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8TATK OFFICIALS.
Govcrnoi 8. Pennover
Secretary of State O. W. McBiide
Treasurer. .: Phillip Metschan
Bupt. ol Public Instruction E. B. McElroy
I J. N. DolDh
" J J. H. Mi tchell
vonsrrcssnian B. Hermann
State Printer Frank Baker
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge. C. N. Thombnrv
Sheriff D. L. Cates
Clerk J. B. Crossen
Treasurer Geo. Ruch
Commissioner. kncSid
Assessor John E. Barnett
Surveyor E. F. Sharp
oupennieiiaeiu oi ruDUC Bcnoois. . . lToy neuey
Coroner William Michell
If the Ciibonicle has seen fit to lay
before the taxpayers of this county the
amount of fees that have been paid out
during the paet ten years to offices whose
respectives incomes are nrt placed by
law at an annual fixed sum, it lias done
so at the express desire of a large num
ber of taxpayers and with no thought or
conception, so fee as the, writer knows,
that any one has been paid a cent that
he was not legally entitled to. The in
vestigation is in the interest of taxpay
ers only. They want the information
and they are entitled to it. If it be true
that a county office pays its incumbent
seven of eight thousand dollars a year
where the service could find hundreds
of persons just as competent as ever
filled it willing to qualify and undertake
its duties for half that sum, the people
have a right to know it that steps may
be taken to have the law fixing the fees
of such offices amended. The investiga
tion is in no sense an attack on present
or past incutnDents wno cannot be
blamed for accepting every dollar they
are legally entitled to. Neither is it fn
any sense an efiort to defeat the candi
' dacy of the present incumbents, who,
it is generally understood, are seeking
renomination. The Chronicle is not
concerned about their renomination. It
it not in the business of nominating
candidates. It believes the fees of the
clerk and sheriff are too high, and in its
own interest and in the interest of those
who have to foot the bills it proposes to
lay the facts before the people and let
them be the judges. The only other
office whose income is not an annual
. fixed sum is that of aseeseor and because
the writer once held that office he has
specially insisted that that shall be in
cluded in the investigation also. No
one supposes the per diem of the assessor
of four dollars a day is too much but the
people have a right to know what it
costs them to Lave the county assessed,
and they shall know that two. The time
to spring this investigation is before
nominations for the legislature are made
that candidates may know what the
people expect of them. If the Chroni
cle was seeking the defeat of a candi
date for a county office it has sufficient
.Tjoliticnl horsA uinoa ts li-nw l.n :
' -- - w Kiiuii mat biuo lO
:JQ0t the time to begin that work. It
would wait till after the nominations
"were made.
"The editor of the Washington Inde-
j-.t ? . ' . . ... . ...
penaem oesiaes uemg tne editor of "the
greatest paper in that or any other
state" is mayor of Pomeroy, U. S.
weather bureau signal .officer and ob
server, special correspondent of the agri
cultural bureau, state correspondent of
the National association of democratic
clubs-, vice-president of the Pomeroy
board of trade, president of the Pomeroy
improvement company, chairman of the
Garfield county democracy, has a diploma
conferring the honor of V. D. M., and
has just been elected (in his mind) gov
ernor of the state of Washington. He
eyB' me sensation produced by this
crowning honor surpassed anything that
ever thrilled his frame.
What is the matter with the Baker
City Blade t It says "Eastern Oregon
should ha.VA at. 1fAnt. air
That reminds us of the drummer who in
trying to make himself solid with one of
his customers went with him to a prayer
meeting and on being called upon .to
praid said "O Lord give this people bar
rels of flour r and barrels of fruit,; and
barrels of sugar, and barrels of meat,
and barrels of pepper, and then think
ing he was overdoing the thing, he
added, sotto voce, "O Lord that's too
much pepper."
After two months of ardious labor the
house of representatives has succeded in
passing one bill that will send a mighty
thrill of pleasure through the hearts of
the toiling masses of this great nation.
Mr. Coates of Alabama introduced it and
it was for the protection of congressmen
from the ridicule of the press. The
country is now safe.
Mr. A. Noltner of the Portland Dis
patch, who has just returned from a trip
to Washington, D. C, thinks that it is
more than likely that the Cascade locks
will not get a cent of approprion for the
next two years. Mr. Noltner is an
ardent democrat and ' is supposed to
know, as well as any outsider cau, the
intentions of the present five cent con
gress. "-. It is because Mr. Noltner. has no
hope of an appropriation for the locks
that he is so earnest an advocate for the
dalles portage.
Free wool and no appropriations for
the improvement of the Columbia river
will not materially strengthen the dem
ocracy 'of Eastern Oregon.
A genius in Tacoma has lately evolved
a plan for superceeding streetcars by the
use of a traveling sidewalk.
Arrangements are being made to hold
an assessors convention at Salem on the
26th inst.
A Strange Story. ' '
A strange story comes from a neigh
borhood about ten miles southeast of
here. . . . , .
Oct. 24. 1800, Alex Yohe. an aged
farmer, committed snicide. " Yohe's
mind had been unbalanced r for some
time, and he imagiued that the discov
ery of natnral gas would prove the ruin
ation of the world. He was opposed to
any search for the new fuel: and often
pleaded with his neighbors to leave it
alone. He also imagined that he was a
mined man, although he owned a good
farm and was in a prosperous condition.
He thought his family had been doomed
to starvation, anal he resolved to take
his life, thus terminating his misery.
Recently an El wood company began
drilling for gas on the Starkey farm and
the work had proceeded nearly to com
pletion, lhey were rusmntr the work
and a day and night force of hands were
employed. The night force, however, is
no longer at work and the following is
the cause: A few nights since, while the
men were at work, they were startled
by a slight noise near the derrick, and
on looking around they beheld the form
of old man Yohe walking from the en
gine to the derrick. One man approached
him and the form suddenly vanished,
only to reapper in a few moments.
This sort of thing was kept np for sev
eral nights, the old man making his ap
pearance at tne same spot each night.
The men claimed the place was haunted
and they refused to work any more after
night. lipton Cor. Indianapolis Senti
nel. Spending Their Honeymoon in ay Cable Car.
ft was pretty cold in the forward com
partment of one of the Seventh and
Ninth street cable cars last evening. The
short benches on each side of the grip
man were empty save for one figure
that of a petite and pretty brunette in a
warm gray cape ulster, with a big fur
boa around her neck. .
The conductor put his head through
the door for a moment and came back
chuckling.
"Love's a funny thing," he said, as he
got back on the rear platform and rung
np two fares. "There's Jim's wife in
there with him. Jim's the gripman, you
know. They've been married pretty near
two weeks, and I'm blamed if she hasn't
put in the best half of the time riding
round with him in the car. They couldn't
afford to take a trip off, you see, and so
they're spending the honeymoon in this
way."
"Yea, sir," said Jim, "we've1 been mar
ried two weeks tomorrow. May be yon
think it a funny way to spend the honey
moon, and so it is. But it's Mary's do
ing. I'd saved up enough to take a week
or so off, but she wouldn't have it. She
says, 'Well just lay that away for a
rainy day, and I'll come and ride on the
car with you.' Don't you put my name
in the papers or maybe Td get the
bounce." Philadelphia Press.
An Unlucky Locomotive.
Engineer Know-blow, of the Erie, has
finally agreed to preside at the throttle
of Engine No. 670 of that road. This is
the machine- that passed tlirough the
two terrible wrecks on that road at Ra
venna on July 3 and at Kent, Sept. 30.
When it came out of 'the Meadville shops
recently none of the boys wanted to 6it
at the right hand side of the cab in the
unlucky engine, and it was only after
considerable persuasion that Engineer
Knowblow was persuaded to take charge
of the hoodoed locomotive. Railroaders
are like sailors, they have their super
stitions, ' and an ' engineman . no more
likes to run on an unlucky machine than
does an old tar to sail on certain unfor
tunate vessels. Pittsburg Post.
The Spruce Cam Season Is On.
The spruce gum season is on in Maine
and business is booming. One firm re
ceived twenty-four barrels of about 2
tons of gum in one day, and it will have
125 barrels or 25,000 pounds before the
close of the 6eason.',' The first grade of
gum is clean and clear' and ready for
chewing. It sells at wholesale at sixty
cents to one dollar a pound. : . . , - .
The dark colored gum, mixed with
bark and pitch, is worth from six . to
eighteen cents a pound, and is purchased
by refiners; who boil it,: skim off the
dirt, add some other things and produce
many varieties of spruce gum. Maine
Letter. " : ;- .
' She Wa Mistaken. ' '
"Maria," said Mr. Jones, looking ten
derly at his wife, "there is a mous"
on, mercy goodness, where? Oh,
save me, J ept ha, save me save your
Maria I" and the frightened woman
jumped on the sofa and screamed hys
terically.' .
"Good heavens, Maria, what is the
matter? ' I don't see anything! Where
is itr "'" - - .
"You said there was a mouse!"
"I didn't say anything of the kind. I
said, or tried to say, there was a mouase
lin delaine , dress in Brown's window
which was exactly like one you had
when we were married. I wish you
wouldn't interrupt me like that." De
troit Free Press.
The agricultural department of the
state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, is
importing half a million grapevine cut
tings from southern California for use
m starting experimental vineyards.
' A class of person- who have 'suffered
greatly by reason of the bomb throwing
tragedy have hitherto escaped the notice'
of the press. Mr. Sage ..was, doing a
large business in options or- puts and
calls, spreads and straddles. - He was'
hot so greatly absorbed in this specialty
as he was in 1883. He was caught . in
the panic of that year and lost a good
many' hundred thousand dollars. , and
since then has been more conservative
khau he was before- Still, this business
pas amounted to a good many thousand
hollars, some' days and has afforded a
number of men an opportunity of get
ting a living.
,' These men are typical -Wall street
creatures. You see them hustling here
and there, buttonholing men and whis
pering in ttieir ears. They are tireless.
They know everybody who is likely to
take a little flier. Sometimes as many
as a score or more of them used to go to
Russell Sage every -day ..and ask him
what he would charge for options on va
rious stocks and securities. Having got
Sage's terms, they scoured the streets,
professing to give tips, and in the course
of a week would bring in many cus
tomers to Sage. Their usual commission
was one-eighth of 1 per cent., and the
smartest of them could make from ten
to twenty dollars a day.
They brought Sage a great deal of
bnaineaa first and last. But these men
have been sad eyed enough since the ex
plosion. This part of Sage's business
life is ended as much as though he had
been killed on that day, and it is a seri
ous question whether he will ever re
sume it. This has thrown these scouts
and commission agents upon their up
pers. New Vork Cor. Philadelphia
Press.
He Locates Oil Wells in Bis Dreamt.
Butler county has an "oil smeller"
who can give - points to persons who
bring out the power of the hazel rod.
Some months ago Cunningham & Co.
were drilling a well on the farm of Ira
Stauffer. ' One night while the well was
drilling Casper Keichner, a crippled jew
eler of Zelienople. dreamed that the well
was dry, and in the same vision he saw
a spot on the farm of John Shriver.
near the Stauffer farm, where a well
was flowing 1,000 barrels per day.
Keichner related his dream to Cun
ningham & Co.. but a smile was all he
got for Ids trouble. When the well on
the Stauffer farm was completed it was
a first class duster. In their adversity
the owners of the well went to Keichner
and asked him to show them the spot on
the Shriver farm where in his dream hi
had seen the coveted 1,000 barrel well.
He accompanied them to the place and
a well was started on the spot. A few
weeks ago the pay streak was reached,
the well actually flowed 1 ,000 barrels a
day and the place is the richest oil farm
in Butler county today. Pittsburg Cor.
Philadelphia Times.
, ' A Woman's Strange Bequest.
A very aged lady, Mme. Guzman, who
died on the 30th of June last in Pau,
was deeply interested, especially during
her last years, in the descriptions of the
planet Mars and the theoretical possi
bility of communication between our
planet and the neighbor worlds. Further
more, expressing in her will a desire
peculiarly astronomical, she made the
following legacy:
A prize of 100.000 francs is bequeathed
to the Institute of France (science sec
tion) for the person, no matter of what
nationality, who shall discover within
ten years from the present time a means
of communicating with a star (planet or
otherwise) and of receiving a reply.
The testatrix has especially in view
the planet Mars, upon which the atten
tion and investigation of savants has
been directed already. If the Institute
of France does not accept the legacy it
will pass to the Institute of Milan, and
in case of a new refusal to the Institute
of New York. Cor. New York Herald.
Two Historic Ships. '
Out in the bay stands the "dear old
Hartford," and by her side the heroic
Nipsic. It is to be hoped that both these
historic ships may soon be repaired. . All
the world associates the Hartford with
the exploits at Mobile bay, but besides
this interesting fact she is one of the
few remaining and one - of the most
beautiful of her type. Hers is indeed
a heart of oak. . She is not "dead, "as an
old sailor . lately said with a sigh. She
only sleeps.
The Nipsic is still stanch and sound.
A ship that could make her way home
(half around the world) with a storm
twisted propeller such as brought her
up' from Samoa after the tempest of
March, 1889.; is not a ship to be set light
ly aside. San Francisco Cor. Augusta
Chronicle. ...
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Kot So Fanny After All.
A supposed practical joker went into
the Staten Island feiryslip on Saturday,
and exhibiting a black, bag. declared: it
contained' dynamite and that he intend
ed to blow up the building. ... Everybody
made a break ror the door except a po
liceman in citizen's clothes, who knocked
the man down and captured the bag,'
which, was found to contain ' nothing
dangerous. The practical joker had his
jaw broken' by the policeman's blow.
New York Letter.. . ' .,
A Striking Jury.
imn a v. a. . i . -
j iwuub uuuuv luu uiusit unique s tnice
on record - was that . which interrupted
the trial of the Jones versus Gordon debt
case at Burlington, Ia. The jury ' had
arrived at a verdict but refused to re
port till paid their fees. The plaintiff,
who had demanded the jury,' was anx
ious to learn the verdict and paid the
fees..' Much , to his chagrin the verdict
was against . him. Cor, New . York
World.
A Jlecord Breaking Year.
Eighteen hundred , and uinety-ontj
seems to have been sort of record break
ing year. Horses have trotted faster in
the same time during 1891 than ever be
fore; trains have run faster and further:
ocean steamships have made quicker
trips; crops have been bigger and manu
facturers have prospered as never before;
New York Press.
A: A. Brown,
V ' Keeps a full assortment of .: .
Ie and Fancy Groceries,
" and Provisions.
which he offerr at Low Figures.
SPECIAL :-: PRICES
to Cash Buyers.
Hifflest Cash Prices for Es anfl
otter Produce.
170 SECOND STREET.
J. S. BCHCNCK,
. President..
H.M. Beau.
. Cashier.
First Kational Bank.
"HE DALLES. - - OREGON
A General Banking Business transacted
Deposits received, subject to Sight
Draft or Check.
Collections made and proceeds promptly
. remitted on day of collection.
Sight and Telegraphic Exchange sold on
New.York, San Francisco and Port
land. .
DIRECTOKS.
D. P. Thompson. Jxo. S. Sche.vck.
Ed. M. Williams, Geo. A. Lierr.
H. M. Beall.
W. E. GARRETSON,
Leading- Jeweler.
SOtS A&ENT FOR THE 1
All Watch Work Warranted.
Jewelry Made to Order.
13S Second St.. The Dalles. Or.
STAGY SHOHlfl,
Tlie watoftinaRei
Has opened an office for Cleaning and
Repairing Watches, Jewelry, etc.
All work guaranteed and
promptly attended.
AT C. E. DUHHAJHS OLD STAND,
Cor. Second and I'nion Streets.
Pipe Work, Tin Repairs
and Roofing.
Mains Tapped Under Pressure.
Shop on Third St., next door west of
Young& Kus8' blacksmith shop.
; G. W. Johnston & Son. i
Carpenters aria Builders,
L Shop at No. 112 First Street.
All Job Work promptly' attended'
and estimates given on all wood work.
Closets I Chimneys Cleaned
Carpets take np, cleaned and pat down,
also Closets and Chicaners cleaned
. on short notice at reasonable .
rates. . . ..
Orders received through the postoffice
' GRANT MORSE
-. , 1016-tf-.
FLOURING MILL TO LEASE. '
HnHE OLD WIXKS MILL AND .WATER
J Company's F lour Mill will be leased to re
sponsible parties. For information apply to the
. . , WATER COMMISSIONERS,-
1 be Dalles, Oregofc
Stap
"-"
eobt: j&atsts.
MAYS &
SALE AGENTS FOR
' 'Keottn" and "Chattel Oak '
. STOVES AND RANGES. '
uunuu a uuu llQlOd, QllU lUuMlUWJll u MU DUjlllUll S MMdCuS.
We also keep a large and complete stoek of
Hardware,' Tinware, Granite, Blueware, Silverware, Cutlery,
Barbed Wire, Blacksmiths' Coal, Pumps, Pipe,
Packing, ..Plumbers Supplies, Guns,
Ammunition and Sporting Goods.
lau p 1 v i uu 1 K-JiiiiUH ai ii ii i nn
Plumbing, Tinning, Gun Repairing and Light
Machine Work a Specialty.
COB. SECOND AND FEDEKA1 STS.,
Gre
at Bargains !
Removal!
wri account 01 Kemoyal I will 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.
J. FRBI7VMN,
125 Seeond Street,
HEW F0LL W
COMPLETE IN EVERY DEPAETMEXT.
;. - , . ..
Clothing, Gents' Finishing Goods, Hats, Gaps,
Boots and Shoes.
Full Assortment of the Leading Manufacturers.
Cash Bayers mill save money by examining oar stoek
and prices before purchasing elsewhere.
The Dalles Mercantile Co.,
Successors to BROOKS b 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 Kates.
Free Delivery to Boat and Curs and all parts of t lie City-
390 and 394 Second Street
H. O. NIE1S6N
Clothier
BOOTS AND SHOES,
Hats and Caps, Truns and Valises,
Gouts' ZFoxx-n 1 fTi Ins Goods,
COENEE OF SECOND AND WASHINGTON, THE DALLES, OREGON.
PAUL KREFT & CO..
-DEALS RH IN-
Paints, Oils, Glass
And the Hoot Complete and the Latest
Patterns and Designs in
Practical Painters and Paper HanKers. None
but the best brands of the Shcrwiu-Williams
Paint used in all our work, and none but the
most skilled workmen employed. All orders
promptly attended to J0-17-d
Store and Paint Shop corner Third and
. Washington Streets. .
Xj. E. OBOWa.
CROWE,
THE CELEBRATED
ii mi nnn n nnn imimTnti'M i'-n
THE DALLES, OREGON.
Removal !
The Dalles.
MM DBY
H: Herbring.
and
Tailop
The Old Germania Saloon.
JOHN DOJlILYOrl, Proprietor.
The best quality of Winee. Liquors and
Cigars, Pabet Milwaukee Knicker-
, bocker and 'Columbia' Beer,
Half and Half and all kinds
of Temperance Drinks.
ALWAYS ON HAND