C2-J The Dalles Daily Chronicle. ltiMiiiiil 1'nlly, nuiiilH)- Kxrvpced. THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. CnrtH-r Second and Washington Street. The Dm lies, Oregon. Trat of Nubnorlptiuu. Per Year W 00 Per month, by carrier 50 ningle cojy r STATIC OFFICIALS. Viovernoi , S. Pennoyer Secretary of State G. W. Mi-Bride Treasurer l'hillip Metschan Supt. of Public Instruction E. IS. McElroy I . I J. N. Dolph enators jj. H. Mitchell Congressman H. Hermann State Printer Frank Baker COUNTY OFFICIALS. County Judge. C. N. Thornbnry Sheriff. D. L. Catea Clerk J. B. Crossen Treasurer ' Geo. Buch , . (H' A. Leavens Commissioner!. ;.. Frank Kincaid AHWir John E. Barnett Hnrvevor E. F. Sharp Superintendent of l"ublic Schoola. . .Troy Shelley Coroner William Michell The Chronicle is the Only Paper in The Dalles that Receives the Associated Press Dispatches. . FAIRLY ANS WERE II. The ExprtM asks : "Would Tbe Dalles jKsople rather not have the Columbia an open river than to see tbe portage on the Washington side, opposite Celilo? Why have The Dalles, Dufur and Silkf tone' corporation been so slow in coming to the front?" The first question is answered by the monosyllable "No". The Dalles will be glad to see ait oen river, no matter how it is accomplishi-d, or where located : but no one ran blame this city for looking after it own interests. We are not ask ing for a portage on this 6ideas a matter of favor to The Dalles, we are asking' it on the ground that it can be built on this side for less inonev, operated for less money and will be of greater ser vice when it is finished than if built on the Washington side. We are asking that it be built on this side because such a road would be a paying investment, through the freights it could control, even if there were a hundred portages on the Washington side. We ask for it on this side because there is a traffic on this side, which a couple of feeders would control for the portage road for all time, so immense that it has been estimated that the difference in rates alone, between what the Union Pacific bow charges and those which the new transportation company propose to charge would, in one year, amount to nearly a sum of money sufficient to build the road. We ask for the portage on this side because we hold that a port age road, built by Oregon money, should other things being equal, be built on Oregon soil. These are a few of tbe reasons why we insist on tbe road being built on the south side of the Columbia. The second question is just as easily answered because there is absolutely nothing to conceal in the whole busi ness. No attempt was ever made to survey a road back of the Columbia river and uway from the drifting sands till a short time ago, and the certain feasibility of the route was never dem onstrated till about three , weeks ago when Lieut Norton finished his survey And submitted his profile to the' corpor ation which employed him. The cor poration had no sooner organized than they went to work to make the survey ; the survey was no sooner made than it was brought "to the front;" and it could not well have been brought before. The surprise of the whole thing lies 'in the fact that it has been demonstrated that a good road, at a moderately reason able price for construction can be built where interested parties, for various reasons, have constantly insisted no road could be constructed, or rather which is more strictly true, by a route that few ever thought of. ' lU'.IKF STATE NEWS. The Klamath cannery is preparing for a big season's run. Twenty boats with forty men will scoop in the fish. j Tbe First National bank of Roseburg will be in. working order by the first of next month- All preliminary arrange ments have been made or are now in progress". Allen Ramsey, of Thirty-mile, met with a painful accident one day last week by a horse falling upon him, dislo-' eating bis shoulder and smashing bim up generally. William Q. Brown was making geologi cal observations in tbe Emigrant creek region lust week, mapping the sandstone layers for the next annual report of the United States geological survey. Capl::in K. 8. Littlefleld haa already driven two solid rows of piles at the mouth of the Coquille river. In a month work on the jetty will be advanced far enough to commence dumping rock. Little or no work. is being done at . the Seven- Devils mines at, present. ' Some '"of the men are working-their" own prop erties, and the surface indications prom ise a lively time in the near future. 'Oyer 100 men are now employed at the . Myrtle creek mines and about fifty more - Will be sent out in a day -or -two. .Work i in beinff nnshwt: V-inirllv 1 t,,e slightest chance of a mistake JlSllllttt,'r--l! -the, orU.er.1 is -. . ' 'Hfme, it is in it to control itj on me Dig oitcu A new bridge is being built at Coast Fork, near Taylor's. .The bridge at this j Dlace washed out a Vear aco Inst winter and is verv much needed to le rebuilt. lUnanlnlltitn '.!.n. V ! . . . .. ..especially in the winter, as the rUnr 'get.;. op bo it can't be for.i. . ' . ,v ; J The farmers of Jackson county are manifesting much interest in the farm ers' alliance movement. T. Birnbum, of the Kansas national organization, is now there, under whose efforts fonr alliances have been recently organized. The 800,000 acres of land granted to the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road company has been sold to a com pany of eastern capitalists. It is said that they will start mills along the Middle Fork next year and put the lum ber on the market. Quite a number of horses are dying in the Haystack section of Grant county from distemper. The disease first ap peared in the neighborhood of the Wall c.eeks, but has extended to other sec tions. Range horses are Buttering more than others from the disease. Jap Griffith was shot through the calf of the leg at Heppner lost Tuesday by the accidental discharge of a pistol in the hands of a berder, while the latter was putting it in order. He was lying on the ground a few feet distant with his leg elevated above his Head, the oui let passing over his head and entering the fleshy part of the lower leg. OOERAL PBRSOSAt MENTION. Hon. Bayliss Hanna, minister to the Argentine republic during the Cleveland administration is dead. Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, who has been taken to task for using railroad passes, explains that he saved money for the state by their use. Philip D. Armour is said to be the largest individual commercial operator in the world. His transactions last year reached the enormous aggregate Of f 63,000,000. The czar is one of the few living ban queters.it is said, 'T who can "drink a toast" according to the old style, swal lowing toasted apple, liquor and all from the briming pup. ' The Shah of Persia is developing into a kodak fiend, and his courtiers all say that his pictures are wonderful sue cesses. It wouldn't be healthy for them to say anything else. Mile. Dernova, a wealthy and refined Rusian lady and a relative of tbe czar's minister of the interior, has commenced her big task of walking . from Kieff to Moscow and thence to Paris. Lady Aylesbury is one of the most ex traordinary figures in London society. She is nearly 80, and wears a wig of corkscrew curls. She is noted as the possessor of a sharp tongue, and her language is at all times picturesque and vigorous. The pope does not speak'English "bet ter than many Englishmen," as is stated in a paragrah now going the rounds. He does not speak the language at all, and holds converse with English speaking people through an interpreter in Latin. Col. Coggswell Wake Up. What an artless cherub is Col. Cogs well of Lake county ! At Portland, the other day, he was lamenting loan Ore gonian reporter the neglect of Lake county trade by the Portland merchants and his state pride was sorely wounded by the thought of so much Oregon busi ness going down to San Francisco, in stead of going up to Portland where all good Oregonians would prefer to have it go, ' And yet this same prominent citi zen of Lake county, with bis keen Ore gon sensibilities, is the state senator from Lake, who devised and pushed through .the wagon road bill which ex pended $10,000 from the state treasury to make a new road from Klamath c&untv down the Klamath river into California, and to turn the trade from the southeastern counties across to the railroad on tbe south side of the Siski yous. ' In his innocence the colonel couldn't see tnat if the money should be expended so as to make a good road through the mountains to an Oregon town north of the Siskiyous, the trade would go to Portland. And the Oregon ian and the astute merchants of Port land and the Oregon legislature were all so much afraid of losing a vote or two for the non-taxable bonds bill that they wouldn't raise a feeble protesting chirp against Cogswell's bill to turn the trade of Oregon over to California. The col onel's grief over the despoilment of the state's commerce, reads pleasantly in Southern Oregon now. He is almost as dear to the hearts of the people here as is the anti-wagon-road governor who saved the road improvement fund to build the state capitol dome. Ashland tidings. , Need of Caution. The men who control in the directory of the Columbia River Railway and Nav igation Company are people who have been the trusted agents and railroad builders for the Northern Pacific for many years. Its charter does not allow it to build branch lines, therefore the Northern employs others to" form sepa rate corporations, and after having com pleted a branch line in any desired lo cality it is turned over to its own opera ting department. In this Way Paul Mohr arid A. M. Cannon, the apparent head and front of the Columbia River Railway and Navigation Company, have built several lines of road for the North ern Pacific. It is inore than suspected that t he scheme they have how oir hand is another , .Northern 1'aciuc job which these enterprising gentlemen have un dertaken.' Before recommending the subscription-to the capital stock of this company of $500,000 the chamber of commerce' committee should make such thorough investigation bs to leave not mistake in the in the whfrae, it is in it to control it and we i all know what that means. World.' 1 Next... ' '' Milton Eagle says that there is no . 1 I " I. 1 ' . 1 . word in the English language ,to rhj',nn with music. The Eagle is'away off. V e have a man in this county whose name is Busic. And for , anything we know he's fond of music. How is that for a starter. Dalle Chronicle. " In Portland there is a rising young journalist -named (Jusick. is ext. Vregonian. ;; X here s a man in Klamath county whose name is Casick, and at driving ' bargains he'd make a Jew sick. Klamath Star. . Things Wortli Knowing.-.". George Francis Train took dinner at New York Friday with the captain of the steamer Mystic. They discussed Train's proposed tour of the world, and agreed that the best time to. start was the month of 'December. Some of those who" have been black- berrying in the Cascade mountains this year estimate that each berry they found acid picked coBt them about five cents. Prineville Newt. Mr. J. E. Barnett, county assessor, is attending to his duties in the valley. He has been on the east side' a week or more, and will no doubt call on every body ere he leaves. Glacier. ' - - The new move in Chicago to hold pri maries nnder the Australian ballot sys tem is a step in the 'right direction. There has been more fraud in the past at primaries than at general elections. Henry Hahn moved his faimly and .ef fects to Portland this week. Mr.. Hahn has been a resident ot l'nnenlle lor a period of about twelve years, .and is one of the best business men in the State. He accumulated his wealth in this conn try. Prineville Netv. The Wasco Observer of last week says : Mr. I. C. Nickelsen and daughters, of The Dalles, visited our city last Mon day, returning home Tuesday. . While in the city Mr. Nickelsen disposed of a fine piano to Mrs. McPhearson. The New York Herald tells its half million of readers .that Oregon cherries are so luscious that you wish your throat were a mile long. What a nectareous tear a man with such a neck could go on in a Koyal Ann cherry- orchard '. The working of the Australian' ballot law gives entire mitisfaction. It is a great improvement over the old method of congregating around the polls. It does away with the ward politician. It dignifies politics and brings out the respectable element of society. It less ens the chances for fraud and gives an honest vote. The Australian vote is a step in the forward march. Walla Walla Vmon-Journal. The cry "Equality !" is about as clear nonsense as ever made an echo on earth. It demands a clear definition, yet nobody can tell what are its properties. The anarchist uses it as a child uses a rattle. He makes a noise with it. He dances around the institution of private prop erty ishouting "Equality!" It is the war yell of degradation and imbecility, causing wisdom, industry and social worth to clan their palms to their ears and exclaim, "Mercy, what a ' silly noise." Klamath Star. The following good words are from the Baker City Republican: "Perhaps one of the most discreditable phases of our party politics is that when a man, no matter how pure and noble, enters a political organization, he at once be comes the target of the severest censure and denunciation from the opposite partv as to personal character and in tentions, though grand in character and J sincere in bib euorts to wont tor the good of his country. It will be a grand day when bitter personalisms shall have passed from our political parties. Not long ago some one wrote an article for a Dalles paper, in which he stated that the rainfall of Eastern Oregon is growing less each year. The writer is mistaken. The greater portion of Crook county lies in what is often called the and district 01 .bastern Oregon, ine oldest residents here came to the country over twentv years ago, and all of them agree in the statement that the rainfall of this region has quite preceptibly in creased in that time. Numerous satis factory proofs might be given to show that the annual rainfall of Eastern Ore is on the increase instead of being on the decrease. Prineville News. It is significant that the decrease in the mortgage indebtedness of Oregon was maintained steadily during last year, says the Central Point Enterprise, when the crops were short and the re sources of the farmers were curtailed beyond the usual limit. If such a show ing was possible with the limited yield of farm products last season, what may not be expected in view of the bountiful harvest and the excellent prices of this year? Nature surely has done every thing to help Oregon farmers this year, but what is more encouraging still is tbe growing disposition of the farmers to pay their debts, . to Cultivate habits of economy, to husband their resources and market -them to. the best possible advantage, a subject of careful and in telligent study. Portland World. ' Just what the hop crop will amount to this season is somewhat of a puzzle to the 'growers. The depredations of the hop lice during the early part of, the season so completely upset all calculat ions it will be next to impossible to esti mate the extent of the crop until the crops have been picked. Commenting on this subject,' the Polk County Oberv er says : "The hop lice question is rest ing and waiting results. The lice are not. decreasing any in number, but the damage to the hop vine is not visible yet. The hop men will not promise thinking what the crop will be, some the lice wilt do no damage to speak of, while others think the won is rained It -would be a pity to have Portland separated from .the Pacific Northwest League because, without it, the league would go entirely to pieces. But, on the other hand, if -as the. Portlands claim. Secretary Rockwell has rendered his decision fairly, it would de not only advisable, but proper to withdraw and join forces with .the California league; .. .SIO.OO ' ICeard." Lost, diamond scarf pin the above reward will be paid by returning to C. E.Haight, , . Money to Loan. $100 to $500 to loan on short time; Bayabd & Co. 80CIBTIBS. A 6SEMBLY NO. 487, It. OF L. Meet in K. A. of P. hall on first and third Hnn nuvi at X o'clock p. ra. rASCO LODGE, NO. 15, A. F. A A. M.Meets ' first and third Monday of each month at 7 DALLES ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER NO. 6. Meets in Masonic Hall the third Wednesday of each month at 7 P. M. MODERN WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. ' W " ITnivt P.mi.UA KA W 1 lag of each week In I. O. O. F. Hall, at 7:30 r. K. COLUMBIA LODGE, NO. 5, I. O. O. F. Meets every Friday evening; at 7:30 o'clock. In Odd Fellows ball, Second street, between Federal and Washington. Sojourning brothers are welcome. H. A. BIUL8, Bec'y K. G. CLOHTEK, N, . FRIENDSHIP LODGE. NO. 9., K. of P. Meets every Monday evening at 7:80 o'clock, In Bchanno's building, corner of Court and Second streets. Sojourning members are cordially in vited. Go. T. Thompson, D. W. Vausb, Sec'y. . . . C. C. WOMEN'8 CHRISTIAN TEMPERENCE UNION will meet every Friday afternoon at S o'clock at the reading room. A 11 are invited. TEMPLE LODGE NO. 3, A. O. U. W. Meets at K. of P. Hall, Corner Second and Court Streets, Thursday evenings at 7:30. Jork Fuxoox, W. S MffcBS, Financier. - - M. W. TBI CHURCHES. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. O. D. Tat toR, Pastor. Services every Sabbath at 11 a. K. and 7:80 P. M. Sabbath School at 12 M. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening at 7 'cIock. . . rOKGREGATIONAL CHURCH Rev. W. C. y Curtis, Pastor. Services every Sunday at 11 4. x. and 7 P. M . Sunday School after morning twice. Strangers cordially invited. Seato free. t r E. CHURCH Rev. H. Bkotk. Pastor. .v 1 Services every Sunday morning and even Ins. Sundav School at 12' o'clock M. A cordial invitation is extended by both pastor and people tnau. J. M. HUNTINGTON & CO Abstracters, Heal Estate and Insurance 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 Biigiqe Locations, Should Call on or Write to us. r . Agents for a Full Line of Leaiiii Fire Insurance Companies, And Will Write Insurance for , .A.:rr-2- .vnoTjrnsrT, on all DESIBABLE RISKS. Correspondence Solicited. All letters . Promptly Answered. Call on pr Address, J. M. HUNTINGTON & CO. Opera House Block. ' 'The Dalles, Or. The Dalles Gigaf : factory, FIEST STBEET. FACTORY NO. 105. (Tf A pOof the Best Brands VXvJTxa.X0 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 demand for the home manufactured article is increasing every day. A. ULRICH & SON. Health is Wealth ! Db. E. C. West's Kbbvk anb Brain Treat Mb nt. a ruaranteed specific for Hysteria. Dizzi ness. Convulsions. Fits. Nervous Neuralsrta. Headache, Nervous Prostration caused by tbe use of alcohol or tobacco, Wakefulness, Mental De pression, Softening of tbe Brain, resulting in in sanity and leading to misery, decay and death. Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of Power in eitner sex, involuntary .Losses ana spermat orrhoea caused by over exertion of the brain, self- abuse or over indulgence. Each box contains one month's treatment. $1.00 a box, or six boxes tor xa.uu, sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price. WE Ol'AKASTKK SIX BOXES To cure any case. With each order received b' us for six boxes, accompanied bv S5.00. we wil send the purchaser our written guarantee to re fund the money if the treatment does not effect a cure, uuaraniees issuea omy Dy BLAKELET & HOUGHTON, . Prescription Druggists, 17S Second St. The Dalles, Or. J. E. BiYAlD 2( llO., Heal Estate, Insaranee, ; and Loan AGENCY I Opera House Bloek,3d St "VI . W RAI N J. H. CROSS, -DEALER Hay, Grain, Fuel HEADQUARTERS Cash Paid for Eggs and Chickens. ' TERMS STRICTLY CKSH. Cor:; Second SUMMER GOODS Of Every , Description will be sold at . . FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS. CaU Early and Get Some of Our Gen- uine Bargains. 'f Terms Ohsh. H. The Dalles Mercantile Co., Successors to BROOKS A BEERS, Dealers In General Merchandise, . Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, etc. Groceries, Hard-ware, 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 NEW FIRM! toscoe & Gibons, -DEALERS IN- -.'STAPLE-; AND Canned Goods, Preserves, Pickles, Etc. Country Produce Bought and . c- Goods delivered Free to any part of t lie City-. Masonic Block, Corner Third and E. Jacobsen & Co., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL R00KSELLERS AND STATIONERS. Pianos and Organs Sold on EASY INSTALLMENTS. Notions. Tovs. Fancv ments of Alall Oi-cLorrm Filled. Promptly. 162 SECOND STREET, NEW PRINZ & NITSCHKE. 1 DEALERS IK Furniture and Carpets. We have added to oar business a complete Undertaking Establishment, and as we are in no way connected with the Undertakers' Trust our prices will be low accordingly. Remember our place on Second street, next to Moody's bank. $20 REWARD. WILL BE i-Aiu FOR ANY INFORMATION leading to the conviction of parties catting e ropes or in ny way interfering with the wir- polra or 'win of Tn'i.cTitic Light Co H. GLENN. Manager. ; FLOURING MILL; TO LLSE. ; J THE OLD DALLES, MILL AND WATER Company's I lour Mill will be leased, to re sponsible parties. . For information apply to the WATER COMMISSIONERS, A Undertaking Establishment ! . Tbe Dallex, Oregon. IN- ill Fir FOR POTATOES. All Goods Belivetcd Free and Promptly & Union Sts., Her bring. Second Street NEW STORE' V FANCY V Sold. Court Streets, The Dalles, Oregon. G-oods and Musical Instru all Kinds. THE DALLES, OREGON. JAMES WHITE, Has Opened a Xaxxaa.ol3. Oountor, 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 t Orange Cider, and the - Best Apple Cider. If you want a good lunch, give me a call. Open all Night Steam Ferry. is now running n steam. Ferry between ' Hood River .. and reasonable. White Salmon.' : Charges R. O. Evans, Prop -