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THE DALLES. OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1893.
VOL. V.
NO. 27.
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A. M.WILLIAMS &.
iy. E. GARRETSON,
i Leading jeweler.
HOLK AOKNT FOR THE
All Watch Work Warranted.
Jewelry Made to Order.
158 Second St.. The Dalles. Or.
s COLUMBIA
CANDY FACTORY
Campbell Bros. Proprs
(Saccessors to . s. Craa.) .
Manufacturers of the finest French and
Home Made
.A. ZLsT X I IE S,
East of Portland.
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DEALERS IN
Apical Fruits, Nuts, Cigars and Tobacco.
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oxBatail
Can fnrnlah any of these goods at Wholesale
In Knr StIe.
f jce Cream and Soda Water
4 r, . j 104 8econd Street. The Dallee, Or.
CU. H. Voang,
PH8IB
General. Elacksmithing and Work done
promptly, and f all . work
Goaranteed.
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Horse Shoeing a Speciality
TMrt Street, opposite the old Lielie Stand.
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". W. WISKJWA-
WI. 1IARDBKS.
ttliseman & Carders,.
and Wine Room,
Oregon.
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iD"Northwest corner of Secorictandl
Court Streets.
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J. B. BCHBHCK,
Presideat.
EC. M. Bull.
Cashier.
Ftot Rational Bank.
THE 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
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DIREOTOKS.
D. P. Thompson. .. Jno. S. Schkkck.
Ed. M. Williams, Gko. A. L'ikbe.
H. M. Bball.
THE DALLES
Rational Bank,
Of DALLES CITY, OR.
President - - - - . Z. F. Moody
Vice-President, - - Charles Hilton
Cashier, - - - - - M.A.Moody
General Banking Business Transacted.
r Sight Exchanges Sold on
NEW YORK,
SAN FRANCISCO,
CHICAGO
and PORTLAND, OR.
Collections made on favoreble terms
at all accessible points.
FagMoqable Dre
Dress
Making
: Gutting and Fitting a Specialty
Room 4 over French & Co's Bank. : : , MRS. GIBSON, Prop.
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-' CJOMESTIC
And KEY. WEST
CIGARS.
FRENCH'S"
1 71 SECOND STREET,
l FIpE WlMEg and LiqUOt
FRENCH & CO.,
BANKERS.
TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BtTStNEBH
Letters of Credit issued available in . he
Eastern States. ' ' ' :
Sight Exchange . and - Telegraphic
Transfers sold on New' York. Chicago. St.
Louis, San Francisco, Portland Oregon,
Seattle wasn., ana various points in Or
egon and Washington.
Collections made at all points on fav
orable terms.
GENTLEMEN !
BEFORE YOU ORDER GOODS OF
ANY KIND IN THE FURNISH
ING LINE,
n md See me
Shirts of all kinds to order, at
prices which defy competition. Other
goods in proportion. - P. FAGAN,
Second St., The Dalles.
Sole Agent for WANNAMAKEE & BROWN,
Philadelphia, Pa . . , .
and flloal-Malpng
MACK,
THE
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' PABST BEER.
BLOCK.
THE DALLES, OR.
Parlors
AK OHIO RIVER GORGE
pree Millions Tons, of Ice Mortal
. Fire Miles an Hour.
THE ROUGH UP-ENDED FRAGMENTS
The Mass Has Become Perfectly Solid
For. Six Feet Through.
GREAT DKBTBCTCTIOSr OF PROPERTY
If o Oae Cent of Insurance on Any off
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the Barges ud Steamers Sunken ,
anit X.oat Other News.
Special to Thi Chbohicu.
Cincinnati, Jan. 17. It requires a
stretch of the imagination to picture
3,000,000 tons of ice moving at five
miles an . hour down the Ohio river.
The ice in forming a gorge in the river
does not he flat. Gorges are formed of
up-ended fragments of ice inclining for
ward and downward in the direction of
the current. In this way a gorge may
be four to six ' feet "thick. Its upper
surface is craggy -and .jagged. Water
rising in the interstices freezes. The
mass thus becomes more or less solid.
The current of the rising stream, es
pecially at the present stage of the
river, twenty feet and rising, is a con
stant force tending to tear the gorge
loose. Floating ice accumulating at the
upper end affords another power to tear
the gorge from the banks.- , - '
At two o'clock yesterday afternoon
this mighty glacier of 3,000,000 tons be
gan to move with a horrible groan and
the hills echoed with the terrific scream
ing of a score of steam whistles. ; Slowly,
as if with great difficulty, the mighty
mass began to move, at first fracturing
its icy body with detonations like the
sound of musketry. . Crunching and
grinding the shores, crashing against
the great stone piers of the five monster
bridges, on it went with a force no mor
tal power could resist and increasing its
speed every minute. - Nineteen steamers
and a hundred coal barges, empty or
loaded, had but two or- three inches of
oak plank to present resistance to this
ponderous aggregation of power. Every
man was at his post on the steamers,
and every man was a hero. Again and
again the ponderous chains that held
the steamers and wharfboats to their
moorings were parted and as often skill
ful hands repaired them. The two
bridges above the public landing broke
the ice somewhat and prevented the
otherwise inevitable destruction of every
packet.
: By 9 o'clock all apparent danger to
the steamers at the landing was over.
The gorge had passed and the river was
comparatively clear. One towboat, the
Matthe8on, valued at $10,000, was sunk
and destroyed. Down : below . the des
truetion of coal barges and other prop
erty, from accounts at ' this hour, has
been terrible. The harbor tow boats
Comet, Benwood and Alice Barr were
going down with the gorge, fully manned
and working heroically to break the ice
and save property.'" The gorge that
moved past Cincinnati extended from
Cooney Island, above the mouth of the
Litte Miami, to below Anderson's ferry,
a distance of nearly eighteen miles. For
two miles below this the. water was clear
and open. Then came another gorge,
beginning at the mouth of the Great
Maimi and extending below Lawrence
burg. This lower gorge was about fire
miles long. - The upper, gorge with its
doomed coal fleets crashed into it and
tore it but, and now both ' are grinding
their tray with a terrific roaring far
down the Ohio at fjve or six miles an
hour. Here is the nearest approach tar
an approximation of the destruction of
coal fleets : Forty-five loaded barges,
worth $4,000 each, $180,000; sixty empty
barges, worth $2,000 each, $120,000.
total $310,000. " Not., one cent of in
surance ia held on any of this property.
A Contest ' in San JPrnneisoo.
San Francisco, Jan. 16. The contest
of Dr. C. .C. O'Donnell, independent
candidate for mayor in the recent elec
tion, and II. II. Scott, nonpartisan can
didate for sheriff, began this morning.
O'Donnell 'stated' this morning that he
was positive the recount would show
that his plurality over Ellert was fully
2,500 votes, '
Indicted Brooklyn Officials.
Nkw Yobk, Jan. 16. In the court of
sessions today the indicated officials
were not arraigned as expected, and the
case was indefinitely postponed.. '
OCIt NATIONAL - PARK.
Mount Rood and Crate ' Lake Keartons :
Permanently Reserved.
W. G. Steel, president of the Alphine
club, has been in Washington, city for
several weeks, assisting - Congressman .
Hermanu in examination of plate of the
recent- reservations'-in -Oregon. By
closely studying ; the telegram from
Washington it will be ascertained that
the reservation of Mount Hood and the
Crater lake surroundings ia permanent.
while the remainder of the' reserved
tract of 7,020 -square miles can' be re
stored to the public domain at any time
the president may deem it wise to mod
ify,, ori evoke his proclamation. The
Alpine club devoted a great deal of dis-
cuseion to the proposed reservation be
fore an active effort was made to secure
it. Finally they framed a formal peti
tion to the president asking that the en
tire Cascade range be withdrawn; or, in
in the event of that being impossible,
that a tract embracing Mount Hood and
Crater lake and vicinity be reserved.
Accurate maps of the entire tract were
prepared, and at a meeting of the dob
last April, the petition was formally
adopted and signed by the president and
secretary. Then it received the signa
tures of prominent citizens and state of
ficials', and in June it was forwarded to
Washington by special messenger. The
petition urged that the tract should be
withdrawn, because of the valuable tim
ber within it, of its being the watershed
of the rivers flowing to the Pacific, of its
adaptability to a national park and of
the game and fish with which it abounds,
and which are being ruthlessly slaugh
tered by so-called sportsmen.
In the circulation and presentation of
this petition the club avoided as much
as' possible unnecessary ' publicity, and
to that end even refrained from holding
its regular meetings. The secrecy is
believed to be somewhat responsible for
the satisfactory outcome of the project,
as it prevented anything like organized
opposition. At Washington the petition
was pushed by H. G. Savery, eince de
ceased, and J. ' H. Morrison. They
found valuable allies in the Oregonrep
resentative and " senators in congress.
The matter was earnestly arid eloquently
laid before the proper officials, and Sec
retary Noble was persuaded to give it
his personal attention. By him it was
referred to the commissioner of the
geqeral land office, and thence it went
to the president with favorable recom
mendation. The lines of ' the reserva
tion aa. proclaimed by the president
embrace some of the grandest scenery
on this continent, and niie Oregon Na
tional park will soon become a formida
ble rival to the Yellowstone as a Mecca
for tourists. The traveler in quest of
natural wonders can take a pair , of
horses at The Dalles and revel ia bliBs a
couple of hours later, as described by
our' correspondent last, week.
MeClellan'a "Superior" Sen-e.
Harbisbubg, Pa., Jan. 17. The Dis
patch published . the documents today,
found among papers belonging to the
late Gen. J. Irvin Gregg. It is a report
of the then Col. Gregg to Gen. McClel
lan, when the latter commanded the
army of the Potomac' Col. Gregg was
detailed as commander of the McClellan
outposts, and while occupying that posi
tion discovered that Gen. Johnston, of
the .rebel army, was moving on MeClel
lan'a flank. He reported the movement
to McClellan - at once, but the latter
could not be convinced of the accuracy
of Gregg's report, and did not take the
necessary precautions. Threedays after
Gregg submitted his report, McClellan
found out to his sorrow that this sub
ordinate officer was correct.
. Johnston suddenly attacked the Union
forces on their flank, and McClellan was
compelled to retreat. The celebrated
seven day's fighting on the Peninsula
ensued, the southerners pursuing our
army -to- the.- James river, where the
hard-fought battle of Malvern bill fol
lowed. McClellan was relieved, and
Pope, who was placed in command, met
Johnston at Bull Run and was fearfully
routed. It is contended that . had Gen
eral McClellan taken the advice of Gregg,
when the latter first reported Johnston's
contemplated move on the flank of the
Union forces, Richmond would have
been taken and the backbone of the re
bellion broken.
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
ABSGISlfEEDf F2JE23-
CITY WITHOUT 'WATER
Tne RiTer ana Suction Pipes Freeze ani
' LearB cot a' Drop. . .
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Some Speculation Regarding the Death, t
of Gen. Rufus Ingalls.
McClellan pbolonoid tbi was
Documents Showing That his "Blg-h
Bensu of Duty" Prevented Tak
ing Sound Advice.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan.' 16. This
city is without a drop of water. Ar
midnight the water company's supply
gave out owing to the freezing of the
river tnd the water in the suction pipes.
Every business ' bouse, factory, news
paper office and residence is conse
quently cut off. - The electric.: : lights
went out last night and the city is in
total darkness. The situation is critical.
In case of fire not a drop of water4 could
be got to put it out. a No indications of
warmer weather.' . - . ;
The Death of Oen. Ina;alls.
Portland Jan," Special.---- In
consequence-of- the death of Gen. Rufus
Ingalls, which occvrVred,-; at the Grand
hotel in. New York tm Sunday, he being
the exeeutor of the estate of Esther Hol
laday, the question is now aa to whether
his death will cause a speedy settlement
of difficulties or will simply prolong the
already perennial litigation. The gen
eral filed his final account as executor
some time ago, to which exceptions were
taken, and the matter was referred..
Exceptions were taken to the report of
the referee, and an appeal is now !pre-
vented by- the general's death'. J;The
general's estate will" now bet l&Llled on,
for delivery of funds in .his bands, and
it is not known ' whether the general's
executor - will carry, the case into court
any iurther or let it drop. Gen. Ingalls
was a retired officer of the army, a West
Point graduate of 1843. He served in
New Mexico in 1847, and was in Col.
Edward J. Steptoe's expedition across
the continent. From 1856 till I860 he
was stationed at Fort Vancouver, being
on the staff of Gen. Harney at the time
of the San Juan affair. In April, 1861,
he was sent t reinforce Fort Pickens,"
and in July was ' ordered to duty with,
the army of the Potomac. He was ap
pointed aide-de-camp to Gen. McClel
lan, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
He was present at the - battles of South
Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg.
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and in the
subsequent battles till the surrender of
Lee. He was retired from the service
at bis request July 1, 1833. Since then
he had passed a greater portion of his
time in Portland, where he was widely
known.
LaBrle In San Francises.
' San Fbancisco, Jan. 16. A. - J. . La
Brie, the young man who forged a bill of
exchange for $290 on the bank of Mon
treal at the London, Paris and American
bank in this city, and who was arrested
in Portland, Or., was brough back in
custody of Detective Whittaker ..this
morning. .
Capslaed Schooner In Tow. '
:. San Fbancisco, Jan. 16. A dispatch
from Eureka, Cala., this morning says
that the tug Fearless passed there yes
terday afternoon with a wreck bottom,
up in tow. Tbi8 is the schooner Volant,
bound frcrtnT-San- Pedro to Eureka to
load lumber, and which was capsized
in a recent gale. . She. carried a crew
of eight men. . ..
, Striking Miners' Case Advanced. ' -
Washington, . Jan. 16. -The United '
States supreme court today advanced
the case of Pettibone et al.,the striking
Coeur d'Alene miners, of Idaho, assigned
for hearing January 30tb. - -
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