C3J The Dalles Daily Chroniele. Entered at the Postoffice st The Dalles, Oregon, as second-clan matter. TIME TABLES. . Railroads. BAST BOUND. Ha. 2, Arrives 11:40 a. m. Departs 11:45 A. x. "8, " 12:05 P.M. " 12:80 P.M. WEST BOUND. Ko.1, Arrives 4:40 a. M. Departs 4:50 a. m. "-7, " 5:20 P.M. ' 6:45 P.M. Two locai freights that carry passengers leave one for the west at 7 :45 A. M., and one for the vast at 8 a. m. STAGES. For Prinevllle, via. Bake Oven, leave dally except Sunday) at ft a. m. For Antelope, Mitchell, Canyon City, leave Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 6 a. M. For Dufur, Kingslev, Wamic, Wapinitia, Warm Springs pnd Tygh Valley, leave daily (except Sunday) at 6 A. M. , ' ' For Goldendale, Wash., leave every day of the week except Sunday at 8 a. m. Offices for all lines at the Umatilla House. Post-Office. OFFICII HOURS General Dellvrey Window. 8 a. ra. to 7 p. m. Money Order " . . 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. Sunday si. D. " 9 a. m. to 10 a. in. CLOSING OP MAILS - By trains going East 9 p. m. and 11:45 a. m. i' West 9 p.m. and 4:45p.m. Stage for Goldendale 7:30 a. m. " "Frineville 5:30 a. m. . . "Dufurand Warm Springs... 5:80 a. m. " flaving for Lyle & Uartland..5:30 a. m. - " " " Antelope...'. 5:30a.m. Except Sunday. i Tri-weekly. Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. " Monday Wednesday and Friday. FRIDAY, AUGTJST 14, 1891. The Chronicle is the Only Paper in The Dalles that Receives the Associated Press Dispatches. LOCAL BREVITIES. Mr. B. C. McAtee of Tygh Valley is in the city. The new steel safe that arrived today for French A Co.'s bank weighs 14,000 pounds. It was manufactured by Hall A Co., of Cincinnati. ' x President Orborn is reported to have said that he likes the position of the new portage company better than that of the Columbia Railway and Naviga tion company. ' From Mr. W. B. Rodman of Wamic we learn that crops in his neighborhood promise to be good, fully up to an aver age. This remark will apply to spring grain, and fall grain will even do better. Con Howe arrested, last night, the In dian woman Caroline. Under the stimu lating influence of the white man's fire water she was vigorously engaged till fer midnight in painting the East End red. ' - An attempt was made last night to enter the cigar store of W. H. Jones - on First street. The panels of the back door were forced in at the bottom but the would-be thief evidently got. scared as no further damage was done and no entrance was effected. A visitor from the Cascade Locks in forms us that the water is nearly all pumped out of the canal and that a force of laborers have been put to work on the sand pit, preparatory to commencing the laying of the concrete in the bottom of the canal. ,x-governor Moody nas published a couple of letters in our evening con temptible which, if they mean anything at this particular time, seem designed to present his ex-Excellency as a devoted , friend of the Cascade portage railway and therefore of the new opposition line of boats and the opening of the ' Colum bia river. As we have not the slightest disposition to do the ex-governor or any member of his family the least inten tional wrong we offer the columns of this journal to any one who will show, wherein by word or deed, he or any-of his family has contributed so much as a ten cent piece to further the object of an open river. This is the question and not whether an obscure individual has told truth or falsehood. Even if the ex-governor could succeed in proving home a , lie on the editor of this journal (which he could not if he cared to present the proof) that would not relieve him of the stigma of never having, notwithstanding all his wealth, contributed a nickle to wards obtaining cheaper freight rates for the people out of whom he has made every dollar he owns. Warning to Owners of Live Stock. The following state law was approved by Governor Pennoye, February 20th, 1891 : "An act to prevent and punish the driving ' or herding live-stock along or near public highways (not toll roads) and causing the same to be obstructed," and is as follows : ' ' - ' Be it enacted by the legislative assem bly of the State of Oregon. -t Sec. 1. - That any person or persons driving or herding or causing to be driven or herded, cattle, horses, sheep or any kind of live stock along or near a public highway and causing such highway to be obstructed thereby with stones, earth . or other debris, and leaving the same to . so remain for more than . twenty-four " hours, shall be deemed guilty of a mis demeanor, and upon conviction thereof Vghall be fined in any sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, such fine to be en forced as other fines in criminal cases, ' and justices of the peace - of the county where the offense is - committed shall have original jurisdiction of all violations thereof., " " , i' : 'r. Jerry Simpson, the Kansas congress man, says he is going into Ohio the .first of October and will go for John Sher man's scalp from that time until elec . - tion day with all the force he can - mus - ter. He savs his oresence 1 there will not do Major McKinley any good either. WILL BBKBF1T THE DALLES. A Synopsis of the Latest Proposition to : Build a Portage Railway. A dispatch from Portland, published in the Chronicle last evening, informed its readers that a proposition had been submitted to the Portland chamber of commerce relating to the building of a portage railway around the dalles of the Columbia. The telegram had reference to the proposition of Lieutenant Norton, acting for The Dalles & DesChutes Port age Railway . & Navigation company. This company, in consideration Of Port land taking up $250,000 first mortgage, six per cent., "fifty year ' bonds, bind themselves to complete within six months of the date on which they re ceive notice that the proposition is ac cepted and are satisfied as to the finan cial standing of the' subscribers to the bonds, a thoroughly equipped harrow gauge railroad on the south side of the Columbia river, between The Dalles and the east end ot the island opposite the mouth of the DesChutes river. At least one first class steamer and sufficient bafges are to be put on the middle river, all the steamers and barges needed be low the Cascades and two steamers with accompanying barges on the upper Col umbia and Snake river. Freight charges on grain are guaranteed to be thirty per cent, lower than the Union Pacific may make for . the same class of freight be tween the same points, provided that the company shall not be required to carry grfcin at less than one cent per ton per mile. Freight is to be carried from the city of Portland to all interior points on the basis of - a rate not exceeding $2.40 per ton for fourth class freight from Portland to The Dalles." Portland is to be the western terminus. One half of the paid up capital stock is to be assigned to the Portland 'chamber of commerce on the following condition, viz: The stock shall be placed in es crow and represented "in - the- board of directors by a board of trustees chosen by the chamber of commerce, who shall also be directors on its behalf. The sub scription to the bonds is to be paid as follows : : Twenty per cent, on the com pletion of the subscription, 20 per cent, on the completion of ten miles of track ; 20 per cent, on completion of portage railway ; 20 per cent, when the wharves etc. are completed and the road in oper ation ; and 20 per cent, when all is com plete and in operation. The signers to the proposition are Geo. A. Liebe, E. B. Dufur, Ti H. Johnston and R. H. Nor ton. . It is expected that the proposition will be'eonsidered by the chamber of commerce next week and should it, or some other of like import ' be accepted we shall soon see the dawn of a brighter day for the Inland Empire. . A Subject for Consideration. ; No subject has ever; presented itself for man's consideration, having the at tractions for man at all equal to the sub lect ot sen. , a consideration lor sen is a cardinal principal of natural law, so much so at least that selfishness and high self esteem are universally regarded as virtue and the greatest philosophers and . professional writers on subjects deep, have generally agreed that selfish ness is an attribute of the Deity Himself, The God of Moses the god of Mohammed and all the gods of Greece were selfish gods. -' :' '. Then man, existing as he does, under the law of human disposition, cannot well do otherwise than say to himself and all the world,' "Behold me, lam im mortal." He claims immortality, not because he has any particular reason to believe himself immortal, but because it pleases his vanity to so regard himself. He revels in the splendors of an imagi nary heaven to which his imaginary soul will go after a real death, "not from rea son but from choice. : It is preferable to oblivion. The philisophical position that man' is a great; organ performed upon by ever co-operative nature al ways material and that the soul Jis but the effect, the music. The grand sym phony, or the grating ; discord, is not compatible with our vanity. Who de- sires to regard, say - Milton's Paradise Lost, as but a record of material co-operation or Dante's Inferno as being pro duced by an infusion of phosphorus from stale fish, may be, and tempered with tropical grown pine into an abnormal cerebrun? Not I; no! "Let us," as Mr. Beecher pathetically remarked "Let ; us aspire to immortality." And there is immortality, positively surely; the' ma terialist is convinced that the soul can not exist independent of the body ; that without a body there can be no soul. Yet he realizes that every human act is immortal ; that the effects of our deeds live forever and forever. F. S. G. ' . A Vslusble Work, - me editor or the Chronicle is in debted to the courtesy of Col. Lang for a copy of the report of the bureau of statis- tics for 1890 which contains no less than 137 pages of statistical and other matter relating to the state of Oregon, gathered from every source and compiled, at great cost of time and labor by the. Colonel himself... It t furnishes the , most com plete statistical account of the resources of this truly ; great state we have ever met. '. But it is more than a mere list of statistics ' Each county is treated to a separate article and the topography, climate, - eon, natural products, manu factures, means of transportation and many other-matters of useful informa tion are given in a concise and conven ient form, For example, the chapter on Wasco county tells ns that in territorial times "the county of Wasco embraced all that part of the state extending from the Cascade mountains to Snake river and from the Columbia to the northern boundary line of California and amounted to 66,564 square miles. : Cap tain Nathan Olriey acted as justice of the peace in Wasco precinct and Deacon Daniel W. Butler as constable in the year 1853 when this immense territory was a precinct of Clackamas county. Since its organization as a - separate county in 1854 Wasco has been subdi vided into thirteen counties, leaving the area of the present about 3200 square miles." The catch of salmon in Wasco county for the year 1889 is placed at a total oi 8,900,000 pounds. The imports and exports of Dalles City for the same year are as follows : Total imports, 31,- 000 tons. Exports: wool 5,864,400 pounds; wheat, 2,000,000 bushels; other grains, 44o,62a bushels; live stocK, ouu car loads; lumber and wood, 300 car loads ; fruit and mill products, 1000 tons. These particulars are merely pointed out as samples to indicate the value of the Colonel's work and the whole justifies the statement of the chief of bureau, in his letter of transmittal to Secretary Windom : '"Much of this information has not heretofore been complied or pub lished and will be of interest and benefit hot only to the people of the states men tioned, but of the whole country." Advertised Letters. The following is the list of letters re maining in The Dalles postoffice uncalled for Friday, Aug. 14, 1891. Persons call-. ing for these letters will please give the date on which they were advertised : Allen, Miss Sylba Albert, Miss Minnie Austin, Martin Brown, Mr. W H Butler, Henson Bruen, John Henry Burton, Miss Jetty Butler, Mrs E Campbell, Mr J W Campbell, Wm Clark; Mrs M J Carmichael, D K Cross, Perry F Gleaver, Sadie Hartman, Dr Henderson, Bessie Hudson, Henry , Jackman, A F Jackson, N M . Johnson, John Kelly, John A Marqnis, A J Meek, John Rosenthal, E F Steinkeimer, Chris Stilson, Fred Welsh, Mrs Ella Weidner, Wm York, Miss Mollie. M. T,. Nolan, P. M. A new means of ridding infested dis tricts of the grasshopper is about to be introduced by Alfred Keeble,;who intro duced the Astralian lady bug into. Cali fornia .for the detraction . of. the , fruit pests.; 5 His efforts in this -direction were such a boon to fruit growers that he has sailed to the South seas in . search of a parasite that lias the name of being death to grasshoppers. If his efforts in the present undertaking should Bscceed it--, will -.be notable discovery -in the advancing science ' of agriculture , and horticulture. The survival of the fittest applies to all. orders of beings and if science can expedite the effects of this law as applied to the insect world it will by that much aid in the general pro gress. For the sake of the farmers who struggle yeaT after year to raise crops for the market only to see them devastated by these grasshopper peBts, it is to be hoped the experiment will be a success. . The Dalles. Our people naturally look upon the jseople of the rock besrirdled city on the Columbia as near -neighbors, and feel an interest in those things which concern them. -Our fellow townman, T. L. Masters was there a few days , since, . and , from . him . we ', learn that the city is provided with a volunteer fire service equal to many cities of double its population.- The Engine company numbers about fifty men. The engine and hose cost in the neighbor hood 1 of . $2,500. The hose company numbers about 30, men.; .taken as a whole The Dalles is to be congratulated on the efficiency of her fire Bernce. Goldendale Sentinel. A car load of fat hogs from North Powder, were shipped from " the stock yards this morning, for. the Sound J. B. French, secretary of the state alliance of Kansas, states that the alliance has completed arrangemnts by which it will handle three-quarters of the Kansas wheat crop of 50,000,000 bushels. Ar rangements have been made to etore at least half of the crop in the elevators in Kansas Citv. Chicaeo. St. Louis. Cin cinnati and Baltimore, and other large i - j ? . i . : l cibit38. iur u mueuunw uvriuu. ur uutii the owners desire to sell. Arrangements have also been made in the east to secure an advance on wheat stored at 75 per csnt. of the present value of wheat, This new move has practically cornered the Kansas crop. To Consumers of Wood and Groceries. We have on hand 500 cords of choice fir wood which' will be sold cheap. , we also quote you our leaders in groceries : Dry granulated sugar, 14 . Jts for $1.00; extra C sugar, 15 lbs for $1.00; nour, Diamond mills, si.uo per sacs We make you low figures on wheat, oar ley, oats and mm teed. . Yours truly; Maier & Benton, y . Notice to Horsemen. The vearline trottine race for the dis trict fair having failed to fill the society have substituted a quarter mile dash for runners purse of $75. Conditions same as other running races. Entries Close. The two year old running stake and all trotting races close September 1, 1891 for our district fair won't overlook it Enter your horses in time. - - Wanted'!-' Ten laborers to work on the Mill Creek reservoir. Apply to this office or at the works, to James McGintt. Money to Loan. ' $100 to $500 to loan on short time. ' .Bayard & Co. CHBOKICLF. SHORT STOPS. For coughs and colds use 2379. Use Dufur flour. It is the best. : Ask your grocer for Dufur flour. 2379 is the cough syrup for children. For headache use S. B. headache cure. For physic always use S. B. headache cure. Get me a cigar from that fine ease at Snipes & Kinersley's. . - For O. N. G. diaarhoea S. B. cure is the best thing known. Blackberries, three boxes for twentv- five cents at Joles Brothers. ' For ice cream cramp uRe S. B. pain cure. '. . Persons leaving the-citv for a summer outing can have the Chbonicle sent to them without extra charge. For 4th of July colic use S. B pain cure. - For 4th of July colic use S. B pain cure. ' Chas. Stubblinc has received a car load of the famous Bohemian beer which he has now at retail at ten cents a glass or twenty-five cents a quart. This beer is guaranteed to be an eight month's brew and is superior to anv ever brought to The Dalles. " For 4th of July colic use S. B -pain cure. - 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. Tne 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 letteror other wise to the editor of the Chronicle or to the owner, W.- L. Ward, Boyd, Wasco county, Oregon. From San Antonio. Aug. Hornung, a well known manu facturer of boots and shoes at 820 Nolan St., San Antonio, Texas, will not soon forget his experience with an attack of the cramps which he relates as follows : "I was taken with a violent cramp in the stomach, which I believe would have caused my death, had it not been for the prompt use of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoee Remedv. The first dose did me so much good that I followed it up in twentv minnt.es with the second dose, and before the doctor conld get to where I was, I did not need him. This remedy shall always be one of the main stays of my family." , For sale py snipes & .hunersiy, druggists. 7 .Preparing For Hot Weather." ; The following telegram from White- wright, Texas, indicates that the people in that vicintty do not intend to be caught unprepared : whitewblght, Texas, June Z, Chamberlain & Co., JJes Moines, Iowa: bhip us at once one gross Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, 25 :ent size, and two dozen 50 cent size. . We are entirely out and have had nearly forty calls for it this week. U. X . KATHBUN & JO. This is just such a medicine as everv family should be provided with during the hot weather. It never fails and is pleasant to take. For sale by Snipes & Kinersly, , The following named vessels of the Pa cific coast, have received official numbers from the bureau of navigation : Steamer .Dalles Citv. eross 402.12, net 2aa.3, No. 126,779, . and steamer Regulator, gross 434.18, net334., JNo. liu.uso: steamer Mayflower, gross 47.8U, net Z8.WJ, no. 92,345. . To tne Public. Caddo Mills. Texas, June 5, 1891. From my own personal knowledge, I can recommend unamioeriain's uonc, Cholera and Diarrhoea Kemedy for cram ds in the stomach, also for diarr hoea and flux. It is the best medicine I have ever seen used and the best selling, as it alwavs gives satisfaction. A. K Sherrill, 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by Snipes Ji-inersiy, druggists. . ? NOTICE. R. E. French has for sale a number of improved ranches and unimproved lands in the Grass Valley neighborhood in Sherman county. Tney will be sold very cheap and on reasonable terms. Mr. French can locate settlers on some eood unsettled claims in the same neigh' borhood. His address is Grass Valley, Sherman county, Oregon. Twenty Dollars Reward. Parties have been cutting the supply pipes above the city between the flume and the reservoir, thus doing much dam age. .This must be stopped and a re ward of $20 is hereby offered for evidence that will lead to the conviction ot per sons doing the same. By order of the Board of Directors. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. When Baby vas aick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, Whea aha became Miss, eho clung to Castoria, Whensheriad Children, she gave them Castoria Notice. Citv taxes for 1891 are now dne Dalles City tax assessment is now in my hand and will be held in my office for sixty days. Sixty davs from date, Jnly 18, 1891, city taxes will De delinquent. . .. . . O. KlXKRSLY, : City Treasurer. - Notice. (Ail city warrants registered prior to r-, . 1 ... , - nan "11 1 1 r UCtooer ora, iooy, win ue pain 11 prea ented at mv office.-. .... Interest ceases from and after this date. The Dalles, Or., July 10th 1891. O. Ktnbbsly, ., City Treasurer. A special meeting of the Knights oi Lalxr will be held in their hall next Sunday ; afternoon at 3 o'clock. A full attendance is requested as matters of special importance will come before the meeting. ; - 1 - . ..V' ' : - WANTED! A limited amount of good, clean, woolen raes. Bring them to this office at once and receive a reasonable price for same. SIO..OO Reward. Lost, a diamond scarf pin the above reward will be paid by returning to C jfi. iiaignt. WE ARE 75 pair of Misses Shoes worth $2.25 for $1.00 100 Corsets worth $1.25 for 50 cents. OUR ENTIRE DRESS GOODS AT ACTUAL COST. A. M. WILLIAMS & CO. The Northwestern OP MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. Assets over $42,000,000.00. Surplus over $6,500,000.00. Prof. E.. . Shuey, Dayton, Ohio. ' Dp' A R Km: Reulvirii? to vnnr renmt (V.r with the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New Ztr I u; ""'J P."' "i ioji, my age Dane i the Lquitable unon their Ten-Year i'ontine plan, amounted to $37,512.00; The Tontine period expired C wuvs avruv n Aug lv.l ill jl r lKfaT A paid up policy for. $40,000 00 And cash 9 751 60 bECOXD A paid up policy for i . 54 '600 00 THIRD Surrender my policy, and receive in cash 3('.496 80 I was so little satisfied with the results of my investment that I chose the third, cash, proposi tion, but when I so decided, the comminv. thi-mich aavctuI rf t rrniwwoHH ... 4., m(' to tke one of the other formn of settlement, policy and take the cash, they hnally instructed for the amount. JctA.4QrHl. tv. tholi. ulut ..........,,- 1 followed their instructions and sent the policy correspondent In Cleveland, only to have ft returned from the nievelnr.fi R-mL- with thoinitinr. that the State manager of the Equitable states that he "had not sufficient funds to meet It" ThiB forced me to return it to the New York office, and compelled me to wait some twenty days after maturity before receiving final settlement. I have given no statement endorsintr the Equitable, or expressing my satisfaction with tholT settlement with me. On. the other hand I have positively refused to do so. The fact that my re turns were $1,015.20 less than my total Investment renders further comment unnecessary. Durimr the time I carried the Knuitahle nnlinv nn.l nn t thA huv whon )..... ...Kmuf.i .v.- above proposition to me, I was kept In total ignorance of the condition of my investment. J""ln- iummo, wini uin ius urou my experience wita ine nortnwestern, in wnlcn In 1882 I took a Ten-Year Endowment Policy, Ten-Year Tontine, for $10,000, that eompany having from time to time furnished roe with a memorandum of the surplus on my policy over the signature of their actuary; so that while my policy has not yet matured, and will not uotil riext year, I have the satisfaction of knowing that at maturity it will net me from $4,000 to $5,000 more than the faee of the policy calls for. Very truly yours, We have thousands of comnarisona panies of the United States. Full information furnished upon application to T. A. JOHN EOBT. M" AgS- MAYS & CROWE, (Successors to ABRAMS & STEWART.; ' Retailers and Joblsera ix Hamware, -Tinware, - uraniteware, - WoolBiiware. SILVERWARE, ETC. AGENTS "Acorn," "Charter Oak" "ArgancT STOVES AND RANGES. Pumps, Pipe, Plumbers' and Steam Fitters' Supplk-e,. Packing, Building Paper, , SASH, DOORS, SHINGLES. Also a complete stock of Carpenters', Blacksmith's and Farmers Tools and Fine Shelf -AGENTS The Celebrated R. J. ROBERTS "Warranted" Cutlery, Meriden Cntwy r. TaDieware, tne "y nick Meal" uasoune btoves. 'Orrana" on btov and Anti-Rust Tinware. All Tinning, Plumbing, will be done 174, 176, 178. 180 SECOND STREET, jtfeu; .o Qolumbia .5. jiotel, THE DALLES, OREGON. Best Dollar a Day First-Class Meals, 25 Cents. First Class Hotel in Every Respect. None but the Best of White Help Employed. 1 T. JStfeholas, Prop. -: DEALERS IN: Staple M Fanog Giooeiies, Hay, Grain and Feed. No. 122 Cor. Washington and Third Sts. H. C. N IE LSSNv Glotoiet BOOTS AND SHOES, Grents' nX3n 1 CORNER OF SECOND AND WASHINGTON 8T8., THE DALLES, OBEGOSL I N IT ! LINE OF Life Insurance Co., .. .,,, v., JUUO u, . Ktutomunt .f tw fa.tD MnnAAn4nM , York In their late settlement with me, fwouM years, l toot out a Ten-Favment Life Policy in fnr tm mn m .n.rnf,..rAa i- .. early In January of the present year, arid tto DCtLlCUlCllr but finding that I was determined to surrender the me from the home office to sand policy and reeeip i 1 1 i , j VI r. 'v.... and receirjt throuerh mv hank In Knrirnr field ROSS MITCHELL. with all thn Ipftrlincr T.ifo Tnaiiraniw fYm. HUDSON, Associate General Agent. A. KEINHARDT, Special Agent, The Dalles, Oregon. Xj. :es. ceo w jii. FOR THE :- Hardware! FOR- Pipe Work and Repairing on Short jn otice. THE DALLES, OREGON House on the Coast! fTx1 t g Tailor 4'