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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1897.
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The Weekly Chronicle.
THE DALLES,
OKEOON
OFFICIAL PAPEE OF WASCO COUNTY.
Published in two parts, on Wednesday
and Saturdays.
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
Wednesday s Daily.
Thirty-four of our merchants have
signed the agreement not to collect until
Monday, the 4th.
Collection day, owing to it falling on
Saturday, has, by general consent, been
postponed nntil Monday, Oct. 4th.
A few flocks of wild geese have made
their appearance from the north, which
indicates that the Klondikers are hav
ing some winter weather. . ,T ,
The wheat market is weak and the
price is going slowly but steadily down.
Quotations today are 73 cepts, and the
market very weak at that. '
The ladies of the Methodist church
will givea social Saturday night,. at
which a program will be rendered, and
..pies, cakes etc';,' will be-eerved. All for
15 cents.
Tuesday evening the 10-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Tbos. Haslam was
. playing osL7tbe fence in front of their
residence'when he fell and one of the
sharp iron pickets penetrated his lung.
The wonnd is a dangerous one, but it is
thought-tbe boy will recover.
We note the ladies bats continue to be
worn larger and more of them, and the
indications are that the once popular
Gainsborough is to again be the fashion.
To our notion it was the prettiest hat
the fairy fingers of a milliner ever
trimmed or the face of a lovely woman
ever adorned. '
The Columbia Southern expects to get
its road completed by Friday night.
There is lots of work piled up for it to
do, and it will be kept busy nntil
Christmas moving the wheat crop. The
road is losing $300 a day by not being
completed, as farmers need money and
are hauling their wheat to Rufus.
The Salvation Army desires to express
their thanks to the kind friends of The
Dalles who so generously aided their
harvest festival by donations to the
social work, which is just beginning to
be , understood and appreciated by the
public as practical Christianity or help
to the helpless. Ensign W. Hayes.
. Members of the Commercial Club look
as disconsolate as a lot of bees whose
hive has been destroyed. The club
rooms are all torn up and they baye no
place to go. It will be several weeks yet
before the finishing touches are pat on,
bat when they are the club will have as
handsome rooms as there are in the
state.
Frank Pickett, who has been em
ployed on the Columbia Southern in
laying track, was Sunday sitting astride
an iron bar need in holding the rails in
place while they are spiked down, when
the bar slipped and be fell, injuring
himBe'f severely. He was sent here
;PEASE & MAYS present their
compliments and request the pleas
ure of your presence at their Fall
Opening, Monday evening, October
4th, 1897, from 7:30 to 10 o'clock.
this morning, and is at the Umatilla
House under the care of Dr. Logan.
Mrs. L. H. Scott, who resides near
Wapinitia, while gathering muskmelons
one day last week was bitten on the
hand by a snake supposed to be a rattler.
She at once went to the house and ap
plied bluing nr indigo to the wound.
Whether it was the efficacy of the bluing
or that the snake was of a non-poison-oat
variety, the bite bad but little effect
on her.
The Umatilla House office is being
changed so that old-timers feel lost on
entering it. The counter has been
moved up to the front, the big safe
placed in the corner of the bar-room,
the door between it and the office being
removed, and everything else is moved
as systematically as a ' woman changes
the bedstead and furniture in a bed
room when she has nothing else to do,
Portland has been having genuine
webfoot showers for the past few days,
but fortunately they have not yet
reached this side of the mountains,
though, the clouds have threatened rain
for a day or two. The harvest is all
completed except in, the Palouse, and
there it ie about done; so that little dam
age could now be done except to the
threshed wheat that remains uncovered
in the fields. .
''; The Hood River fair begins Wednes
day next, and the display of fruits will
be one of the finest ever seen in the
Northwest. The railroad and boat
lines have made special rates for the oc
casion, and we urge all interested in
fruit-growing and all who like to see
beautiful displays of orchard and vine
products to attend. The' lair beginB
Wednesday and holds over Thursday and
Friday.
The funeral of the late Charles John
ston took place from the Masonic hall
this morning at 10 o'clock, the funeral
services being conducted by Rev. W. C.
Curtis, followed by the rites of the order
of which deceased was an honored mem
ber. The casket was covered with
flowers, simple tributes of love and
friendship. The long procession that
wound its way out to the city of the
dead, spoke more eloquently than words
of the esteem in which the dead engin
eer was held. ,
Even gum-ehewing may stand one in
good stead upon occasion, as one young
woman of Camden, Me., found during
an ascent of Mount Battle. She wore
a short skirt and it caught on a broken
bit of shrubbery and was torn. She
calmly took the gam she was chewing
from her mouth, pat the torn parts of
the dress into place and fixed them
there with it. Anybody who has inad
vertently stepped upon a piece of gum
put to less good ate will have no diffi
culty in believing the- story. -
The weather this morning was quite
chilly, cold enough at least to set the
beads of the households thinking about
the winter's fire-wood. There is plenty
of it on the beach and more coming, and
now is the time to get it stored in wood
shed or cellar. It is said that an abund
ant ' crop of acorns indicates a revere
winter, and if this be true, you can't
get too much wood. There are 50,000
bushels of acorns in Hood River valley,
great big fat fellows that would fatten
hogs as well as corn ; hut nearly all of
this mast is going to waste.
The O. K. & N. is doing a large
amount of work in straightening its
track. At M osier a dozen teams and
twice as many men have been engeged
for a couple of months in taking two or
three bad kinks out of the track, and
next week work of the same kind will
be began at the Cascades. One of the
most troublesome carves on the road is
the long trestle across Mill creek, which
sticks every heavily loaded train going
west. A survey has been made with the
intention of overcoming this, but work
has not yet commenced on it.
At Coburg assizes, Canada, Tuesday
morning, J. F. Hendricks, a white'
haired man, aged 76, was sued for kiss
ing his pretty niece, Mrs. Effie Pilkey, a
school teacher. The kissing occurred at
midnight, be driving her to her mother's
house after a visit. The suit was for
$2000. The judge said that a man had a
right to kiss his relatives without 'his
character being- suspected, and evi
dently with no improper intentions as
in this case. The jury awarded 20 cents
damages.
Thursday's Daily.
Fern Lodge, Degree of Honor, ie going
to have some kind of "doins" on Hal
lowe'en. The Regulator this morning carried
away 1600 sacks of wheat, or something
more than a hundred tons.
The lone, after her regular trip yes
terday, went down to Lyle and brought
up fifteenor twenty ton 8 of baled bay. '
The crosswalk on Second street, east
of Court, needs fixing, and should be
attended t6 before an accident is caused
by it.
Mrs. Mary Pepper, who was so se
verely burned near Walla Walla Mon
day morning, died the afternoon of the
same dav.
The O. R. & N. is having bad luck
recently. Yesterday a broken axle on a
freight train tied traffic np near Bonne
ville for a short time.
Frank Pickett, the man hurt recently
on the (Jolnmbia southern, is at the
Umatilla House under the care of Dr.
Logan, and will soon be entirely re
covered..
The recorder's court for the month of
September had only three drunks to
deal with. This indicates that every
body is busy, and that the fellows who
occasionally slop over are at work in the
harvest fields.
Messrs. Walter Pogh and Charlts
Gray, who had the contract for putting
in the water system at the Warm
SpricgB, arrived here yesterday, having
completed their work. They say the
agency has the finest water system in
the country.
A dispatch from Independence, this
state, dated Sept. 25th, says: "The at
tendance at the normal school is now
greater than that at the same time last
year. Miss Ellen Chamberlain, of Se
attle, will take charge of the mu9ic de
partment next Monday, and will also be
preceptress."
The funeral of the Jate William Hock
man took place from the Methodist
church this morning. Rev. J. H. Wood
preaching the funeral sermon. After
the services at the church the body was
taken in charge by the Knights of
Pythias and buried with the usual cere
monies of the order. The church was
filled with the dead man's friends, the
casket being covered with flowers. He
was a member of the Hook and Ladder
Company, the members of which were
present, as were all bis fellow employees
on the railroad who were in the city,
and the boys from the shops.
W. E. Kahler arrived from Hardman
a few days ago, and has shipped the
stock of groceries he bad Btored here to
Sumpter, Baker county, where he will
open a store. He goes as far as the Wil
lows this evening, meeting his family
there, and catching the overland tomor
row morning. ';-
.The Columbia' Southern it was' ex
pec ted would be completed to Waeco to
morrow. While this will probably not
be done, it will be finished within a day
or two. The road would hare been fin
ished some time ago, but was delayed
because the rails for the curves had to
be bent by band, which, of course, is a
slow procees.'
. The Simmons and . Forest Queen
groups of mines in Union county were
sold Tuesday to Eastern capitalists.
The price paid is not known, but for the
Simmons groun alone $100,000 was of
fered and refused. The mines will be
developed and will soon be adding their
million or two a year to that $25,000,000
a year prod rot which we have predicted
for Eastern Oregon.
C. W. Wing of Wamic, in driving
across the railroad track yesterday
afternoon, was thrown from his wagon
by the eeat giving way. fie fell on his
face and head, and was unconscious for
qniteawhile. Dr. Logan, was called to
attend him, and he tells us Mr. Wing
has suffered no serious injuiies, but will
be all right in a day or so. His face was
scratched and his head cat slightly.
At the state insane asyium Monday,
Drs. W. T. Williamson and L. F. Grif
fith, assisted by Dr. Carl, of Oregon
City, trephined the frontal bone of Rob
ert Bettle, the expectation being that
the reason of the man will be reetored.
Mr. Bettle was sent to the asylum a few
weeks ago from Clackamas county. -His
brain trouble was caused by a hart re
ceived on his head by the explosion of a
shotgun in his bands several years ago,
and physicians were of the opinion that
his insanity was caused by an abnormal
growth on the inside of his skull, mak
ing an unnatural pressure on the brain
The operation is said to have been sue
cessful. -"-'
A yellow dog, the property of a China
man, has been trying to die all over
town this afternoon. The nnfortunate
animal evidently got hold of something
to eat that had strychnine on it. His
owner fed hitn a setting of eggs, and it
may be that they saved his life, for at
1 o'clock when the Chinaman was doc
toring him be was having terrible con
vulsions that indicated there was
rumpus going, on inside of him that
most have made him feel like a sheep-
herder drunk on a mixture of tobacco
juice, aqua lortis and embalming fluid.
He attracted quite a crowd of idle peo
ple, who were apparently moved only
by curiosity or a desire to note the toxic
effects of the. drug instead of pleasure at
his sufferings. Even as we write this
we learn that the dog is dead, somone
having come to the assistance of ' the
poison with an ax.
Mrs. Briggs millinery parlors were
crowded this atternoon with ladies who
had gathered to see the very latest in
feminine head gear, and when one after
another blonde, brown and brunette
placed those handsome creations on top
of the still handsomer heads, there were
visions of loveliness that would make an
anchorite let go his anchor in the sea mat
rimonial. There were dreams in blue,
poems in brown, visions in green, and
idyls in purple, each upborne in turn by
the prettiest women in Oregon, and
therefore in the world. There will be
another crowd this evening when the
electric lights are turned on, aid then,
indeed, art and beauty meet. Just peep
in the windows this evening and see if
the old man isn't right.
A feature of the Spokane fruit fair
which will prove both interesting and
instructive to a great many farmers will
be that of the daily lectures on subjects
of interest. The large basement of the
Auditorium building, adjoining the fruit
fair building, has been secured for that
purpose. Robert Graham, of the Ar-.
mom Packing Company, will deliver a
couple of lectures, one on "How to Pack
and Ship Fruit," and the other on
"What Fruit to Select for the Eastern
Market." Mr. Graham for -years has
been with the Armour company, and is
one of the best informed men on that
Bubject in America. Prof. Leckenby,
who will have in charge the Northern
Pacific exhibit, will speak to the farmers
on what grasses are best adapted to arid
lands. Mr. Leckenby has just come
from Kern county, Cat., where he has
has been engaging in experiments along
this line. Professors from the Pullman
college and university of Idaho will also
lie among the lecturers. Through the
courtesy of Congressman Jones several
thousand government bulletins along
the line of the lectures will be secured
and given to those attending, thus mak
ing the whole a decided feature for the
fair. . " '
Friday's Dally.
The state fair opened at Salem yester
day with a better attendance than usual.
The Gesang Verein will have its anni
versary meeting in K. of P. ball Sunday
evening next. .
AH members of the Woman's Relief
Corps are earnestly requested to be pres
ent on Saturday evening, October 2d, at
Schanno's hall at 7:30 o'clock.
Mr. R. J. Gilmore, who went to Baker
City some time ago to start a bowling
alley, has joBt opened the same and is
being liberally patronized.
Mr. C. M. Cartwrlght has 600 bucks at
the Saltmarshe yards. Some of them go
to Wyoming, some to Idaho and a few
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Ton will and ono coupon Instdo each S ounce bag and two coupon Inside each 4 onnos oas.
Buy a hag, read the coupon and see how to get your share of $2X1,003 In presents.
came from the Baldwin Sheep & Land
Co.'s ranch at Hay Creek. L
Sheriff Driver did not leave for Can
yon City last night as we stated he
would, bnt we saw him about the mat
ter today, and be then promised to leave
tonight.
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 opporton
ity to correct any error. s7-d&wtf.
The regular annual meeting of the
Second District fair begins here on the
12th. It promises to be more than usu
ally interesting. The exhibits will be
numerous, and some first-class horses
will enter fur the speed contests.
The exact date for the rendition of
"Pinafore" has not been decided upon ;
but those who have attended the re
hearsals are delighted with the manner
in which each character is taken. The
music of the opera is so catchy that all
will enjoy it, whether they have an ear
for music or not.
One by one the appointees of Presi
dent Cleveland drop out,'- and their
places are filled by Republicans. The,
first change to take place here occurred
this morning In the land office, Mr.
George Gibons, the clerk, retiring, and
Miss Annie Lang succeeding him. Miss
Lang ban had considerable experience in
the office and understands its duties
thoroughly.
Miss Lizzie DeMoss was more seri
ously injured in the recent accident at
30 Mile than was, at first reported. Ac
cording to the Condon Globe, the shot
gun fell from the top of the stage, the
hammer striking the tire of the wheel.
The entire charge struck her left leg
above the knee, tearing away at least a
pound of flesh, and also tearing away
the flesh of the left hand between the
thumb and fore finger. She Is recover
ing rapidly and the company expects to
go East November 1st.
In a swell New York hotel a table was
spread for a wedding party of fourteen
persons. One young man failed to come.
The bride would not sit down till the
hotel bouncer got himself into an even-
ngsuit and took the vacant chair, thus
avoiding the thirteen superstition. It
was afterward discovered that the 'miss
ing man had sent his society trousers to
be pressed, and the tailor had burned a
big hole iu the seat. So it seems the
bad luck was not with the thirteen, but
with the fourteenth fellow, who didn't
go at all.
Mr. Peter Roech was in from Dnfur and
made the heart of the printer glad by a
viBit. He remarked : "Times have been
pretty hard for several years and news
paper bills had to wait, so now that
things have got better, I thought it was
time to pay the printer," and this he
did, and a year in advance besides.
This paper, realizing bow hard a strag
gle the farmers were having, made no
attempt to collect subscriptions for the
last two years, but now that our farmer
friends are getting on easy street, we
would like it if they would invite os to
walk with them. Our subscription clerk
wears a smile that will make you twenty
years younger. Call and eee him.
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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 pro luce. If the parts
now in malleable iron were (as in other so-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.
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A LIVELY RUNAWAY.
George Williams' Team Takes a Little,
Spin On Its Own Account.
The team of white horses used by
George Willams to haul his ice wagon,
ran away Thursdaynight in fine style. At
the time they were bitched to a wood
wagon, and when passing Kinersly's
bouse the king bolt dropped through
the bolster, letting the wagon uncouple.
The horses having but the front wheels
hitched to '.hem, thought it would be a
good time to have a little fun with the
thing, so they started to run away.
James Hannon was driving them, bnt
was thrown to the ground. He bung on
to the lines until he was dragged a cou
ple of rods, when, not liking that sort of
riding, he let go. Then the horses ran
up Union to Eleventh, turned down
Eleventh in front of Julius Wiley's,
where they took a turn across that va
cant block. There they caught op with
a man in, a top buggy and gave bim an
interesting chase. He circled around
the block, but no matter which way he
turned the team followed him, bat final
ly went off at a tangent, running over -the
fire plug and colliding with a post in
the alley back of Lempke's, between
Ninth and Tenth. Then they ran down
the alley, crossing the slreet by the old
Lutheran church, and there one of the
wheels caught on to a telephone pole
and everything was brought up with a
suddenness that was astonishing to the
horses. . '
One of the horses broke loose, burst
ing a tug and breaking a single-tree,
and continuing his flight to the stable:
The other apparently thought the wagoa
had stopped to deliver ice, for he was as
cool and unconcerned as though he had
never heard of a run-away. The dam
age was slight.
Perils of the Snake.
Last week as a prospector was floating
down Snake river on a rudely construct
ed raft, which served the purpose of a
boat, en route to the Seven Devils and
some of the numerous barb below Hunt
ington, be had to pass the placer mine
of Mr. Ruckman at the mouth of Pow
der river. Mr. Ruckman has a large
wheel that hoists the water out of Snake
river on to a bar be is mining. In some
unaccountable manner the prospector,
who is a Dutchman, allowed his raft to
get into the current, which drew the
raft and the Dutchman into the wheel.
In a few seconds the whole outfit was
ground through blankets, rocker, grub.
Dutchman and all. Strange as it may
seem, the man escaped with about
enough clothes on him td wad a shot
gun, a wetter but wiser man. The bal
ance of the outfit was swept down the
stream. The only explanation the
Dutchman gave was, "Mine Gottl Dot
vos bell." Baker Democrat.
Excursion Kates to Hood River.
The O. R. & N. Co. will sell round trip
tickets to Hood River Oct. 6th, 7th and
8th, for 90 cents, one fare for tthe round
trip. Good returning until . Oct. 11th.
Jas. Ibkland, Agent.
For Sale.
Six lots, house and stable in Lyle, ap
ply to G. Magan, Lyle, sept!8-d4wla
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