C3) J Li K 1 We will commence si y IP As this has been our practice since the beginning1 of our business, we offer no apology or give any further reason for this GREHT STHSH This year our sale will be far more important than ever before, as our stock is fuller, more varied, and owing to our taking advantage of Tariff changes and the "business de pression, allows us to offer more tempting prices. Now is the time to get otlt.your sav ings and invest them to good advantage. While a Dollar in our house is not any bigger in size than anywhere else, it looks so because it will buy so much more. This is not a sale of old goods carried over from year to year, for at the comm.encem.8nt of the year our stock was extremely low, and this has allowed us to be liberal buyers. This is strictly a sale of Fresh, Choice and. UP-TO-DATE jVIEftG HANDISE, Bought as Low as Cash will Purchase, and flow Offered at Unheard-of Prices. We are not dissatisfied with our goods; they are all right, for our business during the present year has been extremely satisfactory, beyond any sanguine an ticipations we might have formed at its commencement. W e therefore owe some thing to our friends and customers, and will endeavor to show our appreciation of their kindness by giving them an opportunity of selecting from our stock, goods at away below regular prices. ' As every article in the house will be marked down it will be impossilij for us to be ready until Wednesday. To avoid confusion, goods will be sold at regular prices until then. Of course, if you haven't a cent in the world, these . reduced prices will be of 'little service to you. Or if you have so much money that you don't know how to spend it, then reductions are not an inducement. But if you are like the ma jority of people, with just a little money and inclined to make it go as far as pos sible, then, our figures are interesting. We want in this sale to see how much more we can make a Dollar buy than it used to. ' Tepms of Sale, Strictly Gash. ; r : ' All Goods Marked in Plain Figures. ' JPE-A-SE BfiLAYS f The tiallesDaily Chronicle. itereda the Postofflce at Ttae Dalles, Oregon as second-class matter. Clubbing List. Regular Onr price price tkrosi.le ui X. I. Tribune $2.50 $1.75 V aBiWeekljOregeaiai 3.00 2.00 aid WmIIj Biaminer 3.25 2.25 " Wwklj lew York World 2.25 2.00 Local Advertising. 10 Cuts per line for first insertion, and 5 Cents aer line for each subsequent insertion. 8peclal rates for long time notices. All local notices received later than 8 o'clock trill appear the following day. TUESDAY,- - DECEMBER 11. 1894 BRIEF MENTION. L6STM From the Notebook of Chronicle Reporters. . Hon. F. P. Mays is in the city. The local passenger from Portland was an hoar late this afternoon. Wheat hay at $10 per tonjin any quan tity at Mays & Crowe's. decll-lw xne thermometer at Jtsaker vjity was standing at 27 this morning, and a heavy snow storm prevailed. Weather Observer Pague gives the weather probabilities for tomorrow as snow and slightly cooler. Mrs. J. B. Hanna, daughter and son, and Mr. Henry Swett of Boyd made The Chronicle office a pleasant visit today. The regular monthly social of the Coffee Club was held Monday evening The attendance was large and an enjoy- aoie urne was naa. Those wno enjoy dancing will do well to attend these socials. The meeting of the literary last night was especially interesting, and the election of officers resulted as follows : President, Truman Butler ; vice-president, .tta Story; secretary, Evelyn Newman; treasurer. Dr. San- ders. ... The continued decline of the value of horses until they are now seldom worth feeding, ia turning this most civilized of the animal kingdom back into barbar ism. On the desert in Lake county there is now a roving band of 1,000 "un- societyNl employed" horses that are running wild and are almost as shy and hard to ap proach as the deer and bear of the for est. Shooting horses to get rid of them as an expense is becoming more fre quent every year. Ashland Record. The Wasco county teachers' institute meets tomorrow night at the courthouse at 7:30 o'clock. The day sessions will be held in the brick scboolhouse, and Thursday and Friday evenings sessions will be held in the opera house. A fea ture of the Friday evening program will be the "Fete of the Nations." This is the prettily costumed representation of all the nations as put on the stage by the school children , at the closing exercises last spring. The session promises to be an exceptionally interesting one, and the attendance will be unusuully large. Fun and frolic, cleverly interspersed with sparkling music and lively dances, is just what the new farce-comedy "The Jolly Old Chums," is composed of from start to finish. Interpreted by an ex ceedingly clever company, including as it does T. J. Kett, (Budd Ross, Frank Wesson, Al. S. Gourlay, Richard Alton, F. Clinton Scott, Harvey H. Thompson, MisB Lillian Stillman, Augusta Schiller, Miss Minnie 'Bridges, Lottie Walters, the Loring Sisters, and Louise Ray- monde.- The date of this clever attrac tion in this city is December 15th, for one night only. Secare . seats" in ad vance at Blakeley & Houghton's. A Weather Note. This morning a heavy fog hung over the river, and a goodly portion of the lowlands, hiding everything from view; but about 10 o'clock the mists lifted and the sun shone out' clear and bright. Not a breath of air was stirring -and the bosoms of the river and Second street were like mirrors, save where here and there a pedestrian slopped through the latter where the crosswalks are sup posed to be. On such occasions the wavelets " would sweep up to the east and finally break on the shore at the brewery hiil. It was a beautiful day verhead, but unfortunately most Dalles eople are not traveling in that direc tion. We are not giving away stoves; but we will sell our heaters until Christmas at cost, to clear up stock. This is your chance." Mays & Crowe. By a family. - Wanted. competent girl, work in private Apply at this office. Victor Notes. Victor, Or., Dec. 7, 1894. Editor Chronicle: Thinking you would like to bear from us, I will write you a few lines. Our little town keeps growing right along. We have a blacksmith shop and the smith has more than he can do, so he keeps our honorable mayor, A. J. Jones, quite busy throwing the large hammer and it makes the color come to his manly cheeks. Our friend the harness maker is quite busy. When not working od harness goods, he puts in bis time repairing shoes. Any one in need of anything in his line we bespeak the work for him, as he is a thorough mechanic at his trade. We are having quite a good time at tending meeting at the Baptist church, the meetings are conducted by Rey. Jones, from the valley. Col. Wm. Helm was with us this week. Come again Col. ; you are always welcome. Mr. Riggalls, son-in-law of Emick, got his leg broken, but Dr. Brown of Wamic was called and the patient, we hope, will soon be around again. Hampton Kelley's folks have been dangerously sick, but by the skilled nursing of Dr. Powne of Tygh Valley they are all getting along nicely. We are going to have a Christmas tree and we hope it will be a success. We will try to keep you better posted about our city in the future. Mr. Jordan of Wamic has a nice, clean stock of merchandise, cheap for cash. Our first snow fell today to the depth of four inches. It is cold and clear with some indications of a change for the better. Stock all look well and the farmers are all in good spirits. I suppose you are tired of me for this time, so' good bye until you hear from me again. B. C. ' Assessors of Ore ton. , The third annual meeting of the t sessora' convention of Oregon was held yesterday in thecapitol at Salem, James A Sterling, assessor of Douglas county, presiding. . The officials present were : R 8 Greenleaf , assessor of Multnomah county ; S W Yocum, Baker; J C Brad ley, Clackamas; F H Wakefield, Wasco; Thos E Parker, Lincoln; Martin White, Columbia ; George A Jackson, Jackson ; J W Bones, Yamhill ; S W Miller, Har ney ; A B Alexander, Benton ; C N Wagner, Grant; C W Beckett, Polk; James A Sterling, Douglas ; W Beeson, a deputy, of Jackson, and Flay Kuney, Sherman. Mr. Beeson was choBen secretary. The object of the meeting, as stated by the president,' was to discuss the matter of proper laws regarding the assessor's office ; asking that provisions should be made permitting each assessor do all the work appertaining to his office, such as copying rolls, making out road lists, ex tending the tax roll; etc. Assessor Ster ling read a paper advocating several changes in the law relating to assessor, and a general discussion followed. The convention accepted an invitation of the state board of equalization for a joint meeting, which resulted in a lively after noon discussion. Real Kstate Transactions. The following deeds have been filed Saturday and up to date : E G Jones to George Baldwin, lots 2, 3, 4 and 9, sec. 30, tp 1, n of r9e; $702.50. State of Oregon to Grant C. Bushnell, sw of bw, sec 25, tD 2 n of r 10 e ; $50. Archie Wilson to William Bennett, s, nej, and sk, nw, sec 2, tp 1 n of r 14 e. T. J. Driver, sheriff, to Charles W Dietzel, lot 18, sec 4, and lots 5 and 6 in sec 9, all in tp 1 n of r 13 e ; $342.80. United States to Rusmus Nielsen, lots 3, 4 and 5 in sec 18, tp 1 n of r 13 e; re ceiver's receipt. W A Miller and wife to W F Lock wood, the eej of ne, sec .33, tp 1, n of r 13 e, w m; $1. The Fair a Failure. We are sorry to learn from those who have attended the Portland Universal Exposition that the affair ia an utter fake. It seems that the whole thing has been turned into a ."cheap John" auc tion house and barkers are everywhere filling the building with their infernal din. A visitor has no chance to see any thing or hear anything, but ia pulled and annoyed until anywhere outside of the building ia far more pleasant than any- where inside of it. The Portland expo sition has always been a hobby with us, and we regret indeed to know that it has degenerated into a scheme for plunder ing the public. Notice. On and after Dec. 1st, 1894, all county warrants issued by the county clerk will be made payable to order, and no county warrant will be stamped or listed by the county treasurer unless endorsed by the party to whom eaid order is issued. By order of the County Court. A. S. Blowers. G. C. Blakeley. County Com'r. County Judge. The regular subscription price of thg Weekly Chronicle is $1.50 and the regular price of the Weekly Oreoonian is $1.50. Any one subscribing for Teb Chronicle and paying for one year In advance can get both The Chronicljs and the Weekly Oregonian for $2.00. All old subscribers paying their sub scriptions a year in advance will be en titled to the same offer. 5 USE; t ' MS I AND Jan -FOR Ladies, misses ana cpron AT POPIMH PRICES. FULL STOCK OF Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes. AH we ask is to call and examine our prices, and you will be convinced that they are the lowest in the city. TBHMS STRICTLY CHSH,