What's the Matter with your Tire?
DTJ-SOC Will Make It Hold Wind.
New
Fall Dress Goods.
Our Fall Goods are arriving daily and w,e will soon have our complete
stock open for your inspection. The Dress Goods Section has already
made a good showing with some of the choicest materials. France,
England, Germany, and last but not least, America, have contributed
to our stock. Many of these handsomely woven materials are confined
to us for this section of the country. Come and look them over.
The Fall Importation
of Black Goods.
No woman's wardrobe is complete without at least one good Black
Gown, and we are in 'shape to Gown the town. . Handsome Lustres,
unique Brocade Effects, fine Figured Mohairs, standard All-Wool and
Silk-and-Wool Materials, all fresh from foreign looms, and with a mod
esty of price that will make you ready bvryers. "
MASON
FRUIT
JARS
REDUCED TO
Pints, 60c per doz
Quarts, 70c per doz
See Our Center Window.
ALL GOODS MARKED IN
PLAIN FIGURES.
PEASE & MAYS
1-2 gal, 90c per doz
-AT-
MAIER & BENTON
The Dalies.
One can of Du-Sock;
Tire full of air;
No more blue talk
No more swear.
MAYS -& CROWE.
Sole Agents
pep Oat the flies.
SCREEN WIRE,
SCREEN DOORS
WINDOW SCREENS.
Now in Stock. New Styles and IiO"wPrices.
Odd Sizes made to order on Short Notice.
JOS. T. PETERS & CO
The Dalles Daily curomeie.
Weather Foiecast.
POBTLAND, Sept. 14, 1896.
For Eastern Oregon Tonight and tomor
row, occasional rain; warmer.
Pague. Observer.
MONDAY.
SEPT. 14, 1896
WAYSIDE CLEANINGS.
Random Observations and Local Events
of Lesser Magnitude.
The river now Btands at 9.9.
The funeral of J. II. Graham will take
place at 10 :30 o'clock tomorrow morning.
Ripe tomatoes for catsup Scents per
pound at Dalles Commission Co. sl4-2w.
Look at Maier & Benton's ad. and see
what they are selling fruit jars for. The
prices can't be beat.
Mr. A. S. Roberts brought up fourteen
thoroughbred Sophghire bucks from
Troutdale Saturday night.
The buildings and barns of Adams &
Hiukle, together with nearly all the
contents, burned last week at Glen wood,
Wash.
Seufert Bros, will follow their ship
ment of 25,000 pounds of salmon last
Friday with a like shipment tomorrow
evening.
No. 1 wheat is selling at the Diamond
Mills today for 46 cents. This is a very
good price for the times. There is said
to be a shortage this year in the world's
product. ,
Jacob Wollner, a wool merchant of
San Francisco, is in the city. He states
that if McKinley is elected he will pay
wool raisers 15 cents a pound for their
wool next year.
Judge Liebe received a telegram today
from GileB Patrick, stating that he ia in
Ferndale, California. The telegram was
forwarded from Eureka. Patrick is a
beneficiary in Richard Cloater'a will.
Major Jackson, of the regular army,
and Col. Telfer, inspector general of the
O. N. G., atrived in the city on the
noon train today and will inspect the
militia company at the armory tonight
. Attorney J. L. Story left today for
Portland on legal business in connec
tion with the suits of the Eastern Ore'
gon Land Co. vs. divers settlers in Sher
man county who have patents to certain
lands claimed by the land company.
Mr. W. H. Taylor shipped some Hun
garian prunes to New York last week
that brought the remarkable figure 6f
$K55 per box. The high figure was be
cause of the superiority of the fruit and
the excellent packing. Other fruit sold
by its side for $1 per box. '
The case of the State vs. D. P. and
Wm. Ketchum was settled at Portland
Friday, resulting in the complete ex
. oneration of defendants. The charge
: waa herding sheep on the reserve
heinous crime forsooth, but of which
they were proven absolutely innocent.
Charlie Heppner demonstrated a lee
Bon in natural philosophy Saturday,
which is naucn safer to learn from a
school book that is, that powder when
touched with a spark is instantly trans
formed into a gas many times its own
balk. He had about a quart of black
powder which he touched with the
lighted end'of a cigarette to "see how it
burned." He now carries his arm in a
sling and his face and hands are badly
powder-burned.
A former resident of The Dalles, now
of Wimer, Or., writes to a friend in this
city that - there is much dissatisfaction
over the action of the government at
Washington in granting patents to so
much mineral land to the Southern Pa
cific Co. He says he. can count ten
mining claims within a . half mile that
have been worked for forty years for
gold ; one that has been worked with a
hydraulic plant for fifteen years, and the
plant was on the ground at the time of
issuing tne patent, wmcn covers ana
takes it in. These patents savor of the '
rankest jobbery, but it seems the min
ing claimants are powerless to move in
the matter, and the railroad company, in
cahoots with the powers that be, can
defy justice and the rights of mere
American citizens. .
C. C. Hobart feels so morally certain
that the locks will be opened by No
vember 15tb, that he is having the por
tage road torn up and destroyed. Al
though everyone now agrees with Mr.
Hobart in believing the locks will be
completed on or before the date men
tioned, yet the baste noted in tearing
no the portage road sets badly upon
those who have taken an interest in the
people's line of. boats on the river.
They would have been glad to see the
portage remain as long as there remained
possibility that it might be needed,
and that possibility, though remote, ex
ists until boats actually pass through
the channel. The road was not in the
way, and seizing the first excuse to tear
it up argues the possession of an un
friendly spirit toward it.
RESULTED FATALLY.
J. H. Graham the Victim of a Railway
- Accident at Orants.
Forced to Increase the Number of
Teachers.
The public schools of this city have
been in session during the past week
and the attendance of pupils has been
so largely in excess of last year's enroll
ment as to tax to the utmost the seating
capacity of the school rooms, as well as
the efforts of all concerned, to prevent
overcrowding. With the best arrange
ment possible to make, it baa been
found necessary bythe board of directors
to employ another teatfaer to relieve the
pressure, and at a spepiaV meeting of the
board, held last Saturday Mrs. Ellen D
Baldwin was engaged as an additional
teacher at the academy park building
for the present term,- or for such time as
the number in attendance may require
her services. . ' - :
K. of P. Attention.
The members of Friendship Lodge,
No. 9, K. of P., are requested to be pres
ent this evening, to make arrangements
for the funeral of Brother J. A. Graham,
of Bed Cross Lodge, No. 27, La Grande.
By order of the C. C.
D., W. VAtrsK, K. of B. and S.
The oyster season is now opened at A.
Keller's. Oysters in any style. e7-dlw
J. H. Graham, otherwise . known as
"Hank" Graham, was instantly killed
and bis body horribly torn and mangled
this morning at Grants.
He was a brakeman on Conductor
Bice's freight train, which at 10 o'clock
this morning was switching cars in the
yard. Graham was seen by half a dozen
parties to swing himself up on the en
gine, but no one . saw him fail to bis
death, and just how the accident hap
pened will never be known.
Conductor Bice himself was among the
number who last saw him aliye. Bice
was perhaps a hundred yards in front of
the engine, talking to Mr. Thos. A. Hud
son at McCoy's house, near the main
line. The locomotive was coming tow
ard them from the end of the switch,
with Graham riding in front. Turning
his head away for a moment, and again
looking toward Graham, he noticed that
he was missing. He ' immediately
guessed the. horrible truth, and said
"My God ! have they run over Hank?"
A second later the locomotive moved
from the line of vision and disclosed to
Mr. Bice's gaze the corpse of Graham.
He was cut in two, half of the body ly
ing outside and half inside the track.
The exact time of the accident was
10:05. The remains were taken up .and
conveyed at once to The Dalles, arriving
here about 12 o'clock.
Graham was standing on the left or
fireman's side of the engine, and as it is
customary to make a coupling from the
engineer's side, it is surmised that he
tried to change sides before the engine
bad reached the' caboose, with which
it was to be coupled, but made a mis
step, slipping down the cowcatcher,
where, his foot striking the track, the
engine closed over him.
The deceased was a brother of the
master mechanic at Albina, who was at
once notified and came up on a special
train, arriving at 2:30 o'clock this after
noon. Graham has been in The Dalles
about two years. He is unmarried, but
it is said had a wife some years ago.
The inquest was held at 2:30 this
afternoon, and the following is the ver
diet of the coroner's jnry :
We, the undersigned, the jury im
paneled by W. H. Butts, coroner of
Wasco county. Or., to Inquire into the
cause of the death of the body now be
fore us, find as follows :
That the name of said deceased is J
H. Graham, of the age of about 35 years,
and from the evidence produced at this
inquest we believe that said deceased
was a man ot family ; that he came to
bis death on the morning of the 14th of
September, 1896, at about the hour ot
9 :05 a. m at or near Grants station
that at the time of his death he was em
ployed as brakeman on train No. 23. be
longing to the O. B. & N. Co., and bound
west, and was discharging his duties as
such brakeman at the time of his death ;
tnat tne cause ot nis aeatn, as near as
we are able to ascertain from the evi
dence of the witnesses sworn at this in'
quest, was from slipping off of the pilot
of the loeomotive and being ran over,
thereby producing the death of said de
ceased, and we further nnd tnat said de
ceased came to his death through an un
avoidable accident and that no blame
attaches to any one. '
J. is. UBOS9ESI,
E. Jacobsen,
. C. L. Phillips,
L. S. Davis,
J.A.McAkthtjk,
D. S. Dufur.
The Concert.
The concert yesterday waa not radic
ally different than those which had pre
ceded it. While the absence of Mr.
Peterson's cornet could be noted J yet the
music was quite as sweet and the sev
eral selections so well sustained under
the competent leadership of Mr. Long
that the absence of Mr. Peterson .did not
seem by any means irremedial. roe
serenade "Pleasant Dreams," one of the
sweetest selections in the repertoire of
the band, was never exceeded in beauty
by ita rendition yesterday. "The Mill
in the Forest" was very fine also. Best
of all was the clarionet solo of Mr. Mark
Long. There are few musicians on any
instrument who can pass from note to
note with the felicity possessed by Mr.
Long. Distinct and clear, without the
trace of a slur, Mr. Long brings out a
succession of b4th notes witu the dis
tinctness of the written music before
him, and wide changes of compass be
instantly accomplishes, preserving every
tone in its original and separate beauty.
His solo yesterday was more difficult be
cause of its length, otherwise the audi
ence would have insisted on their en
core. - .
Mr. G. A. Clarke is becoming very
proficient in the use of his traps, and
his bird music never sounded so sweet,
nor was it as brilliant, as yesterday. He
has an able assistant in Mr. A. Kennedy.
When yog mant to bay
Seed Wheat, Feed Wheat,
Rolled Barley, Whole Barley,
Oats, Rye, Bran, Shorts,
Or anything n the Feed Line, go'tothe
WASCO : WAREHOUSE.
Our prices are low and our goods are firt-claps.
Agents for the celebrated WAISTBURG "PEFRLESS" FLOUR.
Highest cash price paid for WHEAT. OATS and BARLEY.
DIED. -
At Olex, Gilliam county. Or., Sept. 8,
1896, Fritz Lanbinger, aged 58 years.
The deceased was born at Kiel, Scbles-
wig Holstein, Germany.
Mme V. S. Dairy, the leading modiste
of The Dalles. Elegant designing of
evening gowns a specialty in tailor made
costumes and fall jackets. Orer Pease
and Mavs. sl2-2t
"Hop Gold" heard, on every hand.
The finest beer ever offered to the public.
For sale by Stubling & Williams. s4-2w
Awarded
Highest Honors World's Fair,
Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair. .
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ITERJGROCER
Successor to Cbrisman & Corson.
FULL. LINE OF
STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES.
Again in business1 at the old stand. I would be pleased to
see all my former patrons. Free delivery to any part of town.
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