The Dalles Daily Chronicle. A FIGHT TO THE DEATH.
l-ublUhed Dili!-, Suudnv Excepted. ;
BY
THE CHKOMCLE PUBLISHING CO.
A FIERCE AND. BLOODY KNIFE DUEL
IN A MOUNTAIN TOWN. -
Corner Second and Washinfttc-i Streets,
. Dalle,.Oregon.
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""' STATE OFFICIALS.
The. it Watt the Culmination of I Jong Stand
ing Feud, and Va Precipitated byt m
Cur JJog Sanguinary Results of rv-
bridled Ferocity.
tella
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Governor
Secretary of State .'
Treisurer
Supt. of Public Instruction
S. Feimoyer
. . J. W. Moliri.le
Phillip Mctvchini
...E. ft. MeElroy
-inators ... jj J Mj'teheU
Congressman h. Hermann
State Printer Frank Bdker
COCMV OFFICIALS.
Countv Judge C. N. Thorabary
Sherirf
Clerk
Treasurer
Commissioners
..1). I Cates
J. B. Crossen
Geo. Ruch
tH' A. Ivcns
"' ) frank Kincaid
Assessor John K. Burnett
Survevor E. F. Sharp
Superintendent of Public Schools ... Trov Shellev
Coroner William Michel!
The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
Eastern Oregon roads are bail enough '
in all conecienee, but ve have few that !
will equal o::e in Western Oregon that j
we read of the other day a leading j
county road iit that that was covered i
with water to such a depth that the su
pervisor had set uj stakes to indicate
.where the road ought to be and a trav-
eler passing that way and not keeping'
his eye on the stakes got off the "road"
and came near being drowned. Xo won- j
der the Dallas Obnei-rer man says "Oh. j
that the people of this country would j
rise as one man and swear by the eter- j
nal that our roads must be improved." j
A woman whose husband had sqnan- 1
dered $13 ovsr night in a saloon in Xew j
York City went to the place in the'
morning and asked to get the money j
back. Of course she did not get it, but '
she took from a basket which she had
on her arm two plain homely-looking
bricks and, with them as a weapon, she
It was Saturday and "trading day,"
and the little mountain town was filled
with scores of both white and colored
people from up and down the valley.
There was considerable drinking, but
everybody seemed good natured to me.
I could not see the slightest sign of un
easiness, but by and by the captain came
to me as I stood in front of the postoffice
and said:
"Looks mighty like thar' was gwine
to be bloodshed yerel" '
"Why, everybody seems peaceful and
serene, so far as I can see."
"Yo' doan' know these folks. See that
yere gatherin over by the harness shop?
That's the Jackson crowd. See that
other gatherin over by the drug store?
That's the Berry crowd. They're jist
eyin each other like two bulldogs, and a
leetle mo' whisky'll bring on a font."
"Is there any feeling between the two
crowds?" I asked.
"Powerful bad. I duu goes cl'ar back
to the wah. The Jacksons was Union
and the Berry's was Confed. Thar was
honseburnin and robbin and shoo tin,
and they doan forget. It's the fnst time
the two crowds hev bin in town together
fur inore'n a y'ar, and I doan like the
looks of things."
"Cant the officers' of the lav keep
them quiet?"
"Officers of the lawl Why, man, if
therii crowds, were to break loose fifty
officersof the law couldn't prevent blood
shed!" .The leaders of the respective factions
were men who must have been mere boys
when the war broke but. Each had
about a dozen adherents, who were all
more or less closely related.
HOW THE FIGHT STARTED.
They did not seem at all anxious for a
conflict and might have gone their ways
without a blow but for the action of a
dog. He was a mean looking car an-1
belonged to the Jacksons. In wander
ing around he got into the Berry crowd
and one1 of the men sliced about six
inches of his tail off. The dosr rushed
uevoieu ner neei. ngunnz energies 10 : w.t, n rnnsW whilo tw
demolish about $500 worth of cut glass crowd mocked his yelps of pain and
and French mirrors. The law would : fright.
say that this, spiteful little womon ! All of a sudden Steve Jackson stepped
should be punished, but where is the 1 to me niiaoie ot tlie street, nung down
jury to be found that would convict
her? It docs' not exist. ZN'ot even if
selected from the saloons of New York
itself.
Tha Meeting; Adjourned.
A guide in the Yellowstone" park
the following: .
Us fellers had the mostest fun when a
Washington cove named -Hall went 1
through the park. That was about three
years ago, when the "Beehive" geyser
just broke loose, and everybody was hot
fer seein the "Beehive."
Wall, us drivers had heerd tell as how
this Hall was pow'rf ul smart at sermon
izin, so we all piles up ter the chapel.
I ain't much of a judge, but I think it
was about as ordinary a piece o' preach
fn as I ever heerd. Never heerd a shout
from the amen benches, an not a soul
got religion, an I don't think much of a
parson as can't stir up more excitement
than that. So my pal. Geyser Bob, he
was there, and said he, "I bet I know a
feller as can empty that whole room
quicker than a coyute can kick." "All
right," sez I, and I knowed there was
goin ter be some fun, but I was a bit
afraid that Bob was a goin to shoot; but
he didn't. He just yells in the door, "The
Beehive is spoutin!" an inside of ten
seconds there wasn't but six people in
the house besides the preacher, an he
sez quick as a wink, fer I think he want
ed ter git out himself, "Brethern, I
think we better adjourn the meeting ter
see the Beehive." Philadelphia Record.
SOCIETIES.
A SSEMBLY NO. 4827, K. OF L Meets in K
iA. of P. ball the second and fourth Wedues
days of each month at 7:IW p. m.
TXTA8CO LODGE, NO. 15, A. F. & A. M. Meets
1 T
r, u.
first and third Monday of each month at '
When Wij-a Were Popular.
Writers transmit to us some curious
facts in regard to the demand and sup
ply of false hair when wigs were in
fashion. The trade in wigs, for France
supplied all the rest of Europe, became
immense, and was represented in Paris
by a large number of wholesale mer
chants, who employed cutters to operate
in the provinces, especially in Normandy,
Flanders and Holland, where the hair of
the women was finer. The hair of warm
countries was not wanted, because too
coarse. English women and girls did
not care to part with their hair, and
were not so poor as to be forced to the
sacrifice. Some villages in Normandy
furnished as much as ten pounds, aver
aging two feet in length.
The price was from four to five francs
a pound, and it was cut from the heads
of the living, from the heads of the
dead or eewed after combing, each kind
having its commercial name. The great
demand at last rendered the supply so
scarce that horsehair had to be used in
stead or in part. Cincinnati Commer
cial Gazette.
XOKTHWEST TSEWS.
At Fish Lake, in the Cascade moun
tains, twenty miles north of Prineville,
snow is reported to be eleven feet deep.
The democrats of Oregon will ..have a
grand banquet in Portland next Friday
evening. It will cost $5 a plate, so the
official account says. j
All the saloons of Prineville entered J
into an agreement on the first of the
month not to sell any more liquor on I
credit. This policy is expected to en-!
force prohibition "on tne army of impe-!
cunious drunks. j
A democratic club was organized at
Hood Uiver on the 2nd, with a member
ship of twenty-five, which it is to lie
hoped will be increased to one hundred.
Charles S. Roberts is president ; C. L.
Morse, vice-presidens : T. Prather, sec
retary; and J. B. Rand, treasurer. In
connection with the club a committee
was appointed to organize a tariff reform
league consisting ot tne louowing gentle
. t y I 1 CI T V I ' i- C
men : uiiaries . Kooeris, j. v .
ord and C S. Stowell.
Wolf-
. An Ex-Railroad President Dead. i
.Chkoo, Jan. 3. John B. Carson,
x-presideiit of the Chicago & Western
Indiana Belt Line railroad, ex-president
of the Louisville, New Albany k Chicago
railwav, and who had held many other
important railroad positions, died this
morning, after an illness which-compelled
him to retire two years ago.
.pcr itt;t.-uk!it:t)ii.
i'ni-r i;i:iicatiun implies that the
food lx- 'tlivroaghly chewed and mixed
wilh !ua- fluids of the mouth before be
ing Kwaihiwsd and that these functions
be performed without haste. Most peo
ple eat as though t'.is-y were ignorant of
the fact that the stomach has no teeth
or means of eiitaiivating the food with
which they fill it. . The' stomach is
most faithful servitor aud makes a long
and earnest struggle to preserve its
owner from the inevitable consequences
of imposing upon it functions which na
ture intended should be performed by
the teeth and the salivary glauds; but.
like the indulgences of a faithful mother')
or any other self sacrificing friend, its i
services are only recognised when it is
unable to respond to demands for them.
Most people as they approach middle
life lose many of their back teeth, which
are the principal implements of mastica
tion, bnt they fail to bear in mind that
they should take more time at their meals
in order to properly prepare their food for
swallowing. They, should remember
, that nature makes no allowance for their
' infirmities in this respect, bnt will hold
them to a strict account for any neglect
to ' observe the rules of health. -Washington
Star.
his hat and shouted:
"Tom Berry, ef yo' hain't a coward,
como out yere and fight me!"
The challenge was instantly accepted
and within sixty seconds a ring was
formed and 800 people werp looking on.
The men were pretty evenly matched as
to height and weight and age. It was
not to be a battle with fists, but with .
long, keen hunting knives, and. yon could
tell at a glance that it was to be a fight
to the death. At first there was much
jostling and moving about, accompanied
by shouts of encouragement to the men,
but after a few moments it was quiet
painfully quiet. I think there were at
least thirty women among the onlookers
and fully that number of boys and girls
from ten to eighteen years of age."-
BOTH DUELISTS KILLED.
It was the first and only time I ever
saw men fight with knives, and it was a
horrible thing to see. " As soon as their
friends fell back they rushed upon each
other with the greatest fury. . Each
griped the other with his left hand and
stabbed and thrust, and each ' was
wounded four or five times before they
broke loose. Not a person in the crowd
spoke above a whisper. Every eye fol
lowed the men as they feinted and
dodged like prize fighters, and men and
women shivered and gasped for breath
as one or, the. other of the knives drank
blood.
The road was dry, but without dust.
Presently it was dyed with blood. . The
men slipped a. little now and .then as
they dodged about. . . Blood ran off their
finger tips, down their legs. I trembled
like a leaf. I felt a horrible disgust, and
yet I could not move away. I felt I
must see the end.
When the fight had lasted a quarter of
an hour, and one man had eight stabs
and the other nine they suddenly
clinched each other, as at first. . Neither
uttered a cheer, curse or groan,
'.' They stood square up to each' other,
and hacked and cut acd thrust until
both sank down from sheer weakness.
Jackson died within ten minutes; Berry
lived about thirty. The one had thirty-
three wounds, the other twenty-eight,
As they were picked up by their friends
and carried into the drugstore to breathe
their last, the hogs running about the
village came and disputed with the
dozen dogs over possession of the blood
pools. Detroit Tree Press.
Peculiar Roses.
One of the wars of the roses, the fierc
est and deadliest of them all, was fought
on a field where, curiously enough, a
rose peculiar to the spot grows or used
to grow. It is a rare plant now, and the
reason is explained by Mr. Leadman in
his account of Yorkshire battles. After
describing the terrible battle at Towton
on Palm Sunday, 1461, he says: "I can
not conclude this story of Towton field
without an allusion to the little dwarf
bushes peculiar to the 'Field of tine-
White Rose and the Red.'
"They are said to have been plentiful
at the commencement of this century.
but the visitors have taken them away
in each numbers that they have become
rare. Such vandalism is simply shame
ful ? for the plants are. said to be unique
and unable to exist in any other soil.
The little roses are white, with a red'
spot on the center of each of their petals,
and as they grow old the under surface
becomes a dull red color. London
News. .
DALLES ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER NO. 6.
Meets in Masonic Hall the third Wednesdav
of each month at T P. M. . .. "
MODERN WOODMEN OF THE WORLD.
Mt Hood Camp No. 59, Meets Tuesday even
ing of each week in the K. of P. Hall, at 7:i r. u.
COLUMBIA LODGE, NO. 5, I. O. O. F. Meets
every Friday evening at 7:80 o'clock, in K.
of P. hall, corner Second and Court streets.
Sojourning brothers are welcome.
If. Clough. Sec'v. . H. A. Bills,?. G.
FRIENDSHIP LODGE, NO. 9., K. of P.Meets
every Monday evening at 7:30 oclock, in
Sobunno's building, corner of Court and Second
streets. Sojourning members are cordiallv in
vited. W. s. Cm. "
D. W.Vause, K. of R. and S. C. C.
VTTOMEX'S CHRISTIAN TEMPESENCE
M UNION will meet every Friday afternoon
at 8 o'clock at the reading room. All are invited.
yEMPLE LODGE NO. 3, A. O. V. W. Meets
X at K. of P. Hall. Corner Second and Court
Streets, Thursdav evenings at 7:30.
John Filloos.
W. S Mvkrs, Financier. M. V.
T AS. NESMITH POST, No. 32. G. A. R. Meets
f J every Sutnrdiiv at 7:30 r. m., in the K. of P.
Hall.
EOBT. TvT A STS.
-Ti. jE. C"EaO"W"E5,'
MAYS; & CROWE,
-SALE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED-
OF L. E. Meets every Suudnv
the K. of P. Hall.
afternoon in
B.
C- ESANG VERF.IK Meets even- Sunday
W evening in the K. of P. Hall. "
B.
OK L. F. DIVISION, No. 167 Meets in the
K. oi P. Kali the nrst and third Wednes
day of each month, st 7:3) r. M.
A, A. Brown,
Keeps a full assortment of
Staple ami Fancy Groceries,
and Provisions.
which he oft'ere at L-.v Figures.
SPEGIflli :-: PRIGES
to Cash. Buyers.
Hiitat Cask Prices for Ep M
other Proiiice.
'Keovn9 9 and 'Ghattet Oak
STOVES AND RANGES.
Jewett's Steel Ranps, ani toarta's and Bopton's Furnaces.
We also keep a large and complete stoek of
9 9
Hardware, Tinware, Granite, Blueware, Silverware, Cutlery,
-barbed V ire, Blacksmiths' Coal, Pumps,
Packing, Plumbers Supplies, Guns,
Ammunition and Sporting Goods. -
Pipe,
Plumbing, Tinning, Gun Repairing and Light
Machine Work a Specialty.
COK. SHC OM ANI FEDERAL ST3.,
THE DALLES, OliEGO.N.
eat
Bargains !
Removal I 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, Desk, Safe, Kirctnres,
at a Great Bargain. Come and see
my offer.
170 SECOND STREET.
Tha Growth of Crystals.
Some crystals, it is believed, have had
their growth suspended during millions
of years, after which enormous lapse of
time the growth has been renewed. Such
a process would be impossible to animals
and plants, although some imaginative
story writers have-treated their-readers
to wonderful accounts of suspended ani
mation in man.
In one respect crystals possess-a great
advantage over living beings like our
selves they are able to renew their
yontbl This is act because they have
discovered a counterpart of the marvel
ous fountain that Ponce de Leon so vain
ly searched for, but because the forces
of crystallization are able to renew their
action even after the greater part of a
crystal has been destroyed through age
or accident. Youth's Companion.
luIiQe piateriais!
ms' made arrangements with a
nmiioerof Factories, I am pre
pared to faruiah
Dooi-s, Windows, Monldings,
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. Saunders,-
Office over French's Bank.
GREAT REDUCTION IN RETAIL.
J. FREIMMN,
THE CHCKCHES.
OT. PETER'S CHURCH
O GEEOT Pastor. Low Mass every Sunday at
7 A.
71. M.
Rev. Father Bitoxs-
High Mass at 10:30 A. N. Vespers at
ST. PATJL'8 CHURCH Union Street, opposite
Fifth. Rev. Eli IXSutclift'e Rector. Berviees
every Sunday at 11 a. m . and
School 9:4a. A. M.
7:80 ...
-.38 P. M. Sunday
Evening Prayer on Friday at
125 econd Street,
The Dalles.
HEV7 FALL BHD WIHTEB DRY MS
COMPLETE IX EVERY DEPARTMENT.
Clothing, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Hats, Gaps,
Boots and Shoes.
Full Assortment of the Leading Manufacturers.
VI. E. GARRETSON,
Leatliag Jeweler.
' SOUS ACKXt FOU THE '
iiniiiiiiiriiir"-'-"-'i- i imiiini mnirt
All Watch Work Warranted.
Jewelry Made to Order.
138 Second St.. The Dalle. Or.
Mysteries of Manufacture.
. Cigar Manufacturer Yes, sir, id's an
actual fact that cigar boxes are not made
out of cedar at all; they are made out of
paper and colored with cedar extract.
Friend Well! well! Now won't you
please tell me what cigars are made of?
Good News.
Bently composed after playing a pre
lude on the organ, or while taking his
"ante jentacalar" or '-post prandial"
walks he found in the solitude of the
dense forests something more profound
and suggestive than anything ho could
find in books.
A' Boarding. SchMl Supper.
A teacher in a large .boarding school
for young ladies used to jest over a pupil
whose appetite at table caused her neigh
bora serious alarm, m It was the custom
to have hot raised biscuits twice a week
for supper, -and this girl, after eating six
one evening, gave her teacher and doctor
a very bad night indeed. It never seemed
to enter anybody's head that hot yeast
biscuit was the food above all others to
cause morbid appetite and bilious at
tacks. Yet the supper -of hot biscuits
and cheese with honey or preserves is one
of the institutions of boarding schools,
and worse fare for growing girls it would
be hard to find. Shirley Dare's Letter.
j Some Famous Eenoos.
There is a famous echo on the Rhine
between Coblentz and Bingen, which re
peats a word seventeen times, while in
the eepulcher of .. Metella, the wife of
Sulla, in the Roman campagna there is
an echo which repeats five times in dif
ferent keys, and will also give back with
distinctness a hexameter line which . re
quires two and a half seconds to utter.
Brewster mentions an echo on the north
side of Shipley church, in Sussex, Eng
land, which repeats twenty-one syllables.
Brooklyn Eagle.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. O. 1. Tay
ior, Pastor. Morning services every Sab
nuth at the academy at 11 . ic. - Sabbath
School 'immediately alter morning services
Trayer meeting Friday ewminjr at Pastor's resi
dence. Union services in the court bouse at 7
P.M.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Rev. W. C.
Curtis, Pastor. Services every Sunday at 11
a. If. and 7 P. M. Sunday School after morning
service. 8trangers eordiully invited. Seats free.
ME. CHURCH Kev. A. C. Spemcer, pastor.
Services everv Sunday morning. Sunduv
School at 12:20 o'clock P. M. A cordial invitation
is extended by both pastor aud people to all. -
FLOURING MILL TO , LEASE.
'pHE OLD D-ALLES MILL AND WATER
J Company's Hour Mill will be leased to re
sponsible parties. For information apply to the
WATER COMMISSIONERS,
'1 he Dalles. Oregon.
Fonnd.
A couple- of safe or padlock keys, tied
together with a string. The owner cam
find them at this office." -
Cash Bayers mill save money by examining oar stock
and prices before parehasing elsetahere.
H. Herbring.
JOS. T. PET6RS & CO.,
-DEALERS IN-
LiUmBEf. COHD WOOD
KND
General
Building
Office and Yard Corner of First and Jefferson Streets.
North Side of Railroad Track.
LOST
A buneb of keys on a ring, G or 7 in
numer. Finder , will be .rewarded by
leaving same at this office.
ttUVL BUTLtER & CO.,
" THE LEADERS"
The Dalles Mercantile Co.,
.1 !
Successors to BROOKS & BEERS, Dealers in
General Merchandise,
: Staple, and Fang Dry ..Goods,
Gents' Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, etc.
Groceries,
Provisions,-
Hardware,
Flour; Bacon,
HAY, GRAIN AND PRODUCE
Of all Kinds at Lowept Market Kates. ;.
Free Delivery to Boat and Curs and all parts of. the City.
IN
Office and Tart cor. First and Jefferson Sts. . SOUTH SIDE of Railroad Tract
PAUL KREFT CO.,
DEALERS IN
Paints, Oils, Glass
And the Most Complete and the Loteut
Patterns and Designs in
390 and 394 Second Street
Practical Painters and Paper Hangers. None
but the best brands of the Sherwin-Williams
Paint used in all our work, and none but the
most skilled workmen employed. All orders
promptly attended to 10-17-d
SHOP-Adjoining Red front Grocery,
THIRD STUTEBT. ...
The Old Germania Saloon.
JOHN DONflVOH, Proprifstor.
The best quality of Wines, Liquors and
Cigars, Pabst Milwaukee Knicker
' bocker and Columbia Beer,
Half and Half and all kinds
of Temperance Drinks. y
ALWAYS ON HAN p.