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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. SATURDAY. APRIL 14, 1000. The Weekly Ghronicle. "oFlCUL PAPEK 01 WASCO CO'STli f'Mishtd in luo part$, u HVu';. and Utturdavi. 'i' BUBoCKlPTIOS RATES. it mail, rosTAac r air an, is adtakci. One year HJJ mont'i ' Turae Ei-.uUn AdvctiiiQT rate reaoaablo, and made known oa application. iddri' 11 communication to'TOF THRON- LOCAL UKKVITIF.S. V.'edncsdaj Dully. A diamond ring was rallied last night at tbe Umatilla House and won by J. Carnaby. Teachers' examination io full blast to day with sue wale and Liutteen female applicant. Two loads of hojjs from Inland City. Wallowa county, were fed at the stock yards today ou tbeir way toTroutdale. Mr. Win. Michell, who has been quite ill fur over a week, was able to walk to bis office yesterday for the first time. A late London dispatch cays the war office proposes to land at Cape Town before the end of May, 20,000 horses from New Orleans, Buenos Ayres and Australian ports. The senate last Monday, by a vote of 30 to 16 rejcted an amendment to the Indian appropriation bill providing for sectarian schools. The amendment was offered by Jones of Arkansas. W. D. Sammons, bead waiter at the Umatilla House, will leave here on the let of May to become a member of the R. E. Eva and Earl French Company, who are playing "Too Much Johnson" in the Northwest circuit. Hundreds of miles of ballasted or clean graveled track for the Northern Pacific's Njrth Coast Limited to run over, when it 6tarts, on April 29th. The absence of dust will make that observa tion car a thina of beauty and a joy for ever. Dr. Emmens, the noted chemist, lately claimed to have made a discovery whereby he can make (told from silver, says an exchange.' That's nothing, friend, Mr. Bryan's coming to Roseburg reminds us that he bas been doing that right along for the past three or four years. Plaindealer. The Tacorna News says that since the admission of Washington as a state, scarcely ten years ago, over fifty mur ders have been committed in Pierce county, In which Tacoroa is situated, ani only two of the murderers, now nnder sentence of death, have bsen con victed of murder in the first degree. The four men who robbed the brewery till yesterday, were brought before Recorder Gates today and committed to the county jail. They will be tried to morrow under the charge of larceny from a dwelling. Tbey gave their names as Pat Conway, J. C. Hawthorne, Henry Love and Mike O'Brien. Every man bas good use for a suit case. Just the thing to take along on short trips, as it is large enough to hold a change of clothes, etc., and not large enough to be found inconvenient. Those on exhibition in A. M. Williams & Co.'s eaat window are just right and they are free to suit customers. A. B. McMillen, a former resident of The Dalles who worked a a printer In the Times-Mountaineer office before the birth of Tin Chronicle, is in the city from Auburn, Wash., looking for a location to open a first class shoe store. Mr. McMillen has already rented a dwelling and will move his family here in a few days. L. Connell, O. C. Grey, W. J. Schmidt, Ad. Lowery and Fred Merrit of Crook county are at the European House. They arrived in town yesterday, having brought with thein as far as Ketchuin's place on 5-Mi!e 128 bead of beef cattle. The cattle were turned out to pasture till a purchaser is found. At the Prohibitionist state convention brld in Portland yesterday, C. J. Bright, of Wasco, was nominated for supreme judue; Leflie Butler, now of Hood River, was nominated for congressman from the second congressional district F. R. Spanlding, of Hood River, was nomin ated for one of the presidential electors and Dayton Taylor, of The Dalles, was nominated as a delegate to the national Prohibitionist convention. Every British reader should know the origin of the sobriquet "Tom my Atkins." Tommy Atkins was the name of a sentrv who, when the Europeans in I.ncknow were flying for the residency from the mutineers, refused to leave his post, and so perished. After that it became the fashion to speak of a conspicuously heroic soldier in the fights with the rebels as "a regular Tommy Atkins." London News. A royal revel with Old Mumus is promised theater-goers of this city when the bright and breezy play of "Have You Been Smith," which has created furore wherever seen, will appear '"re. As a mirth-producer "Have You Neen Smith" is pronounced an enormous success. From the rise of the curtain to tle firiAl fall of the same the interest never flags, the humor never loses its piquant flavor, and the entire piece goes ''ppling merrily on to an nproaronsly funny termination. Incidental to the action of the play, a perfect plethora of catchy specialties are introduced. A block of granite from the Raymond. Ca! fjri.ia, quarries, weighing 6500 r , pound?, was taken to the Odd Fellows' ! cenii'tery yesterday by L-miij Cuminl to form the base of a sarcophagus monu ment to be plased over the remains uf the late Mark Vanbihber, who was drowned in the Columbia river, near Crate's point a few years ago. The monument will be of red granite, from Red Beach, Maine, and wilt be the largest sarcophagus monument in the cemetery. Sheepmen can now leave their flocks for a day at a ti:iie and no lurui will come to them, says the Lakevlew Ex aminer. W. K. Barry's band was with out a herder for six days, and wandered away from their grazing ground, and there was no perceptible loss. This is a good argument in favor of the nonrepeal of the coyote bounty law, as so many of these animals have been destroyed thai the bounty money to be paid hereafter wilt not amount to much, and at the same time the work of extermination will go merrily on. In launching the steamer Reliance last Wednesday morning she stuck in about five feet of water and her shoe was badly twisted. Yesterday morning the boat was hauled out on the ways, where the damage will be repaired as rapidly as possible. She will be ready for her trial trip tomorrow, and will probably go on the run about the latter part of the week or the first of next. Messrs. Allaway, Glenn, Mclne.-ny and Crowe will leave on this afternoon's train for Portland to make arrangements for the trial trip. Senator Beveridge bas been out in tbe Phillipines islands, and, among other interesting incidents of bis stay there, tells the following: "One morning I dismounted at an outpost occupied by Kansas troops, aud, unslinging my glasses, proceeded to inspect the Pill pinos, who were plainly visible from that point. A young Kansas boy approached and said: 'Senator, if you stand there long you'll get h shot out ot you.' 'Why, can they shoot so far?' 'Yes, and farther, too; the air was full ot boles here not an hour ago.' " The senator hastily retired, leaving the Kan sas boys in possession of the perforated air. lie was not disorderly but simply stupidly drunk. All he asked was to be let alone and sleep on the floor of the saloon and at short, waking intervals stagger up to the bar, get another drink and go back to his lair again. He started out yesterday morning with $30 in his pocket started out to prove that be was as willing, unreasoning hog and succeeded. His poor little wife, not long out of her teens, had begged him to come home, but in vain. Then she appealed to the marshal and the officer put him in the lock-up at 8:30 this afternoon till be would sleep off his debauch. He had $5.30 left but he had demonstrated that be was a hog. Tie proper place for a postage utamp on mail matter is the upper right-hand corner of tbe address side, says Edwin C. Madden, third assistant postmaster general. This facilitates cancellation and distribution, and insures prompt and proper treatment throughout to? service. Stamps placed elsewhere are liable to be overlooked, and the matter mibtreated as unpaid, or otherwise, and perhaps delayed in dispatch; therefoie, unless impracticable, stamps should be affixed on the "face" of all mail matter. Postmasters should advise patrons that the department does not hold postal officials responsible for delay in dis patch or wrong treatment resulting from the Improper placing of postage stamps. Thursday's Dally. The Moro Leader announces its own demise in this week's issue. Bishop Morris will bold service in St. Paul's Episcopal church Easter Sunday morning. The racket store will more into tbe Ben Wilson building, opposite Hood's collateral bank. J. A. C. Brant, formerly editor of the Vancouver Columbian, has purchased the Independence West Side, formerly owned by Mr. Fentland, brother of Mrs. S. L. Brooks of this city. The Easter entertainment and sale to be given by the ladies of St. Paul's Guild will be held on Thursday of Easter week at the Baldwin opera house. The entertainment is in good hands and will be of a high order. t Mrs. L. K. Connelly will hold a first Demorest medal contest in the Chris tian church of this city in xl Tuesday evening, commencing at 8 o'clock. A small admission fee to pay for the silver uitdal will be charged. April 20th is the date that the North ern Pacific inaugurates Its new double train service daily A. D. Charlton, A. G. P. A. at Portland, will answer all questions anked him about it. Write him for our North Coast Limited leaflet. It Is generally understood, says the Seattle Pout-Intelligencer, that George H. Baker, of KliekiUt county, will be chosen the Repuliliran national com mitteeman. Mr. Baker was elected to thn dtate legislature of 18!7, being a memlwr of the Iioiish of representatives. In 18118 be was elected for tbe term of four years in the state senate, taking his seat in the upper bo.ly of the legis He is a business man of Goldendale. "Business men,"sys the Astoria News, "give their patronage to the Columbia lauudry because the money paid out weekly in wages there quickly Unas it way back into circulation, and it is not so with money given to the Chines.'." Wonder bow it is with The Dalles laun dry. Discussing the tour of William Jen ciuga Bryan through Washington, the Spokane Outburst ears: "Trimmed of the foliage of diction and flower ot imagery Mr. Bryan's appeal is like that of Jim Corbett after the Fitzsimuions victory at Carson City "Give use one more charsce." The Umatilla county Populist conven tion split in two, 52 delegates marching into the Democratic county convention, where they were given seats and partic ipated as Democrats in the nomination of a county ticket. Fifty-seven dele gates remained in session and nomin ated a people's party ticket. Mrs. Smith French had a letter a few days ago from the Rev. Mr. Simpson, who was pastor of the M. E. chnrcb at this place some ten years ago, announc ing the death from diphtheria of his son, Kenwortby, aired 6 years. The death occurred on the last day of March. Mr. Simpson is stationed at Scranton, Pa. President E. E. Lylle, of the Columbia Southern, denies that there is any truth in the dispatches that have erainated from Baker City to the effect that bis road is making arrangements to connect with the C. B. & Q. Mr. Lytle says the Interests of the Columbia Southern are too closely allied with those of the O. R. & N. to make such a deal desirable. The ABtoria Push Club bas taken steps to establish a direct line of steam boats between Astoria and The Dalles. The merchants of that town have taken tbe matter in hand and appointed August Scherneckau a committee of one to visit The Dalles and consult with the Com mercial Club as to tbe feasibility of tbe project. Mr. Scherneckau is due here any time. A telephone message reached here from Portland this afternoon announc ing the nomination today, at tbe Repub lican state convention, of Frank Mene fee as attorney for the Seventh judicial district. The nomination was made on the eighth ballot. The seventh ballot stood N. B. Sinnott 13; Frank Menefee 13; blank 1. The closing ballot stood Frank Menetee 14, N. B. Sinnott 13. Emile Schanno, of this city, member of the State Board of Horticulture, kept a close watch on the thermometer dur ing the late cold nights, and he is quite certain no damage bas been done to early fruit in the immediate neighbor hood of The Dalles. The past two nights have been quite mild and the prospects never were better for an enor- nrous crop of peaches and cherries , Experiments at the Washington agri cultural college have demonstrated that a bushel of wheal can be turned into twelve pounds of hog, which at the prices prevailing for stock on the boot, would make the wheat so transformed worth 60 cents a bushel. Where the feed is mixed, wheat with vegetable re fuse, the results are even better. It has also been thoroughly demonstrated that it is not difficult, with ordinary prec.iu tions, to keep the swine free from dis ease. Senator McBride has been asked by the Portland chamber of commerce to withdraw his amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill, providing for the expenditure of the full amount rec ommended by the engineers for the im provement of the Columbia river. The action was ordered at the regular meet ing of the trustees of the chamber of commerce, after the subject had been freely discussed by those present. It was feared that the amendment would fail to get through, and would thereby injure tbe cause more than it would thereby injure the cause more than it would benefit it. Last night Fern Lodge No. 25, Degree of Honor, celebrated their sixth anni versary. After a short business session the doors were opened to Workmen and their families and the following program was enjoyed : Vocal solo, Mies Elizabeth McArthur; reading, Mrs. Maud Eddon ; piano solo, Miss Pearl Grimes. The guetts were then invited to the banquet tables and after having sampled the good things prepared, Mrs. C. F. Stephens delivered an address and im promptu speeches were niado by Messrs. Phillips, Moore, Douthit, Mrs. Filloon and others. The occasion was greatly enjoyed by all present. "Have You Seen Smith," one of the season's chief farce-comedy successes, will make its debut in this city shortly. The play is billed as "the farce-comedy surprise," and that it is a genuine novelty is the universal opinion of all who have witnessed it. In constructing the work, the author is said to have de parted entirely from the well-worn methods so long employed in the build ing of similar pieces, and the result is a production that unfailingly tickles the palates of all classes of theater-goers. White-whiskered "gags,v old-fashioned devices like trick stairs and siphon bottles, and all the rough and tumble concomitants of the average farce' comedy have been rigidly rxclu led ; and in their placs la found fresh, spontaneous I lature of 1890, ' bumor, legitimate comedv situations. and a myriad of novel magical features. Representative MooiIt has hmn . s-.ired by Commissioner Hermann that : the formal order permitting the (raxing of sheep and c.ittle on the Cascido re serve would b billed forthwith. The terms for this s-akn will ba practically the ssme as those eoj yed by the stock men last year. Permits will be granted to sheepmen according to the previously established custom. If congress should, as bas been requested, authorize the secretary of the interior to imposo a nominal chame for graaing, he may ex ercise that right on the Cascade reserve along with other reserves; but even if granted it is doubtful if any charge will he made for this year's grazing privi leges. Marshal Hughes arrested three drunks yesterday afternoon, who had loaded themselves with bug juice out of wages they had earned on the Paul Mohr port age. One of them tried to escape and ran into the Oregon saloon, when one of the proprietors; as the marshal claims, made an attempt to prevent the man's arrest. The marshal took him 'along, however, and lodged the three men in tbe calaboose. One of them was discharged this morning, another was fined $5, and the one who attempted to escape was fined $10. The fines were not paid and they will be worked out on the streets. The marshal subsequently arrested the saloon keeper, and he will be tried before Recorder Gates tomorrow afternoon on the charge of resisting an officer. Friday's Dally. A new cannery is in course of erection as Rooster Rock. Day Brothers are arranging to start a large sawmill at Cascade Locks. That chicken tor your Sunday dinner can be found at the McNeal Market. Call up 278. New potatoes, the first of the season, from California, are on sale in this mar ket. Tbey retail at five cents a pound. The McNeal Market for tbe choicest fruits, vegetables, fish and poultry. Phone 278. Tbe ladies of the M. E. church will have on sale, next Satnrday in the vacant store next to A. M. Williams', pies, cakes, salt-rising bread, cookies, etc.; also decorated Easter eggs. 2t Soule Bros., piano tuners ot Portland, and successors to W. S. Garey, will re main in The Dalles until Monday, April 16th. Orders may be left at Jacobsen's or Nickelsen's music stores. ap!13-lt Census enumerators will be required to perform their work between June 1st and 15th. Persons who expect to be absent from home at that time should arrange to be Included in the count O. L. Paquet, of Wapioitia, brought a load of fat hogs into town today which he sold to the Columbia Packing Co. for $4.85. Two loads belonging to Phil Knowles, of Dufur, were sold to Wood Bros, at the same price. Columbia Lodge No. 5, I. O. O. F, will have team work tonight in the first degree. Other business of more than ordinary importance demands a full at tendance of members. By order ol C.'A. Borders, Noble Grand. About $100,000 a month will be spent on public improvements in Puerto Rico from the $2,000,000 recently appropri ated. During the coming year the isl and will realize more than ever tbe gen erosity of the American people. Mrs. M. A. Ewing will move her Racket store next week, east of Mays A Crowe's, under Mrs. Ben Wilson's pho tograph gallery, where she will be pleased to see her old customers as well as a host of new ones. al2-ltd&w Electric fans will keep tbe dining and observation cars on the new North Coast Limited Northern Pacific cool and comfortable. Electric lights will light them at night. Electric berth lights in Standard Pullman sleeping cars and a big dome light on rear ob servation car platform. W. J. Ketchum and J. B. Goit have just returned from the country at tbe head of Mosier, where they went to hunt up and run the lines on a home stead and timber claim for Mr. Ketchum. They succeeded, ot course, as any two cruisers bearing such names as Ketchum and Goit might be expected to do. Tbe three juil birds who were sen tenced the other day to twenty-five days in the coi nty jail for carrying concealed weapons, had their pictures taken today at the cost of the county, Tbe sheriff" thinks they are escaped convictsf or at least old offenders, and the pictures are intended to adorn the rogues' gallery. The Glacier says: "The engagement of Chas. N. Clarke of Hood River and Miss Eva Lillian Slnsher of Dulur Is announced, and they will be married at the residence of the bride's mother, near Dufur, on Easter Sunday, April 15th. Everyone acquainted with Mr. Clarke and his intended bride will wish them much Joy." The Hood River Glacier says very little damage was done to fruit by the late cohl spell. Strawberries in bloom were killed. In some localities reaches, prunes and cherries were thinned out. the early strawberry patches bf rrh s had formed and would have been ripe in ten days more of good weather, R'pe draw berries will be two weeks Inter on ac- count ' tlie ,rost- The three Japs whoii'iolteJ Section Foreman Murphv near Ce'.ilo Wednes day were examined today. W. II. Wilson and a Japaueee lawyer from Portlaud defended them, whilt the state was represented by H. It. R d.ieil, with J. F. Moore as assot-Uto council on behalf of the O. R. X. Co. They plead gulity to common assault and were fined $40 each. For one week enly April 9th to 14tb, inclusive we are offering special bar gains in ladles' and children's muslin underwear. Tbese are new, fresh goods, jast received from the East, and consist of the latest patterns and designs in lace and embroidery trimmed garments. See our west window tor display. Re member the bargains last but one week at the New York Cash Store. George Sing, an old-ti.ue farmer resi dent of Sherman county, now of the Willamette valley, was a passenger on the boat for Portland this morning. George says if he only had the chances he abandoned when he sold oat his in terests in Sherman county he would give everything he owns to get back. And that's the way with ail those Web- footers who ever had a taste of Ei9tern Oregon. This year there will be three eclipses, two of the sun and one of the moon. The first is a total eclipse of the sun May 20th. visible throughout the United States. This eclipse will begin about 7.23 and continue about two aud a half hours. The second is a partial eclipse of the moon June 12th, visible through out the United States. Tho annual eclipse of the sun November 21st will not be visible in America. The Oregon Lumber Co. at Viento has 250 men employed in the h. ills aud lum ber yards tributary to tbeir business. Last month the company shipped 2, 300.000 feet of lumber. Their two mills on the Washington side have a capacity of 105,000 feet of lumber a day of eleven hours. After next month the mills will be run night and day. Men in their employ sometimes get in, in extra time, thirty-two days In the month. Two families by the name of Tompson and Daniel took possession of the wait ing room yesterday, between the arrival of No. 2 and the departure of the Elgin train, says the La Grar.de Journal. They were from West Virginia and were bound for Promise, Wallowa county. In the two families there were just twenty children, mostly boys. They were a lusty lot and we commend them with "all their hopes of future veara" to the fortunes of the land of Promise. W. M. McCorckle, the veteran miller of Tygh Valley, arrived in town laBt night and left for home this forenoon. He informs The Chboniclk that the fruit in the valley has not been serious ly injured by the late frost. Peaches, prunes and cherries were thinned out but as far as his own orchard is con cerned there will be more than enough of these left. As regards Wamic and the Wapinitia Flat his information is that early truit is seriously damaged if not, in most places, ruined. Here is a sample of the boiler plate editorials tiiat have appeared of late in our Democratic country press. It must be read in the light of the fact that un der the Puerto Rican tariff bill Puerto Rican sugar and tobacco come to this country free. Tbe name ol tha paper is omitted out of respect tor the alleged editor: "The president of a Porto Rico tobacco company states that the fifteen per cent tariff shuts their tobacco out of the United States. A fine way to treat the producers of our latest acqniied ter ritory! It is all in the interest of tbe sugar and tobacco trusts." Several members of the Scottish Re serve, before leaving for the cape, were entertained at a farewell supper the other evening by their workers in Dun dee, Scotland. "Now, boys," said tbe chairman after an appropriate speech, "treat what is on the table as you would the Boers." As the feast ended one of the Reserves was observed by the chair man stowing away a bottle of whiskey in tns pocket. "What a that ye re daein,, Tarn?" shouted the chairman good huuioredly. "Oh," replied Tain, to the great amuaement of all, "I'm only obeyin' orders. Ye tell 't us to treat the supper as would the Boers, and ye ken, what we dinna kill we are tae tak' prisoners." People who believe that there can never be too much fun in this work-a- day world will do well to make note of the appearance in this city Monday night of the most successful of all recent farce comedies, "Have You Seen Smith." This piece has been well de scribed by a western critic as the "beat existing exemplification of honest fun." It is all fun from the first rising to the last falling of the curtain. The ludi crous characters, the laughable happen ings that follow one another in swift sequence, the essentially funny plot, the fresh and merry specialties intro duced, are what combine to makeup entertainments of this class, and "Have You Seen Smith" is said to be one of the happiest blemlings of the above- mentioned ingredients that our stage has seeu in many a long day. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bean the Signature of COW CANYON TOLL ROAD. Traveler IVmplaiua ur tR- Vfratcaa Condition of This Thoroatatar. Tkie Dau bs, April 11, 1900. Km ri: CimoNu-LK : Ti.t re ur- liia e kcow of and ill we kno v i.ol i t, I ut it one is compelled to travel over the Height toll roal from Bakeovn to Trout cretk he will con clude that all the ills the human rac is heir to h;iva been helped u(on him. From Bakeoven to th head o! Cow canyon it ii one continuous jolt over rocks an i int ruts. It does not appear that a reck his Ix-en thrown out for a years. The ilragio of heavy loads over the roads has worn rat a rut oa each si. I of every rock. This makes a trip over this excuse of a road hard on teams and disarreit lo to drivers. But th3 roal company never fails to collect toll from Ir.tve'ers, 50 cents for a to-hurie team esch wy. Now, Mr. Editor, I want to know if there ia any way to fore the owner uf the road to put it in tit shape for travel or quit charging toll. If there is not, the charter should he forfeited. The con dition of the road is an imposition apoa the traveling public and the charging of toll a bit of graft. For one, I would say cauo the churter to be forfeited and the road thrown back to the county as a public ttioroutihhtre, or force the owner to keep it in decent ft. ape for travel. A Traveler. Mtaii(hatt-tl Mayor Vincent. When the overland passenger train rolled into tho O. R. A N. station this moriiiny, a big crowd of Pendleton and Umatilla county delegates and politi cians were assembled, many bound for Portland to attend the state conventions and others merely having gone to the station to see the politicians eff snd im part wise counsel as to the action in the state conventions. Among those who did not intend to go was Dr. F. W. Vin cent, mayor ot Pendleton, chairman of the Republican county committee, and late chairman of the Republican county convention. The dector bad lots of business which kept him from deciding; to go to Portland, and he so informed the otiiers. Without saying anything about it, Senator Taylor and Ju.lge Fee put np a job on the mayor, and, ju9t before the train pulled out, tho doctor was seised by half a dozen, raided on board" the Pullman, jammed down Into a seat and, so it is said, sat on by numerous men until the train had attained too great speed to permit him to jump off. The shanghaied mayor is now on the overland, flying toward Portland. It is intimated by some of his friends that he will bring an action for exemplary damages and for the expenses incurred while in Portland. East Oregonian. Wagons and Bugg-len from tba Factory I. R. A. Gilley, representing the Spaulding Manufacturing Co., of Grin nell, Ohio, is at the East End with a carload ol forty-five hacks and buggies which he snd a force of men will try and dispose of in the country tributary to The Dalles. The machines are direct from the factory, and as Mr. Gilley and bis co-laborers are simply tbe salaried employes of the company, each convey ance will be sold without the interven tion of a half hozen middlemen, each of whom must have a dividend from the price the purchaser has to pay. These men have been operating over much of the Willamette valley, tbe Big; Bend country in Washington, around Walla Walla, North Yakima, the Grande Roude valley, Pendleton and other places in Washington and Oregon. They sell direct to the purchaser. Each machine is built of the bent material and by the best mechanics money can be procure and is sold subject to any reasonable teBt that may be conceived of to prove the character of the material in its make np. And lastly, each ma chine is sold under a written guarantee that everything said about it is as rep resented or the money refunded. Astoria City Father 11 -ana Copy- The following rat story, whose author is vouched for by the East Oregonian, Is respectfully commended to the attention of the municipal authorities ot Astoria, who are now wrestling with the problem of rat extermination : "Rats became quite a pest at our house," said a Pendleton paterfamilias to an East Oregonian reporter, "and one day an old lady told us that if we would write a letter to the rats and place it under the sidewalk, asking the rats please to leave and telling thein where they thould go, the rats all would leave at once. This I did, and, sure enough. the rats left and we have had not one around the piece since the letter was placed under tne si.leaalk." atrayed. A black horse weighing about 1250 pounds and branded 2" on the left shoulder. St me strayed from the farm of John Brook house, which Is situated six miles beyon 1 Dufur. Liberal re ward ofTtred for information regarding recovery. Address S. R. Winass, mar'-lmw Dufur, Or. For Fala. 40-acre trac', 3' miWs fiom The Dalles, 4-roo:n house, barn, all fenced, orchard of 300 trcis, running water, good range for cattle adjacen. 10 acres bottom land fine for berries or garden. Price reasonable, terms easy. Call at this office. ni2l-dwlmj