THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. SATURDAY. AUGUST 25, 1900.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
(T hail, roriAG ruriu, la advahcb.
One7or $
4x mouths
7jn month W
Advertliinir rate reasonable, and made known
a pilicatin.
Ad'trw all oommnnlcatloni to"THr CBRON
Ii;LE, ' The loaile. Onon.
assessor. This does not indicate that
the property ot that county bat depreci
ated ia va'ae, bat that the Umatilla
county assessor ia going to fallow the
example set in Multnomah county anil
cat down hit figures, to that hie county
will not have to pay to great a propor
tion ol the state tai as formerly. So it
will be all along the line, and the result
will be a Terr small showing of property
in Oregon, and an exceedingly high rate
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Wednesday's Daily.
Report has it that William label hat
bought the old Richmond (tables frotc
.Mr. Mc'iarth.
EJ Former, of Prineville, this morn
ing sold a clip of 13,000 pounds of wool
at 13 cents a pound.
The O. R. & N. stock scales at the
Salttuarshe stock yards, were moved
today to the company's new yards,
which will be ready to receive stock in
a couple of days.
Coroner V. II. Butts was down town
today for the first time in two weeks,
during which he suffered intensely from
the effects of colliding with a runaway
team over a year ago.
Several flocks of ducks have arrived on
Coos Bay from the northern breeding
grounds. This ia much earlier than
usual, and causes weather prophets to
predict an early and hard winter.
The announcement is made that the
appropriation of 1250,000 made by the
last sundry service bill lor Hie month ot
the Columbia will bo utilized with the
ohject of securing a lorty-toot channel.
A photograph has been taken of Chief
Spencer of the lakimae, who is IUU
years ol age. it m me t-wy tus ever
taken of him, and even then the old
fellow r.-fuaed to dress in his native
garb.
F. W. L. Skibbe, of the East End, lost
a fine family cow this morning through
a Burfeit of chopped feed that she found
access to among the ruins of C. S. Smith's
grocery that was rournea a conpie 01
weeks ago.
Two car loads of U. b. cavalry horses
and mules were fed at the Saltmarshe
stock yards this morning. They were
in charge of Mr. Bowen, ol Baker City,
and were bound for the Vancouver,
Wash., military barracks.
In lees than five minutes last Friday
afternoon it is said Cve suits for divorce
were tiled in Spokane's court house
That's just a little too rapid. "It ought
to serve as a warning to hasty young
folks," says the Spokane Chronicle,
A recently married editor in Grant
county prints this bit of advice: "Here
ami now we want to say to our 'old bach'
friends that it is not half living to live
single, and we venture, on behalf of our
better half, the SAine conclusion to 'old
maid' friends."
Chinese Consul Harry B. Miller writes
.Secretary Do soli, of the state bourd of
horticulture, that Yakima apples are
selling in Shanghai at $7 in silver a box
or $3 50 in gold. Mr. Miller says a good
market could be had there for Oregon
apples if they could be sold at $2 in gold
per box.
The finest lot of peaches The
Chronicle reporter has seen this reason
and hn has seen several lots that made
his teeth water were brought into town
this morning by J. M. Benson, of Five
Mile and peddlad out at 35 cents a box.
They were know n as the Bolton Seedling,
now called Cloth of Gold. By r.ctual
count 52 of them filled a heaped up box.
The fire reported in yesterday's
Ciiko.Mci.E as having been seen Monday
evening by VV. D. Richards, of Columbia
precinct, occurred in a grain stack be
longing to Jake Vclteyolde, of Ten Mile.
It started from a epaik from the thresh
ing engine and destroyed about 100 tacks
or onthreehed wheat, besides a stack of
I'aw. The threshing crew succeeded in
saving the engine and separator and all
'lie threshed grain.
A hunch grass item-atealer out in
Harney county sizes up the political
situation timely: Bryan and Steveneon
have each accepted; Tovrne tins do
clined; McKinley has been compared
"ith Li Hung Chang; Roosevelt
l's been accused of invertebrate tend
"cies; Alabama has gone democratic,
'l the campaign may be said to be on.
Tlie principal campaign button is worn
the pockets of the people:, and how
"ley came there will be the leading issue.
Machine-made sentiment and resolu
'"in of sympathy will not dictate the
ballots ol a majority.
C. S. Smith, whosegrocery store In the
Et Knd was destroyed in the tiro of a
fopleof weeks ago, obtained a settle
""'it with the fire adjusters yesterday
'"'thn full amount of the insnrance.
"GOO. Mr. Smith rerkrns the value of
"i" stuck ami fixtures destroyed at about
'WiO. la intention ia to resume busi
""aisoon as he can find a suitable
location. The store building occupied
h Mr. Smith belonged to Fred Fisher,
" was on ground leased fmu the Fish
hi's. If Mr. Fisher can pnrchaso the
't t a satis factor i.rice he a ill nrob-
lilv relmii.l
The assessment of Umatilla county
Properly foota nD about i.200.000 less
""tl it did l..t .l. le. ..m. v.ratlon
of taxation.
From the Louisville, 111., Republican
we learn that Peyton Flock, eon of M.
Flock, of this city, was married on the
5th instant at Rooster, near Lnuivilie,
to Miss Ella Erwin, daughter of Elij ih
Erwin, of that place. The groom served
three years In the Fourth Veiled States
infantry and was in the thick of the
fight at Santiago and San Juan, and
afterwards served fonr mootha in the
Philippines, when bis terra of service
expired. He spent two months here
last fall os his return from Manila.
The local paper speaks in very flatter
iog terms of both the bride and bride
groom. Ex-State Printer Frank Baker re
turned on the noon train to Portland
after a short visit with Rev; O. 1). Tay
lor at the Utter' Mill Creek frnit ranch.
Mr. Baker expressed himself to a
Chronicle reprejentative as perfectly
awazed at the size and quality of the
fruit be saw in the Mill Creek orchards.
Like thousands of other Web-foot folks,
Mr. Baker had no idea of thecapacity the
hill sides and valleys around The Dalles
for fruit culture. He frankly owned
what we folks up this way have known for
a long time that when it comes to fruit
raising, especially that of peaches and
grapes, the Willamette valley is no where
ia comparison with Wasco County.
Sheriff Kelly, accompanied by Mrs.
Kelly, went to Salem this morning with
Eilzi Jane George, who was adjudged
insane by Judge Blakeley last Monday.
The patient is a married woman, and
not a spioster as was reported yesterday.
She is the mother of six children, all
living. Her husband is working across
the river for the Central Navigation
Company. The woman stopped last
night at the European House, where
she never slept a wink, but maintained
a constant complaint of the abuses she
was subjected to in her domestic rela
tion. She went quietly with the sheriff
under the delusion that she was going
to coneult a prominent physician in
California regarding her health.
Thursday's Daily
Two car loads of hogs were fed at the
Saltmarshe stockyards this morning.
They were on the way from Idaho to
Portland.
The No. 3 west bound passenger ar
rived at 12:30 p.m., being some eight
hours late. The delay is said to have
been caused by a wreck on the U. P. line.
The fusion headquarters at Portland,
where both the pops and democrats oc
cupy the same rooms, are appropriately
styled the "Headquarters of the Bryan
State Central Committee."
The Stockmen's Union, of Antelope,
are gathering data relative to the effect
of the bounty scalp law, which they ex
pect to lay before the. next legislature
with the ohject of having the law con
tinued. Rev. O. 1). Taylor got word today of
20 tons of green prunes, which he
shipped to Denver. The returns were
more than satisfactory as they netted
him in the neighborhood of two cents
a pound.
The death of Coll is P. Huntington,
ays the New York Sun, makes it proper
to say now that he was the "Responsi
bility" who offered through the Sun a
year ago the prizes of $700 in what was
widely known at the time as "Tho Man
Without tho Hoe" competition.
Considerable wheat is beginning to
arrive at the warehouses, hut practic
ally all of it is stored as the price of
fifty cents for No. 1 is not high enough
to induce sales, although the wheat
buyers claim that fifty cents is more
than the eastern markets will justify. '
State Senator Williamson, of Trine
ville, arrived here yesterday with his
f.imily and household goods. Mrs.
Williamson and the children will make
their homo here during the coming win
ter in order that the children may oh
tain the benefits of The Dalles schools.
Two more children of George Bonn
have been taken down with diphtheria,
making four in all in t'ie same family.
The first one taken ill is rrcoverimr, but
the second one, the baby of the family,
is not expected to live. Every possible
precaution Is being taken to prevent the
disease from spreading.
Notice has been issued by the United
States land office that a change has
been made in the homestead laws.
Hitherto a person w ho had commuted,
that is, lived a portion of tho required
time on the homestead and bought the
homestead rlear, had exhausted his
title and could not homestead another
claim. This order of things has been
reversed, and a commuter, by the new
rilling, is entitlfd to file on a second
claim.
The following "personal" from the
Hhsniko Leader suggests that some of
Brother Holder's ancestors must have
kissed the Blarney stone : Thos. Gavin,
the handsome gentleman who presides
a l ft.
over the grocery department oi i ease
Mays', Is expected home daily from bis
The most persistent inquiry
A Stock of Men's Clothing
With sizes missing, is like a ladder 'vith the
rungs out. When we can't put in new rungs we throw
away the ladder. That's about the way with several
lines of our
...MEN'S SUITS...
The sizes are so thin that they wouldn't stand an
other week's regular selling so" we have, bunched
them and pulled the prices down to tho last rung.
Suits that were $15.00, $13.00 and $12.50,
Now $9.85.
Suits that were $11.50, $10.00 and $8.50,
Now $6.85.
Suits that were $7.50, $0.50 and $5.00,
Now $3.85.
The amputation of the hand often saves the arm;
a loss on these goods is better for us than to carry this
season's stock into next season.-
19 33 23 WINDOWS.
Only One Week JWore,
And the Special Trices on
Ladies' Suits, Shirt Waists.
Wash Fabrics and
Summer Skirts
Will be considered ofT. There are a few good bar
gains left if you have anything to buy.
Don't let the Children
Go Barehead
When you can buy a Straw Hat for...
worth 50c and 75c.
14c
We are now making groat preparations for the
opening of our Fall Stock.
loaded with good things.
Our Warehouse is over-
All Coods Marked
In Plain Figures.
PEASE & MAYS
failed to elicit the least information as
to his whereabouts since leaving, and
all that could be even guessed at was
that wherever he lias been the brightest
rays of sunshine pervaded the atmos
phere of his surroundings.
Jack Murray, of Mullan, killed a mule
deer some days ago, and hung it in a
tree with a half-inch rope. Nest morn
ing it wag gone. He followed a trail,
found tiie carcass partly eaten, set a
rifle in a V-ehnped pen, with the deer's
head attached to the trigger by a string,
and bagged a 200-pound mountain lion
next day.
That Oregon pine bus become the most
popular wood now UBed by Eastern
shipbuilders for masts ia shown in the
many recent accounts of new Eastern
built vessels being furnished with them.
The following from the Oregon Timber
man is another instance : "The new six
masted schooner soon to be launched at
Camden, Me., is attracting much at
tention. She is 2750 tons net register,
300 feet long on keel, 335 feet all over,
40 feet beam and 26 feet deep in the hold.
She will be employed in the coal trade
and will carry 5500 tons. The masts
will be of Oregon pine, 116 feet long,
with 28 feet topmast.
The Salem Statesman says: "The
Willamette Valley Pruuegrowers' Asso
ciation, through its board of directors,
has pooled fifteen of twenty carloads of
Italian and French prunes; belonging to
the members of the organization, and
quoted the following prices per pound
to eastern buyers : 30a to 40a, 5?4' cents ;
40i to 50j, 6.' cents; 50j to 60, 4 cts;
60s to 70j, 4,'i cents; 70j to 80. 3.34'
cents. W hile these figures are consid
erably above the market price, the as
sociation has made sales on this baeis
and there is but little doubt that the
whole crop of prunes in this section will
be disposed of at remuneiative prices,"
A dispatch was received this morning
by Attorney B. S. Huntington informing
liim that his brother-in-law, Norman
Wilson, had been lot for some four
days in the mountains of Arizona. Mr.
Wilson, who is well known here, has
bren engaged in business at Phoenix, in
that territory, for a number of years.
On account ol his health he tome time
ago determined to spend a couple of
months in the mountains and wrote Mr.
Huntington to that effect from Flagstaff
some five or six week9 ago. It is pre
sumed ol course that he carried out his
intention. The dispatch came from j
Phoenix and was to the -flect that a
letter had jnt been received at Phoenix
from Mountain Camp announcing that
Mr. Wileon has been lost in the mount
ain some four days. That the mount
ains were rough and without water, ami
that the whole neighborhood was
alarmed and men were hunting him in I
every direction, mini Mood-hounds in
the search. It is hardly necessary to
very heavy, but not destructive In the
territory south.
Murdock McLeod, of Kingeley, this
morning sold a span of mules to Sheriff
Frazier, of Portland, for floO. The
animals were five years old and weighed
1000 pounds each.
Considerable wheat was reaeived at
the warehouses today. About two
thirds of that received at the Wasco
warehouse wa9 sold for fifty cents
bushel for strictly No. 1.
Bat times are now nothing to what
they will be in a fow weeks. Everybody
will then have money and the editor
will sport a cigar occasionally probably.
Arlington Independent.
The Chronicik is pleased to learn
that B. Woif, who went to California a
short time ago for his health, is very
much better and expects to return to
The Dalles in about week.
Miss M. D. Brandau, the expert face
massaggist, will be at the Umatilla
House, room 33, from 1 to 5 p. m. every
day this coming week, where she will be
glad to see all ladies interested. 18-1 w
A Mcolinn ville girl sent 15 cents to a
Chicago firm who adveitised a "recipe
for softening and whitening tho hands."
Here) it ia : "Soak them well in dish
water inree limes a day while vour
mother rests."
J. B. Goit, county surveyor, left today
for Wapimtia to survey and locate i
ditch lor taking water from some moun
tain stream possibly ami preferably
White River for the irrigation of the
Wcpinititi Flat.
The county board of equalization will
meet Monday, Sept. 24th, and continue
one week for the purpose of equalizing
the asaessmont roll for 1900. It is Im
portant to attend this meeting, as there
will be no further redress.
Charles Frailey is in town today from
Kingsley. He lately finished threshing
his crop of 8000 bushels of grain. His
fall wheat, amounting to 5000 bushels
from 140 acres, lacked just sixty bushels
of yielding forty bushels to the acre.
An orchardist of Mitchell, Or., has
been tring tho old remedy for aphis,
which is to bore a holo in the apple tree,
fill the holo with pulverized sulphur and
then plug it tip. He claims that he rid
his orchard of aphis by this means.
Frank Gabel, who arrived heie today
from Wapinitia, reports that a most
timely rnin ft.ll on the Wapinitia flat
Monday night, which filled the numer
ous hollows on the rang and insured
abundance of much-needed water lor
stock till the fall rains come.
We are pleased to learn that the in
fant chilli of (ieoige Ilium, which was
reported as dangerously ill with diph
theria yesterday, was much better this
u.ornmg, and, It is hoped, on the way
to recovery. The three other cisej are
say that the gravett apprehensions are I progresning hopefully.
fell for Mr. Wilson's safety.
Frlclny'i Pally.
Lieut. Crefeld will give a sketch of his
life, "Why I am a Salvationist." Come
and hear him at Salvation Army hall
Saturday, Aug. 25th.
F. H. Wakefield yesterday let a con
tract to A. A. Anderson for a two story
dwelling to take the place of the box
building at the south-east corner of the
M. E. church.
A cloud-burst struck Btick Hollow, in
the Kent neighborhood, Monday even
ing, which completely washed away the
wagon road and for a space carried
everything before It. The rainfall was
Sheriff Frtser, of Multnomah county,
received this running at the Saltmarshe
stock yards fifteen bead of horses that
he purchased from H. K. Moore, of
Nansene. The animals averaged in
weight about 1000 pounds and the price
paid for theui was in the neighborhood
olfoOeach,
The smallpox patients at Underwood's
lan ling are fast recovering, and as no
new cases are bieaking out all danger of
further anreid of the disease is hkelv I
to be over. The health officer of Klickitat
county managed to place a close quaran
tineover the hnuea where the small-pox
first appeared and there was never
further spread of it. Noneof the patients
were at any time very sick, and most ot
then did not even stop from their work.
Hood River Glacier.
We are having a good many inquiries
from people who want to rent and buy
city and farm property. If you have
any property of this kind to dispose of
it will pay you to place it in our hands.
We have farms and city property for
rent and sale; also money to loan. Call
or write to Hudson & Brownhill, The
Dalles, Oregon. 24 3t
Murdock McLeod, of Klngsley, says
his crop of wheat and barley averaged
thirty-three bushelj to the acre, which
he considers a good yield under the cir
cumstances that governed his case. A
neighboring Tygh Ridger, Henry May
hew, threshed fifty acres of wheat that
averaged fifty-one bushels to the acre.
An Izee, Crook county, freighter met
with bad luck yesterday. He lost or
claimed he lost a twenty dollar green
back and, sorrowing over the event,
f juud himself, as the morning stars be
gan to twinkle, an inmate ot the Hotel
de Driver, with a bill against him for a
night's lodging with an extra mulct
tacked unto it by Chief Clerk Gates.
Two cows that have been nightly de
vastating the flower gardens near the
West end of Fourth street, woke up this
morning and found themselves in the
pound. Another cow that carries a bell
that the residents of Fourth street say
would wake the dead, had better take
Thk Ciiuonii i.k.,8 advice and stay at
home nights if she doesn't want to meet
asimilar fate.
Company, in the office cf the county
clerk, Portland, Thursday. The incor
porators are W. H. Moore, A. B. Smith
and VV. P. Smith ; capital stock, $1,000,.
000. The objects of the corporation are
to build canals, ditches, flumes and pipe
lines for the purpose of transmitting,
selling and distributing water for irrigat
ing lands, for domestic use, and for other
necessary purposes, and particularly to
take and use the waters of DesChutea
River and Cresceut Lake in Klsmath
county, and transmit the same over the
counties of Crook, Llamath and Lake,
and to be stored in reservoirs.
One of the veteran democratic editors
of Missouri, J. Went Goodwin, of the
Sedalin Bazoo, lias made up his mind to
vote for McKinley and Roosevelt. He
was a gold democrat in 1896. but decides
now to join the party of sound money
and expansion. Tho democratic plat
form of this year he considers "clap-trap
from start to finish."
Lightning struck a hay stack on John
Walker's ranch in Ferry Canyon Mon
day evening and destroyed about forty
tons of hay. The liuht was plainly visi
ble from town. A peculiar circumstance
of the fire was that another stack which
Btood within ten feet of the one rtruek
was not damaged. The heavy rain which
was falling at the time kept it so effect
ually "wet down" that the flames could
not ignite it. Condon Globe.
B. S. Huntington received a telegram
this morning from Flagstaff, Arizona,
announcing that his lirolher-iu-law,
Norman Wilson, who was reported tn
yesterday's Ciikomci.i as having been
loft in the mountains of Arizona for
some four days, had been found and was
alive and well. Particulars of his re
covery were to follow bv letter. This is
peculiarly gratifying news to the many
friends and relatives of Mr. Wilson in
this neighborhood.
Capt. Blowers, hearing of the big
peaches exhibited at the Glacier office,
concluded to break the record with fruit
from his town orchard, and did so by
bringing in a basket of perches, all of
which measured 10' inches in circum
ference. Next! Glacier. Won't some
peach raiser in this neighborhood take
op tho Glacier's challenge and send Tux
I Ciihonici.i a basket not necessarily for
consumption on the premises that will
make the Glacier ashamed that it ever
talked of 10, inch peaches?
Rev. F. Dominic, director of Mt. An
gel college, and Father Wilier are here
in the interest of the college and to look
after their farming interests at Crate'e
Point. Some time this fall it is expect
ed that a grand reunion of the college
alumni will be held in the monastry
building, now nearing cimpletion at
Mount Angel at a cost of over a million
dollars. As many as 800 graduates are
expected to be present, and R. J. Gor
man, of this city, who is u graduate of
the class of 1S97 and president of the
alumni association, will preside.
Three little fellows of 8 years, two be
ing Ray Toomey and Ted Seufert, of
The Dalles, arid the third the son of a
Portland lady who formed part of the
Dalles colony at Collins Landing for
some weeks, secretly agreed among
themselves the other night to steal
away in the early morning and climb
Wind mountain. They did so, rising
before any one else, and thoughtfully
carrying with tl ein some stolen grab
and a bottle of water. They made the
ascent of tho mountain and had such a
time as kids of their ag only could
have; but lingered on tho top till the
sun had gone down. Meanwhile their
mothers wero naturally distracted, xnd
as a last resort beaded a party who
I started up the mountain w ith lanterns.
The lights and the shouting attracted
the boys on their downward course and
the lads were in due time smothered
with maternal kisses, to be followed
when they reached camp, with what
one of them characterized as the worst
licking he ever got in his life.
Whether or not the O. R. & N. Co.
intends building a railroad down the
north side of the Columbia from Port
land, is purely a matter ot conjecture,
says the Astoria News, but it is almost
an absolute certainty that they will ex
tend tho I. R. A N. Co. road from II-
wftco to a point op.o.-ite Astoria ia
order to connect w ith their line of river
steamers. This is a foreuono conclusion
ami is based on the fnct that owing to
the rapid shoaling of the river channel
on the north shin of Sand island, the
boats plying between Atoria and Ilwaco
will be unable in another jear to reach
those two points ixcept at hUh water.
The I. It. A N. Co. 's steamer Nahcotta,
drawing less than five feet, cannot now
rrosi over on anything less than half
tide. This (act, compelling the boat to
arrive and depart at irregu'ar times,
occasions a great deal of delay and an
noyance to passengers who desire to
make the trip to North I etch, ml has
contributed mora than anything else to
the deplet'on in the number of people
who preferred an outing at North beach
to that ol Seaside.
Do you want a birgain in nun's itrawr
hats? Th New York Cash Store ia
offering special values in this depart
Articles of incorporation were filed of ' mont. Call an I see their toodi befoML
the DeeCbutes Consolidated Irrigation making your pnrchases.