A Gold Snap Dodson & Hill, Of St. Louis, Mo., put up a special line of Pickles designed expressly for Retail Trade throughout the United States. Wc aro now catering to that trade in The Dalles, hence we have placed in stock a full line of that pro ductions Fancy Sweet Pickles in bulk, Fancy Sour Pickles in bulk, Fancy Sweet Mangoes in bulk, Ghirkins, English, pints, pints, quarts; Mixed Pickles, pints, pints, quarts, Sweet Gherkins, " ." " Sweet Mixed Pickles, pints, quarts, Chow Chow, pints, quarts, Onions, pints, quarts, Olives, pints, quarts. Celery Salt, French Mustard, Chili Sauce, Horseradish, Tomato Catsup, &c, SEE DISPLAY IN CORNER WINDOW. We are Continuing our Special Sale during January. All our Dry Goods, Furnishing Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Hats, are marked at prices that make every article a geuine bargain to purchasers. We feel assured that we are warranted in saying that no goods have ever been of fered in The Dalles at prices as low as our goods are now being sold. Would you object to call and ascertain for yourselves? ALL GOODS MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES. PEASE & MAYS. jj I HAIER &' BENTON. Is upon us, and if you have not laid in your win- ters supply of wood, it is about time 3Tou were doing so. We have about 100 cords of first class Oak Wood, which we will deliver at ' - ' '' ' - . ' '. $3.90 per Corel. Removal Notice. Nolan's Book Store now located at No. 54 Second Street, near Union. TO GET READY for a LARGE SPRING STOCK. ASk FOR PRICES. I am now selling Men's and Boys' Clothing, Fancy and Dress G-oods, Cloaks, Capes, Shoes, and everything else found in a first-class dry goods store. C. F. STEPHENS. Tho Dalles Daily Chronicle. ntered a the Postoffice at The Dalles, Oregon as second-class matter. 10 Cents l Mue for first luaemon, and 5 Cen per line for ea 'lbsequent insertion. Special rates lor . time notices. All local notices rec.red later than S o'clock will appear the following day. y en 1 THURSDAY. - - - JANUARY 9, 1896 BRIEF MENTION. Leaves From trie Notebook of Chronicle Reporters, A liquor license was granted today to C. V, Lane of Antelope. The forecast for tomorrow promises rain with stationary temperature. There may be use for them later on. Thomas Haslam is filling the position of engineer at the electric light works. The installation of officers in the Forester's lodge, will occur this evening. D. L. Cates of Cascade Locks has been appointed notary public ty Governor Lord. Two cars of sheep and two cars of hogs were shipped from Grants to Troutdale today. So not forget the masque ball at .the armory tomorrow evening. Masquerade costumes of all descriptions, can be had at the old Chronicle building. A car of' cattle was shipped to Port land this morning by the Columbia Packing Co They were in fine condi tion and brought a good price. A man from the interior lost a $100 cheque on the streets yesterday. As it is made payable to order and not en dorsed, payment was stopped at the bank. At the Congregational church this evening there will be a church rally and a roll call, to which every member o: the church is earnestly requested to b present. Justice Davis was called upon today to unite in marriage Miss E. Florrer and Mr. John D. Button, both of Sherman county. The ceremony was witnessed by a number of friends of the bride and groom. The little Wood boy, who has been so seriously ill for several days, is reported to be holding his own and the attending physician thinks that if no change for the worse occurs in the next twenty-four hours the little patient may recover. Deputy Clerk Gilbert and County As sessor Wakefield ate busy today working upon the assessment roll and making the changes ordered by the state board of equalization. The work will be done with all haste consistent with accur acy. C. P. Balch of Dufur, who has been dangerously ill for some time, was biought into The Dalles this morning and will be taken to Portland tomorrow. Mr. Balch is somewhat improved, though his condition is far from being what his friends would have it. He is taken to Portland where the hospital facilities, it is hoped, will be conducive to his recovery. S. F. Gill of Portland has been chosen engineer on the Regulator. Mr. Gill is a brother of J. K. Gill, the well-known Portland book merchant, and is well known among steamboat men on the Co lumbia river. He is well qualified for his new position. The county court is well into the work of the session. The most important business transacted, was the changing of the 8-Mile voting place from the white school house to the Endersby school house. A road petition from German Sequie was received and continued until the next term. The members of the Masonic chapter held a meeting in their temple last even ing. The Royal Arch degree was con ferred upon Dr. Siddall and Mr. McDon ald of Cascade Locks. After the work was completed the members sat down to a sumptuous banquet, and according to all reports, thoroughly enjoyed them selves. " The number of claims which have been presented to the county court this term is unusually large. Five hundred and forty bills have been filed and will be taken up for consideration at once. The reports of the road supervisors will come up before the court at this time, bo the amount allowed will of necessity be-large. The open weather of the past two weeks has made the farmers think of plowing. A number of them are already making furrows in their fields, but it is generally thought it is yet too early for plowing to be done. The grass is grow ing finely, and every day that this mild weather continues means a saving of feed to the stock-raiser and farmer. So far the winter is proving satisfactory to everybody. A pleasant afternoon party was given yesterday by Mrs. A. JJ Newman and Miss Newman at their residence on Fourth street. The alair was given in honor of Miss Moody of Salem, wfio is visiting in The ftelles. The afternoon was spent midst fapcy work, while con versation and musnh combined to make the hours pass swiftly. A dainty lunch was served to tRe guests who were for tunate enouglrto be present. Those who accepted of the hostesses' hospitality were Mrs Hilton, Mrs Mack, Mrs H W French, Mrs Bronson, Mrs W H Moody, Mrs Price, Miss Lang and Miss Moody. Parties driving into The Dalles over the lower"! road to 5-Mile are loud in complaint of the road leading from the brewery to the railroad company's ice house. The thoroughfare could hardly be in worse condition, they say. At the last meeting of the council it was or dered that the marshal be empowered to employ a man at $2 per day to do work upon the streets, and there is no better place for work to be done than the por tion of Second street between the places mentioned. Two dollars a day should get good men, as a multitude of laborers could be found glad to do the work at even a less figure. We hope to see a great deal of work on the roads leading to town, as they are in need of it. The Red Men held an enthuBiestio meeting last night, at which it was de cided to give a grand ball February 22 in the Baldwin opera house. A com mittee consisting of W. H. Butts, F. Lemke and Ad. Kellar was appointed to make all necessary arrangements for the event. The Orchestra Union will fur nish the music and the dance will be first-class in all respects. The Red Men chose Washington's birth day as the oc casion for the festivities, because George Washington was the first grand sachem of the order. The Red Men date back to the famous Boston Tea Party, when fifty citizens of Boston disguised as In dians, threw a cargo of tea into Boston harbor. The ball next month will be a masquerade affair. Interest in the militia has been greatly stimulated in The Dalles of late, and Co. G is receiving a number of new recruits. Since the completion of the new armory the boys are taking a great deal of pride iii the organization. The drill last even ing was largely attended, forty-five mi litia men being in the ranks. Seven new men were mustered in, the names being as follows : Fred Hilton, Arthur Hendershott, W. M. McQee, Max Bar te'l, Archie Barnett, Will. Brown and Will. Johnson. The members of the company are each acting as a recruiting committee and several new names are expected to be added to the muster roll at the next drill night. The material that is going into Co. G is of first-class kind, and The Dalles will have the crack com pany of Eastern Oregon. Socially the members of the militia take pleasure in their organization and in their fine ar mory find many opportunities for rec reation. A good criterion of the increase or de crease in the amount of business done in a town is the change which the receipts of the poatoffice exhibit. A further proof that the present year has been a better business season for The Dalles than was last year, is shown by the fact that the receipts in the local postoffice for 1895 greatly exceeded those of 1894. A comparison for the two years shows that from Oct. 31 to Dec. 31, 1S94, the receipts of The Dalles office were $1813.52. For the same period in 1895, they were $2098.26 a gain of nearly $300 for three months. In the quarter preceding the above, or from July 1 to Oct. 2, 1894, the postoffice took in $1613.70. For a like period in '95 the amount was $1804 a gain of nearly $200. This showing is a very satisfactory one, and is evidence that the business done in The Dalies is better this year than last and constantly increasing. Last evening about 6o'clock a gentle man standing in front of Stephens' store saw a "young lad purloine a pocket handkerchief. The gentleman notified Officer. Connelly, who followed the boy and brought him to Mr. Stephens, where a' confession was made. The boy is a son ' of well-known and respected par ents, living in The Dalles, and the spe cies of thieving, in which be indulged last night, is the result of evil compan ionship. The culyrit, whose name we withhold for the sake of his parents, said that there is a gang around town organized to commit depredations of this sort and that other merchants bad suffered in the same way. After the boy confessed, Mr. Stephens was not disposed to press the matter, and he was allowed to depart by the officer upon solemn promises that this offense would be the last. This is the second time within a short while that thieving of this sort has been discovered, as last fall articles were found that had been stolen from the Btores of Pease & Mays and A. M. Williams & Co. Officer Connelly learned the names of some of the boys who have been doing this sort of thing, and a sharp watch will be kept upon their actions. Improvements at trie Electrlo Debt Works. The Dalles has reason to be proud of its electric light works. Few cities the size of this place have as complete a plan, while many larger cities will suffer in comparison with the electric light system in The Dalles. Some im provements have been made at the works, which will provide still greater efficiency in the service. A new alter nating dynamo has been received, which will allow of 1000 incandescent sixteen candle power lights to be added to the number previously used. The demand for lights had rendered it necessary that the capabilities of the service be in creased. There is now sufficient power to furnish 2640 sixteen-candle lights and fifty arc lights. The number of incan descents now in use is about 2000. Among other improvements to be noticed is a switch-board of the latest design. A lightning arrestor has just been received, and its working was ex plained to a Cheosiclb reporter today. Should the wires be struck at any place by lightning, the ehbek would reach as far as the arrestor and then pass along a wire leading into the ground, and thus be prevented from reaching the machin ery. Should the number of incandes cent lights reach over 2000, it would probably be necessary that a new engine and boiler of greater size and power be secured.' Awarded . Highest Honors WorJd's Fair, Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair. Most Perfect Made. 40 Years the Standard. Mioao HOODS! Enflless Yailety ! SILVERW1E AT COST 1 Your choice of one-half dozen Silver-plated Tea Spoons, Sugar Shells or Napkin Ring for 25 cents. KIGES SMuGHTEKED on our wholle line, including Albums, Books, Toys, Notions, Candy, Pianos and Organs. II RIGHT PIATJOS for $125. Great reductions on all Holiday Goods. Jacobsen Book & Music Co., 162 Second Street, " V THE DALLES, OR; Holiday Perfumes. Hxy a nice, clean, sweet Perfume or Toilet Water, elegantly put up. It makes a hand some and much appreciated present. Prices to "tickle" "Long" or "Short" Purses. DOflflEInYS D$UG STOlJE Telephone No. 15. H neca depaftupe. On and after Dec. 2, 1895, the undersigned will sell his stock of Hay Grain, Feed, Flour and Groceries, FOR ABSOLUTE CASH OR PRODUCE. Ne goods sold unless paid for. We are selling goods very close, and we must b av the cash down. We will make it to your interest to get the cash. J. H. CROSS. All goods delivered to the boat, railroad depot or any part of the city free of cost