Our Specials m .3 Ladie Footwear For this week. We are Sole Agent for Laird, Schober & Co. and J. & T. Cousins Fine Footwear; makes that are well known to the public. Ladies' Oxfords. Genuine Hand-turn, plain cloth, needle and square toe, black and tan, $3. Ladies' Vici Kid, French-cut vomp, fancy heel foxing, patent leather tip; eye lets worked in silk; color black; $3. Tan Vici Kid, turn sole, fancy cloth foxing, needle toe, white Kid lined; $3.50. Black French Kid, patent leather tip, Turkish toe, hand-turn sole, $3.50. Ladies' Patent Leather, whole foxing, cloth top, needle toe, $4. In Ladies' Lace and Button Boots, we are showing all the up-to-date and swell things of the season. ALL GOODS MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES. PEASE & MAYS; SilAIER & BENTON Are now located at 167 Second Street, opposite A. M. Williams &: Co., with a complete line of Hardware, Stoves and Ranges, Groceries, Cord Wood, Cedar Posts, Barbed Wire, Rubber Garden Hose. Plumbing and Tinning a specialty. Also agents for the Cele brated Cleveland Bicycle. " V 0 have we taken hold of the VICTOR BI- VV il I r CYCLE as our leading Wheel. RproiiCA after thoroughly testing a dozen different JDCC'ClLlot makes, we have come to the conclusion that the VICTOR is the BEST. it is mechanically perfect, and while not TOO LIGHT for our bad roads, yet it runs the easiest. . it has a tire that, while light, is almost PUNCTURE PROOF. (We will repair all puncturess free for the season on 1896 ' Victor Tires.) We have 1896 Ribycles that list at $100 that we will sell for $75, bat tbey ace not VICTORS. . Our 1896 VICTORS sell for 100. For medium grade bicycles, we have the Waverley and Crescents $50 to $85. Good second hand wheels, $25 to $30. ....... . , Bicycles and Tandems for rent. Wheels repaired. We keep constantly on band a good stock of compressed air, for inflating tires, and give it away. Get your tires inflated. ...... Because Because Wall Paper. Latest Designs, Ne"W Combinations, Harmonious Colorings. At Very LiO-w Prices. Call and see our samples before buying. JOS. T. PETER & CO The Dalles Daily Chronicle. WEDNESDAY. MAY 13. 1896 WAYSIDE GLEANINGS. Random Observations and Local Events of Lesser Magnitude. FALSE AND UNJUST. A. Statement Against BIr. Moore Cor rected by "Farmer at Rufus." Republican speaking tomorrow night at the court house. The weather. Tonight and Thursday, inon auuicuo; "& Twenty-four teachers are being exA a Jnoi ViafAFA G t-t risO Sn nap! ntanHanf! Trov Shellev. The trial of Robins, Miller and TeraV pleton for robbing the IT. S. mails has) been postponed until Friday. " J The Electric Light Co. is sinking shaft at the location of the plant. The have already proceeded but a few feet. lion. U. 11. Dodd, an eloquent repu lican orator, will address the citizens of The Dalles at the court house tomorrow night. v representative, has formally declined the nomination, and removed with his famU ly to St. Louis. s Green peas were noticed in markeft today. They were raised by Mr. Field J who usually leads the season in earlyf vegetables and fruits. s The credit for saving ahfe at the old Gates ferry should be given to one of the Clarno boys. John Todd was not there at the time and was merely the inform ant, v Tomorrow we propose to publish theN program for the open air concert Sunday to be given by The Dalles band. It has been decided to play in the public . school yard instead of the academy. tt . . r i " r ne were b parcel one lnnicuon, lor which we are duly thankful. Grand Master Sovereign was not notified of his appointment in The Dalles and he con sequently passed through to Portland The condition of Mr. Biggs after th exertion of yesterday, which it was feared would be too much for his strength, is still improving. His friends were more than thoughtful of him yes terday, and many were the remem brances received, among them a silver souvenir spoon, over sixty years ol from, his neighbor, Mrs. Myers. Mr. E. Jacobsen returned from a tri to Bakeoven, Nansene and Antelope last night. While absent he met Joseph Sherar, who he reports as recovering - from his injuries. He found the wea ther cold and backward, but prospects excellent for a good crop. The new Sherar road from Antelope to Bakeoven is a splendid piece of work, dispensing. with many steep hillsides. With . th Uurrant creek road next attended t that section of country will have lit complaint to make regarding roads. Dr. T. F. Campbell has now located permanently at The Dalles. ' The doctor is a graduate of leading colleges and universities, has hadyars of experience in his profession and has in his time seen active service in his capacity in the Brit - ish army and 17. S. Indian service. ltdw. Some anonymous scribbier from Wasco, writes to The Dalles T.-M. that Hon. W. H. Moore "opposed the Rattle snake road " We can brand this as a. falsehood for the reason that Mr. Moore was in favor of the scheme, and stated to us that he believed it would be a good thing for Sherman county. His couvic tions more than all else, caused us to stop an argument with certain parties who brought and aggravated the dis cussion, and now realizing their animus we are free to make th'o statement, be lieving that the scribbler who penned the screed against Mr. Moore is the same scandal monger who "entertained" us for a purpose. The Dalles Chronicle, knowing full well that Mr. Moore in in terested in every project for the material advancement of Sherman county, treats, the matter as a vile slander, which it is,' one of those risinit like miasmas when the victim is placed in a position such ae Mr. Moore is today. Observer. Rufcs, May 12, 1896. Editor Chronicle : In last Saturday's issue of the Times Mountaineer I read a letter purporting to have been written by a "Farmer" and evidently intended to prfjudic thf minds of the people against W. H. Moore, the Republican candidate for joint senator of Sherman. Wasco and Gilliam counties. "Farmer" claims that nothing can be expected from Moore in the way of legislation tending to give the people a portage road or any kind of a road that would give them an outlet to market. Now, such a statement is as unjust as it is false, and it is quite ap parent that the object "Farmer" had in view was to willfully misr. present Mr. Moore's position on the transportation question, for campaign purposes and no other. I live at Rufus, one of the chief shipping points in Sherman county, and Mr. Moore, as president of the Columbia Commercial Co., transacted a good deal of the company's business there last fall, in fact be was there most of the wheat hauling season, and I know that he was deeply interested in the question of get- ing cheaper freight rates, and even made several trips to Portland for that purpose. ' Furthermore, I know that he used the Rattlesnake road as a leverage with "the powers that be" in Portland to compel them to grant us cheaper transportation rates, and actually suc ceeded in securing a reduction that has saved thonsands of dollars to the people of this county. It is untrue to say that Mr. Moore ever opposed the Rattlesnake road. He was never aeked to support it. No doubt the writer of the letter in question, and a few others of his ilk, were so prejudiced against Mr. Moore that they did not approach him at all on the subject of the proposed road. Daring all the time of the agitation of the question of building the Rattlesnake road, I never heard Moore utter one word against it, and I was in a position to hear it if he ever did so. It is silly lor "Farmer" to say that Moore was afraid of the Rattlesnake road diverting trade to The Dalles. Moore Bros, had all the trade they wanted, and a great deal (no doubt such trade as the man who wrote the letter above mentioned) I that they did not want. Moore has been in the mercantile business in Sher man conntv for ten years, and during all that time he baa been upright, honorable and just in all his dealings with the people. He has given them accommo dations when they could not get them elsewhere, and there is many a farmer in Sherman county today who has Walter Moore to thank for being able to battle successfully with the hard times which have sorely taxed the people of this country during the past three years. Mr. Moore is a man who can and will do tne people good service if be should be chosen to represent them in the state legislature (which I believe be will be). The nomination came to him unsought; was forced upon him, and he accepted it from a sense of duty, not from any other motive. He has sacrificed his own in terests by making the run this year, just when his time is badly needed in his priyate business, and if the voters should act upon the suggestions of Farmer," it seems to me tbey would be showing rank ingratitude to a man who deserves better treatment at their hands. Farmer at Rufus. THEIR CLUB HOUSE BURNED. DEDICATED TO THE DEVIL. ESTangeliat Wonders at the Hardness Pendletun Sinners. The Crittenton meetings continue to attract attention among church people and many outsiders in Pendleton. They are well attended. Perhaps the public discussion aroused on account oi the visit of Mr. Crittenton and his helpers has given them the needed advertising and brought out the crowds. Friday evening's audience was sufficient to fill the circuit court room. Evangelist Car penter, assistant to Evangelist Critten ton, made an appeal to the people pres ent to make punlio profession of their sins and accept the Christian life. . Sott and low a hymn was -sung while the preacher held his arms forward and asked the people to rise in their places and thus indicate a desire to become Christians. No one arose and the evan gelist looked about in despair and then uttered these words, in a tone which showed that he meant them and consid ered that he was talking to a hardened community : . "A man told me upon the streets of your city today that years ago Pendleton was dedicated to the devil ; that wine was broken in the customary way and Pendleton formally dedicated to the devil. And I am sorry to confess that in all my jurneys through the country" between New York and the Pa cine coast, I have never met with people who under such influence as this dared to reject Christ." - The evangelist, Mr. Crittenton, said to the East Oregonian that he had been in formed, prior to coming here, that be was going to a place given over to the devil and so engrossed in worldliness that the gospel wonld not be received by them. Pendleton's La Grande friends gav6 Mr. Crittenton this information. East Oregonian. . - Subscribe for The Chronicle and get the news. Hut tbe Dirty Doeud" are Resourceful and May Win Yet. The "Dirty Dozen" club has received a blow. Not a complete knockout. Oh, no. Thev are not wrecked by any means. Their club house was burned to the ground last night, and this morning the only visible remnants are a burned cook stove, previously damaged, some coal oil cans which served as lockers, while on tbe placid bosom of the elough di rectly in front of their erstwhile castle, floats a stove pipe, rising and falling with the wavelets. Desolation reigns. Bat this visible demoralization is mis leading, if one imagines it is complete. The boys have not been reduced to the final extremity, and there yet remains to them a house luxurious in comparison to the one burned last night. This morning the boys manned a flatboatand proceeded to it. They pushed quietly down the slough into the waste of waters of the broad Columbia, when they set sail, and fearing neither wind nor wave, navigated down the river, past Mill creek harbor, beyond the O. R. & N. incline, past the promontory, and then standing n close to shore, after reefing the top gallant and stowing the main maBt into the hold, they directed their gallant craft into a laud-locked basin secure from pirates under the titles of sheriffs, po licemen, etc. ; During the flood of 1894 a house from above floated in here, and this the boys have fitted up in style, and here transact their most urgent business. In the event the common enemy of boys, their parents, and more especially the city and county officers, attack and raze to the ground this other stronghold, then they have a final recourse, which is sure of success, though possessing its dis advantages. They have two fiatboats on tbe slough, and by lashing them together and building a house thereon, tbey can rest secure from attack because they are not on land. "If we build a house on the water, they dassen't touch us," said one of them confidently this morning. So the youngsters are well versed In law, as well as skilled in resource, and they may win the day yet. Subscribe for Tbe Chronicle. , ' Teachers' Examination. Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair, Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair. Most Perfect Made. 40 Tears the Standard. Notice is bereby given that for the purpose of making an examination ot all persons who may offer themselves as candidates for teachers of the schools of this county, the county superintendent thereof will hold a public examination at his office in The Dalles, beginning Wednesday, May 13tb, atl o'clock p. m. Dated May 2 1896. - Troy Sheltey, County School Superintendent, Wasco County Oregon. n7-7t "Give me a liver regulator and I can regula t ie world," paid a genius. The druggist handed him a bottle of DeWitt'a Little Early ' Risers, the famous little pills. For sale by Snipes-Kinersley Drug Co., - ' Soothing, heating, cleansing, DeWitt'ff Witch Hazel Salve is the enemy to sores, wounds and piles, which it never tails to cure. Stops itching and urning. -Cures chapped lips and cold-sores in two or three hours." For Bale by Snipes Kinersly, Drug Co. Jacobson Book & Music Co. and Harry Liebe . have moved in the old Vogt Store on Washington Street, opposite The Chronicle Office: GEORGE RUCH PIONEER GROCER. Successor to Cbrisman A Corson. FULL LINE OF . STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES. Again in business at the old stand. I would be pleased to see all my former patrons. . Free delivery to any part ot town. SPECIAL. Pure Glycerine Soap, only 10c a cake. or 25c a box. Genuine Briar Pipes, with Amber Tip and Leather Cases, only 50c each at DonnelFs Drug Store. The Tygrn Val ley Creamery Is Delicious. Ask Vanbibber & Worsley for it. 45c. Every Square is Full Weight. CREAMERY Tygh Valley A. A. B. TELEPHOITB 3STO- SO.