The Dalles Daily Chronicle. THURSDAY, JAN. 29, 1891 METEOBOLOGIOAL EEPOET. Pacific H Rela- D't'r ts State Count BAB. a tive of of Tlme. - Hum Wind s Weather. 8AM 30-21 40 90 8W Cloudy 3 P. M.ll.. 30.12 47 Ki NW " Maximum perature, Si temperature, 50; minimum tem- L Total preciinuiiiwii irum J uiv up iaj unit, ....-, average precipitation from July to date, 8.66; "average defflciency Irom July 1st to date, 5.17. RAIN WEATHER PROBABILITIES. The Dali.es, Jan. 29, 1891 Weather forecast till Friday, light rain, temperature. IS ., Stationary LOCAL BREVITIES. HOTEL ARRIVALS. Our mayor is in Salem. Mrs. 15. I,. Heininsrway of Almota is visiting friends here. Rr TT. Brown and wife went to Portland this morning. Mr. Thompson is getting along nicely and will he ahle to he out soon. The west bound passenger was an hour and a half late this morning. The Gymnasium Club will meet at 7 o'lock tonight instead of 8 as heretofore. Mr. Bailey who has been visiting friends left for Albina this morning. Four carloads of cattle arrived from Snake river today and are at the stock yards. We understand The Dalles base ball t-lub will play the Planets at Dufur next Sunday. Work is progressing rapidly at the reservoir and some heavy blasting is be ing done. The new charter which passed the council Tuesday night has been sent to the legislature, for indorsement. It is asserted at Olympia that when drivelling idiocy was being parcelled out Metcalfe drew the long term. Mr. J. F. Magee who has been sick for a long time was on the street for the first time in several months yesterday The truth is not always truthful if the old adage is correct, for that distinctly asserts that "Truth lies, at the bottom of a well." ' Hon, A. J. Dufur visited our sanctum today. He has just returned from Salem and feels confident the portage railroad bill will pass. Mrs. E. T. Scott's lecture tonight in '' Congregational church is "Sowing and Reaping or what we give to Posterity." Everybody should hear it. The commissions for the examining surgeons for the pension bureau have arrived.- Drs. Shackelford, Doane and Logan comprise the board. Mr. John Bost reports the ground in fair condition for the plow the other side of Fifteen Mile, though it is somewhat dry yet. Quite a snow storm prevailed there Tuesday. If you want a good meal cooked as your mother used to cook it go to the Baldwin. Mrs. Graham has charge of the kitchen aud that alone is guarantee nough for us. Parties having cows running at large are notified by the city marshal to keep them up, after February first all cattle found running at large in the city limits will be impounded. '' -V" ' UMATILLA HOT78K. Ii. Neustadter, Wasco. C. R. Rollins, M. D-, Grass alley. N. P. Hausen, Monkland. Geo. P. Towne, Portland. L. J. Patterson; " , Chas. E. Morrison, " H. C. Ellet, Kansas City. J.A.Weston, " " G. E. Nolin, Dufur. A. J. Dufur, " S. R. Husbands, Mosier. E. S. Medler, Wasco. Karl S. Breckenridge, Paris. Little Jimmie Freedman, Portland. Big ." " " Last Klght'a Lecture. At the Congregational church by Major Scott was well attended. The way Mr. Scott explains his ideas of the liquor traffic are very clear. He has the faculty of holding the attention of an audience completely. Mrs. Scott's lec ture tonight promises to be very good. All who can attend will be well repaid Turn out and hear her tonight at the Congregational church at 7 :30. Wanted. Board in a private family for three, or furnished rooms for light house keeping. References given. Inquire Chronicle Office. Notice. The Y's. will meet Friday, January 30th (3 p. m.) at the residence ot Mrs. Colonel Houghton. All members who can, please attend. Mas. Jas. (Jarxaby. On Hand. J. M. Huntington & Co. announce that they are prepared to make out the necessary papers for parties wishing to file on so called railroad land. Appli. cants should have their papers all ready before going to the land office so as to avoid the rush and save time. Their offic is in Onera House Block next to main entrance. BORN. to 1 A fine bunch of lettuce from Mr. Beers garden was left at this office this morn- ine. If there is another state in the Union in the same latitude that can erow earden sass in January we would like to hear from it. Recorder Knaggs presented the horns of a judicial dilemma to one tramp this morning, who finding it was also the judges ultimatum, selected a job on the street, rather than surrender the coin of the realm. The partnership heretofore existing between Drs. Doane and Boyd has been dissolved by mutual consent. Dr. Doane will retain the office now occupied by the firm. In a short time a change will be made ' in the rule giving east-bound trains the right of way. Under the new rule west and south-bound trains will have the right of way over east and north-bound. The East End is afHictedVith unusual quietness. No stock shipments or any thing else. This cannot last long and is accounted for by the threatening condi tion of the weather which keeps ' the farmers at home. Someone who understands the hotel business and has the capital to start one can find the, best location in the state by visiting Hood River. All the place needs ' to make it one of the finest summer re sorts in the northwest, is a good hotel, and it would be filled to its utmost ca pacity all Bummer. The commission to locate the north boundary of the Warm Springs reserva tion left this morning to begin their labors, the' first of which is to find Mut- ion mountain. According to the Indian' theory the line runs from the base of Mutton mountain to an oak stump, and thence "yawah." Company A, Third regiment, had a large attendance at company drill last evening and Captain Thompson says it is his intention to have a larger turnout next week. Several new recruits were brought in, and we hope that the inter est that ia now being shown maybe con tinued. . At Warnic, Or., Saturday Jan. 24, the wife of Asa Stogsdill, a daughter. Mr. fieorsre P. Moreran and Col. E. W, Nevius, ex-clerks of the U. S. land office liovn ininpd forces, and will prepare all kinds of land papers, contests and anneals. Plats made and every sort of business connected with land matters attended to. Special attention given to Ereparing papers under the forfeiture ill, which will soon again be in opera tion. Office next door to Bettingen's hardware store, Second street. We noticed quite a stir at Messrs Fil loon Bros, yesterday in the agricultural line, several farmers were buying plows and seed drills. ' ONE OF THE QUEER CHANCES. Every once in a while some war vet eran, under proper circumstance's and conditions, will tell you how he escaped death at such a place and such a time by the "queerest chance in the world." One of these "queerest chances in the world": fell to 'the lot of an old-timer who hyes in Germantown, and, in truth, it is one of the very queerest. He was about to leave for the seat of war in 1863, and the eirl to whom he was engaged, among numerous other things, gave him a chest-protector made by her own fair hands and wet bv her tears. It was meant to be practical, and was of im mense thickness that is, it was padded to the depth of an inch or two. .During a long and tedious campaign in chilly weather, the soldier found it invaluable as a safeguard against, colds, and wore it almost constantly, tie naa it on one moraine when plunged into tne neat oi a hand-to-hand skirmish. The affair de veloped into quite a little battle and soon the straggling nre on Doin siaes naa become rattline vollevs. When it was over the soldier retired to his tent and removed his coat and shirt in order to stanch the flow of blood from a small flesh wound m his back. In removing the protector he felt a sharp pain shoot through his chest, and then he noticed that the protector was cut all up by the passage of a bullet. An investigation developed an awfully "queer chance His sweetheart had accidentally left a needle sticking in the pad which he had never noticed before. This rau right through the cloth and a bullet had struck it on the point. The needle had been forced back clear through a thick button on his woolen undershirt and thence had erone a little distance into the skin The resistance of the button had forced the soft lead of the bullet clear around the needle so that the bullet, was fairly impaled on the slender wire. Thus was the life of the soldier saved, and through the carelessness of his beloved in leaving the needle in the protector. Mora Important Than Expositions. We believe Oreeon should give more toward building a portage railway at the cascades and dalles of the Columbia than in making an exhibit of her pro duce in Chicago. Pass the portage rail road bill first, ye members from Eastern Oregon. The people oi .Eastern uregon must secure an open river to the sea, and thereby secure low freight rates, if they desire to have the country fill up with people whose watchword is "prog ress." Eastern Oregon will always be of small importance if she allows corpora tions to suck blood from her veins for the benefit of non-resident bond-holders and bloated millionaires. An open river to the sea would do much to remove the shackles that keep the country and her people in a lethargic condition. Fossil Journal. Every old resident of the Inland Em nnrlftrHtnmHs and aPDre- ciates the necessity for an open and free fVilnmhia river, before the people can attain the standard of prosperity that is possible under favorable circumstances. The Water Ways convention, called to meet at Walla" Walla on February 5, should be attended by representatives from every section. i.very farmers' alli ance, every business community, every voting precinct in the Inland Empire, should send some one, who will assist in the deliberations of that convention. The opening of the Columbia river can and will he accompnsnea wunin turee vears, provided the entire population w1k for years have been waiting for this . . . , , -, J i ii to be done, snail meet ana aemanu me doing. Let the convention be attended by the representatives oi every community in the Inland sections of Washington, Oregon and Idaho; let them petition their legislature, now in session, to memorialize congress, and the Union's word for it, their task is accomplished. Walla Walla Union. Mile. Bonheur's love and loving study of animals have given her strange con trol over them. It is now several years since she gave to the Jardin des Plantes a beautiful lion and lioness, which to this dav recoenize her if she approaches their cage, and thrust their heads against the bars for a touch of her sympathetic little fingers. "I'll bet." said Chollie. "judging from the wav these trousers shrink, the wool was shorn from an unusually timid lamb, When Shakespeare wrote that parting is such sweet sorrow, he voicea tne re gret of many a bald-hended man. Everv father thinks there's no baby like his baby, and all others fathers are glad of it. Tna Cenana moA City Populmttoaa. The population of the United has increased between 1880 and 1890 from 50,000,000 to 64,000,000, or about 26 per cent. Deducting the urban popu lation, the increase of rural population ia found to be only 8 per cent., while the increase of the urban population is more than 67 per cent. This classification of urban population includes only cities of 8,000 inhabitants and upward. If the classification should embrace cities of 4,000 inhabitants and upward it would undoubtedly appear that the rural popu lation had decreased during the decade, while the total increase would be in the cities. This general result has been brought about notwithstanding the im mense increase in population in the rural districts in extreme western states, such as the Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas and Texas. The following table shows the increase of the total population of several states and the increase of the city population: Total Increase Increase, ia City 1 880-1 8U0. Population. Maine. 11.325 Massachusetts 400,000 Connecticut 110,000 Rhode Island 69,000 New York 1.016,000 Illinois. 800,000 The percentages of the increase of city population to the whole increase of popu lation between 1880 and 1890 inlseveral states are as follows: In Maine there was an actual decrease of rural popula tion, the increase in cities being more than the total increase in the state. In Massachusetts the increase in cities was CO per cent, of the whole increase; in Connecticut 85 per cent.; in Rhode Isl and 70 per cent.; in New York more than 75 per cent.; in Pennsylvania near ly 00 per cent.; in Ohio more than 50 per cent. ; in Illinois 87 per cent. William M. Springer in Forum. CHRONICLE SHORT STOPS. s. B. , B, get there? "I should rlORTH DALiiiES, Wash. : In the last two weeks large sales of lots have been made at Portland,. Tacoma, Forest Grove, McMinnville and The Dalles. All are satisfied that North Dalles Is now the place for investment. New Man ufactories are to be added and large improve ments made. The next 90 days will be im portant ones for this new city. Call at the office of the ' The Largert in the West. The New Boot and Shoe FACTORY. FttMtnre fffy. Wire Works. Cleiical Laboratory. NEW BRIDGE. Several " Fie (Maps. flem Railroad 14,290 850,000 106,000 49,000 763,000 700,00a Interstate Investment Co., Or 72 Washington St., PORTLAIO), Or. O. D. TAYLOR, THE DALLES, Or. : DEALERS IN ale ana Fan Groceries. Hay, Grain and Feed. For coughs and colds use 2379. Lard in balk at Central Market. Buv vour school books at Jacobson & Uo.'s Does smile." Oregon Star brand of hams at the Cen tral Market at io cents. C. E. Dunham will cure vour head ache, cough or pain for 50 cenls, S. B. Big bargains in real estate at 116 Court St. rirst come, nrsi serveu. Get vour land papers prepared by J, M. Huntineton & Co. Opera House Block, Washington St. Sliced hams, boneless hams, ham sau sage and dried fish at Central Market. The best fittine pantaloons of the latest style are made by 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 50 cents. 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 vour headache tor ou cents. . u For a lame back, a pain in the side or chest, or for tootache or earache, prompt relief may De hart dv using namoer- lain's Pain Balm. It is reliable, tor 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 & Kinersly. Protection for Retailers. A novel idea has been presented to the English trade to meet the competition from manufacturers who have stores for retailing their own goods. It is pro posed to form a compitny with a capital stock of $100,000. This company will pay cash for the goods, which will be re sold to shareholders at invoice prices, plus a charge of 5 per cent, to cover ex penses. The object of the company is that the shareholders, who are retailers, will be able to buy all classes of goods at the lowest wholesale prices for cash, without reference to the quantity bought. By this plan of co-operative buying it is figured that a great saving can be made over the regular way of buying in small lots by retailers, who lose the trade discounts and other items, which it is estimated make a total of about 15 per cent. The multiple shop competi tion is said to be bearing heavily on the small retailers, and some plan of this kind is necessary if they are not to be crowded out. The idea is an excellent one, but whether it can be made a prac tical success or not remains to be seen. I New York Commercial Advertiser Gheap Express Wagons flos. 1 and 2. Orders left at the Stcre willreceive 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. Grandall & Budget, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN FURNITURE CARPETS. Mr. Hatch's Dream. Mr. William H. Hatch, of this city. has a son named Roland Hatch. Twenty years ago he left home for the west, and for many years his whereabouts was un known to his parents. It has been six years since he wrote his father. Mr. Hatch is now ill. One night recently he dreamed that he was with his son in the state of Michigan; that his son was in a camp, numbered 40, with a gang of log gers. ' In the morning Mr. Hatch told his wife the dream. The next mail brought a letter from the long absent son stating that he was with a logging crew in Michigan, and everything about him tallied with his father's dream. The voune man has been sent for to come home. Belfast (Me.) Journal. Our lteglatered-Mail System. The rezistered mail system of the United States is probably the safest me thod in the world for transmitting valu able mail matter. By it the chances of loss are reduced to a mimimum, and if a loss occur it can be traced with almost absolute certainty, " The government is not, as many erroneously supposed, pecuniarily responsible for the contents ot registered letters lost in transmission, but in such cases, every effort is used to trace and recover the property. The government is no more reponsible for the safe transmission of a registered let ter than it is for an ordinary letter, but, in case of the former, the chance of loss is less and the chance ol recovery greater. A registered letter goes slow, but sure. It beats the express system for perfect safety. Advices from West Africa state , that the king of Dahomey has applied to the French authorities at Kotonou for a guillotine, -which he proposes to set up at his ' capital for the more - expeditious slaughter of those who fall under his displeasure. It appears that the king, who was educated in France, was im pressed while there with what he , heard of the guillotine, and has since concluded to introduce in his provinces. The French hesitate to complv with the re quest, on the ground of the uses to which the instrument would De put in tne slaughter of innocent victims. . A ring which Gen. ' H. J. Hunt lost near Fairfax Station, Va., during the war was recently found imbeded in the hoof of a cow owned by a dairy fcrmer in that locality, and was returned to its owner in Washington. -; 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 phvsician and old army Burgeon in eastern Iowa, was called away from home for a few days ; during his ab sence one of the children .contracted a severe cold and his wife bought a bottle of Chamberlin's Cough Remedy for it. They were so much pleased that they atterwards used several Dottles 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 specinc oi any medicine he had ever seen. . For safe by Snipes & Kinersly. "Too Much Gun." The Indian is willing to take his chances with a soldier's musket or car bine, knowing that they shoot all over the country, but when the boys get to work with a HotchMss or Gatling gun then the redskin takes a trip. The scream of a shell makes all his teeth sore, and when one bursts and lets a hundred bullets loose at once he can't tell which way to dodge. Detroit Free Press. Two Bullets. Only last month boys who were searching over the old battlefield at Get tysburg for relics discovered two musket balls with their points so thpron.?.ily telescoped that they could not be separat ed. There is but one explanation of the freak: they had met in midair and were welded bv the friction caused by the concussion. St. Louis Republic Undertakers and Embalmers. NO. 1G6 SECOND STREET. H- F- GLHSIER, DEALER IN pine Cigars and Tobacco Pipes, Cigarettes and Smokers' Notions. GO TO THE SMOKER'S EMPORIUM. 109 Second St., The Dalles. DISSOLUTION NOTICE. The firm existing under the firm name of Brooks & Beers is this day dis solved bv mutual consent by the retiring of Mr. S. L. Brooks. The busi ness will be carried on by Mesers. G. F. Beers, and Rl 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. , SAk'i.. L. Brooks. While cutting a big cypress tree near Astor, Fla., John Wilson found it occu pied by a living alligator seven feet long. As the opening in the tree was not half large enough for the animal to get through, the presumption is that it crawled in while quite young and lived on the other animals and reptiles that sought refuge there. Baron Hirsch proposes to send to the Argentine Republic some half million of the Jewish victims of Russian persecu tion. President Pettigrini offers an asy lum and active help to the thrifty immi grants, and it is said that Baron Hirsch is ready to spend $30,000,000 to carry out his plan. - Bv a new military law in France all clergymen under 35 years of age are re quired to serve in the army. In conse quence of this the Capuchin fathers are leaving their monasteries in large num bers and emigrating to Canada and the United States. . All the forts and military establish ments of Belgium have been connected with Antwerp by telephone.' Special precautions have been taken to prevent an enemy tapping the wires in war time. .The instrument used is a Dejongh mi crophone. . During the illness of the late Em peror Frederick it became so much the fashion to consult Dr. Morell Mackenzie that his professional income rose to an average icf $1200 day. H. C. NIELSeN, Glothiet and Tailot?, G-exx-tts' Ftirnisliiiis Groods, loots a,n.cl Sliooe CORNER OF SECOND AND WASHINGTON STS., THE DALLES, OREGON. 3 I. O. NICKELSEN, & -DEALER IN- STfl TIOflEHY, HOTIOflS, BOOKS AND MUSIC. Cor. of ThM and Wasliiiigtoii Sts, The Dalles, Orepn. -: For the Best Brands and Purest Quality of Wines and Liquors, go to: MHCK J. O. Ul?ole5ale : Ijcjuor : Dealer, 117 SECOND STREET, THE DALLES, ORECOn!