The Dalles Daily Chroniele.
TUESDAY,
JAN. 20, 1891
METEOROLOGICAL BEPOET.
Pacific H Bela- D't'r W State
Coast bar. tlve of 2. of
Time. Hum Wind Weather.
8 AM 30.50 27 99 8W Clear
3 lTii 30.48 47 88 " "
Wtximum temperature, 48; minimum tem
perature, 27.
.Total precipitation from July up to date, 2.91 ;
average precipitation from July to date, 7.81;
average defliciency from July lBt to date, 4.90.
. WEATHER PROBABILITIES
. Thb Dalles, Jan. 19, 1891.
Weather forecast till 8 p. m.,
FAIR
Tuesday, fair. Slightly cooler.
LOCAL BREVITIES."
Mr. Henry Sexton of Wasco is in the
city.
Mr. TT- C. Rooner of Bake Oven is in
the city.
. Master Frank French left to-day to
attend the university at Salem.
R. F. Gibons is confined to his home
with an attack of sciatic rheumatism.
For once in a month the west-bound
"flyer" came in on time this morning.
Mr. Charles Rosenfeld of the Rosen:
feld-Smith Co. of Portland is in the city,
Mr. J. Blumlein, representing Mason,
Ehrman & Co., of Portland is here on
business visit. .
Three cars of cattle on their way from
La Grande to Portland were fed at the
stock yards Sunday night.
Hon. O. M. Scott, county judge of
Sherman county, honored the Chronicle
office with a visit this afternoon.
A rietition is beine circulated to have
the grade on Tenth street east and west
established so that the water mains can
be laid properly.
The two prize-fighters who have been
incarcerated in the jail at Pendleton for
123 days, have had a remission of $750
. each of their fines by the governor.
Five tramps were arrested yesterday
bv the citv marshal, and Recorder
Knaggs recommended them to the street
commissioner, who gave them a job.
Roses, rjansies. strawberrrv blossoms
and
green strawberries were picicea
from the
yard ot vv. ren in town
Wednesday. What place
can Deal
Hood River. Glacier.
The East Oregonian mentions a case
' or two of harness stealing at Pendleton
the latter part of last week. Evidently
the sransr that went through the stables
here have moved on to Pendleton.
. The Chronicle gives you the very
latest teleerams twenty-four hours
ahead of the Oregonian. If you want
the news-subscribe for it.
J. M. Rogers of Boyd returned home
Saturday from a short visit to Missouri
the home of his father. He formed
partnership while there with a nice young
ladv and brought her home with him
We wish him and his .young wife
prosperous and happy life. '
The cold winter of 1887-1888 made
terrible thinning in ranks of the jack
rabbit army in this county, says the
Harney Items, and the cold snap of last
February killed many of them, but they
are now about as plentiful as ever.
They make a very good chicken pie in j
the absence of everything else.
A man who occupies a responsible po
sition with the Union Pacific was heard
to say in Pendleton last night that if
some effort is made by Pendleton people,
if some inducement is offered the com
pany, it would undoubtedly result in
the establishment of machine shops
here. East Oregonian.
It looks very much as though the
tramps who stole the outfit from the
box car Sunday night and hid it under
Saltmarshe's platform had intended to
set fire to some building in that portion
of the town that they might get a chance
to plunder houses left unguarded.
Harness-stealing seems to be a favorite
avocation with petty thieves in Pendle
ton at present. Several citizens have
lately had harness and other articles
stolen from their barns. Saturday night
the stable of Levy Hays, who lives on
Nob hill, was entered, and a set of
double harness taken. So far there is
no clue to the robber, who will probably
soon open a harness store in some other
town. East Oregonian.
Monday evening Mr. Watson who had
been up the road on a hand car, on his
way home discovered that some wretch
had bolted two fish plates together and
placed them on the track near the wil
lows above town. There was an evident
intent to wreck a train, and the attempt
was foiled more by good luck ' than any
thing else. Hanging is not severe pun
ishment enough for this offence but un
fortunately it is the limit beyond which
we cannot go. The attempt to wreck a
train should be made a capital offence.
. The Oregonian has the largest circu
lation of any daily, Sunday or weekly pa
per west of the Rocky mountains, and
in order to further increase its circula
tion they have selected with great care,
a large list of valuable books, and other
useful articles and are offering them as
premiums to each new subscriber to
any of it several issues for yearly sub
scriptions. The Oregonian should be in
every household. Send for premium
list to the Oregonian Publishing company,
Portland, Oregon.
For a cut, bruise, burn or scald, there
is nothing equal to Chamberlin's Pain
Balm. It heals the parts more quickly
than any other application, and unless
the injury is very severe, no scar is left.
-For sale by Snipes & Kinersly. . '
Col. Nevius arrived home from Salem -
to-day. :
Mr. 8. Husbands, pf Mosier, is in the
city.;-' Mr.; Husbands is reconciled as to
the destiny of the new countjr project.
Hon. E.' L. Eastham, member of the
Oregon Legislature died at his home
in Oregon city last Sunday morning.
The largest COFFEE MILL and the fin
est line of Teas, Coffees and Spices ever
brought to the city at bz becontt street.
Misses Lillie and Clara Allen left this
morning for Rockford, Illinois to attend
school. Mrs. DeLyle accompanied them.
Geo. Bancroft, the eminent Historian,
died in Washington city D. C, on the
17 inst. after a brief illness. He was
born in 1800.
The Home Dramatic Club will repeat
the play "A Celebrated Case" at the
Vogt Grand one week from to-night.
The proceeds will be donated to the
'Y's" and the house should be filled.
Messrs. Printz & Nitschke are having
the old platform and rubbish cleaned off
the lot adjoining the store occupied by
Snipes & Kinersly for the purpose of
building for themselves a store for their
furniture business in the coming season.
The young ladies Shakespearean club
met with Miss Iva Brooks last evening
and had an enjoyable season reading
Othello. Such gatherings are very
profitable as the acquaintance with
standard authors assists in literary
acquirements.
Board of Trade Meeting;,
Board met at their rooms last night,
A. S. Macallister, president, and"B. '.
Huntington secretary, both being present
and the attendance being fair.
A committee consisting of A. S.Mac-
allister, Robert Mays and G. T. Farley
were appointed to go to Salem and urge
the passage of Senator Watkins' portage
bill, and to look after such other matters
as are of interest to Wasco county. Hon.
C. M. Cartwright and A. J. Dufur, sr.,
who will be at Salem, will assist them.
On motion it was ordered that copies
of the stock-books be made and given to
the farmers for the purpose of securing
stock for the proposed steamboat line.
On motion it was ordered that the
secretary inform our members t of the
legislature, that it was the unanimous
sense of the board that the present
board of railroad commissioners should
be abolished and the Minto bill should
become a law.
The secretary was further instructed
to request the members of congress from
Oregon, Washington and Idaho to use
every effort to pass the Dolph bill appro
priating money for the completion of
the Cascade locks, through the house.
It was recommended that as the board
of trade was maintained in the interest
of the entire country around The Dalles
that all our business men should join it.
City Council Meeting.
The city council met last night to meet
the committee on .new charter which it
was found was not yet ready to report.
The report of the committee appointed
to provide means by which to return the
money used by Dalles City belonging to
the water fund, reported that this was
impossible to be done in time to make
the funds available for present improv
ments. The same committee reported
on the matter of letting the contract for
laying pipes from the reservoir up Mill
creek that the same be postponed tem
porarily, until the new charter was per
fected. Council adj'ourned to meet Wednesday
night.
Hotel Arrivals for the Past Twenty
four If ours.
UMATILLA HOUSE.
S. R. Husbands, Mosier.
J. W. Phillips, Albanv.
Jacob Blumlein, Portland.
Charles Rosenfeld, "
F. V. Dingman, "
Geo. F. Jones, "
Charles Pringle, "
Charles Evans, "
J. M. Roth, Kingsley.
H. C. Rooper, Bake Oven.
Mrs. J. W. McNamara, Portland.
Geo. St Devis, San Franciseo.
M. Cavanaugh, Albina.
A. C. Sawyer, New York.
Mark A. Fullerton, Colfax..
Temperance Lecturers Coming.
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Scott, who come
to this coast highly recommended by
Miss Willard, will be in The Dalles on or
about the 28th of January. Will lecture
four or five successive evenings. Further
notice given of time and place.
DIED.
In this city Monday, January 19, 1891,
the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Hickenbotham.
JSo' thoughtful person can fail to see
how the lines are being obliterated and
how men are taking up the work of
women and women that of men, and
both succeeding, because work itself has
been forced into broader lines by the
combined influence of society and
humanity. Women lawyers want to be
known as lawyers, not women. , Women
doctors wants to be known ' as skillful
physicians, not as women ; and the wo
men writer sends out her work . under
male nomenclature that it may be jugep
upon its merits and not handicapped by
the estimate that the followers of tradi
tion and the inheritors of prejudice al
ways put upon work signed with a wo
man s name.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, relates an
incident in which a Brooklyn reporter
did not, as she thinks, treat her fairly in
an interview. She has treasured it up
against reporters in general, and when
one called on' her lately to inquire when
in her opinion was the happiest hour in
a woman's life, she repiied : "The hour
before reporters were invented."
CHKONICLE .SHORT STOPS. .
Elaine oil at Maier & Benton's.
Nebraska corn at Joles Bros.' , . '
Lard ia balk at Central Market.
For coughs and colds use 2379.
Fresh Iowa Butter at ' Maier &
Ben-
ton's.
Employment Bureau, Haworth &
Thurman, 116, Court St.
Columbia river smelt at W. A'.
Kirby's, 10 cents per pound.
Does S- B. get there? "I should
smile.'? S. B.
Oregon Star brand of hams at the Cen
tral Market at 15 cents.
C. E. Dunham will cure your head
ache, cough or pain for 50 cpnls, S. B.
Big bargains in real estate at 116 Court
St. First come, first served.
Sliced hams, boneless hams, ham sau
sage and dried fish .at Central Market. .
The best fitting pantaloons of 'the
latest stvle are made bv John Pashek in
Opera House block on Third street.
2379 is the cough syrup for children
Get me a cigar from that fine case at
Snipes & Jvmersley's.
Joles Bros.' is the boss place to buy
groceries.
You need not cough! Blakeley &
Houghton will cure it for 50 cents. S. B
The finest stock of silverware ever
brought to The Dalles at W. Ev Garret
sons, Second street.
Snipes & Kinersly are anxious to cure
your headache for oO cents, b. is.
For a lame back, a pain in the side or
chest, or for tootache or earacne, prompt
relief may be had by . using Chamber
lain's Pain Balm. It is reliable. For
sale by Snipes & Kinersly.
Those easy chairs made by Livermore
kind ever made. They are just the thing
for your porch or lawn in the summer,
unu. are ua cumiorrituie anu caav a an
old shoe. Call and see them at 77 Court
street.
NOTICE.
All county warrants registered prior to
September lis, 1887, will be paid it pre
sented at mv office, interest ceases
from and after this date. -.
Geo. Ruch,
Treas. Wasco Co., Or.
Jan. 13, 1890. 4t
TO THE LAST WRINKLE.
A.n Appeal for Individual Taste In the
Choosing; of Costumes.
. It is perhaps a sign of the times in'a
regard that is to be regreted in this
country, if m no other, that it should be
thought matter of sufficient moment as
an item of news to send across the At
lantic ocean that the Princess of Wales
still clings to the tournure. It is quite
enough, and ' more than enough, that
English women find that circumstance
one of importance; but when it interests
American women generally we are led
to fear a widespread servility, a rever
ence for rank and title improper to us;
for, according to infallible newspaper
tests, items are published of the sort that
readers are eager to have.
' But this bit of information has at any
rate some use in giving us the question
why every woman in this country, where
all are sovereigns, should not be as inde
pendent as the gentle princess is, and
why we should all be so slavishly obe
dient as we are to every whim of fashion.
No matter whether we are tall or short,
stout or thin, one design and cut has to
answer for all of us. In the day of tour-
nuresthe fat woman proudly rolled about
like a puncheon in her dress improver.
because her next neighbor, who was thin
as a rail, made herself visible to the
naked eye by her enlarged draperies.
And now, when that day is done, the
one thin as a rail has become again the
shortest distance between two points,
Vainly imitating the comfortable flow of
the other's skirts. It makes no difference
to any of us that our chins are peaked
and our heads are long, we will have no
headgear but that which appears above
the dimpled chin and the apple shaped
head of our companion, and we even go
so far, when fashion has approved of a
certain color, as to use that color indis
criminately, without regard to our
blowzy or our pallid faces, our hair that
quarrels with it, our eyes that are put
out by it.
Perhaps nothing but a national cos
tume, an article which we never shall
attain, and which it is hardly desirable
that we should attain, will do awav with
1 T . . . . . . "
sms subserviency, nut is it quite im
possible that each one of us should make
the world a little less monotonous by the
use of a variation of individual taste,
and while obeying the general trend of
the prevailing fashion, modify it to the
exigencies of our own personality? If we
dislike the short skirt, find it only be
trays ungainiy teet and makes us
bunchy and dowdy and ungraceful, why
cot, in adopting in the main the decree
and design of the arbiter of dress as far
as may be best, lengthen the skirt if we
wish? Or, if it is the long skirt that is
decreed, and it seems to us unsuited to
our needs, and we feel soiled and drag
gled and stringy in it, why should wo
not, still keeping the main lines in other
respects, shorten our skirt to our con
venience?
Not needing thus to depart from the
prescribed mode widely and in all re
spects we should still be unnoticeable,
but we should be comfortable in body,
and if others allowed themselves the
same freedom we should be comfortable
in mind as well if when the fashion were
not to our convenience we dared to dis
regard it, or to modify it to an extent
sufficient for our needs, and not suffi
cient for conspicuous remark. It might
very possibly give us more work in the
planning and cutting, require more at
tention to the demands of the mode
throughout all the rest of the toilet, in
order still to keep in touch with the
style, but it would at least relieve our
parlors and our sidewalks of dead mo
notony. Harper's Bazar.
Miss Jennie Johnson, of Colfax, while
teaching a young man how to dance last
Tuesday slipped and fell, breaking one
of her ribs.
Opening m Combination.
Minnehaha, S. D., has jnst finished
new court house at. a cost of $125)00.
Over f 10,000 worth of vaults were ordered
in, and recently the company Tmving
the contract was notified that tie safes
could nothoimvntnl. Tho TiTwVoKtnnt.
ing was that no one could open the
vaults unless he had the combination
or was an expert at safe blowing.
Last week Edward H. Saunders, a
plumber, not over 17 years old, entered
the county clerk's office while' the clerk
was endeavoring to open one of the new
mnUn (RA v.; i i i a.
and finally the clerk gave up; the job.
Young Saunders, who was standing by,
said he could open it. County Commia- I
Bioner JttcK.ee offered to eive Saunders
$10 if he could open the safe. The
proposition was accepted. The young
IaA nlAW? Ilia UV j ia lvw liafortA I
to the fall of the tumblers, and in a few
moments the door swung open.. Saanders
was turned out of the room and! the com- 1
bination was changed. Another trial
was given the young genius', and gni
the door flew open. The chairman of
the county commissioners has. informed
the safe company that their safes would
not be accepted, and awaited their fur
ther orders.
Saunders has since opened a vault
of the Hall make in one of the leading
banks of the city as easily as if he knew
the combination. In one of the letters
that passed 'between the commissioners
and the safe company the latter agree to
forfeit $10,000 if the lad can open any
vault without first knowing the combi
nation. Plumbers' Trade Journal
Capt. Watts' Gift to Tkonaaten.
One of the most pathetic scenes wit
nessed in this state for a long time
marked the exercises attending the pres
entation of the new building to the
town of Thomas ton, Me., by Capt.
Samuel Watts.
The old captain had a
the town a number of
failing out with
years ago, and he cleared out, with all
his taxable property, eoinar to Boston.
In later years his heart changed and he
made the town the munificent gift. Said
he, when he made his little speech:
"I am human. I have my likes and
dislikes, which is applicable to most of
man Rind. 1 nave lived to tne age
of more than threescore-and-ten eight
years more. Mr. Chairman and citizens
of Thomaston, I say to one and all. I
stand before you willing to forgive and
ask to be forgiven. Mr. Chairman, I
wish to say before taking my seat that
my desire is, at. the end of my earthly
career, I shall be laid in yonder ceme
tery' side, by side where my wife and
most of my cnildren lie moldermg in
the dust.' The brave old mariner said
a few words more, and then had to give
up, overcome by his emotions. The peo
ple of Thomaston are full of warm and
affectionate words for him. Boston
Journal.
A Singular Partition.
A case which is believed by lawyers
to have no parallel in legal history has
just been brought out in -the Norfolk
county court at Dedham. ' The late R.
W. Shapleigh,.of Brooklyn, N. Y., died
leaving an estate of $700,000 for thirty
heirs, with no provision as to its dis
posal that would stand the test of the
courts. There was found, however, in
an old wallet a paper in his well known
handwriting, but without his signature,
which disposed of about half of the prop
erty to individuals, mostly nearest rela
tives. Some of these would not get a
penny if the estate was settled by proc
ess of law. A family meeting was forth
with held, and it was agreed by all to
abide by the apparent wishes of the late
Mr. Shapleigh. They also decided to set
apart a sum to maintain a cemetery at
West Lebanon, Me., in which Mr. Shap
leigh always had a deep personal inter
est. The lawyers say tnere was never
such a case brought to their notice be
fore. Springfield Republican.
- Trusting a Stranger.
A queer story is told about a Maine
character who recently won an unenvi
able notoriety. While a well known
Baptist clergyman, Rev. C. V. Hanson,
was coming from -Lewiston by train
about a year ago, an elderly man in the
same car inquired whether there was
any one present going to Skowhegan.
Mr. Hanson told him he resided there,
whereat this man counted out $300, and
gave the same to Mr. Hanson to deposit
m the First National bank.
The circumstance passed from his
mind until one day looking over his pa
pers Mr. Hanson discovered by the re
ceipt given him by Cashier Page that
the man who intrusted him with the
$500 was none other than Micah W. Nor
ton, of New Portland. Either Norton is
a pretty good reader of physiognomy or
thinks he is. Somerset Reporter.
A Costly Cow.
To prove tne ownersnip of a flo cow
the costs were $75 in Squire Schwab's
court Monday afternoon. It took from
2 o'clock to 7 o'clock to examine the sev
enty-five witnesses. It seems that Frank
Groneman, a West End dairyman, lost
a cow, and found her in the stables of
Fred Eoester, his neighbor. A replevin
of the animal followed, and the jury
gave Groneman . his cow, with $1 dam
ages. The cow, covered with ribbons,
was hauled in glory to the sqtnre'E office.
Cinciiinatirimes-Star.
A. Timely Xlsoovery.
A new insulating material, having all
the properties of guttapercha, but with
a higher dielectric resistance, is claimed
by Dr. Purcell Taylor, of London. It is
to be called "purcellite," and is said to
be exceedingly tough and elastic, capa
ble of being given any color, and of being
made either flexible or rigid, and to be
only one-fortieth as expensive as gutta
percha. Arkansaw Traveler.
A. Big Sunflower.
The bieeest sunflower on record has
been raised tliis year by Mrs. Penchower,
of Ooverdale, Colo. The stalk is 6
inches ' in diameter at the ground, it
stands 12 feet high, and the flower meas
ures 9 feet in circumference. Omaha
Bee- '
In the last two "weeks large -sales of lots
have been made at Portland,
Grove McMinnville
and The
are satisfied that
North Dalles
ls nw tne place lor investment.
. i jj.j '-, ,
ulttl;luuCB alt5 LU u uuueu ana
Imorto maa Tl on
'"" u v ujrB win ue im-
portant Ones for this new citv.
Call at the office of the
Interstate Investment Co.,.
72 Washington St., PORTLAND, Or.
O.'D. TAYLOR, THE DALLES, Or.
Or
: DEALERS IN
Staple
W Fancy
Hay, Grain
Gheap Express Wagons ftos. 1 and 2.
Orders left at the Stcre willjreceive prompt
Trunks and Packages delivered to any part of the City.
Wagons always on hand when Trams or Boat arrives.
No. 122 Cor. Washington and Third. Sts.
H- R- GLKSIER,
DEALER IN
pine Cigars
Pipes, Cigarettes and Smokers' Notions.
GO TO
THE SMOKER'S EMPORIUM.
109 Second St., The Dalles.
Gtandall
MANUFACTURERS
FURNITURE
Undertakers and Embalmers.
NO. 166 SECOND STREET.
I. O. NICKELSEN,
DEALER IN
TIOW, MOTIONS,
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BOOKS AND MUSIC.
Cor. of TMra and Washington Sts, Tne Dalles, Oregon.
H. C. NIELS6N,
Clothier and Tailor,
apd Qap5,
looti
and
CORNER OF SECOND AND WASHINGTON STS., THE DALLES, OREGON.
: : For the Best Brands and Purest Quality of Wines and Liquors, go to :
J. O.
Ui7ole$ale : Ijcjuor : Dealer,
117 SECOND ST. THE DALLES, OR.
Wash.
.. The Largest
in the West.
The New
BootandShoe
FACTORY.
Fnrniture BTfy.
Wire Works.
Chemical
Laloratoir.
NEW BRIDGE.
. Several
Fine C&ttap.
Seat Railroad
Tacoma, Forest
Dalles. All
New Man
large improve
:n i
and Feed.
attention.
and Tobacco
& Barcret,
AND DEALERS IN
CARPETS.
Jrupls, ilalises,
Shoes, ZHo.
Groceries,