I Closing Out Sale of Shirt Waists Short Lengths in Dress Goods. Special Sale of Garden- Hose. F O R We have still left some of oui choicest numbers in Waists. They all go in the same lot at 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. ALL GOODS MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES. PEASE & MAYS Fishing Tackle, Loaded Shells, Powder, Shot,, -AND A- General Line -OF- Camping Supplies -CO TO- MAIER & BENTON 167 Second Street, oppo site A. M. Williams & Co. To close out our present stock of G-arden Hose, we will make extremely low prices on what we 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 Oac the pies. SCREEN WIRE, SCREEN DOORS WINDOW SCREENS. Now in Stock. New Styles and LowPrices. Odd Sizes made to order on Short Notice. JOS. T. PETERS & CO The Dalles Daily Cltfomeie. THURSDAY. - -AUGUST 6, 1896 Weather Forecast. Portland. Aug. n, 1896. Fok Eastern Oregon Tonight and tomor row showeis. Facue. Observer. WAYSIDE CLEANINGS. Random ObserTations and Local Events of Leaner Maraituiie. ty-fs lein a S n The river standi at 19.9 above low water mark. The rainfall yesterday amounted to four hundredths of an inch. The -school apportionment this year distributes $136,104.15 in Oregon. Sherman county is credited with 979 pupils of the 129,623 enumerated in Oregon. yOVorkmen were engaged yesterday in re-Jaying the state portage at the Cas-l I cades. Mr. W. S. Neece.of Sherman count in the city on a contest case before the register. : sheriff and deputy collected about- $3,000 delinquent taxes last month, and taxes are still coming in. ifur & Menefee have moved thei othce into an elegant suite ot rooms in the the new Vogt block, and are the first occupants upstairs of the complete' YirnMinc. A fine basket of peach plums was pre sented The Chronicle force this after noon by Rev. O. D. Taylor, grown on the famous Columbia River Fruit Co. ranches. Many thanks for the fine fruit. Huckleberries will not stand civiliza tion. Cultivate them and they die. A Marion county farmer tried the experi ment. This year they are in bountiful supply in Baker county. In the vicinity of Lehman springs the woods are full of tbem. State School Supt. G. M. Irwin writes to School Supt. Gilbert of. Wasco county j that the supply of school laws is ex hausted. There cannot be a new edi tion published until after the next legis lature meets. Bequests for same will therefore be useless. The amusement market is very dull, with prospects of a continued decline. During the winter and spring past there were so many lodge entertainments, smokers, socials, and society events that it was difficult to select a night with a prospect of securing undivided attend ance. Now it is different. People like to sit upon their porches and just think. The run of fish in the lower river is phenomenal, but the supply continues very scarce above the Cascades. An idea has been suggested that this fact is owing to the hatcheries at the lower river, claiming that It is nature for the fish to return where they were batched. This is of course a theory and will ever remain one, for it cannot be proved. But it may be a fact nevertheless. The way to take advantage of it, if true, is to establish hatcheries in the John Day and Deechutes rivers. It is pretty well established that the fish return to the rivers four years after they are hatched. The traps for the band are a very com plete assortment and include the sounds made by a horse galloping, cuckoo, steamboat whistle,' dogs barking, police rattle, cow, calf, pop-gun, hog, tree toad, turkey, bnll frog, pond frog.locuet, police whistle, rooster, jay bird, duck, bob white, railroad train, canary bird, mock ing bird, sleigh bells, gong, and -a ka zoo. Mr. G. A. Clarke will commence mastering their intricacies at once, but the band will not use them next Sunday. It should be borne in mind that the noises are not made for their own sake many of them having no musical beauty whatever, but serve to describe or inter pret the music being rendered at the time. Good Bote l'urcttased. WARNED OF DEATH. France Kreft Prophesied Her Deniise Deatli of f. Croos Recalled. j problem may be The fire and water committee of the city council ordered 500 feet of hoee of the Maltese Cross brand yesterday. The kind ordered is 45 pounds to the length, 4-ply hose, with 5-ply capped ends, coupling "Jo threads to the inch. The hose is guaranteed to stand a pressure of 350 lbs to the square inch. There is no better hose than the Maltese' Cross. It has been the standard hose for many years, and has more fine points than any other brand known to the writer. It is manufactured 6y the Gutta Percha Mfg. Co. . Six or seven years ago the city purchased some of the same brand, and Engineer Brown informs a reporter that it is now in - better condition, is more serviceable and far safer to use than other kinds which have been pur chased since that time. The hose pur chased, while admirable for tournament purposes, was not bought on that ac count, but for eervice, wear and tear and actual use. Its good qualities con sist in being lighter to handle, more of it can be carried on the cart, it reels closer and does not crack. , The Maltese Cross is an ideal hose for all purpoees. Sheep Cases Go Over. In the United States court yesterday the sheepmen arrested at The Dalles on charges of allowing their flocks to tres pass on the. Cascade forest reserve, de murred to - the informations, on the ground of insufficiency. The demurrers were to have been argued yesterday, but defendants were not prepared, soothe matter was postponed. .Warrants were issued yesterday for the arrest of D. P. Ketch um and Wm. Ketchum, who are herding eheep, said to belong to Port land capitalists, in the vicinity of Cloud Cay inn, on the Cascade reserve.' Special Land Office Agent Dixon is now on the reserve, making observations, and will be able to give a . disinterested report of the state of affairs there. Ore gonian. ' : - - .' : ' - v'PIKSOAL MEJTlON Mrs. C. W. Phelps will return from Hood River this evening, after a two months' absence in the mountains. Mr. and Mrs. Cbaa. Gray of Salem are in the citv, the greets of Mr. Grav's sister. Mrs. J. M. Pattel It seems that on rare occasions it is given to mortals to know that their span of life is about to be completed. In his funeral sermon over the body of Frances Kreft, Rev. Gray told of the deceased having had several presentiments of ap proaching death during the month pre vious. She had spoken to her parents several times about it, as well as to the neighbors. Of course those who listened to her prophecy made sport of it, but the girl could not be persuaded out of the notion, and even left orders concern ing her funeral which were carried out by the grief-distracted parents. These instructions included who was to preach the funeral sermon and where her body ebould be laid. Another case of a death following an irresistible presentiment is that of Fred Cross, who died in a railroad acci dent January 4th, 1890. He was fire man of the ill-fated train which wrecked at the old ice house below Hood River, and resulted in his death by scalding. He spent the evening of his departure with Mr. V. E. Sylvester's family, and they noted he was in great perturbation. He paced the floor at intervals and it was evident something wa9 preying on his mind. In response to questions be said he felt that he was to be killed on this trip; and didn't want to go. He was asked why, then, he allowed him self to go. He replied there was no ex tra men on the list that nights He had tried hard to get a substitute, but failing, was compelled to go him self. Before that, also, tie had re lated a dream of the night previou in which it seemed he was burnin to death, and saw standing around hi the ones to whom he was talking. That was the last time the Sylvester famih saw him alive. He left on - the trip an was burned to death. Where the impression which foretol 1 death in these two cases originated is i mystery, j it is not reasonable to supv pose that it came from the individoal's4 own mind, nor the mind of any other human being. The facts of1 its trans mission and reception belong to a' sci ence impossible for finite minds to fathom. The bare facts are related above. What they would indicate as to the at tributes of the mind is beyond the writ er's ken. Probably no one living can weave irom mem a ionndation for a psychological fact. The human mind, gifted as it is to investigation and re search of all things outward, turns back battled when it attempts an introspec tive study upon itself. That which ana lyzes is not capable of its own analysis. The theologian would gather from these events a warning imparted from the Divine; clairvoyancy . might seem to be ... established by students of another school of . thought ; and the fatalist would find convincing support of his .belief in the fact of poor Cross failing to find anyone to take bis place. Sometime, somewhere, somehow, the solved, but humanity after so many centu ries, of ever estabusnincr wuat tne mind is and the extent of its rightful functions. Mr. Divers Talks l'roeperlty. James Divers has returned from the famous British. Columbia, mining dis trict, and tells of probably-the most prosperous region of country in North America today. Mr. Divers was for merly engineer ot the electric light com pany at The Dalles. During bis absence he has developed and owns four good mining properties, and expects to real ize $10,000 from their sale. These are located near Nelson and Deer Park. The latter place is a new camp which is filling up rapidly. On his return trip be passed through Roslyn, and found there is now 7,000 people there. The LeRoy mine has just declared another 5 per cent dividend, amounting to $25, 000, making $200,000 altogether. While absent he met Mr. G. M. Sterling and Mr. F. T. Esping, both well known resi dents of The Dalles. Both are doing well and have all the work they can.at tend to, at" good wages. Mr. Divers says the great need at the mining camps is lumber. For want of it hundreds of of families are living in tents, who would suffer from cold were the season farther advanced.- There is plenty of timber in the neighborhood, but little -mill ma chinery. A sawmill of ordinary capa-. city could clear $10,000 within a year. terested Visitor. When you umut to bay Seed Wheat, Feed "Wheat, Rolled Barley, Whole Barley, Oats, Rye, Bran, Shorts, . , Or anything n the Feed Line, go to the WASCO : WAREHOUSE, Our prices are low and our goods are first-clasp. Agents for the celebrated WAISTBURG "PEFRLESS" FLOUR. Highest cash price paid for WHEAT. OATS and BARLEY. GEORGE RUCH PIONEER GROCER. Successor to Cbrisman & 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 of town. r. George U. Biateiey, ot rne Danes as a visitor in Astoria yesterday andV xpects to return during the regatta andf firomftn'a InnrnftmpnL Xlr. Rlakelev lfiU chairman of the committee of The Dalles fire department whicHSn ill send a run ning team to compete EVe duiing tb tournament. He is ex-judge ot Wasci county, interested in journalism, politic and religion, is a married man, rides bicycle, baa a good time wherever goes and is a pleasant man to' meet ciallv. His return will be welco Astoria Kews. There's no clay, flour, starch or other worthless filling in "Hoe Cake" and no free alkali tb burn the hands. jly24-ii Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair, Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair. "DR. -.' REMOVAL. Jacobson Book & Music Co. and Harry Liebe have moved to New Vogt Block. -DEALER IN- MEM Most Perfect Made. 40 Years the Standard. PAINTS, OILS AND GLASS. And the Most Complete and Latest Patterns and Designs in - WALL PAPER. WALL. PAPER. PRACTICAL PAINTER and" PAPER HANGER. None but the tiest brands of J. W. MASURY'S PAINTS used ia all our work, ' and none but the most skilled workmen employed. " Agents for Masury Liquid Paints. . No chem icel combination or eoap mixture. A first-class article in all colors. All orders promptly attended to. Store and Faint Shan corner Third and Washington Sts., The Dalles. 0reoB RUPERT 6V G ABEL, Wholesale and retail manufacturers and dealers in Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Collars, ''TENTS and WAGON COVERS. ' REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE. Adioining E. J. Collins & Co.'s store.