The Dalles Daily Chroniele.
THK DALLKS
OREGON.
Entered at the Poatofficc at The Dalles, Oregon,
an Kecond-cliuui matter.
STATE OFFICIALS
Governor 8. Per. noyer
Secretary of State G. WT UoUrldo
Treasurer Phillip Metsehan
Bupt. of Public Instruction . . . E. B. McKln.y
I J. N. Polph
euator jj. H. Mitchell
Congressman -..B. Hermann
Stuto Printer ...Frauk BuU-r
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge. C. N. Thornbiiry
SlteriQ 1. l IVtes
Clerk . .? J. B. Crossen
Treasurer (.ew. Knob
Commissioner. Kr., nk' KlSd
Assessor Johu K. Burnett
Bnrvevor K. F. Sharp
Superintendent of Public Schools. ..Troy Hhellev
Coroner William Miehefl
ECHOES OF THE LEGISLATURE.
The Dalles water bill was begotten by
The Dalles coninion council. Its con
ception was legitimate and honorable,
but during the period of legislative gee
tat ion, by some occult process of genera
tion it assumed a new parentage and to
, day it is questionable if its own mother
would know it. It bus a poly-paternal
ancestry, of - at least Representative
Johnston, Senator Hilton and his honor
the mayor. Who else may be responsible
for the metamorphosis, the walls of the
ex-gubernatorial mansion at Salem
alone can tell. The bill was entrusted
to the care of Mr. Johnston. It was for
convenience in a printed form, and was
in due time introduced in the house "by
request," as if Mr. Johnston was bound
to disown it from the beginning. It was
promptly referred, with exquisite pro
priety, to the committee jm public
buildings! As well have referred it to
the committee on portage railroads. It
had no business there ; but in the hands
of any other committee, outside mayoral
influence, it would have been . fairly
treated, and this was not desired as the
sequel shows. After some time the
board of trade sent down to Salem, to
look after the bill, G. J. Farley and
Etnile Schunno. Mr. Farley lost no time
in finding Mr. Johnston, and enquired
' after its progress. Mr; Johnston said it
.was "all right." It had been reported
favorably from the committee, and would
be called up for final passage in a short
time. Mr. Farley asked if any changes
bad been made in the bill. Mr. Johnston
replied "I believe not." Two days after
wards the writer and Mr. Farley went to
the clerk of the house and asked to see
the bill. . We didn't see it ! We never
saw it ! We never will see it !. It was
gone; and in its place was another,
falsely and surreptitiously numbered
"237" (for even the title was changed)
nd written in the well-known hand of
a Dalles lady committee clerk, a guest of
the ex -gubernatorial mansion, with cor
rections and enimendations remarkably
like the ehirography of the cashier of the
Dalits National bank. We don't say it
was his. It might have been Joe Simons.
It might have been Governer Pennoyer'.
We only say it was like his. That's all.
An interview was immediately had with
the two members of the building com
mittee, M r. Botkin and Mr. Myers. They
emphatically denied all knowledge of the
substitute bill. They only knew, so they
said, tliat Mr. Johnston had, in com
mittee, pulled from his pocket, the bill
they had subsequently approved, and
said : "This is the bill the people of
The Dalles want ;" and of course this
was quite true, for "Brutus is an honora
ble man." These gentlemen were asked
if Mr. Johnston had shown them a reso
lution of The Dalles City council, approv
ing the bill and urging its passage, with
out amendment. They replied. "No
They Were asked if Mr. Johnston had
shown them a memorial of The Dalles
board of trade asking its passage, without
-amendment. They replied. "No.
They were asked if Mr. Johnston had
.shown them a petition, signed by the
representatives of fully three-fourths of
all the tax-payers of Dalles City, recom-
amendment. ""They replied. "No.
And yet, it is no truer that night follows
day, than it is true thai Mr. Johnston
bad all these documents in his possession
when the bill was in the hands of the
committee.
Thus did this representative of the peo
ple, whose friends had to lie for him,
during the last campaign, by assuring
the voters that he was not a "Moody
man," when in their hearts .some : of
them knew better, represent the people
of The Dalles, who honored him with
their suffrages.
We have no pleasure in writing thus,
of one whom we are feign to believe to
be an honest and honorable man. . A
happier lot were ours could we commend
and praise,, instead of disapprove and
: blame. If our words seem bitter, it is
but the bitterness of truth. We have
set down nothing in malice, and we
shall .set. down nothing, : We have
written nothing that we do not know or
believe to be true, and we shall write
nothing. ' The people demand ' US know
the truth. They deserve to; know the
truth. They shall know the .truth, and
the tale is not yet told. . ! '
There is one lesson that the people of
Eastern Oregon ought to learn for all
time, namely, never ' send a man to
represent you iri'the legislature, who ' is
in any way, . however remotely, con
nected with railroad corporations.. He'll
sell you out and vote for the railroad
just as sure as you send' him. Select a
man whose great grandmother's grand
father was a railroad stockowner and the
result is the same. It runs in .the blood,
uod increases as the generations ' near
the original stock ".owner, like frequent
handlings of wh,eat over a portage rail
road, in "geometrical progression."
Last June we selected a man for joint
representative of Wasco and Sherman,
who owned then and still owns a large
warehouse on the line of the Union. Pa
cific. When a question came up in the
legislature involving, on the one hand
the interests of hundreds of thousands
of the farmers and producers of the In
land Empire, and on the other hand,
his own, he was true to his lineage, true
to himself, true to the railroads, but
falne and traitorous to his constituents;
and those of us who supported him by
voice and vote, feel like saying, as an
aged democrat once said in our hearing,
while apologizing for once in his life hav
ing scratched his ticket, "If the Lord
forgives us for that offense, we'll never
do it again." .
The good people f Astoria to the
number of nearly two hundred have
signed their names to very flattering
address to Representative Welch, thank
ing him for the valuable services he
rendered them during the late session of
the legislature. The good people of
Wasco, Sherman county, complimented
our representatives, Messrs. McCoy and
Johnston, by burning them in effigy.
We are informed that they stnfled some
old clothes with straw and placed pow
der on the heads of the figures and as
the powder exploded in puffs, to each
puff was sung the refrain, "That's the
way they'll go up, that's the way they'll
go down."
Representative Hunsucker has intro
duced a bill in the .Washington legisla
ture which, if it becomes a law,- will
compel the Union Pacific to not .only
operate the portage road on t he Washing
ton side of the C ascade rapids, but will
force them to carry freight, from, oppo
sition boats, over the : portage, at the
rate of 45 cents a ton. , We devoutly
hope the bill may pass. The more ways
for competition with, the present monop
oly, the better for the people.
The Sutlei. a large river in? British In
dia, with a descent of 12,000 feet in 180
miles, is the fastest flowing i river in the
world. , )
It costs about $900 a minute to keep
the United States government in running
order. - - f
. - , . ; . f -
. Over 3,000,000,000,000: envelopes
manufactured in England annually.
. ABOVK THK . CIOIDS.
A. Bmxlmr Scmra.
In a residence on Fifty-eighth street
the other evening a couple of -young- la
dies had a curious adventure. Being
alone In the bouse, they heard the burg
lar alarm go off with a lond report. One
of them called their servant, and receiv
ing no response, she started down to see
what was the matter, bat was startled
to see a savage looking' man climbing in
at one of the windows, revolver in hand.
Although much excited she still sum
moned courage enough to order him out.
He answered, "Don't be afraid, Miss;
I'm detective. " She thought this was
a ruse and ran to the front door. Here
she ' was suddenly seized around the
waist by a man stationed at the door,
who exclaimed, "You are my prisoner."
At this juncture the first burglar came
down stairs and an explanation followed.
It appears that the servant, Maggie, had
gone out on some errand, and in closing
the door behind her. had set off the burg
lar alarm, In trying to open the door
she heard the screams of the young lady
above; she rushed up the street;. the first
couple of men she met happened to be
detectives; - she exclaimed, "Oh, gentle
men, do go in there is murder being
done." The brave detectives went to the
rescue, with the results we have seen
above. New York Star. -
lTnicatant Life of th .Slgrnal Serrtce
OJHcrra on Mount Washington.
Almost evervone is familiar with the
duties and the functions of the observers
of the signal service, says, Scribner't
Magazine. But on . Mount Washington
their duties are Kjculiar. Sven obser
vations must be made dail The re
cording-sheet of the anemometer must
be changed at noon. Three of the seven
observations must be forwarded in tel
egraphic cipher to the Boston station.
Koutine otnee work letters received
and sent must have attention between
times, and several blank forms must be
filled with statistics. The battery and
the wire of the telegraph plant must re
ceive caretui attention, ana the matter
of repairs is no inconsiderable one. The
station on Mount Washington, is the
bleakest, and, with one exception, the
coldest in the service. -Three to four
men, including a cook, are usually there.
with one cat and one dog. Life would
l)e very hard to bear there were it not
for the click! click! click! of the tele
graph instrument, which is the active
connecting link with the . world the
main-stav and hope of these recluses.
A nd then flirtations w ith the world's
operators is a necessity. .
A regular consternation occurs in cainn
when a storm breaks the wires and con
nection is lost. In such cases the obser
vers risk their lives in storm and cold in
search of the break rather than be with
out the assurance of safety which the
click seems to impart. The men live on
as good food as can be. The larder is
supplied in September, and the "refrig
erator" (the top story of the observatory)
is stocked at the same time". Meat and
poultry are placed there already frozen,
and they do not thaw "during the sea
son." '
The water supply comes from the frost-
feathers. Care is taken that two or
three barrels of these are stored in the
back shed always, and a boilerful of
tljju in a half-melted condition is ever
upon the cook stove. A water famine
has been known to occur, when, from
the oversight of the cook the supply of
frost feathers had been allowed to go
down, or "poor weather for frost feath
ers ' comes along. . A drink of this all-
healing feather water can always be
found on the stove, icy cold, if the cook
attends to his duty.
- On Hand.
J. M. Huntington & jo. announce
that they are prepared to make out the
necessary papers for parties . wishing
to hie 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 Ho"se Block next to
main entrance.
A Boston wig-maker savs that the bulk
of the hair used in this country for wigs
and switches is imported from France
and Germany. This hair is less brittle
and lasts longer than the hair of New
England women. "
A prominent physician and old army
surgeon in eastern Iowa, was called away
rrom nome tor a lew 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
arterwarus used several bottles at . var
ious times, tie 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
6ale by Snipes & Kinersly.
, A Wool and Snow Dietary.
A seasonable yarn comes from Beaver
Falls, Pa. Farmer George Wilson, who
lives in Franklin township, is the nar
rator. Three of his sheep were missed
daring the snow storm the night before
Christmas and were not f onnd again for
twelve days, when a farm . hand discov
ered them in a hollow, where the snow
had drifted to a depth of twenty feet.
A hole was shoveled into the drift, and
the sheep . were found .there safe and
sound, after their twelve days' fast. One
of the strsfcgest things of the whole at.
fair was that they had not a particle of
wool on their backs. Their hunger had
driven them to eat every roll of wool on
each other's backs. They had also eaten
such a quantity of snow, which, together
with the heat from their bodies, made a
veritable chamber, or cave. . The cave
was twenty feet in circumference by five
feet high. . At last reports the animals
were all doing well, though they seem to
be things of great interest to the other
sheep, which recognize their fellows, but
are unable, apparently, to account for
their entire absence of wool. Philadel
phia Ledger.
Paper Borseanoea.
It seems not unlikely that a change is
imminent in the ' method of shoeing
horses for military work, , The German
papers are devoting a great deal of at
tention to the discussion which is now
going on in the military world as to the
advisability of substituting compressed
paper for iron in horseshoes for the
German cavalry and artillery. After
many experiments under all manner of
conditions it has , been found that the
shoe which appears to be most worthy of
adoption is made up of sheets of parch
ment paper cemented together with a
special cement composed, of turpentine,
Spanish white, lac and boiled linseed
oil. : The separate pieces are stamped
oat, cemented and pressed together in
hydraulic press. - When dry the . shoe
thus formed is rasped into the exact
form and size required. New York
Commercial Advertiser.
The American saddle is being used by
tne uriusn mounted mtantry.
A Sleigh That Carted Silver.
Dave Crosby has purchased the old
sleigh of the Bonanza company. This
cutter has probably carried more wealth
in "its time than any other runnered ve
hicle in the world. It conveyed in tho
winter season all the bullion in the
palmy days from the mills of the com
pany to the assay office, and thence to
the place of shipment. : It has been in
active service as bullion carrier for up
ward of twenty years.' The precious
metal it has transported, if coined into
money, would carpet with metallic cur
rency a ten acre lot, with a residue suffi
cient to furnish half a dozen seats in the
United States Senate. Virginia' (Hey.)
Chronicle.-
Uow Some Reporters Work- .
We started in to get out our first edi
tion a week ago yesterday, and the fol
lowing are the hoars kept by one man on
the paper: - ;
From Bwan Thursday to 7 a. m. Friday.
From IS noon Friday to 11 :90 p. m. Saturday.
From 10:30 a. m. Sunday to 7 a. m. Monday.
From 12 noon Monday to 7 a." m. Tuesday.
From 11:80 a. m. Tuesday to 6 a. m. Wednesday.
From 1M5. m. Wednesday to5'.a0a- m. Thura-
day.
Total number of hours at work for the
week amount to 129 hours 45 minutes.
Average, 18 hoars S3 minutes a day.
Newburyport Standard.
SNIPES & KINEKSLEY,
Wholesale aci Retail Drniists.
Fine Imported, Key West and Domestic
(AGENTS FORI
sea.
THE
Tne Cxate City of tlie Inland Empire is situated a
tne nead ol navigation on the Middle Columbia), ajxi
is a thriving, prosperous city.
ITS TERRITORY.
It is the supply city for an extensive and rich agrf
cultural and grazing country, its trade reaching
h . a" -W a Ihl
huulzi as summer jaKe, a distance of oyeriXvr
hundred miles.
THE LARGEST WOOL MARKET.
d. E. BiYAlD 2( CD.,
Real Estate,
Insurance,
and Loan
AGENCY.
Opera House Bloek,3d St.
Don't Forg-et the
EJST p eiLOOJ
MacDonaW Bros., Props.
A Farmar'a Preclicaaneat.
A western Nebraska farmer, having;
no corn to feed them, loaded up a wagon
box full of . sho&ta and took them to
Broken Bow to sell. No one would take
them, and he turned them loose. The
marshal told him he would arrest .him
unless he took them out of town. He
then drove home and was going to kill
them when some one told him 'that he
might be arrested for cruelty to animals.
He hardly knows what to do. St. Jo
seph News. '
.. Waltes M.. Leman, a veteran actor,
who had played before Gen. Jackson,
Davy Crockett, Aaron Burr, Charles
Dickens and other celebrities, some of
whom he knew personally, has just died
at San Francisco at the age of 73 years.
Apropos of the amusing baby bunco
game . by which a number of leading
United States senators were fleeced, it is
said that over five hundred real or al
leged infants have been named after
Chauncey Mitchell Depew.
A 14-year-old cat belonging to Mrs.
Bradley, of Westport, Conn., recently
died. It was given an expensive funeral.
The remains were placed in a handsome
casket, and a granite slab is to be erected
over his grave. ...
King Kalakaua's most intimate friend
in this country was Clans Spreckels, the
big sugar refiner, whose advice the king
always asked for and usually followed
in emergencies.
THE BEST OF
Wines, Liquors and Ciprs
ALWAYS ON HAND.
Chas. Stubling-,
PROPRIETOR OP THK
New Vogt Block, Second St.
, i
yW HOLKSALK AND RETAILS j
Liquor v Dealer,
MILWAUKEE BEER ON DRAUGHT. I
The rich grazing country along the eastern slop!
of the the Cascades furnishes pasture for thousand
of sheep, the wool from which finds market here.
FT- --a mm '
ine uaiies is the largest original wool shippir
point in America, about 5,000,000 pounds beii?
shipped this year.
THE VINEYARD OF OREGON.
xne counxry near Tne Dalles produces splendJ
crops of cereals, and its fruits cannot be excelled.
is the vineyard of Oregon, its grapes equalling C
fornia's best, and its other fruits, apples, p
prunes, cherries etc., are unsurpassed.
ITS PRODUCTS.
The salmon fisheries are the finest ontheColumb
yielding this year a revenue of $1,500,000 which c
and will be more than doubled in the near future.
xne products ol the beautiful Klickital valley fij
market here, and the country south and east has tlf
year filled the warehouses, and all available storal
places to overflowing with their products.
ITS WEALTH
"It is the richest city of its size on the coast, and
money is scattered over and is being used to devel
more farming country than is tributary to any otK
city in Eastern Oregon.
Its situation is unsurpassed!. Its climate delig
full Its possibilities incalculable! Its resources
limited! And on these corner stones she stands.
S. L. YOUNG,
(Huceeuor to E. BECK.)
The successful merchan
li it one wno waxen e3 tne rti
kets and buysto the bestadvf
; tage.
The most prosperous fam
the one that takes advantage
low prices.
From TnflHor o customers, duriiiff the oast vcut.
comes the verdict that "VICKY'S SEED 3 neTCr
disappoint. Why waste time, money 2nd patience on
others, when you can buy the BEST same price f
in a ice no mistake tnis year; sena 10 cents tor viCJC'M
Floral dticfau deduct the 10 cents from first order.
and it costs nothing. It is better than ever; soo large
pages, colored plates, grand noveltie worthy of
cultivation. Cash prizes $1000 and ?oo.
JAMES VIOK. SEEDSMAN, BO0&Mtrt K Y.
FOR FINE
Commercial Job Printing
COME TO-
THE CHRONICLE OFFICE.
W. E. GARRETSON.
Jeweler.
UEALKU IN-
WBTCHES, CLOCKS,
Jewelry, Diamonds,
SILVERWARE,:-: ETC
i
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry j
Repaired and Warranted.
165 Second St.. The Dalles, Or.
-FOR-
GarpBts Bud Furniture.
CO TO
Leaflii-?-
' SOLE AGENT FOJt TIIK
All Watch Work Warranted.
Jewelry Made , to Order.
138 Seeood Sc., The Dalle. Or.
The Dalles
MERCANTILE CO
Successor to
BROOKS & BEERS.
will sell you ehoicc
Groceries and Provist
OF ALL KINDS. AXD I
AT MORS KEA8ONABLES RATlJ
THAN ANT OTHER Pi;
IN THK
REMEMBER we deliver all
chases without charge.
390 AND 394 SECOND STRJ
John Pashel
Mailt Tai
. Third Street, Opera Block I
PRINZ & NITSCHKE,
And be Satisfied as to
QUALITY AND PRICES.
REMOVAL.
H. Glenn has removed his
office and the office of the
Electric Light Co. to 72
m
Washington St.
Madison's Latest Systi
Used in cutting garments,, a
guHruutetxi eaco ume.
Kepainng anzrcieal
Neatly and Quickly Donf
FINE FARM TOR
fTSHE FARM KNOWN AS THE
X Farm" situated on Three Mile crl
two and one-half miles from The Dalle
leased for one or more yea'ii at a low ri
responsible tenant. 'mi nar
filRK, about two acres of Ji Vohard, a);
hundred a.res under cultivation, a la:!
of the land will raise a (rood volunu
crop in 1K1 with ordinarily favorable
The farm is well watered. For terms u
lars enquire of Mrs. barah A. Moore or :
of Mays, Huntington & Wilson, The
SARAH A. MOORE,