THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. JULY 25 , 1900.
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LOCAL BBEVIT1BS.
Saturday Daily.
A marriage license was Issued yester
day to Alf. Kelsay and Alice Bell.
Tbe business man who is too close
fisted to advertise is generally too close
listed to give bargains.
Several cowl have died recently at
Hood River from a disease that the citi
zens do not know how to treat.
Frank Menefee was yesterday ap
pointed administrator of the estate of
tbe late James Grey, of Wapinitia.
Between now and January 1st the O.
R. AN. Co., will expend $100,000 im
proving the road bed between The
Dalles and Cascade fcks.
The Dalles "Jeffersonian" democrats
have decided to postpone their ratifica
tion meeting till the "Jeffersonians"
return from the summer resorts.
We learn that a fire occurred at a place
near Wasco, this afternoon, that burnad
a comuinea Harvester inai ueiongea
to Mr. McPberson and destroyed 25 to
30 acres of standing grain.
The Grass Valley Journal says that
Ernest Sherar recently had 1700 head of
aheep poisoned near Fish lake, forty
miles east of Spokane, which he was
taking to the eastern market.
"Socklees Jerry Simpson after a long
struggle to stave off prosperity for him
self and his country, lias had to sac
cnmb. The assessor in Barber county,
Kansas, has scheduled him at $40,0U0,''
says the Tacoraa News.
Jonn Dye ana ' cob llogan were
swamped in a sailboat on the Columbia
river, opposite Underwood's Landing,
the night of the 16th. Dyo was rescued,
but llogan was carried away, and is
thought to have been drowned.
The export trade of 1890-1900
$227,000,000 larger than for the two
years previous. Bryan thinks we should
have free silver, anarchy, free trade and
a lot of other conglomerations in order
to reduce these figures. Walla Walla
Union.
Under the operation of the Wilson
free trade tariff for revenue only, there
was a deficit of $108,000,000 in thirty-
five months. Under the Dinglev tariff
for protection there was a surplus of
$40,000,000, in thirty-two months.
Eugene Citizen (Ind.)
A party of woolbuyers and others,
who are wont to bathe of evenings in
the Columbia at a point near the old
O. R. A N. Co.'s incline, yesterday killed
a rattle snake at that point that meas
ured three feet and had eleven rattles.
This is a rare occurrence for this neigh
borhood.
II. C. Gordion brought into town this
morning samples of Gravenstein apples
one of which measured 12.'g inches in
circumference. They were grown on
the hill west of Odd Fellows' cemetery,
without a drop of irrigation and are
mere samples of what is going on there
all the time.
If yon know of any dead-sure remedy
that will bring bark to life about thirty
beautiful house plants, make an offer of
it to Ed Kurtz of the Pacific Express
Company. He may not buy it, or even
accept it as a gift, but he needs it, all
the tame. Following the advice of a
Hon of Belial yesterday Ed "fumigated"
his plains, with the result that they are
all dead.
Crook county possesses some remark
ahly natural features of landscape,
among which is an immense column of
rork near the head of Mill creek known
r Steins' Pillar. It stands on a steep
hillside, is about 120 feet in diameter
and 350 high, towering to this height
with perpendicular walls, it being fully
as large at the top as at the base. Its
(nmiuit will never be desecrated by the
'oot of man, unless it should fall down.
Major I,ee Moorhouse. of Pendleton,
furnishes the Information that the Nez
Perce and Umatilla Indian name for the
Peak of Mount Hood is"Matsuin-hi-hi,"
which, in the Indian dialect, means the
"breast of the mother." In the Ian
K'ig of these tribes, which is based on
eymliole, the earth is made the mothor
because all Hying things receive their
nourishment from the earth, hence the
'eason for their naming the snow white
!k of Mount Hood, the breast, or one
of the breasts, of the mother.
There Is an odd streak In the Miller
Jmily. Joaquin Miller has a brother
J" Kastern Oregon known as "Cayuse,"
'"H and gaunt, who wears his light col
'ed hair on his shoulders tied near the
cHer like a school girl's. He wears
overall,,, jumper and broad brimmed
ht, his overalls staffed In heavy boots,
'"tened ith a belt at the top, a foot
wide. n9 a a Uamster and stockman,
years old, with wife and children
,n, his never had I.I. nllnr t.lr.n
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ever will. Ha n about to inriiiv
ind
opoo the poblic something that will
make him more famous than his brother.
Oo the Little Klickitat, near the point
okkgon wnere it enters tbe Big Klickitat river.
sevetal Goldendate men have recently
filed mining claims. In the party are
Messrs. Wm. Van Vactor, the Coopers,
etc. The elder Cooper, who is miner
of experience, in connection with Mr.
Van Vactor, bave purchased a hydraulic
outfit in Portland, which will arrive
next week. It will be necessary to con
struct about three miles of ditching,
water being taken out of Bowman creek.
Tests of the several claims have given
very satisfactory returns, and as there
is an abundance of gravel where their
claims are located, we hope their venture
will be profitable.
Philip C. Cox, collection teller in
Ladd & Tilton's bank, was drowned
Thursday afternoon between Pennoyer's
mill and the boat yard of tbe Portland
Ship-building Company at Portland.
Shortly after the bank closed, in com
pany with the messenger boy of the in
stitution, he proceeded to the swimming
place. Immediately npon entering tbe
water and swimming about 100 feet the
young man was seized with a cramp and
drowned without making an outcry or a
struggle. After sinking beneath the
waves tbe first time he did not come to
the surface again, otherwise Professor
Eiuil Theilhorn, who was watching oo
the bank, may have suce.eeded.in res
cuing him.
Indians hunting on tbe east coast of
Hudson's Bay have brought word to tbe
Hudson Bay Company's post, on the
west coast of James bay, that they
found last spring a vast quantity of
wreckage, tbe bodies of two men. and a
man in tbe last stages of the death
struggle. The Indians reported that
they could not understand the lai.uage
he spoke, but that it was not English
He died while they were there, and
they returned to the trading post with
out bringing any evidence of the strange
occurrence. It is believed by the offi
ciais of the Hudson Bay Company that
the Indians witnessed the ending of
Andree's attempt to reach tho North
Polo by balloon. They had never seen
a balloon, but from their description of
the wreckage, the officials are firmly
convinced that it wag the remnants of
Andree's airship.
Monday's Daily.
Miss Minnie Sandrock has accepted
the position of cashier of the Umatilla
House restaurant.
We regret to learn that Attorney J.
U. Storey, late of The Dalles, now of
WViger, Idaho, is ill of diabetes and not
expected to live.
The Astoria iron works has purchased
from the government 100 tons of the
old cannon balls that have been stored
for years at Fort Stevens and Canby,
and will melt tb ni up.
Word came to town this morning that
380 acres of grain belonging to Dave
Fulton, of Sherman county, were de
stroyed yesterday by fire. The fire
originated from a spark from a traction
engine. Ihree liundreu acres were in
sured.
It may be of Interest to a number of
housewives in the east end of the city lo
know that Louie Comiui's goat was
taken on a summer vacation to the
c mntry yesterday, and will bronse dur
ing the remainder of the heated term on
sage brush instead of call a lillies and
heliotropes.
In the case of Mays A Crowe vs. W.
R. Winans, involving a judgment for
$093.50 and $00 attorney's fees, the sale
of 120 acres of land in the Hood River
valley to satisfy the judgment was
postponed Saturday by Sheriff Kelly, for
want of bidders, till tomorrow morning
at 10 o'clock.
A party of Portlanders who ascended
Mount Hood last Thursday report that
there has been no change on the south
side of the mountain, all reports as to
upheavels or convulsions of nature to
the contrary, notwithstanding, the snow
line being reached by tbe same trail as
for the last ten years.
A son of Frank Marsh of Eight Mile,
aged eleven months, died Saturday of
summer comp'aint and was buried at
the Eight Mile cemetery yesterday after
noon in presence of a large number of
sorrowing friends and neighbors. Mrs.
M. Miller conducted the funeral services
at the house of Andtew McCabe.
I. C. Nielsen had the misfortune to
lose his family cow yesterday. The
animal had turned around in her stall
with the evident Intention of going out
doors when she slipped and fell to the
ground and apparently broke her neck.
When discovered she was satone dead.
She was a thoroughbred Shorthorn anil
Mr Nielsen would not have taken $100
for her.
The six months old child of Deputy
Sheriff Sexton this morning accident
ally tasted some water from a plate In
which fly paper had been saturated,
with the result that it nearly lost Its
lite. Dr. Geisendorffer was promptly
called, and after hours of hard work
succeeded in tiding It over the crisis.
But it was a very sick child and it was
a very close call.
A. Anderson, the contractor and
architect, this afternoon turned over to
II. Wakefield the nw cottage built for
Mr. Wakefield on the lot Immediately
east of the Methodist church. The new
building has all modern Improvements
and Is a model of neatness and con-
Told at a
Glance
Therefore glance at this; it means
satisfaction and money-saving to
you. Any pair of our
$1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00
MEN'S PANTS at
ft-35-
Straw Hat Prices Halved.
A magnificent array of newest styles. They
look nicer than ever under the new prices.
A line of Men's Sum
mer Underwear; near
ly all sixes at
25c each.
Shirts and Drawers.
A few of
Suits left at
those odd
$3.85, 4.85, 5.85,
which U less than half
the original price.
A Between-Season's
Offering of
BARGAINS !
ON WEDNESDAY.
Ladies'
Summer Underwear.
To clean up some odds and ends
of Ladies' Vests, we otter you some
astonishing bargains. The goods are
all new only a few of a size.
Lot 1. Ladies' I lot-Weather
Peelers 4C
Lot 2. CJood lUe values 6C
Lot 3. Silk and Lisle Thread
Garments 13, 15, 17, lUe
values IOC
Lot 4. Extra Egvptian Lisle
Thread, 20, 232o and 30c t
garments IOC
Lot 5. Special values 35, -10,
45 and 50c garments 2uC
Odds and Ends In Wash Fabrics.
In this lot there are values
running up to 35c; goingat OC
When in the store, don't forget to look at our
other BARGAINS.
The Coolest Shoes
for Summer.
TAN
SHOES.
Kemember, we are still offering
you J 1.00 for 75c in all purchases of
Tan Shoes.
Another
Special.
Misses' Tan, button or lace; Q
sizes 11 to 2
Child's Tan, button or lace;
sizes 0 to 11 75
Small sizes Ladies' Kid,
button; 3, 3, 4 $ I .00
All Goods Marked
In Plain Figures.
PEASE & MAYS
venience, reflecting credit alike on owner
and contractor. It will be occupied by
the family of C. M. Grimes as soon as
the carpets are laid and the window
curtains hung.
The Baker City Republican says;
"Baker City is to have a department
store. A firm who are now operating
at The Dalles bave practically made ar
rangements to open a like institution
here. They carry a stock estimated to
invoice about $150,000, and they will in
crease tb qiiantitv if goods for this city
up to about J'200,000. They are mer
chants with unlimited capital and in
fluence and have scored a success in
every town in which they locale."
VV. F. McClure died at his home at
Victor Wednesday, July 18th. Mr. Mc
Clure was born in Iowa fifty-one veais
ago, and came to Oregon with his ' unsupported
parents when only Ave years of age, I merchant.
settling in Linn county. Twelve
years ago he came to this county, locat
ing on a farm at Victor. He was strick
en with heart disease July 4ih, while at
the Warm Spring agency, and was
brought home immediately, where he
has hovered between life and death ever
since, fie leaves two children and sev
eral brothers and sisters to mourn his
pnath. Dufur Dispatch.
Tuesday'. Dally.
The minor clrldren of the late Sara
net II. Douglas, of Wamic, have been
put on the government pension list for
$16 a month.
President Mckinley has replied to
China, signifying his willingness to
mediate hetween the imperial govern
ment and the powers, on condition that
anarchy in the empire be suppressed
and foreigners be given complete pro
tection. The sheriff this morning sold on exe
cution twelve acres of land in the Hood
River valley, belonging to W. R. Wi
nans, to satisfy a claim of Mays A Crowe
for $693 50 and $90 attoi ney's fees. The
property was knocked down to Mays A
Crowe for $50.
The child cf Deputy Sheriff Sexton,
that camn near losing its life yesterday
by drinking water in which flypaper
had been saturated, is stilt very sick
and keeps vomiting quite frequently.
The doctor hopes, however, that it will
ultimately recover.
Thomas Watson, of Fossil, was strick
en witli tilimmess wiiiie on top oi tus
windmill a few days ago. A neighbor
helped him down. He is io years old,
and tbe exertion of climbing ladders
canned a small hemorrhage of the brain.
It is thought he will regain his sight.
W. II. Morehouse, a Sherman county
farmer whose, place is near Gordon
Ridge, had 100 acres of giain and a new
28-inch horse-power separator destroyed
by Are yesterday. The Are originated
in a hot (mix in the separator. The
grain had been insured three days before
by E. O. McCoy for $3 an acre. The
separator was not Insured
Martin II. Miller, who is interested
wi ll I. P. Joles, of this city, and W. T.
Young in placer mines in Spanish
Gulch, arrived .here from the mines yes
terday with about f'JOOO worth of gold
dimt. A nngget accompanied the lot
that bt valued at $85. The gold is de
posited with French A Co. for shipment
to the San Francisco mint.
An employe of the Paul Mohr portage,
who came across the river yesterday
with $15 in his pockets wherewith to
make some purchases, fell under the
spell of a First street Cyprian and was
relieved of every cent he had. On the
fellow's complaining to Marshal Hughes,
that oflicpr invaded the woman's den
and recovered all the money gave 25
cents.
A lawn social will be given by the
young ladies of the Eoworth League
this (Wednesday) evening at the Smith
French residence, on the corner of
Fourth and Union streets. Refresh
ments, consisting of ice cream and cake,
will be served, There will be instru
mental music.
Judge Stott, of Portland, arrived here
yesterday and left for his home on the
noon train. Tbe judge was looking
after evidence in favor of a Chinaman
who claims to have lived in The Dalles,
but whom the authorities refuse to land
after his return from China upon his
testimony that he is a
W. II. Talcolt writes to the Portland
weather bureau from Victor to say that
"the weather has been very warm.
Harvesting is in progress. A great deal
of the fall wheat is cut and stacked.
Spring grain is turning and will be
ready to cut by the time the fall-grain
harvest is completed. Gardens do not
amount to much. Corn and potatoes
are looking fine."
One hundred and five men and offi
cers belonging to L troop, First cavalry,
with horses and equipments, passed
through town today on a special train
bound for Seattle. Another troop of
colored cavalry passed through in a sim
ilar manner for the same destination.
They are hound for China, and expect
to sail about next Saturday from Seattle
on the transport Meade.
Instead of a memorial service to
Minister Conger and tiis wife, their
daughter and their niece, supposed to
have been murdered in China, it Is'
proposed by the people of Des Moines,
Iowa, if the family has escaped, to send
a large party to San Francisco to wel
come them on their return to this
country. It is not unlikely that if
Major Conger lives and returns to the
United States, he can go to the United
States senate.
The change from the American to the
European plan made a few days ago in
the Umatilla House dining room is
meeting with the decided approval of
the many patrons of that popular
caravansory, and, as a matter of course,
has resulted in people going there for
their meals that hardly ever went be
fore. The great attraction of the system
is that you can at all times get what
you desire or order and ran have a meal
at any price that suits your appetite or
purse. j'.M 3t
Among the campers at Trout Lake
from The Dalles are Mrs. I. P. Joles,
George Joles, Pearl Joles, Blanche i
Emerson, Professor Birgfnld and family
and Mrs. John Filloon. With Mrs. Fit
loon are camped Miss Crooks and
brother, of Prineville. II. L. Pittock,
of the Portland Oregonian, wife and
daughter are there, and camped with
them is Or. Cox, a Portland dentist.
Bert Baldwin-and Bert Barrett were
camped on the Peter Schmidt place, but
a squirrel the other campers say It was
a squirrel made such a racket one
night that the lads thought It was a
cougar and have since slept In the Joles
wagon, near tbe latter'i camp, at the
outlet. A new 24x30 hotel has been
built near the lake by Gouler Bros., and
that It Is well patronixed may be gath
ered from the fact that forty persons sat
down
night.
to the hotel supper the other
Obituary.
Paul Kreft, an honored Bnd respected
resident of this city, died at his home
on Tenth street Monday afternoon.
Mr. Kreft was born in Germany fifty
two years ago. He had been a resident
of The Dalles for nearly twenty years,
where he followed the trade of painter,
and for several years was senior mem
ber of the firm of Kreft A Co., which
was succeeded by the present firm of
D. W. Vause A Co. About 1891 he wbb
elected a councilman of the city, and on
the death ot Mayor Rinehart was elect
ed by the council to fill the enexpired
term.
Some six years ago he lost a daughter,
a fine young girl of about 14 years, who
was dragged to death by the family
horse that she was driving to a cart.
Those who knew Mr. Kreft well say the
loss of his daughter produced a shock
on tbe father from which he never re
covered. It was a common saying
among his friends that he was never the
same man afterwards. For some two
years or more he suffered from heart
trouble, and the end was anticipated
months ago both by himself and hia
family.
Paul Kreft was f n honorable, kind
hearted man and a good citizen. He
leaves to mourn his loss the wife, to
whom he was married in 1878, and six
children, three boys and three girls, the
eldest of whom is aged 17 years.
Ho was a member of the Woodmen of
the World and held an insurance policy
fu the order for $2000. The funeral ser
vices will be conducted by the Wood
men at Fraternity hall, commencing at
4 this (Wednesday) afternoon. The re
mains will be laid to rest in the Odd
Fellows' cemetery.
Prevented a tragedy.
Timely information given Mrs. George
Long, of New Straitsville, Ohio, pre
vented a dreadful tragedy and saved two
lives. A frightful cough had long kept
her awake every night. She had tried
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her, and she writes this marvelous
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Ca.h In Your Check..
All count? warrants registered prior
to Aug. 1, 1890, will be paid at my
office. Interest ceases after June 30,
1900. J. F. Hampshire,
County Treasurer.
Fresh cracked Nebraska corn at the
Wasco warehouse. Finest kind of
chicken feed. mch25-if
For choice fruits, fresh vegetables, fish,
poultry and all kinds of feed, call on
the McXeal market. Phone 273. 11-lwk
NOME CITY NOT A PARADISE.
John 1 arn.lt Give. III. lnire.lon ot
the AlH.La Eldarario.
Nome Crrv, Alaska, June 29, '00.
To the EoiTOR--Ve landed here June
17th and have been enjoying pleasant
weather so far, but the rainy t-oason is
supposed to set in early in July. Tho
steamer Rosecrans, which carries the
government lumber and other materials
is having hard luck. She wa9 stranded
on the sand of the Yukon delta and had
to throw overboard her coal and some
of the other part of the cargo. She had
to return to Dutch Harbor for more
coal, where, we hear, she has run on the
rocks.
Ben Snipes arrived on the 23 1. He
had a tiresome voyage of thirty-one
days.
This is a good country from more than
one standpoint. In the first place it is a
good country lor a man to stay away
from if he expects to got money easily.
In the second place there is plenty of
gold here in the ground. There is also
about twenty men for each claim. The
beach has been very rich, but the beet
has been worked out. It is impossible
for a man to get a mining location until
there are some new diggings discovered.
There is one ship quarantined here,
and about six or eight cases of smallpox.
The water here is worse than any
other that I know of. It is ice cold and
clear as crystal before it is boiled. Then
it turns red and has the taste of soap
made of rotten eggs.
This town is not a year old and has a
population of over 35,000. If one wishes
to see a fight at any time, all he has to
do is to go out and look around a few
minutes.
It would seem that this place Is cer
tainly doomed to burn. The buildings
and houses are all wooden shells in close
proximity, and the streets are only from
twenty to thirty feet wide. A fire with
a little start could not be controlled.
John Pakkott.
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To be bound hand and foot for years
by the chains of disease ia the worst
form of slavery. George D. William, of
Manchester, Mich., tells bow such a
slave was made free. He says: "My
wife has been so helpless tor five years
that Bhe could not turn over in bed alone.
After using two bottles of Electric
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Druggists. 6
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If you intend to take a trip East, ask
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Great Wabash, a modern and up-to-date
railroad in every particular.
Through trains from Chicago, Kansas
City, Omaha or St. Louis to New York
and New England points. All trains
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train has free reclining chair cars, sleep
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Stop over allowed on all tickets at Ni
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