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STATE OFnCIAtS.
Oovernot..- ....S. Pennoyer
Secretary of State G. W. Mc Bride
Treasurer Phillip Metschan
8u pt. of Public 1 nstruction . . . : E. B. MoElroy
. . . (J. N. Dolph-
niatora J. H. MitoheU
'Innfrressm&n B. Hermann
State Printer. , Frank Baker
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Count
Snerttl
Judge C. N.
Thornbary
D. 1 vatea
J. B. Crossen
Geo. Ruch
XXI A T ABnana
; jerk
TreoHurer
Commissioners Franic Kineaid
Assessor John"E. Barnett
Survevor. E. F. Sharp
Superintendent of Public School. . .Troy sneue'
Coroner , William Michel
The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
THE GOVERNOR
THE DALLES
SOLID FOR
PORTAGE.
The Ciionicle is reliably informed
that Ciovernor Pennoyer has written to
Speaker Crisp asking him as a "personal
favor to use liia utmost endeavor to have
congress make an appropriation of $360,
(00 for a jortage railroad between The
I tiles and Celilo, on the Oregon side.
The governor urges that whatever
money ma; be appropriated ' Jor the
. work on the locks, Eastern Oregon and
W ashingtcn demands this appropriation
first. The governor will supplement
tl. is eirort by writing to the
' cnairman of the river and harbor
m mmittce urging his cooperation in the
wiiuc mutter. Should these efforts fail
the governor will do everything in "his
IMwertb influence the next legislature
in make the needed appropriation. The
governor holds that the road ought to be
iuilt on the Oregon side, no matter who
Guilds it and he lias not a bit of fath in
the Paul Mohr Scheme, holding that it
would give the people no adequate re
lief from tho control of the great trans
continental lines, even if it is not a
scheme wholly in their interest as it is.
It is almost needless to add that the
governor considers the resolution of the
"l'ortland chamber of commerce to raise
; 300,000 ii Portland for the Paul Mohr
road entirely and wholly wind, and
i.otbing else. It is also needless to say
these efforts of the governor to procure
' au open river for Eastern Oregon will
make him many friends in this quarter.
.'1 he Ciikoxicle entirely approves of the
idea of insisting on an appropriation for
the portage first. We want that even if
we got nothing else. A portage between
'lh Dalles and Celilo will afford immed
iate relief to the whole Inland Empire,
whereas if the locks were finished to
morrow the people east of The Dulles
would not be benefited a penny without
the portage. But the governor should
insist on a government appropriation of
not less than half a million unless it be
definitely ascertained ' beforehand just
how much will be needed, and the work
let by contract. We may add on the
same authority- that the governor is
proud of tho portage we already have.
Its success has intensified his desire for
..one at the dalles.
Governor Pennoytr's endorsement of
.Joe Simon for the federal judgesh
won't raise him (Pennoyerl any in uc
t- estimation of those who have been wont'
to regard him as a straight-forword in--corruptible
man.' Pennoy;r is scratch
' ing Joe's back in return for some little
scratching that Job did for Pennoyer
-'some tiuie ago.
When Peter the poet, of the'KUimatfi
"Star goes after a man's scalp he can lift
it as neatly as anyone we wot of. Re
ferring to a fellowtownsman who had
called him by an approbrious name
Peter says "He looks like an overloaded
stomach trying to tear itself away from
the nightmare."
No Hope fur New Orleans.
New Orleans people are ambitious
, and sanguine. They are prophesying
that their port will become the greatest
shipping port of tho country within the
next ten years greater even than New
York. Thev sav the r.roducers in the
northern state? west of the Ohio river,'
and in the southern states west of the
Alabama river have found out that they
can ship grain, cotton and pork to Eu
rope from New .Orleans more cheaply
than from any other port. A few days
ago n iMiuimittee'of the Kansas Millers'
association visited New Orleans to make
ari-uiiiieiiiontS' for exporting
Kanen8
flour l'oieijin countries by way. of that
port at the rate of 10.000,000 barrels a
vear. .' -'.
Sugsftel Comment.
T. V. Powflerly, chief of the Knights j
of Ialior, is ont in the- North American
Ierlef in :i .strong article favoring free j
Hiiver co:i!U!e. i ',
, T ! ' ;
The fitai hoard of eqalization w hard ,
at work. They have decided to' invite.-
the bankers, railroad men, and all tax- j
paver intfitvted U-fore theni. Attor-;
nev General Chamberlain, has also! ;
asked to answer to Jhe board Home in-;
n i; ir:cs as
u llie law ana its proier in-
,t'i)!iet:Uiuu. Salem Jnanml.
Incident of Shepherd Life.
The following interesting paper was
written by Master A. P. O'Leary, one of
the pupils of the Wasco academy:
v l presume you know, or if you don't
know Lw ill tell you, that my fathtr is,
in a business sense,, of the genus stock
man and differentia . sheepman.' In
other words, he Is a grazier.- I by no
means intend to convey the impression
that he himself is an herbivorous animal
but that he derives his income from
the care of such animals.
It may be well to explain here that in
this sectien of Xhe country sheep are
kept in large flocks or bands of from
fifteen hundred to two thousand .each,
and graze on the public domain : and
not, as in most of the eastern ..states, in
bunches, we would say, of fifty or a
hundred which are kept in a pasture.
During the greater part otthe year the
sheep are kept on the" prairie but during
four or five months in summer and au
tumn they are taken to graze on ,the
fresh feed in the mountains. Sometimes
we have to drive them fifty or a hun
dred miles to the mountains. As it is in
the mountains while driving that the
life is most interesting, I will deal prin
sipally with these times. .
We set out a packer, a, herder and
two or three dogs, with a band of sheep.
If we wish to be particularly fierce look
ing'we strap" a pistol and a bowie knife
around our waists.
AVe drive along the road, letting the
sheep feed where there is an unenclosed
space, aad . pretty soon we see a man
coining as if he were "Sheridan, twenty
miles away," and motioning wildly and
shouting as though he were the com
mander of an invisible host, which was
about to engage in battle. By the time
he gets to us he is out of breath and
mad enough to fight. He begins with
"What do you mean by herding these
sheep on here? Don't you know that
this is my land? Get off of here as fast
as you can, or I will have you arrested.
xouare trying to eat up all the grass aH
poor man has." Well, if we were green
horns he might terrify us, but we soon
become so used to it that it is an enjoy
ment and varies, the monotony cf the
journey. - .
Hs says he is poor, and in that he
tells the truth. He usuallv has about a
section of land, a cow and three or four
cayuses, or Indian ponies, but none of
his land is under fence. We generally
call them "land poor," because thev
have a lot of land and do not improve it..
They will sell' nothing to a sheepman
and some will not keep you over-night
if you have anything to do with' sheep.
Sometimes it is a woman who comes
to greet us, and then it is worse than
fortv men, and we try to shift the task
of meeting her upon . each other's
shoulders..
Then we come to a lane about thirty
feet wide, wjtb .barb wire . fences on
either side. Usuallv. two wires and
posts about four rods apart is the style
of fence. . The owners plant grain to
within two or three feet of the leoce and
of course the sheep are bound to creep
under the wire for a taste of the grain
shoots.. Then out comes the farmer
with his dog, and the sheep are so anx
ious to get out that they do not think of
creeping under the fenca but rush
against the fence and sometimes tear it
down for several hundred yards. '
At last we get to. the mountains, but
we .often, have trouble.' .About; four
years ago I was packing for a band up
on.ii.igbt Mile creek, and when I re
turned to. camp one day I found a notice
there which read as follows : "We will
give you just three days to leave, and if
you are not gone by that time we will
help you." The three days passed and
we received no help. We found out
that it. .was a woman who had written
the notice, and on the last day her hns
band came up to our camp to buy half
a mutton. ..
' We have very good opportunities of
hunting and fishing. We often kilj deer
and the bears and cougars are always
bothering the sheep. . One day I called
a cougar, mistaking it for my dog. -
. I was herding this day for the herder
had gone to town and he left his dog
with me.' The dog, which was yellow,
went to camp towards evening. 1 was
in a thicket when I saw. something yel
low and thinking it was the dog I began
to call it. ' Soon seeing "what it was, I
treed him but was obliged to let him go
as I left tHe gun in camp.
Last summer I was herding in dark
timber, when one day my sheep split
and one part rushed by rafc. I went to
the lead and saw a bear carrying off a
lamb. When he saw me he disappeared
over a hill but returned to carry off the
lamb which I was obliged to kill as the
bear bad bitten it terribly. ' ' '
A little later the same day . I saw an
other not far distant, which I fired at
with ah old pistol I.-had. Instead of
rMrpflt.inc rift rAmft straight fin sirtH - na T
could not depend on the pistol, and it
was a cinnamon bear, I. deemed it neces
sary to beat a hasty retreat. ".We set a
gun by making a V shaped pen, open at
i the wide end. Across the opn end we
stretch n cord and fasten it to a lever
which pulls the trigger of the gun. .By
this way we can often kill them when
otherwise it would be impossible.'
During the hot inonths we 'take the
sneep close op to the mountain peaks,
In packing. n are compelled to cross
glaciers an d dangerous places,
One dav I was crossing a glacier when
it M though the whole mM8
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stood on end for oace. Another dav 'I
was going for supplies and. had." three,
horses. As it is very hard to lead horses
where there is no road, for convenience
I tied one to the preceding ones .tail.
One of them was blind in one eye, and I
shall always think there" is something
unlucky about a- .third horse,' I "was
riding the blind one and comipg to a
dangerous place I got off .to. lead .them.
He thought he knew a better way and
started off the trail. I stopped him and
went .back to untie the others, but he
started on again and pnlled the others on.
One started to elide and coming to the
end of its rope jerked the others. It
was about a quarter of '.a ' mile to the
bottom of the slope, and about two thirds
of the way down, the snow had melted
and left the rocks bare. Picture if you
can the horses sliding on this icy slope,
which was very much steeper ;than- the
toboggan slide, and striking these rocks
they began -to spin L:ke rocks hurled
through the air. When 1 got down, two
of the horses were, dead and two sad
dles were off, one being broken " to
splinters. It was several months before
the other horse fully recovered. I do
not think the memory of that night will
soon be effaced from my mind. Another
time my brother and another young
fellow were crossing a glacier when the
latter's horse fell into a crack and they
had to leave hhn to freeze to deathv
" Life in a sheep camp is . not ' the most
pleasant imaginable. A herder must
get up in the morning about four o'clock,
cook his own breakfast, herd all day, and
come home after dark, and cock his own
supper or go to bed without. '
During the summer we live in a tent,
and cook out doors in rain or shine.
- well l imagine 1 hear signs of weari
ness and I guess you think you know
enough about sheep-herding so I will
close, and if any of you happen to be
out in the mountains,' call around and
I will tell you more about it. .
NOTICE.
All city warrants registered prior to
February J, 1890, will be paid if pre
sented at my office. Interest ceases from
and after this date. .
The Dalles, Or., Novdmber 6, 1891
O. KlXSLEY, .
ll-6tf. Citv Treasurer.
The Old Germania Saloon.
JQHJl DOJiflVOfl, 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;
GHRIST
. The public is respectfully invited to visit our
j: store, and inspect all the beautiful goods, and call
often at ' ' .
I. C. JtlCKHLtSEfl'S
The Largest Store of its Ifrti in the city.
All New Goods ! Bed-flock Prices !
First class Pianos and Organs
Music and Books. Fine Gold Watches, : Jewelry
and Pens, Games, Toys,. . Toilet Cases ; ; .
and Albums.
Second Street,
BOBT. "M ATS.
MAYS & CROWE,
(BceeMor to ABRAJH & 8TEWART.) - '.-
Haniware, - Tipre,;-;
SILVERWARE, ETC. '-'-
AGENTS
"Acorn," "Charier Oak" "ArgancT !
STOVES AND RANGES. -
Pumps, Pipe, PJumbers' and Steam Fitters Supplier
Packing, Building Paper,. ! ' ' ? CI!C ; w. v v .1-
; SASH, DOORS, SHINGLES.
Also , a complete stock of Carpenters', Blacksmith's an
Farmers Tools and. Fine Shelf Hard ware. -
Tle Celebrated K. J.
Tableware, the
All Tinning, Plumbing,
will "be done
! SECOND STREET,
fr. A. Brown,
' Keeps a full assortment of
Stan a anil Fano.v GropAi
and Provisions.
which he ofterc at Low Figures.
SPEGIAIi :
to Cash. Buyers.
Hifihest Cash Prices lor Efp ni
; ota Proince. .
170 SECOND STREET.
Building jnateiials!
Having made arrangements '.with a
number of Factories, I am pre-
pared to furnish
Doors, fiodows, Mouldings,
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. Saaodeps,
Office over French's Bank.
W. E. GARRETSON,
(fit- Jeweler.
SOLE AOEKT VOIS THE
"""Vfiir
rF-tiil!fiiilTmfniinWnr-iiy
All Watch Work Warranted.
Jewelry Made to Order.
138 Second St., The Dalles. Or.
PS.
onlv. Full Assortment of
The Dalles. Or.
FOK THE
-AGENTS FOIJ
ROBERTS ''Warranted" Cutlery, Meriden CutleT-r nnr
'Quick Meal" Gasoline Stoves. "Grand" Oil Stov.- "
and Anti-Rnat Tinware.
Pipe : Work- and Repairii
on. Short Notice.
THE DALLES, OiOXiON
jim pip l'ilkpiS
COMPLETE
Gents' Furnishing Goods, Hats, Gaps,.
; Boots and Shoes.
V . " -
Full Assortment of the Leading Manufacturers.
Cash Bayers mill save money, by examining our stock
and prices before purchasing elsewhere.
"fln ppjfpptanit,
Ladies' and Childrens' French Felt Hats - 25 cents
Trimmed Hats - - - 50 cents and upwards.
" Way Down.'! Ladies' and Chijdrens' Furnishing Goods.
MRS. PHILLIPS,
J. H. GROSS,
-DEALER IN-
Hay,
m,
HEADQUARTERS FOR POTATOES.
Ch Paid for Eggs and Chickens. All Goods Delivered Free and Promptly
TERMS STRICTLY CKSH.
Cor. Second
Great Bargains !
Removal! Removal I
. ,
On account of Removal I will sell my;,
entire stock of Boots and. .Shoes, Hats"
ani GapsV'irrij.nlcs and Valises, Shelv
iiigsji.Cquntdrs, Desk, Safe, Fixtures,
at a Great Bargain. Come and
my offer. .
GREAT REDUCTION IN. RETAIL.
J . F5 RE
125 Seeond Sttreet,'
HUGH CHRISMAN.
CHRISMAN
Successors to
Keep on Hand a
firoeerles, Floor, 6raln,
Highest Cash Price Paid; for Produce.
Corner of Washington and Second-St. . The Dalles, Or.
The Dalles Mercantile Co.,
" SncoesaorK to BROOKS A BEERS, Pealcrs in '
General Merchandise,; v - ; :
; ; Staple and Goods,
' enls' Fiirnishing Goods, Boots, Sliiss, Hats, Caps, etc.
Groceries, 1 ; . : -. Hardware, ,
; - Provisions, y ' Flour, Babon,
HAY-, f GRAIN
. Of all;Kinds-at Lowest Market Rates.
Free Delivery , to ' Boat and Curs and all parts of the City.
390 and 394 Second Street
PAUL KREFT CO:.
-DEALERS IN-
Paints, Oils, Glass
rtteni and Designp in
Practical l'aintcre and Paper Hungers. None
but the best brands of the .Shern in-V'il!im
Paint lined in nil our vork, and nonfe but the
imwt tkilk'd unrtmcn emikycd. All orders
promptly attended tv , . .10-17
' SHOt'- AU!nln Kftt fremt Srocery
THIKI) STUir.T,
IN EVERY DEPARTMENT
H. Herbring.
81 Third St,
& Union Sts.,
see
1 7VR N ,
The Dalles.
W. K. CORSON.
& CORSON
GEO. RUCH,
Complete Stock of
-Fruit M
ill Feel
Closets i Chimneys Cleaned !
Carpets take npy cleaned and put down,
' also Closets and Cliimnevi cleaned
on short notice"at reasonable J
".'";. rates.
Leave orders at the store of Chrisman
& Corson. :
GRANT
MORSE.
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