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The Dalles Daily Chronicle. OFFICIAL PAPER OF DALLES CITY. Published Daily, Bunday Excepted. BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Corner Becond and Washington Streets, The Dalles, Oregon. Terms of Subscription. Per Year 16 00 Per month, by carrier 60 Single copy 6 STATE OFFICIALS. Governoi S. Pennoyer Secretary of State O. W. McBride Treasurer Phillip Metschan Supt. of Public Instruction E. B. McElroy -frM&ell Congressman B. Hermann State Printer Frank Baker COUNTY OFFICIALS. County Judge. C. N. Thornbary Sheriff ..!. L. Cates Clerk J. B. C roe sen Treasurer Geo. Rueh Commissioners l&tknS'd Assessor John E. Barnett Surveyor E. F. Sharp Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy Shelley Coroner William Michell AN IMPORTANT SUGGESTION. Something must be done for our county roads and the sooner that souie thingja begun the Letter. Judge Tiiorn bury informs the Cuhdxicle that u levy of twenty-three mills will about meet our county expenses for the current year. That means a levy of two mills less than last year. Now the Chronicle suggests that the court fix tke levy at twenty-five mills, the same as last year and devote the two mills to the improve ment of our county roads. Hood River needs road improvements, Tygh Hill de mands a new grade, the read between here and Long Ward's needs permanent improvements to make it passible at times when it is most needed, other places in the county are also crying for road improvement that cannot possibly be made by the ordinary work of the respective road districts. Two mills will give between five and six thousand dollars for this work and this sum judic iously spent will do an immense amount of good. The addition of two mills to the tax levy will never be felt by the farmers. It means only a couple of dollars additional on each thousand dol lars of taxable property. The. farmers cannot afford to kick because they will reap the greatest benefit from the tax. The Dalles ought not to kick because every dollar it pays in this way will come back again ten fold. Let all who are interested in the improvement of our county roads attend the meeting at the county court room tonight and re solve that the tax levy shall be increased two mills to raise a fund for this much needed work. The Australian ballot law may not ac complish all that some people expect but it cannot fail to greatly embarrass the work of the old line ticket peddler and ward striker. The state prints tke tickets and allows none to be distribu ted on the outside. The voter must re ceive his ballot from a- sworn officer. After receiving it he must go into a booth dr closet where no one can see him and there prepare it himself. This may not put an end to bribery but it will go a long way towards that end. The man who would offer a bribe can never be sure the goods are delivered. It will put an end to the abominable system "of ticket fixing. The grand old method too -of filling voters full of beer and whiskey, preparing their ballots and marching them up to the polls like bo many sheep will get a set back. Bulldozing and coercion will give way to reason and moral suasion. Of course the bosses-! -will find some way to get around some of the provisions but they cannot get .around them all or at least not all at on .time and loop holes, if any are found, cam l patched up by the next legislature. - Secretary of State Weir of Washington is authority for the statement that Senator Allen baa announced his will ingness to accept the appointment to the judgeship of the ninth district in case it be tendered him. Mr. Weir thinks that Allen will receive the appointment or the president will name one outside the state. It is understood that Senator Allen supported W. Lair Bill as long as there was any hope of his appointment. United States Consul Page of Port Sarnia, Canada, has merely spoken the pnblic mind when he remarks in the latest Consular Reports that "there is no such thing as a middling good egg." Our grocery men will, please make-a "red ink" memorandum. Representative Wilson voted, for Hol man'8 nickle-in-the slot resolution against appropriations and the Wash ington papers are demanding of John L., why he trained with the democrats when that particular buncombe resolu tion was on the lapis. , Tlie Ortjonian'i Washington corres pondenf says Governor Pennoyer is not in the race for president, but Tony Noltner's paper says that the Oregonian correspondent can lie like Bill Nye. The ministerial voteon the eligibility of women to the general conference in the entire Methodist Episcopal church resulted as follows: Total vote cast, 10,756; for 562 1 ; against, 6135; majority in favor, 480. A BcmarkaUs Fauru. James Johnston, the man whose back was broken last summer by being thrown from a hand car on the Beech Creek rail road, died on Saturday at his home, near Kyler's'mill. Johnston was buried by the township overseers of the poor. The circumstances attending the burial are noteworthy on account of the difficulties attending it. Johnston's house is on the right hand of Moshannon creek, in a wild, lonely spot," remote from other houses and almost inaccessible. The only approach to it is by a narrow, rickety foot bridge which spans the creek, which on Saturday was swollen by the recent rains, to a raging torrent. The coffin had to be carried across the bridge, and the task, after several at tempts, was accomplished by making a harness of straps fastened to each end of the coffin and buckled around the shoul ders of two men, who by clinging to the single handrail succeeded in getting across, although the frail bridge swayed and sank with their weight until the swift current splashed over it. After the body was placed in the cof fin tha men started back. They found that with the ' additional weight of the corpse the bridge would not bear them, and, after several ineffectual attempts to carry it over, they finally got "it over by rigging a harness to the stoutest man, who then dragged it over with much difficulty and peril. There was no minister present, no mourners and no funeral services were held over the poor fellow's body. Phila delphia Letter. Hunting with Trained Bald Eagles. An Indian boy belonging to the Sioux tribe has a pair of pets which are not only strange and interesting, but are useful as well. These are two large bald eagles. The young Indians are fond of hunt ing, but are not allowed to own or carry guns, and the result is that - they are compelled to use the bow and arrow. which they use with great expertneas. The boy shot an old eagle and wounded it. It flew to its nest, and he followed until he saw where the home of the bird was. He thon killed the wounded bird and waited until its mate appeared and also killed it. Climbing to the nest he found two young ones, which he took home with him and began a course of training which has resulted in his having the birds so fully under control that they come and go at his command. He takes them out, and when he sights any quar ry he turns his eagles loose, after fasten ing their beaks so that they cannot eat the animal, and the birds immediately give chase and bring down the prey. The eagles are now about a year and a half old, and are large and strong enough to bring down a fawn. The boy is the most successful hunter of the tribe, and never goes out without bringing home some game, from a rab bit to a deer. The officers at this place want the eagles, and have offered the boy what probably appeared to him to be fabulous sums for them, but he stead ily refuses all offers. Cor. Boston Globe. A Sleep Walking Sunday School Teacher. A, young lady of this place who is treasurer of a mission band in one of our Sunday schools, and who had .about five dollars of the band's money in her possession, quietly performed a feat the other night that was quite dangerous. The lady referred to arose at a late hour, dressed herself, went to the bureau where she had placed the five dollars and took it to a little room in the house which the family did not occupy. Gath ering together a few old skirts she wrap ped the money np in them and then se curely tied it with a string and placed it in a dark, hidden corner. After this was accomplished she went into her brother's room, took his loaded revolver and started for the yard. It is not known just how long she was out of doors, but the next morning the revolver was found in a barrel at the rear of the lot. When the revolver was discovered in the barrel it dawned upon the young laay tnat per naps some person had been in the house and taken her mission money, and she quickly went to the bureau where she had the money con cealed. On reaching the drawer she found that it had disappeared. A thor ough search was given and the money found in the place above mentioned. Huntington Journal. Coat and Overcoats. A clothing dealer says that about one- fifth of the masculine portion of the city's population go through the winter with out overcoats. In most instances the cause is the lack of money to make a purchase, but there are men who are able to buy but who refuse to wear a top coat. Some of these prefer two or more suits of underclothing to an over coat. A great many whose occupation keeps them indoors constantly invest their money in street car rides on cold days and get along well enough without the big coat. - A well to do merchant scouts the idea of more than one coat at a time. He keeps an assortment of coats of varying weights and uses them in accordance with the high or low temperature. He insists that it is the only way to avoid colds, which comes from overweight of clothing that is used in all kinds of win ter weather. St. Louis Republic. Some immense vegetables were lately exhibited at Great Falls, Mon. There is a sugar beet weighing twenty-five pounds, a twenty pound turnip, a five pound potato, a pumpkin weighing 120 pounds and a cabbage three feet in di ameter, all raised in that vicinity. The record made by the United States in the line of exportation of its own products during the past twelve months was greater than ever before made by any nation. The value of exports ex ceeded $100,000,000. Annie R. Chittenden of Osceola has patented a road cart which is designed to relieve the animal of all strain and to ' obviate the disagreeable jar and other objectionable features of the carts now in use. - - An Ancient El Dorado. On the identical spot where King Sol omon procured "golddnst, peacocks and monkeys," a syndicate -with $5,000,000 capital stock ' issued and a ten stamp mill erected, has just pounded out $55, 000. Mount Ophir,-of scriptural re nown, is close by. The old rocits, which were too low grade for King Solomon's reduction processes, are being ground np and they average half an ounce to the ton. This gold field of Solomon's, which has been idle all of the centuries Until now, is on the Malay peninsula. 1 The people who have gone in to de velop it have had to cut seven miles of road through the jungle and clear sixty miles of river. They are just beginning to realize on their investment. The company with the big capital has a con cession on twenty square miles of this gold field. The formation is black slate. A shaft sunk 100 feet on the lode has uncovered enough ore to keep the mill going a year. The ore will yield two ounces to the ton. In one place on the concession there is a hill 250 feet high and half a mile long. The company has tunneled into this hill about half way from the bottom and found ore ranging from seve.n penny weights to seven ounces of gold. The reef varies in width from two to nine feet. Even the loose rocks scattered about on the hillside yield half an ounce of gold to the ton. The superintendent said to the American consul recently: "1 did not think there was anything of this kind so extensive in the world. Wherever you try you find gold." Raub is the modern name of the ancient el do rado. Wilmington Letter. A Remarkable Stone Thrower. It is supposed that we have no men nowadays who could compete on even terms with the old archers. A man named Uri Bailey recently died in Penn sylvania who was worthy of a place with the old time soldiers. His skill in throw ing stones was said to be marvelous. He was mentally deficient, but a giant phys ically. His aim with stones at any mark or game was a3 unerring as that of the most skillful handler of the rifle. He annually bagged scores of small game pheasants, rabbits, quails and squirrels, which he killed with stones. .. He could kill a bird on the wing or a rabbit at full speed almost as easily as he could kill it at rest. He had a larsre leather pouch attached to one side of his coat, in whjeb. he on all occasions car ried a good supply of carefully selected stones. An exhibition of his skill, which was always a favorite with him, was to set up a scythe blade, edge toward him, and at the distance of 100 feet cut apples in halves by throwing them against the edge of the blade. He could almost exactly lralve two out of every three apples he threw. Robin Hood's great feat of skill was to set up a peeled sapling at a considerable distance and split it with an arrow. We do not see that this is more difficult than splitting the apple on the scythe blade. Rural New Yorker. . . Why It Was Named Machias. A good many people doubtless have wondered why Secretary Tracy named the gunboat launched at Bath, Me., the Machias. Machias people know. why. and are very proud of the exploit of tneir ancestors, who within a few weeks Of the battle of Concord fought a smart naval engagement and captured a British schooner which was blockading their port. The captain of the British schooner commanded the men of Machias to cut down the liberty pole which they had set up on their common. The men o' Machias refused, and there was some skirmishing of an inconclusive nature. Finally some bold spirits in the town fitted out a sloop and attacked the schooner, which was named the Marga retta. The engagement was brisk, and the Americans succeeded in boarding the schooner, drove her crew below and pulled down the British colors. Machias people claim that the Margaretta was the first British vessel captured in the Revolution, and their exploit is some- rimes called "the Lexington of the Seas." Machias is an ' historical place, and if the gunboat is handled with the old Machias spirit she will give a good ac count of herself. Boston Transcript Boalanger SoaTeoirs Pawned. A curious result of the decline and fall of General Boulanger has been brought to light in the public pawn offi ces. These state supported establish ments, called generally monts de piete, have been inundated of late with busts and medallions of the defunct general. The pledges in marble, plaster of paris or bronze have been put in the clou by poor enthusiasts, who in the days, of Boulanger s brief glory desired to have a memento before them of him whom they deemed to be the! "coming man." One branch office in the Montmartre Clignanconrt district, where ' M, Bou langer was particularly popular, is said to have nineteen busts of the departed agitator. London News. The Land .of Bloodless Revolutions. The recent revolution in Brazil is an other instance of the peculiar character of the government changes in the great South American republic, and the strange thing about them is that revo lution follows revolution always with out bloodshed. . The bite Dom Pedro ab dicated and went into banishment with out war; the president who succeeded him, and who undertook unsuccessfully to play the part of .dictator, yielded to indignant popular opinion without shed ding blood, and now another govern ment has been set up, and so far the in ternal troubles have caused no blood shed. Forum. . . Visitors to Werkhojaust, Siberia, com plain of the coldness of the place. The thermometer is said to have registered on occasions as low as 81 degs. below zero, and that the ground freetes to a depth of 400 feet. The population of the .Cherokee Na tion, which has recently sold 6,000,000 acres of land tothegovomiuent, Lsabont 30,000. The Cherokees are a highly civ ilized tribe of Indians. SOCIETIES. ASSEMBLY NO. 4827, K. OF L. Meets in K. of P. hall the second and fourth Wednes days of each month at 7:80 p. m. . ., WASCO LODGE, NO. 15, A. F. A A. M. Meets . first and third Monday of each month t t P.M. DALLES ROYAL ASCH CHAPTER NO. 6. of each month at 7 P. M. MODERN WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. Mt. Hood Camn No. SB. Moot Tn.v lngof each week in the K. of P. Hall, at 7:30 r. x. COLUMBIA LODGE, NO. 5, I. O. O. F. Meets everv Fridav evening at 7 ran v..iv i v of P. hall, corner Second and Court streets! Sojourning brothers are welcome. a., plough, tsec'y. H. A. Bills.N. G. FRIENDSHIP LODGE, NO. 9., K. of P. Meets everv Mondav eveninv t t - on ,.iAAir Schanno's building, corner of Court and Second streets. Sojourning members are cordially in- D. W.Vausk, K. of R. and 8. c. C. Wf.?JSr CHRISTIAN TEMPERENCE , ION will meet every Friday afternoon at 8 o'clock at the reading room. A 11 are invited. TEMPLE LODGE NO. 8, A. O. U. W. Meets at K. ef P. Hall, Corner Second and Court Streets, Thursday evenings at 7:30. r , , . George Gibons, W. S Mtkbs, Financier. m. W. TAS. NESMITH P08T, No. 32, G. A. R. Meets fj every Saturday at 7:30 p. m., in the K. of P. Hull. B e Fp1 HaliVerirSUUdar afternon In CJEBANG VEREIN Meets every Sunday M evening in the K. of P. Hall. . TL I h I' SIXWPfjL lr? the - - 1 v mini Wednes day of each month, st 7 :3i p. m. THE CHURCHES. ST. PETER'S CHURCH Rev. Father Bkons geest Pastor. Low Mass every Sunday at 7 a. M. High Mass at 10:30 a.m. Vespers at 7r.n. ADYET 'H,PI5T!AN t-HURCH.-Preaching in the . M. C. A. rooms every Sunday at 11 a. in. and 7 p. m. Sunday school immediately after morning service. J. A. Orchard, pastor. ' STi,PAUL CHURCH Union 8treet, opposite Fifth. Rev. Ell D. Sutclifle Rector. Services every Sunday at 11a. m. and 7:30 p. M. Sunday School 9:43 A. M. Evening Prayer on Friday at FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. O. D. Tai lor, Pastor. Morning services everv Sab bath at the academy at 11 a. m. Sabbath School immediately after morning services. Prayer meeting Friday evening at Pustor's resi dence. Union services in the court house at 7 P. M. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Rev. W. C. Curtis, Pastor. Services every Sundav at 11 a. M. and 7 P. M. Sunday School after morning lervice. Strangers cordially invited. Seats free. ME. CHURCH Rev. A. C. Bpencer, pastdr. Services every Sunday morning. Sunday School at 12:20 o'clock p. M. A cordial invitation is extended by both pastor and people to all. A. A. Brown, Keeps a full assortment of Staple and Fancy Groceries, and Provisions. which he offers at Low Figures. SPEGIfllt :-: PAIGES to Cash. Buyers. HiiMt Casl Prices for Ens and .'-.ofher Prate. 170 SECOND STREET. Building materials ! javinar made arrangements with a numoer of Factories, I am pre pared to furnish. Dpois, Windows. 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 yonr interest to see me before purchasing elsewhere. Wm. Saandefs, Office over French's Bank. W. E. GARRETSON, Leadiixg Jeweler. BOLK AGENT FOB THE All Watch Work Warranted. Je-welry Made . to Order. 138 Second St., Tbe Dalles, Or. FLOURING MILL TO LEASE. THE OLD DALLES MILL AND WATER Company's f lour Mill will be leased to re sponsible parties. For Information apply to the 1 be Dalles, Oregon Notice. AH parties having claims against the estate ot Kalpii ronger, deceased, .will f ilease present the same to .T. T. Nicho as, administrator. Columbia Hotel, Dalles City, Or., January 6, 1892. jb-im MAYS & SALE AGENTS FOR ' ' Aeotn 9 'and Chatftet Oak STOVES AND RANGES. Jewett's Steel Banies, ail Richardson's and Boynton's Fninaces, - We also keep a large and eomplete stoek of Hardware, Tinware, Granite, .Barbed Wire, Blacksmiths' Coal, Pumps, Pipe, Packing, Plumbers Supplies, Guns, Ammunition and Sporting Goods. Plumbing, Tinning, Gun Repairing and Light Machine Work a Specialty. COK. SECOND AND FEDERAL 8TS., Great Bargains! Removal I Removal ! On account of Removal I will sell my entire stock of Boots and hoes, 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. J. 12 5 econd Stfcet,. HEV; FALL RHD WINTER DRY GOODS COMPLETE IN EVERY DEPARTMENT.5"? " Glothing, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Hats, Gaps, Boots and Shoes. Full Assortment of the Leading Manufacturers. Cash Bayers mill save money by examining our stoek and prices before purchasing elsewhere. The Dalles Mercantile Co., Successors to BROOKS Si BEERS, Dealers in General Merchandise, Staple and Fancy 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 ' 390 and 394 H. C. NIELS6N, Clothier and Tailor, BOOTS AND SHOES, -Hats and Caps, Trunks and Valises, O-eiits' Furxxlsliliis Ooodja, CORNER OF SECOND AND WASHINGTON, THE DALLES, OREGON. PAUL KREFT & CO., -DUUI8 IN- Paints, Oils, Glass And the Most Complete and the Latest Patterns and Designs In Practical Painters and Paper Hangers. None but the best brands of the Bherwin-WiUiams Paint nsed in all our work, and none but the most skilled workmen employed. All orders promptly attended to 10-17-d Store and faint Shop corner Third and Washington Streets. : CROWE, THE CELEBRATED Blueware, Silverware, Cutlery, THE DALLES, OREGON. The Dalles. H. Herbring. Curs and all parts of the City. Second Street The Old Germania Saloon. JOHN DOJlflVOIi, 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.