C3 THE DALLES 'WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1897. Off with the Old. Practical Christmas Gift Jackets for ail femininity A Few Specials. i . As the old year is cast off like an old shoe, so should you. resolve to carry out the simile by coming in and selecting a new. pair of shoes; especialty as you can have Advanced Styles at Backward Prices. Misses' Dongola Button t patent leather tips, new coin toe.. .$1.25 Children's Shoes as above ... 1.00 Boys' Lace, coin toe.. 1.50 Youths' Lace, coin toe 1.25 Infants' Soft Sole, button and lace ' -50 Infants' Soft Sole, silk vesting top to rwlli : : Of more value because of its utility is the practical Christmas Gift. It constantly reminds the receiver of the giver, and long after worn out is a pleasure from being a sweet memory. Make a useful Christmas present of an Overcoat from -oar large assortment. Men's Dark Grey Irish Frieze Ulsters .$10 00 Men's Dark Grey Irish Frieze Ulsters . 12 50 , Men's Brown, Blue and Black Box Coats ... 10 00 Men's Brown, Blue and Black Box Coats . . 12 50 Men's Brown, Blue and Black Box Coats . . 15 00 Men's Light Grey Box Coats, very stylish . 12 50 Boys' Ulsters and Overcoats . . .from $3 00 up Natural that ladies should want Jackets that fit. Natural that they should- want those that are stylish. If you regard fit t n 1 style com bined with low price, you will not uiiss this sale? $10 00 Jackets can now he bought for. .... J.$ 7 15 12 50 " " " " . . 8 2d 13 00 " " . 8 45 13 50 " - " - " ...... 9 60 14 50 " '5 - ' r.... 10 75 " 15 00 ", " ' " ' " 11 95 9 00 Capes " " " 7 15 RUGS. Splendid values .in Skin Rues .. - .MOO, $4 50 and $5 00 MISSES' TAMS. Special drive .50 People who buy Groceries are happy in the opportunity they have in dealing with us: They knowwe sell them the best goods pos sible and at the best prices possible. Dehesia Raisins, per pound. .15 Peacock Raisins, per pound.....:........ .... .124 2-Crown Raisins, per pound .. .v.. .06" . 3-Crown Raisins, per pound .07 Bleached Sultana Raisiils, per pound ... ,10 Seedless Raisins, per pound.:.. ............... .08J Cranbenies, per quart... .10 Sweet Pickles, in bulk, per gallon...'..;.... 1.00 Sour Pickles, iu bulk, per gallon .40 Apples, per box .... .90 Lemons, per dozen!... ........ . .......:... ......; .15 Smyrna Figs, per pound.......................; .15 CANDIES. Gum Drops $ .05 Plain Mixed .07 TatTy Chiink....N .07 Jelly Beans...... .l(f Fancy Mixed .. .15 French Mixed.. .20 Taffy .20 - NUTS. Walnuts:... Almonds ... Brazil Nuts Filberts ............ .12 Pecans '. .12J Hazel Nuts ..... .10 Peanuts .10 .10 .10 12. Pease & Mays All Good9 Marked in Plain Figures. The Weekly Ghroniele. THD UALI.SK. - - UKKOOX OfTICIAL PAI'EK OF WASCO COUNTY. Published in two parts, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. - BT MAIL, F03TAGS PREPAID, IN ADVANCE. One year $1 50 x months 75 Three months 60 Advertising rates reasonable, and made known on application. Address all communications to "THF CHRON ICLE," The Dalles, Oregon. . Telephone No. 1. LOCAL BREVITIES. Saturday's Doily. A Kansas City man who was married recently, has relatives in St. Louis named Damm. At the wedding, among the congratulatory missives read, was a telegram from St. Louis saying: "Ac cept the congratulations of the whole Damm family. 1 H. S. Turner, of the Dufur Dispatch.is in the city today, attending to business natters. He says that the people of Dufur are folly 88 interested in bowling as they are in this city. His clabrooms have a good attendance, and it is a wonder that some one did not think of building club rooms in that town long ago. On the evening of December 24th "The South Before. the War" will be pat on attheVogt opera bouse in this city. This play has been well received in ev ery city in the country, and comes well recommended bv the press and the people. It will be here on Christmas eve, which will give everyone an op portunity to spend the occasion in the merriest kind of a way, since it is very laughable throughout. The work of patting the furnace into the new Lutheran church building is about done, and it will be but a short time until it will be ready to receive the furniture, wbich has already been or dered. After the furniture arrives it will have to be re-painted, which, owing to the condition cf the weather at pres ent, will take some time. Abont Feb- ruary 15th, at the very latest date, this church will be ready for dedication. Joseph Knox of Hood River ig in the city today. He informs na that a new road is to be ran from Tucker's mill south, intersecting the old road at Lan cia' place, and leading into the Mt. Hood country to Cloud Cap Inn. By . this road several bad hills will be avoid ed and it will make a difference of sev eral miles in distance, making it easier to reach the Inn from Hood River. As much encouragement is offered, there is no doubt that the road will be completed before the earn met 's traffic begins. - One of A. M. Williams' windows is dressed in a very appropriate Christmas attire. The shepherds are represented herding their flocks on the mountains, and above is the angel informing them of the birth of the Savior. The back ground ia draped with a beautiful dis play of handkerchiefs, while the angel, the shepherds, and in fact everything in the window, except the sheep, are neat ly attired 'in the same articles.' Mr. Jensen, the artist who arranged the Window, is very original in his ideas, ' and he uses them to a good advantage. The small boys and girls are excep tionally lucky, since today is Saturday and in order to enjoy the coasting they are not forced to play hookey from school. We notice one thing, and that is that this coasting proposition is some thing like the circus deal, wheie older people who want to see the show, go in order to gratify the desires of the chil dren, as they express it, when they are really going for their own benefit. So it is with coasting; if they want to en joy this diversion they say they go to see that the little folks do not get hurt. L. J. Adams, brother-in-law of Al Coolidge, jr., recently killed by the Van Pelts, returned to Salem yesterday from Gold Beach, Curry county. He was there a few days, looking after property interests,, and was accompanied by Joseph Cavanaugh. They report the Van Pelts are not and have not been confined in jail. On reaching Gold Beach at 10 o'clock Sunday night, De cember 5. Adams and Cavanaugh were met at the hotel door by the Van Pelts. It was found that the six Van Pelts and Hughes, charged with the killing of young Coolidge, are stopping at the hotel, at the expense of Curry county, which is $5 per week each. Monday's Daily. Mrs. Samuel Roake was killed by a train on the Southern Pacific near Ore gon City yesterday. . A St. Loqis jewelry store, which was the largest of its kind in the world, was destroyed by fire yesterday. ; The place to buy your Xmas handker chiefs is nndoubtedly at A. M. Will iams & Co.'s. One hundred dozen em broidered lawn handkerchiefs put on sale today at half price. Are you looking for a Christmas gilt for your youngest boy? Drop in at A. M. Williams & Co.'s and glance over their assortment of boys' sweaters for boys from 3 years up. "South Before the War," which prom-, ises.to be the best play of the season, will be at the Vogt Friday evening. Se cure your seats as soon as possible, as standing room will be at par on that oc casion. Yesterday Bob Murray, call boy for the O. R. & N. at this place, fell and fractured his wrist. Dr. Logan set the broken member and at present the lad. is resting easy, and in a fair way to recovery. A telephone bulletin from Portland received this morning, states that the Hon. A. S. Bennett, Wilson . T. Hume and Frank Williams are spoken of as candidates for congress for their respec tive parties. , The following high scores were made at the clnb alleys daring the week end ing Sunday: Monday, Hanawalt 55; Tuesday, Bradshaw 59; Wednesday, Sampson 50; Thursday, Sinnott 47; Fri day, Grimes 52 ; Saturday, McCoy 47; Sunday, W. Vogt 55. The following officers have been elect ed to serve in the Endeavor society of the Christian church for the ensuing sx months: President, Miss Alice Row land ; vice-president, Miss Edna Brown ; secretary, G. E. Stewart; treasurer, Miss Bessie Rowland. Mays & Crowe's warehouse on Third street has been moved into the middle of the block and a new two-story frame structure will be pat in its place, the first story of which' will be used for a warehouse, while the upper floor wdl contain suites of rooms for renting. The following are the highest daily scores for the week ending yesterday at the Umatilla House alleys : Monday, Maetz 58; Tuesday, Vf. Birgfeld 57; Wednesday, W. Nichols 62 ; Thursday, Fleming 64; Friday, Benton 64 ; Satur pay, "Fleming 82; Sunday, Fleming 61. Delos Neer, who has charge of the construction of G. C. Blakeley's house, came up on the Spokane train last night, returning this morning, haying in spected and accepted the work as satis factory. . The house is fully completed, and the Blakeleys will move in tomor row. : - Otto Kleman; architect for the new Catholic church, left for Portland 011 the morning train today. Mr. Kleman says that the gieater part of the work, on the church building is completed, and he thinks, that everything will be ready so that the building can be dedicated early in February. The Christian church membership of this city have called aB their pastor for the coming year Rev. J. V. Boltz, late of Flora, 111. Rev. Boltz comes highly recommended, both' as a pulpit orator and pastor. He will be in The Dalles and commence a series of revival meet ings on January lstpfrom which date his pastorate begins. ' . Perhaps the happiest and busiest peo ple in town last week were the children of the Kindegaften. Added to the usual Christmas work and anticipations," there were three birthdays, and those cele brting them shared them with their schoolmates. On ' Wednesday Mrs. Hudson gave a surprise for Thomas and. his friends at school. A cloth was spread over the kindergarten table?, on which were placed the birthday cake, with its lighted candles, and other good things which children enjoy. ' While the children watching the tapers burn each told what he wished to do, when grown. It was nearly 5 o'clock when they left for home, each with a Christ mas card, a birthday gift from Thomas, and. wishing him many birthdays as happy aB bis sixth. " The following high scores were made at the Umatilla House alleys for ten garres, which entitled the two gentle men making them to a box of cigars each : Fleming made 58, 58, 59, 64, 60, 60, 61, 82, 56 and 56, making a total of 614, or an averge of 61 and foqr pins for each game. Maetz, who was the uext highest man, made 61, 57, 55, 55, 55, 53, 53, 53, 52, 51, making a total of 545, and an average of 54 and four pins. These are very high scores, and there are very few, if any, bowlers in our city who, can score such high averages. . Mr. A. C. Fox, advance agent for the two powerful, popular and pleasing dramas, "Hazel Kirke" and "Ticket of Leave , Man," is in the city today, and has made arrangements to put them on at the Vogt on the nights of Saturday, the 25th, and Monday, the 27th inst. "Hazal Kirke" had a phenomenal run of nearlv three years in New York City alone, and the "Ticket of Leave Man" is not behind in popularity. We should congratulate ourselves at having such dramas rendered in our city. ' In the trial of Allen Logan in Dallas last week, on the charge of murdering Enoch Sylvester, the head of the dead man was produced in court. The prose cution secured identification of the grew some piece of evidence, and showed the jury fractures in the back part of the skull sufficient to cause death. The de fense, however, produced as witnesses three of the physicians who had been present at the post-mortem, and estab lished that the careful examination these physicians had made was with special reference to establish the fact of whether or Dot the blow delivered bv-Logan had fractured the tkull, and each swore pos itively that at tne post-mortem no such fractureB. were to be found. The head turned out to be a' boomerang for the prosecution, and it probably contributed to the verdict in Logan's favor. Tuesday's Daily. Sleds are now being used on the Union-Cornucopia stage line, from a point four miles east of Medical springs to Cornucopia, in Union county. fl. Taylor Hill of Prineville bagged 120 ducks and a goose in a day's hunting on the- Big meadows in Crook county, say3 the Prineville Journal. A number of counterfeit dollars, made largely of antimony, have been in circu lation in La Grande, and have been suc cessfully passed in the saloons of that city, . . Today Dr. Esbelman was called to at tend the child Mr. Clark of Hartland, who is quite ill. He left immediately after dinner and will return tomorrow by way of Centerville. The following officers were elected last night at Wasco Lodge, No. 15, A. F. & A. M.,' for. the ensuing year: S, H. Frazier, W. M. ; M. Z. Donnell, S. W. ; Frank JChrisman, J. W. ; G. A. Liebe, Treas. ; S. E. VanVactor, Secy;' W. 8. Myers, Tyler. The Yakima Republican says that the population of North Yakima has in creased fully . two hundred this year, thut there have been not nore than twenty deaths, and that the city schools have gained about one hundred and seventy-five pupils. Late reports from Oregon City state that the woman who was killed at that place by a train Sunday evening was Mrs. Samuel Roake. She was on her way to church, and as the train -was in plain view for quite a distance before it struck her, it is a mystery how she got in its way. She was 37 years old, and leaves a husband and four children. At present Second - street is in as fine condition as any one could desire. Much of the mud had been removed before the cold spell, and now-it is smooth and frczen hard as a horn.This morning some bicpele riders who wished a little exer cise, got oat their wheels and enjoyed a pleasant ride. Good bicycle-riding is more than most towns (an boast of dur ing the holidays. A few loads of wheat come in daily, and since the roads have frozen up the amount seems to increase. A large percentage of beat remains unhanled, which the farmers will be forced to hold over winter, in many cases not because they wished to speculate by holding for higher prici 8, but because their facili ties for hapiing it to market were not sufficient to if t it here before the roads became almost impasable on account of the unusually heavy rains. Patrons of the Vogt opera house will have a treat in store in the shape of Wballen & Martell's mammoth priduc tion, "South Before the War," which will appear Friday, Dec. 24th, for one night only. This play will take the older inabitants over the road of the buried past to the time when the darkies doings on the plantation were proverb ial. The piece ia made op of four parts, a plantation as it appeared in the midst of a cotton picking scene ; a landing on the Mississippi, at which the- famous old river craft, Robert E. Lee, arrives, loaded with the staple on its way. to the Crescent City. The next scene depicts a camp meeting, held on Frog Island ; also an old-time cake walk. In all of these scenes singing, dancing, and In fact everything that a fun-loving Darkey can do, is 'done to amuse the audience. The company producing this interesting play is composed of some fifty odd peo ple, including a Pickaninny band of seventeen little Darkies, who appear in several scenes of the play, and also head the parade of the company. . Mayee & Crowe have a new thing in the way of bowling alleyB. It is called the reversible parlor bowling alley and is just the thing tor the little folks who cannot go to the bowling alley proper, as well as for the ladies who can bowl at home while their better-half is at the enjoying himself in the same diverion. As a proof of the hit that these parlor alleys have made, we might add that during a few weeks 2600 have been sold from the factory, wbich is in Portland, and at present the supply is not equal to the demand, " GERMAN EMBASSY'S INQUIRY.! For the Antecedent or Paul Franz do Rohan. The imperial German embassy at Washington addressed a letter to Gover nor Lord, making inquiry as to the "rec ord and antecedents of the person styling himself Paul Franz de Robun, who is believed by the German authorities to be identical with the swindler who ap peared about two years ago at Tacoma and Portland, where be styled himself a bishop, and subsequently served a term in jail at Astoria. .'. It is so long ago since the bogus bish op operated here that the . police have altogether lost eight of him, and they are at the - present moment in no position to furnish any information concerning this man. beyond that which is of notorious publi.; record. . That he at some time must have studied for the Catholic clergy ia an indisputable fact, else he could not have so successfully imposed on Archbishop Gross and lesser officials of the Catholic church. He was a man of superior education, striking personality and a plausibility of manner which conspired to infuse con fidence in his victims. But the . inost mysterious phase in connection with his career, when his learning and natu ral attributes are considered, is that his rascalities were of the petty larceny or der, whereas be had all the lequisitea to render him successful as a confidence operator of the highest order. . It is intimated that this bogu9 priest belongs to a noble German family, and that at one time he was an officer in the German army. Bat what prompted him to leave the Fatherland and come to this country in the guise ot a priest cannot be ascertained. However, the fact that the German embassy is manifesting so much interest in the so-called Paul Frat.z de Rohan, as to institute inquiries- respecting him, indicates that he is a person of more im portance than he; appeared 10 b here, or possibly that Kaiser Wgilhelm's au thorities may have more use tor. him than had the Americans. as being the right thing. Horses can be used to much better advantage. Instead of using reindeer, the government ought ' to get together a number of hardy horses, and sufficient food should be taken along to feed them. They can da much better work than reindeer. I would use sleds for carrying the food for " the men and provender tor the horses. ' To handle the reindeer expedition suc cessfully' it would be necessary to have relay stations established a day 'a jour- nep apart, with food for the animals at these stations." This would be a rare - opportunity to get rid of some of the worthless Eastern Oregon cayuses, aa hardier horses than these could hardly be found, and they could be purchased much cheaper and would be of mora : value on such an expedition than rein deer from Norway. Dalton, speaking of the best route by which . to take re lief, said that he would eo over the jChil- koot pass and then down the lakes and the Yukon river over the ice. , Real Estate Transactions. Dalton's View of the Expedition. . Jack Dalton, the weel-known Alaska prospector who is at present in Seattle, in speaking of of the proposed .Alaskan relief expedition,, said : "The jiroposal to use reindeer teams does not strike me Frank ' Kincaid and wife to W. Bolton and wife, ne swj, t eie and swj , eej sec 36, tp 8 s, r 17e, containing 160 acres ; consideration $700. W S Kelsay and wife to A M Kirch- ;'. eimer, ne,1 sec 48, township 5 a, r 16 e, W M; 2000. , , Mary J Swift and husband to Josie Lake, e sej, sw sej, swj see 22, ' tp 4 s. r 12, containing 160 acres : ' con sideration $1500. Hugh Glenn to E B Dufur and F Men efee, wj nwj and 8e, nw, and nwj of swj eec 8, tp 1 s, r 13 e. James Divers ' to M. Randall, lot 3, ' block 5, Bigelow's Bluff Addition to Dalles City; $525. F A Reea and wife 'to Chas Kohler, ee nw), sw.J, v4 ki 8ec 19i tp 2 s, r 15 e, W M; $600. Fred Zimmerman to Jesse Simonson nw'i sec 13 n, r 12 e, W M, containing -160; $400. J A and Elizabeth Gulliford to Lottie M Watts, block 6 in the fourth addition to the town of Dufur; $500. ' Julia A Smith and husband to Ches- -ter McReynolde, sw, sec 33, tp 1 n, r 15 e, containing 8 acres more or less ; $300. . J M Smith and wife to Mrs Tennesen, lot I, block 53 of the Fort Dalles Mil Res to Dalles City ; $105. ' Appreciated. The ladies who bad charge of the en tertainment, "Cradle Songs of Nations,'? -desire to express their thanks to those who. so kindly look part, in the enter tainment, and to the ladies who were so untiring in their eff irt9 to perfect the children in the rendition of their parts. Especially wonld they thank Mrs. J. M. Patterson, who so faithfully and cheer fully performed the arduous task of pre siding at the piano. Employment Wanted. A widow with several children would like to move to The v Dalles to give her children schooling, and desires employ ment, chamber work preferred. Ad dreBS . Mbs. Wm. Shabkb, . . : "Chenoweth, Wash. A social ball will be given at the Bal- .. dwin opera house,' Tuesday even'ng, December 21st. Good music will he furnished and no questionable charac? . ters will be admitted. Tickets 50c. A. W. Robison, Mgr. To rent Four or six unfurnished ; : rooms, centrally, located. Apply to Mrs. M. Brittain, Second street,, near Union. dec 11