The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
SATURDAY - FEB. 2, 1891
METEOEOLOGIOAL" BEPOBT.
Pacific Kela- D.t'r 58 State
CoaHt bar. 3 tlve of . of
Tlme. - Hum Wind Weather.
8AM -. 30.81 16 64 East Clear
3P.M.."... 40.37 SO 58 Calm
u&-4M..m tmnwrHhiw. Sh: minimum tjm.
perature, 14. 4 ,
Total precipitation from July up to dace, 3.49;
average precipitation from July to date, 8.66;
average deiUcaicy from July 1st to date, 5.17.
f WEATHER PROBABILITIES
1 This Dau.es, Feb. 2, 1891.
Weather forecast till 12 m.,
Tuesday, Fair; Cold wave.
FAIR
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Thia being the 2d of the month is
Platypus day.
Senator Watkins returned to Salem
this morning.
Mr. B. S. Huntington went to Golden
dale this morning. -
Mr. Hans Lage of Hood River was in
. the city this morning. : . . .
The flags are at half mast today on
' account of the death of Secretary Win
dom. Messrs. R. B. Mays, D. M. French,
Hugh Gourlay, G. J. Farley and B. F.
Laughlin went to Salem this mornmg.
The corner lot across from Lar sen's
place is being graded and we understand
a blacksmith shop will be built thereon.
A new time table is expected daily, it
being announced that another passenger
train will be put on, so that we will have
train each way by daylight.
Mr. J. G. Downey and family, of
Goldendale, left this morning for Van
couver, Wash., and will make that their
future home.
A large delegation of our citizens went
to Portland last nierht, and from there to
Salem this morning to assist in pushing
the portage railroad bill.
The coldest wave of the winter, in fact
the only ccld wave that has visited us
made its appearance Sunday, and
brought with it clear skies. The ice
men are smiling and the plumbers
already getting proud, but it isn't cold
after all, only just respectably cool.
Company A, of the Third regiment has
68 men on the roll and is booming.
They are as determined a body of men
as any company and. will not be outdone
any where in uniform, and if there is any
such thing as their letter indicates as be
ing at the head they are there.
iMr. George P. Morgan and Col. E. W.
Kevius, ex-clerks of the U. S. land office
have joined forces, and will prepare all
kinds of land papers, contests and
appeals. Plats made and every sort of
v.i.t.;nAaa . MnnAftArl 1 1 i land matters
VUOUioa uiiiivi.n-'. ' - -
attended to. Special attention given to
preparing papers unuer ine iorieiiure
bill, which will soon again be in opera
tion. Office next door to Bettingen's
hardware stor,e, Second street.
Under the instructions of the comnifs
eioner of the general land office to the
local office at Oregon City, the register
will give thirty days notice by publica
tion in some newspaper before receiving
filings. Similar instructions will no
doubt be received here. It w ill be seen
from this that no filings can possibly be
received inside of thirty days, and it is
probable that it will be the 10th of
March before applications can be made,
and if the instructions are delayed it
will be later than that.
The West Shore.
. The West Shore is coming to the front
with rapid strides, and is showing great
improvement both in the pharacter and
quality of its reading matter, and the
style and forcefulness of its illustrations.
Its illustrations are confined to Oregon
and Washington and through them the
stranger is made acquainted with the
beauties of Oregon scenery, and at the
same time is informed as to our business
pursuits and developments. It is a
handsome souvenir to send to far away
friends, and is invaluable to such of our
citizens as desire to understand and
appreciate Oregon . It should be in every
household. The magazine is now under
the business management of Mr. J. M.
Lawrence, Mr. Samuels retiring.
Success Brightening.
In this paper today we publish a letter
from a member of the legislature. He
makes a very practical suggestion and
one which should be carried out without
the least procrastination. The attention
of the Eastern Oregon members of the
legislature is directed to this communica
tion. It is probable that hey are already
in possession and are considering it. We
want "an open river" and this offers a
safe, just and quick way of securing the
next thing to the real article. The people
of Eastern Oregon are in earnest about
this matter, and when an intelligent peo
ple are in earnest no obstacle, from cor
porate or individual sources, can block
their progress. Let " an open river" be
the watchword, and success be the only
thing which will put a stop to the
(demand. Pendleton East Oregonian.
Tonight
QIr. Scott will speak at the Congrega
nar church," and those who come will
hear Something good. Be sure and come
tonight at 7 :30.
DIED.
In this city, February 1st, Henry, only
son of N. and Esther Harris, aged 9 years
j fcl months and 12 days. Funeral tomorrow
. , i
mi i oruanu.
Born.
In this city, February 1, 1891, to the
Wife Of 3. W. Condon, a eon.
MAJOB SCOTT'S LEOTUBE. '
Major Scott addressed an audience
last night that filled every inch of avail
able1 space, including the entire lecture
room, which was thrown open for the
occasion,, of the capacious auditorium
of the Congregational church. He spoke
for a full hour and held the undivided
attention and interest of the listeners
till the end. At times one couid have
heard a pin drop, it was so still.
. The singing by the choir was excellent.
After the devotional exercises were con
cluded,, participated in by the pastor of
the church and Rev. Mr. Wheeler, of
Portland, Mrs. Lee, president of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union
of The Dalles, introduced Major Scott.
The lecture began with a word paint
ing of the beautiful and picturesque
scenery of The Dalles as he saw it from
one of the bald bluffs " overlooking our
city. Giving wings to imagination he
saw on a gorgeous day in June the earth
covered with a carpet of emerald ; the
foliage rich on every tree and twig ; the
air melodious with the song of birds and
sweet with the perfume of bud and blos
som and from the banks of the noble
Columbia he saw a temple not unlike
the magnificent temple of Diana of
Ephesus, with one of the columns sur
rounding it removed. Then the beauty
and symmetry of the whole became
marred and disfigured until the column
was replaced among its fellows.
There is another temple, the human
temple, and God is its supreme architect.
Every human being is a pillar in that
temple. If one falls by drunkenness or
auy other vice, then the beauty and
grandeur of God's temple is marred and
defaced until he is reclaimed and set up
again among his fellows.
'Tonight," the speaker said, "I call
your attention to a temple this nation
dedicated in 1870, a temple that cost a
hundred years of toil, and much sacri
fice and blood, a temple dedicated to
human liberty, to human progress.
Every home in the land is a pillar . in
that temple ; in olher words, this coun
try is but an aggregation of homes. He
is not a wise ' ruler or statesman who
fails to consider the claims of the hum
blest home in the administration of gov
ernmental affairs. A home is a govern
ment in miniature. The lover of a
home makes a braver defender of his
country in its hour of danger. The man
who careth not for his home is worse
than an infidel and has denied the faith."
The speaker then gave two splendid
illustrations showing the love for home
and native land.
Continuing Major Scott said: '"The
only guarantee of a nations perpetuity
lies in the individual character of its
citizens. This character is largely to be
found at home. The little boy who lays
his weary head on his mother's knee
and listens to the crooning of her lullaby,
or kneels with father at the morning
altar whose pages like a sweet incense
ascends to the throne of the eternal is
having a character moulded, fashioned
and formed, that shall tell for time and
eternity. Out of this home must come
the future ruler of the nation. So sacred
is home held in all lands that it is a
common law that a man has an inalien
able right to protect the home against a
lawless intruder, and he who crosses its
threshold with a foul or criminal intent
does so at the risk of his life. I stand
here this night to solemnly declare that
the greatest enemy of the American
home is the American saloon."
Then followed strong, forcible and
telling arguments in support of this
opinion.
The address abounded in well-received
points from the stand-point of the
speaker ana he closed with a splendid
perroration.
At the M. E. Chnrch.
As previously announced, the theme
yesterday morning, was: "The Taxation
of Church Property."
The pastor referred to the fact that the
"Oregon Secular Union," an infidel or
ganization, had recently sent to the
legislature a petition asking for the tax
ation of church property, and that, in
view of this fact, it became his duty to
discuss the question before the congre.
gation. -
He stated that the. reasons assigned
for this action by the infidels were : 1st,
That the Exemption of church property
from Taxation would result in the Union
of Church and State," and: 2nd, "That
such exemption increased the taxes on
other property, thereby virtually taxing
infidels for the support of the church."
Referring to the first of the foregoing
reasons, the speaker said that it was ab
surd, for every one is aware that the
Protestant churches are a unit in their
opposition to the union of church and
state ; and the large number of denomina
tions, differing in doctrine, and separate
in government, would render such
thing as organic union of church and
state an impossibility.
On the second point he asserted that
the infidel was not even indirectly taxed
for, or on account of, the church for it is
a Public Institution of great value to any
community, not only because of its re
ligious character, but on account of its
ethical and benevolent features. It also
gives character to a place and increases
the value of adjacent property, thereby
more than counterbalancing the loss to
the public treasury, which the infidel
declares ia occasioned by exemption.
The speaker advanced a number of
propositions to show that the taxation
of church property would be a direct
violation of the principle of ' reciprocity.
and would add an additional burden to
those already borne by the Christian
people. He declared that this attack
was calculated to check the stream of
benevolence, and instanced a case where
a member of the Methodist church' in
Portland, recently gave $25,000.00 for the
erection of a new and commodious
church, and an . equal amount for the
Portland Methodist Hospital, ' and now
these infidels come up to the legislature'
praying that a law be passed which will
compel that good man to pay taxes on
his generous gift to the public. Such a
movement is not inspired by the spirit
of patriotism.
The church property of thia country,
is the gift of the people, donated for the
public good, and not for financial gain,
and he who would vote to tax such
property, might as well vote a tax on
the tomb of Washington.
At the conclusion of the discourse, a
counter petition was circulated, and a
large number of s:g.iatures obtained.
This petition will be sent up to the legis
lature aa a remonstrance, against the
removal of the exemption clause for
which thing the infidels of Oregon are
praying.
An Unknown Suicide.
The body found Saturday was discov
ered about one hundred yards above the
old target house near the Catholic ceme
tery. The dead man was evidently from
thirty to thirty-five years old, was about
five feet 8 inches high, with black hair,
blue eyes and brown mustache and beard
and evidently an Italian. A bottle of
strychnine and an empty whisky flask
were found near the body . The clothes
were a grayish check coat and vest, blue
overalls, black hat and number 7 brogan
shoes. He wore a truss. Ten dollars
and ninety cents were found in his
pockets, but no papers of any kind by
which the remains could be identified.
Ice Very Scarce
General Superintendent McNeil, of
the Union Pacific, who has just returned
to Portland, from a trip over the lines of
the company says there is not a particle
of ice on any of the lines of the Union
Pacific in Oregon or Washington, except
near Baker City, where a pond is covered
with ice ten incnes in thickness, but the
amount is too small to be worth harvest
ing. There is plenty of ice in Idaho,
near Pocatello. Ju t t.ow the icehouses
of the Union Pacilic in this section are to
be stocked is not known, unless there
comes a cold snap next month. Should
the weather remaim mild a supply will
have to brought from Idaho or some
point on the line oi the .Northern Jracinc.
Two French physicians, Binet Fere,
connected with what is recognized as the
most authentic school of hypnotic study
in Europe, the Salpetriere of Waris,main
tain that there is absolutly no barrier to
the power of the hypnotizer once in com
plete possession of his subject, .They
demonstrate by many instances that it is
possible to make the involuntary agent
of crime commit it hours and even days
after the will act by which it is instigated ;
and then so completely to efface recollec
tion of it as to compel the agent to deny
it with sincerity and conviction, thus "at
tacking the witness box" as a recent
commentator on hypnotism puts it.
CHRONICLE SHORT STOPS.
For coughs and colds use 2379.
Lard in balk at Central Market.
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 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 House
Block, Washington St.
Sliced hams, boneless hams, ham sau
sage and dried fish at Central Market.
The best fittiner 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 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
your headache tor oO cents. S. B.
The Baldwin Resturant under the
management of Mr. Wm. S. Graham is
bound to come up again and you can
do no better than to go there tomorrow
for your Sunday dinner. Billy won't
give us his bill of fare but says he will
nave one oi his old time Sunday dinners.
For a lame back, a pain in the side or
chest, or for tootache or earache, 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
& Andrews are the neatest thins 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.
iFor 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.
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
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
office is in Opera House Block next to
main entrance. .
Oystsr MMiefcera Eye BH .
The oyster shockers' eye disease" is
the title given by the professional staff
of the Presbyterian Eye. and Ear hos
pital to a trouble affecting a large num
ber of their patients at this season of
the year. It is believed that the pecul
iar kind of ulceration of the eyeball
which is known by this title is caused
by the juice of the oyster touching the
cornea of an eye which has previously
been slightly injured. , The doctors .say
they can tell exactly when the oyster
season is at hand by the appearance of
patients with . this complaint within
twenty-four hours after the opening of
the packing establishments, and they
claim that this complaint disappears
promptly with the close of the oyster
season.
. The shuckers come to the institution
complaining that they have had their
eyes hurt by a chip of the oyster shell,
but the ulcer is entirely different to the
physician's eye to that caused by an
abrasion from anything else, such as a
nail, chip of marble or rock, a pin, or
even a clean shell. A mere look at the
ulcerated cornea suffices to determine
that the patient is an oyster shucker.
The disease yields easily to treatment,
and very frequently the patient is so far
relieved of pain as to be able to return
to his work within twenty-four hours.
What is called the sterilizing treatment
is applied to the sufferers. It consists of
applying cocaine to the eye until all sen
sibility has been lost, and then carefully
touching the ulcer on the cornea with a
platinum wire heated to whiteness by a
galvanic current. Baltimore American.
Youthful Suicide Blania.
The Hospital, commenting upon the
suicide mania among Bchoolboys in
Vienna, which it attributes to the sense
less mania for over-intellectual culture,
says: "In these days the tyranny of
learning is driving the world to mad
ness. Professors of all sorts have got the
upper hand, and their supremacy threat
ens to be fatal to the rest of the world.
Here is an opportunity for medicine. If
doctors were large minded and capable
men like Shakespeare and Bacon -they
would see the truth and assert their
scientific authority. But what are they
doing? Nothing at all to guide the
world in the matter! . They are the
worst offenders of all in the way of in
flicting upon young men unlimited intel
lectual tasks, the doing of which is of
no practical service to anybody. Sleep
lessness, nervousness, mania, ia every
form are upon us, and nothing is done.
The whole medical world itself is in full
cry striving who shall be first to put
salt on the tail of the tubercle bacillus.
It is as if all the forces of the empire
should be sent to arrest a lunatic at
Wick while a foreign army was in pos
session of Penzance.
A. Ghastly Cargo.
A special train of three cars arrived in
the Union Pacific depot at Walla Walla,
Wash., last week with a ghastly cargo,
consisting of the entire contents of the
military graveyard at Fort Lapwai,
Idaho. There were upward of sixty
caskets, . nearly all receptacles of sol
diers' bones. The reported reason for
the removal is that the land whereon the
cemetery was located had been taken up
by settlers, who show a disposition to
level the graves and plant their seed
over the remains. Uncle Sam's guard
ians didn't relish this idea, and Lence
the transfer. The Fourth cavalry, with
the band, m full dress and accouter-
merits, were at the depot to meet and
conduct the mortuary procession to the
cemetery at Fort Walla Walla, where
the remains were reinterred with mili
tary ceremonies. Philadelphia Ledger.
To Shorten the Time.
. The journey from London to Berlin
will soon be shortened by more than an
hour. The Great Eastern, which has
done so much to cheapen continental
traveling, intends starting a new daily
service between Harwich and Hoek van
Holland. The whole matter was recent
ly settled at a confidential conference in
which the representativis of all the Dutch
railways took part. The Hoek line will
prove a powerful rival to Ostend. Lon
don World.
Taklnx Advantage of His Failing.
Mrs. Hashly You say you haven't
put a stove in Mr. Prettiboy's room.
How does he keep from freezing?
Mrs. Tartly I put a couple of mirrors
in his room.
Mrs. Hashly But they won't compen
sate him for the lack of a stove.
Mrs. Tartly They do. He keeps him
self warm by constantly walking from
one mirror to the other to look at him
self. Harper's Bazar.
By the burning of his country home in
Howard county, Md., Senator Gorman
lost his valuable library and all his
paintings, bric-a-brac and family relics.
His personal diary, in which there were
entries dating back to his entrance into
public life, was also burned, with valu
able political papers that can never be
replaced.
Valentine's bronze statue ot Stonewall
Jackson has been completed and will be
unveiled at Lexington, Va., the 21st of
next July. Jackson's grave is in the lit
tle cemetery near Lexington, where it is
marked by a plain . marble headstone
three feet high. The mound is frequently
covered with bunches of flowers.
The Brazilian government has failed
to obtain recognition by Germany, Spain,
Austria and Russia. - At St. Petersburg
the czar announced that nothing would
induce him to recognize the. republic
during the lifetime of Dom Pedro.,
French Canadians have been attracted
by the accounts of deserted farms in
Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine,
and report has it that by spring the great
bulk of these lands will have passed into
their possession.
Ex-King Milan is to be allowed 30,000
a year by the Servian, regency. He has
decided to establish himself in Paris and
has bought a house there in the Avenue
du Boia de Boulogne.
In ,the last two weeks large sales of lots XAflfim
have been made at Portland, Tacoma, Forest in the wm,.
" ' The New
Grove, McMinnville and The Dalles. All..Bfl0tMdsh
are satisfied that ' factory
North Dalles
Is now the place for investment.
ufactories are to be added and
i"v'ii"a iuouc. xn utjjLt tivj uays win oe im
portant ones for this new city.
Call at the office of the
Interstate Investment Co.,
0l" 72 Washington St., PORTLAND, Or.
O. D. TAYLOR, THE DALLES, Or.
: DEALERS IN :-
staple
and Fancy
Hay, Grain
Cheap Express Wagons los. 1 and 2.
Orders left at the Store willjreceive prompt attention.
Trunks andp'ackages delivered to any part of the City.
Wagons always on hand when Trains or Boat arrives.
No. 122 Cor. Washington and Third. Sts.
H- F- GLKSIER,
DEALER IN
pine Cigars and Tobacco
Pipes, Cigarettes and Smokers' Notions.
GO TO
THE SMOKER'S EMPORIUM.
109 Second St., The Dalles.
H. C. NIELS6N,
Glothiei and Tailor,
Hoots and Shoes, 32to.
CORNER OF SECOND AND WASHINGTON STS., THE DALLES, OREGON.
31. O. NICKELSEN, 43-
DEALER IN-
STfiTIOHEHY, NOTIONS,
BOOKS AND MUSIC.
Cor. of TIM aM Washington Sts, The Dalles, Oregon.
D. W. EDWARDS,
DEALER IN
Paints, Oils, Glass, Wall Papers, Decora
tions, Artists' Materials, Oil Paintings, Chromos and Steel EnaravlnS.
Mouldings and Picture Frames, Cornice Poles
Etc., Paper Trimmed Free.
Picture Frames 3Vr.cS.e to Ox-dor.
276 and 278, Second Street. - - - The Dalles, Or.
BARGAINS IN
CL O THIN
Hats and Gaps,
G6NTS FURNISHING GOODS;
FULL STOCK: STAPLE GOODS:
N. HARRIS. Corner Second and Court-st.
ItaftEre'JHj.
Wire Works.
New Man- VWIWVL.... ,
m i
large improve- MCU, Vninor
Several
Fine Cottaps.
Jlem Railroad
locenes,
and Feed.
Boots and Shoes,
Gr