C3)
THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1S97.
The Weekly .GhroMele.
TUB DALLES.
- OB BOON
OFFICIAL PAPEE OF WASCO COUNTY.
Published in two parti, on Wednesday
and Saturdays.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. -
BT MAIL, POSTAGE TRXTA.ID, IK ADVAHC.
One year
Six months
Three months..
II 60
75
60
Advertising rates reasonable, and made known
on application.
' Address all communications to "THF OHBON
ICLK," The liaUes, Oregon. ,
Telephone -Yo. 1.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Saturday's Daily. ;
Two carloads of cattle were shipped
from the Btock yards today to Trontdale.
The Dallea City took a hundred too a
of Wasco county wheat to Portland to
day. Hood Biyer ia ' making elaborate
preparations for the fruit fair to be held
there in October.
Captain' Hosford's steamer, the lone,
' will make her first trip next week,
arriving here Wednesday. '
S. M. Chase, better known aa IT. F.
Sam, is delighting the citizens of Hepp-
ner with his b-flat fiddlt.
Heppner ia having a little mining ex
citement of its own, a ledge having been
discovered about twenty, miles from
town that assays $3 to $50 per ton.
The East End is a moving mass of
horses and wagons, men and boys, all
engaged . in moving Wasco county's
wheat crop, and the warehouses axe rap
idly tilling up.
The Commercial Club ia somewhat
backward about bowling the outsiders,
and there may be method in their delay.
At the Umatila house alleys this
week, the lowest score of the record
makers was 58, the highest G3.
The big wheat crop is making its re
sults visible, the warehouses being
crowded with teams unloading, what a
miner might call "the farmers' concen
trates." The golden-grained wheat is
bringing eighty cents a bushel, making
everybody happy.
Jim Langille and son, Doug., came in
from McCoy creek during the week.
Their shaft ia down sixty-two feet, with
good indicatione of being near bedrock.
. They were out of grub, which compelled
them to come home, and they will not
return until next spring. .
Pease & Maya tody received a. con
signment of beans that would be a credit
to Boston. There waa a whole- carload,
twelve tons, 24,000 pounds of these min
ers' delights and household necessities.
As it takea quite a number of beans to
' weigh an ounce, some curiona person
might figure out the number of beana in
the lot.
The Dallea had no celebration July
4th, it abandoned the firemen's tourna
ment, and now it ia probable the an
nual meeting of the fair association will
also be abandoned, and Pendleton will
git it. The matter depends' upon the
collections that can be made for the pur
pose of hanging up purses, and so far the
committee ia meeting, with very poor
success.
L. E. Morse was up from White Sal
mon last night, and his genial smile
served to dispel the darkness and take
the place of the electric light that we do
not possess. s At the boat this morning
be incidentally remarked that the fish
ing in the White Salmon waa at its best,
and that the fish are so ravenous that
the fisherman has to take hia hook be
hind a tree to bait it.
Latest reports from Ireland confirm
the statements of the threatened desti
tution there from the destruction of the
crops. The devastation is not confined
to a certain district, but includes all sec
tions of the island. Not since 1847 has
the condition been so serious. The at
tention of the government is urged in
anticipation of the destitution and fam
ine which is imminent.
A very rare specimen of an owl ia on
exhibition in Eugene. It , ia what is
known among ornithologists aa the
monkey owl, its face bearing a very
striking resemblance to the monkey. It
waa captured by George Smith at
Coburg,- after he had broken a wing.
Thia owl ia rareiy eeen away from Africa,
to which it ia native, and it is a question
bow it came to iub vicinity, says the
Eugene Register.
Mr. A. B. Jonea returned Wednesday
from a trip to Grand forks, B. C. He
fcund that town rather quiet, for the
reason that most of the people were out
prospecting. Some rich finds in quartz
have recently been made. He saw his
son, Frank, M. F. Sloper and Thomas
Lacey, all doing well. Mr. Jonea ia the
owner of a placer claim in the heart of
the city, He has leased eleven other
claims and will go to work on them as
soon aa he can wind up hia business
here and return. Glacier.
If a man has a two-dollar bull pup he
looks after it carefully and does not
allow it to roam all over town at night,
but if he has a boy it ia differept. He is
turned loose at an early age to go to the
devil, and then the people wonder where
the army ol tramps, bums, dead beats,
loafers, gamblers and drunkards came
from. They are germinated from poor
seed gathered from our streets and
alleys. It may be that your boy is
making a growth in that' direction. At
all events the boy should be given an
equal showing with the ' bull pup.
Agriculturist.
A report has been sect out from Eddy
ville. on Yaqnina bay, that two miles
and a half from there, on the Dutton
place, a gold quartz discovery haa been
made that causes great excitement in
Lincoln county. Mining claims, under
United States law, 1500x600 feet, have
been filed lot over three miles in length'
of the raDVon. . One of the claims on tile
at Toledo ia named Prosperity. G. W,
Buford , of Yaqnina, an experienced
miner, has ju9t returned from the ledges
of the .Little Elk, and declares it to be
largely a decomposed quartztte and
propbyry rock bearing from $13 to $35 to
the ton. A big water power is supplied
by the falls of the canyon, sufficient to
work the mines. To the south is a
large tract of government land, and east
ia railroad land. The mine is 20 miles
east of Toledo. .
A lady's shoe, found some place in
California, has been started the rounds
of the express offices of the coast, pre
sumably in search of its owner. It haa
at least a hundred tags on it, containing
the comments of the express agents,
some of which are very bright. Most of
the tags are done up in metrical feet,
some of which fit the shoe. It ia a num
ber 3, and the lady who lost it has no
idea of the fame the dainty little piece of
foot-wear haa earned. Of course it ia a
long stretch of the imagination to try to
fill that ahoe up, or to build from so
slender a foundation the blessed little
creature who at one time tripped the
streets of some California town inside
of it. . Oar own impression as we gazed
at it waa that its owner weighed 116
pounds, bad blue eyes and black hair,
and that her name was; Dennis.
Monday's Daily.
. Crispettes. ' .
Crispettes are delicious.
Crispettes are sold by Pease & Mays.
Crispettes will be eaten by everybody,
and are only five cents a package at
Pease & Maya.'
Two hoboes were up before Recorder
Sinnott this morning, one being fined
$5 and the other $10.
The WaBCO warehouse is being filled
with wheat, and still it cornea in as fast
aa men and trucka can store it.
Justice ot the Peace Filloon is moving
his office and also his stock of machinery
to the Hood barn on Second street.
- The Regulator last night brought up a
load of sheep, on their way home from
the summer ranges back of Stevenson.
If you do not know what Crispettes
are, we would advise you. to invest five
cents and find oat. You will never re
gret it, and you will want more. Peaee
& Mays sell them. i
The Commercial Club is having its
rooms re-modeled, and among other im
provements a porch erected over the new
new entrance, which is the center of the
building on Washington steeet.
The 8-year-old eon of Louis Camini,
while playing with a cider press yester
day, allowed one of his hands to get
caught in the cogs, and aa a result sev
eral bones in his fingers were broken.
A dispateh from Olympia, Saturday,
states that the state commissioners will
go to Lyle, Klickitat county, October 6th,
to investigate the advisability of selling
shore landa ' there, and of fixing the
price.
The Good Intent Society of the
Methodiat church will meet at the home
of Mrs. Wm. Micbell Wednesday after
noon. All ladiea of the congregation,
and particularly members of the society,
are requested to be present.
The first rehearsal of the opera "Pina
fore," which will be given in the early
part of October, waa held Saturday night
at the residence of Mra. Schenck. Judg
ing from the manifest enthusiasm,
Dallea people are to have a treat.
Deputy Sheriff Kelly, who has been
looking after the prairie chickena on hia
ranch, presented a number of hia friends
with a brace of birds each, but they have
not received them yet, owing to the per
son by whom they were sent failing to
show up.
The regular overland train, due from
Portland at 1 o'clock, passed through
this morning about 8 :30, having been
delayed at Trontdale. The switch, bad
been left open and the train ran into it,'
derailing several, of the cars. No serious
damage waa done. ' '
Joaquin Miller says he knows a Klon
dike miner, who owns 200 tons of
gold. Something may safely be allowed
for Joaquitt's poetical way of expressing
things, but 200 tona ia too much, to per
mit even Mr. Miller without violating
hia poetical license. .
The city council met Saturday night.
In the matter of granting pei mission to
Captain Hosford to use the foot of Union
street for landing his steamboats, the
matter was referred to the judiciary
committee. The committee on electric
lights reported progress, verbally, and
not being ready to report finally, waa
given further time.
Mr. U. S. Jones died at Dufar Satur
day. Some time ago he injured one of
his legs, an acute case of blood poison
ing resulting. Finally this reached such
a stage that amputution became neces
sary, and the operation was performed
by Dr. Dietrich Saturday morning. Mr.
Jones did not survive the shock, dying
some four or five hours after the opera
tion. " . . '
The Independence city council ia pro
posing to license nearly all kinds of
business at from $10 to $25, those - now
in business being given free licenses.
The point aimed at eeenia to tie that
businesses of many kinds have been so
overdone as to be unprofitaMe for all
concerned, and the ordinance would
deter others from coming in to Eet up
business-except in a permanent war and
where there was a real good opening.
Fen Batty bad an experience in bunt
ing yeeterday that afforded bis com pan
ion much amusement. A big jack rabbit
broke cover and lit out for the elsewhere,
when Fen let go a charge of shot, knock
ing it over. When he went to pick it
up, it was a digger squirrel, shot all to
pieces, and not a rabbit in sight. The
rabbit bad dodged into a hole and the
squirrel bad popped out just in time to
lo3e bis life.
A son of John Hendricks of McMinn
ville, about 18 years old, went out to kill
a chicken with a pistol last Sunday,
The cartridge failing to explode, th'e boy
nnhinged the pistol. The cartridge then
exploded, being defective and slow of
fire, the cap striking the boy in front of
and just above the eye, and the ball
passing out through the barrel of the
pistol. A doctor dressed the wound,
which he thinks will not prove a serious
one to the eyesight.
Some vandal, presumably drunk, since
a sober man would hardly indulge in
such tbings, destroyed the wind gauge
placed by Mr. Brooks upon the D. P. &
A. N. wharf. The instrument was gov
ernment property, Mr. Brooks kindly
volunteering to look after it. All statis
tics of weather are valuable, and the
wretch who deliberately destroyed the
wind gauge should be stood in its place
for twenty-four hours when the thermo
meter is below zero and a Walla Walla
Chinook blowing.
The Pacific Gum Co. of Portland ad
vertises for six girls to chew gum at the
Portland fair. We give the company
the benefit of this - advertisement in
hopes that some of the Dalles girls will
be found ornamenting the front benches
in that chewing contest. It will require
a large month, developed muscles and
steady stroke to getaway with the job,
and certainly The Dalles can furnish the
full supply, provided Cascade Locks
does not compete. There is one girl
down there that when she gives her
maxillae a twist the cows all sneak away
into the woods and drop their "cuds."
Hoppicking is nearly finished in the
Chebalis valley. It is. impossible aa et
to determine what the crop ia likely to
be, suffice it to say that growers whose
yards were well eprayed and properly
cared for are. all feeling very well satis
fied with the way their yards are turn
ing out, says the Chebalia Bee. Picking
will last another week in some of the
yarda, and by that time it will be
possible to' size up the crop pretty
closely. The splendid weather for the
last 10 days has been most favorable for
harvesting crop, and loss from mould
will not be nearly aa bad as was feared.
In a few small yards where sprayingjwas
neglected there has been much heavier
losses. Growers are putting up a fine
sample as a rule.
A peculiar-looking resident of the deep
was found Saturday by H. P. Score,
keeper of the light . station at Point
Wilson, and, in the absence of a more
fitting name, the object is called a sea
serpent. The monster was found
stranded on the beach near the light"
house, where it bad been tossed by a
heavy wave. It ia nine feet long, the
thickest part of ita body being 27 incbea
In circumference. The bead ia large
and shaped like an alligator's. Two
horns 30 inches in length protrude from
the head. The animal, if animal it may
be called, has massive jaws with large
teeth, haa no legs or fins, and is of pale
green color. Lightkeeper Score killed
the animal by shooting it with a pistol.
He towed it to the light station, where
it is now an object of curiosity to many
persona. Nothing eimiliar to it baa
ever been seen in the waters of the
Pacific Northwest.
Tuesday's Dally. 1
Max Pracht is in the hospital at Port
land, recovering from a severe attack of
pleurisy.
Mr. C. D. Hinrichs brought a small
band of cattle up from Hood River yes
terday for the Columbia Packing Co.
Mr. R. B. Hood recently sent some
fine almonds grown on bis place at St.
Helena, California, to friends. The al
monds look as though they were good
enough to eat.
It waa reported yesterday that the
Washington bank of the river, opposite
this point, was covered with dead sal
mon, evidently thrown away because
they could not be used. '
This is the day upon -which the sun
crosses the equator on its southward
journey, and the big round world has
everywhere equal length of day and
night.
The board of equalization will meet
the first Monday in October, -at which
time all who are dissatisfied with their
assessment, will be given the opportun
ity to correct any error. sT-d&wtf.
The East Oregonian mentions the fact
that Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gill will leave
Pendleton for Portland in the near
future, Mr. Gill, who is a fine mechanic,
being employed to do finishing work on
the government torpedo boats building
there. Mr. Gill was at one time engi
neer of . the Regulator.
It ia said that 80,000 sacks of grain are
piled np at Wasco awaiting the co triple
tion of the railroad. Thia event fs ex
pected to happen before the 10th of
next month, and probably several days
before that time.
. The tug Astoria, formerly stationed at
Astoria, arrived in Astoria from Grav's
harbor Saturday, to tow the O. K., on
which the big anchor and heavy chain
have been loaded to be used in floating
l he Gleomorag off North beach.
About the largest yield of wheat yet
reported comes from the old Daw place,
on the Long Tom, says the Corvallis
Times. Ic was Defiance wheat, and
was grown by Frank Bamgardner. Six
acres made an aggregate yield of 290
bushels, or 4S4 bnsheis. per acre. The
farm is owned by Mrs. Stewart, of Cor
vallis. v.
, Mr. C. J. Hayes, inspector of surveys,
with party consisting of E.J.Udell,
W. Stranaban, Chas. Webb, R. J. Statt
and Bert Stranaban, were in the city
last night on their way to the Warm
.-'prings, wnere tney will correct some
of the section and township lines. Their
work will be abont twelve miles eonth of
the agency.
The steamer lone will make her firt-t
trip from Portland tomorrow, and is ex
pected to arrive about 4 o'clock
Captain McNnlty went down this morn
ing and for a short time writ act as mate.
Mr. John Booth has accepted the post
tion of agent and will have bis office in
the Baldwin building opposite the
Umatilla.
Last week Gazner White and a com
panion Kiued three black bears near
John White's bop yard, on Butte creek,
in Marian county. Several other bruins
were seen in that neighborhood. The
bears are now coming down from the
mountains to get acorns. They are very
food of acorns, and the oaks are loaded
this year with nuts, says the Silver ton
Appeal.
Robert Bowlsby, while bunting at
Pleasant bill, in Lane county, last Fri
day, killed a bird that is a cross between
the native grouse and Mongolian pheas
ant, the first of the kind ever heard of
in Eugene. It resembles the native
grouse by having feathered legs and a
tail a little longer, but the feathers on
the back and tail' have the same cross
stripes as the Mongolian pheasant.
Mr, James Langille and son,: Doug.,
arrived home from McCoy creek last
week. Mr. Langille came up from Hood
River last night. They spent the sum
mer prospecting, and sunk a shaft in
the gravel sixty-two feet. Mr. Langille
baa faith unlimited in the old gravel
beds of that section. He thinks he is
within ten feet of bedrock, and that
when that is reached the Klondike will
have to look out for its reputation.
'The Indians now in the Yakima hop-
fields, number 3000 in number, will bold
a jubilee in JNorth Yakima, September
30 and October 2 and 3. The pro
gramme will consist of Indian pony
races of all sorts and descriptions, Indian
war dances, Indian wrestling matches,
Indian barbecue and numerous other
Indian doings. Dr. Hill has been elected
director of Indian sports, and will have
full charge of this branch of the jubilee.
Lloyd, the young son of Dr. Graves, of
North Yakima, almost choked to death
on Saturday. He had been to a fire on
the night previous, and experienced
considerable difficulty in breathing all
the, following morning. In the after
noon be began to suffocate, and the
timely arrival of Dr. Hill resulted in bis
expelling from bis throat several large
pieces of cinder while an emetiealeo
brought forth two or three larger ones
from his stomach.
Sheriff Sims, of Whitman county, re
ports that Jack Leonard, the murderer
of Jacob Malquist, is still sullen,
evidently impressed with the idea that
the officers have lessened his chanees of
escaping punishment by bringing him
back from the Spokane jail. He is now
confined in the npper tier of cells, and is
not given the liberties or permitted the
visitors allowed - during his former
residence, the sheriff being more watch
ful in preventing the introduetion of
jail-breaking tools.
There is a smell, . distinctly and
diabolically its own, that sweeps our
town occasionally, but where it comes
from nobody knows. It is democratic
in the distribution of itself, going as
freely to the poor as to the rich. The
mephitis mephitica,or its spotted brother
thespilogate putrina, otherwise a skunk,
would leave its vicinity ; a dead mackerel
under a full moon, or a decomposing
salmon, or a double-barreled crematory,
or any little thing-like that, would be as
attar of roees to a garbage wagon beside
it. It is just a live, thiobbing, pulsating,
all-pervading smell of something loi g
dead, but not gone before.
One of the Lncklest-
Another of the argonauts, also a Swede,
carries his dust, as many did, to the ex
press office. He wanted to send it to
the "government at San Francisco."
Asked if he knew how much he had, he
eaid : "I tank I have twenty thousand
five huner dollar." When bis sack was
put on the scales the clerk told him be
bad nearer $42,500, and his eye bright
ened at the news. C. A. Snowden in
Harper's Weekly.
AN OLD-TIME FRIEND.
The Chronicle Bdltor Meets One
- Twnty-Fle Years Ago. ....
of
Monday morning we had the pleasure of
meeting Mr. George A. Ladd of Sparta,
who is on his way home from Portland.
Twenty-five years ago Mr. Ladd, with
bis father, owned and operated the saw
mill at St. Helens. This property they
sold and. moved to Eastern Oregon,
where for a quarter of a century George
has wooed the fickle goddess of Fortune
by venturing into the mining business.
He was at one time part owner of the
now famous Bonanza, has made and lost
money and has the everlasting faith of
yet striking it rich that sustains all true
miners. , .
. It has been nearly twenty-five years
since we saw George, but he is the same
self-reliant, genial gentleman, wboni
nothin? cuti keep to ii. In those days,
at St. Heleo&r Tom MeBride was wrest
ling with "Parsons on Contracts,"
'.'Gjreenleaf on' Evidence," and that sort
of thing, while the- present senator was
studying human; n at ore and getting an
insight into politics. The Gihners were
also at St. Helens in those days, and as
we look at our own rotund form in the
mirror, we cannot but feel that St.
Helens produced some really great aid
good men.
Mr. Ladd is engaged in quartz min
ing near Sparta, and baa some proper
ties that will yet make him a bloated
capitalist. '
A Good Story."
A good story is told of General J. A.
Early, of the confederate fame. It is
this:
The federals and confederates were
about to engage in battle Jn Virginia,
during the late war, Gen. Early in com
mand of the confederate side. Just
about the time the firing commenced,
the chaplain to Early's army,. devout
man past middle life, promptly observed
to the General that be had no farther
nse for him at the time, but in .case hia
services should be needed to comfort the
dying, he could be found just over the
bill, and then departed in a gallop.
Gen. Early, indignant at the chaplain's
course, said to those around him :. "Now
look at that old scoundrel; he has .been
praying to go to heaven for over thirty
years and the first opportunity he has to
get there, runs away.."
The Walts to Go.
The American society of the Professors
of Dancing, has decided that the waltz:
must go.
Of course it must, everybody knows
that, and it will commence to go just
as soon as the thermometers get settled
down to business. The beauty of the
waltz is that when it gets to going it
keeps whirling round and round, and it
is a continuous round of pleasure too.
The professors of dancing might as well
try to dam the Amazon with faint praise,
solve the mystery of Andrees' pigeons,
make truth true even at the bottom of
a well, or sort fact and fiction from a
fall crop of Klondike stories. Yes,, the
waltz must go, and when it does most of
us will be anxious enough to detain it,,
that we will all attempt to trip it.
Died at Mosier.
Mrs, Isabella Joss, aged 73 years, died
at Mosier, Oregon, September 12; 1897.
Deceased was born in Caithness, Scot
land, and came to this coutry in 1887,
locating in Hood River. Her husband,
Alexander Jess, died two years- ago,.
since which time she has been living
with her daughter Mrs. James- Steele, at
Mosier. The remains were brought to
. .
Three Trainloads ol.....
STEEL
SUPERIOR
RANGES
Have been sold already this year. All prices,
From $30.00 up.
Eighty styles, from small family size to as
large as wanted.
There are more Superior Stoves and Ranges in use in th:s
territory than all other makes of .Stoves co nhineil. This is cot -elusive
evidence of the superiority of Biid re & Beach Co.s cele
brated Superior .Stoves and Ranges. Oasjilsat '
MAIER & BENTON,
Sole agents for SUPERIOR Steel Ranges,
THE1 DALLES, OREGON.
Hood River Monday, and interred in
ldlewilde cemetery. - She leaves six
children two in Scotland, Mrs. Steele
of Mosier, Mrs. Wm. Davideon of Hood
River, and James and William Joss.
Glacier. '
The fair Will do.
It looked for a little while as though
the regular annual meeting of the Agri
cultural Association was to be abandoned'
and The Dalles was to pass by the
regular fatffair. Sunday Mr. McAllister
went to Pendleton and completed ar
rangements with the Secretary J. O.
Mack, which permitted the matter to go
on. It required considerable work here
also, aa the money for the purses bad to
be raised and other preliminary matters
attended toi All the tangles here have
been straightened ont and the fair will
go. The fact that it came near going by
the loard is going to make it a success,
for it has caused: everybody here to take
an interest In it. The. races and parses
will be published' in a few days. In the
meanwhile Mr. MacAUister, who is act
ing as secretary will gladly furnish those
desiring it, a copy of the premium list,
and - the names of the winners of last
year's prizes. The fair begins October,
12 and lasts five days.
Stoves and Saashlue.
Eugene Field after visiting Europe,
said that the one thing he missed most
in bis travels was the great American
stove. The first thing he did when be
got home was to write a poem, entitled
"Stoves and Sunshine," in which be
paid his respects to the stoveiess, cheer
less, shivering countries he had visited".
In the second verse, which we print
herewith, it will be seen tbat the poet
made an inexcusable mistake by writing
"Yankee" instead of Garland. Read
the verse and see. and then call on
Maier & Benton and see the stoves.
Now, I am of opinion that a person should get
some
Warmth in this present life of ours, not all in
that to come:
So hen Boreas blows bis blast through country
and through town,
Or when upon the muddy streets the Stirling fog
rolls dowD,
Go, gnzzle in the pub, or plod some bleak, ma
larious grove,
But let me toast my shrunken shanks beside
some Yankee store.
Selected by an Artist.
Miss Mollie Bottorff arrives from San
Francisco this evening.. She has been
thpre for a month studying and select
ing styles and patterns, which are now
arriving and will be displayed at Mrs.
M. E. Briggs' parlorj tomorrow. The
work rooms there are in a state of com
motion everything being piled high and
thick with specimens of the milliners
art. Tomorrow the stock of fall patterns
and shapes will be displayed, and abont
the middle of next week there will be a
grand display of winter bats along with
the fall stock. It is witbbnt donbt, the .
largest, best selected, and best stock of
millinery ever brought to The Dalles.
The announcement of the display of
winter goods will be made later,- in the
meanwhile the ladies can find some
thing to delight them in the fall stock.
"My boy came home from school one
day with his hand badly lacerated and
bleeding, and suffering great pain," says
Mr.E. J. Schall, with' Meyer Bros.
Drag. Co., St. Louis, Mo. "I dressed
the wound, and applied Chamberlain's
Pain Balm freely. All pain ceased, and
in a remarkably short time it healed
without leaving a scar. For wounds,
sprains, swellings and rheumatism I
know of no other medicine or prescrip
tion equal to it. I consider it a house-'
hold necessity." The 25 and 50 cent
sizes tor sale by Blakeley & Houghton.
. v '-