TfiE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. JULY 18, 1000.
The Weekly Ghr onlele.
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"TJfKIClAL PAPER OP WASCO COUNTY.
fibluhtd in two jarti, on Wednetday
4nd Saturdays.
BCBSCEIPTIOS RATES.
it kail, roniai rurAio, in adtasci.
On,Tr
Hlxmouth.
7dre months w
AdTertiiinf rate reonabl, and made known
AreM al" communications to"THJ CHRON
IC Li, ' The lMlUs. Oregon.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
fcrorrtj' lily.
Miss Kathryn Sargent, who has been
confined to her bed (or the entire week,
is able to be up today.
The younger ton of Mr. and Mrs.
Fletch Faulkner, who hat been very ill
for the paet week, is reported today as
improving.
Tbe Reliance makes daily trips to
St. Martin's springs, and each day a
number of health-seekert are brought to
this favorite resort, which is becoming
more popular as tbe benefits of tbe
healing properties of the springs are ap
parent. We are informed that oar soldier boys
of Company D left Salem abont 10
o'clock this morning. No doubt they
will arrive on one of tbe night trains.
Carup Geer will probably be deserted by
tonight, as it was the intention to break
cinnp by noon.
Huntington now boasts a neat little
weekly paper known as the News, and
published every Saturday by the News
Publishing Co. James J. Flynn, a nephew
ol the Misses Flynn of this city, is city
editor and reporter, and ia to be con
gratulated on the newsy little sheet
which he is furnishing Huntington
people.
One thing is certain, and that is if
Dalles people appreciate their beautilul
hwns, which add so much to the ap
pearance of the city, they will begin a
tirade on the dandelions, which are
over-running the lawns and bids fair to
finally destroy them completely. Noth
ing but continued work In that direction
will extirpate them.
Again are our friends, the Democrats,
doomed to disappointment, and the big
rally which was announced for tonight,
will not take place. Judge Bennett had
been appointed to speak and to secure
other talent from Portland; bat on ac
count of the illness of his children, he
was unable to leave Seaside and there
fore could not attend to the matter.
Pendleton has never been noted for
lis dissipation; but has always been
considered a model town and an ex
ample for its neighbors. Strange to say,
however, it now developes that Pendle
ton has "snakes." Thurday when one
of its citizens was walking along the
street be saw a big rattler coiled up on
the sidewalk sunning himself. He lost
no time in killing the creature, which
measured three feet and had rattles on
to throw at the birds.
Conductors and brakemen on theO. R.
& N., line are glad of a chance made by
the tuperintendent whereby they ate
required no more to lay over for twenty
four hours at Umatilla. Tbe present
running of the crews takes them to
Stokes, seven miles beyond Umatilla to
wards Portland, and they double back
to Portland. This gives them twenty
four hours longer at Portland. Spokane
trainmen go to Stokes and double back.
The Great Northern arid Northern Pa
ciBc had adopted a rule that no package
weighing more than 250 pounds will be
accepted or checked as personal baggage.
The O. R. & N., and other western roads
have adopted the rule, which is being
strictly enforced. Eastern lines have
been in the habit of checking trunks and
packages without regard to weight and
ollccting for the excess, but this rule
hereafter be abolished, especially
for Lavage destined to be handled by
Hie western roads.
Thursday Mr. and Mrs. If. Ramsey, of
Mayville, passed through The Dalles on
Hieir way to Albany to visit their daugh
ter, Mrs. Hardman, who lives six miles
ffm that city. ReaiHiing Albany, they
procured a livery team to take them out,
liich on the way became unmanageable
md ran away. Both of the old people
i'lmped from the hack, and received in
juries from which Mrs. Ramsey died at
o'clock yesterday afternoon, and it is
bought that Mr. Ramsey will not live.
Tliev With ,,!, no.... l tl, .i.io
peakingof the projected railroad from
J'1'' city into Lake ounty, a dispatch
fr'm I.akeview says : "The surveying
i':lrty which visited this cily recently
di,Hlfhod from Portland in a hurry
"d cirne out over the proposed route
',0'" Tl'8 Dalles to Lake-view In ten days.
TI'O topographical survey, while only
temporary, is quite significant, from the
Ja(,t that no detail was overlooked. The
'"10 in lircllnll- I j T TL.
r -iit.i.ii luiraieti. ja7nvimv aiiu
uall('". it will follow the Deschutes river
mtil it reaches a large belt of white and
Jl ow pine northwest of Silver Lake, at
hldi place the line will come into Lake
Jnly. From Rilvor Lake (he route
l'ws a succession of fertile vallevs.
O. It. a N- ,n,j Oregon Short Line
Interested in the extension of this
'ln. and will, no doubt, nrge its early
conipl0tioni.
Tn Are In Sherman county'i wheat
belt, which we mentioned !it Monday,
proved more serious than wis at first re
ported. It ciuht In David Fulton's',
pasture from a spark from a Columbia j
Southern engine. Hit men stopped
work and began fighting the flames and j
succeeded in keeping ii from going rack I
in the field. After three hours bard I
fighting they were all exhausted; one
was minus his shirt, anotLer his coat,
all had their trousers more or !ss burned,
and two had their nonsuches, eyebrows
and hair badly sieged, and the fire had
stopped because it ran np against some
spring sown wheat too green to burn
Mr. Fulton tayt the fire burned over 200
acres of grass and had the wind been to
ward the field no power on earth could
have saved 1000 acres of fine ripe wheat,
that he is now catting.
Monday s Daily.
Workmen will begin tearing down tbe
old Baptirt church today, preparatory
to erecting a new building.
M. M. Caehing recovered sufficiently
to be moved to his home about five
miles from the city Saturday.
B. II. Grant arrived in our city a week
or two since and today opened the Rose'
leaf cigar store, on Second Btrcet, which
he has renovated thoroughly and put in
a new stork.
We learn that a few days since the
body of Robert Rintoal, son cf Mrs
Spink, who was drowned in the Snake
river, was recovered four miles below
the place where he sank.
Yesterday on complaint of his mother,
Helen Grindall, Harry Grindall, an in
corrigable lad of 13 years, was commit
ted to the reform school and taken down
to Salem by Deputy Sexton.
Among tbe real estate transfers pub
lished in tbe Oregonian we noticed that
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Lytia have pur
chased the home of J. C. Morelani, at
Mount Tabor. This is one of the pret
tiest homes lu that neighborhood.
An exchange says the wages paid on
the farms at this time range from. $2 to
$3 per day and board, the ''chore" boy
having no trouble now to get bis $1.50
and board. Handsome wages, indeed, as
compared with those paid for similar
services four years ago.
The Mends of Mrs. Isabella Gray, who
left somo time since for Scotland, have
been anxiously awaiting news of her safe
arrival. In a letter received yesterday
by Mrs. Brooks she informs ber of a very
pleasant journey, a safe arrival and
happy meeting with relatives and friends
Company D returned home on tbe
noon train yesterday, delighted with
their outing. They left Camp Geer at
10 o'clock Saturday morning, remaining
in Portland till the Sunday morning
train left. Our company made a show
ing none of them are ashamed of.
The first wheat received at the Wasco
warehouse came in Saturday and this
morning the first load came to Moody's
warehouse. The latter, which was vol
unteer crop, came from Dry Hollow end
we are told averaged sixty pounds to the
bushel and twenty bushels to the acre
The thousands of horses in this county,
which have been all but worthless for a
number of years, seem destined to bring
in great wealth to the couaty, says the
Wallowa News. Band after baud is
leaving the county, shipped by the
owners, aud buyers are becoming more
numerous every day. The raising of
horses in the county will receive new
impetus.
We call attention to the advertisement
of the State Normal school at Monmouth
appearing In another column of this
issue. The school reports a successful
year, with encouraging prospects for the
next session. Many teachers are taking
the Normal course both for the sake of
the professional traiuing, now pretty
generally demanded, and also as the
best means of preparation for securing
the state papeis.
A letter received from Hugh Gourlay,
editor of Thk Ciikon'ICLE, informs us he
will return home tomorrow night and
resume Ins duties Wednesday. He has
our most profound sympathy, as the
festive item Is also on a vacation or any
old place except where the reporter ex
pects to find it; and In desperate straits
we are inclined to take the advice of our
friend, Cradlebaugh, and taking our
pencil in hand fill the local page with
the fact that now is the tune to sub
scribe. Gov. T. T. Geer yesterday received a
letter from his son, Fred If, Geer, who
is at Capo Nome. Mr. (ieer Jr. paints a
gloomy picture of thn camp. His tent
mate, Mr. Brandenburg, was down with
the smnilpox, w hich was prevalent, and
the writer expected to be taken down
with the same disease. Men were shot
almost uany, ami every uay iwo or wiree
suicides were reported and no one
blamed the poor unfortunates. Govern
or Geer promptly answered the letter,
urging his son to return to civilization,
and not to risk his life or health any
longer In that desolate place. The
young man will probably return soon.
Ktatcsmnn.
Dalles people would do well to look
out for a confidence man who has been
working in the outskirts of Portland,
catching victims at $1 a head, and may,
in striking for greener fields, reach The
Dalles. The man Is running a drawing
game, and goes from house to house
with a grip full of envelopes, from whrch
anyone may draw on the payment of $t.
Some envelopes, of course, contain
blanks. But others are cards on whleh
What we say
we do,
we DO do.
Consequently our GREAT
CLEARANCE SALE is the
TALK of the town.
Now'a the "Nick o'Time" to buy Summer
Clothing. This Midsummer Sale makes it easy.
We put new, clean, thie-seaeon's goods within
the reach of all. Prices like these in the heart of
the season will persuade you to buy from us, and
that ia the reason of this sale to hurry up busi
nees; to cause you to buy NOW and from us.
Highest possible grade of goods
at lowest possible prices
Has always been our motto, and this sale il
lustrates it beautifully. Here are suits of the
Eurest worsted, cassimeres and cheviots, fast eoler
lue serges, etc, made in the latest styles and by
the best makers.
JO 50 ALL-WOOL SUITS Jq Qfc
Clearance price- tpOiOO
$7.50 and $8.50 ALL-WOOL SUITS rff C3K
Clearance price tpO.OO
$9.00 to $12.00 ALL-WOOL SUITS jrv
Clearance price Cpt.OO
$15 to $20 Worsted and Cassimere A
Suits; clearance price -. ... CpJ.VJ.OU
SEE WINDOWS.
July Sale of
Pique and
Outing Skirts.
This is a rare July for bargains. The re
markable succession of cool days has somewhat
lagged the selling ot Summer Wearing Apparel.
Hundreds must yet buv, but we must sell in a
week what should have been told in a month;
hence these beautiful Skirts are shown at the
prices marked below :
Plain Crash Skirts; worth 35c at 20c
Same, worth 50o at ooV
Plain While Duck; worth 75c at 50c
Heavy White Duck ; worth $1.00 at 75c
Good Heavy Lineu; worth $1.00 at f0c
Same, trior med ; worth $1.50 at $1.15
White Pique; worth $2.00 at 1.45
Same, belter grade; worth $2 25 at 1 05
Same, extra heavy ; worth $'1 00 at 2.20
Same, trimmed with embroiderv Insertion;
worth $5.00 ". at 3 80
Better grades reduced in proportion.
Campers! Bed-Clothing.
Blankets would be a hazardous suggestion
at noon; but at night they are most welcome to
those who need their protection from the cool
breeze down the river and in the mountains. We
have a large stock to make your selection from.
Our Prices Are Right.
This is a bid
for your
money
A simple business proposition of
ottering you
$1.00 fop 75c
We want to clean out all TAN
SHOES this Beason. We have cut
prices to make them go.
All 5.00 values go at $3 75
All f4.00 values go at 3 00
All $3.00 values go at 2 00
All $2.50 values go at 2 00
All 2 00 values go at 1 50
All $1.50 values go at 1 00
All $1.00 values go at 75
See our show window for best evi
dence of genuine bargains.
This sale includes all Tan Shoes
except Queen Quality Shoes.
All Goods Marked
In Plain Figures.
PEASE & MAYS
are written, "Full set of harness," or
"valuable gold watch." The "lucky"
person who draws a prize is promised
delivery of the article won, on a certain
date, and that is the end of the trans
action so far as the steerer is concerned.
Sunnyside has been thoroughly can
vassed, and the following description of
the man was given by victims there:
Height, 5 feet 7 inches; weight, 145 or
150 pounds; sandy complexion, sandy
mustache, dark coat, brown trousers
and black stiff hat.
Again Superintendent Gilbert is at
work ; this time preparing for the county
institute, which will meet at Hood River
on the 20th,30th and 31st of next month.
This session will be a genuine vacation
treat for the teachers. Instead of pre
paring papers themselves, Mr. Gilbert
will employ instructors, who furnish
papers themselves, and the teachers will
become pupils, being allowed, however,
to discuss and freely give their opinion
on the subjects brought up. By way of
diversion, among other things a trip to
Cloud Cap Inn Is being planned, which
in itself will be an outing envied by all.
There will surely be a large attendance
at the institute.
One of the most interesting visitors a
newspaper oflice (or any other office or
individual) can have, is the untiring
assistant secretary of the Oregon His
torical Society, George II. Himes, who
ia thoroughly versed in everything con
nected with the history of our state, and
its future development. Thk Chroxici k
enjoved a call this morning from the
gentleman, who is on bis way to the
eastern part of the state In the interest
of the society. It was incorporated
December 17th, 1898, and h" informs us
they now hare a membership of over
500. On tho lGlb of laBt December the
rooms of the society were opened and
since that time 0000 visitors have regis
tered from all parts of union, and
information is continually being given
out. During the visit of tho editors to
our state last year, probable no one did
more toward enlightening them concern
ing the state they were so favorably im
pressed with than did Mr. Himes, who
was constantly answering questions and
providing means of entertainment.
TuenlMy'K Dully.
Litiies tan low Bhoes only 90 cents' at
he New York Cash store.
Orders by telephone or otherwise are
promptly filled at the McNeal market.
A fresh supply of L iwriey'a chocolates
received today at Blakeley's pharmacy.
Shaniko is to have telephones galore.
The Orpgon Telephone Company is
putting In an exchange today.
rested on that date and put up that
amouot for his appearance this morning.
He failed, however to connect, but his
$2 la still in tbe hands of the recorder.
This morning, while working at the
planing mill, Carl Hansen caught tbe
little finger of the left hand in the saw
and it was sawed into the hone, making
a very painful wound. Dr. Geisendorffer
dressed it and it is thought no perma
nent injury will reeult.
A friend of Rev. G. Rushing, whom
we mentioned a few days since as being
picked op by some ot the workmen,
when they found one of tbe men still
clinging to the boat. With difficulty
they restored hira; but at the time the
messago was telephoned up to Hood
River, no one knew bis name, and there
fore could give no information as to
which of the unfortunates was saved.
Of late years the various denomina
tions are sensibly coming to tbe con
clusion that a minister is made of the
same material as other men, and there
fore need a respite from duties during
very ill at Spokane, says our informant I tbe heated term as well as they. Ac
must have been mistaken, as a letter I cordingly Dalles people will be compelled
to take their nap at home Sunday even-
received this morning, tells her he is im
proving, aud a few days since rode five
miles on his wheel.
Newspaper people seem to have no
doubt of McKinlev's election and conse
quent prosperity, from the number of
new journals which are daily received.
The latest is the Condon Times, which
is published each Saturday, and starts
out as if it meant business. We trust it
will continue Id as lively spirits.
Thank fortune, people are getting over
the foolish habit of accosting every one
with "Is it warm enough for yon," and
It ia easier to keep cool. We really have
little reason to complain as yet this
season. The warmest weather we have
had was last month, when the thermom
eter stood at 00 one day. Last Sunday
it wa 01 j yesterday 88, and today not
over 81 at 3:30 o'clock.
One forest fire in California has burned
a tract of twenty rquare miles. One
little firecracker was the cause of the
disaster. One negligent campfire in tbe
forests of our state is liable to spread to
thousands of acres of limber. Perhaps
the hint may cause hunting parties and
campers to be more cautious than usual
while the ground and foliage are so dry.
At present our scouring mill is running
on a full day time, and employing about
forty persons, turning out an average of
15,000 pounds of scoured wool. LTnder
tho immediate necessity of a night run,
this amount will he increased to between
30,000 end 35,000 pounds in the near
future. Tho mills have sold their out
put to date, and have sufficient orders on
hand for a mouth to come. The returns
from samples sent to manufacturers have
invariably brought favorably comment.
If there's one thing above another
that Tho Dalles need-', It is a hospital.
There is really no necessity for our
peoplu and those who come in from the
country about us being compelled to go
to the expense of going clear to Portland
to he treated for ailments and fur opera
tions with which our own physicians are
pnit'lllv Ptimnptnnt In nnnn T oavlnit
Du-ing the entire week there will boa j the mf)re cri(.(.ftl caeef) OHt of
qileBtiou, there are numberless persons
vho are taken to the metropolis each
month who could junt as well be treated
if there were only some place to w hich
sale of street hats and sailors at the
Campbell A Wilson millinery parlors.
Great reductions. lfl-lw
The funeral of II. P. Isaacs, who died
so suddenly in Portland Saturday, took ; they could be taken. Our physicians
place this morning at 0 o'clock at his
home in Walla Walla, under the a ifplces
of the Masonic order.
Lee Moorhonse, Pendleton's famous
artist, visited Hood River Sunday and
secured some valuable pictures of old
Indian relics and buildings across the
Columbia from that point.
Henry Ramsey, the old gentlemen
from Mayville, who came near losing his
life Friday In runaway accident at
Albany, Is still in a very serious condi
tion at the home of his son-in-law at
that place.
The city ii $2 ahead on fight which
occurred Sunday. The pugilist was ar-
should, with the help of the lending
citizen, make a move toward establish
ing a hospital here.
Hood River is the latest place to report
a drowning. Yesterday afternoon about
4 o'clock two men, John Dye and a man
whose name we could not l.-arn, at
tempted to cross the river to White
Salmon in a small boat, when the wind
was extremely high and the river rough,
When about the middle of the stream
the boat capsized. Kd Underwood, who
saw them from the Washington aide, at
tempted to reach them; but in vain.
Tbe boat drifted down to Nicholai's mill,
four miles below Hood River, and wai
ings, instead of in their pew at church,
for a month at least. Already the
Congregationalists are having but one
service a day; for the following four
weeks the Methodists will do tbe same;
during the month of August the Lu
therans will have no service at all ; and
'tis more than likely the Baptists will
dispense with service for a portion of
the time, as the old building is already
unfit for use. Protestants, therefore,
can remain at home Sunday evenings.
Serious trouble is brewing on tbe
Union Pacific and it is feared that there
will be a general strike if the company
attempts to enforce a new rule in refer
ence to tbe watch inspector of the Uniou
Pacific. The engineers, firemen, Con
ductors, brakemen, switchmen, yard
masters, telegraphers, Btation agents,
flagmen, and section foremen were in
structed that all those w ho did not carry
a 17 jeweled nickel-movement watch ol
a certain make would nave to huy one.
The request has been complied with by
a few employes, but a large number re
fuse and say they will quit work before
they will be coerced. Firemen on the
the third district from North Platte to
Sidney are reportod to have made a dc
termind stind, and it is said they have
notified the company if tbe rule is en
forced they will walk out together.
If any have the least doubt in their
minds that the new woman (and many
not quite so new) has not made up her
mind to be the competitor of the
"stronger" sex in every avenue of life
from the least to the greatest, from the
foolish to thn most foolish, etc., let them
read a dinpatch from Siginaw, Mich.,
yesterday which says: "Miss Marie
Schmidt, aged 18 years, reached this city
last night from San Francisco, having
covered tho entire distance on foot,
about 4700 miles. Mies Schmidt left
San Francisco March 25 last on a $500
wager, made by a social club of San
Francisco, that she could not reach
Saginaw by August 1 and beg her living
en route." We would just add "what
next?" Surely it is time to call a halt.
It has been idiotic enough in men to go
traveling through thn country on such
senseless expeditions ; but w hen it comes
to a woman (much lens a girl of 18) aping
her brothers in such foolishness, we
wonder what this age will not bring
forth. If it has become necessary for
her to enter the business world and
compete with tiiiu along that Hue, for
the love of everything womanly in her
nature, it is to bo hoped she will rot at
the same time adopt all the foibles which
he has seen tit to indulge In.
I.tnurlta.
Healthful drinks are not luxuries, they
are necessities. A full line of cool and
refreshing porter, ale, mineral water and
beers kept on Ice. Take bottle borne
for lunch. C. J. Stubling. Phone 234.
DIED SUDDENLY
Jmr Gray, of Vlclor, Diet ol Hr
Dlacut at Klght Mile.
Friday afternoon, about 1 o'clock.
James Gray, whose home is on Juniper
Fiat, near Victor, started out from this
city with a new $3000 threshing outfit,
bound for Dufnr, where he had a great
deal of threshing to do. Reaching Klgbt
Mile about 5, and finding Mrs. Huott
unable to prepare supper for them, they
secured meal about a mile half beyond,
and returning made their bed put pear
the barn. Mr. Gray was apparently
well when they went to bed at 8:30,
save a Blight pain in his breast, which
they thought little of.
About 4 o'clock this morning Mr.
Payne, whom he slept with, got up and
Gray asked him for a drink, when he
was handed a cup of water. He again
spoke of the pain in his chest, but as he
often had slight pains of that sort, little
heed was given it. Tbe man returned
to bed, and about 5 o'clock arose, when
he found Gray was lying there dead.
In a short time the coroner was sent for,
and in company with the recorder and
an undertaker went out there and held
an iuquest.
James Gray is a man about 65 years
of age, and leaves a wife and five or six
children on their place near Victor, He.
was well know d throughout the Country,
having lived In that vicinity for thirty
years or more.
The remains will be buried at his
home.
Tbe iuqiK'Bt resulted in the following
verdict:
We, the jury impaneled by VV. H.
Butts, coroner of Wasco county, Oregon,
to inquire into the cause of the death of
the body now before us, after hearing
the evidence produced before us find the
following facts :
I hat the name of the deceased was
James Gray, residence Juniper Fiat.
Wasco county, Oregon, ami that he
came to his death on or abont the hour
of 4 o'clock a. m., July 14th, 1900, at
Fight mile, county of Wasco, and state
ol Oregon.
That the said James Gray then and
there being, was by his employes found
dead in his bed and said death was
caused by heart failure brought about by
natural causes, of which I rouble he
has been suljVct for a long period cf
time.
Dated at Eight Mile, Wasco conntv,
Oregon, this the 14th day of July, ltMJO.
Ciias. N. Brur.ET,
F. K. 11 i-oi t,
A. C. ScllKfKKR,
J. M. Powki.i.,
A. Br.xkit.
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Tho copartnership business heretofore
conducted at 175 Second Ktreet, nciler
the linn name and style of iilakeley A
Houghton, is this day dissolved by
mutual concent, F. L. Houghton retir
ing from said lirni. Tho business will
he conducted in the future by Geo. C.
Iilakeley, at thn old stand. K. ..
Houghton will collect all accounts and
pav all liabilities of said linn.
Tho Dalles, Oregon, July 2, 1000.
Geo. (!. Hi akki ky,
F. L. HoriiiiTON.
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