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if v' ' ..."'. . .""!" .V- " " ' V " - ;- : ; ' - - . - r - .- . ""' " TI D ALLESr ()RKGON FJII DAY, DECEMBER 23 1892. no. s; For Cht?Istcrias we - ' offer ' ' "". , , r': SILK HANDKERCHIEFS, FURS and SILK MITTENS, SILK UMBRET.f.AS, SILK NECKTIES, SILK MUFFLERS; Large Assortment of Stamped Articles for Fancy" Vofk, All at Prices in Reach of Everyone. SEE OUR BARGAIN THBLO OF SHOES. A. M. Wl LLI AM S &, CO. CU. 8. Young, BlacKsraiiU Wap Sfiop al Blat-ksmithing and Work dona araupUy, and all ofs Shoeing a Speciality Tfcri Street opposite tire old Liene Stani fUM STB BIO. Stubling 8 Williams. The Germania, SECOND ST., THE DALLES, - OREGON Dealers In Wines, Liquors and Milwaukee Beer on Draught. "The Regulator Line" 5b Dalles, MM and Artoria Navigation Co. THROUGH Freigm ana Passenger Line Through dally service (Sundays ex empted) between The Dalles and' Port land. Steamer Regulator leaves The Dalles at 7 a. in. connecting at Cascade Locks with steamer .. Dalles Citv. Steamer Dalles City leaves Portland (Yamhill street dock) at 6 a. m. con necting with steamer Regulator for The Da a t us. i way . . . . .$2 00 . 3.00 aWaad trip . . c freight Rates Greatly Reduced. Shipments received at wharf any time, Aay or night, and delivered at Portland on arrival. Live stock shipments iahoid. Call on or address. W. C. ALLAWAY, wmtaral A, B. F. LAUGH LIN, THE DALLES. OREGON DRUGS Snipes &, Kinersly. -THE LEADING WbolB li Retail units. Handled by Three Registered Druggists. ALSO ALL. THK LKADIHO Patent fDedicines and Druggists Sundries. HOUSE PAINTS. OILS AND GLASS. Agents for Murphy's Fine Varnislies and the only agents in the City for The Sherwin, Will ami Co.'s Paint. , -VTB The Largest Dealers in Wall Paper. Finest Line of Imported Key West and Domestic Cigars. Agent, for. TansilTa Punch. 129 Second Street, The Dalles, Oregon Dress-Making Parlors FaghioiiaMe and OIoa-Maing . : : Cutting and Fitting a Specialty. Boom 4 over French A Co's Bank. J. G. FlflE WIME DOMESTIC KEY WEST CIGARS. FRENCH'S STREET, : MUFFS, ETCHINGS ROPE SfLKS, ; Fancy SILKS SATIN, RIBBONS, every shade, GLOVES, etc., etc. ARB - MRS. GIB S C K. Im MACK, and LIQUOR THE O E L EBRATE D PASST BEER. BLOCK. THE DAUK8, OK. EVERYWHERE! No Bllizarfls M a Gsntie F2U Mm - , ' but HorttiwesL : . . CAL1F0KK1A CTS A FEW FLAKES. The Heaviest1 Eiwirtr Pnret Sound Since December 1884. W1BM IK D1MOBALUBD. BtlM rml)i4 mm all Llac jtmtm-T-. la paan" Fro .ilte Bi Dispatches from all portions of the Pacific northwest abow that the present ' streak of winter" is general, so far as snow is concerned. . ". In Portland the fall was over' fourteen inches. Traffic was stopped on car lines, and walking bad. The ' enow .be came very deep and tbe slash was frosen solid on tbe tracks abont 10 o'clock, p. m. Wednesday, and paralysed tbe traffic. The Third, Second, First and Washing ton street electric lines and several of their East Side branches were Jbloyked, No cars-could be ran, and all that were out were brought into the power-house. On the 21st in Salem the snow played havoc with electric service of all kinds. The telegraph loop on the depot is a complete wreck. Old poles that carrird fourteen wires found the weight of wet anow too much for them, and tbey fell in all directions. . Electric light, telephone, fire, alarm, tbe Lock wood messenger system and all the local wires suffered seriously,, and. becoming crossed with tive"electric street railway wires, burned out many switchboards and relays. In Olympia the fall commenced on the evening of the 20th, and has pre- vinlea with more or less violence since. It is the heaviest since the establish ment of the signal station there in 1877. According to weather bureau measure ments, five feet of snow fell ' during the twenty-four hours ended at 5 o'clock Wednesday evening, but it is not' that deep-on the level. It has become' more solid and has packed down to a thick-' neaa of thirty inches. " In Seattle the snow was ten inches deep Wedneedav evening. The storm' extended - from Skagit valley on the north throughout southwestern Wash ington, being most severe In Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia. , The" enow' was very! light on the Skagit,: and grew heavier further south. The tempera ture in Seattle was about thirty-five at noon and fell to thirty-two at 6 -p.- m. North of the Skagit a high northwest wind blew and the temperature fell to twenty above zero. In Tacoma it commenced ' Tuesday afternoon . about 5 o'clock and snowed almost without interruption, until noon Wednesday. The storm is the heaviest known since December 14, 1884, when there was a fall of between two or three feet. Tbe cable line up hill has been kept open, but all the electric lines have been stopped since, early Wednesday evening, though an attempt was made to clear the tracks during the night. ' A Sissons, Cat., dispatch, says snow commenced falling early Wednesday morning. It continued all day, with a strong south wind. The prospects were for a big storm. All reports agree that the storm was remarkable for sudden ness. " On the morning of the 20th the barometer all over Washington "and Oregon was higher than usual and lower in California, and 24 hours later there was a complete change, and the area of high barometer moved eastward . at an unusually rapid rate, jumping trotu the average of 25 miles to JOO miles per hour. The storm was felt more in western Washington and northwest Oregon than east of the Cascades. , . The only. quarter from -which anything like a blizzard is reported was by trains reaching Spokane from . the home of blixzards easterly. Trainmen report the weather east of Spokane terrific. It is cold and of a blizaard character. The snow is not deep . on a level, but wind has drifted it badlv. What a gruesome feeling of mingled-) awe ane dread will skate around in tbe vicinity of Mr. Cleveland's wishlione when he is informed that tbe demo cratic editors of Kansas have formed an aggressive, offensive and defensive alli ance, and ' will push their claims' for provender even to the last ditch. KtCMOVKCKS or OBEGOH. Tkt Coal Mine, or Ratfrn Ore(oa Ii- ' . eiued mm to V,la,iK.' Fifty , thousand copies of the hook: Resources of Oregon, have "Just come from the press of the stale printer. Tbe volume consists of 230 pages, and treats of tbe resources of Oregon as a whole by counties separately. There are special articles on timber, soil, mineral, dairy matters,' etc., and much statistical infor mation. Of coal in Eastern Oregon the following .appears; "Throughout that portion of the John Day Valley - where tertiary rocks are found, coal indications are- numerous and some very ' promising locations have been made thereupon. The- comparative lnaeeeaibility of the country, however," has debarred every effort to. work them, and tbe same cause wilt undoubtedly retard their develop ment for a long time.. A-railroad is im peratively necessary to. open up these deposits. The quality of 'the coal is good; equal at least' to the well-known Koslyn coal which is thought to belong to the same geological formation. These coals are emphatically steam or heating coals, free burning like all the Oregon coals. Other-localities where coal is found are not rare in Eastern Oregon , but none are at present worked, nor are they likely to be worked very soon, with tbe exception of tbe coal bed not far from Pendleton, which has of late at tracted: a great deaf, of attention." .. ' In this volume ' the subdivision of Eastern Oregon occupies two pages and in tbe subdivision., of counties, each county is written up at considerable length, as follows:" s Baker Two pages by C. W. James, president- of the Baker city board of trade. ' - ' Crook One page, compiled from var ious sources. Gilliam Two pages by the executive committee "of the Arlington board of trade. Grant Two pages of general informa tion. Harney A page and a half of statis tics. . j Klamath Two pages by the southern Oregon state board of agriculture. " tLuke Three and a.half pages by the Lakeview board of trade. Malheur One page of statistical matter. :.. Morrow Three and a half'pages from the Oregonian of April 15th, 1892. . Sherman Two pages from the pen of G. W. Ingalls. Umatilla Six pages from tbe East Oregonian of January 1st, 1892. Union A three page general write-up. Wallowa Three pages of county his tory and statistics. Wasco Three pages by , MaJ. G. W. Ingalls. .' " TUBl CASCADE LOCKS. Cwmfudtm mt Oalles City. Paopl With Baadqaavtera. The following correspondence will -be read with interest: Tax Dallkb, Or., Dec. 7, 1892. Hon. : J. H. Mitchell,, U. S. Senate, .. Washington City, D. C. : Dear Sir: Kindly inform us of tbe present status of the contract for the completion of the cascade locks. A How early "will, operations pr jbably' com mence under said contract? Sincerelv Yours, i Geo. C. Bi.akki.ky, County Juuge, Thos. S. Lano, . S. L. Bbookb, J. H. Shbbab, Linus Hubbard, M. T. Nolan. - Tbe answer comes direct from the office pf the chief of engineers U. s. army, and is as follows : Hon. John H. Mitchell, U. S. Senate, Dear Sir: I have received your letter of Dec. 13th, inclosing the letter of Dep. 7, 1892, from certain of your constitu ents, inquiring as - to the status of the contract for the completion of the cas cade lock. 1 ne Dias lor this work were ' . . opened on November 15th, 1892, and J. j , . ' . -' j T - r, ,0 c. i 1 ' The report that tieorge Gould thinks l and I. N . Day, of fean Francisco, Cal., ' Qj , gpjjjj tjje ro r jetor Qf were tbe lowest, and their bid has been- '. . Jf , . .. , . . accepted. Of this fact Major Handl.ury ! rac," 8tHble is Pb''ly merely a stock was informed by telegraph on Det-emier rumor a livestock rumor, so to speak. 8th, 1892, and no doubt he has dulv net Aids to education ehould be as free as about preparing the written iiistrum-nt education itseif; and a law providing for signature of himself and the other , ...wi n - parties. The contract when signed xvill free text book8 for p,un . "d Poor be gent here for approval, and if found j alike, would, we believe, be in -every in proper form will lie approved! ai.d ! wav desirable and meet with tha an Maior Handhury will at once tie notifi. d by telegraph of that approval, when the contractors may at once begin their preparation!" for work.. Very respect fully, your oedient fervant. ' Jno. Y. Cabby, .t Brig. -Gen., Chief of Engineers. Highest fall in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report . "REI.ATI1 WlTliCHBA. Strong OppositiBii to The French Syfldi- - cate Pretensions.'.' MISSlOi OF SEX AT OR DH BOISE.' ; v : : ."r-; -, ' ' The Brea4 Hand sf Vaclt Samael Will Interpose" Objections. IT MAT IN A OOJIIBOTKBST, It la Tk(ht Tkmt Spain Ttnt K llaqala Ik, Plan WHkoat a Straccle. Special to Tas CHitoicicur.) . v Wabhimgtom. Dec. 23. It is now un- derstood that something besides cholera is vested in tbe mission of Senator Iu . Boise to Cuba. It is reliably .reported that the United States government will interfere with the scheme of Cuba to farm out its customs revenues to a French syndicate, which has long bee Or bidding for tbe privilege. It has been rumored for some time that tbe Spxuishi government was anxious to lease ther Cuban custom house at a g.od . figure, but the details of the negotiations about their progress were kept - a . profound secret. It now appears that Secretary Foster, some time since sent a diplo-, matic note to the authorities at Havana,' warning them that the United States is strongly opposed to their plan of farm ing out tbe Ctiban custom house "111 the manner above described. Mr. Williams,, consul-general " at Havana, who was recently in New York on leav.-, returned, to Cuba, before tbe term of hid vacntiort had expired. . It is presumed that he carried with him the note of Secretary Foster to the Spanish government. The action of our government in this matter' may occasion an interesting and im portant con tro very, as it is not probable that Spain will relinquish its plan of farming out the Cuban customs without a struggle. The profits to be obtained by such an arrangement, would it is claimed be very great. It is thought that Senator Du Boise will, succeed in con vincing the Cuban authorities that it will be to their interest to relinquish tha plan proposed. Women are not slow to comprehend. ' They're quick. They're alive, anil yet it was a man- who discovered the ne remedy for their peculiar ailments. ' The man was. Dr. Pierce. : . The discovery was his "Favorite Pre scription" the boon to delicate women. Why go round "with one foot in the grave," suffering in silence niiaunder- : stood when there's a remedy at hand: ; that isn't an experiment, but which ie sold under, the guarantee that if you are disappointed in any way in it, you can,' get your money hack by applying to its; makers.- We can hardly imagine a woman not trying it. Possibly it may be true of one or two but we doubt it. Women are ripe for.it. They must have it. ' Think of a prescription and nine out of ten waiting for it. Carry the news to them ! The seat of sick headache is not in -the brain. Regulate the stomach and, you cure it. Dr. Pierce's Pellets are tha Little Regulators. pruval of the majority. Wtntud. housework. Inquire ai office, 83 Washington dtf!2.12 -A girl to do T. A. Hudson's street. 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