The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
SATURDAY.
- JUNE 6, 1891
METEOEOLOGIOAL EEPOET.
Pacific' Bela- D.t'r to Stute
Const bar. S tive of E. of
Time. " Hum Wind Weather.
8 A. M 80.08 58 7ti S W Clear
IP. H . 59 54 .West Cloudy
Maximum temperature, 63; minimum tem
perature, 44.
The river is Btationary.
WKAIHKK PROBABILITIES.
The-Dali.es, June 6, 1891. .
Weatlier forecast till 12 m.,
Monday; nhowery, Slightly
warmer.
RAIN
The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Additional local and telegraphic news
on the second page.
Col. Bain at the Congregational church
tonight.
W. H. Moore, Polk Butler and J.-0.
Warner of Nanneue are in the city.
The admission to (I. Bain's lectures
will le free.
There were shipped from the stock
yards today for Portland and the Sound
two cars of horses, one car of hogs and
a car and a half of calves.
This office acknowledges a pleasant
call from Captain and Mrs. Endersby
and Mr. and Mrs. J. V. IXckson of
Eight Mile. . '
The regular business council of the
Patrons of Husbandry will meet on
Eight Mile at the McHaley hall, next
Tuesday at 10 a. in. and will continue in
session two days.'
Messrs. J. J. Lucky and Nic. Billen, of
Hood River, have purchased 100 acres of
land opposite Hood River on the Wash
ington side and intend to go extensively
into strawberry culture.
The freight rate on unscoured wool,
between this city and Boston, New York
or Philadelphia, is $2.65 per hundred."
On scoured wool the rate is f.3.00 ier
hundred.
The following prominent officials of
the Union Pacific railroad passed through
this city, by special train r yesterday;
Sidney Dillion, S. H. H. Clark, E.
McNeil, E. Cookingham, J. P. O'Brien
and C. A. Cameron.
The law case in the circuit court C. S.
Miller, plaintiff, vs. Mary E. Miller, prin
cipal, William Grant and Malcome Moody
sureties, defendants.. A judgement of
1005 was awarded to the plaintiff for
the use, occupation and damages extend
ing over a period of four years.
The full number of men that can be
worked profitably are engaged on the
new boat. The contractors seem deter
mined to rush her through An em
ploye said to the writer, ''There are no
idlers around and no soft snaps. When
I go home at night I need no lullabies
sung to me to hush me to sleep."
The first accident that has occurred in
connection with the building of the new
boat happened this morning wben an
employe named Shea re n cut bis foot
with an adze. After the wound was
dressed the man had grit enough to
tome back to work, but Mr. Paequet
thought he had better go home and rest
for a few days.
The writer, no matter where, or when,
or bow, lias found a pallet cast by a jury
man in a late trial at the present circuit
court. The defendant had charged the
plaintiff with killing a dog called "Bum
mer." So the juryman made out his
ballot to read, "For the plaintiff, one
thousand and five dollars and six bits
and five dollars off for Bummer."
Today being Labor Day, circuit court
adjourned last night till next Monday
morning. To facilitate business, how
ever, Judge Bradshaw consented to hear
an argument on a motion to strike out
part of defendant's answer in the libel
case of M. A. Moody vs. George W. Row
land and others. '
While J. O. Warner, of Nansene, was
quietly sleeping a few nights ago in a
back room of the St. Charles hotel,
Tacoma, a fire occurred in the front part
of the building. The smoke and flames
having shut off all egress by the front
hallway he kicked out a window of his
bedroom and stepped out on the ground,
which in that case was conveniently and
welcomely near.
irrom Mr. J. W, Dclkson of .Eight
mile we learn that a small blue bug is
playing havoc on his and some of bis
neighbors' potato vines.' From the
same source we learn that Mr. Alex
Strachan of. Dufur has had three acres of
wheat entirely destroyed by grasshop
pers. These pests are also working
on the tomatoe vines and cabbage plants
on the McHaley place on Eight-mile.
Mr. J . C. Egbert is in the city. He in
forms us that the rainfall -in his neigh
borhood has been very light, that grain
is suffering and that this remark will
apply to the whole country, eight miles
south of the Columbia. Of course: this
is but a small territory and that - part
never was much of a grain country any-'
howt The-ground is now so dry that the
tar weed and mustard and lupin are
withered" and ' dead without having
bloomed oat. .,- . : - . ; . -; :
WhuM Doty la It to Ulnar the Bell?
The Dalles, June 6, 1891.
Editor of Chronicle : Seeing an ar
ticle in the Chronicle of the 5th in re
lation to the man in charge of the fire
bell, and the incompetency of the engin
eer, I ask space for the following : As to
the first charge, I should not have been
compelled to answer, as any tax-payer
or citizen of The Dalles, that has the in
terest of the city at heart, knows when
he sees or knows of a fire, that it is a
duty be owes to the city and himself to
go, or send word, to the engine house,
as soon as possible and have the bell
rone and not wait for the city to burn,
as "Property-holder" and "Tax-payer",
as he, signs himself, would probably do.
Now as to my duties. When an alarm
of fire is called, I have four doors to
open, play off about thirty feet of rope
from the reel, disconnect my engine and
knock the block from the wheel. Now I
would ask any sensible citizen which
would be proper for me, to go and ring
the bell and keep the engine in the
house, or have the engine leave the
house as soon as possible, and stop the
conflagration.' As to incompetency, it
seems strange that after .two years and
four months service, this property holder
and taxpayer tthould find me not compe
tent. The engine has never failed to
work at a fire, I have never been caught
without steam, and have always rode
the engine out of the house. To show
this property holder and taxpayer that
the U. S. government inspectors think
me competent, I have placed my license
(that I have received every year from
the government for six years) in Mr. !
Garretson's window so that Mr. Property-
holder and Taxpayer can see it for him
self. Respectfully,
Geo. J. Brown,
Engineer of Steamer.
Berrien in Chicago.
People in The Dulles who like straw
berries can read with watering mouths
about the way that delicious fruit goes
into Chicago this time of the year and
how little money it takes at such a time
to buy all one could carry. Saturday's
Inter Ocean, says: "One hundred and
thirty-six car loads of strawberries were
received in Chicago on Friday and Sat
urday fifty-seven on Friday and seventy-three
on Saturday. It was the largest
quantity ever received in the same time
in any city in the west. The price had
to go down, Sunday was coming and the
berries would not keep over a day longer.
They ripened in the rain. Then more will
come on Monday and Tuesday." Prob
ably seventy-five cars will come in on
Monday. The estimated consumption
of strawberries in Chicago is twenty cars
or 10,000 crate per day. This last ship
ment made 64,000 crates. There are
twentv-four boxes to the crate. This
makes 1,560,000 boxes, or more than one
box to each inhabitant. The boxes
average 140 berries to the box and, as
figured out, 218,400,000 berries were in
Chicago in the two dayefc named:
Strawberries now are eheap enough to
burn. A crate only costs from 25 to 50
cents."
Baby is sick. The woeful expression
of a Des Moines teamster's countenance
showed his deep anxiety was not entire
ly without cause,- when he inquired of a
drujjgist of the same city what was best
to give a baby for a cold? It was not ne
cessary for him to say more, his counte
nance showed that the pet of the family,
if not the idol of his life was in distress.
"We give our baby Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy," was the druggist's answer.
"I don't like to give the baby such strong
medicine," said the teamster. You know
John Oleson, of the Watters-Talbot Print
ing Co., don't you? inquired the drug
gist. "His baby, when eighteen months
old, got hold of a bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy and drank the whole of
it.- Of course it made the baby vomit
very freely but did not injure it in the
least, and what is more, it cured the ba
by's cold. The teamster already knew
the value of the Remedy, having used it
himself, and was now satisfied that there
was no danger in giving it even to a
baby. For sale by Snipes & Kinersly.
BORN ' '
In this city, June 6th, to the wife of
Fred Bold, a son. Mother and child are
doing well.
How the Paper Sella.
The last copy of yesterday's daily edi
tion was sold this morning. The de
mand is increasing steadily, which goes
to' show" that the people of The Dalles
appreciate a good paper.
Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
A small red milk cow without marks,
3 years old. Any information that will
lead to her recovery will be suitably re
warded bv Mays & Crowe.
The most decidedly refreshing thing
we have seen yet is the statement attrib
uted to Joe Simon by Portland paper
to the effect that "reform in politics was
necessary." Now if the citizens who so
nobly "reformed" Jim Lotan the other
day will only finish the job by "reform
ing woe srnion in like manner, they will
have, earned the gratitude of all decent
people. . Joe's talk of reform ought to be
taken with a very large pinch of salt.
' The people's party proposes to pay the
old soldiers the difference, between the
price of gold and the - greenbacks with
which he was paid for his service. But
they propose to pay him in greenbacks.
Why not pay himvin. gold unless there
is a tacit, confession that greenbacks are
inferior? .. . . .. .
The baueof the -liquor traffics-Colonel
Bain of Kentucky, . " '.;.. .
Strawberries' are -selling today-at ten
cents per box: j. .-- ',j . . . '.
EEVIEW OF THEL0CAL MABKET.
Trade during the week has been satis
factory and our merchants feel very con
fident of increased activity in mercantile
linesV.In . agricultural merchandise
there is an improvement as harvest ap
proaches, and a large business is exp ect
ed. v;., , " : .
The produce market is rather inactive,
owing to the large dairy, offerings. Eggs
are very scarce and there is more inquiry
for that luxury than for sometime pre
vious, and prices have gone up from 18
to 20 cents per dozen with an indication
of a further advance. The receipts of
good butter has fallen off somewhat, and
the quotations are firmer. Vegetables
are coming in freely and prices. are
fluctuating in accordance with quality
and quantity. . Strawberries are more
plentiful and prices have dropped to 6
and 8 cents per box. Cherries are more
abundant and are selling at 5 to 6 cents
per pound,, with a decline in sight, un
less the shipments are more frequent.
Messrs. Seufert Bros., are shipping 50
to 72 boxes daily, which is small com
pared to what the home market offers to
the trade.
In Wool there has been a large receipt
during the past week and the movement
east and west has been on sellers account
owing to the fact that the home market
is nominally blocked between the sellers
and buyers. The buyers base their
values and prices on the shrinkage, and
estimate the loss in scouring or washing
from 45 to 50 per cent., which the sellers
are unwilling to accept as a value on
their staple. Offerings range from 12 to
cents per pound. The buyers men
tioned last week have mostly gone to
Portland and east to other shipping
points expecting to make such purchases
as will meet present requirements.
Salmon fishing is of a discouraging na
ture. The run is lighter than ever known
since the industry has been inaugurated
at our fishing points near this city.
The Rockfield . canning - establishment,
while under contract for 20,000 cases,
will in all probability, not put up. more
than half that amount this season. Mr.
Seufert, a gentleman whose facilities for
catching salmon are the best on the riv
er, is of the opinion that the catch is
practically over, as the river has un
doubtedly reached its highest point and
is falling, and in a few days the fish-'
wheels will be of little use and valueless
until next season.
Coffee Is'quoted at 24 cents by the
sack.
SutiAKs Colden C in half bbls, 5
cents'.
r
Golden C in 1001t sacks, 5 cents.
Extra.' C in half bbls, h cents.
Extra C in 1001b sacks, 5 cents;" ;v'
Dry granulated in half bbls, centj.
Dry granulated in 100tt sacks, 6s
cents. " ' ' ''' j-l
Sugars in 30tb boxes are quoted:
$2.00; Extra C, $2.25; Drv Granulated,
$2.50. ;7
Syrup $2.25 to $2.50 per keg.
Stock Salt Is quoted at $19.00 per
ton. Liverpool, 50B sack, 80 cents;
10011. sack, $1.50; 2001b sack, $2.50.
The Dalles wheat market is steady at
80 cents per bushel. ' '
Oats The oat market is in good sup
ply with more frequent offerings at quot
ations. We quote, extra clean $1.40 per
cental and inferior $1.25 per cental.
Barley The barley supply is very
short and the demand is increasing with
an advance in price. Quote $1.181.20
per cental sacked.
Flour Best brands $4.25$4.75 per
barrel ; extra brands $5.75$6.25.
Millstuffs The supply is in excess
of demand. We quote bran and shorts
$17.00 per ton. Shorts and middlings
$20.00a$22.50 per ton.
Hay Timothy hay is in good supply
at quotations $17.00(318.00. Wheat hay
is very scarce and is in good demand at
an advance. Good hay would bring
$16.50 per ton. New wild .hay is nomi
nally quoted at $15.00 per ton. '
Potatoes Good potatoes are in better
demand and are rather short of supply
at .751.00 per 1001b.
Butter Is in better supply. , Quote
A 1 .35.40 cents per roll. The supply
is not as good as last week.
Eggs The market is noted for its
scarcity and 18 to 20 cents per dozen is
paid. The tendency is for higher prices.
We quote 15 cents per dozen.
' Poultry Is very scarce and sells
freely. We quote, average fowls $3.00
3.50 per ddzen, common $2.503.00 per
dozen. Spring $2.603.25, and coming
more freely. ' ....
Hides Prime dry hides are quoted at
.07.08 per pound. Culls .05(3
.06. Green .02.03. 8alt .03.04.
Sheep pelts butcher's extra $1 .35(3 $1.40,
ordinary .751.00 each. Bear skins
$10.00$12.00. Coyote .75$1.00.
Wool The market is not established
yet. Wool is nominally quoted at .12
16 per S. :
Beef Beef ' on foot clean and prime
-02?, ordinary .02.
1 Mutton Wethers are scarce, that is
to say No. 1. Extra choice sell at $3.25 ;
common $3.00 without fleece. . ,
' Hogs Live. heavy, .04.05. Dress
ed .06.07.. ,;
- Bacon and hams sell in the market at
.09.10 cent 8 in round lots.
;. Lard 5D ..1110; 101b .10J; tt40
.08.08'c. per pbund, -
Horses-- Young j '.range ' horses are
quoted "ati $25.00i$35 .00 per head in
bands of ''2d or 30. Indian- horses sell
at prices ranging from $5.00$20.00.
-. Stock cattle are quoted at $9.0010.00
per head for yearlings and $14.0018.00
for 2-vear-olds. .
Stock sheep are ready sale at quota
tions, $2.25$2.50 per head.
Fresh milch cows are quoted from
$25.0050.00 each, with a very limited
offering.
Lumber. Rough lumber $12.00 per M.
Portland flooring No. 1, $30.00 per M.'
Portland rustic finish $30.00 per M. No.
1 cedar shingles $3.00 per M. Lath $3.50
per M. Lime $2.50 per bbl.
CHRONICLE SHORT STOJg'.
Use Dufur flour. It is the best.
Berry boxes for sale at Joles Bros.
$1.25 per 100.
Don't wear vonr life out scrubbing
your kitchen floor when you can buy
such beautiful linoleum, the best for
kitchen and dining-room, for 75 cents a
yara, ana oil-cloth at So cents a vard at
the store of Prinz & Nitsche.
Mr. V. H. Brown, the exoert piano
tuner is in the city now. Any one hav
ing a piano to repair or tune, will have
same promptly attended to, if their or
der is left at E. Jacobsen & Co., music
Those who try it, always buy it. S. B
Chopped corn for young chickens at
jpies tiros.
A. M. Williams & Co., have on hand a
nne lot of tennis and bicycle shoes.
Ask your grocer for Dufur flour.
Pure maple sugar at Joles Bros., eight
pounds for $1.00.
Centerville hotel, on the Goidendale
stage road, furnishes first class accommo
dation for travelers.
The drug store of C. E. Dunham, de-
i-easeu, is now open ana will De so con
tinued until further notice.
For coughs and colds use 2379.
Those who use the S. B. headache cure
don't have la grippe.
The celebrated Walter H. Tenny Boston-made
mens' and boys' fine boots
and shoes in all styles, carried by The
Dalles Mercantile company at Brooks
& Beers old stand.
For the blood in one-half teaspoonful
doses S. B. beats Sarsaprilla.
2379 is the cough syrup for children.
Get me a cigar from that fine case at
Snipes & Kinersley's.
Long Ward offers for sale one of the
best farms of its size in Sherman county.
It consists of 240 acres of deeded land at
Erskinville. : There is a never-failing
spring of living water capable of water
ing five hundred head of stock daily.
Tue house, which is a large store build
ing with ten rooms attached alone cost
$1700. A blacksmith shop and other
buildings and the whole surrounded by a
good wire fence. Will be sold cheap and
on easy terms. Apply by letter or other
wise to the editor of the Chronicle or to
the owner, W. L. Ward, Boyd, Wasco
county, Oregon. , .
Attention !
The' Dalles Mercantile company would
respectfully announce to their many
patrons that they now have a well
selected stock of general merchandise,
consisting in part of dress goods, ging
hamSj. challies,-sateens, prints, hosiery,
corsets, gloves, handkerchiefs, hats, caps,
boots, shoes, gents' furnishing goods,
ladies' and mens' underware, groceries,
hardware, crockery, glassware, etc., in
fact everything - pertaining to' general
merchandise. Above being new, full and
complete. Come and see us.
' He wants it known. Mr. J. H.
Straub, a well known German citizen of
Fort Madison, Iowa, was terribly afflicted
with inflammatory rheumatism when
Mr. J . F. Salmon, a prominent druggist
there, advised him to use Chamberlain's
Pain Balm. One bottle of it cured him.
Hie case was a very severe one. He suf
fered a great deal and now wants others
similarly afflicted to know what cured
him. 50 cent bottles for sale by Snipes
Kinersly.
. j Kotlce.
' s Having leased the Mount Hood hotel
at Hood River, I would respectfully call
the attention of the traveling public to
the fast that the house is being thorough
ly renovated and will be open for the re
ception of guests on or about Miv 1st,
and I would most respectfully solicit a
share of the public patronage. Nothing
will be over-looked for the comfort of
guests. ' George Herbert.
The following statement from Mr. W.
B. Denny, a well known dairyman of
New Lexington, Ohio, will be of interest
to persons troubled with Rheumatism.
He says : "I have used Chamberlain's
Pain Balm for nearly two years, four
bottles in all, and there is nothing I have
ever used that gave me as much relief
for rheumatism. We always keep a bot
tle of it- in the house." For sale by
Snipes & Kinersly.
FOR SALE.
A choice lot of brood mares ; also a
number of geldings and. fillies bv "Rock
wood Jr.," "Planter," "Oregon Vilkes,"
and "Idaho Chief," same standard bred.
Also three fine young stallions by
"Rock wood 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.
- NOTICE.
R. E. French has for sale a number of
improved - ranches and unimproved
lands in the Grass Valley neighborhood
in Sherman county. They will be sold
very cheap and on reasonable terms.
Mr. French, can locate settlers on some
good unsettled claims in the same neigh
borhood. . His address is Grass Valley,
Sherman county, Oregon.
Forfeited Railroad Lands
We are now ready to prepare papers
for the filing and entry of Railroad
Lands. We also attend to business be
fore the U. S. Land Office and Secretarv
of the Interior. Persons for whom we
bave nrenared nanera and who am re
quired to renew their applications, will
not De charged additional for such papers.
Thornbury & Hudson,
Rooms 8 and 9, Land Office building,
The Dalles, Oregon. . - .
The Dalles Mercantile Company have
juet added a fine Line of staple and fancy
dry goods to their stock.. Call and see
them. - '
Three furnished rooms suitable for
housekeeping for rent. i Apply at this
office. ' . - .
Strawberries by the box, crate or ton
at Joles Bros.
CUEST DflLiliES
Lots 50x100 feet; 20-foot alley in each Block. Sold
for Cash or on Installments; Discount
for Cash. No interest.
FOR S-A-Xj!ID
Thompson & Butts, C. E. Bayard & Co.,
Haworth & Thurman, J. M. Huntington & Co.
THE DALLES, OREGON.
The Farm Trust
c. N. SCOTT,
President.
PORTLAND, OREGON.
EOBT. 3VC-"5TS.
MAYS & CROWE,
(Successors to ABRAMS & STEWART.)
Xletallera and To'b'bers in
Hardware. - Tinware, - Gianiteward, - wooffenware,
SILVERWARE, ETC.
-: AGENTS
"Acorn," "Charter Oak" "Argand
STOVES AND RANGES.
Pumps, Pipe, Plumbers' and Steam Fitters' Supplies,
Packing, Building Paper,
SASH, DOORS, SHINGLES.
Also a complete stock of Carpenters', Blacksmith's and
Farmers Tools and Fine Shelf Hardware.
-AGENTS
The Celebrated R. J. ROBERTS "Warranted" Cutlerv, Meriden Cutlery and
Tableware, 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,
Removal
H. Herbring's
DRY GOODS STORE
Has removed to 177 Second street (French's Block) nearly
opposite his former stand, where he will be pleased to see
his former customers and friends. He carries now a much,
larger stock than before and every Department is filled
with the Latest Novelties of the Season.
I. C. NICKELSEN,
DEALER IN-
School Books,
TOTPT?MATTrMAI
Stationery, V dictionary Watches, Jecaelpy.
Cor. of Third and WasMnston .Sts, The Dalles, Oregon.
HL C. NIELS6N,
Clothier and Tailor,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
tyats ar?d Qaps, Jmpl, ilalises,
Gotxts' Fum 1 rTk 1ns Groods,
CORNER OF SECOND AND WASHINGTON STS., THE DALLES, OREGON
-: DEALERS IN :-
Siapie and Fancy Grocefles,
Hay, Grain! " and ;Fetd.7 .:
No. 1 22;Cor. Wash i rigto n and Th i rd . Stsl
& Loan Company,
Wm. A. BANTZ,
Vice-Pres. & Mgr..
Xi. :el ceo wk.
FOR THE
FOK-
THE DALLES, OREGOV.
JSLotiee I
- f Organs, Pianos,