
crop and the present harvest has filled
all anticipations. Following is the gov
ernment report of the conditions in
Eastern Oregon.
Weather The showers ceased in the
Columbia River valley on Wednesday
and in the interior counties on Thursday
night. The total rainfall fof the Showery
period was from 1 to 1.50 inches in the
Columbia River valley, and less than
one-half inch in the interior counties.
The rainfall, for the past week was from
ldtoO.dOin the Columbia River val
ley, and about one-quarter inch in the
nterior counties. The mean tempera
ture for. the week was 59 in the valley
and 51 in the interior, being 1 and 3,
respectively, lower than for the preced
ing week. The highest temperature dnr
ing the week was 78, on Sunday; the
lowest 46 in the valley and 36 in the
interior, on Thursday; in the latter sec
tion, frosts were quite general on
Wednesday and Saturday. The first
snow of the season fell on the moun
tains of Grant county on Friday.
Crops The rains' did little damage to
the grain crop, and no damage to bops
and fruit. In portions of Umatilla and
Union counties some of the grain was
softened, which makes it not so good for
milling purposes, but for shipping it has
not been injured. The harvest is prac
tically over and threshing continues to
be active. The major portion of the
grain crop is now being hauled to ware
houses and stations for shipment to tide
wafer. The grain is moving nicely and
no wheat blockade is anticipated." Fall
plowing and seeding have commenced in
most sections. The fruit crop is being
gathered, dried and shipped. The best
trait crop in years i. ., pears, peaches,
prunes, and apples is reported from all
sections.
The third crop of alfalfa is being
gathered; throughout the stock country
a. big supply of hay is on hand for win
ter use. ihe rains have started ' the
grass and the ranges are. improving.
The stock is being driven from the sum
mer ranges to the foothills.
The Dalles FostoStce Mentioned.
There are three chairman of county
committees in Eastern Oregon who are
pplicants for office. Chairman Potter
of Baker county wants the postoffice at
Baker City ; Chairman Livermore of
Umatilla county tbe registership of the
La Grande land office, and Chairman
Patterson of Wasco county tbe postoffice
at The Dalles. The term of the present
Three Trainloads oL...
STEEL
SUPERIOR
RANGES
Have been sold already this 3'ear. All prices,
From $30.00 up.
EightT styles, from small family size to as
'large as wanted.
There are more Scperior Stoves and Ranges in use in this
territory than nil other makes of Stoves. combined. This is con
clusive evidence of the superiority of Bridge & Beach Co.'s cele
brated Superior .Stoves and Ranges. On eale at
MAIER & BENTON,
J Sole agents
P 1 THE
register at the La Grande office expired
on September 2d, but no recommenda
tion for the appointment of bis successor .
has been made, and the chances are not s
favorable for the recognition of Mr.
Livermore. There are half a dozen ap
plicants for the Baker City postoffice
and althongh B. T. Potter, chairman of
the Republtcan central committee, did
excellent work during the spring audi
fall campaigns of last year, his chances
of being selected for postmaster are- not
the brightest. Chairman Patterson has
no opposition as yet at The Dalles. Tbe
term of Postmaster Crossen does not ex
pire for some months to come, but be
fore it does there may be other appli
cants for tbe place than Mr. Patterson r
which would likely prove pleasant to
Representative Ellis, as, so far, be baa
not expressed himself in favor of the
present chairman of the county com
mittee. Oregonian.
.The Oregon Game Law.
Here is Oregon's game law in a- nnt
shell. . Game and fish can be killed
only during the , following season-:
Grouse, Mongolian pheasants and quail,
September 1st to Debember 1st. Prairie
chickens, Jnly 1st to October 1st. Wild
ducks and water fowls, September 1st
to March 15th. Deer, mountain sheep,
etc., August 1st to December 1st. Kill
ing for hides or parts of carcass only is
prohibited. Killing spotted fawn is pro
hibited. East of the Cascades it is un
lawful to kill at any time Chinese pheas
ants, quail or Bob White quail. Trout,
April 1st to November 1st. Salmon,
December 15th to November 1st. Ex
plosives to kill fish, nets, seins, obstruc
tions to free passage of fish, etc., pro
hibited. -
' Taxpayers. Attention.
This is my last aud fi iul call to you,
as the county court has issued an .im
perative order. . .
By virtue of a warrant to me directed,
issued, by the clerk of the county court
of tbe state of Oregon for the county ot
Wasco, commanding me to collect the
delinquent. ' county, state and other '
taxes, I will, on the 1st day of October,
1S97, without further notice, levy upon
and sell all property upon which taxes
remain unpaid. T. J. Driver,
Sheriff.
BueKlen's Arinu salve.
The best salve in the world for cute,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fevei
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cui s piles, or no pay required
It is "guaranteed to give perfect satisfac
tion, or money refunded. Price 25 centa
per box. For sale oy Blakeley and
Hongbton. druggists.
for SUPERIOR Steel Ranges,
DALLES, OREGON.