The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
THE DALLES
- OREGON.
Enteral at the Postoffice at The Dalles, Oregon,
an second-clan matter.
STATE OFFICIALS.
Governor.. , S. Pennoyer
Secretary of State G. V. Sn-Hiide
Treasurer rhillip Metnehau
Sunt, of Public Instruction E. B. McElroy
Dt , (J. N. Dolph
enators j. H. Mitchell
ConerecsmHU H. Hermann
State Printer '. . .Frank Bitter
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Craintv Judee. C. N. Thornburv
Bberift D. I- CateK
Clerk J. B. Crossen
Treasurer Keu Kuch
Commissioners j Fronk'inellfd
AfweHsor John K. Burnett
Surveyor E. F. Sharp
Suiennteiident of Public Schools. . .Troy Hhellev
Coroner William iliehell
THOSE LAND MATTERS.
Representative Hermann was today
before the commissioner ot t he general
land ofbce and urged tliat telegraphic
instructions be forwarded the land
ofiices at The Dalles, Oregon City and
L,a Grande to allow land filings within
the restored limits of the Northern
Pacific railroad land grant. The act of
forfeiture was approved September 29th
last and the law made six months from
this time the limit within which filings
could be received, but over four months
of this time has practically expired
already, pending the preparation of in
structions by the department, which
will go forward tomorrow by mail. The
- senate resolutions extending the time as
recommended by the interior depart
ment were taken up by the house this
morning, but, on motion of Judge Hol
man, who desires to offer an amend
ment, it went over until tomorrow,
when, if not sidetracked by pressing ap
propriation bills, it will be considered
and passed. In the meantime the com
missioner will at once telegraph instruc
tions to receive filings, so as to save the
time consumed hy the mail.
If the above statement which was tele
graphed to the Oregonian Tuesday is
true, it will not be long before filings
will le again received. But as the land
officers here have received a telegram
stating that the instructions had ,bcen
ent by mail, the same day this telegram
was sent it is probably a mistake.
There can be no doubt though but that
vonsress will extend the time in which
priority rights can be asserted, as it
would be manifestly unjust to publish
the notices thirty days thus leaving but
a week or ten days at most in which the
occupant of lands could assert his rights.
It could not possibly be done in that
time.
TWO IMPORTANT LETTERS.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 29, 1891.
Regsiter and Receiver, The Dalles, Or.,
Sirs : On November 3d last, vou were
directed to call upon Wm. W. Gosney
to elect whether he would have his
homestead and timber-culture entries of
lands in section 5, township 3 south of
range 23, east, cancelled pursuant to his
relinquishment, and applications for re
payment, or have them stand for the
purpose of making the required proofs
and acquiring title. You will please re
port what action has been taken in the
premises. Respectfully,
Lkwib'A. Gbokf,
Commissioner.
Washington, D. C. Jan. 29, 1891.
Register and Receiver, The Dalles, Or.,
Slits : I am in receipt of registered let
ter of January 12, 1891, transmitting an
application by William II. Leathers for
the repayment of the fees paid on his
pre-emption filing 6089, for the N. E. k
sec, 31, T. 3. S., K. 25 E. At the time
the filing was made, in 1887 the land was
reserved under the grant to the North
ern Pacific Railroad Company, by the
legislative withdrawal which took effect
August 13, 1870, and the filing was there
fore illegal. This portion of said grant
was declared forfeited by the act Sept
ember 29, 1890, but the forfeited lands
are not subject to disposal under the pre
emption law. The filing has accordingly
this day been cancelled. You will
transmit the duplicate receipt and re
linquishment referred to in your letter.
The repayment will be the subject of a
further letter. Respectfully,
Lewis A Gkoff,
Commissioner.
It will be seen from the above that all
persons who have located railroad lands
in good faith, either under the homestead
or timber-culture acts, and have since
complied with the law, will be allowed
to make final proof and acquire title.
At the same time it will appear, that
these lands cannot, under any circum
stances, be acquired under the pre-emption
laws.
Senator Dolph seems to take the lead
in advocating the construction of the
Nicaragua canal, and proposes that the
general government expend $100,000,000
on the scheme. " We do not understand
how the senator can ask so large a sum
for he has frequently stated that it would
be unwise to ask any larger sums than
we have been granted for fear that we
would get nothing. It may be, and
perhaps is good policy to construct the
Nicaragua canal, but it strikes us forcibly
that the expenditure of a small portion
of that sum in completing proposed
river and harbor improvements would
be a better use for the money. A lump
sum and contract work on the obstruc
tions to navigation in the Columbia for
instance would be thoroughly appre
ciated. The fruit interests of Oregon demand
the retention of the horticultural com
missioners. The battle with fruit pests
has but just begun in this state and the
present commission Las done excellent
work in making the fruit grower under
stand the nature of the pests, showing
that our orchards are afflicted, and rec
ommending suitable treatment. It
would be a public misfortune for this
board to be disorganized.
: THE BILL IN DANGER.
There is an evident intention on the
part of the legislature to kill the portage
railroad bill. Miller chairman of the
house committee is bitterly opposed to it
and is keeping it from getting before the
house. It is probable that these ' tactics
will be followed until late in the session,
that the bill will be reported with an
obnoxious amendment, and that it will
not have time to get through. If Mr.
Miller understood the temper of the
people up this way he would hesitate
about following this course. Any one
who opposes this bill will hear from
Eastern Oregon should he ever be up for
office, and it is going to give the party
twenty years work to recover the ground
the defeat of this bill will lose for them.
The Union Pacific is making a hard
fight against the bill, and its fate will
show whether the legislature attaches
more weight to the demands of the
people, or the commands of the Union
Pac.iflj.
The United States Government has
never understood and apparently never
wanted to understand the value of Al
aska. Secretary Seward was laughed at
when he made the purchase, and that
country has leen a laughing stock ever
since. The fact of the matter is that
Alaska is rich in mineral and forest pro
ducts, and her fisheries are the best in
the world. It is high time slue be given
a territorial government and the people
a representative in congress. She now
occupies in the minds of the eastern
people, the place made vacant by the
settlement of the country between the
Missouri and the Sierra Nevada moun
tains, and the consequent vanishing of
the great American desert.
The silver pool investigation drags
along slowly and will result in a general
whitewashing of all concerned. The
testimony leaves no doubt but that
many members of congress and senators
were guilty of buying silver previous to
the passage of the silver bill. There
would be no harm in this were it not
for the fact that their votes on the quee-
tion were supposed to have been in
fluenced by their interests. Investiga
ting committees are generally appointed
to smooth over and cover up the things
tbey are 'supposed to investigate, and
this committee will not prove an excep
tion to the rule.
A GOOD Sill.
To Assist Officers In the IMscharsre of
their Duty.
Be it enacted bu the Legislative Assemhlv
of tlie iState ot Ureqon:
hectlon 1. That any person who shall
wilfully refuse to assist an officer in the
lawiul discharge of any duty pertaining
to his office, when requested to do so by
such othcer, such person shall be subject
to indictment theretor, and upon con
viction thereof shall be punished bv im
prisonment in the county jail not less
than ten days nor more than thirty days.
or by fine of not less than $50 or more
than SoOO, or by both such fine and nn
prisonment, in the discretion of the
court.
Inasmuch as it is of great importance
that officers should be rendered assist
ance whenever necessary, in the lawful
discharge of anv duty pertaining to their
office, this act shall be in force and. take
effect from and after appro tred by the
governor.
They Agglutinate.
The Dalles has at last found something
that its citzens can unite on, and that is
in demanding an open river. We sin
cerely hope their wishes may re gratified,
and having found that thev can unite.
and tnat the other lei lows are not all
crow that thev will maintain this cheer
fut frame of mind, and stand together
to build up their citv. The Dalles has
unequalled advantages, the finest loca
tion for an inland citv on the coast, and
with a proper unity slie would soon start
a period of development that would make
her what she ought to be, the best city
in uiinuu cuiuiic. mucu cut; Its
bounded on the west bv Cascade county
with Hood River a populous thriving
- i - i ;n i -1 ,
ciiy, which win uappeii in me near iu
ture, she will look back to the days of
her quarreling and wonder what it was
all about. Hood River Glazier.
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.
tor sale by Snipes s Kinersly.
On Hand.
J. M. Huntington & Co. announce
that they "are prepared to make out the
necessary papers for parties wishing
to nie on so caned 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.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works built
voz locomotive in 189U. .
YOU NEED BUT ASK
' The 8. B. Headache and Liver Curb taken
according 10 directions will keep your Blood,
Liver and Kidneys in good order.
Thb 8. B. Cough Cure for Colds, Coughs
and Croup, in connection with the Headache
Cure, is as near perfect as anything known. -
The S. B. Alpha Pain Cure for internal and
external use, in Neuralgia, Toothache, Cramp
Colic and Cholera Morbus, is unsurpassed. Thev
are well liked wherever known. Manufactured
at iraiur, Oregon, t or sale by all druggists.
Brain' Poker HlufT.
George Cole, of Fairhaven, "Wash.,
who has had charge of a Port Townsend
southern party of engineers for some
time past, was in the city the other day,
and talked freely of the experiences the
'boys" had had with big game in that
wild region. One of the stories which
he relates is as follows: .
"During the summer we had a pet
bear one that we caught when it was
only a few weeks old, and kej.t until it
got to be a nuisance. We had trained
it down to a fine point. Yon have heard
of the educated hog that 'could read?
Well, Ruby couldn't do that exactly, but
he could play cards, and when it came
to a bluff at poker he simply couldn't be
beaten. Me was sublime.
'Tve seen him when there was a pot of
fifty or more lumps of sugar we al
ways played for sugar when Ruby was
in it bluff the entire gang and rake in
the stakes when it proved he had 'noth
ing better than a pair of twos. No, he
couldn't talk; but he'd wag his head if
he wanted to pass, and his eye stood
him in good stead when it came to any
thing else. Wonderful eye had Ruby.
and I don't suppose we would have
killed him if we hadn t caught him one
day, after -he had won nearly all the
sugar in the outfit, scratching his ear
and pulling out an extra ace from one of
the big wrinkles in his neck; Alas, poor
Rnbyl He was a thoroughbred, but too
smart for this country, and we had part
of him for dinner that day." Forest and
Stream.
England's limits In the Middle Ages.
It is a curious fact that in the Middle
Ages England was horticulturally much
behind the continent of Europe. In
Chaucer's time the English larder was
very meagerly supplied with vegetables.
and but indifferently with fruits. Onions,
leeks, nettles, peas and mustard were the
only articles that then figured in the
short catalogue of English vegetable
supplies. There is no trace of the exist
ence of cabbage in England at this
period. In the contemporary accounts
of orchards there is no allusion to plums,
only once to damsons. The pears were
poor, but the apples were good. It is ques
tionable whether cherries, raspberries
and strawberries had crossed the Chan
nel. The cherry gardens of Kent were first
planted by a servant of Henry VTLL Be
fore the close of the Sixteenth century,
the turnip had reached England; so had
the cauliflower and the quince, for both
are mentioned by Gerarde in his 'Her
bal. " Carrots, when Gerarde- wrote,
were still a foreign vegetable, though
their naturalization in England was not
far off. In 1612 we hear of the peach,
the almond and the filbert among the
products of an English orchard, and in
1630 the apricot was transplanted from
Morocco. New York Ledger.
Fulfillment of a Dream.
The persons who place any reliance in
the prophetic qualities of dreams, an ar
gument in Bupport of their theory may
be deduced from an incident that oc
curred some time before the escape of
two prisoners from the Riverside peni
tentiary. The best known man of the pair, Paddy
McGraw, has a married sister living in
the hill district. About two weeks be
fore McGraw made the perilous descent
to liberty o'er the prison walls she
dreamed one night that her brother had
made his escape much in the same way
that it actually occurred.
She told several neighbors about it the
next day, who can vouch for the ac
curacy of these statements. While she
had the sympathy of a sister for a
brother, when she awoke to the reality
she had to content herself with the
knowledge that Paddy's checkered ca
reer was at an end for the time being,
and that while they knew where he was,
they also knew he was away from the
reach of all evil.
When the news of the escape became
generally known the above circumstance
was freely recalled, and dozens of people
are now familiar with the story in the
locality mentioned. Pittsburg Dispatch.
irds' Egcs.
The old, wrinkled, dusky aunties of
southern plantations will tell children,
"Do not eat the bluebirds' eggs; they
make you love to wander." They believe
that the pale blue eggs of that beautiful
creature, "that violet of the air," that
bird with "sky tinge on his back, earth
tinge on his breast," will make the greedy
nest robber restless as long as he lives,
No place, however enticing, can hold the
being who has once tasted a bluebird's
egg.
He who eats a mocking bird's egg will
be compelled to "tell all he knows." The
one who robs a killdee's nest and eats its
eggs will surely break an arm.
He who eats a dove's, egg will be fol
lowed by bad luck, while the egg of any
bird of yellow plumage will be sure to
cause a fever, and he who eats an owl's
egg will be always shrieking. The eater
or a crow's egg will always, as old aunt
ies say, "be gwine on foolish like a crow
does go on, 'Ha! Ha! Hal' But a par
tridge's eggs," they declare, "dn des make
yon thrive an' grow fas'; dey is de onlies'
sort er birds' eggs dat you kin eat widout
findin' 'em dangersome." Youth's Com
panion. Ho Waited.
Allen O'Myers was lecturing in an np
country town. He had been speaking
ten minutes, when a man in the front
row arose and started to walk out. The
lecturer was not taken aback by this ex
pression of disapproval, but said, "Hold
on, my friend, Til join yon outside in
a couple of minutes." The audientse
laughed, and the man returned to his
seat without a clove. Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette.
Let Him Alone.
A box of hardware weighing 600
pounds fell overboard from a vessel at
Vancouver, and an octopus, who thought
he had struck a soft thing, drew it along
the sandy bottom of the harbor for a
distance of 400 feet before becoming dis
couraged. Among the "dont's" to be ob
served is don't fool with an octopus.
Detroit Free Press.
Notice to Fuel Consumers
mjier; beW,
Have on hand a lot of
Fir and
Hard Wood.
Also a lot of
ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY.
. Office corner '
Third and Union Streets,
SNIPES & KINERSLEY,
Wholesale ani Retail Dmiists.
Fine Imported, Key West and Domestic
(AGENTS FORI
EST'D 18624
d. e. BYak;d do.,
Heal Estate,
Insurance,
and Loan
AGENCY.
Opera. House filoe k,3d St.
-FOR-
Carpets ana Furniture,
CO TO
PRINZ & NITSCHKE,
And be Satisfied as to
QUALITY AND PRICES.
W. E. GARRETSON,
Leaaii-?-jeweler.
SOLE AGENT FOB THE
All Watch Work Warranted.
Je-welry Made to Order.
138 Second St., Tlie Dalles, Or.
REMOVAL.
H. Glenn has removed his
office and the office of the
Electric Light Co. to 72
Washington St.
THE DALLES.
The Grate City of tlie Inland Empire is situated at
the head of navigation on
is a thriving, prosperous
ITS TERRITORY.
It is the supply city for an extensive and riqh agri
cultural and grazing country, its trade reaching as
far south as Summer Lake,
hundred miles.
THE LARGEST WOOL MARKET.
The rich grazing country along the eastern slope
of the the Cascades furnishes pasture for thousands
of sheep, the -wool from -which finds market here.
The Dalles is the largest original -wool shipping
point in America, about 5,000,000 pounds being
shipped this year.
THE VINEYARD OF OREGON.
The country near The Dalles produces splendid
crops of cereals, "and its fruits cannot be excelled. It
is the vineyard of Oregon, its grapes equalling Cali
fornia's best, and its other fruits, apples, pears,,
prunes, cherries etc., are unsurpassed.
' ITS PRODUCTS.
The salmon fisheries are the finest on the Columbia,
yielding this year a revenue of $1,500,000 which can
and -will be more than doubled in the near future.
The products of the beautiful Klickital valley find
market here, and the country south and east has this
year filled the -warehouses,
places to overflo-wing "with
ITS WEALTH
It is the richest city of its size on the coast, and its
money is scattered over and is being used to develop,
more farming country than is tributary to any other
city in Eastern Oregon.
Its situation is unsurpassed! Its climate delight
ful! Its possibilities incalculable! Its resources un
limited! And on these corner stones she stands.
: For the Best Brands and Purest
J. O.
Ul7ole5ale : Qquor : Dealer,
171 SECOND STREET, THE DALLES, OREGON.
S. L. YOUNG,
(8uccesor to E. BECK.)
-DEALER IN-
WATCHES, CLOCKS,
Jewelry, Diamonds,
SMERWilRE, :-: ETC
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
Repaired and Warranted.
165 Second St.. The Dalles, Or.
John Pashek,
JHeicHant Tailor.
. Third Street, Opera Block.
Madison's Latest System,
Used in cutting garments, and a fit
guaranteed each time.
Repairing and Cleaning
Neatly and Quickly Done.
the Middle Columbia, and
city. b
a distance of over twc
s
and all available storage
their products. ,
Quality of Wines and liquors, go to :
The successful merchant is
the one who watches the mar
kets and buysto the best advan
tage. The most prosperous family is
the one that takes advantage of
low prices.
The Dalles
MERCANTILE CO.,
SuccesMir to -
BROOKS & BEERS.
will sell yoo choici
Groceries and Provisions
OF ALL KINDS, AND
f4ai?dxtaie
AT KOBE BEASONABLE8
THAN ANY OIHEB. FLACK
THE CITT.
REMEMBER we deliver all pur
chases without charge.
390 AND 394 SECOND STREET.
FINE FARM TO RENT.
THE FARM KNOWN AS THE "MOORB
Farm" situated on Three Mile creek about
two and one-half miles from The Dalles, will be
leased for one or more years at a low rent to any
responsiDie tenant, imn wnu " i"" r,
f ood dwelling house and necessary out bulld
ogs, about two acres of orchard, about thres
hundred ajres under cultivation, a large portion
of the land will raise a good volunteer wheat
crop In 1891 with ordinarily favorable weather.
The farm is well watered. For terms and particu
lars enquire of Mrs. Sarah A. Moore or at theottictf
of Mays. Huntington St Wilson, The Dalles, Or.
y ' 6AKAH A. MOOSE, Executrix.