The Dalles daily chronicle. (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, September 21, 1891, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextCO The Dalles Daily Chronicle. Published Daily, Sunday Excepted. THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO Corner Second and Washington Streets, Dal lea, Oregon. The Term a of Subscription. Per Year. Per month, by carrier Single copy .6 00 50 STATE OFFICIALS. Governoi S. Pennoyer Secretary of State -G. W. McBric ide Treasurer 8upL of Public Instruction en atom :. .Phillip Metschan . E. B. McElroy ij. n. uoipn J J. H. Mitchell Congressman B. Hermann State Printer Frank Baker COUNTY OFFICIALS. County Judge. C. N. Thornbury Clerk . . onenu . . . D. L Cates J. B. Crossen Geo. Such Treasurer Commissioners . iH' A. Leavens Frank Kincaid Assessor John E. Barnett Surveyor E. F. Sharp oupennienaent 01 ruouc Dcnoois. . . lToy neiie' Coroner... William Michel The Chronicle is the Only Paper in The Dalles that Receives the Associated Press Dispatches. TWO FACTS AND AN ARGUMENT. Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 23rd of Sep September, the boats of The Dalles, Portland and Astoria Navigation com pany will make through connection, for freights and passengers, with Portland The benefits that the new line will be to the traveling public were well illustrated today by two instances that came under the writer's notice. A gentleman ar nere Saturday, from Nebraska, by team, on his way across the mountains. Conferring with the Union Pacific offi cials he found that it would cost him $29 to get to Portland by the company's boats. After he had given up all notion of going by the river and had purchased feed for the overland trip, by the Bar low route, he accidentaly heard that the Regulator would make through connect Ion with Portland tomorrow. Enquir les as to cost of freight resulted in the discovery that the people's line would carry him and his freight to Portland for $14. Another gentleman, a farmer, well known in the county, wished to move his family, two span of horses, three cows, a wagon and miscellaneous household effects, to Portland. The U. P. schedule rates for the whole ship ment would have been $53.25. He goes by the Regulator for $29, and saves the neat nUle sum of $24.25. Here are two farmers ; one saves $15, and the other, $24.25, on one little shipment each. These are the arguments that go to prove that farmers ought to stand by the new line of boats and mark every man who doesn't. The Dispatch complains that the firm of Scott & Pittock is running both the Oregonian and the Telegram "a repub lican morning edition and a prepared democratic edition juBt to hold the field and make money for the rich owners and keep out competion." . Well, what if they are? In that case they are run ning the two best papers published in Portland. And even the Dispatch, dem ocratic as it is, cannot charge the Tele aram with not being as soundly demo cratic as itself. As to the three motives which are supposed to influence the coo-, -duct of Messrs. Scott & Pittock thfe de . -sire to hold the field and T&ake money and keep out competJlon) there is not a newspaper in. Portland nor anywhere seise, ot ever; excepting the Dispatch, 4hat lis no influenced in the same wav. "The Portland Dispatch exhorts all per sons "having at heart the business and material welfare of the country to refuse to enter into any agreement to pay only in gold coin," and denounces as guilty of treason the men who made -it legal for the money lender to stipulate that a debt shall be paid only in this metal. The Dispatch does not go far enough. ' It ought to show us how, we can compel the capitalist to lend his money when he does not want to. The question of whether or not Bin ger Hermann will allow his name to -be presented to the next congressional con vention as' a candidate for renomination is agitating the press of Oregon. Leba non Ervress. Not a bit of it. The agi tation is all in the minds of one o two gentlemen who would like to step into Binger's boots. The rest of Oregon has not been agitated for a second. And now since the people of Wasco and Sherman counties have gained their freedom through our assistance, we hope they will not fail to assist us in remov ing the barriers which stand in the way of an open river from the plains to the sea. East Oregonian. Niver fear, Mis ther Jackson. We'll shtay wid yes. It is expected that when the new sys tern of inspecting cattle for export has been thoroughly tested, American cattle will be allowed to enter BrlKeH "ports , after the ten days' quarantine now im posed. Uncle Jerry's success with Ger many over the hog question has only -whetted his appetite. - i.ne Sunday Welcome confidently as serts that owing to the "assininity" of the Union Pacific management, Tacoma and Seattle are better wheat markets, by nearly two cents a bushel, than Port land. Fire Committee's Report The Dalles, Or., Sept. 15, 1891. To G. J. Farley, Chairman -of Citizens Meeting and to the Citizens of - Dalles City: we, your committee appointed to in vestigate the origin of the several dia tressmg nres wmch nave recently oc curred in our city and to inquire into the many reports of attempted fires, which have been in circulation since the fires beg leave to report : vv e nave maae inquiries as to five re ported fires and two alleged attempts to set fires and find that the report that three separate fires have been set at the Catholic church is wholly without foun dation ; no attempts have been made, so far as we can learn, to burn the Catholic church or any building connected there with. The report that the house occu pied Dy j. ai. etnutn nad been set on fire is wholly untrue. We were informed that a fire had been set and extinguished under the China wash house just west of the Baldwin restaurant. Upon jnvesti gaiion we round tnat tnis report arose out of the attempt of some person who desired to rob the China house to induce the occupants of the building and that the person who warned them of the fire was, as they believe, endeavoring to get them out in order to pilfer. The report that combustible materials saturated with oil had been placed in a shed ad' joining the premises of M. T. Nolan, proved to be untrue. A small quantity of bark-chips and splinters with a small piece of cotton cloth was found piled on a grain sack in such a shed, appearing to be tne work of children. The was no oil about it and we do not believe they were the materials of an incendiary. The re port that the barn on the premises formerly occupied by Mr. Ben Snipes had been saturated with oil was without any foundation; upon examination of the premises we found no evidences of oil there. We have carefully inquired into the origin of all the four recent fires. We find that the fire of September 2d started either in the basement of F. W. L. Skibbe's house or under the house of J, XT T " im . . ... j.uere naa oeen no nres in either of these houses for 'some weeks, uu none in ine o&iDDe bouse since spring. The foundation of the Larsen house was so enclosed as to prevent as cess under the house. The basement to the Skibbe house was open and clear of all easily combustible matrin.lH- persons who discovered the fire and were first -in the Skibbe house believe that the fire originated in the basement of that house but detected no evidence of incendiary work other than that there was a fire. No odor of burning oil was detected in the smoke. The fire occurred just at a time whem many persons were most likely to lie about the building and there is nothing that indicates that this fire was the work of an incendiary. We are unable to ascertain what caused it. unless it was from matches dropped through carelessness or carried by rats or mice, bo far as we can learn there were no attempts made on the 2d to set fire, and believe that all the fires which occurred on that day came from the one fire in the Skfbbe or Larsen house. The fire which . occurred on the 5th inst. at the fair grounds, commenced in the first or second stable from the east side. These two stables were unoccupied .nd were not locked. They contained more or leps of straw and dry manure and when the fire started it burned slowly, there being about five minutes from the time it was first seen before it was of sufficient extent to attract par ticular attention, and even then i$ was not supposed that the stables were on fire. No strangers or suspicious persons were seen about the building during the day or evening and men who were con nected with the stables were about there till a very short time - before the fire. In our judgment the fire originated from a cigar or cigarette stub dropped by some one ' about the stables during the day or evening. We find that the fire in Mr. J. T. Pe ters.' stable commenced in the basement of the stable ; the mafn part of the barn was used as a store-house for boxing ma terials and a small amount of hay, and was kept securely locked ; no one had been in this portion of the building after three o'clock of the day of the fire, and the persons who were last known to have been there had no fire with them. The basement, which extended under only the north part of the barn, had been used as a stable and contained more or less straw and dry tu&nnre and a consid erable amount of sawdust. For the past few months it had not been locked and was accessible to anyone desiring to en ter. The portion of the town where it is situated, we find, is a rendezvous for tramps and Indians, and the testimony shows that such persons were frequently seen about this stable. During the day of the fire there were many strangers in the city .particularly in that portion of it. The fire was not disdovered until well under headway ; and those first there discovered no evidence that the fire had been intentionally set. There is no evi dence that any person would have any motive for burning the building. The testimony as to the fire in the rear of the Michelbach block is very eon flicting.' Some of the witnesses who claim to have seen the fire before the alarm was sounded locate the fire wholly in the upper portion of the closet, while others declare that it was wholly con fined to the lower part. A lamp was kept burning every night in the upper closet and the fire may have been caused possibly by the explosion of this lamn The fact that the timbers in the lower lower portion of the closet were more nearly burned off than they were above indicates that the fire . originated below and near the ground. There are many circumstances connected with this fire tending to show that it was of incendiary origin. We suggest that these circum stances be further and carefully investi gated by someone skilled in detective work. Had any of the first three fires oc curred at another time we believe there would have been no serious suspicion that they were of incendiarv oricrin : we can find no motive for the setting of them, rne city has been well guarded, and the great anxiety and alarm of the citizens, while natural under the circum stances, we think was unnecessary and was occasioned largely by the many lalse reports of nres and attempted fires. More care in ascertaining the correctness or incorrectness oi such reports would have allayed the public uneasiness and apprehension. Respectfully submitted. ,.xs. b. Huntington, Geo. Watkin?; .' Thos. - SLak'q It's an ill wind that blows nobodv good, and this time it's the -carpenters who got the ;. persimmon. Several months ago, when trade in TheV Dalles was rather dull, two carpenters, part ners in business, came from that city to Fossil. They soon got contracts here sufficient to keep them employed for months. One partner, J. W. Elton, re turned to The Dalles to dispose of his property there and bring his family to fossil, the other, W. P. Mounts, re mained here until last week, when he received a letter from Elton informing him that he was unable to take half the building contracts he could get in The Dalles, that he had six men at work, and requesting mounts to come right a wav Accordingly Mr. Mounts procured anomer carpenter to nmsn tne job on which he was at work, and left for The Dalles Sunday. If The Dalles keeps up her lick the fire of '91 will a few vears hence be remembered only as an un pleasant aream. f ossil Journal. The state fair which closed last Satur-. day afternoon is said to have' been the most successful fair ever held in Oregon. SOCIETIES. ASSEMBLY NO. 4827, K. OF L. Meets In K.' Of P. hall on first aval third ftiinriam at a o'clock p.- m. . . -j WASCO LODGE, NO. 15, A. F. it A." St. Meets first and third Monday of each month at 7 r. ar. r DALLKS KOYAL ARCH CHAPTER KO. fc Meets in Masonic Hall the tbirff Wednesday f each month at 7 P. M. ' i v : MODERN WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. Mt. Hood CamnKn-.TO.Mfmtll'Pneuiavaron- lagof each week in LO. O. F. Hall, a7:30 r. m. COLUMBIA LODGE, TfO.S, I. O. Oi K-Meeta every FTidav evening at 7 -an n'plock In Orfrf Fellows ball, Second street, between Federal and Washington. Sojourning brothers are welcome. H. A. Bills, Bec'y R. O. Clostbk, N. G. FRIENDSHIP LODGE, NO. 9., K. of P. Meets every Monday evening at 7:S0 o'elock. in Schanno's building, corner of Court and Second streets. Sojourning members are 'cordially in vited. Geo. X. Thompson. D. W. Vatbe, Sec'y. C. C. w OMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPEETCNCP. V UNION will meet everr Fridav afteminnn at S o'clock at the reading room. All are invited. rpEMPLE LODGE NO. 8, A. O. U. W. Meets X at K. of P. Hall, Corner Second and Court Streets, Thursday evenings at 7 :30. JOHN ZTbLOOH,' W. 8 Myers, Financier. M. W.. THE CHUBCHKS. ST. PETER'S CHURCH Rev. Father Broks gbest Pastor. Low Mass every Sunday at 7 A. m. High Mass at 10:30 a.m. Vespers at 7 r. M. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH Union Street, opposite Fifth. Rev. Eli D. Sutelifie Rector. Bervicea every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7;30 P. M. Sunday School 12:30 T. X. Evening Prayer on Friday at 7:80 D. P. Tbokfbox' J. B. Schekck. H. M. Beau, Vice-President. Cashier President. First national Bank". THE DALLES. - - OREGON A General Banking Business transacted Jjeposits received, subject to eignt ' Draft or Cheek. '- Collections made and proceeds promptly xeuunea on aay oi couecuua.. , -Sight and Telegraphic Exchange sold on New York, San Francisco and Port land. ' DIREOTORS. D. P. Thompson'. Jho. S. Schxmcz. T. W. Spabks. Geo. A. Lisas. HvM. Bsall. FRENCH & cb BANKERS. v TRANSACT A GENE HAL BANKING B0BIKB83 Letters of Credit issued available in the Eastern States. Sight Exchange and Telezranhie Transfers sold on New York, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Portland Oregon, eeatue wasn., and various points in Or egon rad Washington. ., Collections made at all points on orable terms. . , The Old Germania Saloon. JOHN DONAVOH, Proprietor. The best quality of Wines, liquors and . Cigars, Pabst Milwaukee Knicker bocker and Columbia Beer, Half and Half and all kinds of . Temperance Drinks. ALWAYS ON HAND. nhioa ctw: i - , mvuvuuk uu opened up ms saloon in the building next door west of the Germania saloon. tf Important Annonceient ! On and after this date our nrices for books used in the public schools will be as follows : First Reader. $ 20 Second " . . '. 30 Third " " Fourth " 0 Fifth " 90 Complete Speller 20 Arithmetic No. I 30 Arithmetic No. 2 60 Elementary Geography......!!!!! 60 Comprehensive . " 1 25 Sill's Grammar '. 60 Mental Arithmetic ' . . . 25 Barnes' Complete Lessons ...!!! 60 Brief History of XT. S 1 00 BarneB 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. UflKEII S CO.. 162 Second St. The Dalles, Or., September. 11, 1891. A NEW PRINZ & NITSCHKE. DEALERS IN Furniture and Carpets. 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. Haieriais ! 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 dailv from factory and can fill orders in the shortest possible time. inces satisfactory. It will be to vour interest tn uv ma before pnrchasingelsewbere. Wrr, Saunders, Office over French's Bank. W E. GARRETSOH, Leading - Jeweler. SOX.K AGENT POR THE All Watch Work Warranted. Jewelry Made' to Order. lS&'ffocoad St., Tl Dalles, Or. A; A. Brown, - - Keeps a full assortmeht oi . . . and Provisions. which he offer at Low Fig-urea. SPEGIAIi :-: PRIGES r ;s to Cash Buyers. Reopened at 10B Union St.. first door north of th Court House, The Dalles, Oregon. TO RENT. ' A Union Street" Lodging House. ' For terms apply to- Gko. Williams, Administrator ' of the estate of John . HIchelbaagh. ' v dtf-9-2 FLOURING MILL TO LEASE. rTHB OLD DALLES MILL AKD WATER X Comuanr'a Flour Mill will be leaaed to ra. poaaibla parties. For information apply to the : . WAT tt COMMISSIONERS, The Dalles, Orscoa. Undertaking Est Stap leaad Fancy Groccrcs SUMMER GOODS Of Every Description wm be Sold at 1 -BBE0T FOR THE NEXT Call Early and Get Some of Our Gen- uine Bargains. Terms Chsh. "4 . ' H. Herbringv J. H. CROSS -DEALER nsr- Hay, Grain, HEADQUARTERS FOR POTATOES. Cash Paid for Eggs and Chickens. . All Goods Delivered Free and Pnpily TERMS STRICTLY CHSH. Cor. Second & Union Sts., The Dalles Mercantile Co., Successors to BROOKS & 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 Hates. Free Delivery to Boat and SSO and 394- E. Jacobsen & Co., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ROOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS, Pianos and Organs Sold on EASY INSTALLMENTS. Notions, - Toys, Fancy G-oods and Musical Instru ments of all Kinds. 162 SECOND STKEET, Great Bargains ! Removal ! Removal ! On account of .Removall will sell my entire stoclc of Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps. Trunks ing, Counters; .: Desk, Safe, FHxtutres, at a. Great Bargain. Come and see my offer. GREAT REDUCTION IN RETAIL. J. FRE'IMHN 125 Seeond Street, HUGH CSBI8MAN. CHRISTMAN & CORSON Successors to GEO. BUCH,- Keep on Hand a Complete Stock of -' Groceries, Hour, Grain, Highest Cash Price Corner of Washington and Second-St. $20 REWARD. WILL BE PAii XK AJTY IXFOKMATIO leading to tht eonrlotioc of parties ratting the ropes or in any way interferine; with the wire soles or laasaa of Tua Kvbctkic Lisbs Oe. H. UUiN, up THIRTY DAYS. Curs and all parts of the City. Second Street Feel it XnUed omptly. - THE pAIX.ES, OREGON. and Valises, Shelv v - - The Dalies. W. K. CORSON. Fruit ana pi ' M Paid for Produce. The Dalles, Or. removal: H. Glenn has lemoved Ms office and the office of the Electric Light Co. to 73 Washington Si.