The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
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STATE OFFICIALS.
Govcrnoi S. Pennoyer
Secretary of State G. W. McBride
Treasurer Phillip Metschan
8upt of Public Instruction E. B. McElroy
ton, frKftehell
Congressman .B. Hermann
State Priutcr. . . Frank Baker
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge C. N. Thornbury
Sheriff D. L. Cates
' Clerk J. B. Crossen
Treasurer Ueo. Ruch
Commissioners.- fESfd
Assessor John E. Burnett
Surveyor 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.
NATURAL OAS AS A MECHAN
ICAL FORCE.
The discovery of natural gas ia Can
ada has been followed by another dis
covery of a very interesting and prom
ising character. In a building belong
ing to the Provincial Natural Gaa com
pany at International Bridge, Ont., there
is a novel and exceedingly simple plant
which turns out beautifully clear and
solid slabs of ice during the hottest day
in summer, in much quicker time than
nature backed up by a Canadian winter
could do. The plant consists solely of a
small vertical steam engine of ordinary
build and a tank of biine in which is
located a coil of gas pipe. The natural
gas i brought from a well eight miles
distant, where it shows a pressure of 500
pounds, but by the time it reaches the
engine it is reduced to 170 pounds. The
pressure, when applied in the steam
chest of the engine acts precisely as
steam and generates immediate and ex
traordinary power. The effect of this
execution upon the gas is to rob it of all
heat and reduce the temperature. Soon
after the engine gets at work the pipes
from the steam chest and a portion of
tho chest itself are coated with frost.
The exhaust gas posses through the coil
5n the tank, reduced from 60 degrees
aboveWro, in the full pipe, tp 80 degrees
below zero in the exhaust. Into the
tank of brine are immersed several gal
vanized iron moulds about 14x28 and
four inches thick, filled with pure water.
About ten hours suffices to freeze these
solid. ' The discovery means that power
can be produced from natural gas with
out steam, without a boiler, without
water power, without any assistance
whatever. Besides this is the use of the
cold gas for the manufacture of ice and
the fact that no gas is injured, burned
or wasted. It all passes into the main
retaining all its heating and illuminating
properties. The inventor is F. P. Skin
ner of Buffalo and he seems to have
struck a rich find.
A correspondent of the Moro News
Writing from Grass Valley, makes some
very unjust aspersions on the owners of
the Regulator because, in the list of
those invited to the trial trip,, there was
w marked 'jlaek of farmers." The
writer is perhaps not aware that the in
vitations to the trial trip were issued by
Hhe contractors, Paquet & Smith, to
Whom the boat belonged until after the
rip when, being accepted,' she was
turned over next day to the directors of
the new company. The directors had
no right to invite anybody and did not
invite anybody. While there did not
seem to be any cast iron rule about ' it,
those invited were chiefly' stockholders
and their families and the representa
tives of the press. They were in no
sense of the "upper ten;" but even if
they were the directors had no hand in
the invitation and should not be blamed.
If there was a lack of farmers at the ex
cursion it was only because there is a
lack of farmers among the stockholders.
The West Side says: "The encamp
ment of the Oregon National Guard
held in July at The Dalles only cost the
taxpayers of the State $32,000," and then
proceeds to deliver the usual homily on
legislative jobbery and official corrup
tion, etc. The truth is that the entire
expenses of the encampments at Eugene,
Portland and The Dalles was $32,000.
That at The Dalles cost for everything
about $9000. That $32,000 was no very
extravagant sum to spend on a state mi
litia might be inferred from the fact that
California spent this year, for the same
purpose, uo less than $150,000. It might
stop all kicking if the militia were dis
banded altogether, and when any trouble
arose requiring extra aid for its suppres
sion call Pinkerton and Sullivan's
thugs over from Washington, where
they seem not to 1k properly appre
ciated. The Astorian and its correspondents
are disenssing the question whether 1799
or 1800 was the lost year of the past cen
tury. The Astorian holds that 1800 was
' the last year and, of course, it is right.
The past century began January 1st
1801 ; its last dav will be December "3 1st
1900. "
BRIEF STATE NBWS,
The Seattle Telegraph complains of
Blaine's silence on silver. But is silence
not golden?
R. C. Templeton, a prominent citizen
of Pendleton his been adjudged, insane.
Templeton is only 23 years of age and
has a wife and six children. ,
The Wasco News urges the stock
holders of the grange store which was
destroyed in the fire of Sept. 2, to start
up again in the town or Wasco.
Harvest throughout" Polk county has
ended. The yield in some localities has
exceeded the average, in others it has
fallen short. Some of the threshing
crews nave made phenomenal runs.
That of James Elliet, of Dalles, threshed
4,546 bushels tff wheat and oats in one
day.
Four hundred and twenty-three sa
loons in Portland.one to every 190 people
or thereabouts. What an immense sum
must be squandered every year in that
city for drink ! . Prohibition is not a
practical think, but it might be well to
raise the license a notch or two. The
city would not suffer, either in remita
tion or fact, if the proportion of saloons
to tne population was decreased by half.
Mr. Jesse Howell died at his home in
Moro, Sherman county, last Wednesday
evening about 6 o'clock. He was sick
but a few days, the cause of his death
being inflamation of the stomach. Mr
Howell was 24 years of age, and leaves a
wife and one child and a sister, Mrs. W.
Barzee to mourn his departure. The
mortal remains of the departed were
l.iJ t -t J I UT Z.M. mi
w i cot in Liiw tteHju i-emewjry iiiurs-
day afternoon.
An altercation occurred last Tuesday,
at Harrisburg, between Mr. John Mills
'and Virgil Davis, resulting in the former
attacking the ' latter with a dangerous
weapon, just what with is not learned.
Mills was arrested and was to have been
given a preliminary examination this
afternoon. Deputy District Attorney
Wyatt went up on the noon train to
prosecute the case.
GENERAL . VERSONAL MENTION.
At an inquest at San Jose yesterday
on the remains of James Holman, shot
by Frank Adams, a sixteen-year-old boy,
a verdict was returned charging the lat
ter with murder. '
Charles Barhold, the secretary of a
labor union at Elizabeth, N. J., has
been arrested for issuing fraudulent cer
tificates of sickness, and drawing the
lienefits from the same.
L. Q. C. Lamar, a son of Justice La
mar, in a dispute with a man at Roa
noke yesterday, knocked his opponent
down and stamped on his face. Lamar
was arrested and acquited.
The motion for a now trial in the case
of Colonel H. C. King, held for the mur
der of David H. Posten in Memphis last
March, was overruled, and he was sen
tenced to hang November 6th.
Clarence T. Jenkins, a St. Louis book
keeper and a prominent church member,
was arrested yesterday for embezzling
$14,0CK) froni his employer. Speculation,
in mining stock caused his ruin. .
" Two eight-year-old lads named Craw
ford and Sheron have been arrested in
Liverpool, England, charged with
drowninz an eieht-vear-old companion.
They afterwards sold his clothes at a
pawn shon.
No new facts were' 'brought out in the
Hall murder trial case in San Francisco
yesterday. John McCarville, who was
to marry Ida Shaddock, the deceased,
testified as to a letter he had received
from her.
Susannah Annesley., who married
Samuel Wesley, and became the mother
of the famous John "Wesley, was twenty
third child to her father, twenty-fourth
to her mother, and she herself gave
birth to nineteen children,
Three men who held up a train on the
Georgia Central road. near Savannah,
Friday night, were, through the aid of a
woman, captured yesterday after a des
perate right in which two detectives were
reported killed. The robbers were exr
trainmen.
The Baisley-Jordan feud, which has
existed in Mercer county, Ky., for fifteen
years has again broken out. Three of the
Baisleys were prrested for the fatal
wounding of Derwood Jordan, but were
rescued by their relatives. The Jordans
have armed themselves and want re
venge. .
SOCIETIES.
ASSEMBLY NO. 4827, K. OF L. Meets in K.
of P. hall on first and third Sundnvs at 3
o'clock p. m.
w
ASCO LODGE, SO. 15, A. F. fc"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. -
ODERN WOODMEN OF THE WORLD.
1 ML Hood Camp No. 59, Meets Tuesday even
ing oi eucn weejt in i. u. J. r . nail, at 7 :ou p. m.
COLUMBIA HODGE, 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. Clobteb, N. G.
FRIENDSHIP LODGE, NO; 0., K. of P. Meets
everj' Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock, in
jchanno's building, comer of Court and Second
streets. Sojourning members are cordially in
vited. Geo. t. Thompson,
D. W. Vausb, Sec'y. C. C. .
VTCjrOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERENCE
T UNION will meet every Friday afternoon
'it 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.
Johk FllXOOJJ,
W.8 Myers, Financier. M. W.
THE CHURCHES.
OT. PETER'S CHURCH Rev. Father Rkonb-
O eBKST Pastor. Low Mass every Sundav at
7 a. if. High Mass at 10:30 a.m. Vespers at
i r. at.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH Union Street, opposite
Fifth. Rev. Eli D. Sutclifl'e Rector. Services
every sundav at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Stmduv
school 12:30 p. m. Evening Prayer on Friday at
A Horie'i Walk on disk Trestle.
A strange scene was witnessed recently
on the Northern Pacific trestle at the
water ' works. The trestle is about 600
feet long and 55 feet high. Under it ia
the Union Pacific roadbed. The ties are
about eight inches apart and are evenly
distributed the entire distance.' , - -4 .
At an early (hour,, the attention of a
dozen people was attracted - by a large
Borrel horse which had walked along the
trestle from the south and was unaware
of the danger ahead. He was unable to
turn around and had fully 500 feet yet
to travel. The spectators were struck
with awe, expecting every moment to
see the animal dashed to atoms by a f alL
Now fully mindful of his danger, it was
remarkable to note the instinct with
whiclr the animal stepped cautiously
from one tie to another.
He had just reached that part of the
trestle above the Union Pacific roadbed
when he became dazed and missed his
footing. His hind feet caught in the tie
and threw him, so that the rear portion
of his body overhung the framework of.
the immense bridge, while he held him
self by his fore feet. The scene was a
sickening one, and the spectators looked
every moment for the fatal fall. Sud
denly, with a powerful lunge, the animal
threw his body toward the trestle and
managed to regain his feet.
Again he started on his perilous walk,
and when within a few feet of ihe end of
the bridge fell again and was caught in
much the same manner. Martin Scully
started to the assistance of the animal
with a rope, but the horse was so close
to terra firma that he made an effort to
regain his feet and fell to the sloping
bank, just a short distance below. He
then rolled down the bank ' for about
twenty-five feet. His mouth and hoof
were badly bruised in the struggle,- but
otherwise he was uninjured. Olympic
(Wash.) Tribune.
A Postage Stamp Mnaeura.
At Vienna a postage stamp museum
lias been opened to the public. The
museum will be open to visitors daily
and gratuitously. In one room are shown
chronologically all stamps of which
specimens exist from 1840 ' to 1891.
Among the postal curiosities shown are
balloon letters, pigeon post and sub
marine post letters as they were sent
during the siege of Paris in 1870.
A collection of forged stamps is also
very interestin g to the collector. Among
'the curious objects shown are letters of
the Anthropophagi in the Dutch Indies,
pieces of wood covered with hiero
gtyphics, and postcards which have made
the tour of the world. For one of these
with a penny stamp, which took 119
days to return to its starting point, an
offer of 1,000 florins has been made.
There is also a case with a collection
of all the coins struck during the Em
peror Francis Joseph's reign. The finest
object in the collection is believed to be
a Dundee stamp, worth 500, and a Cape
of (rood Hope stamp valued at 100. The
exhibition comprises 3,000,000 stamps
and other objects connected: with the
post. London Queen.
Wore female Attire All His Life.
Many examples are known" of women
dressing as men, but until lately no case
has been known of a man going, about
disguised as a woman. A man named
Signol. seventy-two years old, employed
as a cook, was taken to the : hospital of
Saint Antoine, Paris, suffering from gas
tritis. ' Mistaken, on account of his
dress, for a woman, he was taken to the
ward reserved for members of the' weak
er sex. When they found ont the mis
take he was put into another ward.
The strangest thing about the whole
case is that Siguol says that he never
wore male attire excepting, on the day
he was examined by the conseil de re
vision in order to determine- whether he
was fit for military service. When he
was seventeen years old he went as a
servant girl to a farm in Lin-sur-Mer.
He remained there eleven years. He
learned to cook at Caen and went . to
Pari, where, he was employed as cook
for forty years either in private families
or in boys' schools. -Paris Letter. .
Uniform for Kinployea.
A Bristol storekeeper donned a white
duck coat, and was so pleased with the
effect that lie ordered all of his employes
to wear white duck coats during 'busi
ness hours. Rather than obey the order
two of the clerks quit work. Neverthe
less, uniforming goes on among store
girls, judges, l-ailroad hands, waiters
and indeed in almost every occupation
where it is desirable that the public
should recognize the employes. The
mistake of confusing a customer for a
clerk has led to rather embarrassing sit
uations in many. a store, and clerks who
object to being uniformed have the sat
isfaction of knowing that without their
uniforms they cannot be distinguished
from their employers. Philadelphia In
quirer. -
Real Hailstones.
During the hailstorm at Palmyra Fri
day some children at play "on a stoop
brushed up a large quantity of the hail
stones as they fell and pat them on a
plate to melt, but instead of -melting the
stones remained, and upon examination
it was found that all of the hail was
formed around white stones about the
size of peas, and in several there were
fine shells. Most of the stones were
transparent and of a blue wiiite color.
Several parties in various', parts of the
place report that they also obtained a
quantity of these stones and shells, and
they are all mystified to know where
they came from. Oswego (N. Y.) Palla
dium. '
Fell ia Love at Ninety-one.'
A farmer of WaynevMich., ninety-one
years old; and worth $30,000, lost his
wife four 3-ears ago.. Last spring he saw
on the street a pretty brunette twenty
two years old, became enamored, ob
tained an introduction and proposed. Shn
spurned him, when he offered to make
his will in her favor. This failed and
he offered to deed her all his property.
This also failing, he became crazy and
tried to hang himself. ' Then he was sent
to an insane asylum. He walks the halls
of the asylum moaning for his darling
Emma. Philadelphia Ledger.
Charles StnhTinor haa nnaniul ... u
saloon in the budding next door west of
the Germania saloon. tf
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rmportant Announcement !
VsO'lV ' - ' ,f::.
Ori and after this date our prices for
books used in the public schools will be
as follows :
First Reader 20
Second on
Third so
Fourth " .. ... '7n
Fifth 60
Complete Speller.. 0
Arithmetic No. 1 30
Arithmetic No. 2 60
.elementary lieography. 60
Comprehensive " .' 1 25
ours urammar go
mental Antnmetic 25
Barnes' Complete Lessons. ....... 60
Brief History of U. S 1 00
Barnes General History 1 60
Steele's Physiology and Hygiene! . 1 00
These prices are for cash with order.
Parties ordering by mail will add ten per
cent, to these prices for postage.
E. JllCOBSE'I HO.,
162 Second St.
The Dalles, Or., September 11, 1891.
A NEW
PRINZ & NITSCHKE.
DEALERS IN
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 onr 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,
STOKE FRONTS
And all iinds f Special work. . Ship
ments made daily from factory and can
fill orders in the shortest possible time.
Prices satisfactory.'
It will be to vonr in torpor, trt ma ,
before purchasing elsewhere.
Wm. Saundeirs,
Office over French's Bank.
W. E. GARRETSOH,
Leaffli Jeweler.
SOIB AGENT 'FOR TJIeS V
All Watch Work Warranted.
Jewelry Made to Order.
138 Second St-i The Ialle. Or. .
A. A. Brown,
Keeps a full assortment of s. ' i ;
Staple and Fancy Groeeres,
and Provisions'.' "J r
which he offer at Low Figures.
SPEGIflb. :-: PRICES
: to Cash. Buyers.
Reopened at
W l"nin St. First door north of the Court
House, The Dalles, Oregon. '
TO RENT.
A Union Street Lodging House. For
terms apply to , ,
' Geo. Williams,
Administrator of the estate of John
. Michelbaugh. dtf-9-2
FLOURING MILL TO LEASE.
THE OLD DALLES MILL AND WATER
Company's floor Mill will be leased to re
sponsible parties. For information apply to the
WATEE COMMISSIONERS,
The Dalles, Oregon.
undertaking Establishment !
hi 1 11 11 1 ii t "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 inn r
SUMMER GOODS
w J -.vNTOiiviwu nui YJK3 UUlU db
FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS.
Call Early and Get Some of Our Gen
uine Bargains.
Terms Oksh.
H. Herbring.
J. H. CROSS
-DEALER IN-
M, Grain, Feel aii F
HEADQUARTERS FOR POTATOES. '
Cash Paid for Eggs and Chickens. . AH Goods Delivered Free and Promptly
TERMS STRICTLY CHSH.
Cor. Second & Union Sts.,
ze:
The Dalles Mercantile Co.,
Successors to BROOKS & BEERS, Dealers in .
General Merchandise,
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
Gents' Furnishing Goods;
Groceries, -u 4,- ;
provisions,
HAY, GRAIN AND PRODUCE
Of all Kinds at Lowest Market Rates.
Free Delivery to Boat and
390 and 394
E. Jacobsen & Go.,
" ' WHOLESALE AND RETAIL , ...
ROOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS.
Pianos and Organs
Sold on EASY INSTALLMENTS.
Notions, Toys, Fancy
ments of
Alan Orders niloci
162 SECOND STREET, ! - .- -
Great Bargains !
Removal! Removal!
On account of Removal I will sell my
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 IK RETAIL.
125 Second Street,
;Ff?ETCH St CO.,
BANKERS.-
TRAN8ACT A GENERALBANKINU BUSINES-
Letters of Credit issued available in the
eastern to tales.
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 nil rmint.s on fv.
orable termn. i ,
REMOVAL.
H. G-lenn has removed his
office and the office of the
Electric1 Light Co.; to ;)72
Washington St.
IT.
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, etc.
Hard-ware,
Flour, Bacon,
Curs and all parts of tlie City.
Second Street
G-oods and Musical Instru
all Kinds.
romptly.
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THE DALX.ES, OREGON.
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The Dalles.
D. P. Thompson .1. s. Bchinck, H. H. Bsall.
n President. Vice-President,. Gaabiei
First national Bani
THE DALLES. .
OREGON
A General Banking Business transactea
Deposits received, subject to Sight
Draft or Check.
Collections made and proceeds prompt ly
remitted on day of collection.
Sight and Telegraphic Exchange sold on.
New York, San Francisco and Port
land. '
, DIRECTORS.
D. P. Thompson. " Jno. S. Schbnck.
T. W. Sparks. Geo. A. Libbk.
H. M. Be all. .
$20 REWARD:
WILL BE PAiu KOK ANY IN FORMATION
leading to the conviction of parties cutting
the ropes or in any way interfering with thi
wije paii or Umps of Th Euctbic Ljsht
Co- , . . , H. (iLXNJf,