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The Mes Daily Chf oniele. TUESDAY, - V .JAN. 27, 1891 METEOROLOGICAL EEPOET. Pacific H Rein- D't'r ft) State Count bab. 2 tive of S. of Time. r Hum Wind a Weather. 8 A. M 30.27 40 96 W Cloudy 8 P. M 30.00 44 100 BE Lt Rain , MMimura temperature 40; minimum tem perature, . Total precipitation from July up to date, 3.49 verKB iinriiuuiuuii irom July to aate, n.oti average dertieiency from July 1st to date, 5.17. WEATHER PROBABILITIES. Thb Dalles, Jan. 27, 1891. Weather forecast till 12 in., Wednesday, snow, followed by fair weather and cooler. SNCW LOCAL BREVITIES. Mr. James Baldwin of Portland is in the city. Garretsou lias a fine display of watches in his window. Miss Grace Swank, of Albina, is visit ing friends in the city. Quite a snowfall covered the hills north of this city to-day. The Oregon Pomological society will meet at the city hall Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Messrs. F. A. Bailey, and Hermann Heppner of Cheyenne are in the city visiting friends. Rev. O. D. Taylor is in Buffalo' and is much pleased with his trip. He expects to return about the last of February. The East End is remarkably quiet to day, no stock shipments or anything lse except a few cars being loaded with wheat. Recorder Knaggs held a financial in quest on seven able-bodied hoboes Mon day morning, finding work for all of them. A good many farmers are in the city today attending a meeting for the pur pose of electing directors of their Mer cantile company. The Baldwin restaurant will be opened this week under the management of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Graham. They expect to have the restaurant open for dinner Wednesday. A flock of sheep will be sold at Mr. James Woolery's place, Friday, under chattel mortgage. There are 1016 in the band and some one will have an oppor tunity to make a good purchase. Something should be done by our citi zens towards getting a survey for a rail road to the Fossil coal fields and our Board of Trade should take hold of the matter at its next meeting. The coal is pronounced by experts the best on the coast. The question some of the visitors at the locks Sunday have been trying to solve since their return is, with 190 men employed, how can $40,000 be expended ach month? With less than 90 actually employed the question becomes yet more difficult. This morning there is scarcely a man left of the crowd that beseiged the land office yesterday. They made no kick, no audible complaint, for they are used to this kind . ofthing, and therefore naturally maintained the silence of the damned. Mr. Minto's bill to create the office of state railroad commissioner is very lengthy. It has some good features one of which is that it makes the office an elective one. It also gives the commis sion considerable power, and would no doubt, be a vast improvement on the present powerless board. A law suit is in progress this afternoon between Thomas F. Jones, plaintiff against W, H. Butts, defendant. The suit is being tried before his honor Jus tice Schutz and a jury, and is brought to obtain an accounting, the plaintiff claim ing to have been a partner with Mr. Butts in the buying and selling of some horses. Bradshaw & Story appear for the plaintiff and Hon. E. B." Dufur for defendant. Col. C. E. Morgan came up from Port land this morning after his dog. Some one of the men employed on the reser voir has him claiming first that he got him out of the pound in East Portland and then when told there was no pound there, said he got him in Portland. The Col. got his dog all right without even executing a fiank movement, and will take him home tonight. At a meeting of the city council last night the new charter was read. It covers fifty-two pages of legal cap and is a pretty close copy of the old charter. It provides for nine members of the council and takes the principle execu tive powers away from the mayor. It has been referred to the city attorney and after his opinion is had it will be sent to the legislature. We will speak more fully of it when we can get a chance to read it. Harvey Warner son of J. O. Warner, of Tygh Ridge and Joseph Kennedy were taking a ride in a wagon a day or two ago near Mr. Warners place when the horses became frightened and ran away. One tug came loose, and the tongue dropped to the ground, and one of the wheels striking a rock, Henry was thrown into the spokes of the hind wheel. One of his legs was broken above the knee, Kennedy injured hia ankle badly and will be laid up some. time. - Dr. Whitcomb of Dufur was called and re paired all damages so that time will bring them through all right. The Signal Service and the Forcasta of y the Weather. - .The signal service was established by the government in 1870 for the benefit of commerce and agriculture, placed under the supervision of the war department, and in charge of the late illustrious offi cer, Brigadier-General Albert J. Meyer, its creator, as the chief signal officer, with headquarters at Washington, D. C. At the death of General Meyer, General William B. Hagan was appointed chief signal officer and remained in charge until Lieut. A. W. Greeley relieved him. Since then the service has made great changes in its extensiveness, and im portance as an educator on meteorologi cal phenomenon. Its study has devel oped its usefulness, and its benefits, not only to agriculture but to commerce. The past year has shown to the seafaring that its observance has not only saved priceless lives, a large number of vessels at the mouth of the Columbia river and at Puget sound, but vessels were safely moored for weeks through "the forecasts of terrible storms that were approaching our shores the past year. How can such predictions or forecasts be made with such accuracy asks the reader. The signal officer at San Fran cisco which is the real head for this coast is in telegraphic communication with every signal officer on the Pacific slope, and at 5 p. m. every day receives a report of the day's readings of the barometer, thermometer, relative hu midity, direction and velocity of the wind, from Spokane, Walla Walla, Boise City and Baker City in the interior, and Port Angeles, Olyrapia, Fort Canby, Wash., Portland, Roseburg, Bandan, Coos Bay, Or.". Red Bluffs, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, Cal., Virginia City, Nevada and Salt Lake, Utah. From these readings the center of calms, of storms, of rain or snow, or cyclone, or whatever the changes to be expected are arrived at, and the forecasts are sent out at 8 o'clock p. m. of each day to all offices, except in some instances, their application is made for morning forecasts, for the benefit of the farming districts. No. 1, white flag, six feet square, in dicates clear or fair weather. No. 2, blue flag, six feet square, indicates rain or snow.. No. 3, black, triangular flag, four feet at the base and six feet in length, always refers to temperature; when placed above numbers'! or 2 it in dicates colder weather; when not-displayed, the indications are that the tem perature will remain stationary, or that the change in temperature will not vary four degrees from the temperature of the same hour of the preceeding day. No. 4, white flag, six feet square, with black square in centre, indicates the approach of a sudden and decided fall in temper ature. The signal is not to be displayed unless it is expected that the temper ature will fall to forty-five degrees, or lower, and is usually ordered at least twenty-four hours in advance of the cold wave. When number 4 is displayed, number 3 is always omitted. When displayed the signals should be read downward. INTERPRETATION OF DISPLAYS. No. 1, alone, indicates fair weather, stationary temperature. No. 2, alone, indicates rain or snow, stationary temperature. No. 1, with No. 3 below it, indicates fair weather, colder. No. 2, with No. 3 above it, indicates warmer weather, rain or snow. No. 1, with No. 4 below it, indicates fair weather, cold wave. No. 3, with Nos. 1 and 2 below it, in dicates warmer, fair weather, followed by rain or snow. Real Estate Transaction. A patent for the south half of the southeast quarter of section 17, and the west' half of the' northeast quarter of section 20, in township one south, range 14 east, issued in 1872 to William Gil liam found its way to the recorder's office yesterday. Another for the west half of the north west quarter of section 18, township 1 south, range 14 east, issued to Robert S. Bradley in 1883. The first was in General Grant's time, the last in Chester A. Arthur's. January 27th, patent trom United States to Louis Hirlbert to thenortheast quarter of section 14, township 5 south, range 17 east. Jane A. Erwin, lots 35 and 36, in block 1 in Erwin and Watson's addition to Hood River. Temperence Lecturers. Under the auspices of the W. C. T. U. Major and Mrs. E. T. Scott will begin a series of lectures on next Wednesday Jan. 28th, 7 :30 p. m., at the Congrega tional church. They come to this coast highly recommended by our national president, Miss Willard. Many recent press opinions of eastern papers might be quoted all highly comnlimentarv and expressive of effective work. Don't fail to near these able lecturers who are everywhere greeted with crowded houses. The Baptist church bell will ring at 7 and 7:30 during the week for these services. On Hand. J. M. Huntincrtrm Ar that they are prepared to make out the Tivnan rv ruinprfl fru- navtiAa : j f ' TVlOXJXXlg to file on so called railroad land. Appli. cants should have their papers all ready before going to the land office so as to n vm rl fHa rn Yi qtiH aa-to tlmo ; -- - . ... v . A 1 L office is in Opera House Block next to main entrance. - - , The faint dead away after a Russian bath is to be clean gone at last. HOTEL ARRIVALS. UMATILLA HOUSE. . Hugh M. Baxter, Athens. J. M. Donahoe, Rutledge. D. H. Linch, " . Will. Holder, Grass Valley. Frank Pike, Moro. Henry Schadewitz, Bake Oven. W. V. Johnson, Monkland. ' E. Peoples, Moro. E. B. Peoland, Monkland. G. W. James, " D. H. Moore, Moro. H. S. McDaniel, " Jas. A. Hawkins, Hood River. C. H. Stranahan, " Chas. E. Morgan, Portland. Samuel W. Diller, Chicago. Mrs McBruner, Hood River. Mrs. Marten and child, Klickitat. M, P. Isenburg, Stockton, Kansas. B. Durphy, Portland. F. R. Watson, Chicago. John A. Gayer, Pendleton. . George Turner, Walla Walla. H. W. Gilpin, Fairfield. J. E. Rand, Hood River. The inside of the court house has been finished up and is an artistic job, of which Mr. Crandall, who had charge of the work, and Mr. Kreft and the deco rators can justly feel proud. The outside of the court house will be finished up in style similar to Mr. Nickelsen's hand some brick. At several places" where there are bulletin boards there is written favorable news from Washington in relation to the early completion of the locks at the Cas cades. Some ubiquitous individual has written underneath "Rats," which is quite suggestive. Mr. A. H. Jewett the nurseryman of AVhite Salmon is in the city. We asked him if he had finished shipping fruit trees for the season, and he replied that with the assistance of Jay Gould he got through last month when the Baker was pulled off the route. Sampson and Damocles were much alike a hair cut meant ruin for both CHRONICLE SHORT STOPS. Employment Bureau. Haworth & Thurman, 116, Court St. For coughs and colds use 2379. Lard in balk at Central Market. Buy your school books at Jacobson & Co. 's. Does S. B. get there? "I should smile." S. B. Oregon Star brand of hams at the Cen tral Market at lo cents. C. E. Dunham will cure your head ache, cough or pain for 50 cenls, S. B. Big bargains in real estate at 116 Court St. First come, first served. Get your land papers prepared by J. M. Huntington & Co. Opera HouseH jsiock, w ashington bt. Sliced hams, boneless hams, ham sau sage and dried fish at Central Market. The best fitting pantaloons of the latest style are made Dv 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 & Kinersley's. Joles Bros.' is the boss place to buy groceries. You need not cough! - Blakeley & Houghton will cure it for 50cents. S. B. The finest stock of silverware ever brought to The Dalles at W. E. Garret sons, Second street. Snipes & Kinersly are anxious to cure your headache for So cents. S. B. For a lame back, a pain in the side or chest, or for tootache or earache, prompt relief may be had bv using Chamber lain's Pain Balm. It is reliable. For sale by Snipes & Kinersly. Those easy chairs made by Livermore & Andrews are the neatest thing of the kind ever made. They are just the thing for your porch or lawn in the summer, and are as comfortable and easy as an old shoe. Call and see them at 77 Court street. . For a cut, bruise, burn or scald, there is nothing equal to Chamberlin's Paint 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 & Kinerslv. NOTICE. All county warrants registered prior to September 13, 1887, will be paid if pre sented at my office. Interest ceases from and after this date. Geo. Ruch, Treas. Wasco Co., Or. Jan. 13, 1890. 4t A prominent physician and old army surgeon in eastern Iowa, was called away from home for a fewdavs ; during his ab sence one of the chilcfren contracted a severe cold and his wife bought a bottle of Chamberlin's Cough Remedy for it. They were so much pleased that they afterwards used several bottles at var ious times. He said, from experience with it, he regarded it as the most reli able preparation in use for colds and that it came the nearest being a specific of any medicine he had ever seen. For sale by bnipes'& Kinersly. The Railroad Land Has Gone Back. The U. S. land office is now receiving filings on railroad lands and we are pre pared to make out all necessary papers. THOBNBUKY & HUDSON.- The Dalles, Or., Jan. 22, 1891. DISSOLUTION NOTICE. The firm existing under the firm name of Brooks & Beers is this day dis solved by mutual consent by the retiring of Mr. S. L. Brooks. --The busi ness will be carried on by Mesers. G. F. Beers, and R. E. Williams . under the firm name of "The Dalles Mer cantile Co." The new firm will pay all liabilities and collect all debts. Samuel L. Brooks. G. F. Beers. January 1, 1891. Having retired from the above firm. I desire to return my thanks to the pub lic for generous and friendly patronage and to ask for the new firm a continu ance of the same. v Sam'l. L. Brooks. THE DYKES OF HOLLAND. ntelr Appearance and How Titer Pro- tect the Land and Are Protected. -A certain zealous dame is Baid to have once attempted to sweep the ocean away with a broom. The Dutch have been wiser than this. . They are slow and de liberate people. Desperation may use brooms, but deliberation prefers clay and solid masonry. So, slowly and de liberately, the dykes, those great bill like walls of cement and stone, have risen to breast the buffeting waves. And the funny part of it is they are so skillfully slanted and payed on the out side with flat stones that the efforts of the thumping waves to beat them down only make them all the firmer I These Holland dykes are among the wonders of the world. I cannot say for how many miles they stretch along the coast and throughout the interior; but you may be sure that wherever a dyke is necessary to keep back the encroaching waters there it is. Otherwise nothing would be there, at least nothing in the form of land; nothing but a fearful il lustration of the principal law of hydro statics: Water always seeks its leveL Sometimes the dikes, however care fully built, will "spring a leak," and if not attended to at once terrible results are sure to follow. In threatened places guards are stationed at intervals and a steady watch is kept np night and day. At the first signal of danger every Dutchman within hearing of the start ling bell is ready to rush to the rescue. When the weak spot is discovered, what do you think is used to meet the emerg ency? ' What but straw everywhere else considered the most helpless of all things in water! Yet straw, in the hands of the Dutch, -has a will of its own. Woven into huge mats and se curely pressed against) the embankment, it defies even a rushing tide, eager to sweep over the country. These dikes form almost the only per fectly dry land to be seen from the ocean side. They are high and wide, with fine carriage roads on top, some times lined with buildings and trees. Lying on one side of them, and nearly on a level with the edge, is the sea, lake, canal or river, as the case may be; on the other the flat fields stretching damp ly along at their base, so that cottage roofs sometimes are lower than the shin ing line of the water. FrogB squatting on the shore can take quite a bird'seye view of the landscape, and little fish wriggle their tails higher than the tops of the willows near by. Horses look complacently down upon the bell towers, and men in skiffs and canal boats sometimes know when they are passing their friend Dirk's cottage only by seeing the smoke from its chim ney, or perhaps by the cart wheel that he has perched upon the peak of its over hanging thatched roof, in the hope that some stork will build her nest there and so bring good luck. Mary Mapes Dodge in St. Nicholas. M. Coqnelin's Real Snores. He must feel, but he must guide and check his feelings as a skillful rider curbs and guides a fiery horse, for he has a double part to play; merely to feel himself is not enough; he has to make others feel, and this he cannot do with out the exercise of restraint. Let me make use of an instance afforded me by M. Coquelin himself. Once, he says, he was tired before he came on the stage, and falling sound asleep when feigning sleep, he snored real snores instead of feigned ones. The result Tvas, he tells us, that he never snored so badly. Naturally so, since he had lost control of the steed of feeling by the fact of his sleeping, and so it ran away and carried him he knew not where; but had M. Coquelin at some time in his experience shed real tears, while at the same time in full possession of his waking faculties, and had he been able to guide those tears into the chan nel that his artistic sense told him to be the right one, then we should not have heard that the audience found those real tears less effective than tears wholly feigned and the product of intellect rather than of feeling. Salvini in Cent ury. The Average Congressman Is Poor. To the average congressman $5,000 a year is considerable money. I would not like to say that there are any gentle men in congress who do not attach more importance to the honor of a seat in the national legislature than they do to the amount of salary they are paid for their services. Still, I have good reason for saying that there are more men in con gress who manage to save something out of their salaries than there are of those who practically never touch their allowances as congressmen. There are several men now in the house who live during the session of congress upon the amounts that they re ceive as mileage and what they are al lowed with which to purchase station ery. At home it does not cost them any readv mon-v for their expenses, or if it aoes tiiey able to make sufficient to meet them. Consequently these con gressmen are able to save the $10,000 they receive during their term of office. John Quin in New York Telegram. A Mastodon's Tooth. Dr. EL Miles Cochrane, of Houlton. Me., has on exhibition at his dental rooms an extremely rare curiosity. It is the tooth of a mastodon, known as such, according to Dr. Cochrane, from the conical injections upon its surface, and showing it to belong to a vegetable eating animal akin to the elephant. It was discovered in the earth about five feet from the surface of the ground by a man engaged in excavating for a cellar to a house in Monticello. The tooth is about thirteen inches in circumference. Kennebec Journal. A Society Belle's Blotto. Miss Sallie Hargous ' is one of New York's society belles whose . dressing room is filled with dainty trifles and handsome oddities. - Her favorite motto, 'I line all my clouds with saver," is ex quisitely painted in silver on the wall of pale blue. Morning JournaL ' NO$TH DflLtLtES, Wash. T n V. lnn4. -a i -i . The Lanrep vnu wcck.s nave been made at Portland, Tacoma, Forest inthewesv. Grove, McMinnville and The Dalles. All n Jtl?k are satisfied that ' 1 ort.h Dalles Is now the place for investment. . New Man- CbGIHiCal ufactories are to he added and large improve- NFW SSf' ments made. The next 90 days will he im- Lvirai portant ones for this new city. Jjjg (JottilBS. Call at the office of the fyiimi Interstate Investment Co., n TV rp a VT aon St., PORTLAND, Or. O. D. TAYLOR, THE DALLES. Or. : DEALERS IN ale Hay, Grain Gheap Express Wagons flos. 1 and 2. Orders left at the Stcre willjreceive prompt attention. Trunks and Packages delivered to any part of the City. Wagons always on hand when Trains or Boat arrives. No. 122 Cor. Washington and Third. Sts. Crandall MANUFACTURERS FURNITURE Undertakers and Embalmers. NO. 166 SECOND STREET. H P- GLHSIER DEALER IN pine Cigars and Tobacco Pipes, Cigarettes and Smokers' Notions. GO TO THE SMOKER'S EMPORIUM. 109 Second St., The Dalles. hi. C. NIELSSN, Clothier and Tailor, Grents' Fur aa.g3Tn Ires Ooods, tyats ai?d Qap5, Jrui?!, ilalises, Boots an.cl Shooa, Sto. CORNER OF SECOND AND WASHINGTON STS., THE DALLES, OREGON. 31. O. NICKELSEN, DEALER IN STATIONERY, HOTIOflS, BOOKS AND MUSIC. Cor. of TIM and Washington Sts, The Dalles, Oregon. : For the Best Brands and Purest J. O. 7VYMCK, Ui7ole5ale : Ijuor : Dealer, 117 SECOND STREET, THE DALLES, ORECON. large sales OI lots XArlNEf V" Furniture Wfj. Wirn Wn,V HUG HUln. RRT1RR and Feed. & Budget, AND DEALERS IN & GARPETS. Quality of Wines and Liquors, go to : m