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THE DALLKS, ORGOKtllURSDaBR pl89
NO. 142;
I'BOFKSSIOSAL CABDk.
H.
H. RJIiDElXr Attobsbt-at-Law -Offiee
I'oart Street, THe Dalles, Oregon.
pv HIDDALL XJKNTC8T. Gas given for the
& paiutegs ezuuvuua 01 leein. aibo teetA
set on flowed ultiminum plate. Room ft: Sign of
rrie women iiHim, s.t'imu e ireei.
D
E. G. E. SANDERS,
iiraduateof the University of Michigan. Buc-
vxKor to ir. mcKer. Office ever Frenebg'
Hank, The Dalles, Or.
VI. SALYER, Civil, Engineering, Snxvey-
iug, uuu Arcmucture. 1 ne Daiieo, ui.
DR. ESHEI.V. AN (HOMEOPATHIC) PHY8ICIAX
and Surgbon. Calls answered promptly,
day or night, city or country. Ottii-e No. and
87 Chapman block. wtf
D R. O. i. 1A N E fKYSICIAH AND BUB
obon. Office; rooms 5 and 8 Chapman
" i. (, Residence: B. E. earner Oourt and
Fourth streets, sec nd door from the comer,
fflee hours 9 to 12 A. M., 2 to 5 and 7 to t P. M.
. B. DUFUK. FRANK KtKIRI.
DDFDR, k MENEFEE ATTOBNBYS - AI
law Rooms 42 and 43, over Post
Omce Building, Entrance in Washington Street
The Kallet, Oregon.
V H. VVlljgON ATTORN BY-AT-LAW ROOEal
V . Stl ami S3, New Vogt Block, Second Street,
The Dalies. Oregon.
I -. llt.NNETT. ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. Of
-."I nee in richanno's building, up stair. The
i7m uregon.
Are You Interested
In Low Pri ces ?
We offer a magnificent new stock for Fall and
Winter at prices the lowest yet named for
r. r. mays. ' B. s."'
MAYS, HUNTIK
KBYS-AT-LAW.
PlrMt National Bank
4 H. B. WTL80F
WILSON Attob
. tit French's block over
S lea. Oregon.
Kranich and Bach Pianos
Recognised ae Standards oi the high
est grade of manufacture.
JOHN PASHEK,
rnercnan
t - Tail,
Next door to Wasco Sun.
Jast Received, a fine Block of Baitings
: rants t'atterns, etc.,oi all latest
Styles, at low Prices.
Madison's Latest System used in catting
garments, ana a nt guaranteed
' each time.
Impairing and Cleaning
Neatly and Quickly Don.
ttAl. STUBUMQ.
OWBN WLLUAMS
Stubling & Williams.
Germania,
SECOND ST..
THE DALLES, - OREGON
The
Deal era in Wines, Liquors and
Cigars. Milwaukee .Beer on Draught.
"The Regulator line''
The Dalles, Portlani .anl Astoria
Navigation Co.
THROUGH
FreigUt ami PassBuger Uiib
Through dally service (Sundave ex
cepted) between The Dalles and" Port
land. Steamer- Regulator leaves The
Dalles at 7 a. m. connecting at Cascade
Locks with steamer Dalles City,
steamer Dalles City leaves Portland
(Yamhill street dock) at 6 a. m. con
necting with steamer Regulator for The
Dalles.
FABBENQEB ATBs.
One way
Round trip..
....$2.00
3.00
.Freight Rates Greatly Reduced.
, - -
Shipments received at wharf any time.
" day or night, and delivered at Portland
on arrival. Live stock shipments
solicited. Call on or address.
W. CALLAWAY.
General Ag-eat.
B. Fr LAUGHLIN. .
- ' -' - "' '- General ni.' '-'v:'
THE DALLES. - OREGON
strictly FIRST-CLASS GOODS.
Higli Grades in Every Department.
True Merit in Every Article.
; Honest Quality Everywhere.
Fufs, muffs, pur Trimmings:
Silks in Everv Shade and Stvle.
A ( . . .7 7
Umbrellas, mackintoshes,
Rubber's St Overshoes.
We show the latest novelties and keep the very
. finest selection in all standard styles.
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Williams & io
D
. DRUGS
Snipes & Kinersly.
THE LEADING
lies! id Eel Dniists
Handled by Three Registered Druggists.
ALSO ALL THE LEADING
Patent
(Dedieines and Druggists Sundries
HOUSE PAINTS. OILS AND GLASS. 1
Agents for Murphy's Fine Varnishes and the only agents in
uiB lor ine onerwm, will ams Uo. s faints.
-WE ARB-
The Largest Dealers in Wall Paper.
Cigars.
The Dalles, Oregon
Finest Line of Imported Key West and Domestic
Agent for Tansill's Punch.
fc9 Second Street,
ENTERING AN EMPIR
From Astoria a Favorable Eonte to Co;
ncction at Ogden. 1
AN OLD TIME SCHEME REVIVED.
A Rich- Region of Country Which Will
Support the Line.
CROSSING THE CASCADE RANGE
Time to Begin the Work of Preparation
for Vast Scheme of Development
Other News.
J. o.
MACK
FIJlE WIME and LIQUOR
DOMESTIC
o KEY WEST
CIGARS.
THE -CELEBRATED
PABST BEER.
FRENCH'S BLOCK.
171 SECOND STREET, : : THE DALLES, OR.
Astobia, Or., Dec. I. The Examiner
has taken ap the old sabject of a railway
direct to Ogden with much more po6sibl
hope of success than when the scheru
was talked of years ago. The country is
ripe for, such development now. Then
it was not. The construction ot a rail
road from this city to Ogden would cer
tainly find itself crowded with golden
possi unities, were it to traverse-our
growing state in the natural direction of
snch indications as give promise of the
greatest amount of traffic. A railroad
from Astoria, with Ogden as its terminus
would doubtless have to go as far south
as Albany, as it is directly west ot there.
at the head of Rock creek, that the first
and most feasible pass through the Cas
cade mountains is -found, .This would
open up great bodies of timber which lie
in the southern portion of Clatsop and
our more southerly counties, as well
Dring aoout tne development ot the ag
ricultural valleys and improvement of
vast amount of land tributary to this
city. In reaching-Albany the fertile and
prolific Willamette valley is tapped.
After crossing the Cascade mountains
this yet imaginary railroad would enter
Crook county, and following in the lines
of the greatest amount of traffic, would
run eastward to the Dea Chutes, riser,
cross the same and continue on the north
side of Prineville, the county seat
rrinevnie is a live little town, oi some
800 people that has not yet, owing to its
isolation, outgrown some of the features
which formerly characterized the frontier
trading posts. From Prineville this
road would continue directly eastward
to .Canyon city, the county seat of Grant
county, a thriving little town that leads
its western neighbor a merry race in
point of size, its population being but a
trifle less. .' Canyon city is situated on
the John Day river, and the road would
have to cross to Prairie citv, thence
wend in a northerly direction and cross
the Blue mountains via an old stage
route north of Britten station.
Thus far, a wonderful aud promising
country is traversed. Hemmed in by
the Blue mountains on the east and the
Cascades on the west, within this state,
comprising Grook, Gilliam, Grant and
the southern portions of Wasco and
Umatilla counties, is an empire whose
area is greater thac the combined area
of New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
A vast country virtually without trans-
WM. BUTLER & CO..
HAVE M SAIX . . .
A Building 24x40 feet in size, suitable for a
"wareroom;
Also
An office building, office: ?furniture and safe,
two horses, one set of -wagon harness, one set
of buggy harness one second-hand "Vv-agon, one
ne-vvwragon. Apply on he.premises.
JEFFBRSOH STREET, between Second and Railroad. THE DALLES, OR
portation facilities. . . The. lumbering
stage-coach and cumbersome freighter's
wagon offering the only modes of travel
and transportation. - The nearest rail
road, point to, Prirteville is The Dalles,
120 miles distant and the nearest rail
road point to Canyon city is Baker city,
ninety miles distant. ... i .
Within thiB empire lies : the great
future wheat district of Oregon. Here
miles of rich grazing .lands and fertile
prairies await the sword that has under
gone the, peaceful metamorphosis, of
agricultural drift. Countless heads of
sheep and cattle are at present growing
fat upon the rich grazing of this verdant
empire. Of the . 13,000.000 pounds, of
wool annually clipped in Oregon, three
fourths are produced within the coun
ties named, and .principally , in that
district which the Ogden road would
traverse. This alone would be an im
portant item in the amount of traffic
which would await tba . railroad at the
outset. It is estimated that 100 car
loads of livestock are shipped from this
district , annually . . Entering , . Baker
county this road would encounter heavy
but not impossible grades, and enter the
Sumpter valley, passing through one of
the richest mineral belts in the United
States. -j Within, this belt apparently in
exhaustible mines of copper are found,
which owing to the lack., oLail road
facilities, have not yet been developed.
Ssme of the richest gold and silver'
quartz mines lie within this district
ready to pour an immense volume of
traffic into the lap of the first railroad
that .may chance that way ; almost in
itself a sufficient 'inducement for any
railroad. Many of these mines have
been undergoing development work for
years, and are today far in.
The limitless forests will supply
the business in the growing demand
for building lumber in Ogden, Salt Lake
and thereabout, and the west bound
traffic would form a ceasless volume to
ward the mouth of the Columbia. Train
loads of ore, wheat and wool, as well as
timber, would Soon cauee our harbor to
wear an aspect rivaling the busiest scenes
of our greatest shipping mar t, as the new
line would bring in cargoes now secured
elsewhere, and build np ocean traffic
from this point. Astoria - would un
doubtedly be called upon to supply a
country. whose early settlement would
soon cause untold riches to pour into her
coffers and make her indeed the greatest
marine city of modern growth and the
Queen city of the Pacific coast. Such a
road would by connection with the Rio
Grande Western at Ogden, and subse
quent connection with the Union Pad
nc give Astoria virtually the choice of
two great transcontinental routeb.
INTFRKT AWiiraFn
A A I M. U11A. V A 11 l 1 1 lllil f A Ay t
America to Become Conspicnons in
Panama Canal Affairs.
GENERAL JOHN NEWTON SIZED UP.
Holding Two Lucrative Offices in Viola
tion of his Obligation.
BECRSTABT ELK1S8 SUGGESTION.
M Resign. From the Army or Take
his Lat, of Absence From the
Panama Railway Co.
THE LARGEST Nl'GGKT.
A Miners IMscnssion on The Topic of
General Interest.
Mining men often indulge in argument
as to when and where the largest gold
nugget was ever found, how much . it
weighed, etc., it has been reported that
the largest nugget ever found was dis
covered in Australia and that it weighed
about $25,000. But a more recent state
ment has been widely printed in mining
journals showing that the heaviest nug
get oi gold ever discovered was found, in
February, 18b9, near the village of
Molisgel, Victoria.. Two diggers found
it on the extreme margin of a patch
of auriferous alluvium, within two feet
of the bedrock of sandstone. . It .lay on
stiff red clay, in a loose gravely loam.
and. was barely covered with earth. It
was brought to light by the wheel of
care turning it up. ine nugget -was
twenty-one inches long, tea inches thick
and, though mixed with quartz, the
Treat body of it was solid gold. The
finders heated the mass in a fire to get
nd of the adherent quartz. They also
detached and gave awav a number of
specimens of gold before they took it to
the assayer.. When melted the gold was
Washington, Nov. 30. Secretary of
War Elkins, in. his official capacity,
promises to become a conspicuous figure
in the Panama canal proceedings,
whereby American interests are seri
ously i jeopardized. Secretary Elkins'
attention has been directed to the fact
that General John Newton, who is pres
ident of the Panama Railway company,
is a major-general on the retired list of
the United, States army. The Panama
Railway company was organized under
the laws of New York and given a
charter which guaranteed that the en
terprise should always be controlled by
American stockholders. The company
passed almost entirely into French
hands, but General Newton remained as
president, and has regularly drawn both
the salaries of a retired officer and of the
president of a railway company, which
only awaited the expiration of its. con
tract obligations to immediately attack
American interests. . :
As soon as Secretary Elkins' attention
was drawn to this state of affairs, he re- v
cognized that General Newton was occu
pying a commercial position inconsistent
.with the spirit of his military position
and inimical to the interests of the
American government, under whose flag ;
he is still enrolled, since officers of the
retired list are considered by the war de
partment as being still in the service of
the country. It is stated that Secretary
Elkins, in view of General Newton's
anomalous position, has addressed him
found to weich 2.2K8 onncna. 10 unnr
weights and H grains, and contained a letter ia which, after directing his at-
onlv 1-75 of allov. chieflv nilvftmnrf ir wnDOn to lne inconsistency of his two
Including the pieces given .. away the
n ugget is estimated to have yielded 2,280
ounces of pure gold, the value of which
was $46,336. Near the same spot where
the nugget was unearthed two other nug
gets were found later, weighing respect-
vely 114 ounces and 36 ounces.
A Political Pnzale.
Rosebnrg Plaindesler. Hon. . LaFay-
ette. Lane is , considerably bothered
over a political puzzle, as it were. ., It is
well known fact that Mr. Lane was
bitterly opposed, to the fusion business
before election. . In Rosebutg there
were 77 straight ..democratic votes cast..
Since it has been ascertained that the
fusion failed Ut succeed, Mr. Lane has
been congratulated by over 200 persons,
who stated that they also bad voted the
straight democratic ticket. The query
what became of the extra 133 .votes?
Had Weaver carried the state it is quite
probable that Mr. Lane would have
found it in an equally difficult "problem
to find 77 men who voted a straight
democratic ticket..
! salaried positions, has suggested to him;
by intimating at least, the propriety of
resigning one place or the other. Con
gress is almost sure to take the Pnnama
question in hand and deal with it vigor-
uuoiy iiuiu au American standpoint.
American Grapes In England.
RipiiKY, N. Y., Dec. 1. The trial ship
ment of grapes to England by the Chau
tauqua and Northeast grape union,
which consisted of two carloads, was a
success, lhe grapes sold at from thirty
nine to fifty-seven cents a basket and as
it cost only seventeen cents to deliver in
Liverpool they will net the grower a
good price. A private : letter , from a
London (Eng.). commission-house to its
representative in this place states that
its customers say the grapes are bitter
at the. core. Growers here think thut
all . that is indicated by this complaint
is that the English buyers chew the
pnlp and seeds.
The Cover's Lament.
Your face is like a drooping flower,
bweetneart !
see you fading, hour by hour,
Sweetheart!
Your jonnded outlines waste away,
vain a weep, in vain l pray,
What power Death's cruel hand can stay?
oweetneart, sweetneart!
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The Home Role Ben op.
Nbw Yobk, Dec. 1. The London
press are saying all manner of mean
little things about the press of America
which got in a scoop on them on Glad
stone's new home-rule scheme for the
Irish provinces, as cabled here. A few
papers print the cable dispatch, but
none comment on it. A representative
of the associated press yesterday had an
interview with Herbert Gladstone on
the subject. Asked whether the scheme
as published was based on an autograph
letter of his, Gladstone said there was
not a word of truth in the report that
any such autograph letter was in exist-
ence. In. regard to the alleged scheme.
Which purports to be a plan of govern
ment, Gladstone said it was unworthy
of .notice, adding it ..contains its own
most effective denial.
Jlighest of all in Leavening Pover. Latest U. S. Gov't Report.