THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. MAY 2, WOO.
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LOCAL BKKT1T1K8.
gdturdaj'i Dully.
The Observer says Moro it at last
cleared of Philipino itch.
The Pioneer says Day Bros, expect to
commence work on their taw mill at
Cascade Locks in the near future.
We learn from A. W. Mohr that the
Albany will come back here Montfay
with a load of rails for the portage.
W. V. IIo)le, a carpenter and builder
of this city, lias filed a petition in bauk
roMcv in tlj9 Unite States court in
Portland. His liabilities amount to
2918.50 and his assets to $425.
State Superintendent Ackerman ar
rived here on the noou passenger and
this afternoon accompanied Professor C.
L.Gilbert to Dufur to take part in the
graduating exercises at that place to
night. Mr. J. F. Ferguson, of Hood River,
was in town last night attending a meet
ing of the local Odd Fellows. He was
accompanied by Mrs. Ferguson and both
returned home on the Dalles City this
morning.
Father Bronegeest was a passenger on
the Dalles City this morning for Cas
cade Locks, where he will hold services
tomorrow. Services at The Dalles Cath
olic church will be conducted by Kev.
Father Muller, S. O. B.
J. C. Meins has been notified by the
commissioner of pensions that Jacob C.
Bin?, of company M, Second Oregon
Infantry, (Spanish war) has been al
lowed a pension of (6 per month, to date
from March 13, 1899.
The cook of the steamer Iralda got on
a "high lonesome" last night and in
consequence spent the night in the cala
boose. He was fined (2 thia morning
which, with an empty exchequer, be
promised to pay and was released.
J. A. Hunt, who opened a furniture
store here a month ago, is packing up
with the intention of leaving in a few
days. He intends for the present to
take his family to Hood River and may
go into business there after a couple of
months rest.
The Oregon Historical Society is mak
ing an effort to have the old pioneer
trail across the mountains marked by a
series of permanent monuments. The
governor of Idaho has been asked to co
operate and he baa signified his willing
Dees to do so.
The Dalles Comrruion House will
keep fresh milk at all times on hand
and deliver it anywhere in the city at
the following prices: One quart, 2 per
month : three pints, $3 ; two quarts, (4 ;
three quarts $5.50; cream 20 cents per
pint. Fresh butter every day. 18a lm
The new postage stamp books have
been placed on sale at the poBtoffice.
The books aieof a convenient size for
carrying in the vef t pocket, and are in
three me, carrying twelve, twenty-four
and forty-eight two-cent stamps. Leaves
of translucent paper prevent the stamps
from sticking 'together. One cent is
added to the amount of stamps.
Brother Ireland, of the Sherman
County Observer, has a warm spot in
his heart for the Oregon ben. He re
cords a strong remonstrance against the
weather clerk for sending the late cold
spell and says: "It isn't treating hens
right to send this cbill when they have
so much work to do." We infer that
the brother's rations of hen fruit have
been cuf oft". Hence, possibly, these
tears.
Willard Taylor, of Dufur, known in
The Dulles as Saturday Taylor because
be comes to town every Saturday with
butter and other farm products, was in
town today, as usual, for the eleven
hundred and ninety-fifth time, missing
just one Saturday tn twenty-threo years.
In all these twenty-three years there
was only one Saturday when the weath
er wan so had that he could not make
the round trip of 30 miles. This, Mr.
Taylor thinks, could be (aid of few
countries in th,e world.
C,Uin Johnston took the Albany to
Portland this alternoon, after having ac
complished the work for w hich she was
chartered, namely, testing the naviga
bility of Three-Mile rapids. The Al
bany or some other boat will be brought
herein the near future to transfer the
coi. ft ruction material for the portage
'ond from here to the present terminus
' Ihe big eddy. Captain Johnston
lil return here Monday on the Dalles
City and take charge of the Reliance,
hih expects to make her first trip to
Portland on Tuesday.
The libel suit of Jacob K. Jacobsen et
vs. The Dalles, Portland & Astoria
Navigation Company was dismissed in
the United States circuit court at Tort
fond yesterday. Jacobsen had sued the
company for 110,000 for the death by
drowning of his step-son, who was In a
'iff that came Into collision with the
fuh Dixon, then In commission by
the D. T. & A. X. Company. Ths skiff
was apparently racing with the Sarah
Dixon and attempted to cro.a ber bow
. when she wa rco down and -apsized.
J It wad believed the men on board were
under th it fl or nee of liquor. The ac
cident happened some three years ago.
Captaiu Johnston took the Albany to
the bin eddy today with 1200 railroad
ties aboard. The trip was ar-coinplished
with ease. The captain says toere is no
more danger or difficulty iu crossing
Three-Mile rapids at the prerent stage
of water, or at a lower stage, than there
is in climbing the rapids of lheCa
cades. At a higher stage of water the
trip would be difficult or perhaps !m
poesible. A relatively small expend!
tore of money used in blasting out a
rock on the Oregonian Side of the cor
rent would make the rapid) navigable
at any stage of water. The captain
could easily have taken up 2000 ties had
bs not desired to make assurance of suc
cess doubly sure.
The young men of the Students' Lit
erary Club have finally organized them
selves Into a Y. M- C. A., adopted a
constitution and elected officers. The
officers are T. Brownhill, president ; II.
Nortbup, vice-presideut; Clyde Rid
del), recording secretary, and Rev. U.
F. Hawk, treasurer. The committee on
membership report that already about
sixty members have signed the roll, with
the prospect of a probable increase to
one hundred and fifty. The young men
will bold a meeting in the Congregation
al church tomorrow afternoon at 4
o'clock, with Will Cross as leader. An
interesting program is promise I and a
profitable time is expected. All persons.
young or old, male or female, interested
in this work are cordially invited to at
tend. Complaint la made at this office by
residents ol the bluff of some boys that
have been in the habit of setting fire to
their neighbors' barns so often that pa'
tience toward them has ceaatu to be a
virtue. Last summer they sot fire to
Mrs. Hart's barn and it was burned to
the ground. Last Monday they set fire
to C. H. Brown's new barn but fortu
nately the fire was discovered before it
had made much headway. Some time
before they eet fire to Charley Adams'
barn and it too happily was discovered
in'time. These young firebugs are a
terror to the neighborhood and one com
plainant warns them that no future
offense will go unpunished. If their
natural guardians will not take care of
them the law will be invoked to do bo.
When the late Bill Nye was editor of
a newspaper in Laramie be had his
office over n livery stable. The direc
tions at the lower entrance read : "Twist
the gray mule's tall and take the eleva
tor." And now comes J. Nat Hudson,
a latter-day huinoriet, of the Granite
Boulder, tells the La Grande Journal,
who is triumphing smilingly over the
difficulties of getting out a pioneer news
paper, with the following announce
ment: "Our friends should note that
the front entrance to Dittmar'a barn is
the front and only entrance to the
Boulder office In the rear. Speak to the
horses and they will not kick you ex
cept the gray mare next to our door;
she is a holy terror, if she gets scared,
and we won't be responsible for any
damages."
Monday'! Daily.
Mrs. E. Sontherland, of Boyd, a lady
of about 70 years, is very ill at the resi
dence of Horace Rice, of this city.
Mr. Childers, engineer at the HanBen
& Thomeen planing mill, bad bis left
foot cut to pieces in the planer this
afternoon.
Treasurer C. L. Phillips today sent
to Salem a draft for the full amount of
Wasco county's share of . the state tax.
The draft called for (19,801.64.
The wild sand storm of yesterday
afternoon is regarded as a precursor of
the "Cyclone" that will rip the air at
the Baldwin next Thursday night.
The cable of the ferry boat broke Sat
urday, and in the difficulty of making
landings the boat's rudder became dis
abled so that she was laid op for repairs
all yesterday forenoon.
Captiin Sampson, who las hud charge
of the work of the Salvation Army at
The Dalles for the past month, leaves in
the morning to attend an officers' coun
cil at Portland. The captain dors not
expect to return, but another tflicer
will take his place.
Should the present warm weather
continue, It is expected The Dalies will
have ripe strawberries of her own grow
ing in this market by the'end of the
week. Then in a short timo the price
will get down low enough for even an
editor to get a mess. California berries
at two bits a box are too rich for an or
dinary mortal's blood.
8. B. Adams will leave in the morn
ing for Portland. He will take with
him a couple of sacks of ore from the
mineein which he is interested on the
East fork of Hood river. The ore will
be shipped to San Francisco for a mill
test and good results are expected. The
ore was taken from three ledges, known
and recorded as Black Jack, Blue Boy
and Blue Wing.
Arthur Meller, a boy of 10 years, hail
ing Trom Chlcngo, was buried today at
the cjunty's expense, in tho city cemo
tery. Mollor was taken sick here about
three weeks ago hen he put up at an
East End lodging house. He was a
common tramp and according to the
testimony of a companion who staid
with him till be saw biui under the rod,
he had been on the road for the past
five years.
A warrant ws issued out of Justice
Brownhill's court this morning for the
arrest ui William Van Pelt, a half breed
Indian, son of the late Captaiu Van
Pelt, an old-time river steamboat man.
The complainant is E.Curtis, who al
leges that Van Pelt first sold him a
horse and afterwards stole it from him.
John Fillocn was deputized to make the
arrest, but had not brought in his man
at the lime of going to press.
The four largo bridges in Buck hollow
has retarded the construction of the
railroad considerable, says the Shaniko
Leader, but we are now pleased to state
they are completed and the rails are
being rapidly laid on the Shaniko side
of tt.em. By the 1st of May the road
will be into Shaniko, and by the Stb
will be ready to receive freight to and
from that place, and by the 10th or 15th
passenger coaches will be run.
A party of eight or ten prospectors
left last Wednesday to prospect for
placers in the neighborhood of the mines
of the Monnt Hood Gold and Silver
Mining Company of thia city, whose
mines are located on the east fork of
Hood river. Among them are Seth
Morgan, Jack Elton, M. D. Adams, Mr.
Davis and son, of this city, and Mr.
Kerns, of Endersby. A number of
other are going to the same region in
the near future.
The Ukiab Sentinel Is responsible for
the following: "A well-to-do, but ec
centric farmer over in Grant county,
utilizes his wife as a scarecrow. The
lady, who in form and feature is certain
ly not ill-adapted to the singular role,
is dispatched daily to the spot where
her services are in most request. There
dressed in a fantastic garb and armed
with an old-fashioned rattle, she per
forms her extraordinary duties until
such bour as her husband in pereon
fetches her home."
While removing an old stone building
in Eugene the other day to make room
for a new building, the workmen found
in the corner-stone a newspaper of Au
gust 15, 1808, which contained a market
report of the price of farm products in
the Willamette valley five years before
the crime of '73 and before the accursed
gold standard had cut in two the price
of everything the farmer has to sell.
Wheat is quoted at 60 cents, oats 50
cents, potatoes 37 cents, butter 15 cents,
eggs 15 cents, chickens (2.50 a dozen,
and flour (6 a barrel.
Marie Rose, aged 8 years, says the
New York Commercial Advertiser, was
telling Elsie, aged 7, about the making
of the world. "And Adam was the first
being created," she announced solemn
ly, "so it was awfully lonely for him,
and one day when he was asleep, the
Lord took a rib out of bis side and made
a woman out of it so Adam would have
a friend to play with him." "And
wasn't Adam s'piieed?" asked Elsie.
'.'Surprised? Why he was just tickled
to death I" said Marie Rose ecstatically.
Complaint is made that there is hard
ly room left for another grave in the old
city cemetery. And yet there are num
bers dying annually whose friends can
not afford the luxury of a (25 grave in
the Odd Fellows cemetery, but who
must be buried at the expense of the
county and for whom a (25 grave is out
of the question. We are told that two
acres of land adjoining the cemetery
can be bad for (20 an acre. It.will cer
tainly never be cheaper and its addition
to the cemetery would meet the needs
of this community foruany years.
Henry Klindt is suffering from a
severe bruise on the jaw and on one of
his legs through getting tangled up in
an attempted runaway a short time ago.
In unhitching a blgh-spirlted team one
tug was forgotten, with the usual result
in such cases. Mr. Klindt might have
escaped injury but for the fact that he
held on to ti e team till he was swung
round in a circle several times and the
tongue of the wagon was wrenched into
splinters. Just what struck him be is
unable to tell, but the bruises confined
him to bis bed for several days and are
yet quite painful.
Scott D. Perky, of Worcester, Massa
chusetts, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
W. II. llobson.of this city, yesterday,
arriving here Saturday afternoon and
leaving at noon today. The parents of
Mr. Perky are o'.d-time friends of Mr.
and Mrs. Hobson. Scot is a young man
not yet out of his teens, who, when he
was only 17, made a tour of all Europe,
and who is now on his way to San Fran
cisco, from thence to make a two-years
tour of the world. The young man's
father has planned and urged his son's
travels as an effective means of acquir
ing a liberal education and becoming
acquainted with the world.
Frank 8. Gunning was granted a
pntent on the 17th Instant on a weeding
machine of his own invention that he
wall proceed at once to manufacture
here and put on the market. The ma
chine is Intended for killing weeds on
summer fallow. It is of very simple
construction and ono with an eight foot
cut will weigh only about 100 pounds.
It runs on shoes instead of wheels, ami
is consequently of lighter draught than
any wheeled machine of Ihe same
weight. Tho weight of the driver se
cures steadiness of motion. The depth
of cut is regulated by a lever and the
change is easily madd while tho ma
chine i in motion. The knives, which
constitute the weeder proper, all overlap
about three indie, and w hen the wreder
has passed over a piece of giound at the
J proper depth every livirg vegetable tib
I stance Is left de.d. The knives har a
j Utter.! rut so that no ridges arw left
a9 in the case of a dii'k harrow or ordi
nary oullivator. And what is of no
small importance an eight foot machine
will only cost in the neighborhood o! (30
to (35.
The business men of Astoria, repre
sented by the Astoria chamber of com
merce, are reported ta be heartily in
lavor of the proposed movement on the
part of similar bodies in the Columbia
rivei valley, for a united effort in ftvor
of a nortage railroad from The Dalles to
Celilo, to be built by the government,
and to be Mlowed as speedily as possible
by the permanent opening of the river
to navigation by means of a canal w ith
locks. Whatever other projects may
have ren devised, there soon will be, if
there is not already, a general ageement
that this is the best, if not the only real,
reasonable and permanent solution of
the problem.
In one of Blakeley A Houghton's
show windows is a very carious freak of
nature in the form of a lamb with three
bodies and one head. It was dropped
this season on the ranch of George A
Young A Son and was sent here to be
mounted by Bert Campbell. And a very
excellent job Mr. Campbell has made of
it. The bodies are joined together at
the shoulder, or rather merge into one
shoulder, with a perfectly natural head
and one pair of fore feet. The hindquart
ers of the two outside bodies are natural,
but those of the middle body, although
distinctly formed, are without a tail or
fundament, and stranger still, the legs,
although dangling from the hips, are
fore legs instead of hind ones,
Tuesday'! Dally.
A force of men are at work today
cleaning out the silt from the big reser
voir on the bluff.
Just received a large consignment of
the latest things in wash suits for boys
at Pease A Mays.
James Bridijer, a native of England,
was admitted to full citizenship today
by Judge Bradshaw.
Four teams were loaded today at the
Wasco warehouse with 28000 pounds of
freight for Hay Creek and Prioeville.
Pease A Mays are showing some nob
by suit for boys in wash material. Have
you seen them? Just the thing for this
weather.
W. E. Walther has rented the Wake
field house, on the corner of Federal and
Alvord streets, which has been occupied
since it was built by A, C. Geiger.
Coaster brakes are the greatest im
provementof the year on bicycles; save
one half the pedaling. Have one put
on your old wheel at Mays A Crowe's
nine snop. aua-4t
William Van Polt, the half-breed
Celilo Indian who is accused of horse
stealing, was brought here yesterday
evening and lodged in the county jail.
He pleaded not euilty and will be tried
before Justice Brownhill tomorrow after
noon at 2 o'clock.
Coffin Bros, report an increase of 150
per cent from a small band of 172 ewes,
says the Goldendale Sentinel. The
original number was 172. Out of this
numbei there were 88 pairs' of twins and
three sets of triplets, making the total
number of lambs 2G2.
A meeting of the Oregon Wool Grow
ers' Association will be held In The
Dalles June 2nd, when Captain Ormsby
will be present to make arrangements
for admitting sheep into the forest re-
serve. It is important that all members
of the association should be present.
The Morrow county ewes haven't a
monopoly on the triplet industry by a
jug full, says the Heppner Times. One
of L. W. Brigge' mammoth Plymouth
Rock hens the first of the week laid an
egg that looks more like a flour sack
than tbe genuine article. It was 9'
inches in circumference one way and 7.' 4
the other way. In packing it was
broken, and Mr. Briggs discovered that
the interior contained one distinct, hard
shelled eggs and the yolks of two others,
making triplets, if you please.
It blows some up at Arlington. Jim
Cunningham, a Klickitat county sheep
man, who spent a few days here last
week, after leaving The Dalles drove to
Arlington by way of Goldendale. Juel
as he touched the Oregon shore the
wind lifted his buggy Into the air and
tipped it over, breaking the tongue, but
leaving Jim unhurt.
Robert Cooper, of Dry Hollow, in
formed a representative of The Ciironi
ci.k today that the peaches ara so thick
on his trees that after having thinned
out the branches he will be obliged to
go over the trees once more and pinch
off a large proportion of the fruit. He
says that one peach out of ten now on
three trees will be all that ought to be
allowed to remain.
Tho May picnic at Dufur today at
tracted thither most of the candidates
for office of both parties. No political
speeches will bo made, of course, but
the candidates w ill have a good oppor
tunity to do some quiet canvassing that
may bo Just as effective. Ward A
Robertson's wagonette took out about
a dozen of them, with Tom Ward, him
self, as engineer in chief.
C. C. Cooper came in from Shaniko
last night where he has opened the only
I harness and saddlery shop at prteent in
j the town. He says he is doing as well
I as he could expect under the circnm
I stances. Like a number of others he
j occupies a shark sided and floored with
1 rouuti lumber and covered with r.mvas.
i The rails are txntc'rd t i be laid into
the town by the end of the week. They
are laid to the south side of I'uek Hol
low, and from that point to Shaniko the
grading is complete and everything
leady lor the rails.
A farewell party was given last night
at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. C.
Geiger, who leave Thuisday for their
new home in Heppner. Nearly every
body in the neighborhood of the Geiger
residence was present and a very peas
ant time was had, lasting till nearly
midnight. Archey Gilhousen was pres
ent and sang a liberal number of selec
tions to the great delight of the audience.
It is with prolound regret that the
neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Geiger bid
them good bye. During their residence
here they have won a peculiarly warm
place in the hearts of all who had the
pleasure of their acquaintance. If their
future is as bright and prosperous as
their Dalles friends wish it to be, it will
be bright indeed.
When a person is luard to make the
remark that ho cannot get work here, it
might be announced that it is altogether
out of his line of business, for there is a
great demand for laboring men this
spring and men seem to be scarce; that
is, men that are familiar with the work
in the timber. This is no place for those
who are afraid to work. Yon don't
hear tho stereotyped phrase that yon
....
uiu a lew years ago, "Uan you give me
the price of a meal? I have been trying
to get work, but cannot, and I have had
nothing to eat for several days." The
only place you hear this remark now is
around cities by a class of men who are
too lazy to swing an axe or pull a saw.
The wages for laboiing men is increas
ing and this season promises to be one
of the best for several years, in the log
ging camps especially. Skamania Co.
Pioneer.
John Pashek, the tailor, having been
bothered a good deal with his bees
swarming and getting away while he
was down town at work, set bis wits to
work to circumvent the pesky things,
and thinks he has succeeded. The
hives are some distance from his house,
which is op near the end of The Dalles
Lumbering Company's flume. Hither
to tbe only way to save a swarm was to
hava some one constantly on the watch.
But this was too troublesome and some
times cost more than tha swarm was
worth. By the new Invention each hive
is suspended on a balance, which is reg
ulated according to the estimated weight
of the bees inside. When tbe swarm
leaves the hive the balance drops on a
wire, which is connected with a lattery
at the house and rings a bell. When
the bell rings, a telephone message is
immediately sent to John, who instantly
mounts a wheel and catches the swarm
flagrante delicto, as it were, and thus
saves it from -getting away.
The Albany arrived here this morning
from Portland with 75 tons of rails for
the Paul Mohr portage. They were to
have been taken over Three-Mile rapids
and landed at the big eddy, but for
some reason the Albany sailed pait way
to the rapids, then came back, and soon
after steamed up the river again and
landed the rails on the bank of the
river opposite The Dalles. The boat
did not go near the rapids nor make any
attempt to climb them. Just why the
attempt was abandoned at the last
moment we cannot tell, but an official
of the portage road says it was because
ao officer of the government boarded
tbe boat as she was about to start and
ordered the officers not to m ike the
attempt. This is a strange story but
we give it as we got it, direct from the
official. The rails will be elevated from
the place they wero landed to the top of
tbe bluff by a donkey engine and trans
ferred thence by wagons. It would have
cost less to land them on the bank of
the big eddy, but not enough to make
the difference very material.
NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS.
All persons using city water for irri
gation on and after May 1, 1900, and
until September 1st, inclusive, will be
charged the following rates per month :
For every lot 50x100 feet, (1.50; for
every half lot or fraction thereof, 75
cents, and no rebate will be allowed to
persons leaving the city unless written
notice is served on the superintendent
of the water works to turn off the water.
Above the bluff water may be used for
irrigating from 6 to 8 a. in, and from 6
to 8 p. 111. on the odd days of the month,
and below the bluff during tbe same
hours on the even days of the month.
These rules must be strictly complied
with, and any deviation therefrom will
subject the violator to the penalty of
having the water shut off, and in order
to get it turned on again he must pay a
tee of one dollar. , Persons willfully
wasting water, or allowing it to run con
tinuously through their closets or lava
tories, or allowing water to run after
Irrigation hours, will suffer tbe same
penalty as above stated.
By order of the water commission.
J. It. Chonsrx, Supt.
The Dalles, Or., May 1, 1900. flt
tllrl Wauteil,
A girl Is wanted to do general house
work. Apply at this office. tnl-4t
Hoard of Water I'uiutulutuBcr.
I The regular monthly meeting of tha
I water rotnuii'sioner was held in the)
j recorder's office last night. The isj
j ports of the superintendent and treas
' urer wero read and placed on file.
President Seufert, ou behalf of Turner
A Sprat, submitted a proposition to the
board to bore for artesian water above
the reservoir and guarantee a flowing
well for (3,500, with tha condition that
in the event of failure to procure arte
sian water the sum of f.'OO should bo
paid them to pay tho expense of moving
their machinery here. The matter was
disposed of by a motion to meet Wednes
day ni(ht and take the proposal under
iurlher consideration.
The treasurer's report was as follows:
Apr 1 P.al. cash on hand ( 447 28
Apr 30 Cash from water rent. . 1115 0O
Total i-,c 2
Warrants redeemed dnr. mouth 371 12
Bal. cash on baud (1191 14
BILLS AI.LOWKO.
J BCrossen, superintendent (GO 00
C A Holders, helper go 00
Ned Gates, secretary 10 00
D IXOakes, hauling 1 75
I F Bnrham 75
Maier A Benton, mdse 6 70
Mays A Crowe, mdse 4 15
J II Hock man, repairs 1 25
L Lane, repairs 1 55
W'ni Morgan field, labor 15 60
A A Urquhart, labor 19 60
Mr Grey, labor 4 00
Foldon Clark, labor with team... 7 00
Chas Borders, supplies 2 50
Ernest Patton, labor I 00
Tha Deaort Will Hlouui.
The long-talked-of scheme of bringing
water from the Deschutes river out on
what is known as the "desert" east of
the Deschutes and south of Crooked
river, has taken definite Bhape and will
soon be realized, says the Crook County
Journal. This will be done by the Ore
gon Irrigation Company, of which C. C.
Hutchinson is president, T. Edward
Pope, treasurer, and D. D. Warner, sec
retary. These gentlemen have had
large experience. in similar undertakings
and bare enlisted abundant capital
with which to carry 011 the work to a
successful completion. The plan em
braces tbe constructing of three main
canals leading from different points on
the Deschutes east and northeast as far
as Crooked river, with a system of lat
eral ditches from these, coveriug the
entire desert from the Bear creek hills
north add bringing morn than 100,000
acres of good, tillable land under culti
vation. Permanent surveys are now being
made, and as soon as these are completed
actual construction of the first canal will
begin. The flume where it leaves the
river will be 30 feet wide and 10 feet
deep, and will carry enough water to
float the steam dredger, which will be
used for excavating the main canal, ex
cepts where it intersects rock ledges.
This is a work of great magnitude, but
every detail has been figured out and
provided for, and before our readers will
have time to wake up and rub their
eyes, the "desert" will be blooming and
green.
In Meinorlam.
Samuel J. Vickers was born at Smith's
Grove, Varney Co., Ky., December 8,
1859, and died at The Dalles, Or., March
11, 1900, age 40 years, 3 mos. and 3 days'.
The subject of this sketch spent his
childhood days in the. vicinity of his
birth, first moving to Texas, where he
spent two years, and then moving to
South Haven, Kan., where, in 1885, be
was united in marriage to Miss Eliza K,
Denton, who still survives. Mr. and
Mrs. Vickers settled at Wellington,
Kan., but later moved to Texas, where
they lived several years. In 1805 they
came to Oregon, first settling at Mosier,
and then three years later moving to
The Dalles, where the widow and two
children still reside.
Thus is briefly chronicled the life of
a man whose departure is sincerely
mourned by all who knew bim. Pro
fessing religion in early life he lived
consistently with the hope be embraced,
and was prepared for the summons to
meet his Maker. He was industrious
and honest, faithful In every relation,
conscientious and unassuming in the
performance of duty, and enjoyed in an
unusual measure the confidence of bin
acquaintances. Though belonging to
another denomination, he was a regnlar
attendant of Calvary Baptist church, of
The Dalles, and very much endeared
himself to the membership of that
church. His work is ended, his suffer
ings are over, and we feel confident that
he is at rest with the Lord. May the
Divine blessing rest upon the bereaved
wife and children.
W. B. Clifto.v.
President Harris, of the Paul Mohr
portage road, spent yesterday in Astoria
looking for a suitable location for ware
houses to handle the grain that bis
company expects to take down the river.
He was taken around the harbor In a
small steamer, and also along the Wash
ington shore. The property that ap
peared to him to be the most desirable
was the water frontage near Tongue
Point, owned by President Hammond,
of the Astoria A Columbia River Rail
road. It is understood that this prop
erly has been offered for sale or lease
under very favorable circumstances.
Astorian.
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