The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
THE DALl.KS
OREGON.
Entered at the INmtofltae nt The Dalles Oregon,
us second-class matter.
STATE OFFICIALS.
Governor S. Peimoyer
Secretary of State O. V. Mcllilde
Treasurer PhilUji Metsehan
bupt. of 1'ublir Instruction E. B. McElroy
(J. K. Dolph
etorK J J. H. Mitchell
Congressman M. Hermann
Stute Printer Frank Baker
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Countv Judge C. f. Thornbnry
Sheilrf 1. I Cites
Clerk J. J, t'nwsen
Treasurer ueu. Ruch
,, . . t IT' A. leavens
Commissioners jl-Tnk Kincuid
Assessor John E. Burnett
Surveyor t K. V. sharp
Hupenntendent ot 1'UDIte wnoois. .. rroy hiieiiey
Coroner , . . . William iiiehell
THE MAYOR'S MESSAGE.
It is well known to the people of thin
city and county that the common' court'
cil of The Dulles and the mavor have
been having a "monkey and parrot'
time, for lo these many month?. That
the gentlemen who compose the council
were always wrong and his honor always
right we cannot believe. Prima facie,
the united wisdom of five honored and
honorable men, some of them old enough
to be his father, is as likely to be as
sound and right as that of one, albeit a
mayor. That the council may have
made mistakes, we may frankly admit..
That the mayor may have done the
came is just as likely . Nothing is gained
by unfairness, and it is not journalism
but todyisin that insists on perpetual
fault-finding with the one and constant
laudation of the other. The mayor de
livered a message to the council last
Saturday evening. It was an able and
valuable document, fnll of figures and
wise suggestions. But it was promptly
tabled by the council and they did right.
When an official, holding a high and
honored position, ui-es an official mes
sage, as the vehicle of petty spite or bit
ter hate; when the mayor of a city
allows his rancor to supplant his man
ners; when he prostitutes his dignity to
place on the records of a municipality an
. evidence of his own partisan hatred or
affection, the council has a right to snub
him, and they did so. The council had
no right to endorse a laudation of Messrs.
Hilton, McCoy and Johnston and -a
condemnation of Senator Watkins, and
they didn't. If the mayor Wanted to
thank Senator Hilton and Iiepresenta
tives McCoy and Johnston for obsequi
ous iersonal servitude, and condemn
Kenator 'Watkins because he faithfully
supported the wishes of his constituents,
he might have . done so in some other
way. His thanks and blame had no
place in an official message.
We have only one other fault to find
(with this, otherwise excellent document.
We have already said it was n cunningly
devised instrument. It was all that.
It may not have been intended, but it
reads as if every good feature in the
amended -w ater bill was placed there by
the mayor's suggestion. We cannot
allow him so much glory. He must
share some of it with others. The coun
cil needs a little as well as the mayor.
We have not seen the water bill, as it
finally passed the senate, but His Honor
tells us that the amended bill contains
a provision whereby the surplus revenue
from water rents can lie loaned out,
when not needed to pay interest on the
bonded debt. But this was in the bill
that the council favored. They thought
it one of the best features of the bill,
-and reckoned it would save to the city,
'before its debt was finally paid, as much
as $20,000. We are pleased to know this
provision remains, but the council must
get the glory of it ; not the mayor. His
is a lessor glory. He didn't amend it
out. For that we move him a vote of
thanks.
NO PLACE LIKE
OREGON.
EASTERN
The Oregonian says the Willamette'
valley seems to be the favored spot of all
the earth, this season. We doD't agree
with the great daily. We have lived for
a-tiine, this winter, in both places, and
we unhesitatingly avow our preference
for Eastern Oregon. If, in that splendid
valley there is an absence of cyclones
and hurricanes, if high winds and ex
cessive i-old do not hold bitter carnival
there, if floods have not run riot and
heavy snow drifts stopped traffic and en
dangered human life, the same is true of
Eastern Oregon, while there is an utter
absence of that cold, raw, chilling moisture-laden
. atmosphere peculiar to a
Willamette valley winter. An Eastern
Oregonian doesn't know what a cyclone
is, except by its definition in Webster or
newspaper reports. If the nights are
colder here than they are west of the
mountains the days make up the com
pensation by salubrity and sunshine. A
typical winter day in this climate is a
poem. It's a tiling of gladness and
pleasure and beauty and health and
brightness. Life is worth living when it
is lived here and no healthier spot exists
on God's green earth. Take it for all in
all, we think Eastern Oregon is the
favored spot this season ; and bo say, we
all of us.
AN IMPORTANT SUGGESTION.
I be message ol Major juoorty very
prosperly suggests the necessity .of im
mediate action by tne city officials, in
all matters that relate to the completion
of the city water works. A certified
copy of the water bill ought to be pro-
cured as soon as possible, and an ordi
nance passed providing for the submis
sion to the property taxpayers, the
question of a further bonded indebted
ness. The council, last Saturday even
ing passed a motion for the appointment
of a committee to ascertain the -condition
of the water fund and act upon the
new law. The mayor, however failed to
appoint the committee although the mo
tion was made at his suggestion. We
presume this was an oversight on the
part of the mayor, but it is a cause of
delay all the same, and the people are
jealous of any further delay, more than
is absolutely nesessary. Hitherto, one
eye of our esteemed evening contempor
ary has been critically fixed upon the
council, while the one that ought to
have seen the mayor has been closed.
The optics of the Chronicle will be
fixed upon both and apportion praise or
blame as progress or retardment may
demand : but the people want water,
thev want it badly and they want it
I'ERSONAL AND EXP A NA TOR Y.
The first issue of the Chronicle was
dated December lo. 1890. Nearly three
months have passed since then, and, till
this present issue, the Times-Moun
taineer and its editor can scarcely be said
to have been noticed in its. columns. If
the Chbonicle was started to "starve
out" the Mountaineer, it was singularly
tardy, in commencing the process. Our
predecessor, Mr. Cradlebaugh, never
once referred to that paper, and the
present writer, on taking charge, received
positive instruction to "leave Mr.
Michell alone." He would have been
glad to have done so, but he cannot.
He must rise to explain-;' and must do it
now. The editor of the Times-Moun
taineer has been whining for the past
six months, because, as he alleges, the
Chronicle was started to starve him
out. The pocket of the Times-Mountaineer
is the tenderest part of his anat
omy. That explains the intensity of the
wail. If the Chronicle has any mission,
it is to tell the truth. If the Times
Mountaineer had done this, there had
been no need for the Chbonicle. The
Chronicle was started then, because, in
the words of a learned senator, uttered
on the floor of the senate, during the
meeting of the legislature, "the editor of
the Times-Mountaineer is the most ac
complished disciple of Annias in Eastern
Oregon." The Chroniclb was started
to treat people fairly. Had the Moun
laineer always done this the Chronicle,
then, had had no special mission. In
the Mountaineer of yesterday, there is a
notice, in the second local column, of a
circular, issued by the State Horticul
tural society. We publish it, today in
full. Mr. Michell yesterday published
all but the author and subscriber. This
was the honored name of our fellow
townsman James A. Varney. The Times-
Mountaineer doesn't like Mr. Varney
Mr. Varney doesn't get all his printing
done there, and his name must not ap
pear in the colunfns of that journal, in
any connection that would do him honor.
At the last local agricultural fair General
Varney made an exhibit of grapes. The
Times-Mountaineer, give an accurate ac
count of all exhibits, but Mr. Varney's.
Mr. Varney took the same exhibit to
Portland and carried the sweep-stake
prize in competition with the whole
state. This is not journalism. No
journal, worthy of the name would stoop
so low. The Times-Mountaineer falsely
insinuates that the Chbonicle is a
"North Dalles boomer." There has
never been a line in this journal adver
tising North Dalles, that was not paid
for at advertising rates. But enough.
The Times-Mountaineer must not trust
any longer, in the credulity of the public
and the silence of the Chronicle. It
won't be safe.
"A ehiel among us takin' notes.
An' faith he'll prent it."
DEATH OF A. W. FERGUSON.
Peaceful Passing Away of a Prominent
Pioneer of This State.
A. W. Ferguson is dead.
That was the announcement vesterdav
afternoon. He passed away at 2 :30 p. m.
His end was painless. "They thought
him dving when he slept and sleeping
when he died."
He had been bed ridden for man v years
and death came to him as a welcome re
lease from long continued suffering. . He
was an invalid since 1883, and since '85
had not left his bed.
He leaves a wife and five children,
E. Z., H. B., J. E., and F. W., and Mrs.
J. N. Griffin.
The funeral will be under the auspices
of Temple Lodge No. 7. A. F. and A. M.,
from the Episcopal church tomorrow
morning.: The interment will be at
Young's River cemetery.
A. W. Ferguson was born in Virginia,
Aug. 29, 1821. He came to the Pacific
coast, across the plains in 1850. . He was
married in Louisburg, Va., in 1844. . His
wife accompanied him in his trip and
survives her venerable husband. - He
was city councilman, justice of the peace
and sheriff of Wasco county for two terms
of two years each.
He was a prominent Mascn of high
degree, and in '82 was elected an honor
ary member of the Masonic Veteran
association.
The above is clipped from the Astorian
of the 20th ult. . Mr. Ferguson will be
remembered favorably by the older
settlers. He was a good man and was
held in the highest estimation. As one
said to the writer, "all the old settlers
quote Ferguson." He was a former
master of Wasco Lodge A. F. and A. M
We extend our sympathy to the bereaved
wife and family. Peace to his ashes.
An exenange expresses tlie opinion
that a gas trust can be disposed of in
short metre.
WHAT BREEDING MEANS.
rblnEX WlilcH Et7 Stock Bailer Oag-ht
to Understand Thoroughly.
What is breeding based on? It ia based
on heredity. We use another word, po
tency or prepotency!. Mr. "Wylie spoke
of inbreeding as establishing potency.
The Jew ia the most wonderfully inbred
man of all men on earth. He has been
inbred from the very day he left the
Egyptians. You may breed him with
aay race on earth, and the child will be
a Jew more than anything elBe. Now
those are principles that apply right
here, jnst the same with animals as with
men. What is the reason for that? Be
cause the Jew has established a type so
potently and powerfully that the mo
ment the current of his blood strikes the f
current of other blood the Jew current i
takes possession of the other, and the re
sult is a Jew. Now that is a valuable
thing to study on; that is the meaning
of pedigree.
Some men sneer at . pedigree and say
that it is worth nothing. Pedigree has
a long number of agreeing bloods behind
it in line. Men need not only a good
specimen of the individual animal, but
they need a long line of fathers and
mothers of the same line characteristics,
so that there is a constant agreement
and augmentation and enlargement of
the functions for which the breeding is
done. It is a well known fact today
that if a Texas steer is given a quarter
of a bushel of corn meal as his ration,
and yon take a Shorthorn steer and feed
him the same quantity, you will get
very different results. Why? Because
the power to assimilate food and pro
duce meat has been bred into the Short
horn and by a constant, slow process
built np.
The Texas steer has not been bred for
anything except to get over the ground,
and I know by experience that he can do
that. I once had 800 of them chase me
two miles across a prairie, and if a man
is to be judged by the enthusiasm of his
following, I was the most popular man
ever seen in Texas. Now, there are cer
tain principles that I want to bring out
in order to show that a farmer needs to
study them. Why? Because his money
and his living and his profits are in these
animals, and yet he seems- to think that
nobody but the breeder ought to study
breeding. Why, the farmer is the man
that is to make the money- out of the
farm. - It is the average farmer that has
to produce .the animals of the country,
not the breeder. Therefore the average
farmer should be just as wise in produc
ing a good animal as the breeder. He
should be a breeder.
" Now, take dogs, for instance. They
are a favorite illustration of mine be
cause it is so clear on the question of
heredity. Take a setter and a foxhound;
both have noses equally sharp. And yet
hundred of years back wise men began
to breed one dog to smell birds alone,
and the other to smell four footed ani
mals alone, and so well have they suc
ceeded that the setter dog is almost ob
livious to any other scent than the scent
of the bird.
You do not find dog men acting as
foolishly as farmers. No boy 15 years
old would ever undertake to go hunting
foxes with a bird dog or birds with a
foxhound or either with a bulldog.
And yet we have thousands and thou
sands of farmers who are trying to make
butter with beef animals and trying to
make beef with butter animals. The
average production of our cows is a dis
grace. I tell you, my friends, it is not
feeding so much today as it is intelligent
shaping of these animals for a purpose.
An old man jumped up in an institute
and said, "You may talk as much as you
have a mind to about it, I say the breed
is in the corncrib," one of those truths
that are partly true; and yet not true. I
said, "If your words mean anything at
all, they mean that you don't pay any
attention to breed, but everything to
feed." "Yes," he said, "that's right"
"Very well," said I, "you are the man 1
have been hunting for for years. You
have got a short cut to success, and I
want to get it. It doesn't make any dif
ference what the breed is, it is all in the
feed?" "That's it," he said. "Very
well," said I, "do you remember that
razor back hog we had here thirty or
forty years ago?" "Oh, yes," he said.
"Now," I asked, "how would you feed
that bog so as to make a Poland China
of him?" He looked a little staggered.
I added, "How would you feed a race
horse to make a draft horse oat of it?
How would you feed a Jersey cow to
make a Hereford out of it?" "Well," he
replied, "you may talk as much as you
are a mind to, but I believe just what I
said." ' Now don't you see that too many
of us are not teachable?
Here is a bale' of hay. On one. side
comes a running horse, on the other a
draft horse, on this Bide a dairy cow,
and on that side, a beef animal. Now
there is just , exactly . one kind of feed,
yet in one case it produces speed, quick,
fast action; in another slow, strong ac
tion, in another it produces batter, and
in another beef. At another bale are fine
wool sheep and mutton sheep. Yon see
the difference in the result. What is it
that turns the' result off like a switch
down these different tracks? What is it
that takes the same car and shoots it
upon one track or another? It Is breed.
Now one of these disadvantages that
we labor under- as farmers is that we
are not sufficiently educated up to the
idea of a thoroughbred sire. - The thor
oughbred, sire is the sire that has re
ceived, like the river, a lot of streams
from the mountains on either side run
ning into Trim to swell the potency of
his blood, and that all in one line. A
thoroughbred sire is so full of prepo
tency that he impresses himself upon his.
progeny. For instance, breed a native
cow with a thoroughbred. Holstein bull;
he has had so many years of breeding
in a distinct line that he invariably
marks his calves black and white, and
will continue to do so to the end of
time. Governor W. D. Hoard.
In Holland there are goose farms on
which may be found as many as 6,000
geese. They are near Amsterdam, and
are as important and profitable as a
theep ranch in America.
SNIPES & KINERSLEY,
Wholesale ad Retail Dnpts.
Fine Imported, Key West and Domestic
CIGARS.
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Heal Estate,
Insurance,
and Loan
AGENCY.
Opeta House Bloek,3d St.
Don't Forsret the
W 9 W
MacDonali Bros., Props.
THE BEST OF
Wines, Liprs aod Ciprs
ALWAYS ON HAND.
Chas. Stubling-,
PROPRIETOR OF THE
(iEiyipfi,
New Vogt Block, Second St.
- WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Liquor v Dealer,
MILWAUKEE BEER OX DRAUGHT.
From millions of customers, daring thepast years.
comes ine vcmici cnat yiUK SS OXJtiJJS
disappoint. Why waste time, money and patience on
others, when you can buy the BEST same price?
Make no mistake this year; sendio cents for Vlcb'S
Floral Guide, deduct the so cents from first order,
and it costs nothing. It is better than ever: zoo laree
pages, colored plates, grand novelties worthy of
cultivation. iasn prizes ziooo ana ktoo.
JAMES VICK. 8m", Rochester. H. Y.
FOR FINE
Commercial Job Printing
COME TO
THE CHRONICLE OFFICE.
W. E. GARRETSON,
Leatfi(g Jeweler.
. SOLE AGENT FOIl THE
All Watch Work Warranted.
Jewelry Made to Order.
138 Second St., The Dalles, Or..
THE DALLES.
The Grate City of the 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 rich agri
cultural and grazing country, its trade reaching as
far south as Summer Lake, a distance of over fwc
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
point in America, about
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 overflowing 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-
Carpets ana Furniture,
CO TO
PRINZ & NITSCIIKE,
And be Satisfied as to
QUALITY AND PRICES.
S. L. YOUNG,
(SucceHKor to K. BECK.)
Jewelry, Diamonds,
SILVERWARE, :-: ETC
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
Repaired and Warranted.
165 Second St.. The Dalles. Orr.
REMOVAL.
H. Glenn has removed his
office and the office of the
Electric Light Co. to .72
Washington St.
DEALER IX
WATCHES. CLOCKS
the Middle Columbia, and
city.
original wool shipping 4
5,000,000 pounds being
and all available storage
their products.
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 you choice
Groceries and Provisions
OF ALL KINDS, AND
AT STORE KEASONABLES RATES
THAN ANY OTHER PLACE
IN THE CITT.
REMEMBER we deliver all pur
chases without charge.
390 AND 394 SECOND STREET.
John Pas nek,
IHeicW Tailor.
Third Street, Opera Block.
Madison's Latest System,
Used in cutting garments, and a fit
guaranteed each time.
,lA
Repairing and Cleaning
Neatly and Quickly Done.
FINE FARM TO RENT.
THE FARM KNOWN AS THE "MOORE
Farm" situated on Three- Mile creek about
two and one-half miles from The Dulles, will be
leased for one or more years at a low rent to any
responsible tenunt. This farm hae upon it a
f;ood dwelling house rud necessary out build
ups, about two acres of orchard, about three
hundred acres under cu ltivation, a large portion
of the lu8nd will raise a good volunteer wheat
crop in 1 91 with ordinarilv favorable weather.
The farm is well watered. For terms and particu
lars enqu ire of Mrs. Sarah A. Moore or at theomce
of Mays, Huntington & Wilson, The Dalles, Or.
SARAH A. MOORE, Executrix.