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Black Skirts.
We would suggest a Fine Black Skirt for wear during our rainy
season.
We have an excellent assortment of all the up-to-date things in
Fine English Percaline Umbrella Skirts, Double Warp Sateen
Skirts, the latest fabric for winter skirts.'
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English Percajine Regular $1.50
English Percaline Regular 2.00
English Percaline Regular 2.25
Double Warp Sateen .Regular 2.25
Double Warp Sateen.... Regular 2.50
Double Warp Sateen :. Regular 3.00
Double Wa;p Sateen .Regular 3.25
Sale Price $1.20
Sale Price 1.50
Sale Price 1'70
Sale Price 1.50
Sale Price 1.85
Sale Price 2.10
Sale Price 2.35
ALL GOODS MARKED IN
PLAIN FIGURES.
PEASE & MAYS
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flip Tight
Heaters.
Air Tight Heaters
are the best, and
most Economical
heaters made.. Call
and Seeour
STOVES
and get our prices
before buying1 else
where.
MAIER & BENTON
The Dalles.
The Original Air-Tight Stove,
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Hagey's
King Heater.
Take a look at them "before you buy something,
else. They are all right.
Sold only by MAYS & CROWE.
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 Daily Chronicle.
FRIDAY.
NOV. 13. 1896
Weather Forecast.
Portland, Nov. 13, 1896.
For Eastern Oregon Tonight and tomor
row! rain. Saturday cooler.
Paguk. Observer.
WAYSIDE GLEANINGS.
Random Observations and Local Events
- of Lesser Magnitude.
day
at noon at
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per month. In-novl2-6fc
with board
C. Adams,
nov!2'6t
Hot clam broth every
Ad Kellar's.
House to rent for $6
quire of George Such.
' Furnished room for rent,
if desired. Address Mrs.
Jackson street.
Marsh and Joles will give a turkey
and pigeon shoot the day before Thanks
giving and on Thanksgiving day.
The Junior Endeavors will give an
entertainment at the Christian church
this evening. Admission 15 cents.
Invitations are out for a banquet given
by the Ladeis' McKInley Club at the
Umatilla House Saufislay evening. It
promises to be a very pleasant affair,
The Woodmen's Uircle will give a
dime social at Fraternity ball this
evening. There will be a program and
a' sociable time. Everybody invited
The criminal docket this term is about
the shortest wB hade bad for some time,
The law docket itrthit long and probably
the jurors will be aischarged before
Thanksgiving. . I
The rain still falls and the lea of slop
continues to grow. Second yetreet is an
infringement on the Venetian ' canal
patent, though the slop ia shallow
Boots drawing over two feet are not safe
to navigate it with.
Mr. Wm. Kelsay of Antelope lost
package of dry goods between Pease &
Mays store and the brick yard east of
town last night. The package was
marked Wm. Kelsay & Bon, and the
finder will confer a favor by leaving the
same at this office, or at Pease & Mays
The case of Ed. Marshal, charged with
larceny from a dwelling is on trial today.
Mr. Marshal is charged by the grand
jury with stealing from a trunk in the
dwelling house of Mrs. Ann Garfield,
more commonly known by the title of
Irish Molly. Mr. Roger Sinnott iB con
ducting the defense.
Mr. B. F. LaughlinA who has been
buying wheat at Grant for some time, is
again home. The ESaVyraina made
the roads so bad that oraVbile de
livering wheat at the railroad will cease,
and in such weather as permits, the
farmers will devote their time to plow
ing. Mr. Laughlin tells us the bulk of
the wheat from Klickitat baa been de
livered, but that there ia still a large
amount in Sherman county.
If you have nothing else to give thanks
for, comqarounil and subscribe fot The
Chronicle, and by Thanksgiving day
yon will be glad yon are alive. Our
columns are running over witb wisdom,
news, wit and general information.
Sense and nonsense can both be found,
together with some fresh ideas direct
from the factory. Try our - original
panacea for all earthly troubles, the
Daily Chronicle at twenty-six doses
for half a dollar.
Expert Testimony 'falls to Establish
Korgerj, and Plaintiff Wins.
Report of Grand Jury.
In the circuit court of the state of Ore
gon, for the county of Wasco. In the
matter of the final report of the grand
jury, November term, 1896:
Comes now the grand jury emparj-
nelled for the November term of circuit
court for Wasco county, 1869, and re
spectively report as follows :
We have been in session three days
and have found and returned into court
from time to time, four true bills and two
not true bills. We have also examined
into such other matters as came before
us.
We have visited the office of the coun
ty clerk, sheriff and treasurer and ex
amined the records ot each office, and we
find the same kept in excellent manner.
The county jail was also visited, and we
found it in good condition and . the in
mates well attended. We visited the
poor farm, and found all county, charges
well provided and satisfied with their
treatment.
Having completed our labors, we ask
to be discharged.
Polk Butler,
L. N. Blowers, Foreman.
Clerk.'
Junior Entertainment-
Following is the program to be ren
dered by the Junior Endeavorers at the
Christian church this evening:
Song "Crowned with Roses" Junior Choir
Instrumental Solo . Prudcmee Patterson
SThe Match 'feov
You Cad't Find He '
Between J-ove and Duty
Kecitation "Naming the Chickens" . Josie Keller
Lecture "A Hard Boad to Travel"
Rev. . Caesar Shinbones
Tableau "Cinderella's Slipper'
Dolly's Doctor
Tired out
Junior Art Gallery-
trmpng (jnnaren to jsea
Recitation Selected Mrs. M. E Briggs
Crazy Medley J. Topsy Turvy Club
Song "Twilight is Stealing" Junior Choir
Recitation "Rum ing a Race".. Blanche Miller
) Sunshine or Shower
Junior Art Gallery S Dresi-ed for the Party
V The Young Artist
Rec. (musical acl The Drowning Singer
. Mr. George Ernest Stewart
Short Talfto the Juniors Rev. A. D. Skaggs
Mrs. Jarley'sWax Works.
The admission fee has been placed at
15 cents. Come out and help the chil
dren.
Advertised Letters.
Following is the list of letters remain
ing in the postoffice at The Dalles an
called for Nov. 14, 1896. Persona call
ing for the same will give date on which
they were advertised :
BeH, Wm ' . v Balch, H E
Babbington, Kate Clark, Leon a
Caryannie, M
Farley, Frank
Hamiltyn, Th6a
Jndkine, Lottie
Kerr, Florence .
Mobr, Fred
Morse, Mrs C W
Roberts, M E
Stringer, O A (2)
Smiley, Thoa
Turner, Bertie1
Cover, Lee
Frenks, Fricker
Holt, O G
j ouch, minnie
, Mitcneu, w
' McDonald, John
Marie, Miss Robins
Remington, J R
Sparks, TW
Staack; P '
Waver, Dolph
J. A. Crossen, P. M,
AN INTERESTING CASE.
The suit of Annie Urquhart against
C. E. Jones, was tried yesterday and
late last night was submitted to the jury
which soon arrived at a verdict. It was
quite an interesting case, the action be-
ng brought to recover the sum of about
700, due on a promissory note.
The defense put up was that while
Jones had one time owedJUrs,- Urquhart
about the sum sued for, that he had paid
the? came, and in support of this state
ment produced a cancelled note, and
claimed that the present note was a for
gery. Expert testimony was introduced,
the weight of it being to the-effect that
the signature did not appear to be
Jones1, but all hesitating about swearing
it was not. " The plaintiff set up that
Jones came to her, and stated that his
other creditors, particularly one in Sher
man county, was pushing him and
about -to sue, that if he was given a little
time he could pull through, and then
asked that plaintiff surrender the note
and take a new one in its place, that by
doing eo he could show the note, and by
making bis other creditors believe be
was paying off his debts, be could get
time. Mrs. Urquhart 'first objected, but
finally consented and Jones made a new
note, signing the same while seated in
his buggy, which plaintiff insists was
the reason of bis signature being some
what crude.
The case was well argued, and being
submitted, the jury found for plaintiff,
giving her judgment for the full sum
sued for, and $75 attorney's fees. W.
H. Wilson for plaintiff, J. B. Hosford for
defendant.
The Coal Question.
.... . . ,
cause ot tneir making yery slow pro
gress ; in fact their average drilling for
the last three months has not exceeded
one inch a day. This is altogether too
slow, and has demonstrated the fact
that further Vork cannot be accom
plished without ,the use of a diamond
drill. This will cost about $ 1,000. Now
these men are asking "the people of tbis
city to furnish $500, or one-half of the
amount, and they stand ready to put up
the other $500 or more if it requires it,
and will drill the hole to a depth that
will settle the question of coal or no
coal in this neighborhood. None of us
can say that these men are asking any
thing unreasonable, for the, matter ia
one that should engage the earnest and
earliest attention of our people. They
certainly have the energy to raise'
the small amount, knowing, as they all
do, that if these men are successful, it
will be the crowning glory of this city,
and insure its prosperity tor the next
hundred years. Imagine trains coming
in from the mines half a dozen times a
day and a dozen steamboats barges and
schooners receiving it at our wharves.
There would be eight hundred or a
thousand men at work in the mines.
There is no excuse for leaving this
matter drop. Fifteen hundred dollars
were easily raised here for celebrating
the opening of the Cascade locks, and
self interest should wake the raisirg of
$500 an easy task.
A Coal Miner.
A Valuable Cow.
Editor Chronicle:
Being deeply interested in the matter
of coal mining, I bave read witb much
interest your valuable editorial on that
subject. Being an old coal miner I have
ventured a few suggestions, which I ask
The Chronicle, as well as its contem
porary to print.
Doubtless the majority of the people
in this city are not aware of the splendid
sonasione ana conglomerate coal meas
ures lying flat and extending for miles
to the south and westward from the
Catholic cemetery, undisturbed by any
fern pt ion a. These coal measures are ex
actly the same as thosetbat cover the
splendid bituminous coal veins of- Van
couver island, known at the Wellington
and Nanaimo coal mines. Those mines
furnish more than . one-third of all the
coal consumed on the Pacific coast, and
employ thonsande of men.
The whole people of our city are aware
that five of our townsmen bave been at
work about four miles west of The Dalles,
on Chenoweth creek, for several years,
and have expended several thousand
dollars drilling down through these coal
measures with a steel bit and connect
ing rods, in search of coal, and by hard
work and perseverance have reached a
considerable depth, but the fine grain
and hard character of the rock encoun
tered during the last year have been the
Mr. G. A. Van Anda of Rockland,
Wash., has a cow that is capable of
making a world's record. She is
fifteen-sixteenths Jersey, and. has made
the following amounts of butter, besides
furnishing the family with all the milk
and cream used. The variation in tbe
monthly yield, which was caused largely
by the use of the milk for other than
butter making purposes, shows how
large that use was. The butter yield by
months, commencing a year ago was aa
follows : Nov. 35 pounds, Dec. 4o,
Jan. 33, Feb. 37, March- 46, April
48, May 47, June 36, July 26,
Aug. 19K, Sept. 22, Oct. 20, Nov,
12Ji. Total 431)4. This at 25 cents a
pound would bring $107.87.
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