C3 J I Glosing Oat Sale of ShM Waists 1 OR Special Sale of Garden Hose. $ Short Lengths in Df ess Goods. :L We have still left some of oui choicest numbers in ' -2 "Waists. They all go in the same lot at t One-half the Regular Price. REMNANTS REMNANTS REMNANTS There has been accumulating in our stock of Dress Goods, a number of new and very desirable rem nants. ' ; We Offer Them, at Half Price. Don't overlook this sale, the most important one of. the season. Cotton Dress Goods at less than cost. PEASE & MAYS ALL GOODS MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES. Fishing Tackle, Loaded Shells, Powder, Shot, -AND A- General Line OF- Camping' Supplies -GO TO- MAIER & BENTON 167 Second Street, oppo site A. M. Williams & Co. To close out our present stock of Garden Hose, we will make extremely low prices on what wa have. You can save money by buying your Hose now. The whole stock is in our center window. When this is gone we will not sell any more at the prices we are now making. Keep Ouc the Flies. SCREEN WIRE, SCREEN DOORS, WINDOW SCREENS. Now in Stock. New Styles and Low'Prices. Odd Sizes made to order on Short Notice. JOS. T. PETERS & CO The Dalles Daily Chronieie. WEDNESDAY. - AUGUST 5, 1896 Weather Forecast. Portland, Aug. 5, 1S96. For Eastern Oregon Tonight and tomor row showeis. Paouk. Observer. WAYSIDE GLEANINGS. Ramlom Observations and Local Events of Lesser Magnitude. BOHEMIA IN THE DALLES. A Lapse ia Ethics Which Closed Its Door's Several Days. Macabees meeting tonight. A number of musical traps have ar rived for the use of the Dalles band. The hose team will commence prac ticing tonight at 6 o'clock, the wet test. Severe training will commence about the 10th. The names of the team were sent to Astoria today as required by law. G. L. Harphan has taken up a water Tight of 150 inches of water out of a creek on the north half of the northeast quarter and the north half of the north west quarter of section 1, township 2 north, range 8 east. Juet noiv the farmers of the Grande Konde valley are engaged in putting un hay, but the crop is so heavy that in some sections much ot it wilf be left Etanding. Huge stacks dot the vaHey throughout its length and breadth. It will be but a few days before the farm ers turn their attention to the grain har vest. Tampa, a fleet footed animal owned by Keeney Bros., Long Creek, Or., was sold recently at Anaconda, Mont., to W. F. Matlock of Pendleton. The consider ation was $700. Tampa has made quite a reputation in Montana, winning a half mile handicap race against some of the beat animals. She has passed into the hands of an experienced race horse man. Prof. D. M. Bristol, with his wonder ful performing horses, will open a two nights' engagement at the Vogt opera house next Monday evening. . The troupe consists of thirty horBes, who perform the most wondertul tricks, gen erally considered impossible for animals to do. The most intelligent and accom plished of these animals is Sultan, who has achieved international reputation as the horse mathematician. He works sums in arithmetic, tells the time", and even gives the proper answer to ques tions proposed bv persons m the audi ence. The skill and sagacity of these horses seem to require the exercise of reasoning faculty. There will be a mat inee Tuesday afternoon. The Baltimore Telegram of a recent date says : "Prof. Bristol's Eques-Curriculum, at Ford's ' Grand Opera House, has been called 'marvels of equine intelligence,' and without doubt they are. They can't talk, but they do nearly everything else, and their series of acts and tricks elicit the most rapturous applause, and many a dramatic artist would feel highly hon ored to secure one-half the plaudits ehowered on these dumb animals." The Dalles has a Bohemia club. It would be hard to define just what a Bo hemia club is, so different in character is it from all other clubs. Especially is it different in the primal particular of membership. The only requisite is braine, and the more of that a member has the higher is his caste. It is the only qualification for degrees. His be lief may take any shade end appertain to any realm of thought either in sei ence, politics or religion, if he has tb brains to successfully defend his chose: hobby he is entitled to and receiyes a due deference and respect. In such a atmosphere liberty of thought takes t widest range and some of the discussion would be permitted in few countries be- sides America, where freedom of speech i9 guaranteed. Another oddity of this club is that its meeting place is a place of business in the city. It meets at no particular hour and any hour is regular. The discus sions which have been carried on in this place have at times been very brilliant, generally interesting, always spirited. The brightest minds of the city have been attracted therein, persons high in public esteem and possessed of acknowl edged argumentative ability. Here some of these have been fairly met and matched by intelligences theretofore bidden by the mediocrities of life. But having once been inducted into this hall of mingled cults and beliefs, they are ever afterward possessed by a spirit which attracts them to the same arena, to engage again and again in intellectual battle.- A few days ago a couple of enthusi astic disputants violated the unwritten work of the club by the war of words changing to another form of battle not conducive to the maintenance of the Apollo-like beauty of the combatants. Tho effect was disastrous in the matter of endangering the life of the club. Its continued existence was threatened, for the next morning the sign appeared : : "Please don't talk politics in here." : The genial smile of the shop-keeper had vanished, and the place was other wise deserted. No more the wails re-. sounded with oratory, eloquence orf logic. . Silent industry was the order od the day. , We do not know just how long the' sign remained, but only a few days later the reporter happened in and observed that the sign was taken down. . The grieved expression on the face of the shop-keeper had given place to the old smile, and in response to a question, he said be had again opened the doors to the old life. And now again are heard the worldly combats of its habitues, as the members of the Bohemia club as semble in threes and fours at the Wash ington street tailor shop to discuss the all-absorbing questions of the hour to give and take, to wrestle and wrangle, but through it all, to whatever heights the impassioned voice and thought may j reach, there ever appears before the eye i C i1 ; i -1 i , ... . i i . I ui me iuibu mat cara wun me ureaa words upon it, "Please don't talk poli tics in here," a dread warning and a shameful reminder of the lapse of ethics of the Bohemian club. - Settle It Yonrself. MR. SHERAR RETURNS. He Explains the Whole Situation Very Clear Manner. 1 Jos. Sherar returned last nigh om Portland. He says that he be leves a test case will be made of one of the sheep companies, which will decide the fortunes of all the rest. The one selected he thinks will be the Tyeh Valley Live Stock Co., in which the Messrs. French are heavy stockholders, and that the trial will occur in a short) I time. Speaking of the effects upon sheep men that the trial would have if it 6hould go against them, Mr. Sherar said : "It we are compelled to remove our sheep from the reserve it will mean the ruination of the sheepmen, and with them the balance of the country, includ ing The Dalles. The greatest industry, the one bringing the most money into the country, is the sheep and wool busi ness, and if that is killed, it kills every thing else. There is not enough range elsewhere in the country to graze ouri sheep, and if we are compelled to re-J move them from it, the sheep will drivej every hoof of horses and cattle from the established summer ranges for than stock in Wasco county. I believe the! trouble has been caused by one or two injudicious sheep owners who drove their bands to the range where the Bull Run pipe line gets their water to suppH Portland. The bands of sheep have polluted the water more or less and it ia but natural the citizens should take measures of precaution to preserve the (purity of their domestic supply. 1 be lieve they are aided by another class of seople whose interests are against the iheep grazing in the mountains. Those ire the sports who want to preserve the game. They have their friends who come to visit them from the East and across the water and thev naturally want to give them the pleasures of the chase. But the sheepmen do not inter. fere with the game. The game is above them. There is no truth in the allega tion that the sheepmen have fired th range. It !s against their Interests V 1 I I 1 T , uo idhii, ana is aangerous as well. Those forest fires sometimes travel faster than a band of sheep can run." Btrerar hay uuuapieheliu.ed the whole situation pretty well in the above conversation.. It is not probable that the U. S. courts will - strike so direct a blow at a large industry as to compel the sheepmen off the range, thereby paralyzing the business of a large frac tion of the state. There is a slight grievance at the root of the matter which we believe will be fully remedied without involving all the sheep owners who have been summoned to appear as defendants. . " A great many citizens are wondering who has the right to wear the marshal's star. We publish today the law appli cable to the case, and anyone of a judi cial turn of mind may ponder over it and draw bis own , conclusions. The amended laws of Oregon for 1895, which is the latest authority, has the following under , heading of "Organization and Powers of the Council :" Chapter 5, section 27: A majority of the council shall constitute a quorum to do business. Chapter 5, section 32: The concur rence of a majority of a quorum is a sufficient majority to determine any question or matter other than the final passage of an ordinance and the appoint ment or removal of an officer. BORN. In this city, August 5th, to the wife of C. B. Johnston, a daughter. Sixteen farms in the vicinity of Pen dleton, some in Oregon and some in Washington, have been harvested, and the returns show the average to have been Z bushels of wheat and 60 bush els of barley to the acre, with the qual ity fair. The heaviest yield so far.re ported is 60 bushels. This was by Philip Young. Reduction in Railroad Fares. As there will be numerous requests for reduced rates on account of political meetings during the coming contest, it has been decided that in order to treat all parties alike, a one fare rate will be made by the O. R. & N. Co. tor various meetings of this character. This of course is intended only for oc casions where there is sufficient number to justify a reduction in rates. This is done so that there wiL1 be no partiality in favor of any one party. E. E. Lytle, Agent. Lost! Lost! On the morning of July 4th, between 5 and 8-Mile creeks; a tan-colored valise clothing and other valuables. A liberal reward will be paid on leaving the same at this office. . ' jul6-ds-wlm Subscribe for The Chkojcicie and get he news. 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