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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 15, 1900. The Weekly Ghroniele. tMK UAH.. KtUU.1 VrFICIAl. PAPER Of WASCO COUNTY. PMuhtd in two part, ut rt'tdnetday$ BrBSCRIPTIOS RATES. t mail, rotTAoa rur.io, m advaxcb. One yf II SO Six nioutbe 74 Tare mouUu M AdTertialng rates reasonable, and made knows n .nnlieatlun. Addrwe all onmmnnicatlons toTHF CHRON ICLE. TS laiiea, uracon. LOCAL BREVITIES. Saturday's Dally. Eighty borsea are in training at the state fair ground. Hood River claimi the beat apple crop it baa bad in year. Tii Chroxiclb is reliably Informed that Lem Borgese' wool clip of 30,000 odd pounds, which was sold yesterday, brought cent a pounds. Andrew Morrow, of the firm of Mor row A Keenao, prominent sheepmen of Crook county, is in the city looking after tbe sale of the firm's clip of 86,000 pounds of wool. Deputy Sheriff E. B. Wood, of Mosler, bas an English balf-penny of tbe date 1775, that was picked up on the scene of the Crster massacre on the Little Big Horn, two days after that event. The editor of The Chronicle la in debted to the courtesy of the manage ment of the Spokane Industrial Exposi tion, which opens at Spokane on October 2nd, for a season ticket for 1900. Miss Martha Baldwin nas been en- gaged to teach tbe school on Three Mile, near the Creighton ranch. Teachers re gard this tcbool as a very desirable one, and the engagement of Miss Baldwin is a fitting compliment to a very worthy and accomplished young lady. Here's the way an ordinary Dalits birth item gets fixed np whenever it gets under the purview of the Moro Ob server: "Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Timo thy Brownhill, The Dalles, August 2d, a son and Tim didn't do a thing but order a set of teeth for the little fellow right away. The man Junkins, who was shot yes terday near Morp by Higinbotham,' passed through town today on tbe way to a Portland hospital. He was accom panied by Dr. Hartley, of Moro, who says that if blood poisoning does not set in and Junkins' Intestines are not perforated, he may recover. The trial of Mat Basic, of Wapinitia, for killing an elk took place today be fore Justice Brownhill. The evidence 'failed to show that Bnsie had killed any elk, or that the elk referred to in the complaint had been killed in this coun ty, and Busic was consequently dis charged. "The little Indian caynees of Eastern Oregon need not bs sent to the cannery any more," aaid Samuel Gray, a Hunt ington business man, to a Telegram re porter, "as a good niaiket has been fur them In the East. A good many carloads have left Huntington for the East this summer, as tbe cayuse makes a nice family pony when he is treated right, and he soon becomes docile." Though some of the sturdy fisher folk of Newfoundland are Protestants, they derive the larger part of their living from the people of Koman Catholic countries. The fact that In tbe course of the year them are many fast days, when millions of Roman Catholics eat little animal food, except fish, has been a godsend to the greatest fishing coun tries, which have thus been provided with certain and regular markets for their fish. Of the twenty-five presidents of the United States all but one have been of British family origin. Fifteen, beaded hy Washington, came of English stock. Three, Including that James Monroe, who gave hi name to a doctrine, had Scotch ancestors. One, Thomas Jeffer on, Inherited pure Welch blood, while Ave others traced their lineage to Scotcn-Iriah ancestry. No descendant of Celtic Irish forefathers has ever at tained the presidency. Captain Witcomb, of the Central Nav igation Company, tells a Telegram re Porter that the report to the effect that the Billings was to be stripped was with out any truth whatever. He reports that without doubt the Billings will be floated, and beyond several small holes In her hull, will be as good as ever. taptain Whitcomb went to Portland for material wherewith to construct ways br hich the Billings will be "skidded" off the reef. Her position is peculiar Bth her bow and stern are laying over ''eep water, the depth of the water an der her how being thirteen feet and un-h-r her stern eleven feet. It Is only the middle part of the hull that is imbedded on the rocks. There are two reefs run ni"K diagonally across underneath her, "h a depth of water of nine feet be lwn them. She is lying in a slanting Position on ono side, the water covering U'e reefs, being at a depth of four feet n,l at the other sldo only one foot. The nls, five of them in number, are all Patched up, and all that remains to be dune In to launch her from the ways. The Wit p nit ia ranchers are making nother effort to got water for irrigation d domestic purposes on the flat. A meeting will be held tonight at Victor, at Which it ia nnu'thl made for preliminary survey that will decide the feasibility ot bringing water on the flat from White river. The ranchers have been singularly unfortu nate io all previous efforts. Enough money baa been spent in digging ditches to litre solved the water problem, if the I money bad been spent judiciously hat is known as the McCoy ditch is ia the position ot the dog In the manger. McCoy cannot, or will not, complete it, and the ranchers cannot force its com pletion nor obtain possession of it with out a law suit. An adequate supply of water on the Wapinitia flat will make a paradise out of one of the finest agricul tural districts in Wasco county. Monday'. Dally. Saturday another office was added to the list of the Oregon Telephone com pany's stations it being North Grants near Columbus. William McGuirewill act as agent for the company at this point. James White, who bad his hearing before Judge Bradshaw last Saturday afternoon on a charge of having stolen 20 from C. S. Dodge, of Cascade Locks, plead guilty to the charge and was sen tenced to thirty days in the county jail. A red cow, branded V on the left hip without any earmarks whatever, was taken np on tbe streets yesterday and ia at present in tho city pound. Tbe owner can have the same by paying tbe custom ary redemption fee. Mrs. C. L. Phillips wishes to announce tbe sale of her millinery establishment to Mrs. C. Haven and daughter, expert enced milliners of Portland aud Van couver. Also to thank the ladies of lue Dalles for their patronage in the past years, and sincerely hopes it will be continued in behalf of her successors. Superintendent Landeis, of this city, has been appointed a member of the state board of examiners. Mi. Landers bas spent the greater part of his life in school work and Is unquestionably one of the ablest men in his line In the state and the board of examiners has in bim secured a competent and energetic member. Jenkins, the man who was shot by George P. Higinbotham last Friday, was taken to the St. Vincent's hospital in Portland yesterday. He was reported to be In a dangerous condition and his recovery Is doubted. Higinbotham ia under arrest pending the result of his victim's injuries and will probably have a preliminary bearing tomorrow. Owing to the immense increase of the Oregon Telephone and Telegraph Company's business In Tbe Dalles it was found necessary to put in a new cable into tbe central office at thia place. For some time it was impossible for the com pany to put in any 'phones on account of the lack of wires but this improve ment enables them to supply patrons for the time being. Tbe 7-montha-old girl baby of William Cates, of this city, died at its parents' home yesterday afternoon. The little one was troubled for some time with an attack of gaetro entiritis, and although the best medical practitioners in the city were called, they could do nothing to save the little sufferer. The funeral took place from the f imiiy residence at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Ralph Eddon, the popular little messenger bov of tbe Oregon Telephone & Telegrapb Company returned yester day from a ten days outing at Cooper'i camp, near the Meadows. He bas brought back the customary amount of tan, freckles and fish stories, and even asserts that he saw a deer in the distance, but this was a case of one of those sights seen when you haven't got a gun. He was delighted with the camping place and states that the other Dallesltes will remain In camp several weeka longer. Or Ragley, who is employed in the scouring mill, met with serious acci dent this morning. He went on the roof of the mill to put a covering over the skylight in otder to prevent tbe sun from shining in on tbe workmen, and while doing so fell through the opening to the floor below. He sustained a seri ous cut on one of his arms and a had gash over his left eye and was badly shaken up. Dr. Geisendoiffer was railed and revived him so that he could be sent home, and he will probably be con fined to tbe house for some time. M. Z. Donnell has added additional curiosities to his already large atock of relics in tbe shape of two trunks which were brought over from Japan, probably seventy-five years ago, by the Hudson Bay company. They are made of Orange wood covered with leather and em bellished with brass ornaments and ex tremely valuable on account of the scarcity of such articles at present. One of them is plain leather while the other is hand painted and artistic In the ex treme, and would be highly prized by fanciers of snch relics. He has also a Hudson Bay Company hatchet, which was unearthed while excavating at the Cascade Lorks. It is formed somewhat like the Indian tomahawk and has a piece of an old rifla barrel for a handle. Health officer H. 8. Goddard, of Klickitat county, who by order of the county board of health and accompanied hy the sheriff of Klickitat and Skamania counties, visited White Salmon and ad joining neighborhoods on account of the smallpox scare, has decided that the proper thing to do Is to quarantine all families who have thedisense and employ a guard in each county to see that the To boil it right down And get it before Ton in the simplest possible manuer, is the mis sion of this ad. Choice of about 200 Odd SUMMER SUITS.... That are left over only one, two, three and four cf a pattern arid style. If your size is here, you'll get a bargain, (or we are deter mined to close them out. We have about 150 pair of odd sizes in PANTS In Cassimeres, Worsteds and Cheviot, that sold at prices ranging from $2.60 to $4. To close them out quick we have made the price $2.35. About 250 STRAW HATS Left over, to be closed out at 25c each. That's the Story.... Plain and eimple; any one can understand at a glance, what you can save by making your purchases here. ' The Watchword of the Day is ECONOMY.. And you bad better be quick, for What we say we do, we DO do. All Good Marked In Plain Figures. quarantine is effective. He further states that be believes tbia will be sufficient precaution to prevent tbe spread of the disease and that there will be no danger of communicating it by ordinary method of travel. If his suggestions are listened to, and the indications are that they will, tbe quarantine will be raised so that people can come away from the landings which are at present quarantined. Leon Dawson of this city, who has been superintending the telegrapb line from Biggs to Shaniko, met with a serious accident Saturday afternoon. He was putting powder in a hole which he wished to blast, and accidentally spilled a quantity of it on the ground. He picked up all that waa possible but a considerable amount remained in the gravel and when he attempted to light the fuse, a spark fell on the loose powder and ignited it causing and explosion. As be waa leaning over the powder at the time, his face and one hand was terribly burned and for a time it was feared that he might lose his eyesight. Dr. Ray Logan was summoned and dressed his injuries and he waa sent to The Dalles on yesterday's train. This morning he is much improved and there is little danger of his eveeight being injured, al though it will be a considerable time be fore he can resume his work. The following is clipped from yester day's Oregonian: "The best-known general view photographer on the coast is Gifford, with headquarters at Tbe Dalles, Or. It is only fair to say in thia connection that Gifford today ownea the largest collection of- Cclumbia River, Mount Hood and other viewa of the Pa cific Northwest ever taken by any pbo tographer. Some of tbe finest produc tions of this collection are masterpieces, copies of which today ornament the par lors of many of Oregon'a wealthiest citi xene. Gifford'e "Mount Hood from Lost Lake" bas made bim famous. His lat est is the reproduction of a scene from a point on tbe Columbia River a few miles east of The Dalles. For harmony and coloring and for faithful detail as it may relate to value of a true perspective. Gifford'e last view ia from one of the best negatives ever developed nnder his skillful touch. "There is still considerable fishing being done on tbe Washington side of the ldwer Columbia, according to J. S. Masten, ot Skamokawa, who was -in Portland yesterday. He says the run is very good, and both seiners and gillnel ters hate to let go, especially as the Washington fish commissioner is con veniently absent at this particular time. By and by when the canners on that side desire to shut down, the commis sioner will come along and arrest several for violating the state fishing laws. The violators will then be 6n-d $50 each, though they have caught several thous and dollars' worth ot fih since August 10th. 'This is the way it has been for the past two years,' Mr. Masten said, an.1 it looks as thongh the game was to be repeated this year.' " The fore going clipping from the Oregonian dives a good Idea of how observant to the law the lower river men are, and also shows np the people who are attempting to have wheel removed in order to better protect the industry. Tuesday a Dully. Mrs. Marjie J. Harper, proprietor of Harper's Bazar, will leave tomorrow for Portland, where she will spend some time in the millinery trimming rooms and select a stock of goods. F. A. Blondin, who had the misfor tune of being burned out in the recent fire has opened bis barber shop In the You know old Rowe building on east Second street, opposite the flouring mill, aud ia now ready to serve bis patrons as heretofore. The wool market in Tbe Dalles for the past two days has been-very quiet and no eales of importance have been re ported. The price has been about 13,'g cents, with but few offers on the part of the buyers, while the growers are equal ly inactive, as fiey are inclined to think they can do better by holding nntil later In the season. Dr. Theodore Liebe, the scientific young optician, and J. Weigel returned yesterday from a two week's out'.ng at Wind River. They found fishing fairly good, but little hunting, still this de ficiency was made up for in other ways, as it Is a splendid place to camp, and the presence of numerous Dallcsites kept the boys from getting lonesome and made it appear more homo-like. Last evening Joe Kirchoff returned from a trip to Mt. Defiance, near Mt. Hood, Deer Point and Upper Hood river, . c,"7,any w"n " ' ao" ub ii aa ueen nuniing ana mining lor I tie past ten days. He found and abundance of grouse and fish, but saw no laige game. The only disagreeable feature of the trip was the heavy rains wbich fell some days ngo, and madd camping any thing but pleasant. Quite an amount of Wasco and Klickitat counties fruit product is find ing ready sale in the eastern markets. A number of cara have already been ahipped east and today Mr. Kyle, the representativeof Page A Co.,ot Portland, is loading a car of prunes and plums for New York. Thia fruit was bought partly from tbe ra:sers around The Dalles and partly from Balfour A McGann of Lyle. As soon as this car ia finished he will start loading another which will go out tomorrow. Wasco county is hard y getting a fair shake from the section director of the crop service in Portland, as he gives not a single report from the principal grain- raising section of the county, and sim ply states that the Mt. Hood correspond ent informs him that no threshing baa been done yet, when if he were to get hia Information from aomeone who ia in pnaition to know, he could have re ported over one-half the crop threshed, with an average yield of about thirty bushels to the acre. The ten year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dolph Gaunt, now residing at Toppen- ish, in Yakima County, was accidently drowned on August 4th in the Yakima liver. The young lad, In company with several other boys, were fishing in the river, and young Gaunt in attempting to get bait, slipped and fell into the water. The place where he fell Into the water happened to be a deep hole, and he at once sank to the bottom. No help being at hand his life could not be saved. The parents brought the body over to Golden- dale where the funeral services were held from the M. K. church. September 8 will be traveling men's day at the Elk's C irnival, aud, as tho commercial men do nothing by halves, it wili probably be one cf the best days of the entire carnival. Tli commercial travelers are famous as entertainers, and there ate few who will not attend who is not acquainted with some ot them, and as each and everyone stands as a com mittee of one to entertain the visitors, thorn who attend the carnival on the 8th, will be sure of having every courtesy extended and of seeing all that is to be seen at cine of the greatest affairs of the kind that lias ever been in the northwest. This afternoon Hon. A. S. Bennett . The LtflST CflLtLi on Shirt Waists liy actual count there are Thirty-eight (38) Waists in the house ranging from 75c to $3.50. They must not be carried over for another season. SPECIAL- 25c, 50c, 75c PEASE and H. 8. Wilson, attorneys for Higen bothani, the man who shot Jenkins last Friday near Moro, and Prosecuting At torney Frank Menefee left for Moro at noon to give Higen bo t ham his prelimin ary examination, wbich will take place tomorrow at 10 o'clock. Jenkins is still in a dangerous condition, and It la im possible to tell as yet if he will recover or not. Full particulars of the shooting have not yet been heard; but it is ru mored that a pitchfork In the hands of Jenkina had something to do with In fluencing Iiigenbotham to shoot his victim. John Hughes, who was formeily a printer and later in the saloon business in The Dalles, passed through the city yesterday en loute to Portland and the bench. As it has been quite a number of years ago since Mr. Hughes was in business in The Dalles, there were but a few of the old timera who knew him on his arrival here Sunday after the long drive from the Sumpter country, where he has tome very promising mines, and I he now thinks that iter long years of prospecting, things are coming hi way. He waa accompanied by his brother, who recently came from the East. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. H. II Learned, of this city, brought ta a aam pie of apples raised at her home on the hill, which were the finest and largest we have ever seen. They were free from worms and other pests and the largest one measured 15.' j inches in cir enmference. This ia a fair sample of Wasco county'i fruit, and if the commit tee who are making a collection for the carnival are only assisted by the fruit raisers, Wasco county will eland a splendid show of carrying away laurels In this, aa well as in other industrial branches, and at tbe same time astonish the visitors by the excellence of the display. Joseph Loxilo, one ot the oldest of the Yakima Indians, is in the city. Joseph was baptized at the Academy spring in 1847, by Father Waller of tho M. E. church, and since that time has been a very devout Christian. Every year he visits The Dalles and spends several hours around tbe spring in which he was baptised in prayer and meditation. Since bis conversion he has been an arduous worker among the Indians, and has aided greatly in the conversion of many ot his fellow red men. He believep faithfully in his religion and it is interest ing to hear him quote passages from the Good Book in his peculiar and eimple way. The quarantine was raited yesterday of all the landings down the river except Underwood, which is extremely gratify ing to the fruit raisers aud business men in that part of Klickitat county, aa well aa to those spending a summer outing in that vicinity. The people south fiom I White Salmon and Bingen raise prioci- pally fruit, butter, ergs, cheese and j other perishable products, and the quarantine for them meant a heavy loss. The disease covers but a small area off the main road, and can eatdly be kept from spreading so that a strict quaran tine is unnecessary, and the raising of the same will mean hundreds of dollars in the pockets of the producers on the Washington eido. Horn Lout. Last Wednesday (Aug. 1st a dark bay horse, branded "0. M." on left shoulder and a bottle on hip and left side, waa lost. Finder will deliver the same to Charlie Mell, near Ninth street cut, who will pay charges. aO-.'ltw and $1.00. THE Fin de Siele HaiF-IVIounting Device.... WHAT IS IT? It Is the best thing ever in vented for Ladies' Self Hair Dressing. No hair pin. Lat est styles of hair dressing shown free. Unique, Handy, Sanitary. Demonstrated bv Mrs. Flower at PEASE A MAYS. & MAYS Kmpre.a llowiir Frightened. Bbklin, Aug. 13. At the Chineae le gation in Berlin, the repreaentative of the Associated Press was informed to day that the Empress Dowager bad de clared her intention to leave Pekin and to transfer her court to another city be fore the allied forces' reach the capital. Lu Hal Houan, the Chinese minister here, on learning this intention, tele graphed to both the Empress Dowager and the Emperor not to leave Pekin. but to quietly await the arrival of the) international forces. Tbe German foreign office still be lieves that the allies have not begun tho advance on Pekin, the rainy season be ing unfavorable. It believes that a further forward movement will be post poned. During last May an infant child of onr neighbor was suffering form cholera in fantnm. The doctors had given up all hopes of recovery. I took a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy to the house, telling them I felt aure it would do good if used ac cording to directions. In two dttya time the child had fully recovered. The child ianow vigorous and healthy. I have re commended this remedy frequently and have never known It to fail. Mrs. Curtis Baker, Brookwalter, Ohio. Sold by Blakeley A Houghton. Supplies Nearly Kihau.ted. London, Aug. 14, 3:50 a. m. The British consul at Canton, says the Daily Telegraph's correspondent there, bas re ceived the following message, dated Au gust 6th, from Sir Claude MacDonald, British minister ia Pekin. "Our situation here is desperate. Ia ten days our food supply will be at aa end. Unless we are relieved, a general massacre is probable. The Cbiueatt offer to escort us to Tien Tsin ; but, re membering Cawnpore, we refused the offer. There are over 200 European women and children in this legation." Cbllilren for Adaption. Twin girl babes 5 months old; one girl babe, 1 month; one girl 3 years; ono boy 1 year; one boy 2 years; one boy 9 yeara. Apply to I. F. Tobey, superintendent Children's Home Soci ety. The superintendent will be in The Dalles this week and will receive written applications at this office. Maa.acree In I'e Chi LI. Bkhmn, Aug. 13. The Catholic paper, Germania, says it learns that ten out cf fifty missionaries in the Vicnrate of Southwest Pe Chi Li have been mur dered, and that 3000 converts have suffered the same fate. NOTICE OF FILING PLATS. U. S. Land Omrc, Tiik D.wxkh, Aug. 10, lOOO.f Notice is hereby given that on Septem- beT I;KW tlier8 111 te cleJ ,n mco approved plats of the following townships : fractional township I south, range IS east W. M. Fractional township 6 south, range 17 east W. M., and frac tional township 11, south range 15 east W. M. Jay P. Lt'CAa, Register. A goo I blacksmith is much needed at Victor, this county. A competent man can have all the work he can i'o, and have the use of a suitable building prac tically free. Of course he n.ust furnislt his owu tools and stcc'. Inquiries made of A. F. F.vick, Victor, will be) promptly answered. al-:!tw Clark A Falk'a drug dock Ii newa fresh aud complete.