The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF.DALLE8 CITY.
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STATE OFFICIALS.
Rnmnm - : . . S. PcnllOVl
Secretary of State.' G. W. McBrlde
Trojiaiiror Phiuio Metschan
Bupt. of Public Instruction .E. B. McElroy
. - IJ. N. Dolnh
snators ij H- Mitchell
nnvrMKmnn ... B. Hermann
State Printer Frank Baker
County Judge..
Sheriff
Clerk
Treasurer
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
c.n.
fore taken too little . interest in - the
science of political economy. He . has
been content to follow the plow rfnd
rear his stock, " then sell at. whatever
price might be dictated by capital, and
bay at rates over which he had no con
trol. Such a course, " notwithstanding
all our advantages, has left the farmer
comparatively stationary while mil
lionaires, made so by his labor, have
sprung up on everyside.
Senator Dolphhas been given the
chairmanship of the senate committee
on public lands.
NORTHWEST NEWS.
. Tuornbnry
...... .u. u tales
.....J. B. Crossen
Geo. Ruch
1 lf 4 T nnimt.it
Commissioners Frank Kincaid
. Assessor John E. Barnett
Surveyor E. F. Sharp
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy Shelley
Coroner William Michell
It has been proposed to compel the
government clerks at Washington to
work eight hours each day instead of six
and a half us at present and there is a
terrible tempest uinong the clerks in
consequence. If an increase of the
working efficiency of the department
and a reduction of expenditures are
brought about by the proposed change
the sooner it comes the better. The
practice of economy in this direction by
the present congress will meet with the
approval of everybody but the clerks
themselves. If the clerks don't like it
there are thousands in- this broad land
who would be glad to step into their
shoes and work ten hours a day if re
" quired for the same pay. There is no
reason in the world why Uncle Sam
should not get as much service for the
money as any other employer.
Last Wednesdav Objector Holman
introduced in the house and attempted
to put it through under a gag. A
resolution to the effect that all appro
priations, except those for the actual
existence of the government should not
pass. This would cut off. rivers and
harbors, public buildings everything
iu fact needed for the improvement and
development of the country. Two hours
are to be devoted to the discussion of
the proposition to day. It is an outrage
to devote two seconds to the discussion
of a proposition so utterly cranky and
preposterous.
' A narrow escape from drowaiug
occurred on a slough above the city yes
terday. Tom Haslet, Corey McDonald
and a number of others wereout skating
on the rotten ice and young Haslet vent
ured out too far, and the icegiving away
he went down. He called lustily for
help . and Mr. McDonald picked up a
willow liuib lying near, reached it out to
Haslet and saved him from a watery
grave. He immediately repaired to his
home to rirg out his dripping clothes
and reflect over his narrow escape.
It U said that the meaning of the two
syllables tval-la, found in so many
Indian names is not known and the
dUayllable is not found in any living
Indian language. As it is applied in at
least rive instances, to streams of
water, it is quite probable that it means
a river or stream or simply water.
Hence we have Wallaiuett, Smoothicater,
Piualla, Sandy or cold water; Tooinixalla
(Deschutes) Falling mater; Umalwallu,
Treelest water; Totovalla, Small water:
and Walla-Walla, many waters.
Rumor has it that a brewery will be
started in Rineville within the next
year.
The Portland licenss committee has
refused to srrant any liquor licence to
Chinamen.
W. Cobins died at Gervis on the 13th;
according to the coroner's jury, from
excessive drinking. ;
It was a Kansas preacher who startled
his congregation by exclaiming in his
prayer, 'God bless the-farmers from
whom all blessings flow."
Clias. V. : Nordstrom, charged with
shooting Willie Mason at Cedar moun
tain, was found guilty of murder in - the
first degree at Seattle on the 12 inst.
The state board of equalization has
increased the gross assessment of Wasco
county in the Eum of $282,872, and of
Sherman county in the sum of $14,804.
A Jewish temple will socn be erect
ed in Spokane and it is claimed that it
will be the first Jewish house of wor
ship in the states of Washington and
Idaho.
Chief Garry, of the Spokane Inuians,
died in tepee in the outskirts of Spokane
on the 13 inst. lie was Tcrv old and
led his tribe at the time the confeder
ated tribes met Colonel Steptoe in 1858.
James Loton, chairman of the state
central committee, has issued a call for
the committee to meet in Portland on
Februarv 3. The priucpal object of the
meeting wiil be to tlx ths time for hold-
the republican state convention. !
A number of ladies at Rineville recent
ly started a movement to close the busi
ness houses on i Sunday. It was met
with a remonstrance, which, it is said,
contained the name of every business
Mum in the town, except one."
At a Marriage License Wludow.
' A marriage license window is a queer
place, and one at which human nature
is bared tjv official inspection as it sel
dom is in any other government office.
Hither come the gossips to ask whether
certain couples whose names were pub
lished the other day have yet got mar
ried; to ask what sort of a looking man
it was - who took out a license to wed
with Susie Todd was he tall and light
or stout and dark? - And hither come an
gry mothers to say that no permit
should have been given for their
daughters, who are not so old as was
! said. They ask how the law can be in
voked to punish the offending bride
grooms. . But there are other brides who
appear to be forty or thirty, yet de
clare themselves thirty or twenty.
' Back' comes a man to ask if his permit
number cannot be changed, because he
wants to buy a lottery ticket of the same
number as his wedding license, and can
not do so unless a change is made. Old
men speak for girlish brides, and ancient
wrinkled women lead up very young
men, holding their arms as if they might
escape. Once a girl came weeping, and
said the man she meant to marry lay dy
ing, and there was not a moment to lose.
Indeed, it is a queer place, arid the whole
illimitable gamut that novelists have
spanned in many centuries is there at
hand still sounding fresh notes and of
fering new chords. Julian Ralph in
Harper's Weekly. '
Rollins; in Earnest " ih .
An old farmer in. Morgan,- oounty,
Ind., was busy . in ! his clearing soma
years ago rolling logs together, stacking
brush, pulling stnmps and the like, when
two hunters emerged unexpectedly from
the bushes. . " :
They "passed the time of day" with
the farmer, and the younger of them
said to his companion:
"Did yon ever do any work. of this sort,
judge?"
f'Yes, indeed," answered the. second
man. -
"Well," said the first speaker, "so did
I a good many years ago. Let's try our
hands at it now."
"Agreed," said the judge, and the two
men laid aside their guns, took off - their
coats and went to work with a will. At
the end of an hour they had finished
their stint, and the farmer offered to pay
them. -
"Oh, no," the strangers said; "you are
welcome to what we have done."
"Well, I don't know your names, gen
tlemen, nor whom I nave to thank,
but"
"My name is Elliot," the judge broke
in, "ana my iriena Here is benator Harrison."
"You don't mean it!" exclaimed the
farmer, and as the United States sena
tor and the judge of the supreme court
started into the woods he said to him
self: . ,
"Well, now, I've read a good deal in
the papers about these politicians a-log
rollin, but I'm blest if I thought they
ever really did it." Youth's Companion.
- SOCIETIES.
, A S3BMBLY NO. 4827, K. OF JL Meets tn K.
xx of P. hall the second and fourth Wednes
days of each month at 7 :30 p. m
v8CO LODGE, NO. 15, A. F. & A. M Meets
' first and third Monday of each month at 7
M
DALLES BOYAR ARCH CHAPTER NO. 6.
Meets in Masonic Hall the third Wednesday
of each month at 7 P. M.
ODEBN WOODMEN OF THE WORLD.
Mt. Hood Camrj No. 59. Meets Tueadav mn.
tug of each week in the K. of P. Hall, at 7:30 p. M.
COLUMBIA LODGE, -NO. 6, I. O. O. F. Meets
everv Fridav evenlns- at 7:30 o'cAnrlr. in tr
of P. hall, corner Second and Court streets!
Sojourning-brothers are welcome.
ti. plough, Hec'y, . a. A. B1XX8,N. G.
FRIENDSHIP LODGE, NO. 9., K. of P. Meets
every Monday evoning at 7:30 o'clock, in
Schanno's building, corner of Court and Second
streets. Sojourning members are cordially in.
Tited. . ' W. 8. Uaia. .
D. VV.Vacse, K. of R. and S. . . C.C ;
TIT-OMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERENCE
T T UNION will meet every Friday afternoon
at S o'clock at the reading room. All are invited.
TEMPLE LODGE NO. 8, A. O. V. W. Meets
at K. f P. Hall, Corner Second and Court
Streets, Thursday evenings at 7:30.
John Filloon,
W. S Myees, Financier. M. W,
TAS. NESMITH POST, No. 3a, G. A. R. Meets
every Saturday at 7:30 P. sc., in the K. of P.
Hall.
OF L. E. Meets every Sunday afternoon in
ine iv. ot r. nan.
Sunday
B.
iESANg' VEREIN Meets every
VT evening in the K.ot -P. Hall.
OF L. F. DIVISION, No. 167 Meets in the
K. of P. Hall the first and third Wln na
na oi eacn monin, s T.tfi r. x
B.
THE CHl'KCHKS.
Ioes Modern Education Educate?
One of the greatest disadvantages of
an exclusively college education is that
it is apt to foster what Macaulay calls a
"Chinese cast of mind," that stnpid con
tempt of everything beyond the wall of
the college man's celestial empire: The
defenders of a- college education claim
as their own every man of distinction
who has tittended college, whereas these
men became eminent authors, lawyers,
statesmen, etc., in spite of the fact that
they spent several of the most valuable
years of their lives at college, and were
only saved from the obscurity of the
majority of college bred men by syste
matically neglecting the dull .routine of
prescribed studies and spending their
time in desultory reading.
. Bacon, Dryden, Sheridan, Byron,
Scott, Wellington and many other illus
trious men ,went to college, but dis
dained to subject their intellects to the
antiquated course of studies prescribed.
Who were the senior wranglers at col
lege when the men just mentioned were
cutting the classics and reading history,
poetry and fiction? The very namesurf
the successful scholars are unknown,
but the "idle young men" who refused
to be tied to the mental corpse of a dead
literature made their names immortal.
No Name Magazine.
ST. PETER'S CHURCH Rev. Father Brons
geest Pastor. Low Mass every Sundav at
7 a. M. High Mass at 10:30 a. . Vespers at
f r, n.
ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Preaching
in theY. M. C. A. rooms every Sunday at 11
a. in. ami 7 p. m. Sunday school immediately
Duei uiuiiuug acTvu-u. jj. a. urcunru, pastor.
ST. PAUL'3 CHURCH Union Street, opposite
Fifth. Rev. Eli D. Sutclifte Rector. Servino.
every bunuay at ha. m. ana 7:30 p. m. Sunday-
School 9 :4j A. Jt. Evening Prayer on Fridav ot
:30 i
it
everv Sab-
uuiu at me acaaemy at 11 a. m. baDDatn
bcaool Immediately alter morning services.
Prayer meetine rnttay eveuinir at Pastor s resi
dence. Unicn services in the. court house at 7
1: M. - -. .- - .
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Rev. W. C
Curtis, Pastor. Services every Sunday at 11
17IRST BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. O. D. "Ta
. loe. Pastor. Morning services every Si
1. I. and 7 p. x. Sunday School after moraine
wn ice. Strangers cordially invited. Seats free.
E. CHURCH Rev. A. C. Spencer, pastor.
Services every Sunday rnormnir. Sundav
School at 12:20 o'clock p. tt. A cordial invitation
is extended by both pastor and people to all.
-Cj. IE. CEOWJU.
MAYS & CROWE,
SALE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED
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RooPti" and"ChattetOak
STOVES AND RANGES.
Jevetfs Steel Rasps, aai Riclardson's and Boston's Furnaces.
We also keep a large and complete stoek oi
Hardware, Tinware, Granite, Blueware, Silverware, Cutlerv,
Barbed Wire, Blacksmiths' Coal, Pumps, Pipe,
Packing, "Plumbers Supplies, Guns,
Ammunition and Sporting Goods.
Plumbing. Tinning, Gun Repairing- and Light
Machine Work a Specialty.
COB. SKCOKD AND FKDEKAt 9T9.,
THE DALLES, OXtEGOX.
Gre
Bar gains !
How Maskrats Are Trapped.
Uhy Some Corks Are Made liy Hand. t
The reason for making champagne
corks by hand is curious and interesting, i
The cork machine is provided with cir- !
cular knives of razorlike edge. Now, the
crude cork is so rough and hard that if
it were applied to one of these rapidly
revolving knives the knife would at once
be ruined. So crude cork that is to be
cut by machinery must be softened in a
steam vat. It cornea out almost pulpy
and cuts like- cheese. But the steam
! takes the "life" out of the cork. " Its
elasticity is gone, never to be recovered,
and when the machine cut cork is
driven into a bottle the cork tends to
shrink and permit leakage.
Furthermore, the machine made cork
is mathematically round, while the
necks of bottles are more or less irregu
lar. As the machine made cork has lost
its elasticity, its smooth, round surface
cannot swell out to fill any irregularity
in the neck of the bottle, and here ia an
other source of leakage, New York
Sun.
Wanted the Telegraph Man Fired.
There is r. story going that a business
manager recently proved himself
strangely ignorant. He went to the
managing editor and complained. -
"Are you aware, sir," said he, "that
your telegraph editor is grossly neglect-
A.. A. Brown,
Keeps a full assortment of
Staple and Fancy Groceries,
and Provisions.
which he oft'err at Low Figure.
SPEGIRL :-: PRICES
to Cash Buyers.
Removal ! Removal !
On account of Removal I vill sell my
entire stock: of Boots and Shoes, Hats
and Caps, Trunks and Valises, Shelv
ings, Counters, Desk, Safe, Fixtures,
at a Great Bargain. Come and see
my offer.
GREAT REDUCTION IN RETAIL.
Higkst Casl Prices for Egp M
otter Proince.
170- SECOND STREET.
A iiew political party is in process of
incubation. It is to be called-- the Col
umbian party. The chief incubator is
James G. Means ihs shoe manufacturer.
Just now James is trying to hatch mug
wump eggs into Columbian chickens
"With what success the future alone can
tell. It is beopming however, more aud
-more evident every day that the greatest
-crank on the American footstool wiil
have no trouble finding some party with
which he will be at home during the
next presidential campaign. 1.
125 . eeond Stireet,
The Dalles.
HEW FflLL BP WHITER DRY GOODS
COMPLETE IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. .
Clothing, Gents' furnishing Goods, Hats, Gaps,
Boots and Shoes. .;. r r
Full Assortment of the Leading Manufacturers. 1
.avinsr made arrangements with a
numoer of Factories, I am pre
- pared to. furuislf; :
Gash Bayers will save money 'by examining ouf stoek
and prices before purchasing elsewhere.
- The Portland pitpnich can always see
a silver back-ground to a democratic
cloud. .Speaking of the cat and d'ox
time the club metting had in Portland
last Saturday when Chairman Whitaker
bad to use tone vigorous cuss words to
preserve t he shadow of order the IKpatch
says: "The lively time ' had in the
democratic club meeting Saturday after
noon is' evidence of great vitalitv in the
Oregon democracy." . That's ao. ", " -
Trapping is one of the modes by which I ing his duty and wasting our time?"
mnaVmta nra CArnroH Tlia (vina o ! - "Whv. Tin " WA3 tVlA renlv; "what
IS
.- The faction Cght going on' in . Ireland
bas recently developed at least one
amusing feature. ThcPamellites allege
that Tim Healy has in his possession a
written guumntee of tha Irish lord
chancellorship -with an Irieh peerage,
under the title Viscount Healy in case
the McCarthy! tea are the winning faction
when the liberals comeinto power. The
charge ia preeminently absurd, but me
Lord Tim Ileal y is good.
made of boards about 6 inches wide and
3 feet long. These are nailed together
like an ordinary box trap, the open ends
being secured by swinging doors of wire
network, fastened to the upper part of .
both entrances. : These doors allow easy
ingress to the trap, but once in the rat
cannot get out without opening the door
by pulling it to him,' which secret they
seem very slow to discover. ; These traps
are put' in the leads running from the
houses to the water when the tide is at
low ebb and the -rats are out feeding.
On the return they crawl up: the leads,'
push against one of the wire doors of
the trap, which immediately opens into
the trap, but they cannot go further, as
the next door opens- toward them.' - Be
fore they can gnaw out the tide makes
npand they are drowned in the trap.
By having a number of traps and watch
ing the tides closely a trapper can cap
ture a large number in this wav. Balti
more Sun. - - ' . v ',
- J ad ted b Hit Appnue.:v..i : J
An amusing incident occurred . some
time ago which illustrates the ' scanty
ceremony with which ' shabbily1 dressed
people are of ten treated. . A , country !
magnate in the north of England was
called upon with reference to a scheme'
for the furtherance of some local charity
by a person whom the servant, judging 't
by his timeworn habiliments, described
to his master as ? 'either a beggar or "a
tout for orders," adding that he had left
him in the hall, not thinking it safe to
show him into one of. the rooms. The
"beggar or tout" turned out to be
Why, no.
the matter?"
"Well, for several successive morn
ings now I have been watching him, and
I notice that the first thing he does when
he gets down in the morning is to begin
reading the - morning papers. I don't
wish to be captious, but it appears to me
he had better attend to his work -first,
and then if he has time to read the pa
pers he can do so." : -. ; -
A telegraph editors .first duty is to
read the morning papers. Exchange,
mm Winnftws Mnn mink
UIUUIUIUU
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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
beore purchasing elsewhere.
Wm. Saundetrs,
'Office over French's Bank.
W. E. GARRETSOH,
' Wautetl tha "Ghost" to-Walk. ' ,
- "I was up all last' night washing for
the theater ' folks," said my old colored
laundress, "and now I've got to sit Tip
all night tonight -to get my money.' Yon
see the opera company goes away. This
is their last night here, and if I , don't
watch .'em they'll go 'way and leave me
without a cent. Don't you .tell me, honey
I know them." They'Ve done fool me
lots of times. It's the 'ghost' I want to
see right now, I tell 'em, and nice big
words don't bny no- potatoes." ----.
Late that night I saw her sitting pa
tiently at the "stage door-contemplating
the Johnnies and the scenery wagons
and waiting for the "ghost." What a
world this is! New York Herald.
Leading
Jeweler
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SOtBiACEXI rOH tHI
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All Watch Work Warranted.
Electric Centl. do.
Least attractive among the insects
which give li- 'it are the so called "elec
tric centipedes" "-black crawlers with
many legs, which have been likened . to
serpents' -skeletons in .miniature.- They
move in a snakelike fashion, forward or
no bacL .vard, leaving behind them a bright
Jewelry Made to Order.
138 Second St.. The ImllesOr.
- John. L. Sullivan is-said to have de
clared himself in favor of the McKinlry
tariff and of Blaine for president.' That's
a strong. endorsement.
The fanners' aliiiinee arid 'the -grange
are doing a great work ia the education
pf it masses. The farmer has hereto-
track of phosphoric light. However, they
are most uccustomed to appear in the
' daytime, when the illumination they af-
ford ia not visible. Washington Star. .
less a personage than the member for
the district, and one of the richest men
in the conntv. London-Tit-Bits.
Notice.' .-
All Dalles City warrants registered I
I' V w tilt. VL. iWl'. i 'I- L. . I I V. 11 ... , - , , . n.,
nrnaontn f Affift i r. llVlDS ln-lVlk COUIltV, txA. TllO TiaMU?
from ami after this !ate. 1 of tae famuy is Liles. The motiit-r.u
Itetted January llth, lt02. -' j said to be 107 years old, hrr oldest living'
- O. KtNEiiSLY, '- - i child 03 vnr3Tid her ypnngest C3 yenis.
tf. . Tjeas. PallesCitv. i ' -
FLOURING MILL TO LEASE.
rmm old dai-i.tcs mill and water
J Companv' Flour Mill will be leased to re
sponsible parties. For information apply to the
WATER COMMISSIONERS,
- '1 he Dalles, Oregon.
Fonml.
" There is said to be a remarkable family
! A couple of safe or padlock keys, tied
i together with a string. The owner can
t find them at this office. -
Found. "
A small surgical instrument. The
owner can have it by calling at this
H. Herbring.
The Dalles Mercantile Co..
Successors to BROOKS A BEERS, Dealer in
General Merchandise, Staple and Faney 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 Curs and all parts of the City.
' 390 and 394- Second Street - . ;
H. C. NI
Glottiiep and
Tailbr
BOOTS AND SHOES;
Hats and Caps, Trunks and Valises,
CORNER OF SECOND AND WASHING n. i
EGON
PAUL KREFT $40.,
-DEALERS IN-
Paints, Oils, Glass
And the Most Complete nnd the Latest :
Patterns ana Designs "i ;
WATjIj 3E-A.I333E..
I'riietirnl Painters nnd Paper Ilnucern. None
but the best brands of the Hheruin-Willianis
Paint used in all rar work, nud uone but the
most skilled workmen employed. AU order
promptly attended to 10-17-a
Store and raint Shop corner Third and
Waahlngtou Street.
The Old Germania Saloon.
JOHN DON AVON, 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 HA.ND.