The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
Published Inily, Sunday Excepted,'
BY
THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO.
Comer Second and Vashinffte' Streets, The
Dalles, Oregon.
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STATE OFFICIALS.
Governor S. I'ennoyer
Secretary of State : G. W. McBridc
Treasurer Phillip Metchaii
Sunt, of Public Instruction E. B. McElroy
' N. Dolph
enutom jj H MiWu
'Jonjrrcnnmnn li. Hermann
Stute Printer Frank Baker
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge C. K. Thornbnry
Sberitr U. L Cates
Clerk J. M. Crossen
Treusurer Geo. Kuch
Commissioners j iSm
Assessor . . ... .John E. Bamett
Hurvevor 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.
A N EX PL A NA TWN.
A short time after the tire a promi
nent insurance agent of this city placed
a risk in a San Francisco company for
which he is agent and was surprised
shortly after to receive notice that the
policy must be cancelled. Writing to
headquarters for information as to the
cause of this action, he received the fol
lowing reply : "For several days after
the big fire there were telegraphic re
ports in the San Francisco papers, sent
from The Dalles, asserting that there
was an evident concerted plan on the
part of unknown incendiaries to burn
the balance of the city. Coining as
thec-edid right from your towV, you can
easily understand what led to the can
cellation of the policy. Thus we have
another illustration of the truth that a
newspaer or correspondent who never
ln'iHses an opportunity of giving his own
city a black eye can do more to pull a
town down than ten good papers can ef
fect in an effort to build it up. The
committee selected by the mayor to in
vestigate the origin of the var.ious' fires
have, as our readers may remember,
given in an elaborate report, the fruit of
much patient labor, and they were not
able to trace any one of the four fires to
incendiarism. And this opinion the
whole city, with few exceptions, fully
endorses. .
A THOUGHTFUL SUGGESTION.
Now that Mr. Farley hift signified his
intention of resigning the superintend
ency of the portage road, on or before
Nov. 1st. it is in order for Mr. T-fnrh
Oourlay to present his name for the va
cant position. He should Dresent a
petition for signatures ; for petitions are
wonderful things both as regards unan
imous expression, and the manner of
manipulating the names on them bv ex
perts. Times-Mountaineer.
Good ! Xow will Mr. Michell, please
draw up that petition and sign his name
to it. It will be as certain of success as
was Iiis request of the Oregon delegation
to get a job in the land office or his elec
tion contest for water commissioner for
Dalles city, or his petition to the Oregon
legislature to be appointed railroad com
missioner. But no. Come to think of
it, Farley won't resign. The board
-would not accept his resignation, bo
-we'll continue in the business of making
the best paper in Eastern Oregon till a
better job turns up.
The farmer is the most important man
on the American continent today. If
'one is to believe the platforms of either
of the two great parties all legislation is
aimed for his benefit. Democrats . are
'screeching themselves hoarse in the en
deavor to prove that a protective tariff
Ss the farmers curse while republicans
tare scarcely less zealous in the effort to
"convince him that protection is the pan
acea for all his ills. All the arts of
demagogy are resorted to catch the
farmer's vote, for after all, that is the
most important thing that all parties
are looking after. Meanwhile the farmer
is doing a heap of solid thinking on his
own account and the old parties would
give barrels of money to know just
what he is going to do.
The stories of the great distress and
suffering in Russia, for lack of bread,
may be all very true, and it is quite
likely that they are, but the Press dis
patches grow so pathetic while relating
them and they come eo frequently" and
with such affecting detail that one can
scarcely avoid the suspicion that some
gigantic scheme is being hatched for the
purpose of "bulling" the grain market.
, Whether this suspicion should be well
founded or not it remains true, and past
experience proves it, that the grain gam
blers are, up to anytning so they may
skin one another. N
The world's fair will have to manage
to get along without the official patron
age of the Italian government. The an
nouncement is made that "In pursuance
of a principle long adopted the Italian
government declines to officially partic
ipate in any international exhibition."
- A private'letter receiued this morning
from Major G. W. Ingalls commences
thus: "Hurrah!" Wasco county gels
' first 'firpuiinnoV 'fruits over all others
, 9 yaVtfto.iWh.west.'-,;i..The major
had entered all the fruits he had re
ceived from this county as a "County Ex
hibit
Th inrWs rhosn were "three
of the oldest and most experienced k
j ,, ;
wholesale fru't dealers in Portland,"
and the result was as stated above. This
is no surprise to any old eettler here.
We knew we could lick creation on
fruits. Now other folks are beginning
to see it too.
BRIEF STATE NEWS.
Mr. Moorehead, of Eugene, will begin
the publication of the Weekly Time at
Junction next week.
The town of Susanville, Grant connty,
was named after Susan Moffatt, daugh
ter of the keeper of the hotel at that
place in early days.
Two horses afflicted with the glanders
have been discovered at Salem, and the
Domestic Animal commission of the
state has ordered the county stock in
spector to kill them.
It is said the river bottom some two
or three miles below Pendleton is alive
with rattlesnakes, of which there are
more than have been seen for years.
Mrs. Hill lost the best horse on her
place recently from a rattlesnake bite.
John Blanche!, a rancher in the Nye
neighborhood, Umatilla county, savs
that crops of all kinds have been better
than for six years in that section.
Wheat is making twenty-five and barley
thirty-five bushels to the acre, and hay
about one and a half tons to the acre.
The laige band of sheep brought up in
Douglas county last spring by the Han
ley Bros., of Jackson county, have been
driven as .far south as Marysville, Cal.,
where they are being disposed of at good
prices. They started 10,500 head, were
four. months" on the road, and reached
their destination with 9400 sheep.
Athena is somewhat excited over a
personal encounter between two women
of that place. One, Mrs. H. Mortimer,
visited the house of the other, Mrs.
Fisher, and the two engaged in a lively
combat. They were separated by a
fruit peddler who passed that way.
Mrs. Mortimer has been arrested on
Mrs. Fisher's complaint.
An occasional case of land-jumping is
now heard of, incident to the forfeiture
of railroad land. Mr. McCormick, a
well-known farmer living north of Pen
dleton, woke up the other morning to
find a jumper's cabin on one of his rail
road quarters. It had evidently been
all put together and hauled ont there
during the night.
A new variety or wheat known as the
new golden is attracting considerable at
tention among wheat growers. It is a
product coming originally from the' de
partment of agriculture, and produced
in Oregon for the first time in any quan
tity the present season. The yield sur
passes that of little club under "like con
ditions, while it is apparently less af
fected by dry weather than any other
variety heretofore sown this season.
Last week, Howard & Baldwin,-of
Crook county, delivered a large band of
beef cattle at Deschutes bridge, f or ship
ment to the Portland market. The av
erage weight of their three, four, and
five-year-old steers was 1342 pounds, i
which is the test average any band of
cattle from this part of the country has
shown this season. One steer -weighed
1870 pounds and another 1920 Bounds.
When such cattle as these can be raised
in Crook county, says the Ochoco Review,
it is folly to say the range is exhausted.
The government locks at the Cascades
are going up at the rate of a foot and a
half per day. The lower gate will be
completed by the middle of next month.
Heretofore the work has been slow, as it
was all under water, but now thev can
hurry it. The south gate is completed
and the north one ia up probably a third
of the way twenty feet. The building
of these great locks is a magnificent
piece of work, which, when completed,
will stand as a monument to the engin
eering skill of this age. The gates, when
hung, will be the largest lock gates in
the world, being 93x40 feet and weighing
130 tons. They are of steel and are to
swing upon giant hinges.
GENERAL PERSONAL, MENTION. '
Fred May, who once enjoyed an unen
viable and unsavory notoriety in New
York, was a prominet figure in the in
surgent army in Chilu
The suicide of Balmaceda took place
on the very morning after the expiration
of his term of office, which legally ended
last Friday, although he was practically
deposed by his defeat at Placilla.
Budyard Kipling's works have been
translated into Swedish, and the young
author is rapidly translating Swedish
money into hia banking account, a sure
sign that the Swedes appreciate his
works. -
George Francis Train's new series of
lectures are a triumphant failure. No
one can listen to the eloquent tramp
without coming away wonderfully im
pressed with the elegenceof thelectnrer's
clothing.
W. D. Wyncoop, a mining expert of
Denver, is about to proceed to Africa to
look for the famous King Solomon's
mines for an English syndicate. Per
haps the best part of them exists in a
book that Rider IJuggard wrote.
Judge Pruden of Ohio, who has been
making n extended ; tour of Alaska,
says he thinks the natives of that land
are of Chinese or Japanese rather than
of Indian descent. They have many of
the pronounced mental characteristics
of the Mongolian race, while they bear
absolutely no resemblance to the typical
western Indian. i : '
Mrs. Brown Potter seems to, have had
some pleasant expediences in trie course
of her professional travels. "The Nizatn.
of Hydrabad.'she says, gave a fete in her
honor, and she a so stated: to hifve re
ceived as presents from the Mikado the
real one not Gilbert and Sullivan's)
four dwarf trees-two oaks and two pines
"S" """" "re ur !
centuries apiece.
The Princess Bismarck is a hvpochon
dnac, though not of the first water, be
cause she never drinks any, preferring
champagne, which she telieves is the
one medicine that keeps her alive. She
is tall, angular and parsimonious, and is
always nervous about her failing health.
Though tile late General Pickens of
South Carolina was the youngest Con
federate colonel, the youngest Union
soldier to attain that rank, it is stated,
was Colonel "Billy" Hobson of the 13th
Kentucky infantry, who was promoted
from major to colonel immediately after
the battle of Sbiloh. He was then under
22, and at the close of the war he was a
full brigadier, though then only 26.
General Pickens was. 25 when he was
made colonel of an Alabama regiment.
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The Queer End of a Snake Fight.
One of the most exciting contests ever
witnessed occurred at the depot of the
Georgia Midland railroad.
The contest was between Ernest Low
er's pet king snake and a little green
snake known as a "garter." The snakes
were about of equal size and length, and
it was hard to tell for half an hour who
would prove the victor in the contest.
After racing around the cage for some
time the king snake caught the green
one about six inches from the head, slip
ping himself around his adversary and
getting hia. mouth closer and closer to
its head. The green snake the while
kept its mouth wide open as if in an ef
fort to get its head too large to go into
the king snake's mouth and thereby
euort proveu lutue, ror soon the head
and about six inches of the green snake
were in the stomach of the king. At
this point of the game another and more
stubborn contest took place.
In the cage are two wires one run
ning perpendicular and the other hori
zontal. Twisting itself around the per
pendicular wire, the green snake tied
itself into various hard knots. Mounting .
the horizontal bar, or wire, the king be- j
gan the work of unfastening the coils of ;
the other by continued pulling and swal- j
lowing.
When the feat was accomplished, with
the exception of about a half foot of the
tail, it looked like the king snake would
be defeated, but with some maneuvering
the tail was untied, and the job of swal
lowing was completed.
After finishing the task the king snake
looked wonderfully pleased, and raced
around eying the spectators for some
minutes. Cor. Atlanta Constitution. ' ' -
A Queer Hallucination.
There is a very good story, which has
the somewhat unusual merit of truth,
which has been told again and again in
the dispensary, as illustrating the power
of imagination. A lady, who was other
wise quite rational, was troubled with a
horrible feeling that a snake was gnaw
ing away her vitals, as she explained it.
Efforts were made to convince her of her
error, but without avail, and. it. was".
rfinally decided to humor her out. . ,of "he
trouble. A small snake was secured, and
one day she was. told the necessary oper
ation would be gone through to relieve
her of her trouble. Chloroform was ad
ministered and . when she revived a
scratch made while she was asleep was
carefully bandaged up, and the- snake
was exhibited as evidence of 'the-superiority
of ' her diagnosis over that of the
physicians. Her joy was painful to wit
ness, and she w.ent away thoroughly
cured. Interview in St. Loins Globe
Democrat. Murder In the Air. t
As a Sixth avenue elevated train ap
proached the Eighteenth street up station
the other afternoon a series of feminine
yells broke upon the ears of the passen
gers. With others 1 rushed to . the windows
overlooking the east side of the street:
A crowd was fast gathering on the side
walk. When tbe train stopped at the
station a number of passengers got out
to learn who "was being murt'-ered."
As I reached the spot the crowd was
gazing intently at a dentist's sign.- Just
then the yells ceased, and a man came
out of the doorway with this announce
ment, "She's only having her tooth
pulled." New York Herald.
How to Clean a Plaster Cast.
A correspondent of a leading scientific
journal says that a bust or statue can be
most thoroughly cleaned, provided it has
not been painted, oiled or waxed, by in
verting it and filling it with water free
from iron. The water is then allowed
to filter through the plaster. After the
filtering has been kept up for a sufficient
time and the outside surface occasion
ally washed with water and a soft brush,
the plaster is allowed to dry. It is then
found that all the dust has been -wiped
out of the pores of the cast, which, is
thus restored to its original whiteness. .
California's Lack of Bong Birds.
In the autumn the society organized
for colonizing foreign song birds in this
state will commission a practical dealer
to select and purchase as many song
birds in Europe as the money at his com
mand will permit. The money is being
secured by contributions, and is being
paid in gradually. The absence of song
birds lb California is a misfortune. The
presence ' of song birds in California
would be an everlasting enjoyment.
Golden Gate park should be alive and
merry with them. They would be an
attraction there as beautiful as the many
hued flowers, the graceful trees and tbe
smiling landscape. San Francisco Poet.
. An Old Venetian Ship Launching.
Admiral Canevaro, commander of the
Venice arsenal, has arranged that in
stead of the Sicilia being baptized in the
usual way, by having a bottle of cham
pagne broken on its bows, the ancient
custom of the Venetian republic shall be
revived. That is, that a gilt ring shall
be attached to the vessel's prow in such
a way by the godmother that when the
ship is .launched the ring shall be the
tirst thing to touch the" water, this fnl
iuling the 'wedding of the sea." Lon-
d.JNeWB-j;-
A NEW
tUndertakinff Establishment!
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 our place on Second street:
next to Moody's bank.
Building Jilaterials !
Having made arrangements with a
number of Factories, I am pre
pared to furnish
Doors, Windows,
STORE FRONTS
And all kinds of Special work. Ship
ments made daily from factory and can
fill orders in the shortest possible time.
Prices satisfactory.
It will be to your interest to see me
before purchasing elsewhere.
Wm. Saundeps,
Office over French's Bank.
W. E. GARRETSON.
Mm Jeweler
Xssv
SOIE AGENT FOlt THE
All Watch Work Warranted.
Jewelry Made to Order.
138 Second St., The Dalles. Or.
FLOURING MILL TO LEASE.
rpHE OLD DALLES MILL AND WATER
X Company's Hour Mill will be leased to re
sponsible parties. For information apply to the
WATER COMMISSIONERS,
The Dalles, Oregon.
D.' P. Thompson'
President.
. S. Schenck, H. M. Beam.,
Vice-President. Cashiei
First national Bant
THE DALLES, -
- OREGON
A General Banking Business transacted
Deposits received, subject to Sight
. Draft or Check.
Collections made and proceeds promptly
remitted on day of collection.
Sight and Telegraphic Exchange sold on
New York, San Francisco and Port
land. DIRECTORS.
P. Thompson.
W. Spabks.
H. M
JNO. S. SCHBXCK.
Geo. A. Ljerk.
Bkall.
TO RENT.
A Union Street Lodging House. For
terms apply to
' Geo. Williams,
Administrator - of the estate of John
Michelbaugb. dtf-9-2 "
Still on Deek.
Phoenix Like has Arien
From the Ashes!
JAMES WHITE,
The Reptauranteur Has Opened the
Baldwin'.!' - Restaurant
. , ON MAIN STREET
Where he will be glad to see any and all
" ' "f . of bis old patrons.
Ojen'd&v and Night.' First class meals
: twentv-five cents.
iiouldirigs.
SUMMER GOODS
Of Every Description will "be Sold at
FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS.
Call Early and Get Some of Our Gen
uine Bargains.
J. H. CROSS
-DEALER IN-
Hay, Grain, Fcei al Flour.
HEADQUARTERS FOR POTATOES.
Cash Paid fop Eggs and Chickens. All Goods Delivered Free and Promptly
STRICTLY CHSH.
Cor. Second & Union Sts.,
THE DALLES,
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, Hardware,
Provisions, . Flour, Bacon,
HAY, GRAIN AND PRODUCE
Of all Kinds at Lowest Market Rates.
Free Delivery to Boat and
390 and 394
E. Jacobsen & Co.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAJL
R00KSELLERS AND STATIONERS.
Pianos and Organs
Sold on EASY INSTALLMENTS.
Notions, Toys, Fancy Goods and Musical Instru
ments of all Kinds.
Mail Order OEMXXexi Promptly.
162 SECOND STREET,
Great Bargains !
Removal ! Removal I
On account of Removal I will sell my
entire stock of Boots and. Shoes, Hats
and Caps, Trunks and Valises, Shelv
ings, Counters, DeskSafe, Fixtures,
at a Great Bargain. Come and see
my offer.
GREAT REDUCTION IN RETAIL.
125 Second Street,
HUGU CHRISMAN.
CHRISMAN & CORSON
"Successora to GEO. RUCH,
Keep on Hand a Complete Stock of
Groceries, Horn, Grain, Fruit anil mill Fell
- Highest Cash Trice Paid for Produce.
Corner of Washington and Second-St. - The Dalles, 0r.
c5
Successors to A. BETTINGER, Jobbers mid Retailers in
Hariiare, Tinware, Wooflenware
Heating and Cookstoves, Pumps, Pipes, Plumhers and Steam
.Fitters Supplies. Carpenters', and Blacksmiths' awl
;v' Farmers Tools, ; and ' Shelf Hardware.
.All Tinning, Plumbing and Pipe Work will be done on 'Short Jfotic.
" .: '.' ' 84-nt HtThe l)nrt, r.
H. Herbring.
Curs and all parts of the City.
Second Street
THE DALLES, OREGON.
The Dalles.
W. K. CORHW.
BEN-TON,
anJ Graniteware,
Ilnve Compute
Stock of
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