The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
THE DALLES
OREGON.
STATE OFFICIALS.
Governor . . . 6. Pennoycr
retary of State. ii. W. McBride
asurer ; Phillip Metschan
pt. of Public Instruction E. B. McElroy
o . 5J- N. Dolph- .
Benators j , H Mitchell
Conjrreswmaii H. Herninim
Stafe Printer ...Kraitk Baker
COITHTY OFFICIALS.
Conntv Judge..' C. N. Thombury
Sheriff. " I- L. Oates
Uerk ...J. B. (.'rowen
Treasurer -ieu. liuch
. . (H' A. LeaveiiH
commissioners (Frank KiavMT
Assessor ..JUjJWjaiM'WWtt
Kunerintendcnt
Coroner , 0jQagi)i'lffC. . .
i. F. Shan
tliools. . .Troy Hhelley
William Michell
PUT THEM AT WORK ON THE
LOCKS.
We notice in the proceedings of the
Washington legislature that a committee
on prison management has been rreute J,
and that considerable discussion bus
arisen as to what employment shoiilil bo
furnished convicts. We suggest that
both the Oregon and AVashington legis
latures make some arrangement with the
general government, by which the con
victs of both states can be employed in
constructing the canal and locks at the
Cascades, making such improvements
as may le decided upon at the Celilo and
Dalles rapids, and after that such other
improvements as they can be employed
upon, the jetties, etc. The two states
can furnish about 800 men, the very
cheapest labor, and work that such labor
should le employed on.
A' PRACTICAL PLAN.
AMERICANS HAVE NO RIGHTS
IN HE J I RING SEA.
There is food for solid reflection in the
suggestion we make elsewhere concern
ing the employment of convict labor to
finish the work at the Cascade locks and
to do such other work as is necessary to
open the Columbia. It is a kind of work
which readily admits of such labor being
employed, and it is the kind of employ
ment that interferes least with free
labor. Oregon and Washington could
and the work could be carried on
seven months in the year. Now
all that would be required more
than is required now to care '. for
these prisoners would be a- larger num
ber of guards, and slight increase of inci
dental expenses for keeping. The state
could furnish the laborers, and the
United Rates should furnish rations and
guards. The latter would cost nothing
since a portion of the military force at
Vancouver could be detailed for this
work at only a trifling additional cost to
the government. Indeed we believe
that the present appropriation would
much more than finish the locks, and
all the state would be out would be the
tise of their convicts, and the govern
ment would be out nothing but the
rations for them. If the government
refused to Voard the prisoners for their
work the states could well afford to do
so, for they are compelled to board them
now. This is a thoroughly practicable
and practical scheme. It will find profit
able emplo3"ment for our convict labor,
and will benefit every person in the
northwest.
Vogt Grand Opera House
ONE NIGHT ONLY I -:
Wednesday, January Hth.
WATCH FOR THEM I
12th Season ! 12th Season !
GREATEST SUCCESS
Of the Celebrated
It is related that Secretary Blaine says
lie can go no further with the Behring
sea controversy, because to go further we
must appeal to arms and we are not pre
pared to go to war. The secretary ex
hibits remarkable good sense, and though
the back down is a square one, it is one
which the circumstances justify. We
admire muscle; we admire brains, and
more than either we admire that quality
of brains which realizes that its physical
backing is not sound, and therefore de
fends and protects the weak animal
structure with mental valor discretion.
In the first place the seals will soon be
exterminated and the ramus belli will have
disappeared' liefore the destructive war
which both countries would wage could
be stayed. Bologna once went to war
ovei a wooden bucket, and war over the
Behring sea question would be equally
as foolish. In the second place no
American rights have been interfered
with. Kver since the purchase of Alaska
until a few months ago, the Alaska Fur
Seal company has had exclusive juris
diction over Beliring sea and the seal
islands, paying the United States a small
percentage of their gains to be protected
not only against foreigners, but against
all American citizens, in their slaughter
of the fur-bearing seals, and their pos
session of Behring sea. To the Ameri
can citizen more than any other it has
been a closed sea. ' General Miller,
Schloss, and a few others made millions
out of Behring sea, but outside of their
company no American dared trespass
upon it. Why then should Americans
be called upon to take up arms to defend
the company holding the lease of the seal
islands, against themselves? Americans
have not now, and never had any rights
in Behring sea, why then should they
be forced into war to assert rights which
their own statutes expressly deny them?
There is no principal involved, no public
interest to be subserved in backing up
Secretary Blaine's position. It is a
question of national polity, a question
pertaining not only to Behring sea but
to every pe mi-enclosed portion of the
ocean. The proper solution of such a
question is to submit it to a board of
arbitration of the principal nations of
the earth, and let the question be settled
satisfactorily to all, and a precedent
established. Secretary Blaine shows
remarkable good sense in dropping the
subject, even though it is a little humil
iating to have him admit that we are not
' able to defend ourselves, or to assert our
rights.
The Hon. Joseph Simon of Portland
is again president of the Oregon Senate.
He made a splendid officer at f the last
session, and will, no doubt, prove equally
capable and efficient now. "' No matter
what happens Simon always comes out
on top and when he says wiggle-waggle,
wiggle-waggle goes. We admire his
ability and energy, and his innate ele
ments of success, and we1 think he will
prove much more friendly to Eastern
Oregon than he did two years ago
when he voted against the appropriation
of $50,000 to build the portage railway at
the Cascade Locks. Senator Tongue
did not seem to be in the fight at all only
getting one vote, xo Simons 14 and
Moore's 8, and yet only yesterday the
Oregonian and for that matter whole
lots of his friends thought he had almost
a walk-over. That paper suggested
that someone had been lying either to
Simon or Tongue, and the latter gentle
man has discovered that this statement
is true. Between these two Eastern
Oregon had little choice, since both voted
against the locks appropriation. Mr.
Simon's election is convincine proof that
he is not dead, and it is self evident
that he has not been a sleeb.
Perfectly right and just is the demand
of the East Oregonian and other papers
in that section of the state for an "open
river to the sea, and it should be ac
comnlished, The Cascade locks should
be completed as soon as possible, and b
the time the river is open Astoria wii
probably have a railroad. Grain from
Eastern Oregon and Washington should
come down the river to this port- and
here meet the .British vessels that will
carry the surplus Brain to foreign lands
Portland had far better help open the
river, or build a railroad from there to
Astoria, than to try such a foolish thing
as to make a 25-foot channel to the sea
for only a half million dollars. The
Aslorian.
The electric battery has superseded
the hose and cold water treatment for
taming refractory prisoners in the Ohio
penitentiary. Ii is reported to be very
efhcacious.
frlADAH
iw sisters:
LOUISE
"In their Jew and Original" "
MUSICAL COMEDY,
- :TIIE: ; .' '
BaCKVILLE TWINS.
Fun, Frolio and Flirtation !
Music, Mirth and Marriage !
Positively the GREATEST hit of the Season.
Gorgeous Military Band !
Peerless fageant of Specialties I
The Famous HYER SISTERS Madah and
Louise the Greatest Vocalists the Colored Race
tins ever produced, will positively appear at each
ana every pertormance.
THE CELEBRATED
BLACK HUSSAR BAND
In Daily Parade, under the direction of Mr. Geo.
f reeman, ine lireaiesi uving joiorea -Comettst.
Admission, SO and 75 Cents, '
unuaren, uenis
Seats now on sale at Snipes & Kinersly's.
S. L. YOUNG?
ISaccemar t'f.' BECK.)
Notice to Fuel Con sum era
MpR; BEflTOjlJ
THE
DAIiliES
Have on hand a lot of
Fir and
Hard Wood.
Also a lot of ;
POSTS.
ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY.
Office corner
SNIPES St IflESIiY,
Wholesale anil Retail Dniiists.
-DEALER IX-
WATCHES, CLOCKS,
"Jewelry, Diamonds,
SIMEftWflRE, :-: ETC
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
Repaired and Warranted.
165 Second St., The Dalles, Or.
The successful merchant is
the one who watches the mar
kets and buysto the best ad van
tage. '
- The most prosperous family is
the one that takes advantage of
low prices.
The Grate City of the Inland Empire is situated at
the head of navigation on the Middle Columbia, and
is a thriving, prosperous city.
ITS TERRITORY.
It is the supply city for an extensive and rich agri
cultural an i. grazing country, its trade reaching as.
far south as Summer Lake, a distance of over two
hundred miles. -w
THE LARGEST WOOL MARKET.
The rich grazing country along the eastern slope
of the the Cascades furnishes pasture for thousands
Third and Union StrBetS, of sheep, the wool from which rinds 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, and all available storage
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. ,
The Dalles
MERCANTILE CO.
Successor to
The qnestion has been asked, .' "In
what respect are St. Patrick's Pills bet
ter than anv other?" Try them, You
will find that they produce a pleasanter
carthartic enect, are more certain in
their action, and that they not only
ph j-sic but cleanse the whole system and
regulate the liver and bowels." -For sale
at 25 cents per box by Snipes & Kinersly.
BROOKS & BEERS.
will sell you choice
Groceries and Provisions
OF ALL KINDS, AND
AT MORE KEASONABLES RATES
THAN ANY OTHER PLACE
IN THE CITY.
Fine Imported, Key West and Domestic
(AGENTS FOR)
QJLS3
d. e. byad do.,
REMEMBER we deliver all
chases without charge.
390 & 394 Second St.
pur-
-TH1
Ere another week has passed some
thing definite will be done concerning
the line of steamboats on the Columbia.
They will either be an assured fact or an
assured failure, and we dr not for a
moment think the latter contingency
can happen'. We have too much at
stake to allow it to happen. The city
needs it, the country needs it, and both
together can easily raise the money
necessary to put the boats on and main
tain them. No doubt, freight rates
would be reduced at once in order to
make a fight on the boats, and this is
just what we want. When rates get be
low a paying basis, the boats can be tied
- up, and it does not take long to get up
steam, if rates are raised. It has taken
a long time but we think the matter is
now assured.
The sporting public are considerably
worked up over the Dempsey-Fitzsim-mons
pri ze fight which takes place tO'
morrow evening at New Orleans. It is
supposed the battle will be a hard one,
and Fitzsimmons seems to be a favorite
in New Orleans. On this coast where
Dempesy is known, it is hard to find any
willing to risk their money against him.
Our own opinion is that Fitzsimmons
who has heretofore been unwhipped will
meet his master and learn what it is to
Old (jerffiapia
FRANK ROACH, Propr.
The place to get the Best Brands of
WINES. LIQUORS
AND CIGARS.
NEXT DOOR TO THE
Washington fispket, Second St.
Chas. Stubling,
' , PROPRIETOR OF THE
New Vogt Block, Second St
- WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Liquor v Dealer,
1EWMJKEE BEER ON DRAUGHT.
Front Street Cigar store,
THE DALLES, OREGON.
W. H. JONES,
PROPRIETOR.
Opposite the Umatilla House.
HAVE ON SALE THE BEST BRANDS OF
Imported and Domestic ;
CIGARS and TOBACCO.
ALSO A FULL LINE OF
Tanb.ee Notions
PURE HAVANA CIGARS.
Heal Estate,
Insurance,
and Loan
HCENCY,
Opeira House Sloek,3.d St.
-FOR-
Garpets and Furniture,
CO TO
PRINZ & NITSCHKE,
And be Satisfied as to
QUALITY AND PRICES.
D. W. EDWARDS,,,..
DEALER IX
Paints, Oils, Glass, Wail Papers, Decora
tions, Artists' Materials, Oil PaMnp, Clromos and Steel Eirairtis.
Mouldings and Picture Frames, Cornice Poles
Etc., Paper Trimmed Free.
DPiotiire Frames TVI.ci.e to Order.
276 and 278, Second Street. - - The Dalles, Or.
John Pashek,
MERCHANT TAILOR.
Third Street, Opera Block.
Madison's liatest System
Used in cutting garments, and a fit guaranteed each time.
Repairing and Cleaning Neatly and Quickly Done.
Li
W. E. GARRETSON,
? Jeweler.
Harry Clough.
Andrew Larsen.
eaiiiDo
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FINE FARM TO RENT.
THE FARM KNOWN AS THE "MOOKE
Farm" situated on Three Mile creek about
two and one-half miles from The Dalles, will be
leased for one or moreyears at a low rent to any
responsible tenant. This farm has upon it a
f ood dwelling house and necessary out bnild
ngs, about two acres of orchard, about three
hundred ares under cultivation, a large portion
of the land will raise a pood volunteer wheat
crop in 1891 with ordinarily favorable weather.
The farm is well watered. For terms and particu
lars enquire of Mrs. Surah A. Moore or at the office
01 Maya, Huntington sc vwison, ine Dalles, Or.
SARAH A. MOORE, Executrix.
$20 REWARD.
WflLL BE PAID FOR ANY, INFORMATION
t leading to the conviction of parties euttlne
the ropes or in any way. interfering with the
wires, poles or lamps of The Electric Light
Co. - II. GLENN.
Manager
SOLE AGENT FOR THE
Works.
9
All Watch Work Warranted.
Jewelry . Made to Order.
138 Second St., The Dalles. Or.
REMOVAL.
H. G-lenn lias removed his
office and the office of the
Electric Light Co. to 72
Corner of Second and Laughlin Streets, The Dalies, Or.
Manufacturers of Coittnatioii Fences, ,
Tie Best Stock, Chicken and Rabbit Fence Made.
Also Manufacturers of
Strong and Durable Wire Mattresses.
CLOUGH & LARSEN, PROPRIETORS.
: For the Best Brands and Purest Quality of Wines and Liquors, go to:-
Ul7ole5ale : Ijquor : Dealer?
.117 SECOND ST. THE DALLES, OR.
Washington St.
be beaten.