THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 20, The Weekly Ghronlcle. AdterlUlag Kale. JVr mrk O x li.eh or In Pally l ! l ei Iwo li'h. an.t under Mir Inohee. .. I w Oeef lour tiu'tiee aud uudtT Iw1t luchw . Ore Iwelv inrhca W naiLY and wttlLT. )n Inch or !. per Inch W SO Ot tin inch auti under lur llirlie J IV Over t.r lu lu aed uutlvr llve lucuc . I 0M tWtllV lUCtU IS SOVTil AFRICA. England, In her Lour of sorrow, center! all hope on Geneial Sir Red vers Huller, who comoiinili all the lititUh forces in South Africa, and directs the attempted advance of three armies. The army under (Jen cral Methticn has suffered withering losses at Mod Jer river, and having been fought to a standstill, is going Into entrenchments. Gen. Gatacre'a army has been shot to pieces at Storm berg. Hullcr, who is somewhere be tween Pieterroaritzberg and Lady, smith, is personally directing the movement for the relief of tlat town and General White's besieged forces. Four lines of railway run from the coast of Souti Africa into the in terior. One runs from Cape Town, second from Poit Elizabeth tn Algoa bay, and a third from Durban These all start in the British posses sions of Cape Colony and Natal, and the three British columns have been advancing along them. The fourth railway starts from Delagoa bay, in Portuguese East Africa, and is not available for the British forces. The Biitish forces under Methucn and Gatacre having been blocked in their attempted advance along two of the three nvailahlp line of com munication with the interior, it be comes of tremendous importance that ruller drive an opening along the third line into Ladystaitb. Hut be roust do more. He most, ia addition to his task of relieving Ladysmith, inflict a crushing defeat on the Boer forces, else England will be in a bad plight in South Africa for many months to come. Ladystnilb is at the junction of the two branches of railway, one running north and northeast to Johannesburg and re toria, and the other running west to ft trunk line traversing the Orange Free State from north to south, and continuing into the Transvaal. The former, after leaving Ladysmith, en tcM the Transvaal through Lamp's k, near Maj jba hill, the scene cf the British repti!e j'n 131, The latter enters the Orange Free Staie through Van Beenan's piss. Unless the Boers confronting Bullet's army are subjected to a crushing defeat, they will readily fall back on tLese two passes and impede indefinitely the advance of the British forces into the Transvasl and the Orange Free Slate. It is possible that the outcome of Buller's plan of campaign wiil prove that the results justified the severe looses suffered by Melbuen and Gatacre. Buller may have directed these generals to er.gsge the Boer forces before them at all bsztrds, with a view to preventing the Boers from detaching portions of their forces before these generals and con centMtinz them aroun 1 Ladyirrilb, or ios$il!y io the expectation that a determined onslaught by Melbuen and Gatacre would force the Boers to hurry reinforcements in that di rection, and thus make possible the ' sjieedy relief of La ) smith, and an j easier advance into the Transvaal j and the Orange Free State. ( If Buller couM accomplish these' ends, toe British could hope to gain command of the net work of rail-' roads In the Trausva.il and the; Orange Free Stste. and could ad vance at wi'l oc Pretoria, Johannes-' burg, Bioemfun'.ein or Kimberley. They would encounter severe re sistance, but they wuM lc ia a position to mike feints first in one direction and then another, ar. 1 by keeping the I'xjer g'ic!i.j. wo, 11 compel tbeic to scatter tV.lr f r.es. MIT. 11 RE II ."W .. Srtre months ag. n Tcnr.esve soldier natnel K --er intcul-'y killed a nun in a I nr-rotta Irani in San Franclsc . Partly because be was a sul l;er :. I partly because the San Fiincieo courts art instruments of inj'isik-e and wren, l.e was ac-' iiitted, on no reasonable theory cf defense whatever. tt at liberty! and transferred to New York, and being duly inflamed with liquor and possessed of the notion that he was not amenable to the law, be shot and mortally wounded auotber victim, again without reasonable escusc. The defense will be that be was temporarily insane. If he gets clear this lime, and kills a third man, the law would be doing him an injuatice to punish bim, for it will have twice said to him, in effect: "Gel drunk and kill; slay and spare not; you are a soldier, an officer, and are above the law j tt wou't punish you." The San rrancisco court and jury that let Ibis murderer go scot free are really the murderers of the New York victim. If they bad done their plain duty by the murderer, be would have been where be could kill no other man. Telegram. LOSSES IS WARS. With forces estimated at 00,000 men the British armies have lost in killed, wounded and missing over 7000, or 13 per cent, of the total, says the Be view. In all battles and operations In Cuba during the Spanish-American war the Americans lost only 169 1 men in killed, wounded and missing, although the Americans were the attacking forces. These losses were sustained bj armies aggregating 30,000 men, but the operations Included half a dozen battles under conditions as trying as those which the British now endure. During the civil war there were terrible slaughters, but few which esceed in Intensity the Modder river charges or the battle of Tugel liver. In two days at ticltystinrg the L uton armies lost in killed. Hounded anil missing 23,001 men, but the percent age of loss, compared with the men engaged, was uot as high as in South African battles. At Antietam 12, 4'.H men were unable to answ.T to roll call in the Union armies, .out of over ten times that number, but that was the bloodiest battle of the war. The terrible losses the British armies have suffered in the South Africa campaign would be sufficient to make a nation less dogged suspend operations. In no engagement have the British had the better position. They have been compelled to storm heights which would bold back men wee there no hostile forces con fronting them. Not once, b t a score of limes have the indomitable soldiers of Methuen, Gatacre and Buller pushed forward under a withering fire and have responded as eagerly and willingly to the last com mand as to the first. The Increasing lists of dead, wounded and missing have brought sorrow to half the homes of England, but they have not abated one jot the determination to conquer. 'IT Is IX MKT A ST. j Senator Simon is given the chair manship of the committee on irriga tion and reclamation of arid lands, aoul which subject be probably knows as little, and ia which he takes as little interest, as any that the senate will consider. However, he is a man who can soon gain all the information necessary. Portland Evening Telegram. This is a very important com mittee. It is not so for the Wil lamette valley, considered in a provincial spirit. Bat it is important for Eastern Oregon, and what benefits one part of the state is helpful to all other parts snd to the commonwealth as a whole. The irrigation anl reclamation of arid Ian Is is a live subject, and the government is taking a deep interest, in it, an I giving valuable assistance to m ate eLtcr prise in makiiig experiment and suggesting plir.s. The g'lVirnmenl has l.te'y rendered elective help in the mv.'.er of storage reservoirs. wh;c!i is o:,e of t'ie most beneficial jTm of irrigation as m, bold (ck the wster ar. l prevcr.t "xsd in w i titer, ar, 1 relive tt in the dry -astn. keejinj the wr.'.tr in navig able rivi-rs from lecvtcir.g too low and transferring the hole face o? the country: la extent of tenltory, nearly half tf Oregon needs the hlp of corigres in promoting irrigation projects. Salem statesman. Clark A tag Lire a at.1 com plete I. n of hems, carriage, wag ,n and barn fain: manufactured It J trues E. Tattoo, cf M.laackee, Witcvist.n. The Weekly Chronicle. riot nuns aKKuoN orrii UL rai-KK or a u county. fSMwArd in luo jmru, un H fdneadtiyt .Nalunlii v. THr KlI'TlOS HATKS. BT BAIL, luaTatl retrain, IM OTC. Otw jeer II IW Mx mtuiiria "ft ttirv mouth W A trrtiln rati reaatmabl. mil tikli kuown MX atlii.lt,a. AMtv all simmunli-allui lo"TH r 11 HON H l.K,' la Imliiw, orwuu. LOCAL HHSVITlft. tUUmUy Dally. The iliHrad.es, Hrown and Wilson, will be given a hearing la Justice Haz ard's cuurl Monday. Words are wind; teeing Is believing. Oregon was represented at the com memoraiiva ceremonies at Ml. Vernon Thursday by Senator Simon and ltepie sentative Moody. According to Tatricio McNeal, of the Umatilla House: "This is . The Iriih flghlloK for the Brititti and being licked by the Dutch." This morning John H. Matthews, of the Fast Km!, filed a petition with the county clerk asking that Carl Cuttiug, an incorriitible youth, be committed to . the stale reform school. A telegram received at Vancouver froai Senator roster, insures the parent of Sergeant DaniptorTer, who was to be hoi for assaulting Filipino women, that hi sentence wouiJ be mitigated. A report wa current thl morning that a man had been killed cn the road this si lo of Arlington ; but all n li-avor ti find anything definite concerning it barn proven futile, o wt conrluJe it was but a rumor. The two little steamer. Elmore and Pear!, came np the liver yeaterlay brinning with them Ponoran' rcow, which it aas frared uilght be if bound ihoald evere weather overtake it. Thry returned thi morning. Portland thealer-g.irr are looking forward to hearing Mi lllair, a talenleil at-tre, io France IioJgin Burnett' "Lady of tiuaiity" next wek. Tee j play may be all ri;ht ; bat if it i, ia oar opinion it mutt uiiler wiJely from the book. Wong Quong, the First National Hank robber, who I now bring tried al Wall Walla for grand larceny, having atolen a diami nJ, I defended by Atty. W. T. IVivel!. Wasco county may yet feel like taking a band in prosecuting the Cetrtial ; that it, if Walla Walla fail ia tending him op. Four inchr of sniw fell last night, bat wt almost gne by ( ernoon. fhe tem(-ratare may reach the mo oiark by morning, at f.redirted, but tt doetn'c hi t fair to at piesent, m hile the thermonirtrr I it no at 37, and hat hern n loner than j the fiei ng mtik tndav. We believe! Pagne it rather going back on hi pre- diction, f'jr to!ay'( report ttvt notl.icg j abat lero and urn ply prelictt tr,ow. The city ;tieei excepted, presented a ta.m'al af i'-artnce tin morning, j ith the hoat'top snd tree covered, m.:h tnow and the telephone wire a ;:c:eeiun of white line, tending under! it weight. If kodak fim.it were out . ....... . V. ,i i.... i - I uvu, v , u.u. ... . . m nn.uber of p!en did view. Bat gracderl ofkllwere the mountain! tcath of the city, the w b.!e trTtct beinz jutt tuch at it found in paintitigt of winter scene. Seeing the neighboring tree al! about them failing under the woodman' ax,' two of the large tree In front of O. J. I Lewi' Loose, on Third ttrret, etidrntiy J decided that they would coin mil taicide! rather than be cnt down by man's hind. They .therefore toppled over with a ertth , thit after nooo, snd completely block-! aded the si lewa.k for a time. They have ' been somew hat like the latt leaf fore! long time, bent over wilb age; hot neverthe'.et their hade will be greatly miteed. J Although the attendance at the I Lutheran baitar on neilher eveoiog wa j large, yet two of the beat of tnotictl program were rendered and all who. heard them were greatly pleated. The J ladle worked bard and were deeervirg of a much larger crowd ; bat inclement j weather and do tie preparatory to Chriftmt mnst Lata prevented many altendicg. inaoeiai!y. however, they might be taid to lare been toecertfa'. at !eat in a meatare; for tboee who attended were ich a eootribate largely ! to j h ar!.r, and make all concerned ! feel tl.at tr.rir lab-r were not ia vain, i Heavy mot has fallen daring tht ' p-t week ar: 1 it if tir.cereiy bopel that 1 it t at come Hat ; atd t! large (jutn- '.ties of git wf.irti wr ttored here' waiting f r tr.e roa tttj improve, may I t.s j.rd ti ttie vari ,a iirr-oc!in I min.ng r:n ; . Ti e weather bat leeo ' mill ar.d pler.t, however, tnow on. tt.e rrxdt r.f t.cu- ii.e irg durir.g the warmer l.-.crt ..-f tie day and freeing! inlo t).ou-r. l '( i - -,n the ee at the leii.jeratire .jeered. fiu'udibg opertiir,t l.aie n .1 ten interfrrre-1 with, t. pt the inajjitetet d gg ng ' f 'jt Inrn'-r f'o'n great tr.ow bmk. "it,; ter Miner. x The "r-.cky roid t I'.b' i," :t,'t in' it witb tie n.ai iy ha k h . rva.! lfrjghoat the interior. W earnot voieh f.r the trath r.f ih !ten.r.t that on stage torne l oter fcvor ti.i,e be ,f .re rechir,g i: destioa'.io, hot such ! lithe report. Title) terrible condition! g gaid to tie due in a great measure to the fact that many freight team mire almoitto the huh, which necessitates digging theui out. Instead of sgain filling in the Immense hole thus made, the teamster proeeed on hi way, leav ing a pitfall Into which the untuspecllng driver who (ollnw Io the wake find his wheels plunged. H produce anything but a pleasant sensation. Gilford' Ml. II d picture make a bit wherever Ihey go, and the giesleet dilhYully now it whether it will be poibte to supply the Chrittina de mand, a so many ar (ending thsiii to friend In the Fast. When Harry Urn dale led for hi home In Columbia, Mo., he carried, along with a number of olher view of Oregon eiiery, a laige Mt. Hood picture. He had been home but a day or two, wh"n he ent an order to M. Z. Ionne!l for two of the atne view for friend there who had Uen capti vated with It. Thn not only the picture are becoming famous, but Or goo a well through the splendid ad vertisement Ihu giveo. Monde? t Pallr. J. C. Baldwin ha been confined to hi home by tirknet for the patt fw day. It look a if t'hrittmat tree might be more numerun tlii year from the num ber which have beeu brought in today. The latett potlultWe heard from 1 thai in the Wamic district called .Sinitck. Had the been n a, they might be charged with playing "pottoffle." Wong (Jnong, whoae raee ha I een mentioned in connection with the bank rubbery here nine year ago, sn t who hat been tried in Walia Walla lr grand larceny, wa found guilty of that charge on Saturday, to that he will at leatt offer for a minor ohTenee, whether Watco county proetcute or not. A harpy crowd, chaperoned by Rte May, departed latt Saturday for Hay Creek, where for tw data they were royally entertained by Mr. and Mr. Fraak Soiu.irv,!!a ai,d Mr. Ii !rdi. Il waa a merry houee parly, and the de lightful hospitality of the ho.lt aud hotlets mtde every moment one of un alloyed plvature. The parly wa com puted of Mr and Mr. It jht. Ma;, Jr., Mr. Maude Mitchell and tun, Jack. Mr. and Mr. F. A. I.uvl lemann and son, Hillman, Mr. and Mra. K. C. liood win, Mestra. Sim Nutting and Max l.ntddeiuaiin. Antelope Herald. Thi morning the marshal arretted Oakley Harkina, a young maa rharged with vagrancy, and in lieu of hit 2 wilt spend the day io the city jil. Harkina I ia not a cou,plete atranger here, hating' been a freitint viailor la former jeart, when In ancle was in butinea here, lb it Iheoldold ttory of opportunities negitctxd and lack of ambition until he is now a cjiunii n tramp, adi'grara r.ot only to himself, but tJ ail connct'trd with hirn. On c-iuplaiht of hit ttep-fa! her, J. H. Matthew a, Carl Cutting waa thi nurn-j ing cumuiilled Io tl. (charge of the ttate ; reform tchool at Salem, and will be j taken down In the inoruii.g. Carl is a boy of atut 14 year, who ha proven' hime!f a troant, untruthful, dirhonett, ' incorrigible and vleiont, to that hit parentt find they are unable to control him, and therefore deem It for hi future ! benefit to place him where he will be tnhject to more ttricl surveillance. j Jutt at the firtt -al whittle tooted ! forth thit morning the horte attache.) ' to the laundry delivery wagon came to j the conclusion that they were tired of thit wast.ee wathew all the lime and! woald ranny runny for a change, o they lit oat up the road leading from the dock. They had, however, calcu lated without the beautiful moldy! road, and by th lime they reached the: top of the grade Lad upended etioogh ttetm to ran Iwo or three laundries and were ready to qail and "be good." j Thi afternoon M. T. Nolan received a telegram from Congreta,an M. A. Moody, dated Washing ton, Wcember ! l:h, wblrh ay that Tongue ha been appointed on the river and harbor com- i mittre, and a.o ia chairman of th ir rigation of land. Mr. Moody I a mem ber of the committee on public land, aio mine and mining and expendi ture of interior department. Oregon it receiving liberal rec f nilion, which i highly talitfactory to it mmter. I'atteoger train No. J wen't do to ' bank cn, and it perhap the mott fickle j number in the bunch. If ton want it! to t-e late. It's early ; if yoa want it to' be on time, it' off. kotavtwo of our' prominent cilizent wi.o intended to take , it atorday bat inttead got taken In. I They bntlle.1 into the Umatilla House a , thort time a'ter it ocght to m due, atked no oestiont hut proceed I to wait for No. 1. They r!.atte. ar,ut, and to a tr n up a tree it h. ked at if the better k.ng of II. two wat intend ing to iit trh'jr,. in the ie'gdering dittrlct, whi.e the younger and m ire tylih wat atmut to nr.ake a record of pr win jft in another t. .oioo of the eour.ty. If the clerk al the hotel .. had any t i;i, !cn of the ttate of afTair he was cite enough to keep mum. Finally ahont th hewilehir.g hoar of fi 'Jii, one of them ir,f jru,ed Mr. Fish that they were to le pr--nt at Jo!ge exercite at He-d Hirer that evening. Being atked what train they wou'd lake, he replied "No. I." With that i(r jliar twinkle In hit ere, Jo id laid, "You'll have to wait ti l tomorrow then. No. 1 iefl teveril hours ago. The ihior waan I oeiiu very wide, but thev managed lo get out. jnd next Hum will atk the old, old Huealion, "How alemt N . IT" Tuexlar t Pally. The facta are, price are 'lling our big line of holiilsy goo It fir ut. Jaobtun Book A Mueic Co. Winter find what U'niner conceal a larger liuw of holiday good tl.au vrr at the Jacohten Hook Music Co, Tli hiN,l In Ib.tnct No. 30, near Hufur, taught by Ml. Maliel O'Brien, cloaed a very tuec tilul term laat Fri day. 1 hough a rinail tchool, the pupil coiitribulwl (tt toward th library fund. The annual election of Watco lodge No. 15, A. F. A A. M , lo.,k place latt night, with th following retull: M. Z. iKinnell, W. M.; Frank Chritman, H. W. j Victor Marden, J. W.; O. I. IKiane, Sec'y; Oeorge A. Liebe, Treaa. Th leading officer i hoten are th yourgett that have ever tilltxl the chair since the organisation of the lodge. Brown and Wilton, the desperadoes who were captured by leputy I "ell Howell a week ago, wer arraigned in Juttice Bayard' court jetterdty after noon rharged with larceny. They waited examination and war bouud over In the tuiii of l-'iiiO a:h to appear at the February term of ciiul. 'fit not likely any bond will he forthcoming, and o they will be guett of John Fits tierald until that time. Soma ma) (eel that II doeen'l seam like Chr Utilise it to near at hand, bat Sun lav tchool workert are aware of the fact an,l are buy making preparation. Oil Saturday night the Chriatiai: Sunday chool will have a Chrittina chimney. On M. n lav at ti o'clock the Fpiccopahan pupil have a tree, and later ia the evening the Mtth d tt and Congrega tional tchool each celebrate with tree; while the salvation Army will hav a tree for Ihe poor. A t ad aulewa'k It a wt a diegrace lo the city, and a danger,. us one at thai; but a hen th snow of a inter cover it t aa rxiem, c iiceailng It, pillail IlolU pedettrlant, it larotnet d 'Ubljf danger. oil. Such walk ar lho on C-.url treat above the hliitf. In no part of Ihe city can worte wa xt m found than on that (trret, when they hould, if anv thing, le th best, Cvimideiing lha num ber of children who ar etli (wiled to walk over them daily going lo and bom chool. Il would probably be the proper thing today to retnar klhat "hj i the winter of our dlecontent." But mott everyone tee tut lo feel that winter bat tarried a tnnVient time o that we really hav no kick coming. Latt night wa thecoldett of the teaton. Th thermometer got down to 21 degree, while at lioon today It wa Tie barometer ludi.ate tnow, but the new weather prnphrt tiill tayi "fair and warmer." Already Ihe tm.ll bo, h. hied hlmll ,,, m l.nd. near th. city., Ul(k4(, 'l ...d.ever.l vl-l,,,,, , have cn... In in aledt, 1,1,1, ,,0,"" ' the .now mutt be d eprr i j"' inc.. in. .i.o,UuCh ,ou,., Ldr th city. ""' From Mr.. K I. Young. ,,ullM , returned from a week' v,.it ,t j ' ' home In th Fairfield dittrl,.t , J 1..., ..., .. ,,,,, IUl ho.j.1. Having U,u ,i, " year .1. greatly ,j old frlenda. Among oil,.., thing,!,, 7 !''? lven In hot; of Ml.. Cheadlwat Ihe hoi,,, 0 w . C.iuplH.. Thar. wer. fc" ' fight prer.nl. and an oyt.er tiipu,r.j! enjoyed. Oo Ihe vi.ing ,h n about forty t e.ghboi gntvj , home of Martin Jaktha an I ,d eral good time. She tirri 1(j about six feet of (now on 10 roaft) when (he Iefl. They hav - . .p,, houday school at Fairfield un. urlntendeney of llarrv lllchr.lt, tod 11 hunday K.v. k. Warner prtackej at ma icnoui uoiit. A good representation of th t,Ml wer preeenl at Ih horn. 0( Jr., It evening, when th ijnetiiotJ welcoming Ih (lateen meu.lr, 0 liM (tat uolvertlly glee club to nUr city o, the '.Hib wa Ihoroughly dltcu,eed,IB4 It wa decided lo give Ibtni a tertptig, Ither on Ihe evrnlng previou to tb concert or at It cloew Thursday jvertia(. the lime depending upon their arrival. An tietntiv coiiiuuttee rompotad Mltee U. Sampton, I.. I'.,,t,rt to. J. Llelie, wa appointed, which It tu.1!,,i proof thai a hearty welcjii, w til t given Ih ttodente. ANuit mty of th leading ladle of Ih rity were rhoteiu patroneaae, and their Hanoi Mot to Ih manager of th club. Not on!; t.li ttiey receive greeting tnmi the a.oait: but all will ba glad lo arlcum tact worthy young men lo our mv. Ihe Madera Mother Hat found that her lit; o.-n-i art In prvix mora by II. e pVatssl Str3(,' Fig, when in need of Ih Ittadv ?M of a gentle remedy, than by any Lb. Children enjoy It and it lnrfltt tliew. The tru rriuly, Srrup of Kigt, It aitf ufaclure.1 by Ih Ca'tlorni Cg tjr: Co. only. atrajr Mallre. Cam to my place on Five Mile, tlmt two week ago, a buck .km aad 11 belt branded with an nariork on right ki and an M on right ahuulder. Sai4 horn ha been on th rang near n,v plar kr th patt two year. (Ir.,r its tin) imt by proving pioperty and ptjlci all charge. Ia'tKl Dec. H, is el. It a m Ih Join, dec?) U The Pal et.tlref). Sobecribw for Th Chronic t. :ail. I WHOLESALE. RETAIL The following I. net are to be found at Mays & Crowe. FULL ASSORTMENT. LOW PRICES. Harden Tool, IVep Well I'limp Blaekamith't Tool Kublr and Cotton Hoe Bar Iron and Steel Winchee'er and Marlin ltfle, lalrtt model Ularktmitti't t'l Fithmg Tai kle Wagon Maker MippUet Bicyrlen, .""undile Wrought iron Pip and Filling Smith A Weaena and Coil' Ilevolver Barb Wir and ai t. Warranted Lisk Anti-Rust Tinware Warranted W will replace every piece If found rutted. Granite Iron and Stewart Enameled Ware. 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