The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
THE DALLES
OREGON.
Entered at the Poistolllco tit The Dalles, Oregon,
as second-class matter.
STATE OFFICIALS.
Secretary tit State.'. 7. '.V.V.'.V. .".".'6! W. MeBrtde
Treasurer Phillip Metscuau
Supt. of Public Instruction E. B. McElroy
J. N. Dolth
enatore ij. H. Mitchell
'ionsrrestiman B. Hermann
State Printer Frunk Baker
COCNTV OFFICIALS.
Cnnntr Judcre C. N. Thornbury
Sheriff' D. L. Oaten
Clerk J. B. Crrwsen
' Treasurer . .". Geo. Ruch
. . (H' A. Leavens
Commissioners Frank Kincaid
AHsessor.... John E. Burnett
Surveyor E. F. Sharp
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy Shelley
Coroner William Michell
The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
WE ARE
GOING
FAIR.
TO HAVE J
It is not, we believe, generally known
that the governor's veto of the district
fair bill dt)es not affect the law already
in existence making an appropriation of
1500 each for three district fairs, two
in Eastern Oregon and one in Southern
Oregon. These annual fairs which in
eludes our own will be held as before
and have the same appropriation. The
bill that the governor vetoed was an
amendment to the existing law. and
made provision for four district fairs in
stead of three two in Kastern Oregcn,
one in Southern Oregon and one in
Western Oregon, the latter intended to
include all the counties not contiguous to
Salem or Jacksonville. The amended
law also provided that each district fair
should have an appropriation of
$3000 a year, instead of $1500
as under the old law. The amended bill
was, we believe, the work of the zealous
members of our own fair association and
was in every respect a perfectly just and
equitable measure. The amount asked
. for each district was in no way excessive
Farmers cannot be expected to bring
their stock a distance of a hundred to a
hundred and fifty miles for an exhibit,
when even if assured of the highest
premium such premium would not meet
their necessary expenses. Besides dis
trict fairs are right in principle when we
take into consideration the immense size
of the state and the impossibility of the
greater portion of it availing itself of the
privileges of the state fair. The annual
fair held at Salem is, geographically,
nothing but a district fair and such
it must for ever remain. Yet the
Salem v fair gets from the state
funds a yearly appropriation of $50U0
and when other districts equally as large,
relatively of as much importance and
financially in more need ask the paltry
sum of $3000 each the governor most in
consistently and unjustly interposes
with his veto. But this is not the worst
of it, as far as the governor is concerned.
His excellency, we are reliably informed,
most emphatically promised that he
would not veto the bill and then went
clean back on his word and did it. Two
members of the legislature and a gentle
man, well known in this city, all of his
own political persuasion, had the assur
ance from his own lips. To the gentle
man from The Dalles he said : "Go and
telegraph to your friends its all right."
and he did so. The next thing heard
was that the governor had gone back on
his word. The governor had played it
fine, too. The bill had received such
"large support that its friends have not
Hie least doubt that had they known in
time the governor's deception they
could have passed it over his veto,
Mentally he is singularly constructed, is
the same governor. A $60,000 portage
road was all right, although it must
be frankly admitted that more than one
half of the state will receive no direct
benefit from it. A $90,000 dome on the
capitol was all right, although no part
of the state will ever receive any benefit
from it at . all. Even the $5000 appro
priation for the state fair, is we suppose
all right, although three-fourths of the
state gets no benefit from it, while a
measure that would have benefited, and
that equally, the whole state must be
vetoed.
The long and the short of it is we are
going to ha' e a fair in spite of the Gov
ernor, and the Chhokicle may be relied
upon to do everything in its power to
make it a sucess. A meeting of the fair
commissioners will be held in this city
on the 3d of April next to make all
necessary arrangements, and when these
are made due notice will be given.
' Meanwhile we ask the farmers for whose
benefit the fair is gotten up and without
whose aid it cannot be a sucess, to bear
it in mind, while their crops and garden
truck are growing during the coming
season, we nave only to add tnat we
hope the commissioners will have learn
ed from past experience to fix the time
for holding the fair, as far as human
'" foresight can do so, when it will be most
convenient for the farmers to attend,
Walt Whitman is popularly represen
ted as having no sense of humor. This
is a mistake. The other day a senti
mental young man dropped in upon bim
at bis bumble home in (Jamden, JN. J.
and, introducing himself as a poet, beg
ged permission to read some of his vers
es. "No, thank you," said the Good
Gray Poet, "I have already been paraly
zed twice."
Ability involves responsibility,
er, to its last particle, is duty.
Pow
It is with peculiar pride and we fear
not a little vanity, that we receive from
all parts of the county where the Chron
icle circulates the repeated assurances
of the approval of its readers as to the
stand it has taken in its fearless present-
tion of what it believes to be the truth.
"It is the first time" they say that The
Dalles has had a paper that '"was not
afraid to tell what our representatives
do at Salem." As- a consequence our
subscription list is daily receiving so
manv accessions that we believe not
many months will elapse till we shall
have the largest circulation of any paper
in Eastern Oregon. It is a question if
any other paper publishes east of the
mountains is so carefully read as is ' the
Chkoxicle. The man who does 'hot
subscribe for it has to borrow it-from
one who does. There is abundant-evid
ence that its bitterest enemies are, its
most careful readers. All this is very
encouraging ; but we want more sub
scribers and in return we promise that
no expense of time or money will be
spared to make it a paper that the people
cannot do without.
SHOULD BE REPRESENTED,
The state board of agriculture has
taken up the matter of raising $50,000
for proper representation of the state at
the world's fair in 1893. There certainly
should be public spirit enough in Oregon
to raise tnat amount, it is Hardly
enough, but beats nothing. The board
has appointed a committee to attend to
this important matter. The 'idea is to
have five delegates from each county to
meet in Portland June loth, to devise
ways and means for raising the money,
and how best to use it
According to the countv assessment
rolls, each connty would be taxed as
follows :
Multnomah $20,000
Curry 100
Columbia SOU
CluMop 1,500
Tillamook 100
niarnatn mj
Lake 200
Wasco 1,000
WaHhintrton 1,600
Sherman 200
Morrow ... 800
Umatilla... 2,000
Yamhill 1,800!
Polk v. 1,300
Hen ton 1 Jj00
union l.ooo
Clackamas 1.S00
Marion 3,500
Linn 3,000
Baker 1,000
Wallowa 100
Malhuer 200
Lane '.!,ooo
Douelas &M
Grant . . 800
Harney 800
Josephine 3"0
Jackson 1.500
Crook 300
Coos KOOj Total 950,000
Twice $50,000 would be none too much
to properly advertise the state to the
world at Chicago in 1893,
The Times-Mountaineer alluding to the
Epitaph" which appeared in yester
day's Chronicle says :
"Shades of Shakespeare, Byron and
Pope protect us ! If the B., C. and L.
B. organ will not inflict us with any such
doggerel as it did this evening, we will
wiiungiy euuecnue luwarua waning up
the $125 a month salary of the defunct
preacher. If this is a child of Gourlay's
brain, it is a pity he ever quit farming
and preaching.'
For shame, Brother Michell ! One re
tired minister should never thus speak
of another. Come now, isn't this the
case? You tried to be a preacher and
couldn't. Gourlay could have been
preacher and would n t. Then you see
when your brains were all burned up in
the fire that burned your manuscripts
you couldn't make a lawyer, and
"stickely lawyer, as the Scotch say, is
poor material for an editor. So vou are i
a failure all round.
Hereafter in this state the term of
office of county assessors will commence
on the first Monday of March next fol
lowing their election, so that assessors
now in office will have nearly a year ad
ded to their terms.
The above paragraph has appeared in
many of our exchanges. We may not
understand it, but we rise to say that it
has been both the law and the custom
for years for assessors to commence their
term of office on the first day of March
next following their election. Every
aBseseor now in office in the state com
menced the term for which he was elect
ed last June on the first day of this
month. Where then does the "nearly a
year added" come in? Will somebody
rise and explain? There is surely a
blunder somewhere.
la IMsease a FnnUhmentT
The following advertisement, published
by a prominent western patent medicine
house would indicate that they regard
disease as a punishment for sin :
LH you wish to know tne quickest
way to cure a sever cold? We will tell
you. To cure a cold qickly, it must be
treated betore tne coid nas become set
tled in the system. This can always be
done if you choose to, as nature in her
kindness to man gives timelv warning
and plainly tells you in nature's way,
that as a punishment for some indiscre
tion, you are to be afflicted with a cold
unless you choose to ward if on by
prompt action. . The first symptoms of a
cold, in most cases, is a dry, loud coueh
and sneezing. The cough is soon followed
by a profuse watery expectoration and
the sneezing by a prosuse watery dis
charge from tbe nose. In severe cases
there is a thin white coating on tbe
tongue. What to do? It is only necessary
to take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in
double doses every hour. That will greatly
lessen the severity of the cold and in
most cases will effectually counteract it,
and cure what would have been a severe
cold within one or two days time. Try it
and be convinced." Fifty cent bottles for
nttlft w RnirtRfl & TCinprslev- dmcreafltfl.
They Couln't Stand It.
One of the hobos who escaped from
lail a few nights ago has written to bner
iff Prince, expressing his profound grat
itude for courtesies shown him during
his incarceration. He declares that the
food was satisfactory and the attendance
exceptionally careful, and that on these
accounts, and the high personal regard
he bad tor all connected with the jail,
he was sorry to take ".trench leave,"
but there was one thing neither ne nor
his Dais could stand, and that was the
loud, persistent and stentorian snore of
the night guard. That was more than
human patience could endure, and they
concluded to sever the ties that bound
them. Tdcoma Ledger.
People's intentions can only be decid
ed by their conduct.
A 'Lsncshanmaa't Sftnaa tf Modesty.
' Yoa would hardly believe what silly
ideas some rough, uneducated men have
about propriety," said the nurse, as she
smoothed eat the pillow, and rearranged
the bed covers with a gentleness and a
dexterity that recalled to the patient the
ministering hand of a mother to her sick
boy. "I recollect nursing -a big long
shoreman when . I wad in the hospital,
who had an idea of chivalry which, mis
taken and nonsensical though it was,
yet was refreshing in one of his class.
He had been in some fight in a shop near
the river, and had received a number of
bad wounds. His antagonist had cat
right for his heart, and had made three
or four gaping slashes in his chest. '
"The injured man was one of the best
built men I ever saw, and if his chest
had not been padded with thick mus
cles, he would have been murdered out
right. As it was, he was in a critical
condition, and only the best care and
treatment could save his life. The sur
geons dressed his wounds the first few
days, and then turned the task over to
me. I went np to the patient, whose
name was Jackson, the next day, and
began to lay back the covers of the bed.
'What are yoa doing?" he asked.
" 'I am going to dress your wounds.'
I answered.
" 'Yon. a ladyf he said in astonish
ment.
" Of course; come, no nonsense,' I
went on, for he had grasped the cover in
his weak hands and was trying to pre
vent my laying it back. I tried to argue
with him, but he blushed and said dog
gedly that he wouldn't let a lady dress
his wounds. I told him he would die if
he didn't let me take care of him, but he
said he didn't care if he did, so I had to
send for the surgeon. After several days
the patient was persuaded to let me
dress the wounds, but he turned crimson
when he bared his chest for . me, al
though he had to expose little more than
a society woman does when she wears a
ball gown. Well, the longshoreman got
well, and since then I have been con
vinced that the coarsest men are not
without instincts of gentility." New
York Tribune.
Bad Tempors,
There are some vices which
what may be called a respectable ex
terior; they succeed occasionally in bor
rowing the garments of some neighbor
ing virtue and passing themselves off as
relations of his. Even when their char
acter as faults cannot be denied, people
are found to palliate them and minimize
their evil tendency. Among such sins
are envy, jealousy, pride and bad tern
per. To say that such a one has rattier
a hasty temper, or that he is difficult to
get on with, or that he is too fond of
having his own way, is hardly, in the
opinion of many people, to say anything
really to his discredit; yet, when we
analyze that disposition of mind which
is commonly called "bad temper" wo
shall find that it is neither more nor less
than the malignant desire of making
other people suffer pain. Even in the
case of a "hot" or hasty temper, this is
true. No one would use angry words to
another if he did not mean that they
should wound, and intend to relieve b's
angry feelings by the suffering they may
cause. Chambers Journal.
Tlis First Idea of Perpetual Matfoa.
Honecourt. a Flemish architect of the
thirteenth century, left a drawing of a
wheel that was to solve the problem of
perpetual motion with this memoran
dum: "Many a tune have skillful work
men tried to contrive a wheel that shall
torn of itself. Here is a way to make
such a one, by an uneven number of
mallets or by quicksilver. " But unfort
unately he did not leave the wheel.
From ma tame eo seekers after perpet
ual motion have been nnmeroos, many
of them supposed to be very respectable
and iaieangeut men. Among the receiv-
i of eighty -six English and twenty
times Fsencfa patents taken act for per
petoal motions between 1860 and 1809
were a colonial bishop, a professor of
philosophy, one of languages, two bar
ons, a Knight Templar, a doctor of med
idne, two civil engineers, several me
chanical engineers, etc Chicago Her
ald.
It tVaa th
Of Carl vie Mr. Goldwin Smith tells
one excellent story: One evening the
party were seated on the terrace at Lady
Ashborton's, in contemplation of the
gloi ioua moon that shone overhead.
"Poor old woman!" broke out Cariyle,
suddenly. The company looked astound
ed, bat it soon transpired that the refer
ence was not strictly personal. The
sage was merely apostrophizing the
moon, and condoling with her upon the
scene of folly she was doomed to look
down upon on every hand except, per
haps, a t Chelsea. Pall Mall Gazette.
a Good Deal Nearer to Keep Oi
"The funniest incident in my experi
ence?" queried the bridge policeman.
That was the couple from tbe country
tost married. They had reached the
exact center of the bridge. Oh, my
darling, I can t go a step farther, ex
claimed the bride; 'what shall we dor
'Do, my precious? Why, well go back
to the New York end and take a train
across.' And they did." Nw York
Tunes. ' - :
Baboo English.
One man during an examination was
told to write an essay apon the horse,
which be did m the following brief terms
"The horse is a very noble n.nimn.1, but
when irritated he ceases to do so." An
other had to write upon the difference
between riches and poverty, and he ended
by saying: "In short, the rich man wel
ters in crimson velvet, while the poor
man snorts on flint. Lady Doffenn
Viceregal Life in India.
Gtanta Nearly Twentr Ceet Tall.
The giant Ferragns, who was slain by
Orlando, the nephew of Charlemagne,
was eighteen feet high. He always ac
companied the army on foot, there being
no horse tall and strong enough to carry
bim. Platerns in his published writings
tells of a giant whom he examined at
Lucerne whose body measured 19 feet
inches and 8 hoes. St. Louis Republic.
. M. HUNTINGTON & CO
Abstracters,
Real Estate and -Insurance
Agents.
Abstracts of. and Information Concern-
ingLand Titles on Short Notice.
Land for Sale and Houses to Rent
Parties Looking for Homes in
COUNTRY OR -CITY,
OR IN SEARCH OF
Bugiqe Location,
Should Call on or Write to us.
Agents for a Full Line of
Mi Fire Insurant Companies,
- And Will Write Insurance for
on all
DESIEABLE RISKS.
Correspondence Solicited. .All Letters
Promptly Answered. Call on or
Address,
J. M. HUNTINGTON & CO.
Opera House Block, The Dalles, Or,
JAMES WHITE,
Has Opened a
Ij-ixxxoIx Oooxnter,
In Connection With his Fruit Stand
and Will Serve
Hot Coffee, Ham Sandwich, Pigs' Feet,
and Fresh Oysters.
Convenient to the : Passenger
Depot.
On Second St., near corner., of Madison.
. Also a
Branch Bakery, California
Orange Cider, and the
Best Apple Cider.
If you want a good lunch, give me a call
Open all Night
fTlillERUEilTQII.
PROPRIETORS OF
The Dalles Ice Co.
Are putting up an additional ice house
near the ' freight depot on the track.
They will have better facilities for hand
ling ice than any other firm in town,
and one buying ice from them can rest
assured that they will be supplied
through the whole season, without an
advance in price.
MAIER & BENTON.
Cop. Third and Onion Streets.
-FOR-
Camets and Furniture,
CO TO
PRINZ & NITSCHKE,
And be Satisfied as to
QUALITY AND PRICES.
$500 Reward!
We will pay the above reward for any case of
Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, In
digestion, Constipation or Costiveness we cannot
cure with West's Vegetable Liver Pills,. when the
directions are strictly complied with. They are
purely vegetable, and never tail to give satisfac
tion. Sugar Coated. Large boxes containing 80
Fills, 25 cents. Beware of counterfeits and Imi
tations. The genuine manufactured only by
THE JOHN C. WFST COMPANY, CHIGAGO,
BLAKEI,EY A HOUOHTOX,
Prescription Druggists,
175 Second Bt. . . Th Dalles, Or
REMO?AL.
H. Glenn has removed his
office and the office of the
Electric Light Co. to 72
Washington St.
THE DALLES.
The Gate' 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
cultural and grazing country, its trade reaching as
far south as Summer Lake, a distance of over twe
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,
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
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.
W. E. GARRETSON,
Mm Jeweler;
SOLE AGENT FOB TIIK
All Watch Work Warranted.
Jewelry Made to Order.
138 Second St., The Dalles, Or.
S. L. YOUNG,
(Successor to E. BECK. i
-DEALER IN-
WATCHES, CLOCKS,
, V ...
Jewelry, Diamonds,
SMERWflftE, :-: ETC.
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
Repaired and Warranted.
165 Second St., The Dalles, Or.
the Middle Columbia, andv
city. m -;
an extensive and rich a
original wool . shipping
5,000,000 pounds being
its grapes equalling Cali
The successful merchant ie
the one who watches the mar
kets and buysto the 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 yoa ehoiee
Groceries and Provisions
OF ALL KINDS, AND
AT MORE EBASONABLBS BATES
THAN ANT OTHER PLACE
IN THE CITT.
RP"MP"MRP"R urn rloliwi- nil nivw
chases without charge.
390 AND 394 SECOND STREET.
C. N. THORNBCRY, T. A. HUDSON,
Late Bee. U. S. Land Office. Notary Public.
THOPIM & HUDSON,
ROOMS 8 and 9 LAND OFFICE BUILDING
Fostomee Box 3JSO,
THE DALLES
pilings, Contests
And all other Business in the V. S. Land Office
Promptly Attended to.
We have ordered Blanks for Filings,
Entries and the purchase of Railroad
Lands under the recent Forfeiture Act,
which we will have, and advise the pub
lic at the earliest date when such entries
can be made. Look for advertisement
in this paper. ' ' .
Thornburv & Hudson.