The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
THE DALT.ES ..... OKKfiON.
Entercd at the Poatofnee at The Dalles, Oregon,
as second-class matter.
STATE OFFICIALS.
Governor fi. Pennover
Treasurer I'hillip Metschau
feupt..ff Public Instruction... E. B. McKlroy
1 -ftMlgnell
Congressman 11. Hermann
State Printer Frank Bnker
COCNTY OFFICIALS.
Connty Judge. C N. Thomburv
Fherift I. L. Oates
. Clerk J. B. CroKsen
Treasurer ieo. ltuch
Commissioner. Frank Klneuid
Assessor John K. Harnett
Kii.vAi-it. 1.' V Khun.
superintendent ot 1'UDUC neuoois. . .'iroy tmeiiey
Coroner William Michell
A MATTER OF JUSTICE.
An agent of the Union Pacific appeared
before the committee having the portiige
railroad bill in charge, and arguing
again pt the passage of the bill, said it
was unjust to the Union Pacific to pass
such a bill, because it would injure that
road's business, it having leased the O.
K. & N., lines in good faith ; and that it
was not now making 5 per cent, on the
leased road. It is a sight to make angels
weep when Jay Gould lifts his innocent
little hands to the legislature of Oregon
und pleads for justice. "What does he
UHk, that he may have justice? Since
he gobbled up the O. R. & N., there is
not a man in his employ whose wages he
dare reduce, that he, with his hundreds
of millions of dollars, has not compelled
to take lower wages. There is not today
a white citizen of Oregon employed in
caring for his property except the section
bosses, but the place of every section
hand is filled by a Chinaman, simply
livcause a few cents a day could be saved
to add to his ill-gotten millions. There
is not a fanner in Eastern Oregon who
turns the stubborn soil, and labors
in the hot sun, but that is systematically
plundered of the fruits of his labor ex
'cept the bare pittance of a living, by
exhorbitant freight rates ; and this man
comes before our representatives and
asks them to protect him from us ! For
years, we have been compelled to pay
the way freight back from Portland on
all eastern shipments. For years, this
corporation has levied a tax on our wool
shipped east, of forty-five cents a hundred
more than is charged for the same freight
Jroin Portland ! For years, our products
have been rated, not for what the service
was worth, but for what they would
stand without driving the producer out
of business! For years, this robbery,
for such it is, since our position is taken
advantage of to plunder us, has been
systematically pursued, and now when
the people endeavor to throw off their
Vnl.'P Sirirl urilivA t. lltt Clrul-m van rViliiTYtViio
which no corporation can control, if
open, this remorseless railroad shark,
aisks that he be given justice. Oh ! that
it were in the iower of the legislature to
grant his request, and meet out to him a
full measure of pure justice. He asks
our representatives not to deliver us
from his grasp ! not to give us an oppor
tunity to help ourselves ! not to allow us
to seek the markets of the world unless
over his road I not to allow pur products
to reach the markets without paying toll
to him ! not to permit us to better our
condition and be free men ! We know
not what the legislature -a ill do. We
know not how far the folly of men will
carry them ; but we too ask justice ! We
ask that our own money be expended in
giving us relief from a consciencless,
soulless, grasping corporation, that for
ten years has choked the life and spirit
out of our industries.
SUE WILL BE FRIENDLESS IN
DEED. In speaking of the division of the
' state into congressional districts Judge
J. C. Moreland said Wednesday to an
Oregonian reporter:
"I think, for one thing, that is a good
provision of tho bill which puts Eastern
Oregon and Multnomah county into one
congressional district, for without any
geograpnical division, this difference is
being observed more and more. There
is less prejudice against Portland
throughout Eastern Oregon than through
the valley counties, and the citizens will
work together better in that way, I
think, than any other.
"It is a wrong idea, however, to adopt
the June census, as it does injustice to
Portland. The government census was
badly botched, all of it, but in Portland
it was worse than anywhere else. In
the main, the committee is a good one
and will probably do the right thing."
We sincerely hope that the judge is
mistaken in Haying that the valley coun
ties have a stronger prejudice against
Portland than Eastern Oregon has, for if
they have, she is friendless indeed.
Eastern Oregon recognizes the fact that
Portland's interests are to a great extent
her interests. She realizes that . her
trade, her business associations, her
friendship naturally belong to Portland,
and for years she has been trying to
force them all upon her. Portland has
proven a coy damsel, turning a deaf ear
to our wooings and a cold shoulder to
our proffered embraces. Only in the
character of a mercenary flirt has she
given us any attention whatever. Our
courtship has been conducted much
after that of Jupiter when he sought the
unapproachable Danae, or to come to a
more modern comparison much like the
Portland politician mashes the voters at
the primaries. We have for years lav
ished our wealth upon her, and now that
we seek to increase our facilities for
sending her our wealth she meets us
with so little encouragement that we are
liable to fail. Ever since, the O. R. & N.
constructed its road Portland has stren
ously opposed the opening of the Colum
bia, and is now if not openly objecting,
is damning the project with less than
half-hearted assistance. We are indeed
sorry that this state of affairs exists, for
the welfare of the state demands that
sectional feeling be suppressed ; but the
fact is patent, and Eastern Oregon today
is held to Portland but by a slender
thread the hope of a portage railroad
and that broken, friendship ceases. We
are proud of our metropolis, and rejoice
in her growth and prosperity, both of
which are largely due to Eastern Oregon
but if she is to continue her ungrateful
course by standing in with our enemies,
to keep us the subjects of the Union
Pacific she will find that she has alien
ated her best friend. Eastern Oregon is
now making its last appeal to. her, and if
this is rejected she will not have a friend
east of the Cascade mountains.
The majority of Portland people inter
viewed for the Oregonian think the
apportionment of the state should be
made according to the June census. They
think, and rightly, that no advantage
should be taken of the fact that Mult
nomah and Marion counties got a new
census and a considerable increase, lie-
cause it is fair to presume that the
balance of the state was also under rated.
Jay Gould asks for justice in order
that the steamer Baker may have no
opposition on the middle Columbia. As
she has been tied up at Crate's point for
six weeks and the people on the Wash
ington side of the river left without trans
portation facilities we regret exceedingly
that he cannot get what he asks justice
Our sheep owners are charged $27,000
a year more by Jay Gould for shipping
their wool east than it would cost to ship
it from Portland. Is this that gentle
man's idea of justice?
Jay Gould asking the Oregon legisla
ture for justice, evidently forgets that its
jurisdiction is limited. Nothing short of
Omnipotence has any business with the
equities in his case.
When Jay Gould shuffles off this
mortal coil he will get a new De'il.
Snyder and the Wild Cat.
Chauncey Snyder, who resides upon
the road leading to the Overlook mount
ain, for some time past has missed sheep
from his flock, and after a light enow
which had fallen he saw the tracks of a
huge wild cat in the field. By the light
of .the new moon he lay in wait for the
lover of lamb and mutton should he
make another nocturnal visit. He had
his faithful dog with him, and it was
near midnight before the sheep destroy
er pnt in an appearance.
He made straight for a lamb, and Sny
der bid his dog to "go for him." Jack,
a huge bulldog, with a bound left his
master, and soon the cat and dog were
in a deadly conflict. The wild cat was
a monster, with claws full half an inch
in length and as sharp as needles, and
when Snyder neared the combatants the
enow was crimson with blood. The cat
had a decided advantage over the dog
when Snyder came to the rescue, but he
dared not shoot for fear of killing the
faithful n-nirpul,
. He raised his gun and brought it down
with full force upon the wild cat's skull.
The animal reeled and seemed staggered,
but it was for a moment only. With
glaring eyes it sprang upon Snyder's
shoulders and sent its teeth deep into
the flesh. Jack was np in time and
grappled with the brute, and then came
a rough and tumble fight in which all
three engaged. Snyder rained blow after
blow upon the bat's head with his gun
barrel until tie ferocious beast lay quiv
ering in death. .
Both Snyder and his dog had paid
dearly for their victory. The former had
a deep wound in his shoulder while the
latter's flesh was lacerated and torn, and
the blood ebbed from a dozen gaping
wounds. The animal weighed thirty
four pounds and is the largest of its
species ever killed in the Catskills.
Kingston Argus.
From Under the Mistletoe.
Christmas romping has never gone out
of vogue, and as it is, after all, an in
nocent romp, who would want it to? No
southern girl would do like the elderly
English maiden who wore a wreath of
mistletoe on her head, thus inviting a
continued series of kissings, but each
one is considerate enough to never get
under the mistletoe unless her very own
sweetheart is near her. The mistletoe is
removed after Christmas night, for it
represents a frolic only kept up while
everybody is present.
The great delight of the establishment
is always to get grandpapa or grand
mamma under the mistletoe bough, and
then to let a procession be formed, each
member of which imprints a kiss on the
dear faces. These kisses are good-, sweet,
pure ones, and there is no girl who
should be advised against being in the
room where the mistletoe is. It is true
that Tom may seize a kiss if you happen
for a minute to be under the waxy look
ing berries; it is true that you may in
cite your mother to kiss Tom as he stands
there inviting tribute from you, but this
is all honest play to which none but
prudes could object.
Get the dear mother to take her place
then, and see how the boys, young and
old, will strive to kiss the lips that say
the kindly words, or to make a rosy
blush come on her face as the tender
tribute is placed on her forehead by
some friend of her girlhood, somebody
who reverences the beautiful lips she has
had. As long as the mistletoe repre
sents sweet, pure fun, hang it up, and
do not let the waxen berries be for
gotten. Ruth Ashmore in Ladies' Home
Journal.
HAIRY AND HOOFED.
A Remarkable Human Monstrosity In
' sola in me bmw or Minnesota.
The St. Paul Globe gives the following
regarding the .imp of Satan . born to a
Minnesota woman, an account of-which
appeared in a special, dispatch to the
Leader Sunday morning : .
"Ot all the hideous malformations ever
heard of the five-weeks-old offspring of
Charles and Sarah Miller,- of McLeod
county, Minn., is the most atrocious.
Accounts of horrible vagaries of nature
have been published, but the awful hin
doo of the village of Plato outdoes all
previous horrors. The Millers are a
young couple. The husband is a shoe
maker, doing a fairly good business, and
t'ie Millers had every reason to be satis
fied with the world as they found it Until
five weeks ago, when Mrs. Miller gave
birth to the nondescript . creature whose
presence has horrified the community
and conferred upon the parents an un
enviable reputation. The Catholic resi
dents of the village are in a ferment of
excitement as the result of the statement
made by Mrs. Miller anent happenings
preceding the birth of the monstrosity.
Two months ago, three weeks prior to
Mrs. Miller's confinement, a . Jewish
peddler came to the house selling colored
oleographs of the crucifixion. He was
told to go about his business, but pressed
his wares in such a manner that Mrs.
Miller became exasperated and declared
that she would sooner have the devil in
her house than the portrait of her
Savior.
The meaning of the preference she
had expressed did not dawn on the un
fortunate woman until she was brought
face to face with the frightful creature
to which she has given birth. This
child or. as manv nersons believe this
devil was born with hair all over its
body nearly two inches long. The face
and hands even are not exempt, they
are similarly coated. The features are
absolutely fiendish in expression, and
the eyes shine like two little beads from
beneath a pair of shaggy brows. It has
a tail eighteen inches long. This enfant
terrible was provided at its birth with a
full set of teeth. Two short, sharp horns
protrude from the skull.
like hands are furnished with claws like
those of an eagle. The feet are exactly
like the hoofs of a goat, and the hair
covering the body is as coarse as goat's
hair, and similar in appearance. The
creature could crawl from its birth, and
refusing the natural sustenance of an
normal child of like age, it left its
mother's side, sliding on its hands and
knees all over the house, devouring anv
scraps to be found. This child devil
is now five weeks old, and has alreadv
shown itself as a ferocious beast. It
snaps savagely at the restraining hand,
and the facial expression produced by
an effort to curb the tendencies of the
creature is inexpressibly friehtful.
- The mother is almost an imbecile as a
result of her horrible experience, and
the father acts as though crazed. Phy
sicians are pouring into the village in
dozens, and people from surrounding
counties are arriving constantly, all
anxious to see the freak. The authori
ties threaten to arrest, heavily fine anv
person known to spread the report ; the
condition of the father . mentally and
physically being extremely precarious
inaeea. a gin working in the house,
whose name is withheld by request, yes
terday encountered the five-weeks-old
hend on its way down stairs. She en
deavored to carry it back to the room
from which it had escaped, when the
creature attacked her so fiercely that she
was compelled to knock it down with a
pitcher she was carrying- It is impossi
ble that the efforts at concealment can
prove successful, as the facts have been
communicated by local physicians to
their co-workers in the cities, and every
train brings new additions to the crowd
already at Plato., The Catholic religion
is predominent there, and the members
of that church are firm in the belief that
the freak has been sent on the mother
for her unholy sentiment."
A gentleman of this city has received
a letter from a friend in Minnesota with
the above slip stating that it is undoubt
edly true, and that intense excitement
prevails, the village being visited by
hundreds of people.
How to Judge Wool.
The finest and softest wool is always
on the shoulders of the sheep. An ex
pert in judging sheep always looks on
the shoulders first. A writer of exper
ience in rearing fine wooled sheep and
in handling wool communicates the
following suggestions for selecting a good
wooled sheep. Always assuming that
the wool to be selected is really fine, we
first examine the shoulders as a part
where the finest wool is to lie found.
This we take as a standard, and compare
it with the wool from the ribs, the thigh,
the rumps and shoulder parts, and the
nearer the wool from the various por
tions of the animal approaches the stand
ard the better. First we scruitinize the
fineness, and if the result is satisfactory
we pronounce the fleece, in respect to
fineness, very "even." Next, we scruti
nize the length of the staple, and if we
find that the wool on the ribs, thigh and
back approximate reasonably in length
to that of our standard, we again declare
the fleece, as regards length of staple,
"true and even." We next satisfy our
selves as to the density of the fleece, and
we do this by closing the hand upon a
portion of a rump and loin wool, these
points being usually the thinnest and
more faultry. If this again gives satis
faction we designate all the wool "even
to density." Now, to summarize these
separate examinations : If the fleece is
nearly of equal length on shoulder and
across the loins, we conclude that we
have a perfect sheep for producing val
uable wool. Town aud Country Journal.
YOU NEED BUT ASK
The S. B. Headachs and Liver Cube taken
according to directions will keep your Blood,
Liver ana Kidneys in good order.
The 8. B. Cough Cube for Colds, Coughs
and Croup," in connection with the Headache
Cure, is as near perfect as anything known.
The- S. B. Alpha Pain Cube for internal and
external use, in Neuralgia, Toothache, Cramp
Colic and Cholera Morbus, Is unsurpassed. They
are well liked wherever known. Manufactured
at Dufur, Oregon. For sale by all druggists.
Notice to Fuel Con sumers
HpR; BEJJTOfl,
, Have on hand a lot of .
Fir and
Hard Wood.
Also a lot of
ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY.
Office corner
Third and Union Streets,
SNIPES & KTDTERSLEY,
Wholesale ani Retail Druggists.
Fine Imported, Key West and Domestic
f AGENTS FORI
EST'D vIF 1862.
tf. E. bYaid do.,
Heal Estate,
Insuranee,
and ioan
AGENCY.
Opeira House Bloek,3d St.
-FOR-
Oamets ag Furniture,
CO TO
PRINZ & NITSCHKE,
And be Satisfied as to
QUALITY AND PRICES.
. E. GARRETSON.
iMii Jeweler.
SOLE AGENT FOE THE
AH Watch Work Warranted. !
Jewelry Made to Order.
138 Second St., The Dalles, Or.
REMOVAL.
H. Glenn has removed his
office and the office of the
Electric Light Co. to. 72
Washington St.
L., ,. , -YMim mi
THE DALLES.
The Grate City of the Inland Empire is situated at
the head of navigation on the Middle Columbia, and
- -
is a thriving, prosperous city. v
ITS TERRITORY.
It is the supply city for
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, and all available storage
places to overflowing with their products.
ITS WEALTH
It is the richest city of its size on the coast, and its
monev is scattered over and isT-imncr nsaoVI n Aa-rreAmn
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more farming country than is tributary to any other '
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. 7V7XCK.
Ufyoale : Ikjuor : Dealer,
171 SECOND STREET, THE DALLES, OREGON.
S. L. YOUNG,
(Successor to E. BECK.
-DEALER IN-
WATCHES, CLOCKS,
Jewelry, Diamonds,
SILVERWARE, :-: ETC
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
Repaired and Warranted.
165 Second St.. The Dalles, Or.
John Pashek,
Oercfiani 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.
an extensive and rich agri
a distance of over twb
Quality of Wines and Liquors, go to:
The successful merchant is
the one who watches the mar
kets and buystothe best advan
tage. The most prosperous family is
the one that takes advantage of
low prices.
The Dalles
MERCANTILE CO.,
Successor to
BROOKS & BEERS.
will sell yo choice
Groceries and Provisions
OF ALL KINDS, AND
AT MORE KEASONABLES RATES
THAN ANI OTHER PLACE
IN THE CITT.
1
REMEMBER we deliver all PJr
chases without charge.
390 AND 394 SECOND STBjST.
FINE FARM TO RENT.
THE FARM KNOWN A8 THE "MOORE
Farm" situated on Three Mile creek about
two and one-half miles from The Dalles, will ba
leased for one or more years at a low rent to any
responsible tenant. This farm has upon it a T
good dwelling house and necessary out build-
Intra, about two acres of orchard, about three
nulla rea ajres unaer lhiliii""i
of the land will raise a pood volunteer wheat
crop In 191 with ordinarily favorable weather.
The farm Is well watered. For terms and particu
lars enquire of Mrs. Sarah A. Moore or at the offloa
of Mays. Huntington & Wilson, The Dalles, Or..
' SAKAH A. MOORE, Executrix.