The Dalles Daily Chronicle. THE DALLES OREGON. Entered at the Postofflce at The Dalles, Oregon, as second-class matter. STATE OFFICIALS. Governor . Secretary of State Treasurer Supt. of Public Instruction enators , . 8. Pennover G. W. licMiide Phillip Metsclian J. N. Doli.h )J. II. MitcheU B. Hermann Congressman State Printer Frank Baker COUNTY OFFICIALS. County Judge.. ,...C. N. Thoriibury Bherift. 1. U Cntes Clerk Treasurer Commissioners. . Assessor J. B. Crosseu .tteo. Kitch ll A. I.envens J Frnitk Kincoid . . .John E. Burnett Surveyor. .K. F. sharp Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy Shelley Coroner . . .William Michell The Chronicle is the Olily Paper in The Dalles that .Receives the Associated Pfess Dispatches. RAILROAD OSTRUSIVENESS. There is a loud demand from many quarters, that is constantly increasing in volume, for the placing of the railroad systems of this country under" the con trol of the government. While such a change would undoubtedly be surroun ded with many difficulties yet the trend of the public opinion is unquestionably in that direction, and the time may not be far distant, when those who now ridicule the thought, may be led to take a different view. All the great political labor confederations make governmen tal control of onr railroads and tele graphs, a plank in their platforms. Kor is this to le wondered at. Great and manifold as have been the benefits ac cruing to the nation through their means their power for political and financial mischief ban , been equally great. The amount that these systems spend every year for corrupt purposes must be im mense. They buy np judges and juries, till tha difficulty of a poor man 'getting common justice, where a railroad com pany is defeudent, has? in many instan ces, become proverbial. If judges and juries cannot be bought, their corporate wealth secures delays that the poor man cannot' brook. Their hired attorneys and lobbyists are in every' legislature, and in every committee 'of every legisla ture, where work, in their' interest, is needed to be done.' It is scarcely so true that they buy up legislatures as it is 'that' they own them. No measure beneficial to the masses can "possibly be carried, if it is, at all disadvantageous . to them. .Is it a railroad couimiHSlon, or legislation tending to increase a com mission effectiveness for good ; then they will demand and obtain, not open ly, it is true , but through the secret working that they know so well, either a good law with a corrupt ' commission, or a good commission and an inefficient law. The one will serve their purpose quite as well as the other, and one or other they must have. Their influence is all pervading, from the political prim ary to the White House. Is it a ques tion of competition, then, their immense moneyed power will crush, where it can not by off. Is U the opening of a great river to free navigation, where they have monopoly and control then heaven and earth must be compassed for its defeat. There is a monotony in this obtrnsive ness. The massess are sick and weary and disgusted. No wonder, therefore, that the more radical, always the van of the army of reform, are demanding gov ernment control. THANKS. "It is due to Major Handbury, the gov 'ernment officer, in charge of the construc tion of the Cascade Locks, to say, that -ever since he was first consulted, by any persons having authority in connection with the portage railroad, he has mani-. tested the utmost cordiality, and his perfect willingness to co-operate with the state, in the furtherance of that work. When the joint committee of the two states met at Portland, hia full knowledge of all matters relating to the depth of water below the lower gate of the locks, where the western terminus of the portage must be looted, the difli culties connected with securing a good wharfage, and the practicapability, and probable cost of the road, were of great service to our committee, in settling all difficulties raised by those who were apparently working in the interest of parties opposed to the- portage railroad, lie even went beyond this in suggesting that the general government should build the road, because of the advantages they, themselves, might derive from it ; and when the portage commission lately conferred with him in Portland, he eon firmed these assurances of his good will by suggesting to them also that the gov ernment " build " "a good 1 substantial standard gauge road," so that the $60,000 appropriation might be exclusively de- voted to wharves and rolling stock. For these courtesies Major Handbury . de serves, the cordial thanks of the people who expect to profit by the portage road, and so far as the Chronicle may be per mitted to speak for them, he has them. THE PINKERTONS. It is said that N ew" York is about to pass an act making it unlawful for the Pinkerfons to do business in that state. We presume ft is intended to prohibit them, not from acting as detectives, but from exercising the functions proper to a state militia. This is in every way as it should oe. No private armed force, not under state control, should ever be permitted to supercede, or exercise the function of a legally constituted militia. Too often the Pinkertons have been' used bvcorboratepowef.-for'the "purposes' of oppressibnV The :bare possibility of. a" body of men, irresponsible to the consti tuted authbritieSj 'and' ' not under" their control, being so used, is a simple out rage. The states are, everywhere able, on all ordinary occasions, to maintain the Deace: But if not. there; is a remedy, and this remedy is not the hir ing of a- band -of irresponsible' mercen aries to do a work, as it often happens, that no state militia would stoop to do. Mr. Jolinsoii's Version. Tnk Dallbs, Or., March 11th 1891. Editor Dalles Chronicle: In the issue of the Times-Mounlaineer of- last eVemne appears a' communication' or "editorial," signed "Third House," in which allusions are made to me person ally in discussing the merits or provi sions Of senate bill No. 20. l am at a loss to know why my iiiurie should be publicly connected with" a newspaper controversy over a question whether Senator Hilton had complied with the wishes of the county court of Gilliam Co., in the' re duction of the'Sheep Inspector's' salary: So far as I am concerned, it is a matter of no interest to me whether lie did or did not ', but as a matter of record, it is but fair to state'that the bill was' amend ed so as to give the commissioners' court authority to increase or decrease1 the Inspector's salary, as, in-their judg ment, the good of the public service may require. "Third House" is in error, however, in his statement' that "it went to the governor among the very first bills and received his signature at once. The bill was not returned to the senate from the house, till late on the evening of February 20th and gave the bill to Airs.' Lou Sampson', (Senator Hilton's clerk,) for enrollment, and it was not returned to me till the morning session of February ' 21 st,: and was then reported back from the ' com mittee on enrolled bills, - -along with Senate Bills Nos. 21, 94, 172 and 161, in time to receive the signatures of the speaker of the house and president of the 'seriate, just' beforfe the final adjourn ment. This all wise quill driver sriys that Mr. Gonrlay, as clerk of Senator Watkin's committee "should know better than almost anyone whether1 this bill was enrolled and sent to the ' gdver. nor." In this he is mistaken too ; it was nO part of Mr. Gourlay's duties to know anything of the kind. He simply ' per formed the clerical work " given him, with neatness and dispatch, and . never saw Senate Bill NoJ 20, nor did he know who enrolled it: But it seems that Mr. Gourlay was hot 'the only objective point of attack of this contemptable vilifier, who is too cowardly to sign his name to the scurrilous article referred to, but from the ehelter of his mask with "sweetened venom sleeping got," char ges the writer with having deserted his post as chief clerk of the Senate Enroll ing committee, and gone to Pendleton or elsewhere armed, with warrants of arrest for malcontents, for which he added fees and milage to his salary as clerk'. All of which is false, and with out foundation in fact. The records of the TJ. S. Commissioners' court at' The Dalles and marshal's office at Portland will show that I have "performed no duties, and received no fees or emolu ments as a Deputy U. S. Marshal,- since January 17th, 1891 up to the first of the present month, and my two . days ab sence, while the legislature was in ses sion, was in obedience to' a subpoena 1 to appear as a witness in the LT.' S." circuit court in the case of U. S. vs Stone ' & Hyde, - February 2nd and 3rd, during wnicn time tnere were no senate bills in the hands of the committee for en rollment,' as the receipts of O. P. Miller chief clerk oi the senate wilt -verify. ' A. G. Johnson. The Beat Cough Medicine. "One of my customers came in today nuu nnik.ujL mc lui line UCDb lJUJgu U1CU1- cine I had," says Lew Young, a promi nent aruggist ot JNewman ijrove. JNeb. 'Of course I showed him Chamberlain's Cough Eemedv and he did not ask to see any other. I have never yet sold a i . . i . iii , . meuicuu) mai wouiu loosen anu relieve a severe cold so quickly as that does. have sold four dozen of it within the last Bixty- davs, and do not know of a single case where - it failed to give the most periect satisfaction. " ou cent bot tles for sale by Snipes & Kinersly, drug gists. Extra Pancy California Soil Butter, 65 Cents per Boll. BANANAS, . COCOANUTS, PEANUTS ORANGES and FIGS. OZHiZTRT, HORSERADISH, : NEW COMB HONEY Fine Coffees and Teas R9 John Booth ee WUSECOND STREET QUEEN, DRONE AND WORKER BEES. ,, , . , - -I - The Ttiiw Kinds to B Colony All About the BlAUiar'Be".- ' The queen is the mother -tiee, and;' the most important personSi"fli-' the 'rlfe. The queen, as wwutareffiwi-btlhW'beeeC' is long lived. It istr raWual t$"Mk to do good work "for ; trom rthree to Four years. All depend'spijrrfier'jfeeflenew and vigor. Some qneeris"fc6asJ tb!te'ttH ful at the end of one -yaf,c64herscal',twJ ana bo on. rv axsu. uiey no Kwurerr lay impregnated eggs cease to be fertile the workers rear a" fie" w qwu'anddestfby the bid one.' " . - " ' ' - ' r. It is'the "qneetfa mission "to "keep' .the' colony"well" populated in a word, to lay eenshk.4 .'A ffood attefe&r lavH from' '2 600 to S.OOp1 eggs 'pec diem, or nearly double her vreigns or eggs per nay. queens differ, however, in the matter "of fecundity; the g6tdf onorkep- the hives populous with active', profitable bees, --. while inferior ones, although they may lay eggs for a tune, are never profitable. Those im perfectly developed bees are, according to Boot, 'the result of ' trying to raise a queen when "there are too few" bees, or when the larvie with which they are ob liged to' reara 'queen' are too old that is, too nearly ' ready to seal up: Pro fessor Cook says that this lack of fecund ity may be due to diaeaee, improper de velopment Or to special race or strain. The activity of the queen is governed largely by the activity of the workers. According to Professor ' Cook, as the worker "befes feed the - laying -queen, it'is more than 'probable that with no nectar to gather the food i withheld, and' so the queen is unable to produce the eggs, Which demand a great amount of nutri tious food all ready to be absorbed. , Queens begin to lay when about eight to ten days ' old, as a rule. If a queen is not fertilised in, say, a fortnight froih the titue she "is hatched she will freqnen t- ly beginlaying -without being fertilized QUEEN DRONE WOBKKlB. at all, and is commonly known as a drone laying' queen'.' The . queen" is ah impor tant 'iadivf dual of 'a hi v6 'only so long ' as she' is ' nseful.1 - "When her nsef ulness ceases'sheis destroyed With as little corf- sideration'aa'are-the'drones.- The-drdnes-afe the male bees, and are generally ; found in- the hive only, from May to November, though they may re main all winter. ' There.'are 'in' nature several huh dreo! 'and 'often' thbooiifeds1 'it ' each' colony.'. The number1 may 'be" and is often 'reduced by the - apiarist. The worker'or --neuter bees 'are' the.' undevel oped femaies-the bees that do the work except that of laying eggs. There are from 15,000 to 40,000 workers in every good colony. Wh; Ponltrr Baot Oat. American Cultivator saysi First cross es with almost any standard breed of fowl are pretty sure to produce good re sults. The man who' makes' the" cross knows the characteristics lie wishes to breed to, and the cross generally secures them. - But -these grade fowls, though often valuable for i egg producing, .are not trustworthy for breeding. Their progeny are not graaes Dut mongrels. Changing ' the ' males in a flock is often advised, but if the new stock are mon grels there will be little advantage from this. : The flocks on 'farms all over the country are largely of this mongrel stock, and t his is one reason why so many have poor success with poultry. 'Forty or fifty years ago the common :dnnghill fowl in. this "country,; though'"' originally infer-' mixed," had; been inbred long enough? 'so that it had become almost an established breed.-: FeW, if any; or these' old fash ioned fowls are now left anywhere. As a. .consequence .the. introdtiction of new blood in every flock not absolutely pure bred is a 'necessity every twp or three years, and in every case '. males ' of "pure bloooV and so far as possible of the pre-' dominant strain of the flock, should be introduced for crossing. , ' '-' ' ' PiiM OrehartjA. - "Ought apple orchards to be pttsttured?' waa; a r question - asked . at ' a New Ybrk farmers' institnte. i Mr. Van Alstyne answered: "I past ured an orchard of eight, acres with sheep Iwo'yeaTs. acd the' fruit ' was" im proved. Sbp ' droppings are very val uable for the trees. I shall continne to keep sheep in my orcharda!". ' , CoL Curtis said: "Ther advantages of swine are "that they do all that the sheep' do iii enriching "the land,' and they 'root np the' larvte of the cbdlihg moth 1 which have' escaped frbni -the apples'1 and ' are hidden- just Trader the ground. - Tbe pigs will destroy all 'of -theffe, which the sheep will not.. All other larva will be in similar danger.-' - Weeping ' Tims. With a fine, well kept, vdvety .green lawn, tastefully planted with ornamental trees' and shrubs,' the' " grounds ' arbirnd 'a dwelling inay-be re&leea-'very' chatlri ing; but the effect "may jnevrtbaiess4 be increased by' a ' judicious j selection of weeping . treesv Of " these" some of the most beautiful are the weeping ash,' weiing "beech,1' cut 1 leaved" weeping birch,'; Caniperdown - weeping " elin, weeping' sophora, white 'leaved weep ing linden; ' weeping mountain' ash,' weeping poplar, , American weeping willow and Kilmarnock weeping wil low. : All About BvIm, Give the hogs plenty of slope. A little corn scattered in the field will give the hogs a good start." When we begin to feed the pigs to fat ten them we will get more growth and better meat to make the food one-fourth bran, three-fourths by weight of corn or rye. , Give all the hogs shut in pens some grass, clover or green corn. Store hogs will live on this sort of food and do well. The green com with the ears on will fat ten them. Western Swineherd. , - SNIPES & KINERSLEY, Wholesale and Retail Dniiists. Fine Imported, Key West and Domestic CIGARS. , (AGENTS FOR C. E. BiYAI(D CO., Heal Estate, Insaranee, and Loan AGENCY. Opera House Bloel,3d St. W. E. GARRETSON. ...in AH Watch Work Warranted. Jewelry Made to , Order. 138 Second St., The Dalle, Or. Cor. Third and Union Streets. We are in the Ice Businness. BULIETiN. New Goods' arriving daily. Riverside Oranges, 25c. per dozen. Lemons, 35c. per dozen: ' Sauer Kraut, 5c;-per pound. Tea, 25c. per pound. New Orleans Molasses in bulk, 85c. per gallon.- - Walla Walla Flour $1 XX) per sack. Onions;' 3cl per pound'. '" ' Our stock of . Fruit, cannot be excelled. Call and Bee fwt pew, invoice of Teas and Prize Baking Powder. - MAIER & BENTON ChasP Stubling", PROPRIETOR OPTUS I. New Vogt Block, Second St. . WHOLESALE AND RETAIL; Liquor - Dealer, MILWAUKEE BEER OX DRAUGHT. f6r' fine Anting COME ' ( . THE CHRONICLE OFFICE. FIRST ANNUAL MEETING. Notice to the Subscribers of The Dalles, Portland and Astoria Navigation""' Co. THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE . Hubscribers to Tbe Dalles, Portland and Astoria Navigation Company will be held at the rooms of the Board of Trade at Dalles City, Ore gon, on Saturday, April 4th, 1891, at 2 o'clock p. mi, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may legitimately oome before the meeting. By Order of the Incorporators of said Com pany. " r - SOLE AGENT FOlt THE PEuOEJITOlI, Commercial job I THE DALLES. The . Gate City of the Inland Empire is sitiiated at tne head of navigation on is a thriving, prosperous ITS TERRITORY. It is the supply city for an extensive and rich cultural and "trade reaching as far south as Summer Lake, a distance of over' tNvd 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 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 countryjsouth 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, morefarming country than is tributary to any other city in Eastern Oregon. Tt.s sit.n a.t.i on i s nn sti massfi Tt.ss rH m a J i u ful! Its possibilities incalculable! Its resources un limited! And on' these corner stones she stands. -I'OR- Gamets al CO TO PRINZ & NITSCHKE, And be .Satisfied as to QUALITY AND PRICES. Si L; YOUNG; - (Successor to E. BECK.) -DEALER IN WBTCHES; CLOCKS; Jewelry, Diamonds, SIliVERWflRE, :-: ETC Watches, Clocks and Jewelry Repaired and Warranted. 165 Second St., The Dalles, Or. REMOVAL. H." Glenn has removed his office and the office of the Electric Light Co. to 72 Washington St. the Middle Cblumfcia, andw; city. , Dalles produces splendid and all available storage the The successful merchant Is the one who watches the mar kets and buys to the best advan tage. the one that takes advantage of low prices. The Dalles MERCANTILE CO!, Successor to BROOKS & BEERS. will sell yon choice Groceries and Provisions OF ALL KINDS, AND AT MORE BKASONABLE8 KATES THAT ANY OTHER PLACE IN THE CITT. REMEMBER we deliver all pur chases without charge. 390 AND 394 SECOXD STREET. John Pashek, Third Street, Opera Block. Madison's Latest System, Used in cutting garments, and guaranteed each time. 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 Dalles, will be leased for one or more years at a low rent to any responsible tenant. This farm ha upon it a good dwelling house end necessary out build ings, about two acres of orchard, about three hundred acres 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 larsenquire of Mrs. Sarah A. Moore or at theo&ice of Mays, Huntington & Wilson, The Dalles, Or. SARAH A. MOORE, Executrix. lueiGnaiit Tailor