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STATE OFFICIALS.
iovernoi S. Pennoyer
Secretary of State G.XV. McBrlde
Treasurer Phillip Metschsn
Snpt. of Public Instruction .... E. B. McElroy
enators 1 J. N. Dolph
enators jj H Mitchell
Congressman B. Hermann
8Ute Printer. . Frank Baker
COUNTY OFFICIALS. '
County Judge. ...C. N. Thornbnry
8heriff.... D. L. Cates
Clerk : J. B. Crossen
Treasurer .. . . Geo. Such
Commissioners. .
( H' A. Leavens
) Frank Kincuirt
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.'
A HARMLESS VOTE.
When the Chronicle first learned
that Mr. Bogue was appointed to advise
the Portland chamber of commerce as to
the best ronte for a portage railroad
around the Dalles wo antipated nothing
different from what has happened. . The
simple fact that all Mr. Bogue's reputed
interests lie in another direction ren
dered him about as fit to pass an impar
tial judgment on an effective measure
for opening the Columbia river as Jay
Jould himself. We have no desire to
impeach the honesty of a gentleman we
have never seen, but can anyone blame
us for expecting no good advice in regard
to a measure that would eeriously affect
the interests of the Union Pacific when
we learned that report had it that the
company furnished the adviser with a
special car for the trip to The Dalles?
The report of Mr. Bogue dismisses the
lino on the south side as unworthy of
serious consideration, alleging that for
much of the distance it would be within
the "limits of the Union Pacific road,
and at several points would practically
parallel that line." And what if it
should? Admitting that the Union Pa
cific have been granted a right of way
200 feet broad does it follow that they
tjonld not be compelled to surrender as
much as . would be : needed ' to . build
another road when it could be proved
that the part needed is going to be put
to a greater public benefit than the
t Union Pacific is going to put it to? Be
eides the same objection applies with
. equal if not greater fdrce to the line
recommended by Mr. Bogue The Paul
Mohr company owns the right of way
over the whole nine miles from the big
eddy to a point opposite Celilcr, and a
portage built there would necessarily
occupy, according to Mr. Bogue himself,
at least half the distance of this right of
way. Honors are therefore easy no mat
ter which of these two lines should be
adopted, while the Paul Mohr company,
anxious to sell its elephant to the cham
ber of commerce says, "You have got to
aDppt our proposition or face a lawsuit
for nqght of way." ' Then as to the cost
- of the several lines. Leaving out the
i am jionr line ana that surveyed by
(Lieut. Norton, Mr. Bogue estimates the
line from Big Eddy to a. point opposite
Celilo .at 347,000, and the lino on the
-Oregon ide from a point below- Three
Mile rapide to Celilo at $400,000, or $53,
000niore. The majority report referring
vi the estimated cost of the road on the
Washington side says, "This estimate is
made on a basis of $18,000 per mile, cost
of construction, while the sa-r.e engineer
for a piece of road on the Oregon side,
which, we are informed, ia not much if
any more difficult of construction, esli
' utiles the cost at $25,000. pgr mile." This
as a curious admission ; very. - Why
should a road on the Oregon" side, 'not
more difficult of construction" than on
the "Washington s'de, be estimated at
47,000 a mile more? If the one on this
side is no more difficult of construction
- than the other, let the estimate be the
same and this would reduce the Oregon
road to 1323,000, or $24,000 cheaper than
any of the four proposed routes, and yet
the chamber of cummerce voted an ap
proval of the Paul Mohr scheme that is
estimated to cost $640,000 and be built
in Washington largely by Oregon"money
After all, however, a vote is a harmless
tiling and this particular vote especially
o. Portland capitalists are still too
much interested in the Union Pacific to
be very anxious for a formidable oppo
sition. Portland would like an open
river, that is, if somebody else would put
up tne money to open it. The only hope
the Chronicle sees s head is in the next
legislature. Let Kasteftj Oregon make
the question of an appropriation the
.burning question of the next campaign
without respect to party, anil' we'll get
it, for all the rest of Oregon will help ns. J
What grave issues . meet us at every
. turnor practical life! They had an .
election the other day in Roseburg, and i
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granting the. female bovine an unre
stricted bill of rights were triumphant.
.. Geoage William Curtis, editor of Har
per's "Weekly, has announced his deter
mination to support ; the republican
ticket in New York this fall. Mr. Curtis
had been a prominent and influential
republican up till the year 1884 when
Blaine was nominated for the presi
dency. He was even a member of -the
convention in which Blaine ' was nomi
nated, but he refused to support Blaine
and became' a leader among the faction
known as mugwumps. ; Mr. Cuftia sup
ported Cleveland . again the second" time
in 1888 as against Harrison , and would
probably do so again. ' He refuses,' how
ever, to support the present New York
state ticket and is again fighting, prac
tically); in the republican ranks. :: Mr.
Curtis is not a politician and be bears a
high reputation for honesty of intention,
but for these, reasons men of his caliber
will never be popular among machine
potiticians. ..
Here is what the Telegram has to say
about The Dalles portage road report
made to the Portland Chamber of Com
merce last Monday evening : .'. They have
listened to. Paul Mohr and Lair Hill,
who have personal and corporate inter
ests to subserve, but they seem to have
paid very little .attention to one of the
routes on the Oregon side. Even if they
had agreed as to one of the proposed
routes on the Washington side, , the re
port as to that might have'beeu received
as having some weight, and merit, but
when, after all the. investigation, they
totally disagree, it does look, as if the
chamber of commerce, . along with the
United States senators and the govern
ment engineers, are
they can do. to serve the Union Pacific
Kauroad company
what the farmers can accomplish
when they become solidly united for
tueir own protection and benefit was
well illustrated a short time ago at Kor-
den, a town on the Northern Pacific
railroad. The Farmers' Alliance had
built a warehouse in opposition to the
Northern Pacific Elevator company, but
tne raiiroaa company retused to Jay a
side track to . the building. Then the
farmers promptly refused to sell the ele
vator company a pound of their wheat at
any price, and the side track was laid at
once, v
GENERAL. NEWS.
In many sections of this state artesian
wells are being sunk. In most every in
stance the effort h as .been successful .
With ptenty of artesion "water, the main
and only fault that Washington has, or
ever, had, will have been removed.
Waxixburg limes.
Massachusetts, with its puritanical
ideas, is confronted with the fact that
crime is on the increase throughout the
state. Daring the period in which her
population has trebled the number of
her prisoners has increased fifty fold ; in
other words, she -has one prisoner "to
every 461 inhabitants. -f - .-- -
:-A son of Robert Kirk, aged six years,
was Sunday almost devoured by hogs at
Vancouver. He had accompanied his
brother into the yard to feed the stock,
and while the elder brother went to trie
barn the youngster tried to catch a pig.
The mother of the pig jumped at him
and fastened her tusks in the back of his
neck, dragging hirn to the ground, when
the other hogs joined her and almost de
voured the boy beiore he was rescued. -
... The loss' of 30,000,000 bushels of
wheat by the farmers of North Dakota
by its exposure to cold rains is to be de
plored. . In , some counties not over a
fourth of the crop has been threshed,
the greater portion of the balance stand
ing in the field in shocks.. Why the far
mers took , such risks can not be under,
stood. They knew the crop was large,
and that in order to get it to market
more threshers and men would be re
quired to handle it than were in the
country. One county has 17,000 acres
of the grain to thresh and only six ma
chines in operation. . The farmers were
either careless or they lacked good sense.
. War on Sunday Newspapers. -
PiTTSiiuBO, Pa., Oct. 14. The Sab
batarian society, has decided to inaugu
rate a war on the Sunday newspapers.
Captain Wishart, president of the Law
and Order society, will have charge of
the movement, and next Saturdav nicrht
will arrest all editors, reporters, compos- j
itors ana pressmen touna working after
midnight. If the papers are published
Sunday morning the carriers and news
boys will also be arrested. It is the in
tention also to arrest newspaper men. if
they begin to work Sunday night before
12o'clook.
'. Tlie Parnelllte Manifesto.
. Dvblis, Oct. ; 13 Freeman's Journal
in commenting on the manifesto issued
by the Parnellites, bitterly deplores
their manifest , intention to nuture the
faction."' It says : ' "An; unending strife
is the prospect ' they place before : the
country. Tne programme thus offered
is the greatest act of cruel, senseless
treachery .ever perpetrated upon the
Irish nation. A . . - i
- Will Sue the Road.' .
.- Portland, . Oct: . 14. Suit 'has been
brought in the United States' circuit
court by the farmers' Loan and Trust
company, of New York, against the
Oregon & Washington Railroad company
to foreclose a consolidated mortgage
held by the : trust company so secure
bonds of the road to the, amount of
about $4,000,000. - . . "
rVlftrollfa iaana'j 1 A AVl C T. t
j .v. .. lOL-UVVl TW.uuu ill UUJIUB JUT
j building a city hall. The
contract was
let and work begun on the hall. Now it
is learned the issuance of the bonds was
illegal and the successful bidder will not
take them.. It seems that the charter
simply authorizes the people to issue
bonds for water works, electric light,
bridge and sewerace. and with tlit-ee four
objects the jxjwer to float Iwnds stop?. J
Albany Isemocrat. - . - j
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J.M.Huntington, ex-deputy.. county
clerk I used to be in the railroad bui
ness and know , that you cannot build
much of a road for $60,000.. 1 think
Suyerintendent Farley has done a good,
economical job. . '.:
-. Thomas N. Joles, of Joles Bros,, gen
eral merchandise So far as I know
Superintendent Farley has. done' good
work, and the merchants generally take
his part except two or three who are do
ing their best to oust him. It is more
of a political dispute than anything else.
My belief is that if the road could be got
into other hands it would be worked lor
the benefit of the railroad company.
There is no complaint about the rates
over the new line in Portland. We have
often paid the Union Pacific from forty
five cents to $1.35 per 100 for what the
new company carries for thirty cents.
FINISHED WITHIN THE APPROPRIATION. ,
L. E. Crowe, of Mays & Crowe, hard
ware The road was economically built
and we were all glad to see it finished
within the appropriation. : The opposi
tion to Superintendent Farley is doubt
less due to the active part he has taken
in politics. . All our freight is being
shipped by the new line.
George A. Liebe, ex-county judge
Superintendent Farley used the state's
money as economically as any one could
and completed the road to the entire sat
isfaction of our people. Our people are
awake now and will patronise the new
line.- The Union Pacific are getting very
little freight. Now if we could only have
a portage between hereand Celilo with
feeders to Wasco and Grass valley we
would be well off. Nothing would" be of
l.n..fi .... T .1 1 1 rr. i rn
wucuiw x vrtmnu ana lliv uaues,
Portland especially.
Will frarrftfann iavlar Tam A
squarer man in the state than George
u- jL.iiej. x mien mm iweive years
ago, wnen lie was ioremau ot the black
smith shop. of the O. R. & N. Co. I
have been over the portage road, and
can say without fear of contradiction
that it has been well and economically
mini. lMneteen people out oi twenty
trtinlr 1rtf coma wax. Hnln 1. r. 3 ..
faction ia opposed to Superintendent
G-VVUy vs. Uiual J U -A 1 U l LI-
ton, druggists L made a trip over the
road Thursday, and know, it was well
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uuui,. utuuui. oets wnere me state 19
going to lose money on the investmet.
George C. Blakely Superintendent
Farley is competent. I was a member
or tne. city council when he was and
know that the trouble orignated there
and was caused by the water question.
We propose, to stand by the new com
pany, even if the Union Pacific boats
carry freight for nothing.
READJUSTMENT OF RATKS.'
B. F. Laughlin, manager of The
Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation
Company I have never- heard any one
who lias been over the road say .other
than that it was well built. I have been
over it. . The incline is not completed
yet and cannot be until the water goes
down. Superintendent Farley,- was
recommended for the position - he holds
by the principal property owners and
business men of Dalles and indorsed by
the board of trade, and I do not believe
any of us have changed our opinions as
t r hin fif-.riAaa A emrA mon-n .1, ; 1 n. .-.
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portage tariff ia too high, but Governor
Pennoyer and the superintendent, have
promised to readjust it upon the proper
showing, which will be made When our
company settles with the state for the
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j.i ob Muic, mi ui tuia montn.
Then we will Heet with the governor
The principal trouble is too much classifi-
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tiinuu. y e Biian uhk wai mere De not
morn than fnnr nlnscAQ . Tr. aonma K.
the plan of the state to make the income
pay for the plant. We claim that the
charges should be no more than neces
sarp to pay the running expenses of the
portage and keep up the plant. Such, I
believe, was the intent of the bill. Our
rates are 33 per cent less than the
Union Pacific. ...
A. AT AATll 1 iamo nT.a.nl iv.n.i1. -1 !
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The portage road is a mighty- good
thing for The Dalles. We save money
on freicrhr.. nnrl hia mnuvinontlv aKIa n
sell goods for 20 per cent, less than ever
1 1 T7 1 . ,.
uci-jre. r or example we usea to sell -a
100-nonnrl pack:, nf Tiwrnnnl anlt
$1 40, and now we eell it for $1 10. I do
not bother my head about the question
of Superintendent Farley's competency,
cw 'irug OS jl get UUDIIICSB.
THE FARMERS SATISFIED. 7
E. N.' Chandler, msnnmr -f fka
Grange store I want to see the road i
mftfit. with kit fi'iica THo fa.mm.
glad it is completed and say; "Stay with
it." I think Superintendent Farlev's
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wui a. vvaa well uuuu. - .
N- "R. Rinnntt. rirnnn'atni rf V. q TTmn'
till a House The people think the port
age road a good thing for this section.
I he. opening of the Columbia in any
way is a big thing for the eettlers east of
the mountains. ';'.
WHAT THE OPPOSITION BAY.
Ex-Mayor Malcolm A. Moody, who is
credited with being the leader of the op
position to Farlev, is the son of ex-Governor
Z. F. Moody. He is a banker.
"I think Mr. Farley knew he was in
competent when he took the place?
said Mr. Moody. .-'So far as politics is
concerned, it does not figure in the mat
ter at all. There was no strife last June,
and if there had been, Mr." MayB would
not have been elected." ' v 1 .
State Senator Charles Hilton: "As I
know nothing about engineering, I can
not pass on the question of Superinten
dent Farley's competency.' 'I know that
when he was in the council he .voted to
buy D. P. Thompson's old water .works
for $50,000. By the way, we had the
same works when the town burned down
recently." ' r-.-.-.- r.,
John Michell, editor of the Times
Mountaineer I can give you nothing
except heresay, as I am not a practical
railroad man. My idea is that the road
could have been built for less than $60,
OOO.according to reports received. If what
Mr. 'Leavens has said in articles pub
lished in Tlie Oregonian is true and he
says he believes that a great portion of
the -public fund devoted to the enter
prise has been unnecessarily expended,
in common parlance squandered then a
eerious condition of affairs exists. i: The
road should have been in operation some
time ago. - Aa regards Superintendent
Farley, I was not aware that he had anv
practical engineering knowledge until
some articles to that effect" were pub
ished in The Dalle Chronicle. I have
1 nown of him about eleven years prin
c pally as helper or b'acksmith in the
com panyV shops in this city ; also as
.roprietor'of a saddlery and harness
Ktore. I walked over the" postage at the
Cascades in company with . practical
engineer and was howniu. -ny places
wnere money . was unnecessarily ex-
penaea. -
M. T. Nolan,, bookdealer The por
tage road ia a burden on the boat line.
The. rates are too high. The company
ought to carry freight for 40 cents a ton
all around. Ite lowest rate ia 40 centa
and the highest $1.50. . I think the por-1
tage Lias Deen tairly well done. Mr.
Walsh is a good woi kman in his own
line, and - Mr. Hobart has no superior.
It isclaimed that the enperintenderit is
a railroad builder, but I never heard of
it until he was appointed. But this is
immaterial, so long as he had good men'
under him.. I worked- in the shops
with him, and he was considered a
second-rate blacksmith. - He was never
a boss blacksmith. ; i , ,., ;
D Si "THOMPBOM'. J. 8. BCHXHCK, H. H BUU
President. Vice-President. Cashier
First national BanL
VHE 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. r DIRECTORS.
D. P. Thompson. Jno. S. Schenck.
T. W. Sparks.. Geo. A. Liebe.
H. M. Bball.
ANEW
prinz & ;nitschke.
- . . . DEALKR8 IN ' : ' i
Furniture and Carpets.
We have added to our business a
complete Undertaking Establishment,
and as we are in no way connected with
the Undertakers' TYnsf.
be low accordingly. . ..
f iwmemDer our place on becond street,
next to Moody's bank;' L '; : s
Having made arrangements with, a
. number of Factories,' I am pre
. pared to furnish
Doors, Windows,
',. .-,J I i ,
STOREFRONTS
And all kinds of Special work. Ship
ments made daily from factory and can
fill orders in the shortest possible time.
Prices satisfactory. J t Vi A 1; .
It will be to your interest to see ine
before purchasingelsewheret ; 'Q' ' I
Wm. Saunders,.
. Office over French's Bank.
V. E. GARRETSOfl,
Leag-Jeweler.
SOLE AGENT FOB THE ,.
All Watch Work Warranted:
Jewelry Mad s to Order.
..-''. 138 Second St.. Trie Dalles. Or: " '
Still on Deck.
PhcBnix Like lias Arien
; v Prom the Ashes! :
AMES WHITE,
5 ..V: h K j '
The Kestauranteur Has Opened the
Baldmin - Hestaarant
ON MAIN STREET
Where he will be glad to see any and all
of bis old patrons.
Open day and Night. First class meals
twenty-five cents. .
FLOURING MILL TO LEASE.
THK OLD DALLES MILL AND - WATEK
Company's Hour Mill will be leased to re
sponsible parties. For information apply to Um
'ATEH COMMISSIONERS,
The Dalles. Oregon.
Undertaking Establishment !
Sz n lm , i 4
le'Tjii tp
COMPLETE IN EVERY. DEPARTMENT. C -: V .
Gents'faMshing Goads, Hats, Gaps,
Boots and Shoes.
Full Astortment of the Leading Manufactueers.
Cash
Bayers mill save money by examining oaf stock
and Otriffi; hefnirp n7.trfaci
7 " 4 w
J. hi. GROSS
-DEALER IN-
Hay, Gri, Feti
HEADQUARTERS FOR POTATOES.
Cash Paid for. Eggs and Chickens. . U : - Ail Goods Delivered Free and PrompUy
TERMS STRICTLY OTYSH.
Cor. Second & Union Sts.,
n' i t :
at
Removal I Removal I
: Oriaccpuntof,Removal I Will sell my
entire stock of Boots and Shoes, Hats
and Caps; Trunks and Valises, Shelv
ing, Counters, Desk, Safe, Fixtures,
at; a Great Bargain. Come and see
m.y offer. '. : ,
GkEAT;REDUCT10N;IN RETAIL.
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J.FRE
125 Second Street,
HUGH CHRIBUAN.
CHRISMAN
. - . Successors to
Keep on Hand a
BroceriBS, Hour. Grain,
: Highest Cash Price
Comer of Washington and Second-St.
The
- Successors to BROOKS A BEERS, Dealers In' ':
General Merchandise, .
1 h " - Staple and , Fancy Dry Goods,
eras' Famishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats; Caps, etc.
. Groceries, . Hardware,
Provisions, Flour, Bacon,
HAY GRAIN AND , PRODUCE
-; 5 Of all Kinds at Lowest Market Rates. V
Freef Deliveiy toZBoat and
aau ana 334
SITUATED AT THE
Destined to be the Best
Manufacturing Center In
the Inland Empire.
jlotti Dalles,
For Further Information Call at th Office of
Interstate Investment Go.;
Q. . AYLOR, THE DALIES.
wiiVWUlV t IOC U4 1 XCi TJ.
H. Herbring.
Flnnr
Bargains !
. The OaHes.
W. K. COBBON. "
& CORSON
GEO. BUCH,
Complete Stock of
Fruit ag -mill Feel
Paid for Produce.
. - -- The Dalles r.
Curs and all parts of the City.
second street
Washington)
fill'. ''.
HEAD OF NAVIGATION.
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Best Selling Property of
the Season in the North
west. :-. ; r ( ..'' '
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