1$) THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE , WEDNESDAY, .PECESIBER 1, 1897. The Weekly Ghponiele THB DALLES. OBEOOH OFFICIAL PAPER OF WASCO COUNTY. Published in two' parte, on Wednesday ana Saturday SUBSCRIPTION ' KATES. BY KAIL, rOSTA6B FBXFAID, IK ADVANCI. 50 One year , Six months ... Three months. 60 - Advertising rate reasonable, and made known on application. Address all communications to "THF CHBON- iui.," The italles, Oregon. Telephone No. X. 'LOCAL BRETIT1CS. - Saturday's Daily. A band of a boat twenty antelope has ' been seen several times near Prinevil.'e ' recently. The south end of the club building is being painted todav, which considera bly improves its, appearance. Everybody is delighted with the sac- cess of the Colombia Southern, Sherman county's little railway. It is doing splendid business. , The many friends of Mr. Frilz will be pleased to bear that be is rapidly re covering from his severe attack of sick ness, and at present able to sit up. The Cederson case is still before the circuit court. As numerous points of -" law are being argued by the attorneys on both sides, it is going rather slow. The funeral of the late Mrs. Margaret Farley took place from the Catholic church at 2:30 today. ' It was attended by numerous relatives and friends of the deceased. . Yesterday two cars of stock cattle ' were shipped from this place by Sichel & Co. of Prineville, in charge- of Prior Smith.' Today a carload of bogs wae shipped to the Union Meat Co. by Mon roe Grimes.. H. J. Brown and Robert Wilson, the two men who were convicted of holding up and robbing some Indians near, this city last summer, were taken to the pen itentiary at Salem today to serve terms of two years each in that institution. The annual meeting of the members of The Dalles Commercial and Athletic Club will be held at the club rooms on Tuesday, December 7th, at 8 p. m. The object will be to elect a board of trustees as well as transact any other business Which may be brought before the meet ing. The city council of Corvallia has de cided to try Chief of Police C. B, Wells December 6th, next, on the charge of "malfeasance, inattention and incapaci ty in office." The charge sets forth the assault made by the chief on the 10th in at. ' on James L. Skipton as the of fense. The "Cradle Songs of the Nations" will be the moat novel entertainment given in The Dalles for some time. About eighty children, under 12 years of age, will take part; all dressed in the costumes of the nations they represent In future, the outer door of the club will be locked at all times, and each member will be provided with a key, so that be can go in and out at bis pleasure. Anis is an admirable move, as no one except a member or a guest of one of the members can now gain admission to the club rooms. The kindergarten children speot yes terday in a very pleasant manner. Af ter singing and playing games the Thanksgiving story was illustrated on the sand-table, the children making miniature wigwams and constructing a log cabin. The Mayflower stood in port. The afternoon'H pleasure concluded with a canay-puii. - . A fatal accident occurred Thursday evening at the Elkhorn Bonanza mine near Baker City. J. H. Cagel ignited some giant powder and the whole mag azine exploded witb a force that almost jarred the mountains. The unfortunate miner was killed as if struck by alight ning bolt, bis body being mangled in a frightful manner. Thomas Hopkins was painfully though not fatally injured. , Hon. H. H. Dufur, of Dafur, is in the city today. He reports tLe ' weather about the same in his section as it is with us, and also that they bad a very enjoyable Thanksgiving-dance at Dufur on Thursday night. Owing to the bad condition of the roads, the usual large crowd did not attend, but all who were theie enjoyed themselves in .the way that none other than Dufurites know how. ;t . ;. . , In the presence of a holiday crowd of 6000 people, the Portland Athletic Club's football team defeated Multno mah Thursday afternoon by a score of 4to0. The victory was a euf prise to every one but the members of the win ning team. The game was one pf the most exciting that has been witnessed on Multnomah field. From the first kick off to the last play the interest did not waver, and the playing was fast and good. - Stock Inspector A. S. Roberts has been making his semi-annual ride and lias already seen about 75 per cent of the sheep m the county, . and finds that they are in very good condition with very little scab. The majority of stock men baye an abundance of feed aud are jubilant over the present prices, He says be saw one band of about 2,000 breeding ewes that sold for $3 a head. A great many people are anxious to pur chase more sheep, which- fact goes to prove that raisers have confidence in the future. -. ; Monday's Dally. Twenty-three deeds to the East Fork Irrigation Co. were placed on file in the county clerk's office this morning. J. P. Kerr, a formerly well-known Chehalis and Centralis newspaper man, died on the 22th inst.. at Hemet, Cali fornia.' ' A panther measuring nine feet from tip to tip was killed, on the Fenland ranch, near Heppner, last Wednesday, by Lane Penland and George S perry, The three salmon canneries located at Anacortes have closed down for the sea sob. The output of the three canneries was 122,500 cases, of an estimated value of $428,500. . Reports from Bonneville state that in places there are over ten feet of enow on the track. Trains Nos. 1 and 3, going west, are both blockaded, and tee indi cations are that the .evening trains, going east, will also be delayed.. The great McEwen, the famous mes merist, hypnotist and mind reader will open a week's engagement at the Vogt on Monday, December 6tb. This will be a rare opportunity to all to learn more about these marvelous yet real oc cult sciences. The following bowling scores were made at the Umatilla House alleys for the week ending Sunday:-. Monday, Lowe 61; Tuesday, Maetz 62; Wednes day, W. Birgfeld 72 ; Thursday, Lowe 63 ; Friday, Maetz 53 ; Saturday, Maetz, 56; Sunday, C. Schmidt, Jr., 57v TLe snow which Pagne predicted Sat urday began falling yesterday afternoon, Daring the night it changed to sleet and rain, which have continued the greater part of the day, and the snow was. ac companied with enough cold to satisfy everyone that winter ij upon ua at last. A great many of the apples shipped from Coos county are being' sold as northern California , apples, and. the choice potatoes sent from Coos are also being put on the market as a California product, and are called Salinas Bur-banks. A Salvation Army warrior told the people on a Tacoma street corner that bad been five years on the way to heaven, and then a fellow from Seattle in the crowd told him if he had been that long on the way and had no further than Tacoma, he bad better turn back and try to bit a tew trail. Telegraph communication between this place and Portland is cut off today as the storm of sleet and snow has broken down the wires. This is provok ing, as we -cannot even find out what kind of weather Mr. Pague intends send-, ing na tomorrow. The Cameron expedition to Alaska,' which is one of the largest that has yet started for that new bonanza, have bad a series of unfortunate accidents, the last one being that the eteamor Colorado which carried them north, is prevented from discharging her cargo by severe storms. , - It is estimated that 2000 people left San Francisco and Paget sound for Daw son via. St. Michaels since July ; but probably not twenty men have reached their destination by the Ynkon. From tbis we can plainly see that the failure has been greater than the gloomiest prophet would have cared to predict Last night at about 10:30 o'clock something went wrong at the electric light plant, and for a time all the lights on one circuit went out, leaving the patrons in total darkness for' about thirty minutes. At the expiration of that time, however, they got things straightened out without further trouble. The score at the club alleys for the last week are slightly, below the average, and somewhat lower than at the Uma tilla.. The following are the scores: Bradsbaw, Monday 52, Tuesday, 51 ; Wednesday, O. Birgfeld 58; Thursday, Tolmie and Hoetettrer 57; ' Friday, Houghton 48; Saturday, John Bonn 50; Sauday, Tolmie and Mays 54 Telephone connection between - tbis place and Independence was completed yesterday, and Mrs. S. L. Brooks was the first to hold a conversation over the new line, bhe spoke to her qrotber, Mr. Pent land, if the West Side, and he informed her that they already had eighteen 'phones in Independence. " He said, among other thing?, that at .the time be was speaking they were, having a very heavy rain storm. - ; The Northern Pacific was made de fendant in Tacoma last Friday in an $8,000 damage suit brought by Martin Gillen, a laborer who was injured by falling off a bridge at Stampede, station in November 1S94. Gillen alleges neg ligence on the part of the cotnpanv. the latter in it answer stating that the acci dent was caused by neclieenca on the part of the plaintiff. At the request of the parties the case was transferred to the federal court for trial. name fonnd among' the greatest of the early inhabitants of the North west. Ex cursions will be run, carrying' hundreds of people from different parts of - Oregon and Washington to participate in the services to be held at tbe grave of the martyrs to this cause; and in future tbe day will be held 'sacred to the memory of Murcus and Narcissa Whitman and others who perished with them on that eventful 29th of November, 1847. . Further particulars of the robbery of E. and W. Chandler's stere. in Sparta .Union county, are to tbe effect that W. Chandler and bis clerk, a woman, were just preparing to close the store, ' and were counting tbe cash, when a masked man entered the store through the front doors, and holding - his pistol on Mr, Chandler and the clerk, demanded tbe money. Seeing the safe open and the money exposed on the desk, the robber went over and helped himself both from tbe cash drawer and the safe, securing in all $200. . After his bold work, the robber retired : from the store by the rear, mounted ms norse and rode away Tuesday's Dally. Apples have been selling in Yakima county for 80 cents a box. Weather Fair this afternoon, and to night and Wednesday fair and cooler. Don't fail to see Prof, McEwen's hyp notic etatuary next week at the Vogt. A colony from Crossville, Tenn., is ex pected to arrive in Yakima county- next spring. . George Simpson, principal owner of the Silvia mill, in Montesano, says that the mill will soon be moved elsewhere, The Rathbone Sisters will give a danc ing party in tbe K. of P. ball Thursday evening, and the friends - of the order are invited to be present. The Portland express arrived at 11 o'clock today and stopped at the Uma tilla bouse for twenty minutes to allow tbe passengers time to breakfaBt. Monroe Grimes sent a carload of fine bogs to the Union Meat'Co. at Troutdale tbis morning. Nearly all of them were purchased from Tygh Ridge farmers. Thursday the ladies who bad charge of the Catholic fair will hold a meeting, and it will be impossible to find out what was made from the fair prior to that time. Sister Peter Baptist died in' Spokane Sunday evening, aged 63. ' She was one of the founders of St. Vincent's hospital in Portland, and her charitable works in that city were marked. The farmers of Yakima county are of fered the highest cash price for onions by J. H. B. Scudder of North ' Yakima, who proposes to start a factory for dry ing vegetables, fruits and. berries of all kinds. Practicing for the "Cradle Songs of the Nations" is being carried on every evening this week, and as practice makes perfect, none will be ashamed of the manner in which their nations are represented. this place and Umatilla, and from "that place on to Nebraska but one sheep died: This is anusnally'good luck, as it is very seldom that such a large ship ment of sheep can be sent so lone a dis tance without-much greater loss. ' ' P. J. McGrail, of Nansene, was in the city last night. He reports the roads in a terrible condition, and says that some teamsters have been three days coming a distance of twenty - miles with loaded teams. Ten horses have to be bitched to a single -. wagon in places to pull it along, and then it is with difficulty that they can get it out of the mud. Yesterday was an exceptionally stormy day on 'the river, and for a time it was extremely doubtful as to whether the boats would be able to make their regu lar. - runs or not. The lone put in at Cape Horn' for aheltcr and remained there until after the Regulator passed By this time tbe storm Blacked np and it was possible .for. her .to continue her trip. ; .-- ' . - ; The funeral of the late Mrs. Catharine Smith took place yesterday afternoon from the Methodist church. In spite of the inclement weather, quite a number attended the services and .followed the remains to Sunset cemetery. Tbe mem bers of tbe family were all present, bav' ing come from dinerent parts of tbe state to pay a last tribute to a beloved mother. , ' ' Dan P. Bagnell of - Spokane is in tbe city. This . is Mr. Bagnell's first trip through thiB section for some time, as he has been in the hotel business in Ross- land for a year or more. Mr. Bagnell says that Rossland is going down fast, and that many people are leaving there for other sections. He informs us fur ther that during the beat of the Klon dike excitement' 200 people -left ' that place for the Alaska fields in a single day. Last evening Nightwatchman Wiley took in nine hungry and penniless trav elers, who were guilty of - nothing more than being broke, and gave them lodg- ings, supper and breakfast. Today tbey did work enough to pay their board bill and moved on. We may not realize it. but it is nevertheless true that there are daily in our city men who are famishing with hunger right in these prosperous times, not because they are too idle to work, but because there ia no work for them to do. - Mr. D. W. Wallace, agent for the Co lumbia chainless bicycle for tbe territory of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, is in the city today. The chainless will cer tainly be tbe bicycle of the future, sin.ee in this wheel all the gearing is in closed and perfectly dust proof, and be sides there is no greasy chain, sprocket wheels or anything of this kind to injure the clothing. Mr. Fred Houghton has taken the agency in this city, and there is no doubt he will sell a large number of those wheels during the coming sum mer. f1T EETING WITH DESTINY; Today is the fiftieth anniversary of tbe Whitman massacre, and tbe day set aside in honor of the man by whose un tiring . exertion three stars have Deen added to our ' country's flag. Up to a short time ago Whitman's name was al most unknown to many of the inhabi tants of the country he served so. ' well. In the, future ac.b anniversary of the event wfjl be 1 celebrated, and .Whitman's Peter Harris, the man who was in jured by tbe explosion of a stove in one of the Pullman cars Sunday, left for Spokane on last night's train. The most painful injury-he had was the one on his hand, a piece of iron having near ly cut his thumb off. W. H. H. Dufur, of Dufur, is in the city, having brought four loads of apples yesterday. Mr. Dufur says he has been in Wasco county for thirty-nine years and has never seen a . more disagreeable day on the road than vesterday was. Died, at Goldendale, on Nov. 27th; Mra. Phoebe Pike, aged 84 years. Mr, and Mrs. Pike came to the coast in 1867 and ten years later moved to Klickitat county. She leaves two children to mourn her loss, Col. E. W. Pike of Gol dendale and Mrs. J. W. Grey of Crawley, Oregon. Yesterday about six large bands of hogs were brought in from the country around The Dalles and Klickitat county The farmers seem to fear that a large fall of snow will come and want to get their Btock and produce to the city while tbey can, so that they will not have to hold them over winter. Drf Hall's lecture at the M. E. church last night, on "Tbe Greatest Book in the World." was well attended and equally well received. Dr. Hall is an interesting talker and no one should miss bearing him. This evening be will lecture at the Christian church, his sub ject oemg "America in the Twentieth Century. A. M. Williams & Co.,have their win dow very tastitly and appropriately dressed. It is draped with Indian blankets, and . in tbe center is an exact representation of the Whitman monu ment. with blanket covering, containing all the inscriptions, etc., that will be on tbe monument when in place over the remains of Oregon's martyrs. The rotary snowplow arrived at. 11 o'clock last night, pushed by two en gines, and it was followed by tbe Spo kane train, which had been on its way since 2 :30 yesterday.. For the time be ing the blockade is cleared, but for the next three months it need not be a sur prise to anyone to bear of delayed trains and blockades, as well as snow-slides. John Blaeer-returned from Nebraska this morning, where he has been with a trainload of sheep, which were shipped some time ago by Otto Kohler. The train consisted of sixteen carloads, and on the entire trip bat five sheep were lost. Four of those were lost between i . W ' No maB when it will 11 come along.; Often it starts up before us in unexpected . times and places. Etch, an afternoon stroll with a friend and a chance introduction may shape all the course, of one's after life. To be always at your best and not ashamed of your destiny yon must dress like a true gentleman. This can be done by ordering: your Salts sad Overcoats of M. BORN & GO.; The Great Chicago "Merchant Tailors ' ;' Who arc unrivalled Wasters of -the Tailoring Art. ' 300 NEW Patterns. Finest Material. Perfect Fit. New Stock. Latest Styles, s Best Worlc-, manship. Thrifty Prices. ' " ' ' . . ' - A Cheery Guarantee With. All. CtUl . . - . . 1 S5?t A. C GIGER & CO., NEW YORK CASH STORE KILLED AT HIS POST. James Wells, A Seattle Policeman, Mur dered Wnile Discharging Hig Duty. James Wells, a well-known Seattle policeman, while acting as city jailer Sun day night, was cowardly murdered by Charles Phillips, an ex-convict, who was recently released from jail at New Westminster, B. C. ' rnillipa bad been arrested on suspi cion of being implicated in a recent burglary, and bad been taken to the city jail in a patrol wagon. When tbe wagon reached the jail Officer Wells met it and told Phillips to get down. Phillips re sponded by drawing a revolver and shooting Wells through the body. He then ran across the street. Wells, though mortally wounded, staggered to his feet and fired at Phillips, who returned the shot. ' Wells then fell to tbe sidewalk, dead. Phillips broke and ran, . with Officers Barber and Meredith in pursuit. Sher iff Moyer, who was passing on a street car, bearing the firing and seeingjtbe crowd, alighted and took a shot at the fleeing Phillips. . Numerous shots were exchanged between the officers and Phil lipe, who finally took refuge nnder a brick building at -Fourth and Main streets. ' Chief of Police Reed ordered ' out the entire police department, and the house was surrounded. - Officers Barber and Meredith, with a lantern, crawled in af ter Phillips, whom they saw sitting nn der tbe back end of the building, with his revolver in his ' band. Meredith called to him to surrender. Phillips drew his revolver to fire, but Meredith and Barber were too quick for him. Their pistols rang out and Phillips fell wounded through the arm and leg. He then surrendered. When taken to the jail he said be did not intend to kill Wells, hut only to injure him.' FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE FAIR. A Good Crowd Attending and - - , .. . Frofram. a Fair Saturday's Daily. Last night the usual large crowd at tended the fair to hear tbe delightful program, as well as to buy or take chance on the many beautiful things which are for sale or raffle. Outside of the orchestra, tbe German J choruses and some of Dr. Grant's com pany were the principal attractions. Mr. Cliff Felton, the tenor singer of the Grant company, is excellent, while Prof. Chas. Sims, tbe pianist, is no less an , artist. , Clare Evans, the comedian, kept the house in a roar of laughter dur ing the entire time' that be was on the stage, while little Isabel Patricola, who is a wonderful musical artist lor a little child, aud her 'father, Louis Patricola, well deserved all the applause they re ceived. . As the ladies have been very busy to- day, at the time of going to press they did not have the program for tonight ready so that we could pnblish it; but we dare say that it will reach the usual h'gh standard of excellence. ' " - -' 5 The Totes on the flag at present stand as follows: Jblks, loo; . Company G, 120; A. O. U. W.,40. . . Tbe votes for the most popular rail road man are as follows: William Ma ber, ISO; John Fagan, 128; Jack Galla gher, 88. - i : . The following were tbe lucky wiuners in the raffles : . Calanthe' Ready; silver cake dish ;- Mrs; P. Gorman, banquet lamp; H. D. Parkins, Smyrna rug; J C. Hosteller, doll bed; 'Mrs. Seufert, dress . pattern ; George Bunn, table scarf; - Ed Williams, doll; Mrs. J. H. Brennnn, set of plates; Miss Jennie Schreiner, berry dish ; K. Greiner, cook ing set; Miss Melquist, oil painting; Miss McEllany, Cascade Locks, silver cake dish; Wm. Wilbelm, bed lounge. Tonight a large ' number of valuable articles will be raffled, and any which are not already sold will be auctioned off at whatever they will bring. - ; LAST NIGHT OF THE FAIR. An Immense Crowd, with Much Enthu siasm Towards the Clese. " Saturday night was by far the most interesting night of tbe fair. Tbe crowd was unusually large, and everyone was anxious to know who would be the win ners of" the bracelets, lantern and flag. During the early part of the evening, in the contest for the flag, Co. G ran op a total of o.ver 3(K) votes, which made them far ahead of the other societies and organizations. At about 9 :30 the entire herd of Elks appeared, led by E. O. Mc Cov and Jnd Fish, and it did not take them long to decide whether or not they wanted tbe fliy, but soon made their in- tentiens known by casting 414 votes, which made a grand total of 540. Co. G tried bard to raise sufficient funds to defeat the Elks, but at 11 :45 were 204 votes behind, and the Elks carried tbe flag away in triumph. . .- : The excitement ran high when the voting for the most popular railroad man was drawing to an end. William Maber and George Ferguson were the favorites of the evening. Maherhad tbe iead until a few moments before time was called a hundred votes were cast for Mr. Fergoeon, - and before Mahei's friends could gather themselves together to collect mother pool, the time had ex pired and tbe lantern wai banded to Ferguson, and in - another moment the Victorians railroad man was elevated on the shoulders of his friends, while every one chetred till they were hoarse. Miss Katie Brogan won the bracelets for the most . popular young lady by quite a majority. With those three ar-' tides the voting ended. The ones holding winning numbers on diffej-ent articles were as follows: Mr. Everett of Dufur, oil painting (a study of watermelons); Mr. J. Kyle, silk um brella: Carl Gottfried, Majestic range; T. J. Lynch, Japanese table cover; W. C.Rupert, writing desk; . J P. Mcln erny, embroidered center piece; T. M. Gelsinger, tortoise shell comb and brush tray ; David T6jonieau, Wilson heater; W. Brook house, standard bred mare: J. Kyl, case of cigars ; Arthur Wand, -beautiful doll; Mamie Hogan, racing saddle; Walter Johns, dentistry work; P. Malone, suit of clothes ; Jack Powers, sofa pillow;, Sadie Redmond, oil paint ing; Chas. Grunow, pair shoes; Oscar Groenow, Portland, sofa pillow ; Mrs. P. A. Johnson, doll ; Mr. Tborburn, Kings ley; Madonna ; T.J. Twohig, picture; John Fitzgerald, silver tea 6et ; Leopold Meier, gold watch and chain ; German mug, Frank Cram ; P. P. Nicholas, bed- , room set; M. Callaghan, rocking chair; A. Bronsgeest, oil painting. . Mr. Fred Skibbe guessed nearest to tbe number of beans in the jar, and got the quilt. The actual number was 2554, and Mr. Skibbe guessed 2525, com ing within 29 of the actual number : Fallman Car Wrecked by an Ezplosloa of Gas. Sunday afternoon an explosion oc curred on tbe O. R. & N. near Mosier that might have resulted in tbe serious injury and probable death of a number of passengers bad it taken place a little later in the evening. It was caused by au accumulation of cual gas in one of the - Baker heaters, which exploded and blew out the end of the car as complete ly as if ithad been dynamite. - At the time of the accident no one was in the car but Peter Harris, the colored " porter, and he was badly cut up about the bead and face, and one of bis bands was lacerated, He was brought to this city and Dr. Doane on examining him found that no bones bad been broken and that he ' tfas not in jured outside of the wounds already mentioned. When the reporter called on him Monday morning be was able to eit up and did not seem to be suffering any great amount of pain. . It was lucky that the accident did not occur during the night, when the car was full of Bleeping passengers, or it certainly would have been much more, serious. Three Trainloads of..... 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 this territory than all other makes of Stoves coinbintrl. Tins is con clusive evidence of the superiority of Bridge & Beach Co.'s cele brated Superior Stoves and Ranges.. On sale at ... MAIER & BENTON, . -Sole agents for SUPERIOR Steel Ranges.; THE DALLES, OREGON. W3