THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. SATURDAY. JUNE 30, 1900.
Our Mid-Summer Sale
WILL SOON BE HERE in fall force. Just one
month earlier than usual.
We started with an $8.93 Suit Sale, which now develops
into a general clearance a full-fledged bargain event. Not
through any special effort on our part; not through unusual ad
vertising. It seems as though each customer told a dozen oth
ers, and so the sale has grown to a Christmas crowd looking
for July bargains. Rest assured there shall be no disap
pointment. The most pronounced bargain fiend shall be more
than satisfied. It has come to us unsolicited, and we shall ac
cept it with good grace. ' r
$8.95
Few cofitora tailor could surpass
these suits, though they were to charge
$12 or $15; doubtless $20 would please
you better at the to-order stores.
Remember that it is not (or profit
this sale wai started a
Mid-Snmmer Sale
at a loss if necessary. It is an estab
lished feature of our business; some of
the broken lots have been placed on sep
arate counters, including values np to
$12, your choice at $0 95.
We have started
a Hat Sale....
A lot of Men's Straw Hats, in either
yacht or soft finish, rough or plain
straw, plain or fancy bands; as good as
any and better than many shown else
where at $1.00
Sale pric?, 50c.
Two lots of Fedora Hats.
Two lots of Alpino Hats.
The first lot gathered from such as
sold all season at $1.50 and $1.75. your
choice at $1.10.
Tlu second lot, gathered from euch
as sold at $2 to $2.50; your choice, $1.85.
Here's a chance for swell dressers
surpassing any offer we have yet made,
and surely better values than you've
ever seen before.
Boys Clothing
Clearance....
A lot of Boys' Summer Coats we
bongbt to sell for 75c a fair price; half
takes thetn cow
Only 39c.
Lots of good 25o Knee Pants in a
variety of patterns; well made, in fact
beet 25c; values you ever bought; your
choice for 15c.
BOYS' SUITS. Regular $1.00,
$1.25 and $150 values (slightly soiled? ;
your pick for 5'Jc each.
A list of
Men's Furnishings.
Men's Silk Front Shirts in fancy
stripes and checks ; you will admit they
are good 75c values
Going at 45c.
ONE LOT of Silk Front Shirts
which were good sellers at $1.25 and
$1.50, have been reduced to $1.05.
Special lot of Men's Bike
and Golf Hose....
Good values at 90c and $1.00 ; your
choice for 69c
WHAT WE SAY WE DO. WE DO DO.
.V..D-SUrV3IV.ER SALE
Commencing Monday, July 2nd, 1900.
A few days a-:o we announced to you through this jajer
that we would greet you with a Mid-Summer Sale. The goods
we ofier you do not show the rust of by-gone seasons, but are all
new, bright and attractive patterns.
Silk Department.
This is a great silk year, and we are
pra pared for it. 5(10 varda of high c'ass
silks in a variety of designs and color
ings. For instance there are Warp
Printed Taffetiaa, Liberty Satin, Crink
led Tatfettas, Lace Stripe Taffettas.
When we assure you of the beauty
and every high character of the silks,
our prices will tell the rest.
Trices at the Silk Counter.
I Suit and Skirt Dept.
I The values in this department lias
! surpassed anything heretofore ottered.
Suits ranging from
$4.00 to $23.00.
Skirts from
$1.35 up.
....WASH FABRICS....
Dimity Cords, a beautiful wash fabric, in some 30 colorinj
4 3-4 Cents, worth 8 Cents.
Domestic Department.
Unbleached Muslins.
Albany C 44o
Albany LL 5c
Cabot W ...5,l,,c
Cabot A 6c
Indian Head 73e
Bleached Muslins.
Hollywood , . .5c
Kutledge 5c
Bric-a-brac 5c
Hope 7.c
Lonsdale 7'..c
Fruit of Loom , 7,lsc
Prints.
Ceylon-Bines 4'ac
Skirling Prints
Light Color Dress Prints. . 4u
A'l i Standard Prints 5'i.o
Ginghams.
Araoskeag 5,'4'c
Lancaster 4'..c
Embroideries and Laees
Everyone knows that Embroideries
and Lanes are h'gher than thev were a
year ago, yet on the face of an advanc
ing market we have reduced our prices
one-fifth from old price.
The Shirt Waist Season
Is now at its best, and as soon
as our stock is pretty welt
cleaned up we are willing to
sacrifice the balance at any
old price.
MONDAY
Will be a gala da' with
us in all departments.
We want this sale to ov
erlap all previous records
Big Sales and
sSo Profits...
This is our object in this great
sacrifice sale of Men's.Women's, Misses
and Children's Shoes.
If you know a good thing when
you see it, buy now.
Men's Tan Lace Shoes $2.00
Men's Calf Congress (elastic side) 1.00
Men's Calf Lace (narrow toes) 1.00
Here are the best values on earth.
Ladies' Kid Button, sizes 2 to 4, .83
Ladies' Kid Button, sizes 3 to 5... 1.00
Ladies' Tan .Oxfords, all sizes 1.00
Children always want
SHOES
Buying at these prices is like find
ing money.
Misses' Kid, spring heel, button,
sizes 2 to 0 $1.00
Missis' Kid, spring heel,laco, sizes
2 to C 1.00
Misses' Kid, spring heel, button,
sizes 11$ to 2 85
Chikls' Kid, spring heel, button,
sizes 8j to 11 75
Childs' Kid, spring heel, button,
sizes 0 to 8 GO
Wo do not quote the former prices
for these goods, but simply request
you to see for yourself if they are not
the best values ever offered.
All Goods Marked
In Plain Figures.
PEASE &, MAYS
THE DALLES
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
Wednesday's lully.
Kev. D. V. Poling will deliver the
oration at Goldendale on tbe Fourth.
Professor J. 8. Landers will deliver
the oration at Grass Valley on the
Fourth.
Two discharged sailors from the U. S.
cruieer Philadelphia were in town to
day on their way to their homes in the
East.
Charles McAllister, of North Yakima,
was dangerously and perhaps fatally
(hot Sunday whilo toying with a revol
ver, which he supposed contained no
load.
C. V. Killing, of Prineville, shipped
to Portland this morning on the Regula
tor twenty-five head of magnificent
draft horses that he expects to dispose
of in that murkot.
From a prif ate source we learn that
100,000 pounds of wool was sold at Pen
dleton last Monday at '2i and 13 cents
found. The scouring mill bought a
lot of heavy wool at 9 cents.
Conservative estimates place the value
of this year's Hood River strawberry
"op at $173 an acre above all expenses.
ri,e O. R. A N. Co. report that they
've handled seventy-five carloads dur
the season.
The Dalles City is now making daily
rour, trpg i,Ptween here snl Portland
'd!e hauling rails for the Paul Mohr
Pf-'tiige. She does no way business and
wris only through passengers or to
locks. She is practically on the
rfd all the time she Is not loading or
ul"ading.
t"k Chhonici.e is ssked to call the
attention of the city authorities to the
!'t that many parts of the city are in
fested with tnistlei that if left a short
time longer will have gone to seed and
nive scattered over the whol town. It
' I'iKhly desirable that steps should be
'4en to have these peats cut down be
fore they g0 l0 gee(It
Whest experienced another decline at
tl''fiKo yesterday and July fell to 82
e"tn. The market at Portland did not
rfpond to the full limit of the recent
w, nor did It respond to the limit of
n decline. The price yesterday at
Place was BO to AO cents. The
aI,e Prl tor No. 1 today it 82, which
is, to certain extent, merely nominal,
as very little is changing hands.
The county jail Is practically empty,
that is to say, it has one U. S. prisoner,
who is only constructively a prisoner
for he is allowed his liberty on condition
that be report daily to the sheriff. The
last term of circuit court occupied only
two days' time, and the one proceeding
it only three. If this state of things
continues the office of circuit judge will
become a sinecure. It is tough, how
ever, on the lawyers who, like the pop
ulists, fatten best on misfortune.
A dispatch from Astoria says the case
of the State vs. Berg, which is to be ar
gued in the circuit court, before Judge
McBride, on July 31, is of special inter
est to every fisherman and laboring man.
It is an appeal from the justice court,
and relates to tho individual fishing
business. Berg was arrested some time
ago for fishing without a license, and
was fined $50. The case was appealed,
on the ground that the license was a tax
on labor, and wus therefore unconstitu
tional. This case was brought princi
pally to test the law.
Two nion named Jeffries and Plum
raer were recently arrested in Harney
county for horse stealing and taken to
Burns for trial. They asked the authori
ties to summon on their behalf Sam
Hodges and Tom Long from Crcok
county, and theso "buckaroo" experts
got Jeffries and Plummer offtcott-free
by swearing that the particular horse
over which all the trouble arose was one
that Colonel Nye, of Prineville, rode to
California in 1842, and was afterwards
used as a pack-mule by Barney Prine
when he came up from Seio to discover
the county seal of Crook county. The
voucher for this characteristic cow coun
ty item is the Harney News.
Dr. Roberts, scientific optician and
oculist, who for a few days longer will
have an office in the Chapman block,
room 4, is not a traveling optician. He
has a practice in San Diego, Calif.,
where he has livpd for nearly ten years,
second to none on this coast. This is
the first outing he has had in that time,
and he docs really scientific optical
work to pay his expenses while traveling
through Oregon and Washington. He
makes free examinations. Cull and
consult him and then pass judgment -as
to whether ho is like the usual traveilng
optician a fake.
Thursday's Daily
A clip of ninety-six pound? of wool
from the Condon neighborhood wr.e sold
today at eleven cents a pound.
At Goldemlale yesterday evening the
jury in the murder case of Geo. A. R.
Ferris found him guilty of murder in the
first degree.
The wife of J. H. Hannan, cf Cheno
weth creek, died Tuesday afternoon
fter giving birth to a still born child.
She leaves a husband and six children
to mourn her loss.
Miss Grace N. Smith, a very estima
ble young lady of this city, was united
in marriage at the Church of tbe Re
deemer, Pendleton, lasl evening to Mr.
Dean Swift Tatom, a well-to-do mer
chant of that city.
Judge Bennett today bought himself a
Roose7elt rough rider hat as a signifi
cant part of his equipment for his trip
to Kansas City as a delegate to the dem
ocratic national convention. He expects
to leave for Kansas City tomorrow.
Pete Nickelsen has been promoted to
the appointment of telegraph operator
at Pendleton and will leave for his new
field of labor in the near future. Pete is
a very worthy young man, and will carry
with him the beBt wishes of aiiost of
Dalles friends.
Mrs. Driecoll, wife of the late Captain
Driscoll, was a passenger on the mid-day
train today for Portland. Mrs. Driecoll
while here received a check for $2000 for
insurance on tbe life of her husband,
who was a member of The Dalles lodge
of United Workmen, and who died on
the 27th of last May.
The wheat is so tall in the Colombia
precinct that the farmers have conclud
ed to head it for hay instead of cutting j
it with a mower. At least that is what
Harry Gilpin determined to do after
cutting about fifty tons, which he made
up his mind to feed to hogs because it
had too much straw to the proportion
of grain for horse feed.
Twenty five dollars a month on a farm,
says a man who is posted, is a great
deal better than $50 a month in a city
store. As a general thing, at the end of
nine months the former has $150 in cash,
three pairs of overalls and a straw hat,
while the latter has two suits of clothes,
a pair of bicycle pants and $17 in tho
hole. Vet there are seventy-five appli
cations for the latter job to one for the
former.
A Dutch Fiat rancher applied this
week to Sheriff Kelly lor an injunction
against certain parties w hom he accused
of persistent and oft-repeated raids on
his blackberry patch. Tho sheriff re
ferred him to Ned Gates and Ned re
ferred him to Attorney Jayne, who in
turn referred him to Judge Bradshaw, I
who informed the rancher that tho mat
ter was outside hli jurisdiction. Tiie
raiders turned out to be predacoons
flocks of young grouse, which the rancher
did not want to dispose ot without the
authority of law.
The strawberry season is over in the
Vakima valley, ami those who were
fortunate in having a good crop are
counting their profits. William Lee, Jr.,
has completed the harvesting of one
ere, from which he has taken an oven
435 crates of marketable berries. These
have been sold on the Tacoma and
Spokane markets, with some local sales,
at from $3 in the early season to $1.50
per crate later. The average market
price has been equal to at least $1.60
per crate. Those who think there is
not $600 an acre In strawberries in tbe
Yakima valley have some basis here
upon which to figure for results.
The Eugene Guard says : ' "A line got
left out in the 'make-up' of The Dalles
Mountaineer the other day causing no
little exasperation in the newspaper
office, and elsewhere. A justice court
report was made to read thatt be defend
ant and the complaining witness were
both under the influence of liquor. As the the O
latter is president of The Dalles Y. M.
C. A., the consequent exacerbation of
feelings may be easily imagined."
The storm last Saturday enapped off,
as if it were a pipe stem, an old pine
tree, 12o feet in height, on the farm of
August Longren, of Eight Mile. The
peculiarity about this tree is that it was
the only pine tree In the neighborhood,
and that it carried on one of its branches
an ox yoke that had been hung there
thirty-nine years ago by Bill Campbell,
the original owner of the ranch. The
yoke was nsed by Mr. Campbell while
crossing the plains in 1861, and no one
ever attempted to pull it down from the
place where he had hung it.
Friday's Dally.
census enumerators
will cloee
The
their woik tomorrow.
Will Coreen, formerly of thi city, has
bought a half interest in a store at lone.
Boys' blouse and shirt waists, .50, .58,
.60, $1.13 and $1.43, at the New York
Cash Store.
Ilarveot is on in the Walla Walla val
ley. Many machines went into opera
tion the first of the week.
The first number of the Wheeler
County News, from the town of Mitch
ell, was published yesterday,
John G. Wool ley was nominated yes
terday in' Chicago as the prohibitionist
candidate for president of the United
States.
The rate of three cents a mile goes
into effect on the O. U. & N., Great
Northern and Northern Pacific next
Sunday.
The Mora correspondent of the Shan
iko L?ader says wheat buyers are offer
ing to contract for w heat at fifty cents a
bushel in Sherman county.
Tho recent rains have done much for
the second installment of the Hood
River strawberry crop, and shipment
are nun In daily to Butte, Mont.
The Shamko L"ader says J. N. Bur
gess, of Antelope valley, is going to start
a big creamery. He has placed an order
for 50,000 feet of lumber for the neces
sary buildings.
Shanikoans have organized a school
board with A. C. Sanford, N. M. Lane
and F. II. limner as directors and Dr.
Ray Logan as clerk. They w ill start a
three months' subscription school as
soon as they can find a suitable teacher.
Tiik CrmoNK'i.i is indebted to the
courtesy of Homer D. Angell for the
June number of the "University of Ore
gon." Tha number contains tbe vale
dictory of Mr. Angell, w ho was editor-in-chief
during the past school year.
The very handsome cover design is the
work of Miss DaBie Allaway.
Tbe Ashland Tidings says a party of
railroad surveyors from The Dalles have
arrived at Silver Lake, Lake county,
and are pushing on to Lakeview. They
say the road will soon be built and that
R. & N. is back of the movement.
A disastrous bail storm struck the
Prineville country last Saturday, de
stroying the entire crops of half a dozen
or more of the settlers west of town.
Some of the hailstones measured over
six inches in circumference. The Jour
nal says that in some instances tbe de
struction of crops was as "complete as
if a fire had raged over the farms, even
potatoes and onions in the ground being
destroyed." At one house tho hailstones
perforated in several places a galvanized
iron tub that had been placed bottom
side np.
No railway mail was delivered here
from 12:30 p. m. yesterday till 10 a. in.
this morning, wb?n a large quantity ar
rived on tho No. 3 passenger that was
over fivo hours late. The mail from the
west that should haye been left off here
at 4:45 this morning appears to hove
been carried to Grants for transfer, and
hence did not get back here till 10
o'clock. Why tho Dalles mail should
be carried past here to Grants and be
come subject to delayed nest-bound
trains is what we would like to find out.
On his travels last week Sam McDon
ald found a bee aviary in a queer loca
tion, and the bees were at work in full
possession, doing well, tells the Slur
man County Observer. It is In a flue In
John Battles' house, nearCelilo. When
they were first discovered an effort was
made to smoke them nut, but the bees
choked up the flue and smoked the
iHiuuy out. Mr. unities then gave
them ample room to carry on their sweet
operations, and Sam aniicipates a day
when the Moro Farmers' Market will
have nn abundance of unadulterated
honoy.
We publish in this issue an Albany ,
Oregon, telegram that will be of inter
est, unless Tiik Ciiiionki.e is misin
formed, to some 200 people In this city
who, about three weeks ago, yielded to
tho seductive story of a smooth young
fellow, calling himself II. Bennett, and
paid seventy-five cents each in advance
as a year's subscription to the Cosmo
politau or Munsey's magazine. There
is little to add to the Albany story. The
fellow played his game here with
marked success, working, as elsewhere,
among the business people and eliciting
the sympathy of some of our leading
business men as well as a host of clerks.
We have one of the receipts before us.
It is numbered 4825 and is signed in an
excellent business band "II. Bennett."
It is believed "Bennett" worked the
town for not lest than from $150 to $200.
ANOTHER VICTIM OF WHISKtY
Kun Orer by the Train at Hood Rim
Monday Night.
Coroner Butts held an inquest JVIon.
day at Hood River on the body of a man
named Sam McGan, who was killed on
the railroad track near Hood River the
night before by the west-bound passen
ger train, known as No, 6. The testi
mony before the coroner's jury went to
show that the deceased had worked dur
ing the past winter with a construction
crew on the O. It. & N. road ; that later
he bad gone to work for the Oregon
Lumber Co., and that last Saturday he
called for his time and was handed what
was coming to him, $32.20. He crossed
the river Saturday and was known to
have been drinking to some extent dur
ing Sunday and Monday in Hood River.
He was last seen alive near the place
where he was killed at 0 o'clock Monday
night. He had evidently lain down on
tbe track and his body was dragged
nearly 400 feet to a switch before the
train could be stopped. His bead was
split vertically from the nose to the
back of the neck, his body was practic
ally cut in two at the waist and his in
testines were scattered all over the
track. He bad had a bottle on bis per
son, which was broken into fragments,
but the odor was sufficiently suggestive
of w hiskey to make it tolerably certain
that the man had not lost his life
through devotion to temperance princi
ples. His funds had dwindled down to
$1.10.
The jury rendered the following ver
dict :
We, the jury impaneled by'W. II.
Butts, coroner, to inquire into the cause
of the death of the body now before ns,
find, from the evidence and papers on
the body, bis name to be Samuel Mc
Gan. He was about 30 or 35 years old ;
bight about 5 feet 8 inches; weight
about 150 pounds; Scotch nativity;
sandy hair and mustache; front teeth
very prominent; and that ho came to
his death by being struck and dragged
to death by passcnuer train No. 0 at the
west end of the switch at Hood River.
J. if. F'kruisom.
W. W. P.uow.v,
W m. Thompson,
K. S. Oi.ingkr,
G. 8. Evash,
W. H. Ai.i.k.w
The Editor aut Ills Milrt.
Back in tho summer of 1887 the red
flannel shiit contingent of a sheep-herder's
wardrobe was placed to soak in a
pretty little mountain branch of tho
John Day's middle fork, which branch
does business just east of Dixie butte.
If any of the railroad men, prospectors,
huckleberry hunters or others who are
using those grand old mountains for
stamping ground this summer should
run across the said red shirt, they
would confer a favor by letting the Har
ney County News know if it is thorough--ly
laundered yet. Harney County New a.
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