ELECTRICITY IN WAR i CALL FOB A ' BKPCBLICAN COUNTY CONVBKTION. A RACE FOR UF. ELECTRICIANS WILL PLAY AN IM PORTANT PART IN BATTLE. . atleetrlcal Appliances m Shlpbord May Jet Out of Onltrr Frequeutly as la , Jtender Nereamtry I be Presence of a Corps of Blectriciait. So far as the stationary torpedoes are concerned, methods are quite well settled mad the practice has been reduced to a science, one, however, which requires a "s . i 1 i i i i i m . application. The. automobile J torpedo , involves problems that are a worthy sub ject for the exercise of the highest elec trical skill So far as the Whitehead j -i - - - . j i i concerned, there ia not much to be dono, electrically speaking, for a torpedo of that class ia purely a missile discharged from a gun, but supplied with means for ,yntinrir its course to an efficient dis- aoe under water. Inasmuch as a Ugh Initial velocity does not agree with powerful explosives, the falling off in velocity would be too marked if any long range were attempt ed. With dirigible torpedoes, however, the vase Is very different. Then one must depend on electricity for steering if not for motive power, and there is room for considerable improvement both in speed and certainty of operation, two prime essential. But the function of the electrician is by no means ended with torpedo service, for in the equipment of any modern uian-of-war the electrical apparatus plays h very important part. The modern gun, twenty to forty feet in length, with corresponding weight, Cannot be handled by man power as quickly as' the exigencies of service ometiiues require, and the .choice lies between electricity on the one hand and r iiy&rinilio machinery or donkey engines . on the other. The. latter have been very freely in use; the former has made its influence felt often enough to show that it is fully up to its work. The electric - motor is undoubtedly better suited to such sort of work than any othe kind f mechanism. THK SEARCH LIGHT. Since the introduction of secondary batteries every bit of, working mechan ism is expoxed to a formidable fire and must be protected at all hazards. Here the motor, from its very small size, of fers a particularly difficult target, and besides can be ensconced behind the gun shield or even behind the gun itself, so. that nothing short of a blow sufficient to disable the latter would cripple the . motor, and in addition the means of communicating power to the said motor are very unobtrusive and exceedingly easy to duplicate. It ia u perfectly simple matter to sup ply it through half a dozen different cir cuits in parallel with each other, all of which would have to be shot off before . the motor went even temporarily ont of nse. Even then an electric wire can be handled with such ease and ' rapidity - that temporary communication would be re-established very readily although -ander fire, while if' a Bteain,or water ui mci r wuuiu w no - replacing it during action. . The search light, too, comes in for its snare or attention, both as a weapon of defense and offense, and more attention should be given it than has yet beet, done. The destruction of a search light during a torpedo attack would be a very serious calamity, and when one remem bers that torpedo boats are usually sup plied with rapid (ire guns, such a possi bility is by no means remote. ' BA.NUEK PUOM RAPID FIRING OUNS. From a 37-millimeter revolving can non a size frequently used for the pur . pose nearly a shot m - second can be . fired, and at half or three-fourths of a mile the accuracy of this weapon is so great as to render hits quite probable, and a single projectile or a fragment of - a shell would stand a good chance of putting a search light out of use. All this points to a reduplication of the ap paratus on a considerably more extended scale than had usually been the habit, and besides all this there ia a question of. communication between different . parts of the. ship.: and especially with the conning tower, and here, as every-, where, . the convenience of electricity. the readiness with which circuits can be multiplied and re-established make its nse almost imperative. . In case of war the electrician will find plenty to do. both in the way of routine work and improvements, and may play part of great importance. Electrical World. : . t - ! - Hasn't Been SiiaTed Sine Appomattox. "Have a shave, sir?" said, the new barber. '.. . .( ... "What?" : . . . . "Have a shave, sir? he repeated. "No, sir; haven't shaved since I860." The men in the chairs snickered and moved their heads to get a glance of the eld gentleman, as he clinched onto the bootblack's perch. . The o. g. was not a bit reluctant to talk. - ,- : , "No, sir; haven't ' shaved since I860, he went on. "Swore I wouldn't if -Lee was "whipped." The old gentleman was the pioneer physician. Dr. L M. Ridge, and, he de clared he would wear his 'long beard to the grave. Kansas City Times." . Two of a Kind. '.' "'"'',. A sturdy eight-year-old with the craft of Talleyrand, informed his mother upon his return from school that "Will Brown and another fellow got a licking at school today," - And Tommy's mamma anight never have been the wiser had not Tommy's sister burst into the room soon after and announced, "Oh, mamma Tommy and Will Brown got whipped at ' cbool today." Chicago News. v linear KtTeet of the Hon., There is a lady now living in Alle ghany who ' suffers intense pain in the bead whenever the light . of the full moon falls upon her. At these times she does not venture out at night, but shuts . herself up in a dark room. There are many such cases on record. Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. - " , Primary Elections. Notice la hereby given that at a meeting of the Republican County Central Committee of Wasco county, Or., called by authority vested in me as Chairman of said committee, and held at the County Court Room in Dalles City, Oregon, on the 18th day of February, 1892, it was ordered that a cull be Issued for a. Republican County Convention, to be held at the Court House in Dalles City, Oregon, at 10 a. m., on tho 26th day of March, 1892 ' (or the purpose of nominating candidates for the office of Couuty Judge, Clerk, Sheriff, one County Commissioner, Treasurer, Assessor, Superintend ent of Schools, County Burvcvor and Coroner, and the election of six delegates to represent Wasco county in the Republican State Conven tion, to be held in the city of Portland, Or., on the 6tb day of April, 1892, and to transact such other and further business as may properly come before said convention. r - The County Convention will consist of seventy-three delegates from the various precincts, apportioned m follow, to-wit: Palls Precinct ...... C -8 Delegates . ..4 " ...8 " o " ... " ..7 ' '.'.'.7 r2 - ' '.'..2 ' ...2 " ...a ...s . ...8 . ..2 " -. ...8 " ...S . . .3 Hood River Precinct Baldwin " Hosier " ........ West Dalles . " Trivett " .. Bigelow " East Dalles ' . " Eight Mile " Columbia ' " . .......... Deschutes . " Nansene " Dufur " Kingslev Tygh Valley " Waumaek Oak Grove ' Bake Oven Antelope " It is further recommended, by order of the Central Committee, that primary elections be held in the various precincts, at the usual place of voting, on the Wth day of March, 1892, and that the polls be opened at such primaries throughout the county at 2 o'clock p. m., of said day, except within the limits of Dalles Citv, In which the primaries will be conducted under provisions of Primary Election Law and the subjoined notice. The attention of electors In the various pre cincts desiring to elect Justices of the Peace and Constables, is called to the provisions of the new election law as to the manner of nominating their candidates at the primaries. M. T. NOLAN, . Attest Chairman Rep. Co. Central Com. A. O. Jouxhon, Secv. Primary Election Notice. Notice is hereby given that a primary election will be held in each of the election precincts within the limits of Dalles City, Wasco eonnty, Oregon, for the purposcof electing delegates from East Dalles precinct. Billow nrecinct. Trivett precinct, and West Dalles precinct, to represent iinxiurw bi vie nepuDucan uounry conven tion to be held.at the court house in Dalles City. Oregon, on the 20th day of March, A. D. 1892. Said primary will be held on the . 19th day of March, A. D. 1892; The polling places in each of said precincts are utjiwj uraiKuoieu as iuuowh, town: East Dalles precinct at Wasco Warehouse. Biglow precinct at Wm: Michell's office. Trivett precinct at County Court koom. West Dalles ureciuct at Old ( Itv Flour Mill The polling places in each ( said precincts will be kept open for the reception of votes from i o ciock p. m. to v p. m. oi said dav, and the fol lowing number of delegates will he rhnaen nr. said primary election to represent their respective viwm-te ah cam vuuuiy cuuvr-nuon, to-wit: -East Dalles precinct ......... .7 delegates WIKH'W ...i Trivett .' H " ' West Dalles 5 The followine-named electors nnvo iwn Hmv. nated to act as judges of election in each of said precincts respecuvely, to-wit: East Dalles precinct, Wm. Tackmall, II. W Steel, B. F. Lauehlin.. Biglow preclnet, C. J. Crandall, Wm. Sylvester and Jas. M. Huntington. Trivett precinct, Chas. L. Schmidt, W. j. Jcffcrs, West Dalles precinct, J. W. Marquis, A.. J. An derson. Geo. v. Kunvon. Dated at Dal es City, Oregon, this 4th day of Attest: Chairman Rep. Co. Central Com. A. G. JOHNSON, Secy. 3-5-d.V.w-td. Democratic State Convention. A democratic state convention will be held in thA l-itv nf Prrrlm,l n A 19, 1892, at 10 o'clock a. m.,'for the pur-, pose 01 placing in nomination two can didates for congress, one supreme judge, one candidate in each judicial district for circuit judge and prosecuting attor ney, to be voted for at the coming June election, and such other business as may properly eotno before said convention.- The various, counties are entitled to representation in eaid convention as follows : - - - . Baker . .' Benton Clackamas . . Clatsop. Columbia . . . Coos Crook ....... Curry Douglas . Gilliam Grant Harney Jackson Josephine . .. Klaamath v -. Lake Lane 7 Linn .: in Malheur 3 ..,.11 Marlon 15 8 Morrow 5 3 Multnomah 42 ....5 Polk 9 7 Sherman '. 2 ... 2 Tillamook.... 3 11 Umatilla... ..15 ... 4 Union 15 : . . . 5 Wallowa , . 4 4 Washington 8 . .11 Wasco .- 9 5 Yamhill ;.. 8 .... 3 ....8 Total . ...... 205 ...13 - It is recommended, unless otherwise ordered by the local committees,' that the primaries in the various counties be held on Saturday, the 9th day of April, and the county conventions on Thurs day, April 14, 1892. . By order of the democratic state cen tral committee. v '.. . B. Goldsmith, Chairman, v A. Koltneb. Secretarv. - Call fur a Republican State Convention. A republican convention for the state of Oregon, is called to meet in the city of Portland on Wednesday, the 6th day of April, 1892, at 11 o'clock, a. m., for the purpose of nominating' candidates for the office of Supreme .Judge,, two congressmen, presidential electors members of the state board of equaliza tion, and other district officers, and to transact such other business as may properly come . before : the convention. The convention will consist of 233 dele gates among the. several counties as follows : . Baker 1 . . :-. . . '. c Benton ..... . . Clackamas Clatsop ; . . . . Columbia. Coos ....... .-. Crook Curry ... Douglas Gilliam. .v..:r.- Grant...... Harney ,... Jackson ..... Josephine ..... Klamath. Lake , .... 6 Lane:..... 1... 7 linn . y . ...10 Malheur ..'..10 Marion.. -..'..6 ; Mumomah. . . -. ., ......6 'Morrow .-. . -.-...A-Polk..,v.. . .;.3 Sherman... . ...9 Tillamock......: v M-.-.-4 'Umatilla.-: ; : . 5 Union , . . ..-Wallows. . ... . U ' ...;.7 . Wasco.....:...... ...5 Washington...... Yamhill . ... .-. . - - -- ...4 .-.. .10 ..4 ...6 ..8 ..8 The same being one delegate at large from each county, and one delegate for every 200 votes, and one for every frac tion over one-half thereof, cast for Con gressman at the June election in 1890. The committee recommended that the Primaries be held on Saturday, March 19, "and the County Convention on Sat urday, March 26," unless otherwise or dered by the proper County Committees. All voters who favor the republican policy of internal improvements, protec tion of American productions and labor, and guarding sacredly the rights of every American citizen at home and abroad, are cordially invited to unite with ua. Jambs Lotan. -Chairman Republican State Central Committee. F. A. Mookb. Secretary. . BANKERS. f TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSLKE8H Letters of Credit issued available in the -. Eastern Statee. ', - ."- Sight Exchange and Telegraphic Transfers sold on Nv Ynrlr riKioa Cf I Louis, San Francisco, Portland Oregon, Seattle Wash., and various points in Or egon and Washington. Collections made at all points on fay arable terms. ; J. 8. SCMSMCK, a. II. BKAIJ. Cashier. irresiaent. . first Jlational Banka :he dalles, - OREGON A General Banking Business transacted - jJepoeus received, subject to Sight Draft or Check.- Collections made and proceeds promptly Sight and Telegraphic Exchange sold on iew xoritrfcan francisco and Fort- -" land. . DIRECTOKS. V D. P.' Thompson. . Jso. S. Schbkc'k. Ed. M. Williams, Gko. A. Lixre. " H. M. Bkall. . ... MRS. C. DAVIS . ' . Has Opened the REVERE RESTAURANT, In the Kew Frame" Building on SECOND STREET, Next to the Diamond Flouring MHls. First Class Meals Furnished at all Hours - Only White Help Employed. FARMERS' BOARDING HOUSE AMD : - I,Esa?-A-TJ-ILjlsx,. MRS. A. J. OB A BR.. . ... ... Proprietor Table well supplied with evertblng in mmrket. wuaa.vra mmji.c UVUB OH & J 1U Ul Second s-L, near Mudison. - Iallee City STACY SHOfflH, TIxb WatciiniaKer, Has opened an office for Cleaning and . jepairing watcnes, Jewelry, etc. All work guaranteed and . promptly attended. ' flTC. . DUHHAJVIS OIiD STJmp, - ' Cor. Second and Union Streets. Jacob Moser Has opened a shop in the building im mediately east of Skibbe's Hotel, - tob -. . Making and Repairing LADIES' and GEHTLEMES'S BOOTS AND SHOES. - First-Claes Work and Low Prices - 2-27tf GUARANTEED. W. E. GARRETSOH, Jeweler. SOLB AGENT FOR THK Air Watch Work Warranted. Jewelry . Made to Order. 1S8 Second 8t..TTie Dalles. Or. . ' " G. W. Johnston & Son, CariiBiiters Builia Shop at No. 112 First Street All Job" Work promptly attended ' and estimates given on all wood work. Closels i Cbiniiieys Cleaned Carpets take hp, cleaned and pat down, - also Closets and Chimneve cleaned ".-.on. short notice at reasonable : : rates. , . ' Orders received through the postoffice ; GRANT MORSE 101&-t(- ": Leatjing A sun is heard at the dead of ntg-ht, . ' "Lifeboat readyl" - And every man to the signal true Fights for the place in the eager crew; . - "Now, lada, steady! - - First a glance at the shuddering foam, Now a look at the loving home. Then together, with bated breath. They launched their boat in the gulf of death. . Over the brcalairs wild. .Little they reck of weather, - Bnt tear their war - Thro blinding spray, Hear the skipper cheer-and say. . .,- "Cp with her. lads, and lift her - All together'" They see the ship In a sudden flash. Sinking even And grin their oars with a deeper breath. Kow It's come to a fight with death Now or never! Fifty strokes and they're at her side, . IX they live in the boiling tide,' . If they last thro' the awful strife; Ah, my lada, it's a race for life! Over the breakers wtitt. Little they "reck of weather. But tear their way . , Thro blinding spray, ' - - ' Hear the skipper cheer and say, : L "Up with her. lads, and lift her " - All togetherl" . . . And loving hearts are on the shore. Hoping, fearing; Tilt over the sea there comes a cheer. Then the cliok of the oars you hear . Homeward steering. Ne'er a thought of the danger past. Now the lada are on land at last; What's a storm to the gallant crew Who race for life, -and who m-ln It toof . Over the breakers wild. : . . LiUle thry reck the weather. '' - .. Bat tear their way 1 . ' '. '' 'Thro' blinding spray. " Hear the skipper cheer and say. Trr . : "Up with her. lads, and lift her . All togetherl" -. '. ,J. L. Malloy In Tablet. .. Even in Japan the desire for higher education is evidenced by tbe number of Japanese students in our colleges and their alumnte. Only in lie rm any, Aus tria, Hungary and Turkey are the "wom en excluded from university study. ' An alloy which adheres 'firmly to glass and can therefore be u6ed C" joining op glass tubing is said to be rrmde by add ing o per cent, or copper to 05 per cent, of tin. The tin is first melted and tbe copper added subsequently Slate land was once so little valued that the tract upon which the famous Chapman quarry in Pennsylvania is sit uated was sold for a pint of liquor. Its subsequent owners have taken millions of dollars from it. Fiibemiu'i Lock. No sooner had the disappointed herring fleet sailed away from Biddeford poo with empty barrels, than a wonderfully big school of the fish struck in. Nobody's there to catch 'em, and they're having a great frolic. Lewis ton Journal. Head Aches. Sick-headaches are the outward Indications oi derangements of the stomach and bowels. As Joy's Vegetable Banapartlla is the only bowel regulating preparation of Sarsaparilla, it Is seen why it Is the only appropriate Baraaparilla in Bick-iieadnrhes. It is not only appropriate; It ia aimbsolntc cure. -After a coarse of it an occa sioiml done at intervals will forever after prevent return. . Jno. M. Cos, of To3Tnrk Street, Son Francisco, writes: " I have been troubled with attacks of tlck-buodocue for the last three years from one to thrue times a week. 8omc time ago I bought two bottles of Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla and have Duly bad nno attack since and that was on the serou.l day after I began using it."- r JHVq: Vegetable Uy v Sarsaparilla For" Sale by- SNIPES & KINERSLY ' THE DAIX3. OREGOK. A Severe Law. . The English pee-. , pie look more closelj 'to the genuineness oi these staples than we do. In fact, they have a law under r which they moke seizures and de stroy 'adulterated products that are not what -they ore represented to be. Under this statute thousands of pounds of tea have been burned because of their wholesale adiit teration. .. . -. . - ' Tea, by the way, is one of the most notori ously adulterated articles of commerce. Not alone are the bright, shiny green teas' oxtifl- . claliy colored, but thousands ot pounds of substitutes for tea leaves are used to swell the bulk of cheap tea?; ash, sloe, and willow leaves being those most commonly used. ' Again, sweepings from tea warehouses are colored and sold as tea. Even exhausted tea leaves gathered from the tea-houses are kept, dried, and made over and find their way Into . tbe cheep teas. , The English government attempts to stamp this out by confiscation; but so tea is too poor for u and the result Is. that probably ' the poorest teas used by any nation are those eonsutned in America. ' Beech's Tea is presented . with the guar- , amy that it Is nucolorod and unadulterated; in fact, the snn-curea tea leaf pare and sim ple. Its purity insures superior strength, about one third less of It being required for an infusion than of the artificial teas, and It fragrance and exquisite llaTor is at once ap parent It will be a revelation to you. ' In order that its purity and quality may be guar anteed. It la sold only ia pound packages bearing this trade-mark : BEECBjtEA Ture AsSJhdhood; Mc cooper pound, "or sates -TBJC DALLES, OEEOOH. SICK 7 MM VN. HE B - P 0 NI C -EiS IS THE Llilll I j ' - Of the Leading City of Eastern Oregon. . During the little over a year of its existence it has earnestly tried to fulfill the obieets fh-p wh-lr-h i "was founded, namely, to assist in developing' our industries, to advertise the resources of the city and adjacent country, and to work for an open river to the sea. Its record is before the people ani. the phenomenal support it has received is accepted as the expression of their approval. , Independent in every thing, neutral in nothing, for what it believes to be just and ri? ht. ' Commencing with the first number of the second vclume the weekly has been enlarged to eight pages while the price ($1.50 a year) remains the same. Thus both - the weekly and daily editions contain moie reading matter for . less money than any paper published in the county. , GET YOUH DONE AT THE CHILE JOB Bop at)d job priptip Done on LIGHT BINDING Address all Mail Orders to Chf onicle THE DALLES, it -yvill live only to fight PRlflTIJlG Short Notice: NEATLY DONE. '-Lk Pub . Co., OREGON,.