Valuable
Given Away ! !
"As
" LIFE OF JAMES G. BLAINE,"
or your choice of other popular works, now on exhibition at our store.
In addition to the above, if you happen to "be a lucky one, yon will receive
aFree TICKET TO THE WORLD'S FAIR AND RETURN, and a Week's Ad
mission to the G-rounds.
:
We offer for your inspection, a fine line of
Men's Overshirts for 25 cts.
THE
The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
THK DA I.I. KS
ORBGOU
GOVEENMENT EXPENSES.
"What It Costs Uncle Sam to Pay
Off His Help.
Ctae Hundred Million Dollars a Year in
Salaries Compnratlre Statement of
Wealth In t.lie United States
if as Banks Show It.
According to the Chicago Journal,
he total amount of salaries paid to
government empl jyes foots up a hun
dred million dolla.-s a year. Yet this is
only a dollar and a half apiece all
around, now that our population is 66,
000,000 people. And this only makes
the average salary of the 200,000 people
rftho hold office under the government
about $500 per annum each.
Something of the details c' where
"this .money goes may be of interest.
'The diplomatic service is not so expen
sive a. luxury as would be supposed
probable. The salary of ministers
amounts to only $340,000 per annum;
secretaries of legation $40,000 per an
num, and consuls $500,000, while there
is also an additional allowance of about
$100,000 for clerks and consulates. The
salaries in the offices of the secretary
of the treasury amount to about a half
million dollars a year, but this does not
include the various divisions in which
the .salaries run from a few thousand
rp to more than a half million dollars
per annum. The salaries for the office
of the secretary of war amount to over
310(t,ooo and those of the record and
pension divisions of the war depart
ment foot up over $1,000,000 per an
num. The pay of the officers of the
line in the army is $2,800,000, and there
is idded to that $890,000 for pay of offi
cers for length of service. The pay of
the enlisted men of the army is 84,100,
O00, officers on the retired list, $1,122,
O00. The pay table of the navy is about
half as much as that of the war depart
' rnent, and the total salaries of the treas
ury department, includinjr over two mil
lions in the internal revenue service
alone, is about twelve millions of dol
lars. The interior department spends
about $5,000,000 a year for salaries, the
SRricultual department a little over
a million, and the department of justice
about the same.
The post offiue department, however,
is the one which piles up the total of
salaries. Even in the post office de
partment in Washington the salaries
amount to nearly a million dollars a
year, and when you branch out into
the postal service all over the country
it becomes appalling. The appropria
tions for the fiscal year just about to
end allotted 815,250,000 for compensa
tion to postmasters and $10,764,000 for
the free-delivery service. There should
le added to this $5,000,000 for carrying
the mails by star routes, most of which
is for salaries; mail-messenger service
over a million dollars, and railway post
office clerks, $0,631,000. Even congress
is a somewhat expensive luxury. The
pay of senators amounts to about a
half million dollars a year and that of
representatives about $2,000,000 a year,
to say nothing of the amounts paid for
the employes, clerks, stenographers and
messengers who assist them in their
inties.
Nothing better and more happily il
lustrates the growth of this coun
try . and prosperity of the peo
ple than a comparison of the conditions
at this time with those which existed
ight years ago. That the coun
try has been prosperous in those eight
years is evident. Then there were
7,750 banks, now there are 10,000.
Their capital stock then was $750,000,
000, now it is over a billion. The people
then had $2,700,000,000 laid away in the
banks "for a rainy day," now they have
$4,700,000,000 so deposited in the banks.
Our national wealth, which then was
$48,000,000,000, is now $69,000,000,000.
The average per capita of wealth in the
United States, including property and
money, then was $850 for each individ
ual, while to-day it is in round numbers
81,000.
Eight thousand rolls of wall paper di
rect from the factory at Snipes & Kin
ersly's, 129 Second street.
Books
soon as you have purchased of us $25.00
goods, in cash purchases, beginning this day, you will re
ceive, absolutely free, the
If you have not already seen the. books and received one of
our Tickets, call at the store, and we will take pleasure
in showing you the advantage of buying from us.
DALLES MERCANTILE CO.
What is lacking is truth and confi
dence. If there were absolute truth on
the one hand and absolute confidence on
the other, it wouldn't be necessary for
the makers of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Rem
edy, to back up a plain statement of fact
by a $500 guarantee. They say "If we
can't cure you (make it personal, please,)
of catarrh in the head, in any form or
stage, we'll pay you $500 for your
trouble in making the trial." "An ad
vertising fake," you say. Funny, isn't
it, how some people prefer sickness to
health when the remedy is positive and
the guarantee absolute. Wise men don't
put money back of "fakes." And "fak
ing" doesn't pay.
Magical little granules those tiny,
sugar-coated pellets of Dr. Pierce
scarcely larger than mustard seeds, yet
powerful to cure active yet mild in op
eration. The best liver pill ever in
vented. Cure sick headache, dizziness,
constipation. One a dose.
Tim wages of Japanese are rarely
more than six pence a day, but last
year the converts gave 5,400 for mis
sion purposes.
While Mr. T. J. Richey of Altona,
Mo., was traveling in Kansas he was
taken violently ill with cholera morbus.
He called at a drug store to get some
medicine and the druggist recommended
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy so highly he concluded to
try it.. The result was immediate relief,
and a few doses cured him completely.
It is made for bowel complaint and
nothing else. It never fails. For sale
by Blakeley & Houghton, druggists, lm
JEWELRY FADS.
Jewexby done in enamel and pre
cious stones is quite the fancy of the
moment.
Bneklen's Arnica Salve.
The best ealve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required.
It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac
tion, or money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box. For sale by Snipes & Kin
ersly. PORTABLE SODA
fountains
Over 28 Years In Usa all Oyer the World.
No ganaratnra or Bxtraa. Oper
ated by a child, Will stand by any
554QDU G-aa Fountain and Ball flva
glasses to Its on a,
CHAPMAN & CO.,
MADISON, INDIANA.
s
FREE
FREE FREE
FREE FREE FREE
FREE FREE
FREE
worth of
390, 392, 394 Second St.
A- A. Brown,
Keeps s full assortment of
Staple and Fancy Groceries,
and Provisions.
which he offers at Low Figure.
SPECIAL :-: PfllCES
to Cash. Buyers.
Highest Cash Prices for Eggs and
other Proflnce.
170 SECOND STREET.
- .A. USTZEAT ....
Dndertakog Establishment!
PRINZ & NITSCHKE
DEALERS IN
Furniture and Carpets
We have added to our business a
somplete TJndertading Establishment,
and as we are in no way oonnected with
the Undertakers' Trustj our prices will
be low accordingly.'
lARTIC FACTORY
SODA WATEE AND I0E 0EEAM.
Candies and Nuts
at wholesale
quotations.
TOBACCO
Specialties
CIG AltS AND
8WKKT DRINKS
Finest Peanut Roaster In The Dalles
2 3 8
Street
f- f - r At right side
restaurant.
HORSES HORSES
J. S. COOPER,
Vomer Barn, UNION STOCK YARDS, Chicago, Ill
The largest and only strictly commission dealer in horses in
the world, will hold his first extensive sale of west
ern branded horses for season 1893, on
WBDISTESDAY, J"D"3STE 7th.
Entries should
HORSES
r-17dtfcw3m
POLAND CHINA HOGS.
ome and see them, or write. All letters
Fishing
: .A.
I. C. NICKEL SEN'S.
Ffom TEHJJIIiAIi of INTERIOR Points
THE-
Northern Pad
RKILROHD
Is the line to take
TO ALL POINTS EAST AND SOUTH.
14 i? Dining Car Koute. It rn Through
v estlbuled Trains erery day In the year to
$t. p&nl and dhicago
NO CHANGE" OF CABS.)
Composed of Dining Cars unsurpassed. Pull
man Drawing Boom Sleepers of latest equipment.
TOURIST SLEEPING CARS
Best that can be constructed, and in which
accommodations are both Free and Furnished
for holders of First and Second-class Tickets, and
ELEGANT DAT COACHES
A continuous line, connecting with all lines,
affording direct and uninterrupted service.
Pullman Sleeper reservations can be secured
in advance through any agent of the road.
THROUGH TICKETS
Kngland and Europe can b
To and from all
Kngland and Europe can be purchased at anv
ticket office of the company.
Full information concerning rates, time of
trains, routes and other details furnished on
application to
W. C. ALLAWAY,
Agent D. P. & A. Nav. Co., Regulator office, The
Dalles, Or., or
A. D. CHARLTON,
Ass't. Genera Passenger Agt.. Portland. Jgrx.
YOUR flTTEPTIOB
Is called to the fact that
Hugh Glenn,
Dealer in Glass, Lime, Plaster, Cement
and Building Material of all kinds.
Carrie the Finest Line of
Picture Mouldings
To be found in the City.
72 rjUashington Street.
W. E. GARRETSON,
Leading Jeweler.
SOLE AGENT FOB THE
All Watch Work Warranted.
Jewelry Made to Order.
138 Second St.. The Dalles. Or.
A. WESOLO,
The Boston Tailor,
East End Second St.
Suits Made to Order from
$18.00 up.
Pants from $5.00 up.
Perfect Fit Guaranteed.
be made at onee.
HORSES
I can furnish a number of
THOROUGHBRED
POLAND CHINA HOGS,
Male or female, most any age.
Price, $20 per head, or $35 per pair.
promptly answered.
EDWHRD JUDY,
CENTERVILLE, WASH.
Tackle
T ;
H. C. NIELSEN,
Clothier
. Decidedly the
Gents' KtirnishLing Goods,
Trunks and Valises, etc., etc.
COR. SECOND AND WASHINGTON, THE DALLES, OR.
CityStables,
Corner of Fourth and Federal Sts., The Dalles, Oregon.
These Stables have on hand the finest Livery in Eastern
Oregon, and can accommodate patrons with either Single
or Double Rigs, closed Hacks or Carriages day or night.
MORE ROOM.
Also, can furnish First Class accommodations to teamsters with freight
or driving teams, having added to their stables large feeding and wagou room.
J. O.
DOMESTIC
And KEY WEST
CIGARS.
FRENCH'S
171 SECOND STREET,
FlflE tflHEg and LIQUOR jl
PAUL KREFT & CO.,
-DEALERS IN-
PAINTS, OILS
And the Most Complete and the
F Practical Painters and Paper Hangers. None hot the best brands of the
Sherwin-Williams and J. W. Masury's Paints used in all ,iur work, and none but
the most skilled workmen employed. Agents for Masury Liquid Paints. No
chemical combination or soap mixture. . A first class article in all colors. All
orders promptly attended to.
Faint Shoo comer Thirdand Washington Sts.. , The Dalles. Oregon
THE CELEBRATED
COLUMBIA BREWERY,
AUGUST BUCHLER, PropV.
This well-known Brewery is now turning out the best Beer and Porter
east of the Cascades. The latest appliances for the manufacture of good health
ful Beer have been introduced, and only the first-class article will be placed on
the market.
Freeborn &
-DEALERS IN-
Hlall Paper and
295 ALDER ST., COR. FIFTH,-
Oid Numb eh 95,
THE DALLES,
Wasco County, - - Oregon,
The Gate City of the Inland Empire is situated at the head
of navigation on the Middle Columbia, and is a thriving, pros
perous city.
ITS TERRITORY.
It is the supply city for an extensive and rich agricultural
and grazing country, its trade reaching as far south as Summer
Lake, a distance of over two hundred miles.
The Largest Wool Market.
The rich grazing country along the eastern slope of the Cas
cades furnishes pasture for thousands of sheep, the wool from
which finds market here.
The Dalles is the largest original wool shipping point in
America, about 5,0P0,000 pounds being shipped last year.
ITS PRODUCTS.
The salmon fisheries are the finest on the Columbia, yielding
this year a revenue of thousands of dollars, which will be more
than doubled in the near future.
The products of the beautiful Klickitat valley find market
here, and the country south and east has this year filled the
warehouses, and all available storage places to overflowing with
their products.
ITS WEALTH.
It is the richest city of its size on the coast and its money is
scattered over and is being used to develop more farming country
than is tributary to any other city in Eastern Oregon.
Its situation is unsurpassed. Its climate delightful. Its pos
sibilities incalculable. Its resources unlimited. And on these
and Tailor
Finest Line of .
BURHAM &
ROBERTSON
Proprietors.
Commercial Patronage Solicited.
MACK,
THE
C E LEBRATE O
PABST BEER.
BLOCK.
THE DALLES, OR.
AND GLASS
Latest Patterns and Designs in
Company,
Hoom mouldings
Port la "CD, Oregon.