The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
TUB DALLES
OREGON.
Entered at the Postofflce at The Dalles, Oregon,
as second-class matter.
STATE OFFICIALS.
Governor ...8. Pennoyer
retary of Stute .' G. W. SloBride
usurer Phillip Metwhnn
pt. of Public Instruction E. B. McElroy
j:H.DMiPtchhell
Congressman B. Hcrmnmi
State Printer Frank Baker
COUTTTV OFFICIALS
Coiintv Judge. C. N. Thnmburv
Sheritt D. I- Cntea
Clerk , J. B. riwson
Treasurer ... Kuch
Commissioners J 'esid
Assessor - John E. liimiett
Surveyor E. F. Sharp
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy Hielley
Coroner William Michcll
Silver is in the caddie and is riding
like a beggar. The free coinage bill
passed the senate Wednesday by a vote
of thirty-nine to twenty-seven. Senator
Sherman made a long speech against it,
but his argument availed little because
it fell on ears that cared not to hear it,
and whose owners were already detir
mined to have free coinage. Ingalls of
Kansas made a bitter speech, arrainging
the independent politicians, and the bill
of 1873 demonetizing silver, for being
responsible for all the evils financial
political and otherwise with which the
country has to contend, but he voted for
the bill and against his own convictions
too, in order to appease the wrath of his
constituents. There is not much time
to work the bill through the house, and
it is barely possible that it may get its
death blow there. If it does not, Presi
dent Harrison's back bone is going to
get a severe wrench, for it will take gen
uine grit to veto it. With the present
sentiment of the people, we do not
believe he will dare do so, and if he
loes, the republican party will have as
hard a light on their hands as the dem
ocracy had on Cleveiands position on the
tariff bill.
The Wert Shore says: "Where the
carcass is there will the buzzards be
lso," "which, leiiig interpreted means
that the lady " clerks have already
assembled at Salem for their biennial
raid upon the treasury." We fail per
haps to catch the drift of Mr. Samuel's
idea. If he means the female applicants
for clerk ship are buzzards, he is ungal
lant, and untruthful. We know of no
reason why a lady shall not apply for a
clerk ship, that would not apply with
equal force to the male applicant. The
remark is not flattering to the legisla
ture or the legislators individually,
since buzzards only gather around a
carcass after putrification has taken
place, and putrification (this for Mr.
Samuels information) means rottenness.
On the same principal It might be said
of the West Shore when its agents can
vass a town, that the buzzard desired
for a consideration of course) to publish
a series of illustrations of the carcass.
We believe the ladies of Oregon have as
much right to the clerkships in the leg
islature, if they can get them, as their
brothers, and we fail to understand the
distinction which the gentleman under
takes to make, and at any rate consider
a she buzzard, just as fine a bird as a he
buzzard.
Goldendule has passed an ordinance li
censing saloons and fixing the license at
$700. It is not our pie and we certainly
do not care what Goldendale does, but
we know that under the old law there
was about as mnch drinking done as if
the saloons were in full blast. The
Sentinel eavs the Mavor will veto
the ordinance and that it will be impos
sible to pass it over his head, and thinks
the people should have a right to express
their opinion on the subject, and to this
end that the ordinance should not pass
until an election has been held and this
saloon question made an issue. It seems
to us that the whole question is "shall
the city4iave liquor sold within its limits,
with revenue or without."
The Oregonian backing Pennoyer for
the president has developed a sarcastic
vein of humor not customary in its col
' umns. Robbed of verbiage, it recom
mends Pennoyer to the Democratic
party, because his views and ideas are
antiquated and circumscribed enough to
make him peculiarly fitted to represent
that party. In spite of this sarcasm, we
warn the brother to desist unless indeed
lie desires to see a conflagration, for he is
:fooling with a fire that may get beyond
his control. The sarcasm is patent
enough, but some folks wouldn't see
through a ladder, especially if they did
not care to know what was on the other
side. .8 a dark horse Pennoyer will cut
no small figure, and barring the question
of geography he is the most available
candidate his party has.
The dispatches from Salem state that
a peculiar and heretofore unheard of eye
epidemic is sweeping over that section.
This is peculiarly unfortunate just at this
time when the legislature is in session.
A disease of that character used to
break out at Carson City, Nevada, bien
nially, and always when the legislature
was in session, but fortunately it was
, confined to that body, and Sam Davis of
the Carson Appeal. We hope it will not
attack the members of the legislature for
there is lots of work that they want to
attend to with their eyes open.
. Let none say when you die; "He
gave to the churches, and took out of the
mouths of the poor ; yea, he oppressed
the fatherless that he might build mon-
. 1 ! If M
umenis umo nimseii. ...
KEYIEW OF THE LOCAL MAKKET.
In the week's market review there has
been nothing done in business circles,
except our merchants have been busy
taking up stock and balancing up books
and shaping matters for a very busy
year's trade. Messrs. McFarland &
French have sent into the interior sev
eral loads of merchandise the past week,
and from indications the outlook for
business activity was never as encourag
ing as the present indicates.
Real Estate The records show but
few transfers of citj property, indicating
a light demand, but prices are steady
with an upward tendency. Although a
large number of cottages were vacated
during last summer at the time of closing
the Union Pacific shops in this city and
rents declined a little in consequence,
there are at present no desirable houses
vacant, and good dwellings are in demand
at good prices, t
-A large number . of state deeds and
government transfers recently recorded
shows an increasing demand for lands
throughout the county, and the small
number of mortgages indicates a healthy
financial condition among farmers and
stock men.
In our wheat market there is nothing
to note that is of much interest since
last week. There has been received at
the warehouse only about 300 sacks or
about 390 centals. Sales have been
very light although there is a slight im
provement in the market and a small
advance reported in prices.
Yesterday's cables report Foreign
Markets firm and steady. The imports
into the United Kingdom for past week
were 1 88,000 qrs. and 158,000 bbls. of
flour.
Eastern markets opened fairly steady,
but closed firmer.
Chicago and New York fluctuations
eontinue, Chicago closed on May de
livery 95 and New York at i04.
The Dalles quotation remain steady
at 0.56 for No. 1 and 0.54 per bushel for
No. 2.
Flouk Diamond best $4.00; by ton
3.85; Walla Walla, $4.00.
Oats The oat market is active on
account of no demand ior feed, while
there is no decline the market is easy at
former quotations. $1.55 per cental.
Barley Market is firm and stiffen
ing on quotations. Prime brewing $1.05
(1.10, feed $1.00 1.05 per cental,
sacked.
Millstcffs The trade supply is short
and shows an advance. Dealers quote
bran $20.00, bran and shorts mixed $22.
50. The supply of shorts and middlings
is very short and quotations range from
$22.50 $25.00 per ton.
HaV While there is no change in the
market sales are light owing to the open
winter weather, and former" quotations
are maintained. Timothy hay sells
from wagons at former quotations $18.00
$19.00 per ton. Wheat hay shows no
change since last report. Petaluma
baled hay sold last week a $15.00 per ton
from the wagon and some compressed
sold as high as $10.00 per ton.
Potatoes The potato market is with
out change. The supply is sufficient for
the present demand at quotations, 0.85
0.90 per 100 lt.
Butteb Gilt edge and choice extra,
finds ready sale at 0.600.65 per roll,
packed in brine 0.400.50. The market j
is quite well supplied with butter and
some has been shipped in frem the east j
which has had a tendency to knock
down prices somewhat, although quota
tions remain the same.
Eggs The egg market shows a stiffen
ing tendency as the large supply on
hand last week knocked down prices.
We qnote 2022 cents per dozen for
fresh eggs. .
Poultry Spring chickens are selling
in the city at $2.00 $2.25 yer dozen. Old
fowls at $2.50$2.7o per dozen. Turkeys
0.120.13per lb. Geese 0.90$1.25 each.
Ducks 0.40 each.
Wool. The market shows a change
for a light advance in price. Eastern
Oregon 0.14X0.16 and 17.
Hides Prime dry hides are quoted at
0.040.05 per pound. Culls 0.02
0.03. Green 0.02. Salt 0.03. Sheep
pelts extra 0.750.85, ordinary 0.40
0.60 each. Bearskins, No. 1 $8.00
common $2.50.
Beef Beef on foot clean and prime
0.0214, ordinary 0.02
Mutton Wethers, extra choice $3.50,
common $2.75$3.00 per head.
Hogs Live heavy, 0.04. Medium
weight 0.03, dressed 0.04(3)0.05X.
Lard 5 lb 0.10J ; 10K 0.10; 401b 0.09
per pound.
Jack Dempsey is no longer champion
middle weight pugilist of America, nor
anything else. The proud title with
all its doubtful honors belong to Robert
Fitzsimmons of the Antipodes. Jack
came against a more scientific and longer
armed gorilla than himself, and his
glory, his title and his conceit were
knocked out of him in less than an hour.
Sullivan seemed to be the exception to
rule, that no man is found so strong but
that he meets his match, and it is only
a question of time until some other two
legged brute knocks the title and con
ceit out of Fitzsimmons"
Congressman Hermann has made a
good fight on the boat railway matter, at
The Dalles, but failed. " The house com
mittee however appointed him with
General Grosvenor and Mr. Blanchard,
to draft a bill for a portage railway and
report it favorably .to the house. The
brief time remaining in the session will
probably prevent anything being' done
with the bill. '
The genius who prepared the matter
for the Associated press in the Dempsey
Fitzsimmons prize , fight it is to-be
hoped is not a specimen of the New Or-,
leans reporter. His entire description
of the fight is contained in the sentence
"Bob punched Jack, and Jack ran away."
With the amount of spare muscle "Bob',
seemed possessed of, it is a pity' he did
not punch the reporter so that he "ran
away" and never came back.
We Perfer Moisture.
. Polk County Itemizer: Down East,
when if rains, plowmen house up, but in
this country they go right ahead, many
of them seeming to prefer moisture, as i t
makes them feel better generally.
The Port Hadlock drydock will be 325
feet long and 100 feet in breadth, and
will lift 8000 tons. It will be a floating
dock, and its construction is under the
superintendence of practical men. Port
Townsend has given in coin and land
$50,000 as a bonus for the dock.
Often, when you have lived in closest
freindship and intimacy with some one,
you wili suddenly become aware that a
little coolness has sprung up between
you ; you will feel uneasy and dissatisfied,
and you will finally say to yourself : "He
is changed." Right there and then, my
deaV, examiue your own heart ; for it is
you, yourself, that is changed, and not
he,
, S.-L- YOUNG,
(Successor to E. BECK.)
-DEALER IN-
WATCHES, CLOCKS,
Jewelry, Diamonds,
SILVERWARE, :-: 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 advan
tage.
The most prosperous family is
the one that takes advantage of
low prices.
Tine Dalles
MERCANTILE CO.,
. Successor to
BROOKS & BEERS.
will sell yon choice
Groceries and Provisions
OF ALL KINDS, ASD-
AT MORE KKASOXABLES BATES
THAN ANY OTHER PLACE
IX THE CITV.
REMEMBER we deliver all pus-
chases without charge.
390 & 394 Second St.
Front Street Cigar Store,
THE DALLES, OREGON.
W. H. JONES,
PROPRIETOR.
Opposite the Umatilla Rouse.
HAVE ON SALE THE BEST BRANDS OF
Imported and Domestic
CIGARS and TOBACCO.
ALSO A FULL LINE OF
PURE HAVANA CIGARS.
FINE FARM TO RENT.
THE FARM KNOWN AS THE, "MOORE
Farm" situated on Three Mile creek about
two and one-half miles from The Dalles, will be
leased for one or more years at a low rent to any
responsible tenant. This farm has upon it a
eood dwelling house and necessary out build
ings, about two acres of orchard, about three
hundred acres under cultivation, a large portion
of the land will raise a good volunteer wheat
crop in isi with ordinarily lavoraDle weather.
The farm is well watered. For terms and nartlf-ii-
lars enquire of Mrs. Sarah A. Moore or at the office
ot Mays, Huntington K Wilson, ine Dalles, Or.
SARAH A. MOORE, Executrix.
$20 REWARD.
TTTILL BE PAID FOR ANY INFORMATION
T leading to the conviction of parties cutting
the ropes or in any way interfering with the
wires, poles or lamps of THK Electric Light
Co. H. GLENN.
Manager
Notice to Puel Consumers
MIER; BEJlT0tf,
Have on hand a lot of "
Fir and
Hard Wood.
Also a lot of
- ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY.
Office corner
Third and Union Streets,
: : I
SNIPES St JIfiESIlY,
Wholesale and Retail Dii&ists.
Fine Imported, Key West and Domestic
CIGARS.
(AGENTS FOR)
EST'D rrP 1862a
d. E. BYAID CO.,
"Heal Estate,
, Insurance,
and Loan
AGENCY.
CTpetra House filoek,3d St.
-FOK-
Camets anil Furniture,
CO TO
PRINZ & NITSCHKE,
And be Satisfied as to
QUALITY AND PRICES.
W. E. GARRETSON.
Leatfiiig-?- Jeweler.
SOLE AGENT FOR THK
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
Washington St.
TTTTT1 TY
The Gate 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; W
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
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 grape,s equalling Cali
fornia's best, and its other fruits, apples, pears,
prunes, cherries etc., are
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
Its situation is unsurpassed! Its climate delight
ful! Its possibilities incalculable! Its resources un
limited! And on these corner stones she stands.
D. WV EDWARDS,
DEALER IX
Paints, Oils, Glass, Wall Papers, Decora
tions, Artists' Materials, Oil Paintings, Clromos and Steel Engravings.
Mouldings and Picture Frames, Cornice Poles
Etc., Paper Trimmed Free.
Fioturo Z'ramea ZhXAde to Order
276 and 278, Second Street. - . . The Dalles, Or.
BARGAINS IN
C L O T HING ,
Hats and Gaps, Boots and Shoes,
-HND-
G6NTS FURNISHING GOODS.
FULL STOCK: STAPLE GOODS:
N. HARRIS. Corner Second and Court-st.
H. C. NIELS6N,
Clothier and Tailor,
tyat5 apd Qap5, Jrup, ilalises,
Boots axxd. Shoes, Uo.
CORNER OF SECOND AND WASHINGTON STS., THE DAIXES, OREGON.
: For the Best Brands and Purest
Ul?ole5ale : Ijquor : Dealer,
1 17 SECOND ST. THE DALLES, OR.
A T T T?d
the Middle Columbia, and
city.
a distance of over two
5,000,000 pounds being
'
unsurpassed.
Quality of Wines and Liquors, go to