The Dalles Daily Chronicle. THE DAI J -EH - OREGON. Entered at the l'ostfnoe at The Dalles, Oregon, , an second-clans waiter.. STATE OFFICIALS. Governor ..S. Permover Secretary of State. .-. G.Vi. McUride Treasurer Phillip Metschun Supt. of Public Instruction E. B. MoK.lroy enator8 jj. H. Mitchell 'Congressman B. Hermann State Printer . Frank Baker '' " COUNTY OFFICIALS.' ' County Judge. ...C. N. Thornbury Sheriff I. L. Gates Clerk J. B. Crwsen Treasurer Uen. Kuch .mtuui.... (H A. Ijeavens Commimloners , !Frank KinMla Assessor John E. Burnett Surveyor E. F. Sharp 8irintencient of Public Schools. . .Troy Hhellev Coroner ..William Michefl The Chronicle is the Only Paper in The Dalles that Receives the Associated Press Dispatches. THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND. No person of sound mind and instruct ed in the principles of common honesty can dispute the fact that the Or'egonian is right when it denounces such men as the Rev. Howard McQueary for remain ing in the communion of a religious body and drawing from it a nalary for his sup port after he has not only abandoned its peculiar doctrines, but commenced to teach others fundamentally opposite. In such denunciation the Oregonian has it all its own way, for no one would care to dispute a proposition so self evident as that a man is dishonest who takes pay from a church after he has abandoned her doctrines. But the Oregonian must not imagine that thousands of its read ers do not enter a solemn protest when such men as McQueary, Heber, Newton and Ir. Briggs, waving the moral tur pitude referred to, are held up as sam ples of a class of men so deeply skilled in the art of higher criticism, that they are compelled per force to eliminate everything of the supernatural from the Christian religion. It ia believed that there are tens of thousands of clergymen in the various orthodox denominations who are just as deeply learned in Chris tion evidences and scripture critcisai as the gentlemen referred to who find no difficulty at all in believing with their whole heart that it is no truer that Jesus Christ lived and died than it is true that he also rose from the dead.; It goes without saying that with such men the silly and illogical teachings of the Rob ert Elsmere school have no place. They believe Christ was the Son of God or he was an impostor. There is no middle ground. Either his pretensions were true or he was a deceiver. That he claimed to be divine in his origin and being is beyond question. The same evidence that proves that he lived, proves that he taught, that there was no salvation for the human race except through him. "He that belie veth on the Son hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him." No sane man, apart from him, ever made such pretensions as these. If they are not true they are the words of a mad man, Herein lies the inconsistency and mental obliquity of the Elsmere school. They would worship at the shrine of one whom their logic makes to be an extrav agant pretender. They would compli ment as the purest and holiest and tru est man that ever lived, as the one forsooth the race should copy after and imitate, one whose whole life, their own logic would prove to be a living lie. Theirs is not the Christ of scripture, and they only are consistent who reject the whole story or believe the whole. THE DALLES AS A TERMINAL POINT. If the road to the Fossil coal fields is -ever opened, as we fondly hope it will be in the near future, The Dalles will take a new start.ou the road to progress such as she has never witnessed before. The fine agricultural district through which the road must run no matter what course it takes will make it a pay ing investment from the start. The road will have the tendency to develop the resources of the country in a way that nothing else can and The Dalles as a terminal point will reap all the ad vantages of its unique geographicol posi tion. But a road to the Fossil coalfields "with The Dalles as its terminus is not all nor half of all the possibilities that may be in store for us, if proper exer tions are made to secure them. The contemplated portage road around the iallo of Celilo ought to have its terminus here also and every possible effort should be made to have it here. We are far from being satisfied that a road cannot be built around the falls, whether below the bluff ot south' of it at a' cost not much greater; than that of a similar road on the Washington side. -But even if the cost was considerably' greater it would be" fully offset by the superior ad vantages it would possess. Such a road continued across the. Deschutes, river which it ought to be, and for that matter on to Wasco in Sherman county or further still, would command the entire traffic of that magnificent agricultural county. If it would be obliged to leave the Columbia before or soon after cross ing ' the Deschutes it would be a simple matter to run an incline to the most convenient ' landing, and thus secure the whole river traffic of the country on both sides of . the Columbia above Celilo. Thus a three fold object would be affected, all the advantages of a portage road, aud as far as Sherman county is concerned without so many objectionable handlings of freight as if the port-age was on the other side, would be realized; the road would command the traffic of such a large district that it would-com mend itself to capitalists as a perfectly sure investment, and the advan tage of being the terminal point' of the system. The present tiriie is peculiarly favorably for such a scheme, as far as the road to Sherman county is concerned. Portland and Astoria are clamoring for an open river as well as the people east of u.s. If we could show them that a road could be built from this city at a reasonable cost that would serve not only as a portage but would control the trade of an immense country south of the river we would have no trouble in procuring the money to build it. IVimlo 4Jorrespondeo.ee. Wamic, Or., March 28, 1891. Editor Chronicle. I herewith send you a few items from this vicinity as some of your many readers may like to hear from us. The farmers are all very busy plowing and seeding and expect to reap a bounti ful harvest the coming season. Mrs. F. S. Gorden, of this place, has been very sick but is much better now. The stockholders of the Wamic acad emy met today at 2 o'clock and elected the following officers : President, Mar tin Wing; secretary, F. S. Gorden; treasurer, A. E. Lake ; Directors, Mar tin Wing, H. F. Woodcock, Henry Driver, A. E. Lake and F. S. Gorden. A committee of three was appointed for the purpose of selecting a site for the school house and making arrangements for building materials, etc., consisting of Asa Stogsdill, F. S. Gorden, and H. F. Woodcock. The building of this acad emy is the wisest move the ieople has ever made and they will surely reap a grand reward. Mrs. E. N. Chandler leaves for The Dalles on Monday's stage to. make that her futrue home, as Mr. Chandler is now in charge of the grange's store. We are very sorry to lose them. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Williams will leave tomorrow for Kingsley to visit their son at that place, and Mr. and Mrs. George Williams will start for Erskinville, Sher man Co., Monday to spend a short time, Our old friend Steve Kistner was mar ried to Miss Nettie Confer of Juniper Flat last Thursday, March 26, 1891, at tne residence of Mr. V. M. Justner of Wamic, at 11 o'clock by A. J. Swift J. P. and many friends of the happy couple witnessed the ceremony and from there proceeded to the. home of the bride's parents who gave a supper and dance and every one had a pleasant time.' The young couple have 'many friends who wish them much, joy and a long and a happy life. We are pleased to learn that Mr. "P. T. Knowles of this place will travel for the S. B. Co., of Dufur, this season. ' Van Duyn & Co., of Tygh valley are closing out their merchandise store. Mr. B. F. Swift has returned from Seattle to make this his f uture home. The farmers of all the country tributary to The Dalles now have a chance to test their independence and support the first move of any importance they have made, viz., to do all their trading it their own store whether they are ' stockholders or not and allow it to handle all their pro duce as far as possible and to wear no other boots and shoes but those manu factured at North Dalles. Born to the wife of.H. E. Driver, a daughter, March 17, 1891. Yours respectfully, Ought. . la Disease a Punishment? The following advertisement, published by a prominent western patent medicine house would indicate that they regard disease as a punishment for sin : "Do you wish to know the quickest way to cure a sever cold? We will tell you. To cure a cold qickly, it must be treated before the cold has become set tled in the system. This can always be done if you choose to, as nature in her kindness to man gives timely 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 it off by prompt action. The first symptoms of a cold, in most cases, is a dry, loud cough and sneezing. The cough is soon followed by a profuse watery expectoration and the sneezing by a prosuse watery dis charge from the nose. In severe cases there is a thin white coating on the 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 severe cold within one or two days time. Try it and be convinced." Fifty cent bottles for sale by Snipes & Kinersley, druggists'. Forfeited Kallroad Lands We are now ready to prepare papers for the filing and entry -of Railroad Lands. We also attend to .business be fore the TJ. S. Land Office and Secretary of the Interior. Person's 'for. whom we have prepared papers and who. are 're quired to renew their applications, will not be charged additional for such papers! Thornbury t Hudson, ; 1 Rooms 8 and 9, Land Office building, The Dalles, Oregon. Prominent democratic announcement is made that "Reed's rales" will be ignored in theTifty-second congress. 'Verylikelv, and yet, the majority in' that congress must maintain those' VerY rules nn1en they want Thos. B.Reed and the rest of the republican minority to control the legislation .Aatprian. The home that shelters in honorable woman is ground as holy as the church. Speed In Ocean Travels .J "The pi-eat drawback," said kr. BicL-' ard, one of the agents of .the' Hamburg American Packet companyyHo crossing the ocean quicker- than we- dp at present, is the expense of 'coal. More powerful ' engines could be built which would; in crease the speedlrat these engines would ! require so much more coal The steam ers of the Hamburg-American Packet", company now consume about 210 to'"25ft' tons of coal a day; if 350 tons were needed daily, these steamers would be ran at a Iocs, for, besides the cost of and the valuable space required for the addi tional 100 or bo tons of coal, more en gineers, more stokers, etc.. would be needed. But if we went to an unlimited expense for the most powerful engines in the world the gain of time in crossing the ocean would not be more than eight or ten hours, so long as coal is used. ' "I have great . faith, however, in elec tricity some day or other taking the place of coal for the propulsion of ocean steamers, and when that is brought about they will be ' run much cheaper. The weight of , the coal does not make the steamer slower; that has nothing to do with it. Sometimes a weighted steamer goes faster than one that is not weighted, all depending upon the wind and weather. "Steamers can never go as quick as locomotives, because they have to con tend against water and air, whereas the railroad cars have only air as a resist ance. Ananming the maximum speed of a locomotive to be about sixty miles an hour over short distances, it may be said that it goes three times as rapidly as a steamer, although the average time made by the fastest limited express train is only twice the average time made by a fast steamer." Epoch. The Kitten Will Vouch for This. One the seventh floor of the St. Cathe rine flats, at Fifty-third street and Madi son avenue, a particularly pretty Mal tese kitten has the good fortune to live. . Her favorite snoozing place is on the seat of one of the windows overlooking the court yard. ' This window happened to be open for a few minutes, the other morning, and the kitten, quite carried away by the novelty of the idea, stepped out upon the window ledge to take a cat's eye view of the yard below and the surrounding country generally. ' An instant later her paws slippo.l from under her upon a piece of ice and over she went. She fell a trifle of .some six stories and then landed feet fore most just upon the extreme edge of the roof of one of the outbuildings. But so terrific' was the. force ' with, which 'she landed there that she bounced from off the roof like a rubber ball,' and after this ' instant's respite ' continued' on her headlong journey toward the ground. She landed on her feet again, shook herself for a moment just to see that she was ail there, and then giving vent to a faint yowl of triumph, as one would 8ay,'"How'8 that for high?" picked her way toward the house again with a de lightful air of nonchalance and totallj oblivious to the fact- that she has only, eight lives left to her credit. New York Evening Sun. Machine for Shaping and Boring Post Arm An ingenious machine is'used in Eng ' land for preparing telegraph' post arms.' These arms are usually made from the best selected English. oak.y and vary in length from two feet t 'our feet. They are in the first case planed on the four aides by means of a special planing ma chine, and . then sawed to the exact length required by means of a doable cross cut sawing machine made specially for the purpose. The arms are" then passed on to the shaping machine, which rapidly and effectively does its work. The machine is quite self contained, and has the driving shaft placed overhead and Supported upon standards fixed to the. main bed.' ' The arrangements for deal ing' with the various lengths "of arms' have been carefully worked out At the official test of the machine the' wooden arms were finished at the rate of three per minute. New York Commercial Ad vertiser. . Enoch's Classification. Dr. Van Dykes told this story: I am reminded of a preacher who preached from the text, '.'And Enoch was not." He went on to explain that this text was incomplete. "Now, brethren," said he, "yon may hot know in what way Enoch was not. To find this out,' we must ex amine the text carefully in th light of the context. Firstly Enoch was not an Episcopalian, because he 'walked' with God and did not dance. He was not a Baptist, because be 'walked' with God and did not swim. He was not a Pres byterian, because the context tells us that he walked with God at all, and be was not a Methodist, because . we are plainly told that God took hinu" New York San. - - J ; - ' Axe the Eyes Enr Safe? . Beware of the electric light. . This is warning sounded by a correspondent, and a warning that should-be heeded. The use of the incandescent lamp is apt to be highly injurious to the eyes if pre cautions are ; not taken ..with, , , regard to shad ee or globes. ' Plain or cat glass is particularly noxious. In all cases ' the little illuminator should be shaded with a green of ' thick white shade, and the glass should be frosted.' It is said that a number of men in the clubs are ' 'suffer, ing with: sore , eyes, entirely due to the improper shading of the dub lights. London Letter. - A. Startling- Compi . Recent statistics show that. 'French railways annually kill one person out of each aiOOQ.OOO carried," while in Enfand 8J.,p00T0P0 ar ctaried before one meets a violent " death,' in. a railway' accident.'' French railways annually . wound ''blie1 passenger oat of each 500,000 carried; English, one in each 750,000; Belgium, one in ' each" '1.650,000, and Prussia oaly one in each 4,000,000. -St. Louis Repub- Worse Than Thai.- Doiley Did she say you nay. old man'r Gosling-She wasn't so. considerate :: that. She used a plain and eniiihuU: -no.- Mnnsey's Weekly! . M. HUNTINGTON & CO. Heal Estate and . Insaranee Agents. Abstracts of. and Information Concern ' ingJLand Titles on Short Notice. Land for Sale and Houses to Rent Parties Looking for Homes in COUNTRY Oil CITY, OR IN SEARCH OF Bugiqe Locations, Should Call on or Write to us. Agents for a Full Line of Leaflinfi: Fire Insurance Companies, - And Will Write Insurance for on all DESIEABLI3 EISKS. 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 XjuxxoIi Oovmter, In Connection With his Fruit Stand and Will Serve Hot . Coffee,, Hani. Sandwich,, Pigs' Feet, Convenient to the Passenger 1 epot. On Second St., near corner of Madison. Also a i .- Branch Bakery, California Orange Cider, and the Best Apple Cider. If you want a good lunch, give me a call. Open all Night S. L. YOUNG, (Successor to K. RECK. -DEALER IN- Jewelry, Diamonds, SILVERWARE, :-: ETC. Watches, Clocks and Jewelry Repaired and Warranted. 165 Second St.. The Dalles, Or. John Pashek, (neicaitTailoi Third Street, Opera Block. , Madisoifs latest System, j Used in cutting garments," "and a fit guaranteed each time. :' ' "" Re pai ri ng and Clean i ngr Neatly and Quickly Done.. FOR, FINE mming SPME. ,TO-r- .. THE CHRONICLE OFFICE. V 2 ft Commercial! THE The Grate, City of the Inland Empire is situated at the head of navigation on is a thriving, prosperous ITS TERRITORY. ' O It is the supply city for an extensive and riqh agrix cultural and grazing country, its trade reaching as- far south as Summer Lake, 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 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 flUed the warehouses, and all available storage places to overflowing with their products. ITS : WEALTH 1 It is the richest city of its size oh 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. v THE DALLES . MERCANTILE CO. Successors to BROOKS t BEERS, Dealers In " General JVTetehandise, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Boots and Shoes, . Hats and Caps, Etc, Hardware Groceries, Provisions, 390 and 394 Remember we deliver all purchases W. E. GARRETSON, UUIIUlUle SOLE AGENT FOB THE AIJ Watch Work Warranted.. Jewelry , Made to rder. laa Second St., Tbie nallea, Or. ( $500 Reward! We -will pay the above reward for any case of liver Complaint, DTspepefa, Hick 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 fail to give aattstpc-1 lion. Sugar Coated. Large boxes containing 80 Pills, 25 cents. Beware of counterfeits and imi tations. The. genuine manufactured only by THB JOHNC,rFST, COMPANY; CHICAGO, ILLLnOIS. KLAKELEY & HOUGHTON, Z1-Prescription Trngglts, 178 Second St. The Dalles. Or. REMOVAL. H. Glenn has removed his office and - the office of the Electric Light Co. to 72 Washington St. LeaiilDQ DALi.ES the Middle Columbia, ajyi city. ; a distance of over twe ' M Hay, Grain and Feed. Second Street. without charge. -FOR- oamets ana Furuitore CO TO PKINZ & NITSCHKE, Aud be Satisfied as to QUALITY AND PRICES. C. N. THOKNBUBV, T. A. HUDSON, - Late Rec. Vj 8. Land Office. Notary Public. ROOMS 8 and 0 LAND OFFICE BCTM, THE DALLES, OR.' pilings, Contests,; ..--,... ' . . . . - And all other Businessin the D. S. Land Offici , Promptly Attiyied to..-. - We have ordered , Blanks fo Filings, Entries .. and Ahe ' purchase of Railroad Lands under the recent Forfeiture Act whfch we will have, and advise the pub lie at the earliest date when such entries, can be. made.- Look for advertisement in this paper. Thornburv & Hudson.