The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 18, 1891
METEOROLOGICAL EEPOET.
Pitciflp lltelu- JJ.fr S Stnte :
Const bar. 2 tive of S. of
Time. Horn Wind c Weather.
M. . . W.OO M Went .17 Pt Cl'dv
'ST. M. .ll " fil " Clear
. Maximum temperuture,
minimum tem-
pei-Hture, -to.
Total i)reci)itatiou from J uly up to dnte, G.59 ;
averaKe )reclitntion from July to date, 12.18;
averse detlicleuoy from July 1st to date, d.V
WEATHER l'KOBABILITIES.
The Daixks, March 18, 1891.
Weather forecast till IS m.,
Tnu rsdau ; liaht rain . Followed
RAIN
by cooler and fair weather and
mow in the Mountains.
The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
LOCAL, BREVITIES.
5 Louis Davenport of Mosier is
city.
A. G. Johnson returned last
the
night
. from Portland.
Geo. Matthiae, a native of England
was yesterday admitted to citizenship'.
About 300 men are said to be now em
ployed on the government works at the
Cascades.
A fine rain shower fell last night com
mencing about eleven o'clock and last
ing for a few hours. ,
One drunk, who was arrested last
night by Marshal Gibona, paid this
morning a fine of ten dollars.
Mr. W. H. Hennick, of Ota, came over
to our city yesterday and added his
name to the Chronicle subscription list.
The Times-Mountaineer yesterday got
a new subscriber to the daily edition and
boasts loudly of having doubled its cir
culation. Mrs. W. H. Davis, of Wapinitia, left
this morning for California, in answer to
a . communication announcing . the
dangerous illness of her father,
v. The editor acknowledges the receipt of
a complimentary ticket to the Third
regiment ball to be given at the armory,
on Friday evening, April 3.
A bright Sabbath school boy friend of
the Chronicle, says that the oldest man
that ever lived died before hi father.
Strange but true. "Who was he?
Sheep that have been sold to Eastern
buyers thus far have brought a good,
round price, $5.50 per head being the
amount paid, to be delivered after the
shearing season. Grant Co. Neirs.
Billy Darragh of this city, who was in
" dieted yesterday in the United States
court at Portland for selling whisky to
Indians, was sentenced to one year in
the jenitentiary.
We were shown a curious specimen of
petrefied wood, which was found about
four miles below this city, .entirely
encased in solid rock. It is undoubtedly
wood but looks remarkably like asbestos.
The man McCormackj who partici
pated in the recent shooting scrape at
the Cascade Locks, is slowly recovering
from his wounds. It will be several
weeks, however, before he will be able
to be around.
The school directors have ordered Wm.
McCruin to position the new flag pole in
place on the brick school house. The
flag is eighteen feet by ten and was pur
chased by the united subscription of the
pupils. It is expected to be thrown to
the .breeze for the first time this after
noon. The Tableaux and Art Company,
assisted by the best vocalists will" give
their first entertainment at the Vogt
Opera House, "Wednesday, April 1st,
Pictures from history and mythology,
also" plastiques and poses by fourteen
girls in Grecian costume. Calcium
lights from Portland. ;. : '-.
Judge Moreland comes out in the
vening. Telegram and writes a long ar
gument to prove that the name " 6f ' Ore
gon .came from Catherine of -Aragon the
divorced wife of Henry the Eighth.
This is far-fetched. We always supposed
the State got its name from a man nam
ed Dennis O'Regon who used to live in
'.Chicago, before the .war..: :-.
. We regret to learn of the sad death,
last night, of Josiah Marsh,' the only son
of A. Y. Marsh near this city, at -the
age of.nearly fifteen years. He has been
a - constant sufferer for the past two
years of that dred scourge consumption,
intensified by a virulent attack of white
swelling on one of his knees. His suf
ferings during the last twenty four hours
of his life were, very severe. Two years
ago his mother preceded him to the
better land. Among the last words, he
said to those standing around his bed
side"! am not afraid, to die. .' I am go
ing to meet my mother."
.'.B. H. Norton and party' are camped
at the mouth of Three Mile and the sur
vey to the Fossil coal mines will be com
pleted as rapidly as possible. To correct
wrong impression that some of the
subscribers to the " fund ' have," Mr.
Norton wishes it distinctly understood
that whether the parties negotiating for
the mines this week, make a trade or
not cuts no figure on this survey "ques
tion as the work is being done in the in
terests of English capitalists who may
be induced to intereststhemselves in this
country, by developing the timber and
agricultural resources in addition to
mining.
A CLOSE CALL-
Narrow
Escape of a
Driver.
Team and its
Victorine Mesply of Mill creek had a
close call today at about one o'clock.
He was unloading some garden truck,
at the store room of the TJmatilla House
when the team, hearing the noise of an
outgoing freight train, started to run in
the direction of the track which it reach
ed justs the locomotive came to the
crossing. The team immediately turned
down the main track in front of the en
gine, and ran past the oil house and
along the tressel work for a distance of
over fifty feet before the locomotive, in
spite of all that Jack George the driver
could do, was able to stop it. Before
tne train came to a halt the engine
struck the back end of the wagon and
knocked it clean off the track and against
the hand railing. So violent was the
shock that it pitched the load of truck
out of the wagon which fell on the
ground over twenty feet below. At this
moment Jap Nebo who. was on the tres
tle, grasped the horses by the bits and
succeeded by almost superhuman
strength and dexterity in throwing them
upon their haunches. The old man
Mesplie was still in the wagon and
providentially escaped being thrown
over the railing where he would most
likely have been killed. The horses
were only scratched a little but the
wagon is badly smashed.. On the whole
it was a lucky escape for all concerned
for Mr. Mesplie escaped with only a
slight hurt in the back. '
The Approach of Spring;.
Atlanta Constitution.
There is the very essence of spring in
the following poem, which is fresh from
the pen of a Georgia' editor :
There's a kind of curious, lazy, lullin' feeliu' in
the breeze.
An' the early buds are bendin' nentk the weight
of honer-bees.
The downy doves are matin' in the woodlands
where the stream
is a elear an' shinin' mirror where the sunbeams
love to dream.
You can see the buds a-swellin' cm the branches,
- onee so bare.
An' the cattle they are grazin' where the tender
blades appear.
You can hear the birds aehirpin' in their nests or
on the wing.
But "Kudosed please find a poem."' is the sures
sign o' spring!
t Let's Han a Band Stand.
The members of the Third Regiment
band say that they will give Saturday
night concerts at the court Souse square
if The Dalles citizens will erect them a
band stand. It should be done. ' Appli
cation to the county court for permission
to erect a stand on Third and Union
streets should be made and when the
permission is given a committee of our
citizens could raise the $50 or $75 neces
sary to put up an eight octagon stand
without any trouble.. The band has the
handsomest uniiorms of any similar
organization in the state, and under the
leadership of Jimmy Benton are making
rapid strides toword a high degree of
proficiency in music and if a stand is
erected the Saturday evening concerts
will be an agreeable feature of. Dalles
summer life.
Heal Estate Transactions.
Hood River Town site company to
Peter Nelson. Fractional lots No. 3 and
4 in block 1 in Hood River proper, being
same as lots 3 and 4 in block I in the
town of Hoojl River. Consideration
$155.65. '
Lafayette Davis to Polly Davis, the
north half of section 24 in townehip 3
south of range 13. 320 acres. Considera
tion $800. , .
State of Oregon to W. E. Buchler,
northeast half of sectibn 3 in town 1
north of range 12 east. Consideratin 42.36.
Hood River Townsite company to
Wm. M. Yates, lot 6 in block eleven in
second addition to town of Hood River.
Consideration $102.45. . , .
Geo.' R. Snipes and Martha Snipes and
J. W. Condon to theO, R. & N. Co., part
6f the Shang donation land claim. Con
taining 14 acres. Consideration $1.
' : HOTEL ARRIVALS.' - '
UMATILLA ROUSE.
J. A. Wilson, Hood River
A. H. Tieman, '
V. B. Hayden, Centerville.
'.' A,' R; Graham; Silverton.
A. V. Anderson, Tygh Valley.
O. W. Richardson, .Wasco.
- E. M. Leslie, ' ' .
J. M. Roth, Kingsley.
B: S. Kelsey, Kent.
W. R. Ellis," Heppner. "
H. E. Powell, Moro.
D. Cram; Goldendale. . . . -
J. J. Flaherty, Cascade Locks.
Thomas Coyle, " . "
' H.;W. Wells, Shearer's Bridge.
The Fishing; Season.
The fish men of this part of the coun
try are making extensive preparations
for a large run of salmon this season.
Seafert Bros., have spent something like
$20,000 in .deepening the channels to
their wheels, while at North Dalles three
new wheels have been put in and the
old one placed in thorough repair.
Phelps & Co., have " repaired and put
their wheels in- :order and - everything
tends to show that great tilings are ex
pected from the salmon ran this. year.
The close season ends April 1st.
... FOR. SALE.
A choice lot of brood mares; also' a
number of geldings and fillies bv "Rock
wood Jr." "Planter," "Oregon "Wilkes,"
and "Idaho Chief." Same Btanrlarrl HroH
.Also three fine youne stallions hv
VRockwood Jr." out of first class mares.
For prices and terms call on or address
either J. W. Condon, or J.. H. Larsen.
The Dalles, Oregon. '
'! ' " City Treasurer's Notice.
All City Warrants registered prior to
July 6, 1889 are now due and payable.
Interest ceases on and after date.
- J. S. Fish.
February 7, 1891. City Treas.
Iti a Girt.
The following dispatch' was recenred
by Mr. W. H. Condon at noon today :
' TacomX, Wash., March 19. Born to
the wife of E. Jacobsen, a girl, March
17. Mrs. Jacobsen is very low.
E. Jacobsbn.-
Jfotlce to tax rayers.
All state and county taxes, become
delinquent April 1st, Taxpayers are here
by requested to pay the same before that
date in order to avoid going on the de
linquent list. The county court has
ordered the sale of all property in which
the taxes have not been paid. Please
call and settle before the time mentioned
and save costs. D. L. Cates,
Sheriff of Wasco County.
Gun Club Attention.
The Wasco County Rod and Gun club
will meet at the council chamber on
Monday, the 23d inst. at 7 p. m. All
members are requested to attend as im
portant business is to be transacted.
"By order of D. SiDDALB, ;
Fked Bkoxhon, . President.
Secretary.
Last Call Last Chance.
Messrs. Livermore & Andrews the
makers of the luxurious easy chairs at
77 Court street, hereby give notice that
they will close, out their business on
April 1st. Parties wanting chairs should
give their orders in at once in order to
have them made before we close out..
LlVEKMOEE & ANDBEW8. .
CHRONICLE SHORT STOPS. -
Alfalfa seed for sale cheap at Joles
Bros.'
Just received 25 boxes of choice apples
at. . Maieb & Benton.
You need not cough ! Blakeley &
Houghton will cure it for 50 cents. S. B.
For coughs and colds use 2379.
Does S. B. get there? "I should
smile." S. B.
C. E. Dunham will cure your head
ache,, cough or pain for 50 cenls, S. B.
All kinds of garden seeds in bulk at
Joles Bros.'
Get your land papers prepared by J.
M. Huntington & Co. Opera House
Block, Washington St.
Snipes & Kinersly are anxious to cure
your headache for 50 cents. S. B.
2379 is the cough syrup for children.
Get me a cigar from that fine case at
Snipes & Kinersley's. '
Joles Bros, deliver all goods sold to
any part of the citv, and don't you for
get it.
, . On Hand.
J. M. Huntington & Co. announce
that they are prepared to make out the
necessary papers for parties wishing
to file 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 Hr"se Block next to
main entrance. '
Improve Your Poultry.
If you want chickens that will lav eggs
the year round without having to pen
them up to keep them from setting, get
the pure bred Brown Leghorn. Mrs. D.
J . Cooper on the bluff, near the academy,
has the eggs for 75 cents per setting.
White Salmon Butter.
agency of Mrs. Warner's White Salmon
butter and will have it on sale from and
after next Wednesday.
Columbia Ice Co.
104 SEQOND STREET.
XOJEZ I IOE ! IOE!
Having over 1000 tons of ice on hand,
we are now prepared to receive orders.
wholesale or retail, to be delivered
through the summer. Parties contract
ing with us will be carried through the
entire season without advance ' is
price, and may depend that we have
nothing but
PURE, HEALTHFUL1 ICE,
Cut from mountain water; no slough or
slush ponds.
Leave orders at the Columbia Candy
Factory, 104 Second street.
; ' W.-S. CRAM. Manager.
FIRST ANNUAL MEETING.
Notice to the Subscribers of
The ' Dalles, Portland and
" Astoria Navigation Co.
THE; FIRST .ANNIJAX, MEETING OF THE
subscribers to The Dalles, - Portland and
Astoria Navigation Company will be held at the
rooms of the Board of Trade at Dalles Citv, Ore-
u oaiuiunj, April n, isyi, at 2 OCiOCK p.
m., for the Duroose of elentine nftinArs f thp
ensuing year, and the transaction of such other
Dusiness as may legitimately come before the
meeting.. ... ... ; . .
J5y oraer ot the Incorporators of said Com
pany. IVIRS. PflmiilPS
Will close out her entire stock of
Ladies' 1 Children's
AT COST,
to make room for her
DlusliD : Underwear
W ........ . X .X .
New Stock of Millinery.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE PLATYPUS.
A. Wonderful Mammal Which. Coa the
British Association Over SIO.OOO.
The platypus, a small molelike beast
of Australia, has been voted the palm
for being the most extraordinary mam
mal in the known world. For the last
twenty years its skin has been highly
prized as an article of commerce,, yet
during all of that time scientists have
been trying to settle the question wheth
er it is born alive or hatched from an
egg. During the summer of 1885, a
cablegram was sent from Sydney, Au
stralia, to London, by Professor' Liver
sidge to the effect that Mr. W. H. Cald
well, who holds the Balfour traveling
fellowship of Cambridge, had at last set
tied the matter. Mr. Caldwell was sent
out to Australia bv th "RWHsjI
tion for the express purpose of studying
me me mstory or tms wonderful creat
ure, a mission which was finallv r ward
ed in the year above mentioned by the
mscovery of the eggs and nest of this
living contradiction of nature.
Gorard KrefEt. a mntleman
by the British scientific societies about
1880, offered as high as $500 for an egg
of the platypus without being able to ob
tain one. Still the Bushmen of the re
gion inhabited by the creature positively
declared that "the animal did lay eggs,
even if thev had failed tn nmrinr in a n
the request of the scientists, stimulated
by the promise of $1,000 if they would
produce a pair of freshly hatched young.
During Krefft's tour- of investigation
numbers of platypus were caught, many
in the pairing season, and dissected, yet
no traces of eggs were found, whereupon
scientists were inclined to believe that
the creatures had been misrepresented
when spoken of in connection with the
eggs, and that they were really vivipar
ous. .
The body of the platypus resembles
the mole, and is covered with a close,
short, grayish brown for. Like the
beaver, its tail is broad and flattened.
A horny extension of the jaws forms a
beak like that of a duck, their margins
being sheathed with horn and supplied
with transverse horny plates, two in each
jaw, but these are not true teeth. The
toes are united by a membrane- or web,
so that the animal is enabled to swim
with great ea4 It inhabits small
streams and ponil, -ng principally, if
not wholly, on insecw. When the young
are hatched they are blind and quite
naked. The method by which they ob
tain milk from the . mother ia still ob
scure, as the creature has no nipples,
only a flat surface; nor is there any mar
supial pouch. The beak of the young is
wholly unlike that of an adult.
It cost the British association over
$10,000 to ascertain the above facts.
First, the instruments and apparatus
with which Mr. Caldwell was fitted out
cost 1,000. Besides that, he spent over
fourteen months in Australia before he
was able to take the coveted peep at the
rare creature's eggs. St. Louis Republic.
No Demand for Old Clocks.
There is no longer the demand for
what used to be called "grandfather's
clocks" that there was three or four
years ago, but when a genuine old one
can be secured there are always a score
of buyers ready to pay a fair price for it.
The clock of this type stands on the
floor, as the song says, and although it
may not go ninety years without blun
dering it will keep good time, and its
works are apparently . indestructible.
As there are factories which turn out
"old" china to order, so there are places
where "Eighteenth century clocks" are
manufactured..
There is no great difficulty about the
works and weigh ts, except that it takes
a long time to make them, but the cases
used to puzzle the smartest of them.
Now, however, there are places up in
Michigan' where wood is so prepared as
to look as though it might have been
cut out of the same blocks Noah used
when constructing the ark. The fraud
is a very innocent one, as : the imitation
is probably an improvement on ' the
original. But the connoisseur only buys
a really second hand one, and he can see
by the wear of the works how old it is.
Interview in St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Chemp iMggint for 8tjm Pipes.
According to the Revue Indnstrielle
some of the waste products resulting
from the manufacture of paper furnish
excellent material for cheap and efficient
lagging for : steam pipes. The waste
products- in question are chiefly those
coming from the different cleaning and
sorting machines which are of a -fibrous
nature. : These, when dry, are mixed
with potter's earth in the proportion of
four' to one,' -enough water being after
ward added to form a plastic compound.
This is spread by hand over the surfaces
to be protected in thin successive layers.
When dry the coating is said to adhere
firmly, and is ' not easily broken. Its
Cost is practically1 no more than the cost
of mixing and applying.
The Italians derive "starboard" from
qnesta " borda,-; '-this side," - -and. - "lar
board" from? queRa borda, "that side."
'Abbreviated, these two phrases ; appear
as sta borda and la borda. Then- close
resemblaiice "caused so- -many, mistakes
thtby order of the- admiralty,.' "lar
board" ia now' thrown overboard ' and
porf sobetitated. ; Port the : helm" is
eveu mentioned in Arthur PifcFa vorage
as early as 1580. St Levis Republic.
' -U'-' ,-- ;
JTrw Wall Fnlninmhin. : ;
" Peruana who bite their naita might be
cured 'of the habit if they coaW ever
keep before , them the : fact that in - the
deposit under the nails isjui aggregation
of horrible ' things which tnfrwV a fall
line of micrococci (thirty; kinds), eight
een different designs of bacilli and sev
eral sarcensB " and ' molds poxes, ateo as
sorted. AH these terrible things are
said to be death dealmg.--PTailadelpna
Times.
"Pa, what is an auction?"
"An auction, my son, is a place where,
a man pays an fiioriatirgit sum fbrr some
thing he dont want and cant 080."
Epoch.- : -! -:...- '.'.-,,.', ,. 'I-.
MAYS &
(Successors to ABRAMS & STEWART.)
Hotallori and Tobbera xx -
Hardware. Tinware, - Gram'teware, - VMeipre,
SILVERWARE, ETC.
-AGENTS -
"Acorn," "Charter Oak" "Argand"
STOVES AND RANGES.
, "Ps, 1'ipe, Plumbers, and Steam Fitters' Supplies,
Packing, Building Paper, 1
SASH, DOORS, SHINGLES.
Also a complete stock of Carpenters', Blacksmith's and
Farmers fools and Fine Shelf Hardware.
-AGENTS
The CelebrafcKi R. J ROBERTS Varranted'' Cutlery, Meriden Cutlery and
iaDieware, the Quick Meal" Gasoline Stoves, "Grand" Oil Stoves
and Anti-Rust Tinware.
All Tinning, Plumbing, ; Pipe Work and Repairing
will be done on Short. Notice.
174, 176, 178. 180 SECOND STREET, .
NOrTH DAULiES, Wash.
In the last two weeks large sales of lots TflgftV
have been made at Portland, Tacoma, Forest the wo5
Grove, McMinnville and The Dalles. All t T" jt
are satisfied that BOOtandShoe
FACTORY.
North Dai i f5 Fnmitnre M'ir.
.NORTH DALLES VYire Works
Is now the place for investment. New Man- Chemical -ufactories
are to be added and large improve- NtW Rinrr'
ments made. The next 90 days will be im- several
portant ones for this new city. MflB COttfljTBS.
Call at the office of the 01 feilfOad
. Interstate Investment Co.,
r m 72 Washington St., PORTLAND Or
O. D. TAYLOR, THE DALLES, Or.
: DEALERS IN :-
Staple and Fancy
Hay, Grain and Feed.
Gheap Express Wagons flos. 1 and 2.
Orders left at the Stcreilljreceive prompt attention.
Trunks and Packages delivered to any part of the City.
Wagons always on hand when Trains or Boat arrives.
No. 122 Cor. Washington and Third. Sts.
NEW FIRM I
toseoe 8t
DKALF.R8 IN-
V STAPLE 7 AND
Canned Goods, Preserves, Pickles, Etc.
Country Produce Bought and Sold.
Goods delivered Free to any part of the City
Masonic Block, Corner Third and
I. C. NI CKELS EB N ,
-DEALER IN-
STATIONERY,
)-- 2 . " 1 -.
BOOKS AND MUSIC.
Cor. of TIM 'and faslibgtoE St, Trie Dalles, Oregon.
H. C. NIE LS6N ,
Clothier and Tailot,
l?at5 aijd Caps,; Jrui, -Ualises,
X3oo-t . and Sbooa, Etc.
CORNER OF SECOND AND WASHINGTON ST8., THE DALLES, OREGON-
CROWE,
FOR THE :-
FOR-
THE DALLES, OREGON.
mceriGs.
NEW STORE
Gibons,
V FANCY V
Court Streets, The Dalles, Oregon.
NOTIONS,