The Dalles. Daily Chronicle.
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STATE OFFICIALS.
Governox
Secretary of State
Treasurer
8upt. of Public Instruction.
enators
S. Pennorer
G. W. McBrlde
.Phillin Metschan
... K. B. McElroy
!j. r. joipn
J. H. Mitchell
Congressman B. Hermann
State Printer. , Frank Baker
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge....
Sheritf
Clerk
Treasurer
C N. Thornbnry
..I). L. Cates
. B. Cromen
. .Geo. Ruch
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Commissioners .
1 H' A. leavens
I Frank Kincaid
Assessor John E. Barnett
Burveyor E. F. Sharp
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy Shelley
Coroner William Michell
The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
MERCHANTS SHOULD EXHIBIT.
We learn from the secretary of the
District Fair Association that no charges
will be made to merchants for business
exhibits in the pavilion during the fair.
This is everything that the association
can be expected to do to encourage ex
hibits of this character. It was a mat
ter of general regret during the last fair,
that so few of our merchants had made
any exhibit of their wares. If the mer
chants-of the city take little interest in
the fair their indifference will reflect
upon the country. As a matter of fact
merchants' exhibits are excellent meth
ods of advertising and would undoubt
edly give profitable retnrns for every
dollar spent in making them. We earn
estly urge upon our merchants the duty
of doing everything in this line and in
every other way towards making the
coming fair a success.
TO OPEN THE . COLUMBIA.
Three companies have now been in
corporated, whose object is to open up
the Columbia river to navigation. There
is the Columbia & Astoria Railway &
Navigation company, better known as
the Paul Mohr company ; The Dalles &
Deschutes Portage Railway company
and the Washington & Idaho Railway
and Navigation company. The last
company has grown out of the Water
way oonvention. It proposes to open
the Columbia river for navigation as far
as the mouth of Snake river, by building
portages around the Cascades and The
Dalles and having lines of boats to con
nect with all points and the lower river.
The capital stock of the company is
$2,000,000, and it now proposes to at
onoe send solicitors out through the
three states of Oregon, Washington' and
Idaho to secure . subscriptions . to the
'stock of the company in $23 shares.
The Paul Mohr company has plenty of
money and backing and it will not
lightly give up the fight for a portage on
the Washington side of the dalles. Only
two days agothis, company had a depu
tation of representative business men
from Portland viewing the route on the
Washington side. We understand that
President Osborne of the chamber of
commerce was one of the number.
What impression may have been made
-on the Portland deputation, no one here
haM been able to learn, but the people of
asterii Oregon and Washington may
urely hope that one or the other of
-these three schemes will be the means
of opening the Columbia river to the
sea.
.4 CHALLENGE.
The editor of the Times-Mountaineer,
without daring to say so plainly, is en
deavoring to give out the impression that
the supply of water, during the fire of
the second inst.,was not equal to the de
mand. His motives are, naturally to
juetify his past attitude on the water
question. ' It would give him a prestige
for wisdom and foresight were he able
ttTk 1 .. ' : i
iu di, iuc naici ouypiy woo luaue-
quate, just as I told you it would be."
Mr. Michell visited the reservoir during
the progress of the fire. So the super
intendent, Mr. Norman informs us.
Mr. Michell found the reservoir full,
and, as we said : yesterday, not for so
much as half an.hour during the ten or
twelve hours the tire was rasing did the
water from the reservoir cease to over
flow at the waste gate. If Mr. Michell
denies this the Ciikonicle will produce
in answer the sworn testimony of citi
zens whose bare words will be believed
by any man who knows them. We dare
the Timet-Mountaineer to put us to the
test. But this is not all. There are two
reservoirs, a smaller one which supplied
the mains, without the semblance of
failure, and a larger one that received
the waste. The larger one is also -connected
with the city mains by an eight-
inch supply pipe. , it contains now and
did contain during the whole time of the
fire, according to the estimate of the city
engineer 300,000 gallons of water, "or
. enough to supply the mains for six solid
hours, without receiving a drop of ad
ditional supply, meanwhile. .The pipe
that connects this larger "reservoir with
, the city mains is closed by a gate. The
gate was closed all during the fire. Why ?
Simply because these 300,000 gallon
of
water in the larger reservoir were not
needed. The smaller reservoir 12 . feet
deep was overflowing all the time, ex
cept about twenty minutes after the fire
commenced when the water was eighteen
inches from the top If the Times
Mountaineer will certify in its columns
that this statement is false in -any mat
erial point, we promise to produce abun
dant affidavits to prove it true. More
than this Mr.. Michell knows it to be
substantially true, himself, for he was
there and saw with his own eyes that
there was no lack of water In the reser
voirs. Why then will he. continue to
endeavor to deceive the outside world in
order to maintain his own consistency,
perhance, by insinuating that there. was
a lack of water which another system
would have supplied? Will our contem
porary prove the statements of this ar
ticle false or will he confess he has lied?
We dare him to the test.
THE LAST COMFORT GONE.
ho told our evening contemDorarv
that "when the pipes are laid from the
receiving basin to the new reservoir, no
new mains will be laid north of Ninth
street and the old reservoir will be the
only supply with which to fight the
destroying element?" Certainly not
the water commissioners. The state
ment is false. The editor may not know
that it is so, but it is false notwithstand
ing. When the plans now in course of
construction have been carried out an
eight-inch pipe will run from the new
reservoir, in the pines, north down
Union street, through the cut, thence
east below the bluff and connect with
the eight-inch main on Court street.
This will give an estimated pressure of a
hundred pounds to the square inch and
all the water of the Columbia, pumped
into the upper reservoir could not do
better. Our contemporary has forgotten
that he used to argue that the pressure
from the upper reservoir would burst
the old mains below the bluff. This was
the one comfort left him when the gravity
system was adopted in spite of all that
he and the ex-mayor could do. The old
mains would burst and then he would
have the sweet revenge, "I told you so."
Even this comfort now seems to be de
nied him. A few days ago Engineer
Brown attached the fire engine to the
Second street main, one of the oldest of
the lot, and a pressure of a hundred and
ten pounds to the square inch failed even
to burst a eingle supply pipe. Thus one
by one the theories of a weak and wan
ing minority Vanish into the darkness of
eternal night, as they are brought into
the presence of fact and truth and actual
experiment. .
AN AMAZING STATEMENT.
The Chronicle has not "begged" for
aid for the sufferers by the fire, but it
has not lied as to their condition through
a false and mistaken pride. The Dalles
is not in the altitude of a beggar and
none of the kind hearted people who
have generously aided the sufferers have
ever hinted that she was. It is no more
wrong for The Dalles to accept needed
aid than it was for Chicago, Johnston,
Seattle or Ellensburg in like circum
stances. The following appeared in the
Times-Mountaineer of last evening :
After careful examination, onlv twK.t
or fifteen families were found who were
willing to accept aid, and from $2,000 to
$3,000 would place these in as good a
condition as before the conflagration.
The Chronicle is authorized bv Mavor
Mays, by A. S. McAlister president of
the board of trade and bv the chairman
of the relief committee Judge C. N.
Thornbury that much as they regret be
ing compelled to say it, the above state
ment is false and misleading, and that
it is their opinion, as it is the opinion of
the Chronicle that not half a dozen
persons within the corporate limits of
The Dalles could be found to endorse it
as true.
OUR W. C. T. V. COLUMN-
Some Interesting Gossip Gathered From
Various Sources.
HOME IS BEST.
The hills arc dearest which our childish ieet
Have climbed the earliest: and the .hum.
most sweet
Are ever those at which our Tonus lips drank.
Stooped to their waters o'er the grassy bank.
Midst the cold, dreary sea-watch. Hnm-
hearth-light ,
Shines round the helmsman plunging through
tnenignt;
And still, with inward eyes, the traveler sees
In close, dark stranger-streets, his native trees.
.Tofit G. Whittirr.
"It is the duty of society to
remove,
Barnes.
not regulate, evil." Dr. Albert
The liquor traffic is crushing the fond
est hopes of the mother heart of Amer
ica.
The Presbyterian general assembly's
permanent committee in behalf of tem
perance says; "After all, the present
condition of things in relation to the
liquor traffic is not at all c i scon r o-i ti a.
There is a mighty waking up of popular
upiinun. xnere are vastly more tem
perance men and women in the TTnitH
States than ever before.
Joseph Cook said at Broadway Taber
nacle, New York": ;'The churches
should rise to the temperance level of
the public' schools. ':
All denominations should declare, as
the ' Methodist church has, that the
liquor business cannot be legalized with
out sin'.
Church members should support no
political party dominated by the whisky
ring. The churches should unitedly in-
sist on the closing of saloons on Sundays
and on election day, and the prohibition
of the sale of liquor to drunkards and
minors, to Indians, and during fires
ueneral Master Workman Powderly
said in a recent address: "The politi
cian is what you make him. So long as
you bare your backs and hand the poli
tician a cat o' nine tails don't be sur
prised if he scourges and skins you. ; If
you walk up and open your pocket to
the politician, saying, "rob me," why
should he not rob you? If the power
lies in you, damn in thunder tones the
liquor power that debauches the voters
One hogshead of whisky in the city of
New York judiciously placed may make
or unmake a president, Give out enough
glasses of gin in this city and state and
you plaqe the dispenser in the chair of
Washington."
xuuwaru jvereti naie says : 1 am
ready to acknowledge that the clergy are
apt to be a little fanatical in this matter
of temperance. Why not, indeed? They
see the skeletons in the closet, which
other people do not see. They jeceivfe
the confidence, and they know why this
lad never kept the fond promise with
which he entered college. They know
what is the hidden cause of ruin in this
household, and the fond hopes of that
young married pair. If you want to
make an active temperance member out
of any friend, set him to work in pris
ons, in charity organizations, in educa
tion ; you will soon find that he says less
about moderate drinking, that he looks
less doubtfully on strong legal measures
for keeping men out of temptation."
The wail of the worse than widow, the
cry of the starved and suffering child goes
up to heaven, but human fatuity has in
terposed the shield of "regulation," and
no answer comes. Regulation, forsooth !
Can the vitiated appetite of the ' boy be
"regulated?" Is there any way to reg
ulate the man or boy who has implanted J
within himself an appetite which has I
rasen irom mm every particle of will
power? Can you save a man with a fe
ver in any other wav than to remove the
cause of the fever? " Regulation !" Do
you want to take a census to enumerate
your children and sav, "I will so regu
late this evil that this child shall be
mine and that one the saloon-keeper's?"
In brief, do you want to perpetuate an
evil, or do you want to kill it? If the
rum power really owns the state and
community, in God's name let it have
its way in peace. If it does not. if hu
manity has any rights, if the state and
the family have any claim to be consid
ered, let the law assert itself and stamp
it out. P. V. Nasby.
Sir William Gordon and Lady Cuni
ming's coming reception in New York is
already a matter of anxiety to the fash
ionable few, and it is earnestly debated
whether to give them the cold shoulder
or to receive them with that studied
warmth which would best emphasize
the Four Hundred's opinion of English
wickedness.
The Best Physic.
St. Patrick's pills are carefully pre
pared from the best material and accord
ing to the most approved formula, and
are the most perfect cathartic and liver
pill that can be pioduced. We sell
them. Snipes & Kinehsly,
4-w Druggists.
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 of per
sons doing the same. By order of the
Board of Directors.
Notiee.
The Chronicle will be pleased to pub
lish, free of charge, a list of all property
that persons may have lost during the
fire and cannot find or may have in pos
session and cannot find the owner. In
all cases where convenient, goods may
be left at this office. '
For Sale.
Thomas McCoy has between sixty and
one hundred head of good stock cattle to
sell. For particulars apply at the bar
ber shop, No. 110 2d St., The Dalles.
9-11-tf -
Notice.
City taxes for 1891 are now due.
Dalles City tax assessment is now in my
hand and will be held in my office for
sixty days. Sixty davs from date, July
18, 1891, city taxes will be delinquent.
O. KlNERSLY,
City Treasurer.
Notice. '
All persons having work done at O.
M. Pope's photo tent are requested to
call at the Columbia Candy manufactory
for the same. Views of the ruins can
obtained at the above place.
A. A. Brown has re-opened at 109 Un
ion street, north end of the first building
north of Court house yard, where he
will be pleased to see his old customers.
d-w-9-8-tf. -
William Michell is again ready to fill
all orders in the undertaking business
and can be found at the store of George
Ruch or at Mr.- Ruch's residence.
9-ll-2w. ;
..' Pasture.
Good stubble and meadow pasture to
be had on the A. B. Moore place, on
Three-mile, two and one-half miles from
town. ' . 8-17-tf.y
Wanted. . .
A girl to do general house work at a
road ranch seventeen miles from The
Dalles. Apply at this office. 8-17-tf.
F. Dehm is again on deck. He saved
his stock and tools and has opened busi
ness at the cigar factory on First street.
9-9-1 m
' J. H. Larsen will buy all scrap iron
of all kinds and pay the highest market
price. See him at "the East End.
9-9-tf. ' -
Charles Stubling has opened up his
saloon in the building next door west of
the Germania saloon. tf
E. W. Trout has a new 12x14 four feet
wall tent for sale cheap. It may he seen
at this office. tf.
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Mrs. J. C. Meins has a large parlor
that would be .suitable for two gentlemen
roomers, 9-4-tf
Stock Holders Meeting.
Notice is hereby given that the annual
meeting of the stockholders of the
Wasco W arehouse company will bt held
at the office of French & Co., The Dalles,
?oogn' n Wednesday September 30th,
1891, at 8:30 p.m., for the purpose of
electing directors for the ensuing year
and the transaction of such other busi
ness as may come before it.
The Dalles, Oregon, Aug. 29th, 189li
' G. J. Farley,
Secretary Wasco Warehouse Co.
9-5td.
Notice.
All persons are hereby warned not to
purchase or negotiate for a certain
promissory note bearing date about June
5, 1890, given by Max Vogt & Co. to
Pat Donlan, for $1188, pavable one year
after the date of said note' with interest
thereon at 8 per cent, per annum, as said
note is claimed by said Donlan to have
ueen lost or stolen.
The Dalles, Or., Aug. 27, 1891.
8-27-d&w-4w Max Vogt & Co.
. An Old Adage.
lhere is an old adage : "What every
body says must be true." Henry Cook,
of New Knoxville, Ohio, in a recent let
ter says: "unamberlain's Cough Rem
edy has taken well here. Everybody
likes it on account of the immediate
relief it gives." There is nothing like it
to loosen and relieve a severe cold. For
saie oy bnipes & Kinersly, druggists, dw
NOTICE.
K. L. .trench, has for sale a number of
improved ranches and unimproved
lands in the Grass Vallev tieiffhhnrhnrwl
in onerman county. j.'ney 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.
Owing to the Odd Fellows' hall unrt
records having been destroyed bv fi
there will be a regular meeting of Col
umbia Lodge No. 5, 1. O. O. F., at the
JS. ot F nail, Friday evening, Sept. 11th,
1891, at 8 o'clock. All members of the
lodge are urgently reauestsd to attend
as business of importance will be trans
acted. H. A. Bills. N. G.
fl-10-2t.
SPECIAL notice.
Notwithstanding the fire we still have
a half million (500 thousand) feet of
ROUGH AND DRESSED LUMBER '
Suitable for buildings of all kinds ; also
our planing mill is the only one now in
the vicinity and ready to turn out mill
work of every description.
d9-3 Jos. T. Peters.
O. M. Pope's views of ths ruins can be
procured at the Columbia Candy factory.
9-10-St"
A NEW
Undertaking Establishment !
PRINZ & NITSCHKE.
. . . DEALERS IX
Furniture and Carpets.
We have added to our 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.
Having made arrangements with a
number of Factories, I am pre
; pared to furnish
Doors, Windows, Mouldings,
STORE FRONTS
And all kinds of Special work. Ship
ments made daily from factory and can
fill orders in ' ne shortest possible time.
Prices satrJactory.
It will be to your interest to see me
before purchasing elsewhere. 1
Wm. Saunders,
Office over French's Bank.
W. E. GARRETSON,
IMlii
SOLE AGENT FOB THE
STL '
All Vatch Work Warranted.
J e-welry .Made . to Order.
' 38 Second St., The Dalles, Or.
TO RENT.
A Union Street Lodging House. For
terms apply to
. . Geo. Williams,'
Administrator of the estate of John
Michelbaugh. dtf-9-2
Jeweler
SUMMER GOODS
Of Every Description -will be Sold at
FOP THE fEYT
. A'J 1 Hill 11 Uli I wJ. . I
Call Early and Get Some of Our Gen
nine Bargains.
Terms CtresH. '
H. Her bring.
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J. H.
-DEALER IN-
Hay, Grain, Feel il Flour.
HEADQUARTERS FOR POTATOES.
Cash Paid for Eggs and Chickens. All Goods Delivered Free and Promptly
TER7VYS STRICTLY CHSH,
Gor. Second & Union Sts.,
The Dalles Mercantile Co.,
Successors to BROOKS & BEERS. DeHlers in
General Merchandise,
. Staple
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
E. Jacobsen & Go.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL .
Booksellers and stationers.
Pianos and Organs
" Sold on EASY INSTALLMENTS.
Notions, Toys, Fancy Goods and Musical Instru
ments of all Kinds.
3VH.1 Ordem Filled Jb'romptly.
162 SECOND STREET,'
Great Bargains !
Removal ! Removal I
On account of Removal I will sell rrxy
entire stock of Boots and. Shoes, Hats
and. Caps, Trunks and Valises, Shelv
ings, Counters, Desk, Safe, Fixtures,
at a Great Bargain. Come and see
my offer.
GREAT REDUCTION IN RETAIL.
J.
125 Second Street,
FRENCH 8t CO.,
BANKERS.
TEAN8ACT AGENERALBANKING BUSINE8-
Letters of Credit issued available in the
. . , . Eastern States.
Sight Exchange and Telegraphic
Transfers sold on New York, Chicago, St.
Louis, San Francisco, Portland Oregon,
Seattle Wash., and various points in Or
egon and Washington.
Collections made at all points on fav
orable terms.
REMOVAL.
H. Q-lenn has removed his
office and the office of the
Electric .Light Co. to' 72
Washington. St.
TTUTDTV TU VC
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and Fancy Dry Goods,
THE DALLES,. OREGON.
The Dalles.
D. P. Thompson" J. Sv Schbkck, H. U. Bau,
President. y - Vice-President. Cashier
First ' Katloiial BaaK.
THE DALLES,
- OREGON
A General Banking Business transacted
DeDoaits received, mihimt tn Sicht
; . Draft or Check.
Collections made and proceeds promptly
remitted on day of. collection. ,
Sight and Telegraphic Exchange sold oti
New York, San Francisco and Port
. . land.
DIRECTORS.
D. P. Thompson. Jno. S. Schknck.
T. W. Sparks. Geo.' A. Liebe.
,H. M. Beall.
$20 REWARD:
WILL BE PAiu FOB ANY INFORMATION
leading to the eon vie tion of parties catting
the ropes or In any way interfering with the
Co. , H. GLEXN,
GROSS