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C23 The Dalles Daily Chronicle! THE DALLES - OREGON. STATE OFFICIALS. Governor S. Pennoyer Secretary of State. G. W. McBride TreaHurer Phillip Metscbttu Supt. of Public Instruction E. B. McKlroy Senator..., JJ:gU Congiennnaii .. , B. Hermann State Printer. FnuiU Baker COUNTY OFFICIALS. Sheriff 1. L. Cates Clerk J. B. Croseii Treasurer : Geo. Ruch Commissioners. ! FranklSd Assessor john E. B.irnett Surveyor K. . Sharp Suiierlnteudeut of Public Schools. . .Trov Hhellev Coroner William Jlichell A POLITICAL FARMER. The Hon. T. T. Geer airs his views on the Oregon farmer, in the Xew Year edition of the Oregonian, to the great edification of T. T. Geer, and the le littlement of the Oregon farmer. He growls at the farmer for growling, and then anathematizes growlers on general principals. The trouble with the Hon. T. T. Geer is that his head has swelled on him and his hat pinches. He feels big all over. If he could get a new hat made over the rotunda of the capital at Wash ington, a pair of shoes with the San Francisco dry dock for lasts, and a pair of pants made to fit the forks of the antiam, he might find room for himself. In the remarkable article of which he has been delivered, among other things . he sjiys : "With his natural and ac quired advantages, the future Oregon farmer, will le a man whose indepen dence and intelligence will not be out ranked by men of any profession what ever. Indeed, we get glimpses of him now, in the more progressive farmer of the present." It will be readily seen that the Hon. T. T. Geer has not a very high opinion of the farmer in genera!, but pausing long enough in his tirade against the farmer, to indulge between sentences in a little introspection, he catches a glimpse of an intelligent farmer, who is far in advance of his times, knows all about running the government, has the tariff on one end of his tongue and the Bible on the other, knows the past, is daddy to the present and grandfather of the future, and withal is a living image of the Hon. T. T. Geer. This exponent of egotism rattles off the prices our farmers obtain, "Wheat 65 cents a bushel ; hogs 5 cents a pound, gross ; potatoes 75 cents a bushel," and so on to the end of the chapter. The gentleman finds his prices in Portland, not where the products leave the farmers hands. Here wheat is 50 cents a bushel potatoes 50 cents a bushel and hogs from 3 to 4 cents. Quite a difference, but Mr. Geer's article would not sound so well, nor the sentences fill out with that sonorous rotundity, so dear and so har monious to such writers as Mr. Geer, who can set down and in terse English, albeit garbled facts, prove to the satis faction of themselves, at least, that the American farmer is the happiest . and most blessed of men. That he is rolling in wealth, or ought to be ; living a life of luxurious ease, and seeping the deep and dreamless sleep of childhood, un haunted by visions of debt and mortgage, of interest, taxes and the sheriff; - of drouth, fogs, storms, the devil, T. T.Geer or any other unavoidable calamity. The picture is well painted, but is not true to nature. Notwithstanding the state ments of Mr. Geer, the farmers are the hardest worked and poorest paid, con sidering the money invested, of any class of people in America. And in the face of Mr. Geer's assertions, we state with out a particle of fear of contradiction by facts, that the farmers of the Inland Empire are charged heavier transporta tion rates, than those of any other sec tion of America. AVe assert that the farmer's products are rated by the rail roads not for what would bring a fair re turn to them, but for what they will stand, and not drive the farmer from his land. The farmers of Eastern Oregon are not that indefinite article known as mossbacks, never have been, and never will be mossbacks, for the simple reason that it is not among the possi bilities. When the railroad company collects its freight bills, the farmer has to hustle too lively to allow the moss to grow on him. In this respect he is a rolling stone, and work as he may, he gets no fatter financially, than the hen who wears the feathers and flesh off her breast, hatching a brood of chickens for the pot. Mr. Geer looks to the future for "intelligent farmers," but we .can assure him that those of the present day . are intelligent enough to understand that Mr. Geers' success as a farmer, is due to the fact that his principal crop is of a political nature. He has just reaped his harvest and feels "sassy." PORTLAND AND THE OREGONIAN. The New Year edition of the Oreg onian grows on one. It can't be skim med because before you know it you have struck something that interests and then astonishes you. You find for instance, that 10,000 men are engaged in manufacturing industries, enough al most to account for all enumerated in the recent census, and yet you have always thought Portland was pre-eminently a mercantile as distinguished from a manufacturing city. You find her manufactures for the year are valued at $27,000,000, an increase of $6,625,622 over 1889. You find that Portland has the largest flouring mill on the. coast with a capacity of 1000 barrels a day. You find that she made in 1890, $800,- 000 worth of lumber more than in 1889, $500,000 more cured meats ; $675,000 more furniture, and so on to the end of the chapter. - More than all, you find yourself lost in following the maze of figures, which indicate the growth' of the city, and you involuntarily remark, truly great is Portland, and equally great the big paper that has aided so materially in building her up. The Washington STAR says, a new silver dollar is to be created by the pan American monetary, conference which meets at Washington soon. It will cir culate throughout all the republics of the new world, and will resemble the United States silver dollar, with a por trait of Columbus in place of the Goddess of Lilerty.- It is high time the weary old damsel be taken off the dollar. ' For lo these many years Bhe has backed the legend "In God we trust" until trusts have become so numerous that she is forced out of business. ' Besides the likeness of Columbus is peculiarly appro priate on the good old silver . dollar, since like him, its last days have been spent in chains. The silver legislation of the past twenty years has been of such a character, that the Goddess of Liberty would have resigned her portion long ago if she could, and the motto "In God we trust" would have fittingly represented ' the faith the weary citizen had in the congress of the United States. The Union Pacific management state that their company has paid its propor tion of the wages and expenses of grad ing the new line from Portland to the Sound, and that the money due the laborers in Portland, is due and owing from the Great Northern. This is sim ply subterfuge. If the companies were in partnership in .constructing the line, either is responsible for the bills. As a matter of fact Ihe men did not know, were not supposed to know, what com binations of capital were behind the work, and they should be paid, and that too, by the Union Pacific It can settle its business with the Great North ern afterwards. In the meaiwhile, it is working a hardship on men illy able to bear the delay, and it is throwing on Portland & burthen that taxes her gen erosity heavily. The latest news under the sun is the proposition to build an immense tannery at North Dalles, one of the largest in the United States. Whether the promoters of the North Dalles enterprise make any money out of it or not is a matter of little concern to the average citizen, they are, however, making taxable property for Klickitat county and our people will therefore not be disposed to throw any obstacle in their way of success. Golden dale Sentinel. The Hoflitr Bear Cam Back for ITniimi.ii One day while proceeding up a can yon in the Raton mountains a large silvertip bear and her cub leaped out and made a rush up the sloping side of the valley. There were three in our party, and every Winchester began to talk very earnestly and excitedly. The cob tumbled dead the first fire. I call him a cnb, but the truth is he was more than half as large as bis mother and weighed 240 pounds. The old lady did not show any injury, and the moment the young one tumbled she turned- and came back square in the teeth of the rifles, and seizing her dead cab in her mouth as a cat does a kitten raised it fairly clear of the ground and cantered up the hill no easy matter, as aside from the 240 pounds of limp and dragging weight she had to force her anxious, loving way through oak brush which in many in stances might have detained a steer. She got fairly away albeit we fired sev eral shots after the cub felL . . We had just reloaded, the magazines of our Winchesters and were commun ing as to taking the trail of the old bear, which showed wide and clear in broken boshes and disturbed oak leaves and pine needles, when looking up we be held our game coming back straight for us. She meant business, too. . Her red and steaming tongue lolled out of her half open mouth, and her eyes, partially closed in rage, would have seemed quiz zical in expression were it not for the ferocity which leaped and flashed in their depths, like sheet lightning be hind some cloud screen. She came straight to us, and we settled her trou bles at the first fire. We found the cnb np on the divide. She had carried it at least sixty rods, with two bullet holes in her shaggy bide, as we found when we skinned her. Kansas City Star. Frightened to Death. . C. W. Dunham, a prominent Kensing ton man, died from the effects of an ac cident which happened to him Saturday morning while working at his occupa tion as a batcher. Mr. Dunham was dressing a hog, and as he drew the body toward him a knife, which lay unnoticed upon the bench, was thrust into his groin, cutting an artery. Dr. Gilfin, of BerHn, was sent for, and when he ar rived it was found that surgical aid was necessary, and Drs. Lyon and Comings, of New Britain, were summoned. . The flow of blood was checked, the wound was dressed and the patient left in a comfortable condition. Daring the night Mr. Dunham awoke, and, thinking he was bleeding again, sent for Dr. Gfltin, but when the doctor arrived Mr. Dunham had passed away. This led the doctor to believe that an other artery most have been cat, so an examination was held this afternoon, and as no trace of arterial blood was found upon the bandage it was certain that the man had not bled to death, and the only theory given is that, as the patient was very weak from loss of blood, the sadden thought that he was bleeding to death caused a shock which stopped the pulsations of. the heart, or, in other words, the man was frightened to death. Hartford Coorant. . . S. L. YOUNG, . ' (Successor to E. BECK.) ' -DEALER IX- WATCHES, CLOCKS, Jewelry, Diamonds, Watches, Clocks and Jewelry Repaired and Warranted. 165 Second St., The Dalles, Or. C. N. THORXBCRY, T. A. HUDSON", Late Kec. U. S. Laud Office. Notary Public. TKOMRUIIUDSOil ROOMS 8 aod 9 LAND OFFICE BUILDING, rosiomoe ox THE DALLES, OR. Filings, Contests, And all other Business in the U. S. Land Office Promptly Attended to. We have ordered Blanks for Filiners. Entries and the purchase of Railroad lianas under the recent t orfeiture Act, which we will have, and advise the pub lic at the earliest date when such entries can be made. Look for ad artisement in this paper. Thornbury & Hudson. D. P. Thompson' J. S. Schknck, H. M. Beall, riraiueuk v ice-i-resiaeni. tagmer. First National Bant THE DALLES, - - OREGON, A General Banking Business transacted . Deposits received, subject to Sight . Draft or Check. Collections made and proceeds promptly remitted on day of collection. Sight and Telegraphic Exchange sold on New York, San Francisco and Port land. DIRECTORS. D. P. Thompson. Jn-o. S. Schenck. T. W. Sparks. Geo. A. Liebe. ' H. M. Beall. FRENCH & CO., BANKERS. TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS Letters of Credit issued available in the Eastern States. Sight Exchange and Telegraphic Transfers sold on New York, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Portland Oregon, Seattle Wash., and various points in Or egon and Washington. Collections made at all points on fav orable terms. - Front Street Glgar store. THE DALLES, OREGON. W. H. JONES, PROPRIETOR. Opposite the Umatilla House. HAVE ON SALE THE BEST BR4NDS OF . Imported and Domestic CIGARS and TOBACCO. ' - ALSO A FULL LINE OF 7anls.ee 33"o-tlc PURE HAVANA CIGARS. Chas. Stubling, PROPRIETOR of the ; New Yogt Block, Second St WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Liquor v Dealer, MILWAUKEE BEER ON DRAUGHT. $20 REWARD. WILL BE PAID FOR ANY INFORMATION leading to the conviction of parties cutting the ropes or in any way interfering with the wires, poles or lamps of The Electric Light Co. , . , H.GLENN. . Manager Notice to Fuel Consumers mier; BEfrropI, Have on hand a lot o Fir and Hard Wood. Also a lot of ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY. Office corner Third and Union Streets, Wholesale ani Retail Draiists. Fine Imported, Key West and D( mastic CIG-AE;S. " (AGENTS FOR) EST'D tWZW I82- Heal Estate, . . Insurance, and Loan HGENCY, Opepa House Bloek,3d St. -FOR- Carpets anff Furniture, CO TO PRINZ & NITSCHKE, , And be Satisfied as to QUALITY AND PRICES. W. E. GARRETSOH, iir Jeweler. SOLE AGENT FOR THE All Watch Work Warranted. Jewelry Made to Order. 138 Second St.. The Dalles, Or. "REMOVAL.' H. Glenn has removed his office and the office of the Electric Light Co. to 72 E Lean --!Sjlf. - i Washington St. THE The Grate City of the Inland Empire is situated at the head of navigation on is a thriving, prosperous ITS TERRITORY. It is the supply city for an extensive and rich agri cultural and grazing country, its trade reaching fe,s far south as Summer Lake, hundred miles. THE LARGEST WOOL MARKET. The rich grazing country along the eastern slope of the the Cascades furnishes pasture for thousands of sheep, the wool from which finds market here. The Dalles is the largest original -wool shipping point in America, about 5,000,000 pounds being shipped this year. . THE VINEYARD OF OREGON. The country near The Dalles produces splendid crops of cereals, and its fruits cannot be excelled. It is the vineyard of Oregon, its grapes equalling Cali fornia's best, and its other fruits, apples, pears, prunes, cherries etc., are unsurpassed. ITS PRODUCTS. The salmon fisheries are the finest on the Columbia, yielding this year a revenue of $1,500,000 which can and will be more than doubled in the near future. The products of the beautiful Klickital valley find market here, and the country south and east has this year filled the warehouses, places to overflowing with their products. ITS WEALTH It is the richest city of its size on the coast, and its money is scattered over and is being used to develop, more farming country than is tributary to any other city in Eastern Oregon. Its situation is unsurpassed! Its climate' delight ful! Its possibilities incalculable! Its resources un limited! And on these corner stones she stands. D. W. EDWARDS, DEALER IN Paints, Oils, Glass, Wall Papers, Decora tions, Artists' Materials, Oil Paintings, Chromos and Steel EniraYiiias. Mouldings and Picture Frames, Cornice Poles Etc., Paper Trimmed Free. ZEiotnajro Frames 3VT,cio to Order. 276 and 278, Second Street. - . - . - The Dalles, Or. John Pashek, MERCHANT TAILORS Third Street, Opera Block. JVIadison's Iiatest System Used in cutting garments, and a fit guaranteed each time. Repairing and Cleaning Neatly and Quickly Done. HOIilDflV RO.RDEN & CO. " Largest and Best Assortment of CHRISTMAS PRESENTS Ever Brought to this City. Your presence is Cordially Invited at our Store . EARLY AND OFTEN. VOGT BLOCK, SECOND ST., THE DALLES, OR. : For the Best Brands and Purest J. O. MKCK, J Mf)oeae : Ijcjuor : Dealer, 117 SECOND ST. DALLES the Middle Columbia, and city. a distance of over trfo and all available storage GOODS Quality of Wines and Liquors, go to : THE DALLES, OR. -V"
