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TIME TABUS.
Railroad.
KABT BOUND.
Xo, 2, Arrives 11:40 A. M. Depart 11:45 A. Jf.
8, " 12:05 P.M. " 12: 30 P. M.
WEST BOUND.
So. 1, Arrives 4:40 A. Jf. Departs 4:50 a. k.
7, " 6:X) r. . ' 65 P. S.
Two loca freights that carry passenger leave
one lor tne went at 7: a. n.,auu one iur iue
?st at 8 a. M.
STAGES.
For Prineville, via. Bake Oven, leave daily
except Sunday) at 6 a. m.
for Antelope, Mitchell, Canyon City, leave
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, nt 6 A. M.
For Dufnr, Kingsley, Wamie, Wapinitia, Warm
Springs pud Tygu Valley, leave daily (except
Sunday) at 6 a. m.
For Goldendale, Wash., leave every day of the
reek except Sunday at 8 A. M.
Ofllces for all lines at the Umatilla House.
lont-Ofnce.
. OPPICB HOURS
enenil Dclivrey Window 8 a. ni. to 7 p. m.
Money Order
" 8 a. m. to 4 p. m.
Sunday i
.V a. m. tow a. m.
. tlXISINO OF MAILS
Hy trains going East 9 p.m. and 11:45 a. m.
" " West 3 p. ni. and 4:45 p.m.
Stage for Goldendale 7:30 a. m.
' "Prineville 5:30 a.m.
.4 "Dufur and Warm Springs.. .5:30a. ra.
" tLeaving for Lyle t Hartland. .5:30 a. m.
' " " " (Antelope 5:30 a. m.
Except Sunday.
tTri-weekly. Tuesday Thursday and Saturday.
" Monday Wednesday and Friday.
METE0K0L0GI0AL EEP0KT.
Pacific I H Rela- D.t'r to State
Coast bar. 2 tive of 2. of
Time. r" Hum Wind 3 Weather.
A. M S0.16 40 irt West Cloudy
P. M :t0.20 .Ml C3 West I '
Maximum
perature, 4t.
tcmperaturc.
minimum tom-
WKATHElt I'ltOBAHILITIKS.
Thk DaU.es, Nov. 10,1891.
Weatlier forecast till 12 m.
Wednesday: Fair; Partly
FAIR
' cloudy, cooler followed by
warmer weather tomorrow or Thursday.
TUESDAY, NOV. 10, 1891.
The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
LOCAL BKKVITIKS.
J. B. Manly of Wapinitia is in town.
I. J. Schafer of Mora gave this office a
pleasant call today.
The new Stock .Inspector Verrfou
Roberts is in the city.
Josh. Hardy says he can produce as
handsomely exeenred gold signs as any
man on the Pacific coast and judging
from late samples1 of his work we are
. inclined to think that way too. : ' .
A petition is being circulated in the
Prineville country asking the postoffice
department to change the route of The
Dalles and Prineville uiai' line so as .to
run by way of Cow Canyon instead of by
way of Antelope. It is claimed that if
the stage company is forced to travel by
way of Antelope it will be impossible to
get the mail through on time during
severe storms. ' ,
A man named Ole Dahl a Norwegian
was discovered acting very strangely .in
the East End yesterday . evening and
Charley Richmond believing him to be
crazy brought him to the city jail where
he is now confined pending an examina
tion this afternoon. .Dahl says he owns
a ranch on Cedar Creek near La Center,
Clark County, Wash., and that he has a
brother in the sheep business near An
telope, this connty, named Jack Larsen
and there is no reason to doubt that his
story is trne. That he is crazy there
can be no doubt. He told the writer a
rambling story of having talked to the
devil, all the way in from Sherar'a
Bridge yesterday. '- He said Jesus Christ
told him to have nothing to do with the
devil and that in Buchler's brewery,
when the devil came up to the table
where God told him to get some bread
to eat with his beer, he just hit the
devil a blow with the side of his flet on
the back of the neck. Persons in the
city from Antelope remember to have
. seen Dahl out there engaged in the bus
iness of water witching. He seems a
quiet harmless, man and is comfortably
mud respectfully dressed.
Referring to Assessor Barnett's letter
which we publish elsewhere we have
only to say that no jugglery of figures
and no amount of comparison with the
county assessment of 1890 will alter the
fact that the average valuation of land
m this years' assessment is $o.30; an :
acre. The assessment of 1890 is not uti- j
der trial, and the proof that it was all j
wrong will never make .this year's as-J
cessment all right. The assessment on I
its face shows that while the number of j
acres of land assessed has; decreased 44,- 1
232 acres since lust assessment the val
uation has incereased $138,232. If this
increase in the value of land was war
ranted the Ciiboxiixe 'would have nothr
ing to say, but it has not taken place,
but the contrary. And at a time when
there is an agricultural depression in
tills county that yon find nowhere else
in the state it does not look well that
the gross increase .in- this year's assess
ment, amounting to nearly $200,000
should all or nearly all be placed on the
county's real estate. Moreover it can
never be made to look well that the
real estate owners of this county should
have the assessment increased 53 per
cent, if vou will, while the assessment of
!lWo"
The Electric Light company of this
city received today from Portland two
car loads of cedar poles.
The owners of the coal mines at Fossil
have put on a large force of men, and
are going right ahead developing their
property.
. The town of Prineville was oat of debt
on the 1st of ' October. - This is some
thing a good many more pretentious
towns cannot boast of.
-'A company is being formed here for
the purpose of getting the necessary
machinery for boring artesian wells,
The capital stock is to be $2,600 divided
into one hundred shares of twentv-five
dollars each. A paper is in circulation,
and the stock is being rapidly taken.
Just where the first experiment will be
made in' wellboring will not be deter
mined until the stock is all taken and a
meeting of the stockholders, shall decide.-
GoldendaU Sentinel.
Assessor Barnett Speaks.
The Dalles, Or.', Nov. 10, 1891.
Editor of tile Chronicle:
In the daily issue of your most valua
ble paper on the 7th appears the follow
ing : ."The Chronicle, hesitates to offer
any criticism on this year's assessment
as compared with that of 1890, but it
feels it to be its duty to call attention to
the fact that the value of land has been
raised from an average price of $3.45 an
acre in 1890 to $5.30 in 1891. This in an
increase of over sixty-five per .cent,
while there is not a man in Wasco
county ' that does not know that the
price of land has decreased rather than
increased during the past year." .
Now, were it not for the fact that
some of the above statements are not
trne, and the others so veiled that the
facts are entirely hidden, I would not
feel it necessary to make any reply, and
would only say to the farmers that the
assessment rolls of 1890 and 1891 are on
file in the county clerk's office where
they can come and compare them at
any time and judge for themselves. '. v
It appears from the above statements
that by hesitating, you have begun too
soon, for if you had taken time to con
sult some school boy, he conld have told
you that $5.30 is not sixty-five per cent,
above 3.45, but about fifty-three and
iwo-thirds per cent.
," Now, while it may be that figures do
not lie, I have -discovered in trying to
balance my assessment roll that - they
have to be handled carefully in order to
make them tell the truth.
In regard to the statement that the
value of land has been raised, I admit
that I valued the land of the Eastern
Oregon Land company higher than last
year, but- as I presume they will not
kick - nor anyone . else worry, about it, it
cannot do any harm to drop their assess
ment and consider only the assessment
oi the settler: In 1890 there were 146,
809 acres oil settler' land, assessed at?
$628,425, - making $4.28 per acre assess
ment. " In 1891 there are 121,574 acres,
assessed at $763,498, or an assessment
per acre of $6.28. ; ' - '
The unfair part, as I regret to say, is.
in your failing to inform tne reader that
you in your assessment, only took for
your assessment one-half yonr valuation
which, as this is the fact, makes your
valuation $8.56 or double $4.28. ': '
And as I was instructed by the county
court to take, seventy-five per cent of
my valuation.' it follows that my valua
tion must be $8.37 per acre, as $6.28 is
three-fourths of that number. So if
$8.37 is sixty-five per cent, above $8.56
then 1 have surely outraged the farmer
this time.
But I will stop by continuing and say
to the farmer that I may have assessed
him too high. If so, I am sorry for it.
To the stock-raiser; I probably have
you too high. I beg pardon for it. To
the merchant ; I may have been too
hard on you. Please forgive me. To
the doctor, . lawyer, blacksmith and
-shoemaker; If I have valued you too
highly I am sorry. I have assessed my
self too high for this. ' I never expect to
get forgiveness. I am truly sorry
that I. had to assess anyone. I
have done my duty as nearly as I conld.
For this I almost said I'm sorrv.
. J. E. B. ..
. The New Grange Store.
- We call attention to the new adver
tisement of the Grange store, which is
now located in its new quarters at the
corner of Fourth and Federal streets.
This store needs no commendation to
the, readers of the Chronicle. It is as
much the people's store as the Chroni
cle itself is the people's paper or the
Regulator the people's boat, aud each
enterprise is bound to thrive oecause it
ought to. Everything in the people's
store is new and fresh and selected only
because it is the best the market affords
for the price. The store is still under
the management of E. If.', Chandler,
who is, as everybody " knows,- the right
man in the right place.: The store was
started to furnish the farmers-and gen
eral public with good goods at living
rates iu:d no effort will "be spared to
carry out this intention. Customers of
the grange store can therefore rely on
obtaining good goods, low prices and
honest treatment.
To the Ladles of The Dalles.
We come to announce that Mme.
Dean, of Chicago ' is in town with a
splendid stock of eastern naillery, and
you can made aselection from her stock
that will please you. She displays at
Mrs. Smith's dressmaking rooms, Nq.
75 Second street. The ladies will do
well to call early for first selections.
Reasonable prices. . v 11-10-tf.
Colonel Houghton Kpls.
The Dau.es, Or., Nov. 10, 1891.
Editor of tlu Chronicle: .-:'
I notice in vour issue of the 9th a criti
cism on me clipped from the Fossil
Journal, which I think calls for a reply,
not in justification of myself, although
it does me a great injustice, but for the
good of the regiment and to . put the
blame where it belong?.
The bills for wagon transportation and
extra rations of E- company, also H and
I companies to and from their armory
to the encampment, via the nearest rail
road station is just and right and the
state should pay them. The facts are
these; The encampment ended on the
evening of July 4th and. the state-' mili
tary board met on . the 12th. None of
these bills were received by me until the
morning oi the 12th and in- one instance
several days later. They left by the
next mail for Salem but the board had
adjourned before they arrived. . I noti
fied the captains of these companies
that they would have to wait until the
October meeting when I presented them
again and urged the necessity of having
them allowed, as the money had been paid
by the men out of their own pocket$rand
the delay was working a hardship upon
them. Adjutant General Shofner in
formed me that they had been allowed
by theboard, since which time I have
not heard from the secretary of state or
received one cent, either for armory
rents for last quarter or in- payment of
these bills, although I have gone to Port
land and kept my business closed for two
days in order to see the adjutant 'general
and get this adjusted. No one is to
blame. So far as I can asceftaiathe
military fund is inadequate and has al
ready been overdrawn, which is the
only construction I can put on the de
lay. I,- E and H companies are deserv
ing of the highest praise of any com
panies in the regiment for the manner
in which they did their duty at camp;
no grumbling or kicking, although they
de sixty miles through dust 'and dirt
to get to the railroad, paying - their ex
penses out of their own pockets.' N
one regrets this unfortunate circum
stance more than I and no one could
have done more than I have done. The
report of Sargeant Bentley referred to is
false in every particular. , ,
As to my resignation, I shall be only
too glad to receive notice of its accept
ance and sincerely hope, for the good of
the regiment, that my successor may be
the ideal colonel the Fossil Journal has
pictured and may succeed in rousing
Company E from its state of lethargy,
into which the editor of the Journal
claims it has fallen. .
Respectfully, -
- T. A. Houghton,.
Colonel 3d Oregon Infantry.
JT0TI0E.
NOTICE i hereby Riven that the Common
' CouncHof Dallas City is about to proceed
to establish by ordinance, the crudes upon the
following streets or parts of streets in raid Dulles
City, to-wit: . '
On Second street from the west side of Union
street to the east side of Taylor street.
On Third street from the. west side of Union
street to the eat side of Monroe street.
On Fourth street from the west side of Union
street to the eust side of Jefferson street;
On Fifth street from .the west side-of .Union
street to the east side of Washington street.
On Union street from the north side of Second
street to the south side of Fifth street.
Ml Court street from the north side of Second
street to the south side of Fifth street.
On Washington street from the north side of
Second street to the south side of Fifth street.
On Federal street from the north side of Second
street to the south side of Fourth street. -
On Laughlin street from the north side of Sec
ond street to the south side of Fourth street
On Jefferson street from the north side of Sec
ond street to the south side of Fourth street.
On Madison street from the north side of Sec
ond street to the south side of Third street.
On Monroe Btreet from the north side of Second
street to the south side of Third street.
The grades of said streets will be lixed with
reference to the supposid stage of low water in
the Columbia river, which is fixed at n point'
5'2.81 feet below the top of the hydrant at the
southwest corner of First and V nion streets, in
said Dalles City, and which point upon the Col
umbia river is designated as the initial point
from which the elevations hereinafter stated are
figured. . ' .
The squares made by the crossings tit the sev
eral streets shall be level and shall be of the fol
lowing elevations above the datum plane or low
water level of the. Columbia liver, hereinbefore
fixed:
At the intersection of stubets.
" " Second " Union, -.i0.ftit
' : .. . " Court, T1.8ft
." " " " Washington, 55.5 ft
".., " " Federal. 55-1 ft
" ' " '- Ijmghliii, W - it
. i - 1 " Jefferson, 54 ft
f " ; - " " Madison, Aft ft
' " " ' " Monroe, 57.5 ft
.'-'- Tavlor, 0 ft
. .. - . .1 Third " Union, 55.5 ft
. . " . " " . " Court, 55.5 ft
, " " " " Washington, 61.5 ft
" . " . " Federal, 5S.5 ft
" l4iughlin,: 55.5 ft
. " " " Jefferson, 55 ft
.':." " " Madison, : 5G ft
" ' .-. " " ' Monroe, fto . ft
" . " Fourth " Union, - : ft
" . ' " " Court, S ft
" " " " Washington. 64.5 ft
Federal. fit) ft
Laughlin, 59 ft
Jefferson, W) ft
Union "K ft
Court.. 74.5 ft
Tlfth "
" " " " W ashington, 7U ft
The grades of the aforesaid streets from square
to square shall be uniform and equal, except as
hereinafter speeifled.
The grade of Washington street between
Fourth and Fifth streets shall break at the south
line of the alley, -between said streets, at which
point the elevation shall be seventy feet. v .
l!v order of the Common Council.
FRANK MENEFEK.
' 11-0-21 Recorder of Dalles City.
A Great Liver Medicine.
Dr. Gunn's Improved Liver Pills are a
sure cure for sick headache, bilious com
plaints, dyspepsia, indigestion, costive;
nes3, torpid liver, otc. These pills in
sure perfect digestion, correct the liver
and 8toniach, regulate the bowels, purify
and enrich )he blood and make the skin
clear. They also produce a good appe
tite and invigorate aiwi strengthen the
entire system by . their tonic action.
They only require one pill for a dose and
never gripe or sicken. Sold at , 25 cents
a box by Blakeley & Houghton. . .
NOTICE. ':
R. E. French has for sale a number of
improved ranches and unimproved
lands in the Grass Valley neighborhood
in Sherman county. They 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.
CHKOXICti; SHORT STOPS.
For coughs and colds uso 237?.
' 2373 itf the cough syrup-for children.
Get me a cigar from .that fine case at j
ompes s ivinersley's.
Fresh oysters in every style at the
Columbia candy factory. ". . 18-tf
Charles- Stubling has opened np his
saloon in the building next door west of
the Germania saloon. tf
J. H. Larsen will buy all scrap iron
of all kinds and pay the highest market
price, ee mm at the K&st End. '
9-9-tf,
Maier & Benton are? prepared to do all '
kinds oi plumbing,, trm-roofing, and tin j
work. See thew at the old Bettingen i
RLuna. . tf '
Max Blank wishes to inform the peo
ple of The Dalles that he has not
raised on brick, and i? setting them for
the same price" as before:- And will try
and supply all demands' with the best of
improved isachine mode- tick, as soon
as time wilhallow.
15tf. - - - Mas Blank.
Long Wrard' offers for sale-one of the
best farms of its size i Sherossua county.
It consists of 240 acres of deeded land at
Erekinville. There i a- nerer-failing
spring of living water eapable oi water
ing five hundired hear of stock dailv.
Tne houBe, which is a large- store build- r
ing wim le.n rooms, aciacnea- alone cost
$1700. A blacksmith shop and other
buildings and the whole surrounded by a
good wire fence. Will be sold cheap nnd
on easy terms.. Apply by letter or other
wise to the editor of the Cheonioi. or to
the owner, W. L... Ward, Boyd, Wasco
county, Oregon.
The auction sale at Harris' dry goods
store will be postponed for the- present
during the indisposition of Auctioneer
Crossen. . (ioods will be sold, however,
at auction tn-icos till the sale is resumed.
11-0-tf. .'
The Regulator has reduced freight
rates. Win. Butler fc Co., the new lum
ber dealers have reduced prices ou lum
ber so that building can be done at a less
cost than at anv time in. the historv of
Tho Dalles. l-2t-tf.
SOTICB. -
To the merchants of The Dalles-. In
ordering freight shipped lie sure and
have it marked care of Holman & Co.,
Portland, Or., who will transfer, all
freight to the Dalles Portland & Astoria
Navigation Co:
Holman & Co
. Dravmen and forwarders, '
?io. 24 X. Front street, '.
10-22 12-22. Portland)!-.
NOTICE.
All indebted to the firm; of Fi&h &
Bardon will please call at the store of
Mays & Crowe and pay ur all bills im
mediately" to Fish & Bardon.
Fisrr A Baudos,
September 14, 1801. . . 14-tf
' An Old Aduflv
There is an old adage : "What every
body says must be true." Henrv Cook.
of Itew Knoxville, Ohio, in a recent let
ter says: "Unamberlain's t;ougb Kem
edy has taken well here. Everybody
likes it on account of the immediate
relief it gives." There is nothing like it
to loosen aud relieve a severe cold. For
sale by Sni)es & Kinersly, druggists, dw
For Sale Cheap L
Five good j'oung milch cows, foirr giv
ing milk and' one to come in in March.
Apply to W. D. Kichards of Eight Mile.
11-6-9
Biri.t.iTiiM
JOHN BOOTH,
Tue Lsauirig ta.
62 SECOND STREET.
IMPORTED CITRON,
IMPORTED SEEDLESS RAISINS,
CANDIED, LEMON AND ORANGE
PEEL, - . . .
LONDON LAYER RAISINS,
GOLD MEDAL EXTRA CHOICE
LARD IN 3 AND 5 POUND PAILS,
EXTRA GEORGES CODFISH IN
STRIPS, ,
MACKEREL, ;
HERRING, Salt and Smoked,
WHITEFISH,
SALMON BELLIES;
SOUSED PIGS FEET IN BULK,
PICKLES IN BULK,
SUGAR CU RED SMOKED BEEF,
NEW LOT OF EXTRA FINECH EESK.
Alilt ORDERS DELIVERED PROMPTLY
STAGY SHOOlfi,
tIatciiaRer,
Has opened un office for "Cleaning and
. Repairing Watclws, Jewelry, etc .
- - - ; All work . gunrunteed and
- promptly attended..
Dunham's Drug Stotrc,
Cor. Kocond mud Uiilon StreetH;
Is
j Carpets take up, cleaned and piut'down,
I also Closets and Ohimneys cleaned .
j on short notice at reasonable ... .'
j - rates. : - ; - '
Leave orders at the store of Chrisrnan
3c Corson. , - . ..
GRANT MORSE.
. " - . - 10-l-Vtf
FLOURING MILL TO : LEASE. .
rnME OLD IMLI.ES MILL AND WATER
J l orapuny' 1 lour .Mill will be leased to re
sponsible pnrtie. For information applv to the
I , w A'lEU o.sjiissiosrs,
1 .! Dalles, Oregon.
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Keep this
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' -v.' ' . .E CARRY
Men's Ladies' kisses' and Children's
In Every
And Sell them at BEDROCK Prices !
A. M . W ILL I A MS & C O.
JVIIER Sb BENTON,
Successors to A.. Bettinger, Jobbei and Be tail er in
Hardware, Tinware, f ooienware and Graniteware,
- Have also a Complete Stock of- : -
Jfeating and Caokstoves, Ftanps, Pipes,, Plambere aud Steam fittefs
Supplies, - Carpenters' and Blacksmiths' antj Fanueps
Tools- and Shelf Hafdmaffe;
All Tinning, Plumblingr and Pipe Work; don on Short Notice.
SECOND STREET, - THE DALLES. OREGON.
MAYS & CROWE,
Successors to ABKAMS & STEWART.)
Retailors 4a.xxc3L Jotobors in
Hardware, - Tinware, - Braniteware, - Woofienware,-
SILVERWARE, ETC
AGENTS
"Acorn," "Charter Oak" "Argand"
STOVES AND RANGES.
. Pumps, Pipe, Plumbers' and. Steaaa Fitters' Supplies.
Packing, Building Paper,'
SASH, DOORS,. SHINGLES.
Also a complete stock of Carpenters', Blacksmith's ajid
Farmers Tools and Fine Shelf Hardware-.
-AGENTS
The Celebrated R. J. ROBERTS "Warranted" Cutltwr, Mervlen CutWy ii1
Tableware, the "Quick Meal" Gasoline Stoves-., "ferand" Oil Siovn
. and Anti-Rust Tinware.
All Tinning, Plumbing, Pipe- Work and Repairing
will be done on Sltort Notice.
SECOND STREET.
H. C. NIELS6N.-
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Clothier and Tailor,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
Hats and Capsr Trunks and Valises,
CORNER OF SECOND AND WASHINGTON STS.. THE DALLES, OR F.'ON
E. Jacobsen & Go.,
WHOLESALE AXD RETAIL . .
R00KSELLERS AND STATIONERS.
Pianos and Organs .
. Sold on EASY INSTALLMENTS. .
Notions, Toys, Fancy Goods and Musical Instru
ments of all Kinds.
162 SECOND STREET, - - -
JOS. T. PETGRS St CO.,
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pi - Building -
: Office and Yard Corner of First and Jefferson
-: DEALERS IN:
lapie afio Fap Giogk,
Hay-, Gram
Masonic Block. Corner Third and
in Mind,
Xj- IB. CBOWiB.
FOR THE :-
FOK-
- - - - THE DAl.l.KS,.ORE-K-.
roixxptly
THE DALJjES, OREGON.
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COtD WOOD
Streets. , . North Side of Railroad Ttaet'
and Feed.
Court Strests, Ths DalSes.'Oregcs,
iuaieiial.