Beilii
Prices 01 Bicycles.
Eagle
New "
ever been carried in this city, and to reduce our stock, have
decided that to all CASH buyers we will sell at greatly re
duced orices for the
Batiste
Lace
Collars
These goods will be the season's popular sellers. Favorite shades are Linen,
Butter, Black and Butter Colors. We are now offering some exclusive designs
at very atttractive prices. These goods come in both the lighter and heavier
makes of lace with Maltese-cross pattern or gathered Epaulettes.
We are still in the Shoe business, and are showing
Ladies tailor made boots, and Oxford Shoes in Tans and
ALL GOODS MARKED IN
PLAIN FIGURES.
Tho Dalles Daily Glmmieie.
ntered m the Fostofflce at The Dalles, Oregon
aa second-clan matter. -
WEDNESDAY. - MARCH 18, J89
BRIEF MENTION.
Leares from the Notebook of Chronicle
Beporten,
Ice cream at Keller's bakery.
Political forecast for Saturday Warm-
The local was an hour and a half late
this afternoon.
A. Keller will open up his soda foun-l
tain tomorrow. J
Lecture by Mr. Hugh Gourlay tonight'
at the Baptist church.
Forecast Today and tomorrow fair;
stationary; light northerly winds.
A marriage license was issued today
to Robert Haves and Marv J. Frentz.
... . .. ' 1
A laborer at tne uascaaes was killed
Tneeday, by a block falling from the top
of a derrick and striking him on the
Mr. T. A. Hudson reports that half
the grain fields of Sherman county will J
have to be re-sown, owirto the damag- I
ing effects of tke late cqld soup.
4-
Mr.'F. H. Rowe today commenced the
construction of of his new residence on
the hill. It is to be one of the hand-
Bomest and costliest residences ot tne
city. J
Circuit court at Moro adjourned last
night. There were no convictions in
criminal cases, unless in the case of the
State, vs. -Mcllvane for forgery, which
was the last case heard and in course of
trial at laBt accounts.
. v
' inera are ninn mpmlifiro in htranA
pective '96 graduatingblass of The Dalles)
high school : Daqie lAUaway, Homers
Angell, Edward Baldwin, Pearle Butler
Virgilia Cooper, Curtis Egbert, Edward
Jenkins, Mabel Riddel! and Nona Row.
The city co uncil met last evening and
listened to the report of the committee
to appraise lots. The necessary ordi
nance not having been drawn up under
which lots might be sold, the council
adjourned to meet Tuesday evening
- next.
Tickets for the Stevens-Jones musical
entertainment Friday evening are on
Bale at the drug stores and by Rev; -.W.
C. Curtis. The young ladies come to
our city with the highest possible in
dorsements, one as a pianist and the
other as a vocalist.
The choicest candies in the city may
always be found at A. Keller's. Candy
making has developed into a fine art
with Keller. His older patrons cannot
be surprised any more with the new and
choice confections he is continually pro
ducing. The public generally are' in
vited to ,call and see hia delicious can
dies. ,
.The finishing touches were made on
the bowling alley yesterday, and it was
at once used. It must be a very entic
ing sport. . Attorney "W. H. Wilson
PEASE
limped np home yesterday evening after
bowling all the afternoon, and the last
tiling be said as be lelt the club was
,s:
A
"I'll be back, boys, in about three-qaar
ters of an hour."
Chautauqua Circle.
The Chautauqua Circle
was delight
fully entertained last
lag by Mr.
In "Some
and Mrs. B. F. Laughli
Steps "of Human Pro;
Age" of the primitive
the "Stone
discussed
under the leadership of
Laughlin,
bringing out the metho
cb the'
Btone implements of warfare and , do
meatic use were manufactured. y
The poet, Journalists Bryant.Whi
itfier,
Poe, and the early magazine writers
were brought out under the quiz of Mrs.
W. H. Biggs. Quotations from Whit
tier and Poe's "Amabel Lee" by Miss
Hall, and Bryant's "O Fairest of Rural
Maids" by Mrs. Crandall, and Whittier's
"Peace" by Miss Adams, followed by
two papers, one on "Copper and its
Uses' by Miss Alma Taylor, the other
by Mrs. Donnell, "Manitoba and the
School Question," closed the lesson on
American Letters."
The C. L. S. C. might appropriately
be called a women's club, but last even
ing proved an exception. Evidently by
preconcerted plan the gentlemen arrived
about 9 o'clock, much to the surprise- of
the ladies. After a tenor solo by C. J.
Crandall, "Maid of Athens, Must We
Part?" Mr. Laughlin came in bearing a
tray of Iragrant coffee, steaming hot,
flanked by rich cream, cake, etc. Much
merriment and games were indulged in
until a late bojar, when .the circle dis
persed, tacitly voting the gentlemen in
as honorary members of the C. L. S. C-
biographical.
Uol. James i niton, wnose death was
as
announced in Tuesday's Chronicle, was
born in Peola, Ind., in 1816. He was
married in the city of his birth to Pris
cilia Wells in 1840. He moved to Mis
souri in 1841, and to Oregon in 1847, to
Yamhill county. In 1854 he was elected
colonel of the O. N. G. In 1856 he
served as. quartermaster in the Yakima
Indian war. He moved from Yamhill
to Wasco county in 1857, residing first
on 10-Mile creek. In the year -1870 he
represented Waeco county in the legisla
ture, and in 1873 came to The Dalles to
rpoli I Tn 1RR1 Ha mntyarl fn tKo Tkoo
Chutes. He had seven children, all now
living. They are Mrs. H. P. Isaacs
Mrs. Louis Scholia, Anna Fulton, James
John, David and Frank Fulton. Ther
are fourteen grand children and ' fo
great grandchildren. :
Card of Tlianki.
.. We desire to thank the friends who so
kindly gave their assistance" during the
last hours of life and the burial of our
beloved child, Stella.
Me. and Mas. A. Kaufman.
For Rent.
A good, responsible tenant can rent a
fine farm of 160 acres, situated ten miles
from The Dalles. Apply to W. E.
Campbell, Endersby. - ill-dtw2w
'en
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some swell things in
Blacks.
& MAYS.
A DIVERSION OF 1857.
uilt
an 80-Ton Boat and Hauled It
From Dofor to tne Klrer.
If anyone imagines that the days of
daring enterprises in the far West began
with the advent of the railroad and tele
graph, they, will be undeceived when
they read the following truthful inci
dent of a task performed which seems
herculean, and If a similar one were
projected today it would be pronounced
visionary and impossible of execution.
In 1S57 R. R. Thompson and Jonathan
Jackson built a saw-mill on the present
Wiley place on 15-Mile, five miles above
Dufur. One day, at a time when there
was a temporary lull in busineess, Mr.
O. Humison, then residing In The Dalles,
appeared at the saw-mill with an as
tounding proposition. It was to build a
boat to navigate the Upper Columbia
and enter the field of commerce as a
common carrier. The plan was to
build the boat at the saw-mill, and haul
it overland to a point above Celilo falls
and launch it in the Columbia. The
saw-mill men were very Bkeptical over
the virtue of the plan, as may readily be
imagined, but were finally, persuaded to
enter into the scheme by the very mag
netism and confidence of the projector.
So they began work on it. The boat
was 70 feet in length, 11 feet beam, 5
feet deep and having a carrying capacity
of 80 tons.
It was at length finished, and the most
difficult part of the work was before
them, how to get this unwieldly river
monster, weighing many tons, to the
water. Three daya were spent in sur
veying a route for it. . It was then de
cided to gain the ridge between Des
chutes and 15-Mile and follow it down.
This leads into a 'precipitous canyon,
and just how that part of the trip was
accomplished, is unfortunately not
known at the present day. . But the
boat was hauled along by eight yoke of
oxen, on slides, or long sleds, and it
took three weeks to haul it to the river,
a distance of thirty miles.' Talk about
Napoleon crossing the Alps. His
heaviest artillery was but a toy to this
gigantic river craft two-thirds as large
as the Regulator. The men of '57 on
this coast were built of the stauncheat
kind of staff, and nothing conld daunt
or appal them. They didn't think about
Prince Albert coats, immaculate shirt
fronts nor toothpick shoes, but they just
Bet themselves to some task for the de
velopment of the country, and they went
ahead. If .they lacked any refinement
of science or mechanics, any labor sav
ing device, implement, tool or appli
ance, they simply conjured up a substi
tute or got along-witbout it.
And they launched their boat. And
they christened it the Mountaineer.
With the aid of pike poles and lines
from the bank, they ascended the river
to Wallula and returned, carrying freight
and passengers both ways. When the
round trip was accomplished, and they
counted np the money in' the till, it was
found that there was enough funds to
pay for all the expenses undergone, of
building the boat, hauling and launch
See the Cleveland and
Eagle before "buying; both,
are high-grade and stand
ard Wheels. The Cleve
land has a -wood rim, and
the Eagle has an alumi
num rim. See our stock
before you buy.
Sole Agents for the above
named Wheels.
ing it and operating it up the river and
down again, and a handsome surplus
over and above all. 7
Afterwards the proprietors put sails
on the boat, and besides being the first
boat on the river, it was for many years
the fastest, as well. This company was
the nucleus of the old Oregon Steam
Navigation Company, afterwards merged
into the O. R. & N. Before the days of
the Mountaineer nothing navigated the
river except the batteaus of the Hudson
Bay Company and .the Indian canoes.
The Mountaineer opened ; the way and
pioneered steam navigation on the
Upper Columbia.
A massive shaft of California granite
in Sunset cemetery today marks the
last earthly resting place of this pioneer
of navigation on the Upper Columbia.
Chiseled out of this durable stone near
its base appears the name "Humison,"
and this is the man whose memo'y The
Chronicle, in this humble way, deisires
to recall. He wasa pioneer.
The McCoy Ditch.
Work on the McCoy ditch is about to
commence in earnest. Mr. F. Ehrichsen,
the contractor, has been in the city since
Monday, and will go to Wapinitia in the
morning. His advertisement appears in
The Chronicle today calling for" teams.
He has just returned from California,
where he has been to satisfy himself as
to the financial backing of the scheme.
He comes back- fully satisfied and pr6
poses to work men and teams as fast as
thoy apply for work. He expects to em
ploy at least 300 men and to complete
the work in 90 days.
The ditch is fed from Clear lake and
the work is partly done from there
northward. The ditch will be from 8 to
10 feet deep and 8 to 10 feet wide, ac
cording to grade.
Mr. Ehrichsen is a member of the large
contracting firm of CEas. Ehrichsen &
Co., incorporated, one of the largest of
the kind in California. . He was accom
panied to The Dalles by his wife.
WANTED.
Twenty teams for slip scrapers work.
Apply to - F. Ericsson."
I7-2td Umatilla House, The Dalles. -
Awarded
Highest Honors World's Fair,
Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair.
EMI
Most Perfect Made. -40
Years the Standard,
rfST-?"1"
J. . . -
NEXT TEN DAYS ONLY.
Prices made now will only hold good for wheels already
on hand. Call and see our display. .
: SECOND-HAND BICYCLES for sale cheap. Bi
cycles rented at 25c per hour. Bicycles repaired.
Removal
Nolan's Book Store now located at
No. 54 Second Street, near Union.
The TygH Val
ley Creamery
Ask Vanbibber &c Worsley for it.
45c. Every Square is Full Weight.
TELEPHOITB
Our entire stock of Pianos to be
sold before April 1st. We must vacate
our store building', and anything in
our line at cut prices, itatner tnan to
move bur whole stock we will sell you
anything you may want before we
move, AT COST.
Jacobsen Book &
162 Second Street,
Try a Bottle.
Atwood's Syrup of Tar, Horehound and Wild
- Cherry for that Cough.
DOHNEkk'S DUG STORE.
The Dalles
-DEALERS 131-
Coal, Ice an! FroSnce, Foreip .ana Bomestlc Fruits awl TeietaMes.
Oysters, Fish, Poultry and Came In Season.
NORTH POWDER ICE, which is noted for Its purity and lasting qualities.
ROCK " 8PBING8.
BOSLTN, ANTHRACITE
and GEORGES CREEK
Phone 123 and 25o. Corner Second and Washington Streets.
Consignments Solicited. Goods received for Cold Storage and Forwarding.
Notice
Is -Jellcloaa.
CREAMERY
Tygh Valley
A. A. B.
80.
jusic Company,
THE DALLES, OR.
OF-
Commission Co.,
FOR FUEL ami
MANUFACTURING
PURPOSES.