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
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office is in Opera House Block next to
main entrance.
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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
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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 :
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