The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
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STATE OFFICIALS.
Oovernoi - .6. Peiinox er
Secretary of State G. W. McBride
Treasurer Phillip Metwhan
Sunt, of Public InHtruction E. B. MrElroy
. I J. N. Dolph
enators jj. h. Mitchell
Congressman H. Her-uann
Sbtte Printer Frank Baker
COUNTlf OFFICIALS.
County Judge. C. X. Thornbury
Sneriff :....D.L Cates
Clerk J. B. Crossen
Treasurer tieo- Ruch
, . 4 FT A. LenveiiM
Commissioners (Frank Kincaid
Assessor....' John E. Harnett
Surveyor --E. F. Sharp
Suiierintendent of Public Schools .Troy Shellcv
Coroner William Michell
The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
PLENTY OF ROOM FOR A STANl
, ARI TRACK.
A walk from one end of the Cascades
portage track to the other failed to find
any place where a standard gauge road
could not have been laid and operated
"without hinderance to anybody or any
thing. Mr. Farley however, says that
the space where the track pusses under
the concrete mixer is rather confined for
a standard gunge track, but that it could
have been easily widened by removing a
couple of pouts, that might hav in
volved an outlav of $300. At everv
other point on the track there is all the
room needed for any kind of a track.
But the great man in whose hands an
inscrutable froviaence nas piat-ea ine
power to say just how wide a track he
will let us have, confined the road track
to a three foot limit and the people of
the greatest nation on earth had to sub
mit. The true reason for Handbury's
cussedness, we suppose, lies in the fact
that he wanted to be able to run his
donkey engines on the portage track,
when desirable.
THE PORTAGE ROAD.
The entire track of the portage road
is laid from end to end, except the
trestle work at the western incline
which is being pushed rai idly forward
by the bridge building crew. Laborers
are busily employed ballasting the track
and the whole presents the appearance
of being a good, substantial road. In
fact its substantiality is the one feature
that struck us most. This feature is so
marked that Major Handbu'y himself
said that lighter timbers might have
been used in the trestles, but Mri Farley
told the great man that he was building
a road to last a long time as .nobody
now living ever . expected to see the
locks completed. We may not be an
impartial judge of ' Mr. Farley's work
but we left the Cascades with the im
pression that the superintendent of con
struction is doing everything in his
power to spend the state appropriation
wisely and economically and that he is
succeeding. When asked if the ap
propriation would hold out and. be
sufficient to finish the work he replied
emphatically "I'll make it hold out, if I
have to foot the bills out of my own
pocket." Between forty and fifty men
were at work yesterday out of about six
ty men on the pay roll. Mr. Farley has
bad suit entered for the condemnation
of about three acres of land, on the
Atwell claim, near the eastern terminus.
He and the owners could not agree
about the price. This space will afford
ground for office, round house, wooi
shed and other needed buildings. Three
houses which were on the grounds have
been purchased for $750 and carpenters
are converting them into suitable form.
About 1700 feet of 3 and 2 inch pipe is
being laid from a spring', which will af
ford a gravity supply of excellent water
for all needed purposes. Mr. Farley
could have pumped water from the
Columbia, ' but true to his old
time preferences, he chose the
gravity system as being cheaper
' and better. It may be remarked to the
honor of Mr. Farley that he is neither
afraid nor ashamed to throw off his coat
' and take up a blacksmith's hammer
when something is to be done that needs
extra skill. But the sight of the super-
' intendent of construction donning a
blacksmith's apron is a great curiosity
to Major Handbury's twelve or fifteen
' dudes who are arduously engaged in the
laborious duty of drawing a salary for
pretending to act as clerks for about 100
employes.
.: An Oregon Portage,
From Mr. I. C. Kichelsen, who has
'' just returned from a trip to Sherman
county, we learn that the people over
. there are dead Bet on having a . line of
" railroad from Wasco to'' some point on
the Columbia river. They have resolved
. to offer a bonus of $25,000 to any parties,
with whom they can make suitable ar
rangements, for building and equipping
the road. They figure that ten miles of
narrow track road can be built for about
$4000 a mile. They have no doubt they
can raise the $25,000 and have been en
couraged by receiving " subscriptions
, amounting to $4000 the first day the sub-
scription list was out. Many others be
sides have promised to subscribe; from
$100 to $500. They are very anxious to
have railroad connection with this city
by a portage on 'the Oregon side, and
will do everything in their power to
advance the project. All . this is very
pleasant news to the people over this
way. They cannot be much more
anxious to be connected by rail with
The Dalles than we are to be connected
with them. It will be interesting to
state in this connection that a, party of
Portland capitalists will arrive in this
city on Saturday evening next and leave
early on Sunday morning for a trip over
the newly surveyed road between this
city and the mouth of the Deschutes.
They will go in buggies and wagons,
and it would be well for our Sherman
county friends to meet them some where
on the road, or better still come into
this city Saturday and aceompany them
on their trip. The prospect for a road
on this Bide was never so bright as it is
at this moment and we fully believe
one will be built before months will pass
away.
(UtWiOM NEWS ITEMS. '
Mrs. S. C. Calvert, of Helix, widely
known in Umatilla county, died Fridav !
of paralysis.
A large force of ' women and children
are at work-every day at the Eugen can
nery, canning peas.
J. T. Silurian, a prominent resident of
Burns, died at that place last week of
brain fever, after a very short illness.
A Chinese truck farmer at Oregon City
undersells his white competitors, as he
hires hands
at 30 cents
per aay
and
board
Late griin in some parts of Morrow
count' will be somewhat damaged by
dry weather, but the yield will be
twenty bushels to the acre.
A 14-year-old boy was overcome by
sunstroke at Huntington a few days ago.
The thermometer stood 110 degrees in
the shade at the time the lad was
stricken. .
Reports from Spring Hill, Benton
county, across the river from Albany,
continue to show splendid prospects for ;
coal, it is undoubtedly there in large
quantities.
Creditors of J. W. Kitchen, a contrac
tor of Pendleton, are somewhat anxious
over his long continued absence. He
has been missing since July 19 and his
wife followed him three daye later. .
The county court of Baker county has
given notice that the county clerk is i
authorized" to receive no more scalps,!
make no more affidavits, nor issue any j
more scrip in payment for coyotte scalps j
as heretofore the practice. I
"Shan" Conser, wife and two children
are visiting Mr. and Mrs. George Conser,
of this city, says the Heppner Gazette.
Mr. Conser is a brother f our George,
and is recovering from the effects of a
broken leg, received in the Lake Labish
disaster on the Southern Pacific last
winter.
Old Joe: a John Dav dog, has quite a
history, inasmuch a? he was born on
the Atlantic ocean many years ago. A ,
party of Scotch immigrants were bring- ;
ing their dogs along with them. The !
pup was given to Eli Lester when the '
Eeople arrived in Oregon, and Joe
as been an heirloom in the family ever
since.
Quite a number ef horses are dying in
the Haystack section of Grant county
from distemper. The disease first ap- I
I" 1. 1 V .1, Lilt. liltLllUUIilWU v mio I i ait
v,.,t k..o -a.i fk.
tions. Range horses are suffering more
than others from the disease, so far as
our informant was able to learn.
Thomas Beaman, the administrator of
the estate of John Wilson, deceased, has
been missing from his, home in Lost
Basin for some three weeks. His
friends advance the theory that he has
been murdered for monev, $210Q. of
which he was known to have in his
possession, but others are inclined to
think he has skipped.
One day last week John Circle, who
resides on Beave creek, this county, had
occassion to be away from home, and did
not returu until after dark. When
nearing the house he discovered a blaze
in the upper room. Hurrying thither
he found that some old clothes had
caught fire from a hot stove pipe up
stairs.. He soon extinguished the fire.
An engine was hauled to Coquille City
Wednesday from Dunham's to be used
in hauling rock for the jetty at the
mouth of the Coquille river, which is to
be begun in a few days. Captain Little-
field has pushed the work of pile driving
and track laying so far on the north
jetty that the work of filling in will be
begun in a short space of time.
Monday last, a boy set fire to a fir tree
on or near the ranch of David Hunter,
who lives about eight miles up Deer
creek, near Roseburg. The grass was
plentiful and dry and so were Mr. Hun
ter's rails and soon a beautiful fire was
raging among and Around them; It was
onlv by great exertion that the barn
and other buildings were saved. The
fire entered the wheat field, but the
wheat was too green to burn, otherwise
the danger would have been great.
Union, county seat of Union county,
and one of the prettiest towns in East
ern Oregon, if not-the prettiest in the
state, is to have a woolen mill, owing to
the enterprise of one of its wealthiest
citizens, A. E. Eaton. It will consist of
three buildings, to. be constructed of
brick. The main building will be 80x
100 feet, two and one-half stories high.
Work will commence at once. The cit
izens of Union subscribed a bonus of
$4000 to Mr. Eaton.
Send Them to New Orleans.
Rome, Aug. 5. Fifty-five hundred
Italians sailed from Genoa for America.
. 8am Francisco Market.
San Francisco, Aug.' 5. ; Wheat,
buyer '91, 1.62. Season 166.
Intellectual Bl?u moil Oukla'a Novels.
Some time ago a busy man , of th(
world asked Mr. Charles A. Dana how
he managed to keep himself mentally
bo fresh and vigorous, . Mr. Dana gave
several explanations, and among others
he admitted that he had taken to read
ing novels Frequently Mr. Dana it
Been riding on the elevated reading a
novel or a volume of short stories, and
the smile which plays cn his face indi
cates how thoroughly he delights in such
pursuit. He is a great admirer of a nov
elist whom Mr. Ho wells would esteem
with horror, and that, is Ouida, and it it
a curious thing, perhaps, thiit among the
many readers of this popular writer in
this city there are to be numbered' so
many vigorous intellects.
Roscoe (Jonkling anticipated a new
novel of Ouida's with as much pleasure
as a Frenchman used to look for a new
installment of Alexander Dumas' ro
mances, and he regarded Ouida's "Under
Two Flags" as one of the test stories
which he had ever read, and even went
so far as to recommend that grim and
dignified justice of the supreme court,
Samuel Blatchford, to read it if he
wanted a mental tonic. Congressman
Reed is a great admirer of Ouida. and
Joe Choate confesses to the pleasure he
has taken in reading the works of this
woman. - . .
Novel reading has become a passion
with many of our professional men. and
I saw the other day the diguified presi
dent of Yale college trotting acrosx the
street to the Grand Central station with
a couple of novels under his arm and an
other one in" his hand, with his fingers
inserted between the pages, as though
he had just been reading it and. even be
grudged the interruption which took
him from bis hotel to the railway sta
tion. E. J. Edwards in Philadelphia
Press.
Fooled by a, Filibuater.
A. P. Hnlse. late of the custom bouse,
tells a good story of some filibustering
that came under his notice years ago:
In 1859 Harry Maury, a midshipman.
who had resigned from the service of
the United States government, was in
command of a brig off Mobile bay. The
vessel was loaded with filibusters for
Walker and waa overhauled by a revenue
cutter. An officer went aboard in the
night with instructions to seize the ves
sel and bring her to Mobile. Maury,
who was equal to the emergency, pre
pared himself by unshackling the anchor
from the chain and fastening a lantern
to a pole. When the vessel arrived at
Dog River bar it was hailed from the
cutter and ordered to come to.
Then came the order, "Let go your
anchor!" Maury let go. "Pay out
thirty fathoms of chain!" was the next
order. Maury ran the chain through
the hawser hole and over the rail back
on deck. He was ordered next to hoist
a light, which he did by lighting the
lantern already affixed to the pole and
sticking the latter in the mud. He then,
when all ' was quiet, put off down the
bay, leaving the cutter watching the
light, which it did until morning.: ,
In the meantime the officer from the'
cutter, who was in charge of the filibus
tering vessel, was down in the cabin
playing cards. On arrival at the en
trance of the harbor the officer was
tapped on the shoulder and told of where
they were and asked if he wished to go
ashore. A boat was at his service and
he took it, returning to the cutter in
time to share the chagrin of his mates.
San Diego Sun. .
Electricity That Kills.
. Dr. C: F. Chandler of the Columbia
School of Mines says: "An interesting
misapprehension that exists in the minds
of a good many persons is concerning
the vital dangers that lurk in the pres
sure of . say, 1,000 volts. The newspapers
I , I
often tell us that a man has
been killed
by such a pressure, whereas, in fact,
such a pressure alone conidn t kill a
humming bird. I have frequently caught
in my hand sparks possessing an electro
motive force of 100,000 volts without
feeling anything more than a very slight
burn.
"The danger arises only when the
voltH are re-enforced by a - good mauy
amperes or currents, as when one takes
hold of a charged wire. Then one feels j
a shock that is unmistakable, because!
force of a great many currents in the
wire suddenly decompose all the fluids
in the body. : The salt in the blood, at
once turns to chlorine gas, and the man
whose veins are charged with this deadly
poison cannot in reason be expected to
live Jong, "j ' -
A Youthful Yankee's Ingenuity.
A boy we know had some chickens of
which he had made pets. He and his
father went to their work early in the
morning, and while the rest of the fam
ily were away for the summer it became!
a question bow the chickens were to be
fed with proper regularity. " ;
The boy was equal to the occasion. He
took an alarm clock and fastened it se
curely to one side of the bam by means
of two spikes. Next he hung a bucket
of corn to a rafter and connected it with
the clock by a stout cord.
He wound np the alarm and set it at 4
o'clock. At that hour the alarm . went
off, wound up the string and tipped over
the bucket. And so the chickens were
fed by clockwork. Cleveland Leader.
Proportions of the Human Figure.
The proportions of the human figure
are six times the length of the right foot.
The face from the highest point of the
forehead, where the hair begins, to the
end of the chin is one-tenth of the whole
stature. The hand from the wrist to
the end of the middle finger is also one-
tenth of the total height From the
crown to the nape of the neck is one
twelfth of the stature. Current Litera
ture. John Wilson, better known in litera
ture as "Christopher North," was a ro
bust walker. A forty or . eighty miles
tramp was no unusual undertaking fox
him. He often walked at the rate of
five miles an hour for a whole day, and
at the end of those long walks would
write off columns of the brightest things
that adorned the pages of his Edinburgh
Be view.
General Peraonal Mention.
Rudyard Kipling has begun the use of
the typewriter.
" The oldest banker in-- the world is a
lady Deborah Powers, aged 99, senior
partner of D. Powers & Sons, Lausen
berg. .
" Mrs. Amelia Rivers Chanler does not
figure in the will of 4ier late uncle,
Francis R. Rives, who left an estate
valued at $3,000,000. .
Empress Frederick , is . fascinated by
the genius of H. Rider Haggard, and by
way. of returning the compliment he has
dedicated his last book to her.
Gladstone's- best portrait is the one
which Sir Everett Millais painted thirty
years ago. It is now owned by Sir
Charles Tennant, who bought it of the
Duke of Westminster for $10,000.
Since his return to Italy -Signor Sal
vini has turned his attention to play
writing, and one of his productions will
be given in this country next season by
his gifted son, Alexander Salvini.
King Alexander, the youthful ruler of
Servia, arrived in St. Petersburg, on the
3d inst. on a visit to the imperial family.
He was met at the railway station by
the czar and several grand dukes, and
accorded all the honors paid to a ruling
sovereign.
Professor Koch has not resigned his
official positions on account of the fail
ure of tuberculine or Kochism, but be
cause he is upon the point of accepting a
new office, that of the director of the In
stitute of Infectious Diseases, which has
been organized by the German govern
ment. -
Miss Phoebe'Couzins wishes it under
stood by the free millions of Americans
who have been moved by her woes, that
she is in St. Louis for rest and recrea
tion ; that she has not given up the
fight, and that when she speaks again
the world's fair management will th;uk
that a Kansas cyclone has blown over
from the wide and windy expanses of
the west. .
THE CHURCHES
tMRST BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. O. D. Tat
' lor. Pastor. Services every Sabbath at 11
. M. and 7:30 P. u. Sabbath School ut 12 M.
Grayer meeting every' Thursday evening at 7
'elock.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Rev. W. C.
Curtis, Pastor. Services every Sunday at 11
v. M. and 7 p. M. Sunday School after morning
urvice. Strangers cordially invited. Seats free.
ME. CHURCH Rev. H. Brown, Pastor.
Services every Sunday morning and even
ing. Sunday Schoofat 12j o'clock M. A cordial
n vitation is extended by both pastor and people
oall. ,
OT. PAUL'S CHURCH Union Street, opposite
kJ linn. Rev.isu l). sutciiile Kector. services
very Sunday at 11 a. M. and 7:30 P. M. Sunday
School 12:30 P. M. Evening Prayer on Friday at
ST. PETER'S CHURCH Rev. Father Broks
' geest Pastor. Low Mass every Sunday at
: a. H. High Mass at 10:30 a.m. Vespers at
P. M.
SOCIETIES.
SSEMBLY NO. 4827, K. OF L. Meets la K.
f V of P. hall on tirst and third Sundays at 3
o'clock p. ra.
WASCO LODGE, NO.'15, A. F. & A. M. Meets
tirst and third Monday of each month at 7
3.
DALLES ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER NO. 6.
Meets in Masonic Hall the third Wednesday
f each month at 7 P. M.
MODERN WOODMEN OF THE WORLD.
Mt. Hood Camp No. 59, Meets Tuesday even
ing of each week in I. O. O. F. Hall, at 7:30 P. u.
COLUMBIA LODGE, NO. 5, I. O. O. F. Meets
every Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock, in Odd
Fellows hall, Second street, -between Federal and
Washington. Sojourning brothers are welcome.
H. A. Bills, Sec'y R. G. Clobtee, N. G.
FRIENDSHIFLODGE.NO. 9., K.WP. Meets
every Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock, in
Schanno's building, corner of Court ,and Second
treets. Sojourning members are cordially in
vited. Geo. T. Thompson, .
D. W. Vaube, Sec'y. : C. C. .
WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERENCE
UNION will meet every Friday afternoon
t 3 o'clock at the reading room. A Hare invited.
TEMPLE LODGE NO. 3, A. O. U. W. Meets
at K. of P. Hall, Corner Second and Court
Streets, Thursday ovenings at 7 :30.
John Fiixook,
W. S Myers, Financier. M. w.
J. M. HUNTINGTON & CO
Abstracters,
Heal Estate and
Insaranee Agents.
Abstracts of. 'and Information Concern
ing Land Titles on Short Notice.
Land for Sale and Houses to Rent
Parties Looking for Homes, in
COUNTRY OR CITY,
OR IN SEARCH OF
Buiq Location?,
Should Call on or Write to us.
Agents for a Full Line of
Lealist Fire Insurance Companies,
And Will Write Insurance for
on all
DE3IBABIJ: , EISK3.
Correspondence Solicited. ' All Letters
Promptly Answered. Call on or
. , Address, .
J. M. HUNTINGTON & CO.
Opera House Block, The Dalles, Or.
. W. H. NEABEACK,
PROPRIETOR OF THE
Granger Feed Yard,
THIRD STREET.
(At Grimes' old place of business.)
Horses fed to Hay or Oats at the lowest possi
ble prices. Good care (riven to animals leit in
my charge, as I have ample stable room. Give
me a call, and I will guarantee satisfaction.
W. H. NKAHEACK.
Summer Goods!
SUMMER GOODS
. Of Every Description will be sold at
A : GREAT : SACRIFICE
" For the JYext THIRTY DAYS.
Call Early and get some of our Genuine
Bargains.
H. Herbring1.
f;;TERWS
The Dalles Mercantile Co.,
, s. Successors to BROOKS & BEERS, Dealers in ' .
General Merchandise,
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
Gents' Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, etc.
' Groceries,' Hardware,
Provisions, Flour, Bacon,
HAY, GRAIN AND PRODUCE
Of all Kinds at Lowest Market Rates. ,
Free Delivery to Boat and Curs and all parts of the City.
390 and 394 Second Street
NEW FIRM!
. loseoe &
-DEALERS IN-
".'STAPLE '.'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
E. Jacobsen & Co.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
R00KSELLERS AND RTAT10NERS.
Pianos and Organs
Sold on EASY INSTALLMENTS.
Notions, Toys, Fancy
ments of all Kinds.
MaU Orders Filled Zomptly.
162 SECOND STREET,
The Dalles
GigaF : faetory,
FIRST
FACTORY NO. 105.
fTf A T C of the Be8t Brands
VXvXxlLXVlO manufactured, and
orders from all parts of the country filled
on the shortest notice.
The reputation of THE DALLES CI
GAR has become firmly established, and
the den -.and for the home manufactured
article is increasing every day.
A. ULRICH &SON.
PRINZ & NITSCHKE.
DEALEI& IN
Furniture and Carpets.
. We have added to 'bur business a
complete Undertaking Establishment,
and as we are in no way connected witn
the Undertaffer8' Trust our prices will
be low accordingly. ,
Remember our place on Second street,
next to Moody's bank.
$20 REWARD.
WIIX BE iAii) FOR ANY INFORMATION
leading to the conviction of parties cutting
e ropes or in any way interfering with the
wirt poles or lamps 01 Thi Electric Light
fv , H. GLRNN.
Manager
f
FLOURING MILL TO LEASE.
ryHK 'OLD
DAIXE8 Mill. AND WATER
X Com
sponsible
Company's flour Mill will be leased to re-
nsxues. For uuirruinuuu ni'iiit tuv
WATER. COMMISSIONERS,
- The Dalles, Oregon.
A NEW
Undertaking Establishment !
Summer Goods!
Chsh.
NEW STORE'
Gibons,
".'FANCY'.'
Court Streets, The Dalies, Oregon.
G-oods and Musical
Instru-
THE DALLES, OREGON.
JAMES WHITE,
Has Opened a
Xj-clxxoIx Counter,
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
Phil Willig,
124 UNION ST., THE DALLES, OR.
' Keeps on hand a full line of
MEN'S AND YOUTH'S
Ready - Made Clothing.
Pants and Suits
MADE TO ORDER
- On Reasonable Terms.
Call and see my Goods before
ourchasing elsewhere.
Steam Ferry.
ti A TTlfrTTlle is now running a steam
i. U. JtMHflO Ferry between Hood
River and "White Salmon; Charge
reasonable. R. O. Evans, Prop.