o ' -' ' o ttftf Tinrtif XX o 3 o TIE FIRST GREAT SALE ol to To our city and .out-of-town trade, we ask. you to give this sale a little consideration, if intending to buy Sem GOO We intend making this sale one worthy of your time and trouble. Our. stock of Black and Colored Goods will be offered at a ........ '. 7 1 O Tremendous Reduction ? A. KETW OF OUR BARGAINS. An assortment of Colored Goods. Regular 30c. Sale, 21c An assortment of Colored Goods . .. Regular 50c. Sale, 35c An assortment of Colored Goods Regular G5c. Sale,42c- Black Mohairs, Serges and Henriettas ...Regular 50c. Sale, 35c Black Mohairs, Serges and Henriettas..."....:.-: Regular 75c. Sale, 55c Finer goods reduced in proportion. Our stock of new Foreign and Domes tic Goods included in this sale. . ALL GOODS MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES. 9 9 7 PEASE & MAYS , (? Air Tight Heaters are the best and most Economical heaters made. Call and See our STOVES and get our prices before buying elsewhere.' The Original Air-Tight Stove, : - ; ; - Hagey's King Heater. Take a look at them before you buy something else. They are all right. Sold only by MAYS &, CROWE. MA1ER & BENTON The Dalles. Remember- We have strictly First-class FIR, OAK and MAPLE WOOD To sell at LOWEST MARKET RATES. Phone 25. JOS. T. PETERS & CO The Dalles Dally Chronicle. FRIDAY. OCT. 23, 1896 WAYSIDE GLEANINGS. Random Observations and Loot Events of Lesser Magnitude. "Pap" Powers fonnd tour counterfeit half dollars this morning on Mill creek near the mouth of the sewer. ' , The public schools have been clodc d today to enable the children to Bee the fair: No admission will be charged ladies and children. A ten-round Riove contest takeB place at the Baldwin opera honee tonight be tween T. Williams, champion light weight of California, and J. Crawford, champion light weight of Colorado. Gambling games in the city at present aie running at high tide and the several tables are crowded nightly with players. Business in this line will probably de crease with the end of the fair, for many of the "high i oilers" are strangers. The big price of wheat will prove a great blessing to this section of the country. While much of it was hauled in and sold previous to the rise, many of the farmers have held off from selling, and it is yet arriving daily in tremen dous quantities. The condition of Rose Wellington shows a slight improvement. She has .rallied from the shock and if no im portant organs are penetrated bnt the lung, will recover. She yet persists in her desire to die, and says she would end her misery if she bad another chance. . The meeting of The Dalles Commer cial Club this evening ia, a very im portant one. The program of celebra tion for opening the locks should be very elaborate. The opening of the iucks si-anas lor tne Deginning of a more prosperous era than we of the Inland Empire have ever experienced. It is the consummation so devoutly wished for twenty-five years. ' . Two women were arrested "last even ing for being drunk and disorderly Their homes ; are up on the the rocks and they are part 'of a very tough set ip that neighborhood. It is time that some of the respectable people in that vicinity enter a protest. We L are in formed by an officer that a veritable bawdy house exists tip there, in which is one little girl only 12 years of agei; ' The Goldendale Sentinel speaks very highly of The Dalles speakers who went over Into- that country, among 'them Messrs. John Michell, Hugh Gourley, H. 8. Wilson, F. W. Wilson- and J. Sinnott. The Sentinel eays : The state of Oregon is admittedly safe for McKin ley. A thorough and" safe " canvass of that;Btate shows that it has been taken from the list of doubtful states, and will give the Republican ticket from 6000 to 10,000 majority. It is only a question of majorities in our sister state. A trainload of lambs, 'comprising 4,000 head, were sent to Kansas City to . day by Mr. Geo. A.' Young & Son. They are the finest trainload of lambs ever leaving The Dalles. They are but six months old, but are full grown and fat. Mr. Young and son sold them to A. J. Knollin & Co', for $1.50 per head at the ranch. They ' are half-breed Shrop shires, demonstrating that it is tw ice as profitable to raise blooded sheep in six months for $1.50 than 2-year-old weathers at the. same money. The trainload is for the mutton market. Mr. and Mrs. Sy-L. Brooks returned last night from a tw weeks trip in Seat tle and Victoria,BC. Seattle . is a great shipping center, and has already captured the bulk of the Japan trade. While there Mr. Brooks observed two monster vessels, the Konura Mara and the Yami Guchi Mara, loading, with 1,500,000 feet of lumber for nee on , Jap an s new navy dock. Another large vessel from Japan ts due this week, loaded with 6,000 tons of tea. The dry dock at Port Orchard is the third largest in the world'. The 'Umatilla, a vessel over 400 feet in length, was raised while Mr. Brooks was absent. It was loaded with a cargo of goods, all of which went to the bottom. Smuggling on a large scale was discovered by the accident. Barrels ostensibly containing sugar con tained small casks of ' whisky,' which were billed to Juneau, and which by being labeled sugar would escape the customs duty. The sugar around the casks- melted and they were ' easily detected by . rattling around in the barrels. The pumps which were used in raising the boat were mammoth affairs, capable of pumping 10,000 gal Ions an hour. His Wit and Wisdom Constitutes a Tell ing; Campaign Event. city Port PEK80NAL MENTION. Mr. J. E Rasmus of Boyd was in the city today. Col. Pike of Goldendale came in the city last night. Miss Georgia Young is in the with her father attending the fair. . Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Butler of Townsend arrived in the city yesterday Messrs. D. C. and C. L. Ireland of the - Moro Observer, are attending the fair. Miss Nellie Fox is attending school at Wasco, and is stopping with Mr. and Mrs. C. J Bright. Messrs. Ed Mavs of Portland and Grant Mays from Antelope are spending a few days at home. -r Sheriff Driver and Fred W.Wilson leave this afternoon for Pleasant Ridge, where Mr. Wilson delivers an address to the Republicans this evening. " Miss Snnderland, who has been visit ing Mr. and Mrs, F. Menefee for the past week, left for her home in Portland on the Kegulator this morning. Hon. F. P. Mays and family arrived on the local train from Portland today Mr. and Mrs. Mays have never missed attending the fair since it started. Hon. F. A. McDonald and wife of Seat tle are visiting Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Hnnt- ineton. Mr.McBonald was formerly re gister ot tne lanarotnce Here and is now collector of customs arSpattle. Leave orders at The Dalles Commis sion Co.'s store for dreesed chickens, xeiepnones iza ana zoo. King 'em up. ' sll-dlm THE HON. T. T. GEER. Hon. T. T. Geer is one of the most pleasing speakers so far of the .entire campaign. He is a gentlemen of the old school of tnonght, has common sense ideas, and has not departed from that unvarying circle to fly off on a' tangent of alarm, like so, many of his country men when the Democratic hard times came upon U8i and which we voted up on ourselves in 1892. .He took occasion to bring that fact out, too, quoting from Boies of Iowa in a message to the legis lature which was similar in tone to Har rison's 1892 message to congress, recount ing our unexampled prosperity. With good-natured Tidicule Mr. Geer scored the Populists by recounting some of his own experiences with them. He has ever found them unreasonable in ar gument and tenacious of their opinions even when demonstrated to be false. Mr. Geer is a practical farmer himself and does the entire work upon -his' 320 acre farm with only the Assistance of hia son. He remembers when these Popu list agitators first came to his section in time of plenty. They bred discontent among the well-to-do farmer .and the well-paid wage earner by insidious ques tions and envious comparisons, and with their literature accomplish a reversal of good times. " ' , Mr. Geer's speech was as -witty as sensible, and when his audience was not digesting great truths, stated in bis in imitable way, they were laughing at his wit. Some of bis witty statements are rappended : "There has been only one thing stated by Bryan so far with which I can agree. He said that when one Democrat leaves the party to vote for McKinley he leaves a hole big enough for ten Repub licans to -get out. He is right; the bole is big' enough, for those ten Republicans should feel so confoundedly dwarfed that the hole is really larger than they would require.' - . "A Populist actually told me the other day that the raise in wheat was a Re publican trick. I ' can always tell a Populist. I can see a few in my audi ence bow, and they have faces long enough to eat oats out of a churn." "The Populists say that their party came into existence because of the hard times. I think it is nearer the truth to say the reason of the hard times is be cause their party came into existence." "Silver is mined only by the rich. .It takes great capital to operate a Bilver mine. But any poor man can bby a shovel and pan and mine gold.' The silver interest is a . very small one to make so much fuss about. - There are' a hundred ahead of it. E?en the hens of the country lay more eggs than' the sil ver amounts to, and the roosters don't make much noise about it either." "The Populists howl : 'The money is in the hands of the rich.' Where under heaven should it be but'ln the bands of the rich! Does anyone suppose for a moment it could be in the bands of the poor? If I .found . a country where the money was owned by the poor I would at once emigrate to it and become rich." . "They, hoot at the idea that' over-production lowers prices, and when I asked one what was the reason hops were t-o high one year, he said: 'Ob, thre were not many raised that year.' Who ever heard of such unieasonableness -claiming that under-production . raises the price and yet not admitting that over-production lowers it?" . His-logic was as good as his wit. He demonstrated to the simplest intelligence that but a small amount of money is needed to pay debts, for while the debt is wiped out by the payment, the money is just as good as ever to pay more debts with. What we want is more ' confi dence, so that the money will come from its hiding and be invested in business. In May 1806, President Jefferson or dered that the minting of silver dollar be dropped, and there was not another dol lor coined for thirty years. If the act of 1873 was a crime, and I do not admit it, it was restored in 1878, for since 'that time there have been 430,000 times as many silver dollars coined as during the eight years under President Jackson. Mr. Geer closed-with an earnest ap peal to the voters not to make a mistake and .vote for a continuation of the bard times, illustrating the movement tow ard Bryan by telling a story of a boy trying to catch a calf, who in turn was following alter a cow, the three being separated at about equal intervals- The cow kept going faster, which increased both' the speed of the calf and the boy. Finally the cow broke into a run, so did the calf, but the boy sank down ex hausted and cried in his exasperation : "Run, you little fool, but when it comes time to suck tonight, you'll find that that cow isn't yonr mother." President Crowe, of the McKinley Club, made a telling speech of intro duction, though not occupying over two minutes .of time. Pies, cakes and doughnuts for sale by the ladies of the M. E. church in the building formerly occupied by H. Her bring. Lunch served. To Bene Two furnished, rooms at Fourth and Liberty streets. - oct22-lw .. ' . Mas. P. Ckam. Awarded Highest Honors World's Pair, Oold Medal, Midwinter Fair. -DR; Most Perfect Made. . 40 Years the Standard. ask ' ct Jj I When you on.. . . aHhe MfMlJJMl'lllM A FILL ND COMPLETE LINE KINDS OF FUEL-AT PRStES FROM 80.00 T 3 75.00 r?j3?m-- AFulUwicompiete line cP - cccstas c-HfATeesioranKi.vtjp K SEN Ik :AL ''HARDWARE4 !5 M05T COMPLETE AND SOLO x 6.T.LOWCR PR!C5 THAN EVSr? " "BAIEB'S- BBJTdfl,' '. 1C7 Second Strtd, 'Frcaeli'i Block, Tlte Dalles, Ore. School Books oupplies. Jacobson Book & Music Co. No. 174 Second Street,,. New Vogt Block, Th.e Dalles, Oregon. Job Prtftting at tbis Office. :' - ' ' r;' ; " '''- ;' ' : ; ' -: -; --' - '' - ' " ;J