Early Fall Delivery of
Muslin Underwear.
We have received oui COMPLETE STOCK of the Celebrated PEER
LESS UNDERWEAR. The goods , are well known to the ladies of The
Dalles, and lovers of dainty and up-to-date Underclothing will appreciate the
goods we are showing. The styles are something beautiful; the designs en
tirely different from what they have been heretofore; and" prices surprisingly
low, for the quality of goods.
Some of the New Things.
Colored Lawn Robes . at $1.25
Skirt Drawers at 1.25
Umbrella Skirts.... .......at $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00, 2.50
Drawers ...at 50c, 65c, 75c, 1.00
Umbrella Drawers at $1.00, $1.50, $1.75, 2.00
Night Robes .-. ...........at 75c, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 $2.00, 2.50
Chemise: : at $1.00, 1.50
Corset Covers : at 25c to .75
Black Rustle Percalin Skirts.. ..................... .. .. .. from $1.25 to 3.00
We will take pleasure in showing our stock to ladies who anticipate buying.
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SEE OUR CENTER WINDOW.
PEASE & MAYS
ALL GOODS MARKED IN
PLAIN FIGURES.
Maltes
Cross.
Maiku ife Benton are Sole
Agents for the Maltese Cross !
Fire and Garden Ho.e for The
Dalles. Anyone once buying
this brand of Hose will never
buy any other. It is carbol
ized and guaranteed to stand
a pressure of 350 pounds to
the square inch. This city
has just purchased 500 feet of
the Fire Hose and the School
District 200 feet of the Gar
den Hose. The city lias some
of the Maltese" Cross brand
that was bought seven years
ago, and it is better today
than some other brands that
were bought only four years
ago. The Maltese Cross has
been the standard Hose for
years, and is manufactured by
theGutta Percha Rubber and
Manufacturing Co. Parties
wanting hose for spray pumps
and .lawn purposes will do
well to buy the Maltese Cross.
It will cost a little more in
the start, but it is the cheaper
in the long run.
MAIER & BENTON
Sole Agts., The Dalles.
Special Sale of
Garden Hose.
To close out our present stock of Garden 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.
E&u&lTS CROWE.
Keep Oat 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 Dalies Daily Chpomcie.
Weather Forecast.
Portland, Aug. 21, 1896.
For Eakterk Orkgox Tonight and tomor
row fair and stationary. Paoue. observer.
FRIDAY, - -
AUGUST 21, 1896
WAYSIDE GLEANINGS.
Random Observations and Local Events
- of Lesser Magnitude.
See Dr. S, H. Frazier's announcement
in another column.
D. C. Herrin will lecture thie evening
to an A. O. U. W. audience in Pea
dieton. Five prisoners eecaped .from the
county jail at Pendleton Wednesday
night and are still at liberty.
Mr. E. N. Chandler, who has been out
in the country recently, says the potato
crop generally will be about a naif crop
on account of the dry weather.
Range food is good and stock is re
ported to be doing very well. The sec
ond crop of alfalfa hay is being secured
and there will be a large supply of hay
for use daring the coming winter;
The father of a bridegroom 6topped a
wedding the otter day at Antelope by
rieing when the clergyman asked if any
one knew just cause why the marriage
wbould not take place and announcing
that his son was already married.
from lit. Adams that
good pav. Master
about it to her, and she learned it was
in the pawn shop ; by accident. She
thereupon bad him arrested.
Tne Skamania Mines.
The irrepressible Timothy Sullivan
writes as follows to the Stevenson Pio
neer concerning the Lookout Mountain
mining district:
There is plenty of room here for min
ing experts. They can see a solid hill of
copper ore, not pure copper, but roca
that carries gold, silver, copper and pla
tinum. Platinum enough to pay fori
working the mine, as far as I have test-1
ed in a rough manner. Some I pounded
np and washed in an hour. Some black
oxide of copper I washed in a gold pan.it
went way up. Yesterday Culberson's!
brother came in with some rock, I can't
read a newspaper without my glasses,
but I can see 1000 colors to the square
inch in that rock without them. It is
not far from my claim, which is locate
and recorded, it is the same lead. I wi
trace it further before you hear from m
again. All we lack now is a good trail
We can get a tiail to Vancouver o
Washoogal and the people of Stevenson
will get left if they don't get a move on
them. The trail is blazed out now in a
rough state but Charlie can improve on
it if be has help.
There are 42 claims located, but they
are not all recorded.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
CASCADE PORTAGE.
'Dick" Closter Attempts to Knd His . Result of
Ijtfe tills Morning by Shooting.
'Richard Closter, familiarly known as
'"'Uncle Dick" bv a host of friends.
shocked and amazed the whole commu
nity early this morning by trying to end
his life, with what success remains to be
seen. A bullet from a 88 caliber -re'
volver ploughed its way in and down
ward into the interior of his head, tb
point of entrance being alwut an inc
behind the ear. A probe five inche
long was inserted its full length witboul
discovering the location of the bullet o
the extent of the wound.
Mr. Closter and Mr. Schutz have been
rooming together in the Michel bach.
block, corner of Union ' and Second)
streets. Last night Closter went to the
train with Judge Liebe and fanfily, who
were looking for a friend to arrive from
the west. - When the Liebes parted
company from their old friend be seemed
to be in his usual spirits. - This was
about 10 :30oldock
the Attorney-General'
spection. .
itepuiiu cone
the placer finds are
Cradlebaugh recently sent in about 25
cents worth of coarse gold he had panned
out himself to his mother. Mr. Cradle
baugh andson will return about the 5th.
faTtelegrarn this afternoon1 re
ceived by Tub Cuko.miclk states that
The Dalles boys lost in the Astoria hose
race today. They couldn't hold the
kink in the hose until the nozzle could
be attached. Although the boys lost the
wet tesi, uue 10 me acciaent, tnere is
gtilla chance to retrieve themselves.
The highest temperature so far during
the week was 76, and the loweBt 54 deg.
With the high temperature of 96 the
relative humidity was but 20 per cent.,
says Observer Pague, thus preventing
any injurious effects from the heat.
High temperatures prevail over Oregon
every year, but due to the dryness of the
air, sunstroke and prostration are un
known. Condon Globe : We regret very much
to learn that our old friend,George Coffin
of 30-Mile, is lying at the point of death
with heart disease and dropey, with a
very slim chance of recovery. This is
the same complaint that caused the
death of eo many of our noble old citi
zens within the last year or so T. B.
Hoover, H. W.' Pentecost, J. H. Morris
and others.
The garnishee case was eettled out of
court yesterday. The trial of Tennant
for larceny of a watch by bailee came up
at 3 o'clock this afternoon before Justice
Filloon. The plaintiff charges that the
watch, which she accidentally dropped
in the river, was recovered by Tennant
and pawned. - He told a different story
Grain Shipments.
According to the Commercial Review,
of August 13, published in Portland,
the grain crop for the past harvest year
was shipped as follows from that port:
861,914 barrels of flour and 5,785,685
bushels of wheat. Considering 4
bushels of wheat being equal to one bar
rel of flour, makes a grand total of 9,664
29S bushels of wheat shipped. From
Tacoma there were shipped 383,201 bar
rels of four and 3.370,248 bushels of
wheat, or a total ot 5,095.091 bushels of
wheat, or nearly 15,000,000 bushels of
wheat (including flour) shipped from
Portland and Tacoma during the past
harvest year. -
Announcement.
The Dalles, Or., Aug. 21, 1896.
Early in the spring I promised my
patients that, some time during the
summer I would . be able to fill teeth
without giving pain. I now have the
pleasure of announcing that henceforth
I will give comparatively no pain, either
in filling teeth or extracting. 'Very
truly, S. H. Frazier.
Room 1, Chapman block.
When Baby was sick, we gava her Castor!.
Wben she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, abe clang to Castoria,
Tben sine had Cfc ikLrsD, ate gave them Castoria.
Mrs. E. Sharon and Mrs. Bassett have
opened dressmaking' parlors in the
Chapman block. ang20-lw
clock this morning Mr. Schutz
was awakened by the pistol shot, in the
room adjoining, and hurrying from his
bed found the old gentleman in a dazed
condition from the effects of the shot,
the revolver having' dropped from his
band. Schutz hurried to the telephone
and summoned Dr. Holiister, who ar
rived in less than five minutes. He
found Closter on his knees, the blood
streaming from the left side oft his face,
blindly groping with his hands over the
floor for the pistol. He was conscious of
the doctor's approach and begged him to
give him something to finish the deed.
As quickly as possible and assisted by
Dr. Logan, the two physicians made an
examination of the injuries. The bones
in the face are fractured, and the bullet
has not yet been found, but is thought
to be lodged near the roof of the mouth
and in close proximity to the throat. It
is impossible to predict the result of the
injuty. It is possible that Mr. Closter
may recover, or be may not. He is now
under the influence of morphine. ,
Richard Closter's face has been one of
the most familiar on our streets for
years. His was a kindly and jovial na
ture and he had not an ' enemv in the
world so far as known. He is 67 years
old, an age where it might be supposed
he would await the' approach of the
Reaper without desiring to himself cut
off the few years of life naturally re
maining to him. No reason can be as
signed with certainty for his committing
the deed. After the shooting be told
one of his nearest friends that he was
not worth anything in the world. Mr.
Schutz attributes the deed to insomnia,
as he has not slept well for several
nights. Mr. Closter came to California
in 1849 and to Oregon in 1863. He for
merly was a packer and teamster to
Grant county and the Idaho ' mines.
Mr. Closter was a native of Oldenburg,
Germany. . '
3 p. m. The condition of Mr. Closter
has not changed. He is now in a semi
stupor and suffers no pain.
A dispatch from Salem to the Ore
gonian, says :
"The delay in operating the portage
'railway at The Dalles, and the conten
tion as to the rights on the part of the
government contractors engaged in dig
ging the canal, and of shippers, has de
manded the consideration of the state
portage railway commission for some
time. A few weeks ago the matter was
referred to the attorney-general with the
request that he make a personal in
spection of the situation at the locks
and report upon the rights of the con
tending parties.
' "The attorney-general has made bis
report, and finds that the landings and
nearly all the switches of the road at
the upper end are on the state's ground.
The only part of the road constructed by
the governmeut contractors, as reported,
extends from a point opposite an old
stable, down the river, to the govern
ment canal, where landings have been
heretofore made. The rest of the road
has been constructed at different times,
either by the state or government. -
"The attorney-general concludes his
report with this statement:
" 'I will not suggest to your honor
able commission further than to say
that there aretwo ways in which
the state may operate its ' - road.
The first will be to get the con
sent of the government contractors to
run over the line of the road built by
themselves, making the landing at the
lower end of the government canal.
This can be put in condition with small
outlay in repairing the lower end of the
road. The second will be to operate
over the npper road, makiBg repairs at
the incline, which the superintendent
informs me will cost between $1000 and
$2000. If this upper road is used, in mv
opinion it may be operated without
hindrance from the government con
tractors, as the entire line was built by
the state and the United States govern
ment before the contract was entered
into between the United States and the
government contractors now at work.' "
When yog mant to bay
- Awarded
Highest Honors World's Fair,
Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair.
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 firet-claes.
. Agents for the celebrated WAISTBURG "PEFRLESS" FLOUR.
Highest cash price paid for WHEAT. OATS and BARLEY.
GEORGE RUCH
PIONEER GROCER.
Successor to Cbrisxcan & 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.
REMOVAL..
Jacobson Book & Music Co.
and Harry Liebe
have moved to New Vogt Block.
33. TU&. "WJ&.TJ
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PRACTICAL PAINTER and PAPER HANGER. None but the best branda
of J. W. MASURY'S PAINTS used in all our work, and none but the
most skilled workmen employed. , Agents for Masury Liquid Paints. No chem-
j icel combination or soap mixture. A first-class article in all colors. All orders
promptly attended to.
Store and Faint Ehou corner Third and Washington Stef. The Dalles. 0reCB
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RUPERT & GABE L,
Wholesale and retail manufacturers and dealers in
Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Collars,
; TENTS and WAGON COVERS.
REPAIRING TROSIPTLT DONF.
Adjoining E. J. Collins & Co.'s store